I'm Back!
Steve Austin
I'm back online after a whole month spent living in a B+B with all my
possessions in storage 'cos the Bank couldn't get it together to
process a mortgage application.
Nice new house, but the same crap humour.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Steve Austin st...@edensfld.demon.co.uk
http://www.edensfld.demon.co.uk for a really bad time.
Stuart Rogers
<1999060320...@edensfld.demon.co.uk>...
>Hi all!
>
>I'm back online after a whole month spent living in a B+B with all my
>possessions in storage 'cos the Bank couldn't get it together to
>process a mortgage application.
>
>Nice new house, but the same crap humour.
Hello Steve...welcome back!
Stuart.
A B Magee
<st...@edensfld.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Hi all!
>I'm back online after a whole month spent living in a B+B with all my
>possessions in storage 'cos the Bank couldn't get it together to
>process a mortgage application.
>Nice new house, but the same crap humour.
Hi Steve! We were picturing you living in a cardboard box with some
rabbits and no internet connection.
Where are you now?
Not that it'll help much if you tell me because I don't know where
anything is.
Anne
--
Never whistle your own canoe
See my photographs at http://members.xoom.com/abmagee/
See my internet friends at http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/abmagee/
Nobody
>
> On Thu, 3 Jun 1999 21:04:15 +0100, Steve Austin
> <st...@edensfld.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >Hi all!
>
> >I'm back online after a whole month spent living in a B+B with all my
> >possessions in storage 'cos the Bank couldn't get it together to
> >process a mortgage application.
>
> >Nice new house, but the same crap humour.
>
> Hi Steve! We were picturing you living in a cardboard box with some
> rabbits and no internet connection.
>
> Where are you now?
>
> Not that it'll help much if you tell me because I don't know where
> anything is.
>
> Anne
> --
My Jar of marmite is sat next to my monitor.
Dave - who likes to share useful information, and badly needs a loaf of
bread.
A B Magee
>A B Magee wrote:
>> Not that it'll help much if you tell me because I don't know where
>> anything is.
>My Jar of marmite is sat next to my monitor.
Strangely enough, I do know where my Marmite is. It's on my computer
desk, though not beside the monitor.
>Dave - who likes to share useful information, and badly needs a loaf of
>bread.
You're not planning to actually *eat* that Marmite, are you? I thought
we'd all agreed it was for repairing roofs.
Steve Austin
>Hi Steve! We were picturing you living in a cardboard box with some
>rabbits and no internet connection.
That's about right.
>Where are you now?
Still near Ipswich, living on the edge of a big new housing development
that's swamping a village called Kesgrave. I can see the radio tower
at the labs from my back bedroom window.
>Not that it'll help much if you tell me because I don't know where
>anything is.
Ah, but Ken will know!
joseph hutcheon
st...@edensfld.demon.co.uk "Steve Austin" writes:
> abm...@aoarg.ao.pn (A B Magee) writes:
>
> >Hi Steve! We were picturing you living in a cardboard box with some
> >rabbits and no internet connection.
>
> That's about right.
>
> >Where are you now?
>
> Still near Ipswich, living on the edge of a big new housing development
> that's swamping a village called Kesgrave. I can see the radio tower
> at the labs from my back bedroom window.
>
> >Not that it'll help much if you tell me because I don't know where
> >anything is.
>
> Ah, but Ken will know!
And will probably be able to tell, with the assistance of Kensat and his trusty
collection of OS maps, bus timetables, and amazing mathematical powers, exactly
how to get there.
--
Joe
Vibrating Bum-Faced Goats
: On Fri, 04 Jun 1999 12:43:31 +1000, Nobody <nob...@nowhere.com> wrote:
: >A B Magee wrote:
: >> Not that it'll help much if you tell me because I don't know where
: >> anything is.
: >My Jar of marmite is sat next to my monitor.
: Strangely enough, I do know where my Marmite is. It's on my computer
: desk, though not beside the monitor.
: >Dave - who likes to share useful information, and badly needs a loaf of
: >bread.
: You're not planning to actually *eat* that Marmite, are you? I thought
: we'd all agreed it was for repairing roofs.
I bought some recently so that we weren't the only house in the country
that didn't have a jar of uneaten Marmite in the cupboard.
Speaking of shopping, last month Dave bought six litres of long lasting milk
and it lasted us all month. Dave, who is in charge of things like milk,
didn't take into account this month that I also bought some flavoured
milk mix. Twelve litres lasted us a week as we / I grew fat in an orgy of
strawberry and banana flavoured milk refreshment.
<HOMER>
Enchilaaaaaadas!
</HOMER>
--
Chris | Computer Officer
Russell's | Computer Centre
Five |
Line | I am none but I'm well known
sig | for I am the man with the dogs.
Steve Austin
>> Ah, but Ken will know!
>And will probably be able to tell, with the assistance of Kensat and his trusty
>collection of OS maps, bus timetables, and amazing mathematical powers, exactly
>how to get there.
Easy! Superoute 66 bus from Tower Ramparts bus station in Ipswich.
