Another Unwin for those whose eyeballers ca't read anything too long . . .

[nemo]

So messy-f�cesimost! Oh, deep joy as the burnymost currymainders all
fall-fallollop out of Uranus and corrody away the chinymost lavatory
bowl all ceramiybold disintegraters and runny all over the floorm and
even burny soles off the Doctor Martybold bootus!

[Nick]

"nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message
news:BnO1s.260631$Wk.2...@fx09.am4...

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

--
Nick

[nemo]

Hewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!

Blimey! There *is* somebody else here!!

I notice the others have all retreated to ratucs! Why? Was funnytown
invaded by even more Nemos? ;o)

[Nick]

"nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message

news:6pu3s.5816$Gc4....@fx28.am4...

Dunno, but my boss (28) had never heard of '20,000 Leagues Under The Sea' or
Jules Verne. I heard Kirk Douglas singing 'A Whale of a Tale' from the
Disney movie on her car radio and asked her about it. She's *very* clever
though, but wasn't educated about the classics (illustrated! :-D) like wot
we wuz!

--
Nick

[Nemo]

On 16/09/2012 01:41, Nick wrote:
> "nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message
> news:6pu3s.5816$Gc4....@fx28.am4...
>> On 09/09/2012 18:08, Nick wrote:
>>> "nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message
>>> news:BnO1s.260631$Wk.2...@fx09.am4...

>>>> So messy-fæcesimost! Oh, deep joy as the burnymost currymainders all

>>>> fall-fallollop out of Uranus and corrody away the chinymost lavatory
>>>> bowl
>>>> all ceramiybold disintegraters and runny all over the floorm and even
>>>> burny soles off the Doctor Martybold bootus!
>>>
>>> Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
>>>
>> Hewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!
>>
>> Blimey! There *is* somebody else here!!
>>
>> I notice the others have all retreated to ratucs! Why? Was funnytown
>> invaded by even more Nemos? ;o)
>
> Dunno, but my boss (28) had never heard of '20,000 Leagues Under The Sea' or
> Jules Verne. I heard Kirk Douglas singing 'A Whale of a Tale' from the
> Disney movie on her car radio and asked her about it. She's *very* clever
> though, but wasn't educated about the classics (illustrated! :-D) like wot
> we wuz!
>
> --

LOL.

A 28-year-old boss? The bind moggles! (Miiiiaaaoooowwww!) Yers, an
Arr've still get der Oddie see? an de Illeeyad still ter read an all!

Nice to see a few more familiar posters back on here now.

I turned 65 in March and since then I've completely given up worrying
about politics. They're all crooks and idiots and life's too short! - so
I'm much less likely to frighten anyone away now!

And - just to prove I'm still solvent on the gloriously generous State
Pension . . .

A new camera has just arrived! Not all by itself. There was a delivery
man involved as well.

Canon (Bang!) EOS 7D body & battery grip. Much more ergonomic than me
old EOS 400D and a lot heavier, but with a thoroughly professional feel,
and a hell of a lot more advanced! So I'll be reading the manual for the
next hour or so while the battery charges up. Even the charger oozes
quality with the LED indicating the progress of charging: Single flashes
= empty; twin flashes = 50%; triple = 75% and continuous = fully
charged. Very good idea.

http://www.wexphotographic.com/search/default.aspx?q=canon%20eos%207d

Got a free rucksack as well and there's £80 cash back from Canon.

Hate the strap though. Garish and far too conspicuous. It almost shouts,
"Please mug me!"! I'll get a more sensible one.

Right. Off to read the huge 305 pp. manual. I bet the binding cracks and
I have to drill it and put treasury tags through!

I'm insuring this one as well. Too much to toulouse.

Bragging again? Narr. Just excited at my new toy. My early Christmas
Present from me to me!

Happy Nemo! (for a change)

[Nick]

"Nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message
news:97Rks.98083$YJ1....@fx09.am4...

Excellent! :-)

I recently got a new toy - a Philex FTA Satellite Box with an RF Modulator.
I got it for The Horror Channel - the Sky Box lay in a box for six years and
died after a few weeks in daylight!
You can pick up other satellites apart from Astra 28.2 E.

East of South of course, but how is that distnguished from East of North?
:-D

--
Nick

[Nemo]

With Freeview being so utterly dire and getting worse, I'm thinking of
getting Freesat meself.

The Council don't like dishes but with me with a south-facing balcony, I
can put it on a weighted tripod and, with it not being a permanent
fixture, there's nothing they can do about it! ;o)

I've since got a new lens for my new toy as well BTW, to fill the gap
between my Sigma 10 to 20mm and my Canon 60mm macro. It's a Canon EF 17
to 40mm L series zoom, so that's another arm and a leg gone!

With the 7D's ASP-C sensor, that comes out at 27.2 to 64mm, and the
quality is superb! Just right. I was out with it a couple of days ago
for the first time and I've never felt so much at home, confident and
relaxed with a camera and lens combination. Canon have got it dead right
on both.

See the cover pic on the latest Digital Camera mag - taken with the same
equipment.

And remember these? I'm surprised they're still on there . .

http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/15594301

Nemo

[GordonD]

"Nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message

news:TvFns.245824$9W6....@fx08.am4...

