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• Date:

  Monday, 04 May 2009 - 14:53 UTC

  Bob O'Hara said:

  There are some very sad people in this world.

• Date:

  Monday, 04 May 2009 - 14:53 UTC

  Richard Grant said:

  Oh damn! I forgot!

  Luckily I’m not in Australia any more…

• Date:

  Monday, 04 May 2009 - 15:02 UTC

  Cath Ennis said:

  @Bob: yes, and some miserable buggers too.

  @Richard: my time zone is not conducive to being the first to post such things. Maybe MT4 will fix this by having automatic pre-set post time stamps.

• Date:

  Monday, 04 May 2009 - 15:15 UTC

  Eva Amsen said:

  Yeah, this holiday probably never really caught on in Holland. There’s another observance on May the 4th.

• Date:

  Monday, 04 May 2009 - 15:16 UTC

  Richard Grant said:

  giggle @Cath

• Date:

  Monday, 04 May 2009 - 15:39 UTC

  Mike Fowler said:

  It’s my sister in law’s birthday today. Felicidads, Cunyada! The May the 4th joke doesn’t work so well in Catalan.
  But quick as a flash, it’s my wee sister’s birthday tomorrow. I’m getting writers cramp from all the cards.

• Date:

  Monday, 04 May 2009 - 16:35 UTC

  Cath Ennis said:

  Eva, yes, I can see why a frivolous non-holiday would not catch on in those circumstances.

  I emceed a friend’s wedding on May 5th, 2007. I tried to get them to bring it forward a day so I could make the same geeky joke, but with no luck.

• Date:

  Monday, 04 May 2009 - 16:37 UTC

  Richard Grant said:

  emceed

  Is that canonical?

  ‘MCed’, shirley?

• Date:

  Monday, 04 May 2009 - 16:45 UTC

  Cath Ennis said:

  emceed is acceptable

• Date:

  Monday, 04 May 2009 - 16:45 UTC

  Cath Ennis said:

  and don’t call me Shirley

• Date:

  Monday, 04 May 2009 - 17:29 UTC

  Richard Grant said:

  Bah. Citing dictionaries is an admission of desperation.

• Date:

  Monday, 04 May 2009 - 19:28 UTC

  Lee Turnpenny said:

  Darth Vader became Prime Minister thirty years ago today.

• Date:

  Monday, 04 May 2009 - 20:27 UTC

  Cath Ennis said:

  And my parents decamped to Germany 6 months later… coincidence? They say not…

  Apparently it’s also Greenery Day in Japan. I hope you had the time of your life. Oh, no, wait, that’s Green Day.

  I am ignoring Richard and his sour grapes ;)

• Date:

  Tuesday, 05 May 2009 - 00:10 UTC

  Cath Ennis said:

  The fourth WAS with me today!

  • I found out there’s an excellent chance that my contract will be renewed after the end of the original 2-year term (in November). Exact funding source (and therefore job description) TBD.

  • There’s a cheque in the post, from my first proper freelancing gig. That only took 18 months from the end of the project!

• Date:

  Tuesday, 05 May 2009 - 15:57 UTC

  Matt Brown said:

  Ah, that’s my third-favourite Star Wars joke.

  Number 2
  Q. What do you call a quivering Jedi?
  A. Panickin’ Skywalker

  Number 1
  VADER: “I know what you’re getting for Christmas, young Skywalker.”
  LUKE: “That’s impossible. How can you know?”
  VADER: “I have felt your presents”

• Date:

  Tuesday, 05 May 2009 - 16:13 UTC

  Richard Grant said:

  \o/ @ Cath!

• Date:

  Tuesday, 05 May 2009 - 16:29 UTC

  Cath Ennis said:

  I am no longer ignoring Richard (thank you!)

  I might have to ignore Matt for a bit though.

• Date:

  Tuesday, 05 May 2009 - 16:30 UTC

  Frank Norman said:

  I heard about this wedding on the news this morning. I didn’t really understand it for a few minutes. (Sorry – never seen the movie, but I have sung the soundtrack).

• Date:

  Tuesday, 05 May 2009 - 16:33 UTC

  Cath Ennis said:

  That’s awesome! The wee girl dressed as R2D2 is so cute!

• Date:

  Tuesday, 05 May 2009 - 20:11 UTC

  Åsa Karlström said:

  Cath> the ring seemed interesting. A part of a meteorite!

  Frank> never seen the movies? not even the first ones? (the new ones I completely understand if one has “missed”….)