Great Headlines of Our Time
Melanie Rimmer
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7390109.stm
It's not up there with Dr Fuchs Off To The Antarctic, but it made me smile
Graeme Dods
news:Y8CdnYt0pMP4zb7V...@pipex.net:
I almost posted that one round at work, but I've got a reputation to uphold
(a terrible one, but it still needs upheld).
--
Graeme
Paul Stevenson
"Melanie Rimmer" <m...@timelord.org.uk> wrote in message
news:Y8CdnYt0pMP4zb7V...@pipex.net...
> Great Tits Cope Well With Warming
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7390109.stm
>
> It's not up there with Dr Fuchs Off To The Antarctic, but it made me smile
"Allies Push Bottles up Germans"
from, I think, the Battle of the Bulge.
--
Paul Stevenson
"There are certain unsophisticated country folk living in the district,
who are in a state of ill-concealed excitement whenever they find
themselves on its platform."
coj
> "Allies Push Bottles up Germans"
<speechless>
--
coj
"But it's nothing to worry about; it's all part of growing up and being
British."
Guy King
from "Paul Stevenson" <paul.p...@phonecoop.coop> contains these words:
> "Allies Push Bottles up Germans"
> from, I think, the Battle of the Bulge.
The original quote was "Eighth Army Push Bottles Up Germans", which
molishes more sense.
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vu...@vulch.org
> Melanie Rimmer <m...@timelord.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> Great Tits Cope Well With Warming
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7390109.stm
>
> <http://z.about.com/d/animals/1/0/h/9/shutterstock_304958.jpg>
http://www.pixelbomb.com/blog/images/2005/10/boobees.jpg
Anthony
bobharvey
> Great Tits Cope Well With Warming http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7390109.stm
>
> It's not up there with Dr Fuchs Off To The Antarctic, but it made me smile
This took my attention:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/7392684.stm
"Pupils suspended over online game"
But BBC Lincolnshire is a rather soft target for this sort of thing.
Paul Stevenson
"Guy King" <guy....@zetnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> The message <g01q6s$vjo$1...@aioe.org>
> from "Paul Stevenson" <paul.p...@phonecoop.coop> contains these words:
>
> > "Allies Push Bottles up Germans"
>
> > from, I think, the Battle of the Bulge.
>
> The original quote was "Eighth Army Push Bottles Up Germans", which
> molishes more sense.
Quite so, though I think the placing of a comma makes the sense plain.
I'll leave the placing to others
Paul.
Graeme Dods
news:g0423n$q6b$1...@aioe.org:
I'd place it somewhere outside the sentence as it doesn't need one at all.
It's all on whether you read "push" as a verb or a noun.
--
Graeme
Austin Shackles
<robert...@my-deja.com> enlightened us thusly:
"Principal David Hampson said there were some 1,000 computers at the college
and they were provided for educational use.
'Computers here are used for learning ... not for playing games,' he said."
Narrow-minded pillock.
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------------------------------------------------\
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a webcartoon by Howard Tayler; I like it, maybe you will too!
Guy King
from vu...@vulch.org contains these words:
> http://www.pixelbomb.com/blog/images/2005/10/boobees.jpg
Shouldn't they have blue feet?
Steve O'Hara-Smith
"Paul Stevenson" <paul.p...@phonecoop.coop> wrote:
> "Allies Push Bottles up Germans"
Painful images of breaking bottles.
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bobharvey
> But BBC Lincolnshire is a rather soft target for this sort of thing.
so how about:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/7393835.stm
"Cardboard nurses are asking patients and visitors to wash their hands
at hospital wards in Lincolnshire."
or indeed:
http://www.spaldingtoday.co.uk/flowerparade2008/Elvis-in-Spalding-for-flower.4060081.jp
"Elvis in Spalding for flower parade"
Not a lot happens in Lincolnshire
bobharvey
> Not a lot happens in Lincolnshire
"MOBILITY scooter users are being asked to slow down on pavements
after local residents raised concerns about their safety"
On the same page: "Today's Vote: Would you like a Marks & Spencer
store in Louth? "
Dr Ivan D. Reid
wrote in <cf8e19aa-dc5b-4fee...@w7g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>:
> On the same page: "Today's Vote: Would you like a Marks & Spencer
> store in Louth? "
Louth? That'd make an interesting rhyme for a limerick:
There was a young lady from Louth,
Who returned from a trip to the South.