> The Council don't like dishes

So they eat straight from the saucepan, do they?
--
Gordon Davie
Edinburgh, Scotland

"Slipped the surly bonds of Earth...to touch the face of God."

[Nick]

"Nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message

news:TvFns.245824$9W6....@fx08.am4...

Do ya like horror films - The Horror Channel seems to show quite a few!

> The Council don't like dishes but with me with a south-facing balcony, I
> can put it on a weighted tripod and, with it not being a permanent
> fixture, there's nothing they can do about it! ;o)

Sounds like a plan!

> I've since got a new lens for my new toy as well BTW, to fill the gap
> between my Sigma 10 to 20mm and my Canon 60mm macro. It's a Canon EF 17 to
> 40mm L series zoom, so that's another arm and a leg gone!

I had a Snappy Camera when I was a boy and took a film, but never got it
developed.
Then at about 15 I got a second-hand Ilford Sprite and when I was 20 took
some pictures in COLOUR!!!!!
I took a pic of Lulu on our Philips 22" Colour TV, but it didn't come out.

> With the 7D's ASP-C sensor, that comes out at 27.2 to 64mm, and the
> quality is superb! Just right. I was out with it a couple of days ago for
> the first time and I've never felt so much at home, confident and relaxed
> with a camera and lens combination. Canon have got it dead right on both.
>
> See the cover pic on the latest Digital Camera mag - taken with the same
> equipment.
>
> And remember these? I'm surprised they're still on there . .
>
> http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/15594301

Is that Traffic Warden on the left gay? :-D

--
Nick

[MartinS]

"GordonD" <g.d...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> "Nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote...

>
>> The Council don't like dishes
>
> So they eat straight from the saucepan, do they?

With a spurtle?

--
Martin S.

[Ophelia]

"MartinS" <m...@my.place.invalid> wrote in message
news:ydWns.2960$s44....@newsfe11.iad...

Soup?
--
--

http://www.shop.helpforheroes.org.uk/

[GordonD]

"Ophelia" <Oph...@elsinore.me.ku> wrote in message
news:k7qmk1$s24$1...@dont-email.me...

>
>
> "MartinS" <m...@my.place.invalid> wrote in message
> news:ydWns.2960$s44....@newsfe11.iad...
>> "GordonD" <g.d...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>>> "Nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote...
>>>
>>>> The Council don't like dishes
>>>
>>> So they eat straight from the saucepan, do they?
>>
>> With a spurtle?
>
> Soup?

In a folding bowl?

[Nemo]

On 11/11/2012 09:30, GordonD wrote:
> "Nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message
> news:TvFns.245824$9W6....@fx08.am4...
>
>> The Council don't like dishes
>
> So they eat straight from the saucepan, do they?

LOL. Quite possibly! And wearing very fancy bibs higher up than usual ;o)

[Nemo]

How did you guess?

He, and people who knew him, said no, so praps he was just camp. That's
a fair representation of him though. I've never really worried about
what people do with their tackle anyway so it don't really matter. More
importantly, he was a damned good comedian. We often needed cheering up
in that job!

[Nemo]

It's not a Freeview channel, Irma Feud.

>
>> The Council don't like dishes but with me with a south-facing balcony, I
>> can put it on a weighted tripod and, with it not being a permanent
>> fixture, there's nothing they can do about it! ;o)
>
> Sounds like a plan!
>
>> I've since got a new lens for my new toy as well BTW, to fill the gap
>> between my Sigma 10 to 20mm and my Canon 60mm macro. It's a Canon EF 17 to
>> 40mm L series zoom, so that's another arm and a leg gone!
>
> I had a Snappy Camera when I was a boy and took a film, but never got it
> developed.
> Then at about 15 I got a second-hand Ilford Sprite and when I was 20 took
> some pictures in COLOUR!!!!!
> I took a pic of Lulu on our Philips 22" Colour TV, but it didn't come out.

I remember those sprites. Quite popular.

http://www.photomemorabilia.co.uk/Ilford/Sprite_127.html

Nearest thing I've got to that is two vintage vest pockets. Nope.
They're not on a vintage vest.

My first camera was a Kodak Flash 625. I got it for my 11th. or 12th.
birthday i think. Huge blue plastic thing with a 4" bulb flashgun built
in. It's so out of date and obscure now that I can't find any reference
to it on Googule.

Then it was Canon Dial 35,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bolmeister/2529763901/

. . . Practica LLC (rubbish!), EOS 1000, EOS 400D and now this monster!
- and when I broke my shoulder a couple of years back and needed
something a lot lighter that could be used one-handed, an Ixus 95, then
a G12. Until I got the 7D the G12 was the best camera I've ever had, and
they're cheap at the moment having been superseded by the G1 X.

[Ophelia]

"GordonD" <g.d...@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:agc55e...@mid.individual.net...

> "Ophelia" <Oph...@elsinore.me.ku> wrote in message
> news:k7qmk1$s24$1...@dont-email.me...
>>
>>
>> "MartinS" <m...@my.place.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:ydWns.2960$s44....@newsfe11.iad...
>>> "GordonD" <g.d...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>>>> "Nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote...
>>>>
>>>>> The Council don't like dishes
>>>>
>>>> So they eat straight from the saucepan, do they?
>>>
>>> With a spurtle?
>>
>> Soup?
>
>
> In a folding bowl?

