Last week in Hermit's Cave

YES, WE HAVE readers - and a lot of them hang out in our Beehive-powered forum, here. This is what they've been up to recently.

I DIDN'T THINK there'd been a lot of action on the Cave over the last week until I started reviewing it all for this summary. Hey, sometimes I'm wrong too...

Top timewasters
STENCH, SKAFFMAN, BASIL, QINGSHI, REDBARON, PROMETHEA, DSMITHINQ, TIGGER, THERMIONIC, ARRON

Congratulations to Stench for getting top-poster, even though she's only been with us a month or so

Newbies
ROO, SERG_K, NJA469, SNOWDOG, KERMI, QINGSHI

Of course QINGSHI isn't really new, it's just Bunty trying to confuse everyone.

Quote of the week
"Hermit's Cave: full of punninglinguists." --Arron

Word Association - (295 posts)
The usual tat

Yule OOFG (25 posts)
The monthly trip to the Fitzroy Tavern was completed without major incidents or arrests. The highlight was probably Kenny trying to eat an enormous sausage without laughing.

bar must haves (74 posts)
Jiro has set himself up with a cinema and bar in his basement and wanted to know what to put behind the bar. As you would expect from a bunch of teetotallers we had plenty of suggestions for him. Followed by the inevitable pun-fest about cheese.

Happy New Beer (86 posts)
Uri made a bid for freedom and legged it to Sydney in time for the New Year celebrations. Of course, he then had to brag about it. Everyone then wished everyone else various good things until the hangover-comparisons started the next day. Finally Uri tipped up and said it had rained all day where he was and we weren't allowed to snigger at him. How we laughed!

fscking crappy generators.... (95 posts)
Basil had a nice start to 2003 - an early-morning phone call from work to say the server room had gone down. Commiserations ensued, along with some talk of Plymouth's air quality.

Loads of other stuff too - come in and say "Hi"

Hermit's Quotable Quotes
One can always light the waste basket at another desk and escape in the uproar. Should be good for at least long enough to down three or four beers. Then the rest of the day might be bearable.

This summary brought to you by some leftover Hobson's Bitter which was on its last legs and Aberlour, as I seem to be out of Talisker...

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