The Bluestocking. All gerbils welcome, must have own frou-frou skirt.

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New thread!

Oh bless you it does mean naughty cant also a reference to derek and Clive I believe

(Dudley Moore and Peter Cook)

i really would not worry about it

Very sorry about the shortlisting situation, Myrtle. As we say in this house, they have no taste.

Aw Myrtle, I'm sorry to hear that. Somewhere there's a lion- shaped space just waiting for you. X

Shame none of the fuckers recognises how brilliant you are Myrtle, but we know.

@MyrtleLion Sorry it will be okay xxx

And I'm hoping that it is a generously paid lion shaped hole with good fringe benefits and lovely colleagues.

<Pushes Tunnocks lion-wards>

Thank you Banned, I was really upset about it because I started it as a humorous way to thank N. for all her work at keeping the threads going, and it unexpected turned into people making fun of her username😕
Not sure why it bothered me so much, but it did🤔
Anyway N. probably has a sense of humour and gets the references you mention, which I'm not familiar with, so I'm sure it's all grand.
Thank you

I'm sorry Myrtle, that's no fun.

I am not greatly impressed with Gemini currently. I haven't specified a colour in any of the requests, but for some reason it is absolutely convinced that a frilly skirt just has to be pink.

get well soon and keep going and stay strong Myrtle!

Thank you for all the love. I was unfairly dismissed in September after a vicious and personal vendetta against me by someone I thought was a friend. I was very senior with a high income and the intention was to destroy me professionally and financially.

We eventually agreed terms in November but it's been very hard as I was in a niche organisation. The current job market is very tough and every candidate shortlisted is very closer to the role requirements.

Ahhhh...

I take it you are adopting the ones on your dress.

Please say yes I've got hundreds of them to get rid of find loving homes for.

They will be disposed of appropriately.

I mean, they turn into butterflies, dying don't they?

<hands over 189 baby beetles>

There you go. There's a few more hiding somewhere, I'll send them in a taxi when I locate them.

Please feel free to worry about gerbils, frou frou skirts etc. I have just dropped by for a bottle of @MarieDeGournay 's chambertin grand cru.

How many bottles of Chambertin Grand Cru do you think I have at my disposal....oh wait, this is the Bluestocking, so the answer is 'an infinity of bottles' so help yourself! Santé!🍷

Waiter...
Waiter...
WAITER...

There's a man in my soup!

There's a man in my soup

What! In The Bluestocking? A man!

Something is very wrong with our new premises.

You appear to have A LOT

Beetle I didn't know you had child bearing hips, or any hips come to think of it. The gerbil baby beetle sitter seems to have put them in prison stripes...I approve.

Sorry about the shortlist Myrtle

I thought they were colorado beetles, after our potatoes. I mean, the gerbils appear to be sleeping in vegetable baskets.

Are you sure this Bluestocking is in the right universe?

Maybe it's a 'Man Friday' who mistook it for a pond.

(If you weren't around at the time, a few years ago in response to the incursion of males into the Ladies Hampstead pond, a couple of doughty women donned bathers and fake facial hair; I'm not sure if they were successful in their attempt to swim in the men's pond despite their 'identity'. These were the 'Man Fridays')

Hello lovely people! It is so good to see you all. I have been laughing like a drain at the thread so far. Such a relief after Fife, you know.

How very universe-phobic of you, Android!

Wasn't there a bat somewhere round the place the other day? Bats eat beetles (only little baby ones, unless the bats are humungous big, I don't think Boily has anything to worry about).

Since she does not seem very emotionally attached to her shameful bundles, maybe it would be for the best if . . .