The Off Topic Topic

[Eddie Teach]

I prefer that on the occasions when I get mad enough to punch the wall, I break the wall instead of my hand. Ok?

[Sheilbh]

I'd heard before that Henry I died of a 'surfeit of lampreys'. Only just discovered that King John died of a 'surfeit of peaches and cider'. Both sound like reasonably pleasant ways to go.

[mongers]

Local news: a 50,000 ton car transporter, one hour out of Southampton docks, runs aground on a sand bank in the Solent, weather conditions benign, now listing at 45degrees; that's a lot of dented/submerged/wrecked cars to deal with:

[Admiral Yi]

I'd heard before that Henry I died of a 'surfeit of lampreys'. Only just discovered that King John died of a 'surfeit of peaches and cider'. Both sound like reasonably pleasant ways to go.

Magna Carta article.  Did you read the one about George Washington?

[Ed Anger]

U-61 is nearby.

[Jacob]

I'd heard before that Henry I died of a 'surfeit of lampreys'. Only just discovered that King John died of a 'surfeit of peaches and cider'. Both sound like reasonably pleasant ways to go.

My understanding was that Henry I choked on a lamprey eel, which doesn't sound particularly pleasant.

[garbon]

I'd heard before that Henry I died of a 'surfeit of lampreys'. Only just discovered that King John died of a 'surfeit of peaches and cider'. Both sound like reasonably pleasant ways to go.

My understanding was that Henry I choked on a lamprey eel, which doesn't sound particularly pleasant.

I thought it took him a while to die of the lampreys - as in days.

[mongers]

U-61 is nearby.

There's four more of these large vehicle carriers moored in Southampton with two more having pasted it since it ran aground. I guess the port is the UK's major car and vehicle export/import port.

I could watch this realtime ship tracker of the local for oh, minutes more:
http://shipfinder.co/?bounds=49.373629,-4.816856,51.081287,0.621377

[Ideologue]

I'd heard before that Henry I died of a 'surfeit of lampreys'. Only just discovered that King John died of a 'surfeit of peaches and cider'. Both sound like reasonably pleasant ways to go.

My understanding was that Henry I choked on a lamprey eel, which doesn't sound particularly pleasant.

King John died in prison, sucking his thumb and calling for his mother, as I recall.

[The Brain]

Edward II.

[Sheilbh]

I'd heard before that Henry I died of a 'surfeit of lampreys'. Only just discovered that King John died of a 'surfeit of peaches and cider'. Both sound like reasonably pleasant ways to go.

Magna Carta article.  Did you read the one about George Washington?

No. Please share.

[Admiral Yi]

No. Please share.

As in tell you about it?  I don't have a link.

[Syt]

http://www.thelocal.at/20150105/abusive-brother-jailed-for-incest

'Sex contract' brother jailed for incest

A 17-year-old teenage boy has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison after admitting to the repeated sexual abuse of his then 12-year-old half-sister.

At the trial in Krems, the court heard that the incest was discovered when his mother found a written contract between the boy and his half-sister, that in return for sexual favours, the girl was allowed to play with some of his toys.

The teen, from the Waldviertel region of Lower Austria, was sentenced to 2.5 years conditional detention, of which five months must be served in prison.

[DGuller]

Never write up a contract without having your lawyers comb through it.

[garbon]

I guess they thought that title would be flashier which is why they were okay contradicting it in the first sentence?