*I* have a folding bowl but although I might put soup in it, I wouldn't
offer a spurtle for eating it. Except for you of course ...
--
--

http://www.shop.helpforheroes.org.uk/

[GordonD]

"Ophelia" <Oph...@elsinore.me.ku> wrote in message

news:k7qr8l$nb6$1...@dont-email.me...

>
>
> "GordonD" <g.d...@btinternet.com> wrote in message
> news:agc55e...@mid.individual.net...
>> "Ophelia" <Oph...@elsinore.me.ku> wrote in message
>> news:k7qmk1$s24$1...@dont-email.me...
>>>
>>>
>>> "MartinS" <m...@my.place.invalid> wrote in message
>>> news:ydWns.2960$s44....@newsfe11.iad...
>>>> "GordonD" <g.d...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>>>>> "Nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote...
>>>>>
>>>>>> The Council don't like dishes
>>>>>
>>>>> So they eat straight from the saucepan, do they?
>>>>
>>>> With a spurtle?
>>>
>>> Soup?
>>
>>
>> In a folding bowl?
>
> *I* have a folding bowl

I know you have a folding bowl! You are the only person I've ever met who
has a folding bowl!

[Ophelia]

"GordonD" <g.d...@btinternet.com> wrote in message

news:agcbq7...@mid.individual.net...

> "Ophelia" <Oph...@elsinore.me.ku> wrote in message
> news:k7qr8l$nb6$1...@dont-email.me...
>>
>>
>> "GordonD" <g.d...@btinternet.com> wrote in message
>> news:agc55e...@mid.individual.net...
>>> "Ophelia" <Oph...@elsinore.me.ku> wrote in message
>>> news:k7qmk1$s24$1...@dont-email.me...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "MartinS" <m...@my.place.invalid> wrote in message
>>>> news:ydWns.2960$s44....@newsfe11.iad...
>>>>> "GordonD" <g.d...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The Council don't like dishes
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So they eat straight from the saucepan, do they?
>>>>>
>>>>> With a spurtle?
>>>>
>>>> Soup?
>>>
>>>
>>> In a folding bowl?
>>
>> *I* have a folding bowl
>
> I know you have a folding bowl! You are the only person I've ever met who
> has a folding bowl!

*strutt*
--
--

http://www.shop.helpforheroes.org.uk/

[MartinS]

"Ophelia" <Oph...@elsinore.me.ku> wrote:
> "MartinS" <m...@my.place.invalid> wrote...

>> "GordonD" <g.d...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>>> "Nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote...
>>>
>>>> The Council don't like dishes
>>>
>>> So they eat straight from the saucepan, do they?
>>
>> With a spurtle?
>
> Soup?

Mock spurtle soup?

--
Martin S.

[MartinS]

"Ophelia" <Oph...@elsinore.me.ku> wrote:
> "MartinS" <m...@my.place.invalid> wrote...

>> "GordonD" <g.d...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>>> "Nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote...
>>>
>>>> The Council don't like dishes
>>>
>>> So they eat straight from the saucepan, do they?
>>
>> With a spurtle?
>
> Soup?

[GordonD]

"MartinS" <m...@my.place.invalid> wrote in message

news:Z6Eos.2400$Jn4...@newsfe27.iad...

If you insist.

Hey, spurtle soup! You're rubbish! You're like dishwater that's been
diluted! Yah!

[Nick]

"Nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message

news:%G5os.246505$YJ1.2...@fx09.am4...

Some folk are naturally funny like this guy Barry I worked with over 30
years ago - a few months ago I was talking to him and asked ...

Did you beep me the other day?
No, that was some other pervert - did he offer you a sweet?

--
Nick

[Nick]

"Nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message

news:GZ5os.560266$ti6.4...@fx20.am4...

I once had a promo audo cassette tape for a 'Minister 3' camera - 'twas
rather amusing!

The Polaroid Land Camera (b&w pics only) was, IIRC, advertised on TV by Bob
Monkhouse at £6 19s 6d (proper money!).

I had a Prinz Super 8 movie camera in 1972 - took 50' films at 3m 20s and I
got a Standard 8 hand-operated movie viewer in 1966 - I have I Was A Teenage
Werewolf starring Michael Landon with one subtitle: Jimmy! I'm your friend!!

--
Nick

[MartinS]

"Nick" <paci...@btopenworld.com> wrote:

> I had a Prinz Super 8 movie camera in 1972 - took 50' films at 3m 20s
> and I got a Standard 8 hand-operated movie viewer in 1966 - I have I
> Was A Teenage Werewolf starring Michael Landon with one subtitle:
> Jimmy! I'm your friend!!

I still have a Single 8 clockwork movie camera dating from about 1950 that
belonged to my late ex-father-in-law. It took 16mm film on a reel, which
had to be flipped over at the half-way point in order to expose the other
half of the film, which came back from Kodak spliced into one length of 8mm
(wide, not long).

--
Martin S.

[Nick]

"MartinS" <m...@my.place.invalid> wrote in message

news:C0Sps.2017$gP2....@newsfe26.iad...

Interesting.

I got this Prinz movie camera after watching a TV show where this guy showed
how cheap it was to make colour movies.