Her father said, "Nelly!
There's more in your belly
Than ever went in by your mouth!"
(Baring-Gould's "Lure of the Limerick", I think.)
--
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Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
Guy King
from bobharvey <robert...@my-deja.com> contains these words:
> "MOBILITY scooter users are being asked to slow down on pavements
> after local residents raised concerns about their safety"
We could do with a bit of that round here. There's an old bloke who's
nearly flattened me on several occasions.
Carlton Miniott
--
teh internets is populated by eggshells armed with hammers
Carlton Miniott
said:
>
> "Principal David Hampson said there were some 1,000 computers at the college
> and they were provided for educational use.
>
> 'Computers here are used for learning ... not for playing games,' he said."
>
> Narrow-minded pillock.
Well.... We don't have a cluster in our building any more, but when we
did, it was occasionally necessary to turf out peeps playing games so
that other peeps could work on their dissertations.
John Williamson
> On Sat, 10 May 2008 17:07:02 +0100, Austin Shackles
> <austinDITCHTHIS...@ddol-las.net> wrote:
>> On or around Sat, 10 May 2008 04:08:33 -0700 (PDT), bobharvey
>> <robert...@my-deja.com> enlightened us thusly:
>>> On 8 May, 20:11, Melanie Rimmer <m...@timelord.org.uk> wrote:
>>>> Great Tits Cope Well With Warming http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7390109.stm
>>>>
>>>> It's not up there with Dr Fuchs Off To The Antarctic, but it made me smile
>>> This took my attention:
>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/7392684.stm
>>> "Pupils suspended over online game"
>>>
>>> But BBC Lincolnshire is a rather soft target for this sort of thing.
>> "Principal David Hampson said there were some 1,000 computers at the college
>> and they were provided for educational use.
>>
>> 'Computers here are used for learning ... not for playing games,' he said."
>>
>> Narrow-minded pillock.
>
>
> After all, there's obviously A Rule about it which they have knowingly
> breached and isn't there a possibility of the skool PCs getting viruses
> from downloaded games?
>
> And I certainly think that skoolkids should be getting on with skool
> jaybecks rather than playing forbidden games.
>
> I haveter say that suspension seems a bit silly for such offenses,
> though. I'd give 'em detentions for a month.
"Computer games are a waste of time & effort. Discuss."
Minimum 5000 words, hand written.
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Tciao for Now!
John.
Austin Shackles
<dave...@ukmisc.org.uk> enlightened us thusly:
>Costing the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Austin Shackles
>said:
>>
>> "Principal David Hampson said there were some 1,000 computers at the college
>> and they were provided for educational use.
>>
>> 'Computers here are used for learning ... not for playing games,' he said."
>>
>> Narrow-minded pillock.
>
>Well.... We don't have a cluster in our building any more, but when we
>did, it was occasionally necessary to turf out peeps playing games so
>that other peeps could work on their dissertations.
well, yeah, there is that aspect. But when I were in uni, there were
computers aplenty and much of the time they weren't actually being used for
academic jbex.
It was the implied assertion that it was impossible to learn from games that
I was really tilting at.
Discovered that the original DOOM would fit on a floppy. These days, of
course, you'd have a 4GB unforgettory stick, and pretty much anything would
fit on it. But fitting DOOM on a floppy was neat at the time.
Andy Burns
> But when I were in uni [...]
> Discovered that the original DOOM would fit on a floppy.
Did yow goto uni as a zngher fghqrag then? I gooved you were of
comparable age to me, and Doom was released agesandages after I finished
at poly.
Leonard Leopard
> "MOBILITY scooter users are being asked to slow down on pavements
> after local residents raised concerns about their safety"
IRTA NOBILITY scooter users, and imagined Hell's Peers riding around
in ermine-trimmed robes and coronets, terrorising the great unwashed.
--
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-- Germaine Greer
Change the last bit of the address to .uk to reply.
Guy King
from Melanie Rimmer <m...@timelord.org.uk> contains these words:
> It's not up there with Dr Fuchs Off To The Antarctic, but it made me smile
Page 4 of today's Grauniad bears the following caption...
"Britain's passion for chocolate has been linked to violence in Colombia
by campaigners War on Want"
So, it was the NGOs all along.
Austin Shackles
<usenet.a...@adslpipe.co.uk> enlightened us thusly:
>On 11/05/2008 08:05, Austin Shackles wrote:
>
>> But when I were in uni [...]
