Stupid Things We Said (Almathera)

During the 1990s Jolyon Ralph worked as Technical Directory of Almathera Systems Ltd, a software development company producing software for the Commodore Amiga. During those years a few daft things were said. Those that had nothing better to do at the time recorded these for posterity in a text file. Here is that file, rescued from an eight year old gold disc.

Cast includes:
  • D - Dan
  • J - Jolyon
  • S - Seb
  • M - Mark
  • B - Bob
  • E - Emma
  • P - Paul
  • K - Keith
  • N - Nabila
  • X - Kriss (AKA XIX)
  • THP - Steve (AKA THP)
  • Jase - Jase
  • Bea - Bea
  • DuranDuran - Popular 80s beat combo
  • Colin@TWG - Colin from TeenyWeenyGames (one of our neighbours)
  • Weird Man at Junk Shop - Weird Man at Junk Shop
    D - "Please don't kill me with that thing.."
    
    M - "LEMONS-not a DOS biscuit."
    
    A Customer - "'I think I broke the disk drive when I tried to get the 
        squeak out.'"
    
    Bea - "Sixty Kilos per shipment,"
    
    J - "You haven't the authority to name desks."
    
    J - "It's probably in gerbil hell by now."
    
    J - "Cool, I broke his Brian"(sic)
    
    M - "Ain't that the wisest,"
    
    M - "You couldn't do that before you started parachuting."
    
    M - "You can generate grease, and it makes it go even faster..."
    
    B - "AARGHH!! 60's gone!"
    
    M - "I was thinking upside down..."
    
    J - "The Gold disc will be ready by September sixth."
    
    B - "Handles like a tea trolley, goes like a pig,"
    
    P - "Hello? The knob's come off"
    
    S - "There's nothing as bad as bikers willy."
    
    S - "I was going to let you smell me, but I thought the better of it."
    
    J - "It's in the sand! I'm not helping much, am I?"
    
    D - "He stole a donkey, didn't he?"
    
    J - "He had the day off school, cos his feet are too big."
    
    M - "You put the audio leads in, and nothing comes out."
    
    S - "We're talking iconic representation."
    
    B - "Error occurred while deleting chopper."
    
    S - "He really is the king of whinge."
    
    D - "You have to eat loads of celery for that to happen."
    
    D - "Some squirrels chewed through the cable and set fire to the loft."
    
    B - "Look, you're going to drop one in, in a minute."
    
    S - "I've paid £50 a night before, in Sheffield it's £80 for the whole month!"
    
    J - "Where are we going to find 118Mb at 6.15 in the evening?"
    
    J - "Can you dilute it with Petrol?"
    
    S - "Zappers to 4000's, there's nothing Jolyon can't bust"
    
    M - "Oh look! Mr Deform-ey"
    
    J - "Shush Penfold."
    
    Bea - "Does anyone want a jumping bug? A little green bug with a red head 
        that jumps."
    
    S - "I strive to be as cool as you, Jolyon"
    
    D - "Guess who I saw at the post office, oooooooowooohhh!"
    
    B - "We've got floating point disease in here."
    
    D - "I want to learn how to say 'Excellent' when I burp."
    
    J - "It's got to D and it hasn't crashed yet!"
    
    P - "When they're hot they go all limp. Have you noticed that?"
    
    J - "You get more CPU time free if you turn off the CPU meter."
    
    M - "Squeeze it down the middle, go shwing-ding."
    
    DuranDuran - "Eighty-Nine dead! Eighty-Nine dead!"
    
    J -  "Not even the Bündersbank has one of
       these yet."
     
    J - "No I didn't break it. It was doing that before I broke it... Oooops."
    
    M - "Listen. It's full of wangly bits."
    
    J - "Who is Jools Holland anyway?"
    
    S - "No! No! Stop eating my leg!"
    
    M - "You'll wonder why you smell Ammonia on your pillow in the morning..."
    
    M - "I takes 510 seconds for sunlight to reach the Earth from the Sun, 
        and the gestation period of the Rhinocerous is 510 days. You can't
        tell me that's a coincidence."
    
    B - "We could turn France into a fishpond - Cool!"
    
    S - "Don't pick your ears with a screwdriver."
    
    M - "I said it would sink but no-one would listen."
    
    M - "It's MC 900-Foot Jesus!"
    
    B - "Shut up, or I'll spoon you."
    
    Colin@TWG - "Word for Windows on the PC is better than Deluxe Paint on the Amiga."
    
    Weird Man at Junk Shop - "'It all goes in the end, me darling.'"
    