IIRC, �20 for the camera and �5 for a 50' film cartridge.

I had Taste the Blood of Dracula in b&w on a 200' Super 8 film (I had a
nifty projector) and that was about �5 in 1972 and bought the DVD recently
at LESS than �5.

Would that houses and cars had reduced in price! :-D

--
Nick

[MartinS]

"Nick" <paci...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
> "MartinS" <m...@my.place.invalid> wrote...

TVs and computers have!!

--
Martin S.

[Nick]

"MartinS" <m...@my.place.invalid> wrote in message

news:N78qs.36354$zu4....@newsfe14.iad...

They have!

--
Nick

[GordonD]

"MartinS" <m...@my.place.invalid> wrote in message

news:N78qs.36354$zu4....@newsfe14.iad...

I remember reading an article which said that if cars had come down in price
but at the same time increased their performance at the same rate as
computers, since the war, then you would be able to buy a family car which
could fly as fast as Concorde, for a fiver. And that was twenty years ago;
they'd be giving them away with packets of cornflakes these days.

[MartinS]

It is interesting to compare prices over a number of years. When I
bought my first car in Canada in 1966 (a 1964 VW for $800), the average
price of a new car (US) was about $2,650, and gasoline/petrol in Ontario
was about $0.45/gallon, or approx. $0.10/litre. In 2012, the average
price of a new car is about $30,000, a factor of 11.3, and the current
price of gas in Southern Ontario is between $1.15 and $1.20/litre, a
factor of 11.5 to 12. However, the average car is smaller, much more
fuel efficient and includes many technical and safety features that
didn't exist then. (My 2012 Honda Civic 1.8L gets better mileage than my
1964 1.2L VW, not to mention the V8 gas guzzlers that most people used
to drive.) So, in relation to the price of a new car, we are paying less
to fuel it than 45 years ago.

Based on the consumer price index in the US and Canada, what cost you $1
in 1965 costs you about $7 in 2012. However, this includes items that
have gone down or not gone up as sharply, e.g. long distance phone
calls, consumer electronics and household appliances. From my own
memory, what cost 10 cents when I arrived here in 1965, e.g. a chocolate
bar, bottle of Coke, cup of coffee or a newspaper, now costs over $1.

However, the picture is quite different in the UK; the consumer price
index has gone up by a factor of over 15 since 1966, an average of 6% a
year. Over the same period, the value of the pound against the Canadian
dollar has dropped from $3.00 to below $1.60.

--
Martin S.

[Nemo]

It's cruel to mock spurtle soup. It can't help having a funny name!

[Nemo]

On 14/11/2012 16:37, GordonD wrote:
> "MartinS" <m...@my.place.invalid> wrote in message
> news:Z6Eos.2400$Jn4...@newsfe27.iad...
>> "Ophelia" <Oph...@elsinore.me.ku> wrote:
>>> "MartinS" <m...@my.place.invalid> wrote...
>>>> "GordonD" <g.d...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>>>>> "Nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote...
>>>>>
>>>>>> The Council don't like dishes
>>>>>
>>>>> So they eat straight from the saucepan, do they?
>>>>
>>>> With a spurtle?
>>>
>>> Soup?
>>
>> Mock spurtle soup?
>
>
> If you insist.
>
> Hey, spurtle soup! You're rubbish! You're like dishwater that's been
> diluted! Yah!

Grate mines thin ka-like! :o)

[Nemo]

<tome>
The first time I saw a Polaroid I was one of a group of small sproggs
wandering around St. James' Park causing trouble and an aMerkin two
wrist had one, proudly showed it off to us and we were all totally
gobsmacked!!!

This was way before they were on sale over here. We always had to wait
ages for anything American to appear on the British market in those days.

And Prinz? I had one of their slide projectors. It ran so hot you could
burn yourself quite badly on it and the lamp bulb overheated so much the
glass ballooned out at the top and eventually the thing exploded!! I
didn't buy a new bulb and didn't go in Dixon's much after that either!

I know it's a well-worn cliché (and so is that) but I wonder what people
from way back then would have said if they'd been able to look into the
future and see what we've got now.

And what do I get from my cousin when I tell him about all the amazing
capabilities of digital cameras, Photoshop and how easy it is to adjust
pics nowadays? I'll tell yer what do I get from my cousin when I tell
him about all the amazing capabilities the capabilities of digital
cameras, Photoshop and how easy it is to adjust pics nowadays.

"That's cheating!" is what I get from my cousin when I tell him about
all the amazing capabilities the capabilities of digital cameras,
Photoshop and how easy it is to adjust pics nowadays!!

It's enough to make a groan man cry!

He has an Olympus Mju film camera which he utterly refuses to pronounce
correctly and an old Miranda which he dropped and is frightened to use
again in case he discovers he's broken it!

He's ten years older than me. I hope I'm not as stubborn as that in ten
years' time.
</tome>

[Nemo]

HH (Hear Hear!)

My first PC - a Dell Dimension XPS H266. It cost me around £2,500 in
1997 with a printer thrown in [FX: CRASHSHSH!!!!]. What's that in
today's money?