>> Discovered that the original DOOM would fit on a floppy.
>
>Did yow goto uni as a zngher fghqrag then?
Allegedly mature, yes.
Dave Larrington
Melanie Rimmer <m...@timelord.org.uk> tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell us:
> smile
Butt seized by terror police:
http://www.itv.com/News/Articles/Butt-seized-by-terror-police-585927113.html
Clarke launches attack on Balls:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7358335.stm
--
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<http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk>
Ernesto, give me that Kit-Kat, or I will kill you.
Amethyst Deceiver
austinDITCHTHIS...@ddol-las.net says...
> On or around Sun, 11 May 2008 08:21:39 +0100, Andy Burns
> <usenet.a...@adslpipe.co.uk> enlightened us thusly:
>
> >On 11/05/2008 08:05, Austin Shackles wrote:
> >
> >> But when I were in uni [...]
> >> Discovered that the original DOOM would fit on a floppy.
> >
> >Did yow goto uni as a zngher fghqrag then?
>
> Allegedly mature, yes.
As I used to say "well, let's just say older, shall we?".
Austin Shackles
<smert.s...@privacy.net> enlightened us thusly:
>In news:Y8CdnYt0pMP4zb7V...@pipex.net,
>Melanie Rimmer <m...@timelord.org.uk> tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell us:
>> Great Tits Cope Well With Warming
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7390109.stm
>>
>> It's not up there with Dr Fuchs Off To The Antarctic, but it made me
>> smile
>
>
>Butt seized by terror police:
>http://www.itv.com/News/Articles/Butt-seized-by-terror-police-585927113.html
>
>Clarke launches attack on Balls:
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7358335.stm
Beats me how Ed Balls hasn't managed to change 'is name.
Dave Larrington
Sn!pe <sn...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk> tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell us:
> Austin Shackles <austinDITCHTHIS...@ddol-las.net> wrote:
>
>> Beats me how Ed Balls hasn't managed to change 'is name.
>
Could be worse. Consider how much Mr & Mrs Trickle, parents of the 1989
NASCAR Rookie Of The Year, must have hated their son to give him the first
name Richard.
--
Dave Larrington
<http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk>
Drugs are good, except when they kill you.
Guy King
from "Dave Larrington" <smert.s...@privacy.net> contains these words:
> Could be worse. Consider how much Mr & Mrs Trickle, parents of the 1989
> NASCAR Rookie Of The Year, must have hated their son to give him the first
> name Richard.
While looking for pumps I found someone called Warren Peace.
http://www.nesc.wvu.edu/nsfc/Articles/SFQ/SFQw02_web/SFQw02_NewPump.html
Austin Shackles
<guy....@zetnet.co.uk> enlightened us thusly:
>The message <68vkqpF...@mid.individual.net>
>from "Dave Larrington" <smert.s...@privacy.net> contains these words:
>
>> Could be worse. Consider how much Mr & Mrs Trickle, parents of the 1989
>> NASCAR Rookie Of The Year, must have hated their son to give him the first
>> name Richard.
>
>While looking for pumps I found someone called Warren Peace.
>
>http://www.nesc.wvu.edu/nsfc/Articles/SFQ/SFQw02_web/SFQw02_NewPump.html
unforget a book about someone called Warren Peace. To cut a long and not
that good story short, it eventually transpired that at the beginning of the
book he'd had some kind of identity-remolishment, and during this you had to
concentrate on something to make the arj name implant in yer unforgettory.
To this end he'd carried with him a book, intending to change his name to
Leo Tolstoy, but had looked at the wrong bit at the critical moment.
vu...@vulch.org
> unforget a book about someone called Warren Peace. To cut a long and not
> that good story short, it eventually transpired that at the beginning of the
> book he'd had some kind of identity-remolishment, and during this you had to
> concentrate on something to make the arj name implant in yer unforgettory.
> To this end he'd carried with him a book, intending to change his name to
> Leo Tolstoy, but had looked at the wrong bit at the critical moment.
Who Goes Here? by Bob Shaw.
Anthony
Andy Burns
> Consider how much Mr & Mrs Trickle
IRTA Mrs Trellis.
Just zis Guy, you know?
<austinDITCHTHIS...@ddol-las.net> said in
<k6hm24dqs700ah53k...@4ax.com>:
>unforget a book about someone called Warren Peace.