Alan Brand
> abm...@aoarg.ao.pn (A B Magee) writes:
>
> >Where are you now?
>
> Still near Ipswich, living on the edge of a big new housing development
> that's swamping a village called Kesgrave. I can see the radio tower
> at the labs from my back bedroom window.
We'll definitely have to meet for a pint when I visit my mum in Lowestoft.
--
AlanB ABR...@wave.home.net
A B Magee
hutcheon) wrote:
>In article <1999060405...@edensfld.demon.co.uk>
> st...@edensfld.demon.co.uk "Steve Austin" writes:
>> abm...@aoarg.ao.pn (A B Magee) writes:
>> >Hi Steve! We were picturing you living in a cardboard box with some
>> >rabbits and no internet connection.
>> That's about right.
>> >Where are you now?
>> Still near Ipswich, living on the edge of a big new housing development
>> that's swamping a village called Kesgrave. I can see the radio tower
>> at the labs from my back bedroom window.
>> >Not that it'll help much if you tell me because I don't know where
>> >anything is.
>> Ah, but Ken will know!
>And will probably be able to tell, with the assistance of Kensat and his trusty
>collection of OS maps, bus timetables, and amazing mathematical powers, exactly
>how to get there.
From any railroad station on the planet.
A B Magee
Bum-Faced Goats) wrote:
[Marmite]
>I bought some recently so that we weren't the only house in the country
>that didn't have a jar of uneaten Marmite in the cupboard.
Joining the establishment, are you?
>Speaking of shopping, last month Dave bought six litres of long lasting milk
>and it lasted us all month. Dave, who is in charge of things like milk,
>didn't take into account this month that I also bought some flavoured
>milk mix. Twelve litres lasted us a week as we / I grew fat in an orgy of
>strawberry and banana flavoured milk refreshment.
Two litres of milk lasts me about two months. Then I throw the rest
out because I figure it can't possibly last that long.
><HOMER>
>Enchilaaaaaadas!
></HOMER>
Enchilada-flavoured milk?
Ken Butler
> jos...@joehutch.demon.co.uk (joseph hutcheon) writes:
>
> >> Ah, but Ken will know!
>
> >And will probably be able to tell, with the assistance of Kensat and his trusty
> >collection of OS maps, bus timetables, and amazing mathematical powers, exactly
> >how to get there.
>
> Easy! Superoute 66 bus from Tower Ramparts bus station in Ipswich.
<sound of clicking and whirring as this is filed away in Giant Steel
Trap>
My sources tell me that Kesgrave is handily situated on bus routes
from Ipswich to Woodbridge and Wickham Market, with some of the buses
going on to Saxmundham and Aldeburgh. They assert, however, that these
buses are run by Eastern Counties and don't admit to a number 66. I
shall have to Have a Quiet Word.
Ipswich itself is rather a long way from its railway station, as I
discovered when I was there.
--
Ken Butler, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
** Tants caps, tants barrets. **
Steve Austin
>My sources tell me that Kesgrave is handily situated on bus routes
>from Ipswich to Woodbridge and Wickham Market, with some of the buses
>going on to Saxmundham and Aldeburgh. They assert, however, that these
>buses are run by Eastern Counties and don't admit to a number 66. I
>shall have to Have a Quiet Word.
Superoute 66 is a new-fangled invention - a circular service that serves
the big new developments at Kesgrave and Martlesham, joining them to BT
Labs at one end and Ipswich town centre at the other.
>Ipswich itself is rather a long way from its railway station, as I
>discovered when I was there.
I haven't managed to find the railway station yet - defeated by the one
way system which carefully manages the traffic to keep it all away from
the station.
Steve Austin
>Steve Austin wrote:
>> abm...@aoarg.ao.pn (A B Magee) writes:
>>
>> >Where are you now?
>>
>> Still near Ipswich, living on the edge of a big new housing development
>> that's swamping a village called Kesgrave. I can see the radio tower
>> at the labs from my back bedroom window.
>We'll definitely have to meet for a pint when I visit my mum in Lowestoft.
Good idea - if you're coming up to Suffolk, drop by. It's less than 5
minutes off the A12. I'll stick on the diet coke or fizzy water, though;
given up the demon drink nowadays.
A B Magee
<st...@edensfld.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>abm...@aoarg.ao.pn (A B Magee) writes:
>>Where are you now?
>Still near Ipswich, living on the edge of a big new housing development
>that's swamping a village called Kesgrave. I can see the radio tower
>at the labs from my back bedroom window.
Is that a good thing? Still, I suppose it'll come in handy when you
get your rocket launcher.
Steve Austin
>On Fri, 4 Jun 1999 06:33:48 +0100, Steve Austin
><st...@edensfld.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>Still near Ipswich, living on the edge of a big new housing development
>>that's swamping a village called Kesgrave. I can see the radio tower
>>at the labs from my back bedroom window.
>Is that a good thing? Still, I suppose it'll come in handy when you
>get your rocket launcher.
Maybe. I could try to shoot the top off it from my back garden....
joseph hutcheon
but...@mscs.dal.ca "Ken Butler" writes:
> