The Off Topic Topic

[Richard Hakluyt]

Looking at his posting record he is not a daily poster, some gaps there, though not as long as this latest one; hope he is alright.

[Saladin]

How's it going folks?

[Josquius]

Young Bela Lugosi, ready to open for The Cure and Depeche Mode.

Wow, that does look very 70s/80s indeed.

[Sheilbh]

Thrilled to discover that today the British online commentariat are talking about a publicly owned chain of state-run restaurants

[Admiral Yi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdkd-Z3Zrp8

US diplomat's wife kills British kid in hit and run (she was driving on the wrong side of the road), flees country, State Department not waiving immunity.

[Sheilbh]

That story's starting to pick up quite a lot of heat here.

[Josquius]

Is if just because I'm old now or has the world really lost all hope this past decade?

[PDH]

I think you mean "the illusion of hope"

[Eddie Teach]

I think you just grew up in a time that was abnormally optimistic.

[Razgovory]

I learned a new word today.  "questmonger".  It's not Mongers going to find the Holy Grail, but rather a litigious individual.

[Josquius]

Has anyone else noticed, one of the Nobel prize winners this year.... his name is "Goodenough".
What a name.

[mongers]

I learned a new word today.  "questmonger".  It's not Mongers going to find the Holy Grail, but rather a litigious individual.

Raz, have you considered I could be both of those. 

[crazy canuck]

Has anyone else noticed, one of the Nobel prize winners this year.... his name is "Goodenough".
What a name.

Turns out he was

[Eddie Teach]

I learned a new word today.  "questmonger".  It's not Mongers going to find the Holy Grail, but rather a litigious individual.

Raz, have you considered I could be both of those. 

Only the pure of heart can win the grail. 

[grumbler]

I get gwenders when I hear words like questmonger still being used.