Ping Mister Pumpov!

[Nick from England]

Skype is FREE and I got headphones and mike so can I Skype ya?

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[Pumpov]

Nick from England wrote:
> Skype is FREE and I got headphones and mike so can I Skype ya?

Yes you can! :-)
My Skype name - "pumpov". I'm the only one "pumpov", I suppose.

My English these 'period' (not the woman's) is very difficult. So my
ability to speak has worsen. I'm a bit gaga now.
But don't be afraid of me, Nick - "Knock-knock-knock on the heaven's
door" ;-)

[Nick from England]

"Pumpov" <dimap...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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LOL - to Skype!

I've got to figure out how to use it now.
The KGB and MI6 will be listening! :-D

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[Anton Shepelev]

Nick from England:

> The KGB and MI6 will be listening! :-D

Mister Pumpoff is one of our best agents, so we
needn't worry about backing him up.

Anton

[Nick from England]

"Anton Shepelev" <anto...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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LOL!

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[Anton Shepelev]

Nick,

Mr. Pumpov authorized me to tell you that he's work-
ing on top-secret software, so his computer won't
have access to internet for some time and your mutu-
al interrogation over Skype has to be postponed for
about a week.

Anton

[Nick from England]

"Anton Shepelev" <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> wrote in message
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Thanks, Anton.

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[Pumpov]

Nick wrote:
> Thanks, Anton.

Well, Nick, have you found my account on Skype? If you haven't
[comma?] write me your "Skype name" or coordinates.
I anticipate our communication! Anton too :-0

Mr. Pumpov

[Nick from England]

"Pumpov" <dimap...@gmail.com> wrote in message

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You wouldn't share your details, lol!

http://z2.ifrm.com/10701/5/0/p1035672/Quackers.wav

I'm quackers! :-D

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[Pumpov]

Nick wrote:
> You wouldn't share your details, lol!
>
> http://z2.ifrm.com/10701/5/0/p1035672/Quackers.wav
>
> I'm quackers! :-D
>
> --
> (_(_)_)
>   NfE

Didn't understand the humour...
I think I need Anton's help here as an employee needs help of his
boss.

Mr. Pumpov

[Nick from England]

"Pumpov" <dimap...@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> Nick wrote:
>> Thanks, Anton.
>
> Well, Nick, have you found my account on Skype?

Yeah I did!

# Here he comes!
# Boogedy boogedy
# There he goes!
# Boogedy boogedy
# And he ain't wearing' no clothes!

> If you haven't
> [comma?] write me your "Skype name" or coordinates.

I have <comma> but my Skype name is 'thenickallardyce'!

> I anticipate our communication! Anton too :-0

Me, too! :-)

> Mr. Pumpov

Mr Allardyce

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[Pumpov]

Nick wrote:
> Mr Allardyce

I've added you on Skype. See me? Then the final countdown has
begun! ;-)

Mr. Pumpov

[Nick from England]

"Pumpov" <dimap...@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> Nick wrote:
>> Mr Allardyce
>
> I've added you on Skype. See me? Then the final countdown has
> begun! ;-)

It has! You an buy headphones with an attached mike in Poundland for $1 and
four bits (35 golden rubels in Mother Russia, lol), BUT my Sanyo Mike (1976)
and Sony Headphones (1983) should suffice!

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[Nick from England]

"Pumpov" <dimap...@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> Nick wrote:
>> Mr Allardyce
>
> I've added you on Skype. See me? Then the final countdown has
> begun! ;-)

We need to make a date!

# We have a date for half past 8 tonite
# A distant clock starts chiming 9!

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Mr Allardyce

[Pumpov]

Nick wrote:
> # We have a date for half past 8 tonite
> # A distant clock starts chiming 9!

What happened with your internet during our conversation?

Yes, we need to establish a date - but it's difficult. Maybe better to
be just online for a long time and ask permission to ping when it's
convenient?

[Nick from England]

"Pumpov" <dimap...@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> Nick wrote:
>> # We have a date for half past 8 tonite
>> # A distant clock starts chiming 9!
>
> What happened with your internet during our conversation?