Its specification? Windoze 95, Pentium II processor running at 266MHz,
'a cavernous' 6.4 GB hard drive, 64MB RAM, a CD reader and talk about
advanced - two whole dead slow USB1 sockets!!!

http://apemaxsblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/project-dell-dimension-xps-h266-part-2.html

Mine still works!

Comments he wants? OK. Here's one: "Terrible barrel and perspective
distortion!"

Nemo (Still alive!)

PSsssssssss . .

http://cmod.sakura.ne.jp/neko/PC/image/machine03.jpg

That's better.

[Nick]

"Nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message

news:4Hmus.885842$Ol2.4...@fx25.am4...

My first time on the WWW was in 1999 at the Bargate Internet Cafe (10p a
minute - I used the pc for 30mins) and I looked up Luan Peters.

http://claytonmoore.tripod.com/

Then I looked up The Lone Ranger and Rossini blasted thru the speakers -
people grinned!

http://www.richardlagendijk.nl/foto/cip/computer_c64_webit_01.jpg

After a few more goes at the Bargate I bought this off QVC for £245 - 40MB
hard drive and 16MB RAM - equivalent to a 486!

--
Nick

[Nemo]

Stands for Quaint and Very Clumsy???

[GordonD]

"Nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message

news:dF6xs.794116$vW7....@fx19.am4...

> On 03/12/2012 21:17, Nick wrote:
>> "Nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message
>> news:4Hmus.885842$Ol2.4...@fx25.am4...
>>> On 18/11/2012 23:15, Nick wrote:
>>>> "MartinS" <m...@my.place.invalid> wrote in message
>>>> news:N78qs.36354$zu4....@newsfe14.iad...
>>>>> "Nick" <paci...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "MartinS" <m...@my.place.invalid> wrote...
>>>>>>> "Nick" <paci...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I had a Prinz Super 8 movie camera in 1972 - took 50' films at 3m
>>>>>>>> 20s and I got a Standard 8 hand-operated movie viewer in 1966 - I
>>>>>>>> have I Was A Teenage Werewolf starring Michael Landon with one
>>>>>>>> subtitle: Jimmy! I'm your friend!!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I still have a Single 8 clockwork movie camera dating from about
>>>>>>> 1950
>>>>>>> that belonged to my late ex-father-in-law. It took 16mm film on a
>>>>>>> reel, which had to be flipped over at the half-way point in order to
>>>>>>> expose the other half of the film, which came back from Kodak
>>>>>>> spliced
>>>>>>> into one length of 8mm (wide, not long).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Interesting.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I got this Prinz movie camera after watching a TV show where this guy
>>>>>> showed how cheap it was to make colour movies.
>>>>>>

>>>>>> IIRC, �ｿｽ20 for the camera and �ｿｽ5 for a 50' film cartridge.

>>>>>>
>>>>>> I had Taste the Blood of Dracula in b&w on a 200' Super 8 film (I had

>>>>>> a nifty projector) and that was about �ｿｽ5 in 1972 and bought the DVD
>>>>>> recently at LESS than �ｿｽ5.

>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would that houses and cars had reduced in price! :-D
>>>>>
>>>>> TVs and computers have!!
>>>>
>>>> They have!
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Nick
>>>>
>>>>
>>> HH (Hear Hear!)
>>>

>>> My first PC - a Dell Dimension XPS H266. It cost me around �ｿｽ2,500 in

>>> 1997
>>> with a printer thrown in [FX: CRASHSHSH!!!!]. What's that in today's
>>> money?
>>>
>>> Its specification? Windoze 95, Pentium II processor running at 266MHz,
>>> 'a
>>> cavernous' 6.4 GB hard drive, 64MB RAM, a CD reader and talk about
>>> advanced - two whole dead slow USB1 sockets!!!
>>>
>>> http://apemaxsblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/project-dell-dimension-xps-h266-part-2.html
>>>
>>> Mine still works!
>>>
>>> Comments he wants? OK. Here's one: "Terrible barrel and perspective
>>> distortion!"
>>>
>>> Nemo (Still alive!)
>>>
>>> PSsssssssss . .
>>>
>>> http://cmod.sakura.ne.jp/neko/PC/image/machine03.jpg
>>>
>>> That's better.
>>
>> My first time on the WWW was in 1999 at the Bargate Internet Cafe (10p a
>> minute - I used the pc for 30mins) and I looked up Luan Peters.
>>
>> http://claytonmoore.tripod.com/
>>
>> Then I looked up The Lone Ranger and Rossini blasted thru the speakers -
>> people grinned!
>>
>> http://www.richardlagendijk.nl/foto/cip/computer_c64_webit_01.jpg
>>

>> After a few more goes at the Bargate I bought this off QVC for �ｿｽ245 -

>> 40MB
>> hard drive and 16MB RAM - equivalent to a 486!
>>
> Stands for Quaint and Very Clumsy???

Quite Vacuous Customers.

[Nemo]

On 17/11/2012 04:19, Nick wrote:
> "Nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message
> news:%G5os.246505$YJ1.2...@fx09.am4...
>> On 11/11/2012 15:28, Nick wrote:
>>> "Nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message
>>> news:TvFns.245824$9W6....@fx08.am4...
>>>> On 09/11/2012 02:30, Nick wrote:
>>>>> "Nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message
>>>>> news:97Rks.98083$YJ1....@fx09.am4...
>>>>>> On 16/09/2012 01:41, Nick wrote:
>>>>>>> "nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message
>>>>>>> news:6pu3s.5816$Gc4....@fx28.am4...
>>>>>>>> On 09/09/2012 18:08, Nick wrote:
>>>>>>>>> "nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message
>>>>>>>>> news:BnO1s.260631$Wk.2...@fx09.am4...

