anyone that speaks dutch?? :rolleyes:

"dat zet geen zoden aan de dijk"


"zoden" (blocks of peat) were used to fix dikes if they were about to break. if you say, dat zet geen zoden aan de dijk, you mean that what someone else is doing to get something done is pretty useless.

like shoveling a big pile of mud with a teaspoon or something.

Hi Stephi! Any update on the dove?

You're more than welcome! Here it is, the tape: http://www.flaggen-pehl.de/product_i...031f8d56138028

:)


^Oi, the dove.... :(
It was like that: Two eggs were laid, mommy & daddy dove in turn sat on them, but one of them was very scared (we guess daddy dove, of course from an evolutionary pov his own life is more important than that of the kiddies - there's enough girl doves around here...). Although we sneaked very cautiously around he always flew off like the devil would be after him - even when we only moved too fast within our office with or without door closed. So, somewhen overlast weekend (I wasn't even outside to smoke although in office) he managed to throw down and smash one of the eggs during such a flight (there is also a cat fed by the campus caretaker who always sneaks round the fire escape stairs close to our balustrade, maybe he fled of her sneaking round?) and after that both doves abandoned the nest. As the nest was too light then, the wind blew it down one night (last Wednesday night I think), smashing the remaining egg (well the baby bird was surely dead already)........ :(

Too bad. :(

When I was a kid I remember reading a tale about doves being not very good nest-makers.

How's your thesis? Growing? ;)

Yep, but it's a sissiphus thing, for every page I write in the main part, I discover I need to write another two, three in the appendices!! And it's going still too slowly, I fear I'll have to ask boss for one more week tomorrow :o

Do you think s/he'll be surprised? Isn't it a universal law in the field of thesis writing? You know, the you-always-need-a-few-more-days axiom, or something like that. ;)

*chuckles quietly* Well, I guess you've got to finish up soon, then.

Unless you dare to come up with some outrageously bold excuses, like 'My little sister's drunk art teacher came up with a silly 'art' project and made paper aeroplanes of the existing thesis pages then crashed them into my computer, causing it to explode, as a belated tribute to 11/9.'

maybe this should have gone in the "people not on this board" thread.

Anna Socoria? She sat next to me in Calculus. Smart girl, and pretty, though one breast was slightly larger than the other ...

Oh noes!
HFOX!
Speak to me!!!!

He's busy.

snort.

Start by knowing what you don't know.

sorry, I don't know anything. :(