Overheating laptop switched itself off!

> Yes, we need to establish a date - but it's difficult. Maybe better to
> be just online for a long time and ask permission to ping when it's
> convenient?

Weekends is probably best as you suggested.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILI3s7Wonvg

Russian music from Hollywood! :-D

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[Anton Shepelev]

Nick from England:

> Skype is FREE and I got headphones and mike so can
> I Skype ya?

My friend Pumpov wants to say:

Your voice is very pleasant and your pronouncia-
tion like that of a native speaker :-)

Every day Pumpov encounters many interesting phrases
he wants to translate into English. Consequently,
the connexion with Nick will be very useful & inter-
esting for him.

Ant (as Pumpov's amanuensis) on

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[Nick from England]

"Anton Shepelev" <anto...@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> Nick from England:
>
>> Skype is FREE and I got headphones and mike so can
>> I Skype ya?
>
> My friend Pumpov wants to say:
>
> Your voice is very pleasant and your pronouncia-
> tion like that of a native speaker :-)

LOL, I'm glad I sound English!

> Every day Pumpov encounters many interesting phrases
> he wants to translate into English. Consequently,
> the connexion with Nick will be very useful & inter-
> esting for him.

Except I got rid of Skype as it takes my 512MB RAM laptop TEN MINUTES to
logon! I need more RAM.

> Ant (as Pumpov's amanuensis) on...

What's that? Sidekick? :-D

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[Anton Shepelev]

Nick from England:

> > Ant (as Pumpov's amanuensis) on...
>
> What's that? Sidekick? :-D

Ouch, why couldn't you keep the harsh truth neatly
concealed by recondite words?

[Nick from England]

"Anton Shepelev" <anto...@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> Nick from England:
>
>> > Ant (as Pumpov's amanuensis) on...
>>
>> What's that? Sidekick? :-D
>
> Ouch, why couldn't you keep the harsh truth neatly
> concealed by recondite words?

"What is the meaning of amanuensis?"
"
Answer:
Improve
An amanuensis is a stenographer, especially one skilled in the transcription
of speech. It's an archaic term seldom used today.
"

Sufferin' CATfish! :-D

Recondite?!
It's all a SMERSH plot, lol!

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[Nick from England]

"Anton Shepelev" <anto...@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> Nick from England:
>
>> > Ant (as Pumpov's amanuensis) on...
>>
>> What's that? Sidekick? :-D
>
> Ouch, why couldn't you keep the harsh truth neatly
> concealed by recondite words?

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_meaning_of_amanuensis

Oops! :-)

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[Peter Duncanson (BrE)]

In the instances of the use of the word that I've seen it was as defined
here:
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/amanuensis?q=amanuensis

amanuensis
noun (plural amanuenses /-si?z/)
a literary or artistic assistant, in particular one who takes
dictation or copies manuscripts.

It was not a stenographer in a business or commercial office context. It
was more of a personal assistant, probably working in the employer's
home.


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Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.english.usage)

[Nick from England]

"Peter Duncanson (BrE)" <ma...@peterduncanson.net> wrote in message
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Oh, thanks - still a SMERSH plot, though, lol!

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[Anton Shepelev]

Nick from England:

> Peter Duncanson:

>
> > In the instances of the use of the word that
> > I've seen it was as defined here:
> > http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/amanuensis?q=amanuensis
> >
> > amanuensis
> > noun (plural amanuenses /-si?z/)
> > a literary or artistic assistant, in particular one who takes
> > dictation or copies manuscripts.
> >

> > It was not a stenographer in a business or com-
> > mercial office context. It was more of a person-

> > al assistant, probably working in the employer's
> > home.
>

> Oh, thanks -- still a SMERSH plot, though, lol!

Peter is right but you aren't -- it's Lovecraft's
plot of "Charles Dexter Ward" -- that's where I met
the word for the first, and only, time.

