I take it you don't want a gratis goatse shirt* then, Charlie..? :D

*100% Promise the link is work/soul safe.

Oh, and nothing will ever compare to the glorious Waita Uziga... Google if you dare ;)

Re Spuds in PC
I have tried but cannot resist.
He should have peeled, sliced and fried them then he would have had.....computer chips.
oh God I am so sorry for that. Will immediately order boos from Amazon, via link, to atone
Jim Braiden

Can't we make it International We're Embaressed by Your President Day?

You know, if you wanted to distance yourself from President Bush, there are worse ways than singing YMCA.

This has been going on for at least seven years, Charlie, ever since Dr Madeline Albright sang a number from Evita using the words, "Don't cry for me ASEANies". Back in 2002 CNN ran an item on another Powell extravaganza.

Do you think he got choice of costume? If so, what does his choice of the hard-hat outfit tell us?

But did he sing "YMCA" to the tune of "We'll Gather Lilacs"?

(BBC Radio 7, "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue", available to internet listeners all week...)

Don't worry. Those are just your remaindered clones. There are plenty of you Charles Strosses to go around.

You seem dismissive of the idea that baggage trucks can fly. How else do you think the airlines lose all that luggage? If it went on the plane then it wouldn't get lost now would it?

It's only because the luggage trucks sometimes get confused and follow the wrong aircraft that you get to fill out all those forms and wonder if your luggage is having a better time than you are (it usually is).

Yeah well, you'll be glad to know that also today, in another book store a few hundred miles to the south, my girlfriend overheard this conversation:
"Hello, have you got Charles Stross's new book in yet?"
"Which new book are you after? There are about three."
Identity theives are only attempting this level of brazen fraud so as to be able to afford your output.

Thanks so much for linking to my blog. Much appreciated. Just one wee thing, you have my surname spelt slightly wrong: it's Larbalestier. I am a crap speller myself, took years before I could spell it right . . . Feel free to point out all the typoes on my site.

Fixed! Sorry 'bout that -- I hate it when it happens to me, too.

Did the shopkeeper fix you with an accusing eye and say, "You told me you were Chas Stross!" ?

Extraneous grammar note: in "their front door," using the "their" in the singular really bugs me, which is strange because I often myself use "they" for a person of unknown sex. I think what bugs me here is that it isn't being used for a person of unknown sex; here I am quite certain you're talking about a science fiction author named Charlie Stross (despite your phrasing).

Edited by author 06-08-2005 09:07 PM
I was going to post a new remark, but when I clicked on the comment link, I found that my comment from last August about remaindered clones fits the bill just fine.

I've heard of a Straw Man. Is Stross the plural form? Are there all manner of cloned Charlies chugging around? Sounds like Multiplicity as opposed to Singularity.

Oh, heck. It's a funny story. Like Einstein said: "I only believe two things are infinite - the universe and human stupidity. And I'm starting to have doubts about the universe."