My best ever equipment buy

[Andrew*]

[GordonCopestake]

Just occured to me, has anybody ever called you an anorak Jakey?

No, I thought not.

Captain Chaos

My wife calls you lot "astronerds" when I'm using the computer: "Talking to your astronerd friends again darling?".... ok i added the darling bit, what she really calls me can't be aired on a publicly accessible forum!

[Andrew*]

sounds familiar!

[SteelRat]

I get 'Astro-chums'. Something about the word CHUM makes me whince. She hasn't got round to thinking up an astro-slur for ME yet. Probly just content with the usual ones.

[Brass n glass]

There's a coincidence; when my wife sees I'm on SGL, she talks about nerds, too. "They're nerds and so are you." Maybe not the best atmosphere in which to hope that Santa will shove a 12 inch Dob down the chimney.

[SteelRat]

"Santa will shove a 12 inch Dob down the chimney" - ouch - it'd need collimating after that.

[Brass n glass]

I'd rather do that than the usual festive task of peeling a ton of sprouts.

[GordonCopestake]

I have a laser collimator in the post to make peeling the sprouts easier.... no wait..... the other thing!

[SteelRat]

Heh heh heh