[Pumpov]

Nick from England wrote:

> What's that? Sidekick? :-D

I've read that a sidekick is less formal and friendly to a person who
dictates the text. Maybe quite the contrary - a pesron who dictates
the text is more friendly to his workman-ant :-)

[Nick from England]

"Anton Shepelev" <anto...@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> Nick from England:
>
>> Peter Duncanson:
>>
>> > In the instances of the use of the word that
>> > I've seen it was as defined here:
>> > http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/amanuensis?q=amanuensis
>> >
>> > amanuensis
>> > noun (plural amanuenses /-si?z/)
>> > a literary or artistic assistant, in particular one who takes
>> > dictation or copies manuscripts.
>> >
>> > It was not a stenographer in a business or com-
>> > mercial office context. It was more of a person-
>> > al assistant, probably working in the employer's
>> > home.
>>
>> Oh, thanks -- still a SMERSH plot, though, lol!
>
> Peter is right but you aren't -- it's Lovecraft's
> plot of "Charles Dexter Ward" -- that's where I met
> the word for the first, and only, time.

Oh I remember that. There was a fillum, possibly The Haunted Palace starring
Vincent Price, Debra Paget and Lon Chaney.

<brags> I have it on an MGM Midnite Movie flippy!

To Wiki!

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

Yay!

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[Nick from England]

"Pumpov" <dimap...@gmail.com> wrote in message

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<g>

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[Anton Shepelev]

Nick from England:

> > > Oh, thanks -- still a SMERSH plot, though,
> > > lol!
> >

> > Peter is right but you aren't -- it's Love-

> > craft's plot of "Charles Dexter Ward" -- that's
> > where I met the word for the first, and only,
> > time.
>
> Oh I remember that. There was a fillum, possibly
> The Haunted Palace starring Vincent Price, Debra
> Paget and Lon Chaney.
>
> <brags> I have it on an MGM Midnite Movie flippy!
>
> To Wiki!
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Haunted_Palace
>
> Yay!

Lucky you! I got a Vincent Price collection with
nine movies on four DVDs, but this one isn't pre-
sent. Mine is also released by MGM, and I bought it
for only one movie -- "Witchfinder General", which
by coincidence was for the only one with subtitles.

[Anton Shepelev]

Nick from England:

> Except I got rid of Skype as it takes my 512MB RAM
> laptop TEN MINUTES to logon!I need more RAM.

Current progress in software design, if progress it
is, makes even simple tasks require more and more
computational power. For an example, MP3s could be
played on the first Pentiums, while the modern AIMP,
which is otherwise a good player, used with its de-
fault settings, manages to throttle my 800Mhz PC to
an extent that it begins to stutter. By experiment
I found out that it was caused by a cosmetical set-
ting called "Allow per-pixel semi-transparency",
disabling which decreased CPU load from 100 to about
5 percent.

My proposal on the AIMP forum to disable this option
by default was rebuffed agressively, their argument
being that instead of complaining I should stop us-
ing obsolette hardware, which is actually a circular
argument because it is their brain-damaged and impo-
lite software that forces one to make upgrades, the
rare exceptions being 3d games and software for sci-
entific calculations/modelling, which a simple au-
dioplayer is certainly not.

Niclaus Wirth's "A Plea for Lean Software" immedi-
ately comes to my mind:

http://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf

Another great example is the QuickView player for
MS-DOS, which at one time was the only program
wherewith I could watch AVI movies, while in Windows
on the same computer they would lag terribly with
all players I tried.

In my schooldays I used to joke that Windows 98 was
like an ideal gas in that it filled up all space
available, both RAM and HDD. I don't think Skype
may require that much RAM, so the problem must lie
in the whole system. Aren't you using an OS newer
than WinXP?

[Nick from England]

WinXP Professional which seems fine to me.

I just downloaded DV43 which lets me view 'The Haunted Palace' "based
on the poem by Edgar Allan Poe and a story by HP Lovecraft" on my
laptop.

In England laptops will ordinarily only let you watch Region 2
(English) DVDs (Ripoff Britain).
Australia, I understand, have no such restrictions.
I bet Russia and the USA have friendlier laptops!

Btw Anton - an excellent posting - your English is better than mine
and you're much cleverer!