Yes, the Bob Shaw, and wasn't there a Harry Harrison reference as
well somewhere? One of the Bill The Galactic Hero books?
Guy
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Richard Bos
> from bobharvey <robert...@my-deja.com> contains these words:
>
> > "MOBILITY scooter users are being asked to slow down on pavements
> > after local residents raised concerns about their safety"
>
> We could do with a bit of that round here. There's an old bloke who's
> nearly flattened me on several occasions.
IME it isn't so much the speed that does it, it's the attitude of some
of their drivers that they have right of way anywhere, anytime,
immediately, and if necessary by driving into other people's shopping
bags.
Richard
Guy King
from Countess-Palatine Blackberry the Perplexed of Divine
Intervention.<x{yz}enop...@hotmail.com> contains these words:
> Having been both a pedestrian and a mobility scooter driver, I find that
> the latter is more difficult. If people stop dead in front of you, it's
> very likely that you may not be able to avoid their shopping bags in
> passing.
I avoid Morrisons because of this. There's something about the one in
Wellington that makes all the old dears stand in the aisles nattering.
I'm not against a good natter, but they're utterly oblivious to everyone
else who're backed up in long lines trying to get past. At least when
BYTs do that you can ram them gently.
Frank Erskine
Perplexed of Divine Intervention.<x{yz}enop...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Having been both a pedestrian and a mobility scooter driver, I find that
>the latter is more difficult. If people stop dead in front of you, it's
>very likely that you may not be able to avoid their shopping bags in
>passing.
>
Do the upper classes ride around on nobility scooters?
--
Frank Erskine
MJBC, OETKBC
Just zis Guy, you know?
<E-0C0013...@cleopatra.co.uk> said in
<tjtq245ue0qvjk24f...@4ax.com>:
>There used to be a house called "Warren Peace", owned by a family called
>Warren, near where I grew up.
Some friends of my parents had a house called "Cobwebs", as in
"Currently Owned By Woolwich Equitable Building Society"
Guy King
from "Just zis Guy, you know?" <u...@ftc.gov> contains these words:
> Some friends of my parents had a house called "Cobwebs", as in
> "Currently Owned By Woolwich Equitable Building Society"
Splendid!
I guess this place would have been Cohabs, for Current Owners HalifAx
Building Society.
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>The message <do6r245bt9jkmm4vs...@4ax.com>
>from "Just zis Guy, you know?" <u...@ftc.gov> contains these words:
>
>> Some friends of my parents had a house called "Cobwebs", as in
>> "Currently Owned By Woolwich Equitable Building Society"
>
>Splendid!
>
>I guess this place would have been Cohabs, for Current Owners HalifAx
>Building Society.
OBTBOS here. Owned by The Bank of Scotland
Nearly a decent ROT, that
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Andrew Marshall
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>>Splendid!
OBU here. Owned by Us.
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bobharvey
> Do the upper classes ride around on nobility scooters?
Of course not. They would have someone to do it for them.
Richard Robinson
>>
> Having been both a pedestrian and a mobility scooter driver, I find that
> the latter is more difficult. If people stop dead in front of you, it's
> very likely that you may not be able to avoid their shopping bags in
> passing.
I bet.
When there are lots of people milling about in town here (Wednesdays &
Saturdays, because of the market) progress (for me, as an ableishbodied, fit
on my legs - type person) can be difficult and annoying on account of the
sheer number of people who don't appear to have any idea of what's going on
around them, or that there are any other people anywhere in the vicinity.
They stop dead right in front of me, they come charging out of shop doorways
without wondering if there might be anyone out there already, they swoop
from one side of the street into a doorway on the other side without looking
to see if anybody's bound to fall over the pushchair, they wander around in
circles at varying speeds with music stuffed into their ears and a mobile
phone in front of their eyes, both thumbs waggling away. When a big group of
them meets up for a nice chat, why do they always fill a whole junction ?
(because it blocks two streets instead of one, of _course_).
On anything less maneouvreable than a Good Pair Of Legs, it must be a
nightmare. I suggest fitting a) a big spike in front, b) scythes on the
wheels, c) a BFO klaxon, and d) handlebar mirrors. Which last will, of
course, promptly get broken.
--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem
My email address is at http://www.qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html
Guy King
from Countess-Palatine Blackberry the Perplexed of Divine
Intervention.<x{yz}enop...@hotmail.com> contains these words:
> OBM - Owned By Me.
