Annoying people ... what to do

Sometimes strange and hilarious situations come up.  For instance there is a guy, we shall call him GR, in our department that has been there for what seems like forever.  It still took him a really long time to figure out who we were and I still am not quite sure if he knows.  But the story is really too long to iterate here.  The funny thing to report here though truly belongs in the quote book.

Anne is invigilating and GR along with her.  So we were innocently discussing this over lunch today and Anne remarked whether he would come over to her and ask her who she was. 

Catriona: Do you think he will come over and ask who you are! 'Are you the 'Welsh one'?'
Anne: I think I'd wet myself! (laughing hysterically)
Catriona: Oh, please, if you do, could you do it on his shoes.
Anne: I don't think I have that much self control!

After this we were all laughing hysterically. This truly made my day!

Everyone is a critic

During reading group, where we work our way through Old Irish texts we discuss the grammar.  Sometimes these discussions can get quite heated, entertaining and downright silly.

'I don't know why they do this .... but I really shouldn't be criticising their Old Irish.  It is better than mine.'

Prof. TOC on a certain grammtical problem we were working through in the Cath Almaine text.  He felt a bit sheepish criticising whey they did something that didn't make a grammatical sense, but felt it cheeky of him to disagree with those whose own language it was.  Is there any wonder why I love Old Irish.