>>>>>>>>>> So messy-f�cesimost! Oh, deep joy as the burnymost currymainders

A sweet what?? ;o)

[Nemo]

On 09/12/2012 20:38, Nemo wrote:
> On 03/12/2012 21:17, Nick wrote:
>> "Nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message
>> news:4Hmus.885842$Ol2.4...@fx25.am4...
>>> On 18/11/2012 23:15, Nick wrote:
>>>> "MartinS" <m...@my.place.invalid> wrote in message
>>>> news:N78qs.36354$zu4....@newsfe14.iad...
>>>>> "Nick" <paci...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "MartinS" <m...@my.place.invalid> wrote...
>>>>>>> "Nick" <paci...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I had a Prinz Super 8 movie camera in 1972 - took 50' films at 3m
>>>>>>>> 20s and I got a Standard 8 hand-operated movie viewer in 1966 - I
>>>>>>>> have I Was A Teenage Werewolf starring Michael Landon with one
>>>>>>>> subtitle: Jimmy! I'm your friend!!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I still have a Single 8 clockwork movie camera dating from about
>>>>>>> 1950
>>>>>>> that belonged to my late ex-father-in-law. It took 16mm film on a
>>>>>>> reel, which had to be flipped over at the half-way point in order to
>>>>>>> expose the other half of the film, which came back from Kodak
>>>>>>> spliced
>>>>>>> into one length of 8mm (wide, not long).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Interesting.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I got this Prinz movie camera after watching a TV show where this guy
>>>>>> showed how cheap it was to make colour movies.
>>>>>>

>>>>>> IIRC, �ｿｽ20 for the camera and �ｿｽ5 for a 50' film cartridge.

>>>>>>
>>>>>> I had Taste the Blood of Dracula in b&w on a 200' Super 8 film (I had

>>>>>> a nifty projector) and that was about �ｿｽ5 in 1972 and bought the DVD
>>>>>> recently at LESS than �ｿｽ5.

>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would that houses and cars had reduced in price! :-D
>>>>>
>>>>> TVs and computers have!!
>>>>
>>>> They have!
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Nick
>>>>
>>>>
>>> HH (Hear Hear!)
>>>

>>> My first PC - a Dell Dimension XPS H266. It cost me around �ｿｽ2,500 in

>>> 1997
>>> with a printer thrown in [FX: CRASHSHSH!!!!]. What's that in today's
>>> money?
>>>
>>> Its specification? Windoze 95, Pentium II processor running at
>>> 266MHz, 'a
>>> cavernous' 6.4 GB hard drive, 64MB RAM, a CD reader and talk about
>>> advanced - two whole dead slow USB1 sockets!!!
>>>
>>> http://apemaxsblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/project-dell-dimension-xps-h266-part-2.html
>>>
>>>
>>> Mine still works!
>>>
>>> Comments he wants? OK. Here's one: "Terrible barrel and perspective
>>> distortion!"
>>>
>>> Nemo (Still alive!)
>>>
>>> PSsssssssss . .
>>>
>>> http://cmod.sakura.ne.jp/neko/PC/image/machine03.jpg
>>>
>>> That's better.
>>
>> My first time on the WWW was in 1999 at the Bargate Internet Cafe (10p a
>> minute - I used the pc for 30mins) and I looked up Luan Peters.
>>
>> http://claytonmoore.tripod.com/
>>
>> Then I looked up The Lone Ranger and Rossini blasted thru the speakers -
>> people grinned!
>>
>> http://www.richardlagendijk.nl/foto/cip/computer_c64_webit_01.jpg
>>

>> After a few more goes at the Bargate I bought this off QVC for �ｿｽ245 -

>> 40MB
>> hard drive and 16MB RAM - equivalent to a 486!
>>
> Stands for Quaint and Very Clumsy???

486 was HUNter telephone exchange years ago, and believe me, teh
equipment was also very quaint and clumsy. It twerked though.

PADdington was worse. Pre-2000 type equipment almost as Mr Strowger had
invented it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almon_Brown_Strowger

Lots more on googule. Fascinating it is.

[Nemo]

>>>>>>> IIRC, £20 for the camera and £5 for a 50' film cartridge.

>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I had Taste the Blood of Dracula in b&w on a 200' Super 8 film (I
>>>>>>> had

>>>>>>> a nifty projector) and that was about £5 in 1972 and bought the DVD
>>>>>>> recently at LESS than £5.