My first paid wbo was with OBM - Otford Builders Merchants.
Dr Ivan D. Reid
wrote in <482dcf91$0$660$bed6...@news.gradwell.net>:
> When there are lots of people milling about in town here (Wednesdays &
> Saturdays, because of the market) progress (for me, as an ableishbodied, fit
> on my legs - type person) can be difficult and annoying on account of the
> sheer number of people who don't appear to have any idea of what's going on
> around them, or that there are any other people anywhere in the vicinity.
> They stop dead right in front of me, they come charging out of shop doorways
> without wondering if there might be anyone out there already, they swoop
> from one side of the street into a doorway on the other side without looking
> to see if anybody's bound to fall over the pushchair, they wander around in
> circles at varying speeds with music stuffed into their ears and a mobile
> phone in front of their eyes, both thumbs waggling away. When a big group of
> them meets up for a nice chat, why do they always fill a whole junction ?
> (because it blocks two streets instead of one, of _course_).
YMYA. My particular bete noir is people who come out of shops
without looking each way first -- I do wish they'd do that on the roads,
the Darwinian selection would benefit the rest of us. It's not restricted
to Britain -- the Zurchois were prone to stopping in the middle of the
footpath for a chat if they met someone they knew, oblivious to the rest
of the foot traffic trying to find a way around the blockage. I also
recall being blocked in the aisle of the Migros supermarket in Nussbaumen
by an older gent accompanying his wife, who had lost all touch with the
outside world. When he finally came to, and looked around to see me, he
remarked, "Oh, Sie mussen stössen!" (Oh, you should push!).
Actually, if I ruled the world, single people only would be
allowed in supermarkets -- no wives or husbands, no mates, no children:
one person, one basket/trolly, conversation and convoys prohibited!
--
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Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
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WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
Karen Davies
> In uk.rec.sheds, (Dr Ivan D. Reid) wrote in
> <slrng2rtaa.i...@loki.brunel.ac.uk>::
>
>> Actually, if I ruled the world, single people only would be
>> allowed in supermarkets -- no wives or husbands, no mates, no children:
>> one person, one basket/trolly, conversation and convoys prohibited!
>
Why do they go shopping at all? Why haven't they all been recycled into
candles and lamp shades?
Richard Robinson
>>>
>>>And finally, why shouldn't pensioners go fubccvat exactly when they want
>>>to? Eh? Eh?
>
>>All of this is true, yet- I suspect in a lot of cases, it's a lifetime of
>>habit. "Saturday! Time to go shopping!"
>>
>>If I were the owner of a supermarket or whatever, I'd have a "pensioner's
>>discount event" (like BQ do) on perhaps Tuesday, between 10:00 and 15:00.
>
> That'd get my vote..............................except then I'd haveter
> go fubccvat with all those dozy pensioners!
I wouldn't mind betting that if it happened, a lot of "why should pensioners
get in our way ?" complaints would mutate into "why should pensioners get
stuff cheaper ?".
Graeme Dods
news:mgcr24tsvk1dddhq1...@4ax.com:
That'll make mine COCBOA. Ooh er!
--
Graeme
Graeme Dods
news:p98t24pqbljaipv93...@4ax.com:
> In uk.rec.sheds, (Dr Ivan D. Reid) wrote in
> <slrng2rtaa.i...@loki.brunel.ac.uk>::
>
>> Actually, if I ruled the world, single people only would be
>>allowed in supermarkets -- no wives or husbands, no mates, no children:
>>one person, one basket/trolly, conversation and convoys prohibited!
>
> And why do pensioners go shopping on Saturdays, or in the lunch hour?
Perhaps it's to keep some semblance of routine from their pre-retirement
life. I know that whenever I've not been working for a while (e.g the year
when I first moved to Australia) I felt a bit lost without the working week
to build a time scale around. Continuing to shop on the same day they
always have is possibly part of combatting that feeling.
--
Graeme
bobharvey
> Actually, if I ruled the world, single people only would be
> allowed in supermarkets -- no wives or husbands, no mates, no children:
> one person, one basket/trolly, conversation and convoys prohibited!
Whereas, if /I/ ruled the whirled, shops would have marble counters,
customers would be served by shop assistants in white, brown, or black
coats depending on the trade in question, and small boys with bikes
would make the deliveries. Any owner of a "supermarket" would be
given 20 years transportation.