    S - "I think it's because I was chopping onions last night."
    
    S - "Programmers are such c**ts"
    
    S - "Sorry guys, I'm going to go into programming land now."
    
    M - "This CD has motorbikes and fungus on it."
    
    M - "What about a revolving dolphin? Woeee woeee!"
    
    B - "Oh no, my smartie's fragmented!"
     
    J - "Go go gadget image..."
    
    J - "It's a yak attack knack."
    
    M - "If you think logically I am the stupidest one around here."
    
    S - "I never get Enforcer hits."
     
    D - "I'm sure if Bob was here we could get some out of his fingernails."
    
    M - "Now I know why Jolyon is the clever one, Thanks!"
    
    J - "It grows on you like a malignant tuna"
    
    S - "The toaster just committed suicide - it jumped off the fridge."
    
    M - "Kernighan & Richie? I used to love that programme..."
    
    M - "My toothbrush is six foot long and weighs 300 pounds."
    
    J - "Does anyone want to claim this nose?"
    
    K - "A man's just drove up in a white beard."
    
    M - "Pound for pound, this sandwich is heavier than plutonium."
    
    B - "That's the big bun theory."
    
    D - "It's gone all shiny. It smells a bit, though."
    
    S - "I'm frightened of the toilet, fuuwoosh gurgle gurgle."
    
    M - "So I said, how many fish does it take to eat a cheese-grater then?"
    
    B - "Stop that, it's far to silly..."
    
    B - "The desk was more laid back when it was chillin' in the corner."
    
    M - "It's scientific fact that blonde hair grows faster than any
         other, AND, blonde people are more prone to being bitten by insects,
         now if that ain't a subversive military plot then i'm Nannette Newman."
    
    B - "There's nothing wrong with looking like a chimpanzee."
    
    S - "That's like a Lada with a keyboard, isn't it?"
    
    B - "Even I know that, and I'm shit!"
    
    S - "Why do my hands smell of rubber?"
    
    S - "I was going to sellotape and stick it in, but I couldn't find any
    	  sellotape."
    
    M - "OK, so I'm Joanna Lumley. What's the big deal?"
    
    B - "Would it be a quote if I said 'Opus ate my 'c' directory'?"
    
    S - "I'm much taller than Barney [Rubble] euurrr! He's only 5'1! "
    
    B - "But you go brocolleeeeEEEEEEE!"
    
    J - "Your desk looks like one of Kraftwerk's backing singers."
    
    J - "Apparently you can get most of the world if you centre on Belgium."
    
    S - "You can draw some pants on her."
    
    M - "How do I get the gunge of my little wheelies?"
    
    S - "You need some alcohol."
    
    S - "it's a touch screen Budda."
    
    M - "PH-ooo da, la dakka-dakka ffflunng dung."
    
    N - "I'm being a phone. Go away.."
    
    J - "A4000/030 - The Skoda of Amigas."
    
    S - "Some women are allergic to semen."
    
    THP - "well thats what they told you."
       (reply to the above by the pineapple dude) 
    
    S - "I can't smake just yet - I'm still imploding."
     
    THP - "There's a spaceship coming out of Grace Jones' mouth!"
       
    THP - "Have we got a Lionel Richie File ?"
       
    THP - "What's the word for not non-competetive?"
       
    K - "I'm going to start swimming when my car comes back."
     
    M - "I'm not going to even let you hold it after that incident with   
        the Maltesers."
     
    K - "My toad is coatally bollocks."
     
    Bea - "17Bit is one of those there hear with those two there, see?"
       
    M - "Seb can't play with his balls, he's a vegetarian."
     
    D - "I've just tried to edit bendy Babe too."
     
    S - "And it works without any changes...."
     
    J - "Can I sling you over a disk?"
     
    D - "I'd love to go to Colorado, but I can't stand Wales."
     
    D - "What kind of bra is that?"
     
    M - "It goes droopie in the middle when you get old."
       
    J - "No delibarate quoting."
     
    M - "Too many chicken flavoured soya pieces in here, for my liking."
     
    M - "Oh God I feel an anagram coming on."
     
    D - "I got assasinated by a piece of Lego."
     
    P - "I thought you disappeared up your own fundimental orifice."
     
    Everyone, Regularly - "Shut up Steve"
    
    D - "What time do old people go to bed?"
     
    M - "It looks like a game and plays like shit."
     
    D - "You can always get at least one bum out of it."
    
    M - "You gotta' be pretty high up to be parachuting for a week."
       
    S - "Can you make me a bit less yellow?"
    