>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Would that houses and cars had reduced in price! :-D
>>>>>>
>>>>>> TVs and computers have!!
>>>>>
>>>>> They have!
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Nick
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> HH (Hear Hear!)
>>>>

>>>> My first PC - a Dell Dimension XPS H266. It cost me around £2,500 in

>>>> 1997
>>>> with a printer thrown in [FX: CRASHSHSH!!!!]. What's that in today's
>>>> money?
>>>>
>>>> Its specification? Windoze 95, Pentium II processor running at
>>>> 266MHz, 'a
>>>> cavernous' 6.4 GB hard drive, 64MB RAM, a CD reader and talk about
>>>> advanced - two whole dead slow USB1 sockets!!!
>>>>
>>>> http://apemaxsblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/project-dell-dimension-xps-h266-part-2.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Mine still works!
>>>>
>>>> Comments he wants? OK. Here's one: "Terrible barrel and perspective
>>>> distortion!"
>>>>
>>>> Nemo (Still alive!)
>>>>
>>>> PSsssssssss . .
>>>>
>>>> http://cmod.sakura.ne.jp/neko/PC/image/machine03.jpg
>>>>
>>>> That's better.
>>>
>>> My first time on the WWW was in 1999 at the Bargate Internet Cafe (10p a
>>> minute - I used the pc for 30mins) and I looked up Luan Peters.
>>>
>>> http://claytonmoore.tripod.com/
>>>
>>> Then I looked up The Lone Ranger and Rossini blasted thru the speakers -
>>> people grinned!
>>>
>>> http://www.richardlagendijk.nl/foto/cip/computer_c64_webit_01.jpg
>>>

>>> After a few more goes at the Bargate I bought this off QVC for £245 -

>>> 40MB
>>> hard drive and 16MB RAM - equivalent to a 486!
>>>
>> Stands for Quaint and Very Clumsy???
>
>
> Quite Vacuous Customers.

All of whom commute to work by Hoovercraft!

[GordonD]

"Nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message

news:8wbys.855029$EF4.7...@fx23.am4...

In heavy traffic that's Dyson with death.

[Nick]

"Nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message

news:zpbys.673406$nB6.3...@fx21.am4...

> On 17/11/2012 04:19, Nick wrote:
>> "Nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message
>> news:%G5os.246505$YJ1.2...@fx09.am4...
>>> On 11/11/2012 15:28, Nick wrote:
>>>> "Nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message
>>>> news:TvFns.245824$9W6....@fx08.am4...
>>>>> On 09/11/2012 02:30, Nick wrote:
>>>>>> "Nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message
>>>>>> news:97Rks.98083$YJ1....@fx09.am4...
>>>>>>> On 16/09/2012 01:41, Nick wrote:
>>>>>>>> "nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message
>>>>>>>> news:6pu3s.5816$Gc4....@fx28.am4...
>>>>>>>>> On 09/09/2012 18:08, Nick wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> "nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message
>>>>>>>>>> news:BnO1s.260631$Wk.2...@fx09.am4...

>>>>>>>>>>> So messy-fæcesimost! Oh, deep joy as the burnymost currymainders

<g> Jimmy Savile's grave was desecrated by his own family - that's a first!
And what about "innocent till proven guilty" - 13 year-old groupies from
1971 now aging hags who can smell money - no doubt some of the allegations
are true.

The "Top Tory Paedo" is still at large, I see, and the Libyan torture victim
was paid £2.2 million to "keep quiet" after Tony Blair's "dirty deal in the
desert" - he was flown to "Gaddafi's torturers" the day after says The Daily
Star!

Of course David Cameron AND Colonel Gaddafi BOTH said there *was* no "dirty
deal in the desert! :-D

--
Nick

[Nemo]

Careful. Look what happened to be when I spoke polly ticks on here! ;o)

And considering the very first bit of taxpayers' money he ripped of,
Iyyy think the PM ought to be known as David Cameraman!

[Nemo]

And those are the VAX!

[GordonD]

"Nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message

news:Bwtzs.712006$YJ1.4...@fx09.am4...

Apparently Lord Sugar is bringing out a vacuum cleaner. It will be the only
Amstrad product that doesn't suck.

[MartinS]

"GordonD" <g.d...@btinternet.com> wrote:

> Apparently Lord Sugar is bringing out a vacuum cleaner. It will be the
> only Amstrad product that doesn't suck.

They won't have balls, either, unlike Jeremy Dyson's balls.

--
Martin S

[Nemo]

Lol.

Remember his very early stuff? - including a 'stereo' transistor radio
in a large flat cabinet at something like £25 - a lot of money in those
days.

An engineer got suspicious and opened one up, and found the guts of a
dirt cheap pocket portable with its one single tiny speaker in a length
of cardboard postal tube, the ends of which were behind the 'stereo'
speaker grilles in the cabinet!

Once the cat was out of the bag, this pile of crap stopped being
advertised on the back of Knave and Fiesta magazines and instead, ended
up being advertised on a fore-runner of 'Watchdog'!

And a spiv like him they made a lord???

[MartinS]

Nemo <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote:
> GordonD wrote:

<tons of superfluous stuff snipped>

>> Apparently Lord Sugar is bringing out a vacuum cleaner. It will be
>> the only Amstrad product that doesn't suck.
>
> Lol.
>
> Remember his very early stuff? - including a 'stereo' transistor radio
> in a large flat cabinet at something like £25 - a lot of money in
> those days.
>
> An engineer got suspicious and opened one up, and found the guts of a
> dirt cheap pocket portable with its one single tiny speaker in a
> length of cardboard postal tube, the ends of which were behind the
> 'stereo' speaker grilles in the cabinet!
>
> Once the cat was out of the bag, this pile of crap stopped being
> advertised on the back of Knave and Fiesta magazines and instead,
> ended up being advertised on a fore-runner of 'Watchdog'!
>
> And a spiv like him they made a lord???