Graeme Dods
enop...@hotmail.com> wrote in news:nqm034d5e73pmtross5p3csm2hstr4iolr@
4ax.com:
> *And* the little canisters which are sent to the cashier by compressed
> air and returned with your change.
>
They still use those in some of the big supermarkets over here (even
recently built ones). They're rather boringly not transparent, but you do
hear the 'pssss thunk' as they disappear.
--
Graeme
®óñ© © ²°¹°-°²
>And don't forget the bentwood chair for customers to sit on while they
>give their order and inspect the goods.
>
>*And* the little canisters which are sent to the cashier by compressed
>air and returned with your change.
>
>I haveter say, though, that I'm glad they don't fryy biscuits from big
>tins any more. They were *always* soggy!
The mixed, loose, broken biscuits from the Woolworths counter were
good, though especially when you could pick out the cream bits first.
--
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Old Peculier
> Great Tits Cope Well With Warming
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7390109.stm
>
> It's not up there with Dr Fuchs Off To The Antarctic, but it made me smile
Back in April, the Manchester Evening Arjf informed us that
"Plan to track perverts from space is ditched".
OP
Austin Shackles
<inv...@invalid.com> enlightened us thusly:
I reckon we should demand that they reconsider. Don't want a lot of
perverts from space wandering around the place unchecked, now do we?
--
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Guy King
from Countess-Palatine Blackberry the Perplexed of Divine
Intervention.<x{yz}enop...@hotmail.com> contains these words:
> *And* the little canisters which are sent to the cashier by compressed
> air and returned with your change.
No, compressed air's too modern. Little trolleys on overhead wires,
that's best.
bobharvey
<austinDITCHTHISFORBETTERRESU...@ddol-las.net> wrote:
> >Back in April, the Manchester Evening Arjf informed us that
> >"Plan to track perverts from space is ditched".
>
> I reckon we should demand that they reconsider. Don't want a lot of
> perverts from space wandering around the place unchecked, now do we?
It's got to be better than having to put up with broadcasters
whittering on about Football all weekend.
Guy King
from Countess-Palatine Blackberry the Perplexed of Divine
Intervention.<x{yz}enop...@hotmail.com> contains these words:
> Has there been foopball?
Dunno - there was a lot of noise last night up to about 12.30am.
Esra Sdrawkcab
> On 16 May, 21:57, "Dr Ivan D. Reid" <Ivan.R...@brunel.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Actually, if I ruled the world, single people only would be
>> allowed in supermarkets -- no wives or husbands, no mates, no children:
>> one person, one basket/trolly, conversation and convoys prohibited!
>
> Whereas, if /I/ ruled the whirled, shops would have marble counters,
IRTA as "marble counters" and wondered if it was to check that the
clientel had a full set.
Andy Burns
Some still do here, but only for "pnfuvat-hc" the tills
Andy Burns
Divine Intervention. wrote:
> Has there been foopball?
only the fackup
bobharvey
> Countess-Palatine Blackberry the Perplexed of Divine Intervention.
> > Has there been foopball? I only knew about the Cricket myslef.
>
> There has been football. It got in the way of my plans to go by train
> for a day trip to my mother's.
There is going to be some more, it appears.
Richard Robinson
> bobharvey wrote:
>> On 16 May, 21:57, "Dr Ivan D. Reid" <Ivan.R...@brunel.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Actually, if I ruled the world, single people only would be
>>> allowed in supermarkets -- no wives or husbands, no mates, no children:
>>> one person, one basket/trolly, conversation and convoys prohibited!
>>
>> Whereas, if /I/ ruled the whirled, shops would have marble counters,
>
> IRTA as "marble counters" and wondered if it was to check that the
> clientel had a full set.
Grin. I like that.
of course, different establishments could then adopt different cbyvpvrf.
"I'm sorry, Madam, you seem to have all your marbles. Plese come back when
you're more gullible".
Carol Hague
We useter have they when I jbexed for aSnibsruy in Woolwich in the early
eighties.
They are a Jolly Good Thing when they jbex properly, but they usedter
get stuck in the pipework on an annoyingly[51.50] regular basis. They
would send for someone to come and fix it. We never saw the fix-it
person in the cash bssvpr where I jbexed and I always imagined a chap
with a chimney sweep-style brush pushing the canisters out again. For
all I know, that's how they *did* do it...