    K - "By the time I get to Wolverhampton my feet will be blue."
     
    J - "Any Phrase with more than two colours is a word."
     
    M - "Can someone take that ham out of my hood, please?"
     
    D - "We got a free wardrobe because our surname is Stopani"
     
    M - "I can't get Brian's jumper to cycle."
      
    K - "Builders on the bus go look at my bricks, look at my bricks, look
        at my bricks."
     
    M - "I was all ready to shove a saveloy down the fax."
     
    
    J - "I think it was because I stuck a green pencil in my ear when
        I was younger."
        
    M - "I've Got a Mothball and i'm not afraid to share it with everyone."
     
    J - "He had the day off school, cos his Trouser are too tight."
       
    S - "It tastes like Frish Lemon toilet cleaner."
      
    M - "Oh no, my hard-drive is getting a Snapple overload, Melonberry meltdown!"
     
    D - "I wonder if there will ever be an alpha channel tunnel?"
     
    THP - "At least you can go down on this joypad." 
       
    X - "You're probably doing something very stupid.. .  Ouch."
        (Kriss talking to Jolyon just as he walked into a partition)
        
    J - "A-ha! This must be one of those 'programming bug' things we've read about." 
     
    J - "Or nome-de-pineapple." 
     
    E - "Just wait until you become attached to something and I go and hide it."
     
    D - "she looks like a militant woman so she must be a lesbian."
    
    THP - "Get rid of her nipples..."
    
    M - "OH Burtie the Bolivian beaver!..."
     
    D - "France isn't an island, is it?"
    
    M - "You're so sweaty, you made the ink run."
    
    D - "Doh, my teeth are stuck to my pocket." 
    
    M - "Pixalize the poodle." 
     
    J - "I've not implemented my length yet.... You long length."
     
    X - "Exactly which part of 'shut up' don't you understand, Steve?"
     
    D - "Its the slipper treatment for sod..."
     
    D - "Its OK we're too far away from the quotes list for it to count."
     
    J - "You can't use LoRes, it's not HiRes enough."
     
    THP - "Can you go ramraiding with an Amiga 4000?"
       
    THP - "Mmuuurhgggfmmmmgm Mfmmmfmmhhhf Mmmnnnfhgggggfghhh"
       (Steve - when Kriss was preventing him from talking bollocks)
     
    X - "What's Steve doing over there? It's taking him years, that's like a whole
        day of his time.."
     
    M - "That brown thing shouldnt make that sort of clicking noise when you put
        it in the green sack."
    
    X - "I once got thrown out of a small town in portugal." 
    
    M - "Whats it like on mars?"
       (Mark, to Kriss)
    
    X - "My chair is untied."
       (Kriss)
    
    THP - "Have you seen bottom live yet?"
    
    THP - "Breaking the fridge! Breaking the fridge!" 
    
    D - "It was a stunt chicken."
    
    D - "Hes getting mounted by that bear."
    
    J - "Stick it on your mouse."
    
    THP - "Notice these this and this, now notice, no bits, gone, no bits, sorted."
    
    M - "Dont unzip it. gwaghwagh waghgh."
    
    D - "Have you heard the gateway rap."
    
    M - "This is the one you scanned Dan."
    
    D - "But we can, um, sort it into, um, and just use title, then sort into a
        set of disk changes."
    
    THP - "Its a lot easier to build up momentum with the base of the hand than
        it is with the thumb."
       
    M - "It just needs to be shrunk down but you might lose the curvature of it."
    
    M - "I'm getting desperate."
    
    D - "There were loads of dolphins with erections, It was cool!"
    
    K - "Yeah, I've had Dwane Kemp"
     
    K - "I'm going to have problems digitizing myself, unless I find a mouse with 
        a very long thingy...."
     
    M - "Annica Rice hired many firemen."
    
    M - "They run up to you, stick their little chins on your lap and dribble on you
        so it looks as if you wet yourself."
     
    THP - "Did you ever get nine fingers?"
       
    K - "Would you like to have a look at my launcher?"
     
    D - "If Bob is a hampster then what is a NotBob?"
    
    D - "Thats' chocolate thats made by Bolivian beavers isn't it..."
    
    Jase - "Buy a PC? I'd rather set fire to my head."
    
    E - "You can have the mouse, just don't put it in the freezer."
     
    B - "You're goin' to have to vibrate it, to get it to go down at that
        angle." 
    
    Jase - "You keep to your little boys and fat men, I want a horse head in the
        bed..." 
    
    M - "You were going to make something appear from hotrocks, weren't you?"
    
    
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