carrots and what's in your dictionary....?
a right old mixed bag of musings
today.... and an admission that I am a sucker for lashings of ketchup and the
odd bacon sarni......
I reckon you could tell a lot about someone
and what they think about at work by analysis of the contents of their MS Word
custom dictionary.... well, anyone who has an interest other than work that
is.... Mine for example has words like "bling" and "spangly" in it... that on
it's own wouldn't tell you a lot, but then if you also saw the words
"Campagnolo", "Gran Fondo", "Giro d'Italia" etc then you'd probably figure that
I was into cycling...in particular road cycling and seriously spangly,
ultra-spendy bicycles.... I often wonder what's in my colleagues dictionaries
as, lets face it, everybody does a bit of personal stuff in the office whether
it's a quick email to a buddy across the office or a full-on dissertation for an
Open University course in breeding rare earthworms. Every passion or interest
has it's own peculiar vocabulary. My nearest neighbour in the office is a guitar
nut... though one of my other colleagues (who shall remain un-named...) is, or
at least appears to be, as dull as dishwater. His Word vocabulary probably goes
about as far as "Kelloggs", after all what else would he write about in an email
other than what was on the menu for
breakfast......
what next... ah yes, this
morning while was grabbing some breakfast (no, not Kelloggs Cornflakes) in the
little kitchen at work I had opportunity to muse on what it is to be a cyclist
in an office full of normal people.... I feel under constant scrutiny,
especially when it comes to what I happen to be eating.... My little cupboard
space is crammed with things for breakfast and lunch such as organic porridge
oats, dried fruit, sardines, fresh carrots to snack on, beans etc etc (you get
the picture...) whereas the majority of my colleagues appear to subsist on a
mixture of sugary packet cereals, supermarket ready meals and that horrible
'plastic white bread' that comes from the Happy Shopper and has so many
additives in it that not even the most aggressive mould finds it palatable...!
Must admit though I am a sucker for lashings of ketchup and the odd bacon
sarni......
Just before I go though... a
quick word about two high profile women in the UK news today.... one is a leech
from hell, sponging off the nation, the other is also filthy rich but, in my
opinion, is also a fine upstanding part of the British nation worthy of her
position..... their names are "The Queen" (or 'Liz' for short) and the other is
called Cherie..... Blair. Guess which is which? Perhaps it would help if I told
you that Cherie spent £7000 on a sodding haircut during hubbies election
campaign.... the bitch. Her and her Bush-sucking hubby Tony are as bad as Imelda
and Ferdinand Marcos....
Posted: Fri - April 21, 2006 at 08:01 PM