Anyone perusing last
week’s JT might have experienced a Proustian moment: the ripe smell of three day old
socks. That the gags had that niff of over-ripe decay was down to the fact that we
couldn’t up-date the site the week previous week, for reasons too tedious and complex
to go into. Suffice to say that my usual method of dealing with PC related problems
viz: banging the piece of crap while shouting "work ya bastard!" didn’t
have the desired effect and what was required was the more measured response of the
web-mistress, bless her.
We did, inter alia, send out the gags to subscribers anyway, but some subscribers might
not have received them. Apparently this is due, for people who understand this sort of
thing, to organisational servers objecting to the odd swear word contained in the text. I
did receive a couple of automated responses to this effect to which I naturally sent back
a message containing the words "Fuck" and "off" in a pleasing
sequential configuration. Tee hee, what japes!
Anyway, casual readers of The JT might like to register in case we have to repeat the
exercise again, but check with your software boffins first.
Apropos of nothing really, we been having a bit of a debate here at JT Towers about
which country holds the record for the most subscribers. Yes, I know I should have this
information to hand, but I don’t, so sue me. What we’re asking is for readers to
write in giving their place of residence. Purely on a subjective basis, I would reckon
that Canada is probably tops of this particular chart, but, go on, prove me wrong.
We’d be particularly interested in hearing from readers who live right at the
margins, where humanity hangs on to life with the thinnest of threads, places like
Antarctica, The Falklands and of course, Coatbridge.
Depending on response levels we may knock up a JT map of the world, showing where you
are if you didn’t know already.