[51.50] But not as annoying as the Evil Bitch of a Cash Office Manager I
jbexed for. Looking back now, I think she was horribly insecure and
taking it out on all and sundry, but my 18 year old self was scared
stiff of her.
--
Carol
"If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put
that thing in your mouth. Particularly if the thing is
cats." - Lemony Snicket _The Wide Window_
Austin Shackles
<usenet.a...@adslpipe.co.uk> enlightened us thusly:
Portsmouth and Care-diff. Protsmuff were victorious, first time since 1939
I guvax they said. Cardiff have also wonnit before, about 90 years ago.
Graeme Dods
ca...@wrhpv.com:
> [51.50] But not as annoying as the Evil Bitch of a Cash Office Manager I
> jbexed for. Looking back now, I think she was horribly insecure and
> taking it out on all and sundry, but my 18 year old self was scared
> stiff of her.
I think Evil Bitches are a requirement in all supermarkets, it's an ancient
charter or something. At a similar age I worked in a supermarket and we had
one, but in a different department. I think I really pissed her off because
I wasn't in the slightest bit intimidated when she tried to throw her
weight around (she was only about 5 foot nothing).
--
Graeme
Richard Bos
> On 18 May, 21:44, Sena <"\"#\""@cymoeddorguk.privacy.net> wrote:
> > Countess-Palatine Blackberry the Perplexed of Divine Intervention.
> > > Has there been foopball? I only knew about the Cricket myslef.
> >
> > There has been football. It got in the way of my plans to go by train
> > for a day trip to my mother's.
>
> There is going to be some more, it appears.
But first, the singing.
Richard
Carol Hague
> ca...@wrhpv.com (Carol Hague) wrote in news:1ih6x0m.1om269pul3rp1N%
> ca...@wrhpv.com:
>
> > [51.50] But not as annoying as the Evil Bitch of a Cash Office Manager I
> > jbexed for. Looking back now, I think she was horribly insecure and
> > taking it out on all and sundry, but my 18 year old self was scared
> > stiff of her.
>
> I think Evil Bitches are a requirement in all supermarkets, it's an ancient
> charter or something.
I think you may well be right, although I believe a Stupid Git may be
sustituted on occasion for variety.
>At a similar age I worked in a supermarket and we had
> one, but in a different department. I think I really pissed her off because
> I wasn't in the slightest bit intimidated when she tried to throw her
> weight around (she was only about 5 foot nothing).
The worst part about the one I worked for was her unpredictability - you
could say something to her one day - "Good Morning" for instance - and
she'd be nice as pie. Say the same thing the next day and she'd verbally
tear yer head off and spit down yer neck. Most unsettling.
Graeme Dods
> Graeme Dods <graem...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I think Evil Bitches are a requirement in all supermarkets, it's an
>> ancient charter or something.
>
> I think you may well be right, although I believe a Stupid Git may be
> sustituted on occasion for variety.
Ah, I'm not aware of one where I was. Which could of course mean that I
fulfilled that role...
--
Graeme
®óñ© © ²°¹°-°²
<austinDITCHTHIS...@ddol-las.net> wrote and included this
(or some of this):
>On or around Sun, 18 May 2008 23:24:44 +0100, Andy Burns
><usenet.a...@adslpipe.co.uk> enlightened us thusly:
>
>>On 18/05/2008 21:32, Countess-Palatine Blackberry the Perplexed of
>>Divine Intervention. wrote:
>>
>>> Has there been foopball?
>>
>>only the fackup
>
>Portsmouth and Care-diff. Protsmuff were victorious, first time since 1939
>I guvax they said. Cardiff have also wonnit before, about 90 years ago.
Hm, I like a good game of soccer. That wasn't one of them
--
®óñ© © ²°¹°-°²
The Stainless Steel Cat
> It's quite difficult to know what to do when people walk directly
> towards you, ignoring you and expecting you to move around them, or when
> they allow their ankle-biters to run directly across your path so that
> you have to brake suddenly. I don't have a problem with braking
> suddenly myself, but there aredisabled people who will feel pain on such
> a manoeuvre.
I had a small game of chicken the other day while walking diagonally
across a Square. The scooter was pootling along the other diagonal and I
realised we'd reach the centre at the same moment. I toyed with the idea
of speeding up, but realised that if I miscalculated, it could get
nasty, so I veered off to walk behind it.
It got me wondering whether the "sail before steam" rule would apply
here.
