And lo on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:48:00 +0100, Mike Raiford  
<mra### [at] hotmailcom> did spake, saying:

> scott wrote:
>
>> It's sounding very much like my gf too...
>>  My hobby: Rotating things by a non-multiple of 90 degrees
>
> Anyway, we have these nice plates with (you guessed it) various breeds  
> of rooster on them. If I carelessly set down my plate wrongly oriented,  
> she goes berserk. The chicken must be right-side-up to me.

Sad to say I see nothing wrong in your wife's attitude. Now I can make an  
argument that the 'correct' position may also, depending on design, be  
180° away from you and thus right-side-up to your opposite number... sigh  
yes I am the type of person who wants to straighten frames in receptions,  
it just itches to see them like that... okay, okay I also tidy up the  
magazines too; happy now?

cue another "and people tell me *I'm* strange" :-)

> So, I have now taken to purposefully placing my plate in various "wrong"  
> positions. Most of the time she notices. I'm thinking of performing  
> psychological experiments next: Increment the orientation of the plate  
> by a few degrees each day, to find out what her threshold is ...

Monster! :-P

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Phil Cook

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