http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8506 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sat, 25 May 2013 03:18:19 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8506&page=2#post-23407 Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:33:33 +0000 Quaz 23407@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>"crème de meths" reminds of the Billy Connolly gag with the two drunks who drink pints of creme de menthe, and ends "You say the pope drinks this stuff? No wonder they have to carry him around in a chair".</p> <p>Well done Jenny. I'm sure the tutors were very impressed by your works on Evil Island. Anyone who can ship killer whales to a pool in a secret volcano lair must be a self motivated go-getter. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8506#post-23351 Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:43:17 +0000 Scroat 23351@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>That would be the crème de meths.</p> <p>I'll get me coat - and the tent and the rucksack etc. come to that. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8506#post-23334 Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:41:52 +0000 FormerlyAlOPecia 23334@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Well Jen I think that you have put your finger on the problem.</p> <p>P.S. Very well done, it's a great acheivement - and keep on trucking, you'll have tough days and fantastic days! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8506#post-23312 Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:39:00 +0000 The All New Jeni B 23312@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Cheers Scroat!!!<br /> Al, pft, surely you know it's better to drink your meths in the city square?<br /> That's where the creme de la creme loiter. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8506#post-23309 Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:25:55 +0000 Scroat 23309@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Hey well done our Jen. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8506#post-23290 Sat, 17 Jul 2010 10:17:21 +0000 FormerlyAlOPecia 23290@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I've no idea, they won't let me in for some strange reason; I have to make do with sitting under the Desperate Dan statue with a bottle of meths in a brown paper bag, with the rest of the academics. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8506#post-23288 Sat, 17 Jul 2010 09:30:42 +0000 The All New Jeni B 23288@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Well Al, I'll keep the Claret to myself then.<br /> But perhaps you can tell me, which vintage Champagnes does the union stock? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8506#post-23278 Sat, 17 Jul 2010 08:13:21 +0000 sauce 23278@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Just as well not an internal examiner.</p> <p>(I really don't need my coat this weather ... but if you insist ...) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8506#post-23256 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:09:32 +0000 FormerlyAlOPecia 23256@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>How fortunate - I am an External Examiner there, and eminently bribable, especially if you wear that.</p> <p>But sadly, not in Law, but Biology. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8506#post-23255 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:08:00 +0000 The All New Jeni B 23255@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Abertay in Dundee Al.<br /> And at the moment, the only option I have is the Loan,which will just be added to the several grand I already owe them from 16yrs ago.<br /> Will try the Claret <strike>bribe</strike> gift with my lecturers. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8506#post-23253 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:02:33 +0000 FormerlyAlOPecia 23253@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Congrats Jen - which Uni? What's your preference Grad Tax or Loan? (As a Prof I don't care as long as I still get paid, and a case of claret every month). </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8506#post-23240 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:30:32 +0000 The All New Jeni B 23240@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Hur hur, you said "bone"!<br /> *Snigger* </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8506#post-23236 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:46:05 +0000 AdrianJ 23236@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I totally agree. If they do truly know you, then there's absolutely no need for them to "assume" at all. You would have thought that all of the puke stains, cuts, bruises and late night incoherent phone calls - emanating from various Police Station's Custody Desks - would have given the game away somewhat?<br /> P.S. Don't forget to bone up on all the indecency and lewdness legislation as well. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8506#post-23233 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:34:48 +0000 The All New Jeni B 23233@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>98% of the people I have told, have said something along those lines Adrian.</p> <p>I don't know why everyone assumes I'm some kind of violent drunk... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8506#post-23230 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:57:02 +0000 AdrianJ 23230@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Congratulations Jen. If you knuckle down, apply yourself and put in the hours, then who knows? One day you may even be competent enough to be able to represent yourself in court. Just imagine how much you'll save in lawyer's fees - especially when it comes to defending all those D &amp; D charges. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8506#post-23197 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:14:38 +0000 The All New Jeni B 23197@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I've been accepted at Uni to study Law Doc.<br /> Not bad going for someone who left school more than two decades ago, with only a handful of qualifications. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8506#post-23194 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:06:22 +0000 Doctor Moptop 23194@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'm not sure what I'm congratulating you for, Jeni B, but you clearly deserve it.</p> <p>Well done! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8506#post-22986 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:07:30 +0000 saltire 22986@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Couldn't be more pleased...well I could but....congratulations JeniB. School wi' the wooden bunnets me. Where's your grammar boy ? She lives in Dunoon sir. WHACK.....</p> <p>Pleased for mum too. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8506#post-22981 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:16:15 +0000 rikkor 22981@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Tell me EXACTLY the date that you are allowed to wear one of those fetching black snoods over your horsehair wig and tell folks when they'll be hanged and such. Vy thrilling! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8506#post-22973 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:53:08 +0000 The All New Jeni B 22973@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Shucks.</p> <p>Genuine thanks to everyone.<br /> I'm feeling very proud of myself, given that there was a large number of applicants for the course, and that I'm going to be old enough to be the other students' mother.</p> <p>Actually reduced my mum to tears when I told her, as she has spent her adult life stuck in a job she loathes which has damaged her health and mental well-being over the years, and is delighted that I refuse to go down the same path.</p> <p>Still can't quite believe it, especially as I've harboured this dream for years.</p> <p>Anyway, none of this is even vaguely satirical or funny, so I'll quit now, but honest to goodness, heartfelt thanks to you all.X </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8506#post-22969 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:27:04 +0000 sauce 22969@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Huge congrats xxxx </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8506#post-22928 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:54:00 +0000 jp1885 22928@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Fantastic news! Look out the educational establishment, Queen B is on her way! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8506#post-22924 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:44:11 +0000 rickwestwell 22924@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Great news Jeni - enjoy it before the hard work starts - that'll be roughly tomorrow.</p> <p>Hint - the huge, densely-typed book they give you? That's not what you have to learn, it's the list of all the books you have to read - think roughly all the books ever written, give or take.</p> <p>You're going to have a fantastic time! :-) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8506#post-22921 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:42:51 +0000 The All New Jeni B 22921@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Cheers!<br /> The two interviewing lecturers were very interested in my tales of an un-named satirical news site. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8506#post-22920 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:41:04 +0000 ramblesnake 22920@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Well done! You could become the gal who puts the pun into crime and punishment. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8506#post-22917 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:35:46 +0000 The All New Jeni B 22917@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thanks stunts. A disturbing image now stuck in my head.</p> <p>Rikkor, thank you. However, not only will I be Cherie with a better curtsey, but I also don't look anything like any of Batman's adversaries.</p> <p>Oh, I do. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8506#post-22913 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:26:20 +0000 rikkor 22913@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Congratulations and best of luck. How very "U" of you. You can become Cherie Blair with a better curtsey. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8506#post-22912 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:24:57 +0000 allmyownstunts 22912@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>*is imagining Jeni (LL)B's first court case*</p> <p>'My Lord, might I suggest that as an alternative to a custodial sentence, you simply twat his puffin?'</p> <p>Well done that bird!<br /> xx </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8506#post-22905 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:04:50 +0000 The All New Jeni B 22905@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>*Sob*<br /> Thanks ladies, so kind of you.<br /> Still on a massive high, which I expect will last right up until I realise how much work I'm going to have to do.</p> <p>Mary, think the Freshers are quite safe, unless they are exceptionally wealthy and can keep me in Choos, Louboutins and Krug.</p> <p>Off to dig out my Doc Martins, checky shirts and grouchy facial expressions. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=8506#post-22902 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:00:28 +0000 Mary Evans 22902@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Those poor Freshers... You're a legend Jen, well done lady. </p>