Cat.
Richard Robinson
> Countess-Palatine Blackberry the Perplexed of Divine Intervention.
>
>> towards you, ignoring you and expecting you to move around them, or when
>> they allow their ankle-biters to run directly across your path so that
>> you have to brake suddenly. I don't have a problem with braking
>> suddenly myself, but there aredisabled people who will feel pain on such
>> a manoeuvre.
>
> I had a small game of chicken the other day while walking diagonally
> across a Square. The scooter was pootling along the other diagonal and I
> realised we'd reach the centre at the same moment. I toyed with the idea
> of speeding up, but realised that if I miscalculated, it could get
> nasty, so I veered off to walk behind it.
>
> It got me wondering whether the "sail before steam" rule would apply
> here.
If either of the parties was carrying sail or a boiler, it might.
Carol Hague
It's not compulsory to have both, but at least one must be present
IME...
David Reid
following:
>In uk.rec.sheds, (®óñ© © ²°¹°-°²) wrote in
><mgcr24tsvk1dddhq1...@4ax.com>::
>
>>On Fri, 16 May 2008 16:19:09 +0100, Guy King <guy....@zetnet.co.uk>
>>wrote and included this (or some of this):
>>
>>>from "Just zis Guy, you know?" <u...@ftc.gov> contains these words:
>>>
>>>> Some friends of my parents had a house called "Cobwebs", as in
>>>> "Currently Owned By Woolwich Equitable Building Society"
>>>
>>>Splendid!
>>>
>>>I guess this place would have been Cohabs, for Current Owners HalifAx
>>>Building Society.
>>
>>OBTBOS here. Owned by The Bank of Scotland
>
>OBAAL. Looks cloggie to me.
Snap!
--
David Reid Da...@disarray.org.uk http://www.disarray.org.uk
The first commandment shall be: You shall have no packet cheese cake.
Kay Dekker.
bobharvey
> Some friends of my parents had a house called "Cobwebs", as in
> "Currently Owned By Woolwich Equitable Building Society"
I would refer the house to the following bit of dialogue from the 'The
Last Goon Show':
Moriarty: I tell you there is a curse on the house of Moriarty!
Seagoon: What is it?
Moriarty:The Hampstead Building Society!
Dave Larrington
Carol Hague <ca...@wrhpv.com> tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell us:
> Graeme Dods <graem...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> ca...@wrhpv.com (Carol Hague) wrote in
>> news:1ih705k.3ew2yjhrt1owN%ca...@wrhpv.com:
>>
>>> Graeme Dods <graem...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I think Evil Bitches are a requirement in all supermarkets, it's an
>>>> ancient charter or something.
>>>
>>> I think you may well be right, although I believe a Stupid Git may
>>> be sustituted on occasion for variety.
>>
>> Ah, I'm not aware of one where I was. Which could of course mean
>> that I fulfilled that role...
>
> It's not compulsory to have both, but at least one must be present
> IME...
+1. In my days as a horriblemarket warehousebloke, we had both.
Fortunately the Evil Bitch got moved to another branch and, IIRC, the Stupid
Git (who was also the manager) was eventually fired on the
three-strikes-and-you're-out rule, having proved himself incompetent in
three different branches.
We also had a Shouty Bloke, but since he was so transparently faking it, we
just took the ipss.
--
Dave Larrington
<http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk>
Historians' Right To Work Campaign - We Demand A Continuing
Supply Of History!
Dave Larrington
bobharvey <robert...@my-deja.com> tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell us:
Never buy a house from a person named Usher - Mike Harding (I think)
--
Dave Larrington
<http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk>
Apparently Guy has now got a Brompton. I'd never have guessed.
Carol Hague
> +1. In my days as a horriblemarket warehousebloke, we had both.
> Fortunately the Evil Bitch got moved to another branch and, IIRC, the Stupid
> Git (who was also the manager)
This, too, is often the case.
>was eventually fired on the
> three-strikes-and-you're-out rule, having proved himself incompetent in
> three different branches.
How odd. Usually that would get him promoted to District Mangler or
something.
Andy Burns
> Sena wrote:
>
>> Countess-Palatine Blackberry the Perplexed of Divine Intervention said
>>
>>> Has there been foopball?
>
>> There has been football.
>
> There is going to be some more
Smaller is better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAjSE_vvIO0
n.b. 500um is about 1/200 of an ninch.