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[Nick from England]

On May 9, 11:37 am, anton...@freeshell.de (Anton Shepelev) wrote:
> Nick from England:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > > > Oh,  thanks  --  still  a SMERSH plot, though,
> > > > lol!
>
> > > Peter  is  right  but you aren't --  it's  Love-
> > > craft's  plot of "Charles Dexter Ward" -- that's
> > > where I  met the word for the first,  and  only,
> > > time.
>
> > Oh  I  remember that. There was a fillum, possibly
> > The Haunted Palace starring Vincent  Price,  Debra
> > Paget and Lon Chaney.
>
> > <brags> I have it on an MGM Midnite Movie flippy!
>
> > To Wiki!
>
> >  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Haunted_Palace
>
> > Yay!
>
> Lucky  you!   I  got a Vincent Price collection with
> nine movies on four DVDs, but this  one  isn't  pre-
> sent.  Mine is also released by MGM, and I bought it
> for only one movie   -- "Witchfinder General", which
> by coincidence was for the only one with subtitles.

Witchfinder is great and Vincent is such a kind fellow in that
movie! :-D

Did you get 'Tower of London' and 'The Raven' - love 'The Raven'!

A grinning Jack Nicholson said to a BBC lady interviewer once, "We can
talk about 'The Raven' cos 'The Raven' is funny but you mention some
of the other pictures I've been in and I'll walk out of the studio!".

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[Pumpov]

Nick from England wrote:
> WinXP Professional which seems fine to me.

For me too! I hate Vista and 7.

Nick, I got an "info" from SMERSH - you'll be able to talk soon! Come
on! :-)

And you are right - Anton is a really smart donkey! :-))

Mr. Pumpov

[Nick from England]

On May 11, 3:33 pm, Pumpov <dimapum...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nick from England wrote:
> > WinXP Professional which seems fine to me.
>
> For me too! I hate Vista and 7.
>
> Nick, I got an "info" from SMERSH - you'll be able to talk soon! Come
> on! :-)

<g>

> And you are right - Anton is a really smart donkey! :-))

Ha, no a smart cookie. Donkey's are not smart! :-D

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[Anton Shepelev]

Nick from England:

> Did you get 'Tower of London' and 'The Raven' -
> love 'The Raven'!

Yeah, I have the latter on the same 9-DVD set, but
it is not my kind of comedy. Peter Lorre is great
in "The Boogie Man will get you" and "You'll find
out" -- try those. I can send them to ya. And I
think Lorre is great in Fritz Lang's "M", jokes
apart!

I have the Tower of London (also with Karloff) but
haven't watched it yet.

[Nick from England]

"Anton Shepelev" <anto...@freeshell.de> wrote in message
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> Nick from England:
>
>> Did you get 'Tower of London' and 'The Raven' -
>> love 'The Raven'!
>
> Yeah, I have the latter on the same 9-DVD set, but
> it is not my kind of comedy. Peter Lorre is great
> in "The Boogie Man will get you" and "You'll find
> out" -- try those. I can send them to ya.

Is that legal? 'Third party copyright' and all that! Also aren't the files
too enormous for email? But thanks. :-)

> And I
> think Lorre is great in Fritz Lang's "M", jokes
> apart!

Shortest title, that and 'Z'!
Jokes? Tell us some 'M' jokes! -D

> I have the Tower of London (also with Karloff) but
> haven't watched it yet.

Love that! Vincent Price as Richard III and after the style of Shakespeare
but with American accents and featuring the excellent Bruce (Frank Nitti)
Gordon!

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[Pumpov]

Nick from England wrote:

> Ha, no a smart cookie. Donkey's are not smart! :-D

I didn't want to offend Anton, so I substituted "donkey" for the
second word after "smart" in a common phrase.
Synonyms! :-))

Mr. Pumpov

[Nick from England]

"Pumpov" <dimap...@gmail.com> wrote in message

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OIC! The synonym you're thinking of *is* a donkey synonym, but not quite the
right word. :-)

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[Anton Shepelev]

Hey, Nick,

Seen e-mail?

[Nick from England]

"Anton Shepelev" <anto...@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> Hey, Nick,
>
> Seen e-mail?

I'll have a look.

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