Shamus's New Writeupshttp://everything2.com/?node=New%20Writeups%20Atom%20Feed&foruser=Shamus2000-08-18T11:19:11ZWith a cherry on top (idea)http://everything2.com/user/Shamus/writeups/With+a+cherry+on+topShamushttp://everything2.com/user/Shamus2000-08-18T11:19:11Z2000-08-18T11:19:11ZThe final bit of <a href="/title/icing+on+the+cake">icing on the cake</a> you offer someone who has just made an obvious (to you at least) unreasonable demand:
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<i>"I'd like a full report in triplicate on my desk by lunchtime"
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"Okay then, and would you like that with a cherry on top?"
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Probable origin is from the delectable ice cream desert, a <a href="/title/knickerbocker+glory">knickerbocker glory</a>.<!-- close unclosed tag --></p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p>asking for the earth (idea)http://everything2.com/user/Shamus/writeups/asking+for+the+earthShamushttp://everything2.com/user/Shamus2000-08-18T10:55:51Z2000-08-18T10:55:51ZAn excessive demand, usually used in the negative to imply a simple request that is unlikely to be satisfied:
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<i>"I'm not asking for the earth here!"</i>
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Fits right into the same category as phrases such as:
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<li><a href="/title/Everything+but+the+kitchen+sink">Everything but the kitchen sink</a>
<li><a href="/title/With+a+cherry+on+top">With a cherry on top</a>
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Ah, the healing powers of <a href="/title/sarcasm">sarcasm</a>.
<!-- close unclosed tag --></p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p>Warwick LPMud (thing)http://everything2.com/user/Shamus/writeups/Warwick+LPMudShamushttp://everything2.com/user/Shamus2000-07-06T18:01:04Z2000-07-06T18:01:04ZAn <a href="/title/LPMud">LPMud</a> run at <a href="/title/Warwick+University">Warwick University</a> up until about 1992. Popular amongst <a href="/title/UK">UK</a> students in the days before full <a href="/title/internet">internet</a> connectivity and global <a href="/title/telnet">telnet</a> access.
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I can't remember when I started playing this mud. Just like I can't remember quite a lot of my time at University. I was originally playing <a href="/title/mist">mist</a> at the University of Essex. This was a more classic style mud. Hard-coded, fast, and resetting. Unfortunately it was prone to not being available. So I played Warwick in the meantime.
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Warwick mud became as much a social thing as anything else. Even to the extent of spawning its own talker, written in LP, <a href="/title/Cat+chat">Cat chat</a>. This was later usurped by a dedicated talker, <a href="/title/Cheeseplant%2527s+House">Cheeseplant's House</a>.
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I very nearly made wizard on this mud. That vaulted level where you get to start coding your own area. Sadly at 9am in the morning, as other students were turning up for lectures, I'd just died and the mud was taken down for the day as normal. Except this time it never returned.
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Rumour has it<!-- close unclosed tag --></p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…Degree Grading (idea)http://everything2.com/user/Shamus/writeups/Degree+GradingShamushttp://everything2.com/user/Shamus2000-07-06T17:55:06Z2000-07-06T17:55:06Z<p><a href="/title/Bachelor%2527s+Degree">Bachelor's Degrees</a>, at least in the <a href="/title/UK">UK</a>, are awared at the following grades:</p>
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<li><a href="/title/1st+Class+Honours">1st Class Honours</a>
<li>Upper Second Class Honours (2:1)
<li>Lower Second Class Honours (2:2)
<li>Third Class Honours
<li><a href="/title/Ordinary">Ordinary</a>
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<p>Funnily enough, a lot of people when confronted with an ordinary degree will ask "So, what class is that."</p>1st Class Honours (thing)http://everything2.com/user/Shamus/writeups/1st+Class+HonoursShamushttp://everything2.com/user/Shamus2000-07-06T17:48:38Z2000-07-06T17:48:38Z<p>Highest <a href="/title/Degree+Grading">grading</a> available for (UK) <a href="/title/degree">degree</a>s. Usually abrieviated as a <a href="/title/1st">1st</a>. The province of the <a href="/title/brainy">brainy</a> or <a href="/title/diligent">diligent</a>.</p>Dosser (person)http://everything2.com/user/Shamus/writeups/DosserShamushttp://everything2.com/user/Shamus2000-07-06T17:40:13Z2000-07-06T17:40:13Z<p>Term used to descibe the archetypal lazy <a href="/title/student">student</a>. Someone who sleeps in till midday, then hangs around socialising for the rest of the day. Reknowned for not doing any coursework or attending lectures. Not destined for <a href="/title/1st+Class+Honours">1st Class Honours</a>.</p>