This page is dedicated to an old colleague (Bob MacKinlay) and his immortal comments.
Context - Confused about
electronics
Quote - I’m pissing up a rope
here!
Context - Describing a female member
of staff
Quote - She was the one I was
dancing with copiously at the kick-off
Context - Mid-morning break
Quote - Fancy a cup of Vera Lynn?
Quote - Do you want a cup of the
Amber Nectar?
Context - After an unpopular event
Quote - That one went down like a
brick through ice-cream
Quote - That went over our head’s
like a bent balloon
Context - Colin, Dave & Tommy on
holiday
Quote - When the mice are away, the
cats do play
Context - Bob in tech. Support mode
Quote - You can’t use the
typewriter, it’s temporarily out of service
Context - Having just paid for car
service
Quote - I’m skint out of my
brains!
Context - Being predictably cynical
Quote -I came up dollars trumping
Context - DOA Report
Quote - The unit’s restart
counter was 56, i.e. the unit had been reset 56 times
Context - On the phone to 3-Com
Quote - Indeed. Indeed. Indeed.
Agreed. Indeed.
Context - Getting a new project
Quote - My buds are excitedly
exciting!
Context - Walking back from the
shops
Quote - Good grief Keith, you’re
walking like a Trojan Horse
Context - On seeing Kathryn’s
Miss Whiplash outfit
Quote - I’m just playing with
my poppadums today!
Context - Helping in the Move
Quote - That’s up for debatable
grabs at the moment
Quote - Close but no banana skin
Context - On the phone
Quote - Pasta la vista, baby
Context - On being notorious
Quote - Ah, so my reputation pre-empts
me ?
Context - Keith busy
Quote - He's up to his eyebrows at
the moment.
Context - Friday Morning
Quote - Another heart-filled
rendering day!
Context - Problems with C of C's
Quote - I'm in a Catch 20 no-win
situation!
Context - Talking to Eric
Quote - Have you seen that advert on
the radio?
Context - In rant mode
Quote - I stick it up my backside,
twist it sideways and have a good time
Context - On R185R
Quote - It's flying like a train
Context - On his Arithmetic skills
Quote - I got an A at OGrade, or was
it a B
Context - On a cunning layout
Quote - Ralph, you're a goddess!
Context - After a nose bleed
Quote - I’ve got a bit of a
weak membrane.
Context - At Milestones
Quote - Take them by the short and
curlies and squeeze them hard.
Context - On the S61 priority
Quote - Mike sat on me from a high
level.
Context - At Milestones........again
Quote - There's a solectron meeting
between us and solectron.
Context - On the phone
Quote - I've got a window for
opportunity right now!
Quote - At the same time and
simultaneously
Context - At Milestones..............again?
Quote - I don't mind being a donkey's
arse
Context - While talking to the team....
Quote - I've got exceedingly strong
muscles in my hands and fore-arms....................In fact I
was exercising them this morning.
Quote - This is the T&I, Bob can
you help me stash.
Context - While talking to suzanne......
Quote - Well hot lips howz it goin,
wanna coffee
Context - Whilst trying to fit the
lid on a new product
Quote - It's as tight as a nuns
conscience
Context - Number of wire mods on
Nigels card
Quote - Exactly how much spaghetti
is on this board?
Context - On the pain of attaining
48V PSU approvals
Quote - It's hanging around me like
an Albatross!!!
Context - When asking a contractor
how long he thought a job would take
Quote - I asked him if he had a
finger in the air, and he said he did'nt have one yet!
Context - When milestones have to be
updated
Quote - No doubt I'll have a new set
of milestones at some point in the future.
Kevan - Aye, next week Bob!!
Context - At the generic milestones
Quote - Were both on the same mind
length
Context - At milestones
Quote - I understand the individual
words but it's when they are strung into a sentence I get lost
Quote - Och that's sore, I've just
sat on my funny bone
Context - After getting some coffee.
Quote - Et tu, poirot??
Context - About Pegasus hot-swapability
issues
Quote - It will need to be designed
so that it is User, Punter, Monkey safe
Context - About Pegasus ... again
Quote - The pig downstairs knows
more about it than I do!
Having left Shiva...
Context - Tracy: "Which tank-top
do you want, bob?"
Quote - The one without the sleeves!
Context - When speaking to one of
Shaun's colleague's in Santa Clara
Quote - Oh your Korean, that means
you speak Japanese then.
Context - Pub lunch in Nevada City
Quote - Its good to stoke your Oven.
Tracy - Bob that should be stoking
your boiler!
Context - In California
Quote - You don't want to put all
your fish in one bowl
Tracy - Bob thats you don't want to
put all your eggs in one basket!
Context - Bob and Tracy in a restaurant (Nevada City I think - not
100%), at the end of the meal the chef comes out to make sure
they liked the food.
Quote - (to chef) Its
good to be able to give positive criticism, even if its negative.....
Context - Bob moving his chair on his decking out into the sun.
Quote - I'll just
move my chair out a bit in order to soak up the midnight oil.
Context - Bob
watching a TV show with two gay guys in it..
Quote - Hey,
that guy is as camp as a two penny bit
Context - Bob
emailing after nobody responded to his previous email.
Quote - Not
one of you buggers came back, anyone out there or I am the plague...?