Back around 1961 I bought an extension speaker for my £15 pocket-sized
Philips tranny. It consisted of a 3" diameter cardboard tube with a
speaker in the middle and a grille on each end. It had no pretensions of
being stereo, and it was only a couple of quid or so. It may have
sounded tinny, but it was an improvement over the built-in speaker.

I also connected the radio to my reel-to-reel tape recorder and taped
hundreds of pop songs from Pick of the Pops and Radio Luxembourg. What a
waste of time - I can now listen to them all in pristine quality on
satellite radio, or download them as CD-quality mp3s and listen over my
Dolby 5.1 Hi-Fi home entertainment system.

--
Martin S

[Nick]

"Nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message

news:Gvtzs.712005$YJ1.1...@fx09.am4...

> Careful. Look what happened to be when I spoke polly ticks on here! ;o)
>
> And considering the very first bit of taxpayers' money he ripped of, Iyyy
> think the PM ought to be known as David Cameraman!

Which bit? :-)

--
Nick, now in COLOR on Google Groops!

[Nick]

"Nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message

news:dF6xs.794116$vW7....@fx19.am4...

Cutting edge in 1999, said QVC! :-D

--
Nick

[Nemo]

The bit he paid the personal photographer he hired with - who just
happened to be a mate of his. There was a fair old stink about it so it
shouldn't have been forgotten about by now already.

[Nemo]

On 21/12/2012 17:45, MartinS wrote:
> Nemo <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote:
>> GordonD wrote:
>
> <tons of superfluous stuff snipped>
>
>>> Apparently Lord Sugar is bringing out a vacuum cleaner. It will be
>>> the only Amstrad product that doesn't suck.
>>
>> Lol.
>>
>> Remember his very early stuff? - including a 'stereo' transistor radio
>> in a large flat cabinet at something like �25 - a lot of money in
>> those days.
>>
>> An engineer got suspicious and opened one up, and found the guts of a
>> dirt cheap pocket portable with its one single tiny speaker in a
>> length of cardboard postal tube, the ends of which were behind the
>> 'stereo' speaker grilles in the cabinet!
>>
>> Once the cat was out of the bag, this pile of crap stopped being
>> advertised on the back of Knave and Fiesta magazines and instead,
>> ended up being advertised on a fore-runner of 'Watchdog'!
>>
>> And a spiv like him they made a lord???
>
> Back around 1961 I bought an extension speaker for my �15 pocket-sized
> Philips tranny. It consisted of a 3" diameter cardboard tube with a
> speaker in the middle and a grille on each end. It had no pretensions of
> being stereo, and it was only a couple of quid or so. It may have
> sounded tinny, but it was an improvement over the built-in speaker.
>

That's fair enough. Might have been where Sugar got the idea from.

> I also connected the radio to my reel-to-reel tape recorder and taped
> hundreds of pop songs from Pick of the Pops and Radio Luxembourg. What a
> waste of time - I can now listen to them all in pristine quality on
> satellite radio, or download them as CD-quality mp3s and listen over my
> Dolby 5.1 Hi-Fi home entertainment system.
>

You'll get a lot of flac admitting something like that.

[Nick]

"Nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message

news:kd7Cs.693827$nB6.3...@fx21.am4...

Oo - don't remember that.

--
Nick

[Nemo]

On 27/12/2012 14:08, Nick wrote:
> "Nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message
> news:kd7Cs.693827$nB6.3...@fx21.am4...
>> On 21/12/2012 18:39, Nick wrote:
>>> "Nemo" <ne...@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message
>>> news:Gvtzs.712005$YJ1.1...@fx09.am4...
>>>
>>>> Careful. Look what happened to be when I spoke polly ticks on here! ;o)
>>>>
>>>> And considering the very first bit of taxpayers' money he ripped of,
>>>> Iyyy
>>>> think the PM ought to be known as David Cameraman!
>>>
>>> Which bit? :-)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Nick, now in COLOR on Google Groops!
>>>
>>>
>> The bit he paid the personal photographer he hired with - who just
>> happened to be a mate of his. There was a fair old stink about it so it
>> shouldn't have been forgotten about by now already.
>
> Oo - don't remember that.
>
> --
> Nick
>
>

Too silly! Stop the sketch!

[Nemo]

Should I emigrate? :o)

BTW. Happy New Year. I'm listening to the Vienna concert at the
moment. Brilliant as usual. They've just finished Radetzky! NOW it's New
Year!

[MartinS]

You should have emigrated when I did, in the 1960s!

> BTW. Happy New Year. I'm listening to the Vienna concert at the
> moment. Brilliant as usual. They've just finished Radetzky! NOW it's
> New Year!

With Andr� Rieu? I love the huge bass drum they use in the Radetzky
March.

--
Martin S

[Nemo]

And when they played it at a Kenwood open-air concert years ago, half
the audience knew about the tradition of clapping along and the other
half didn't - so we ended up with half the people clapping and the other
half going "Shhhhhhhh!" :o))))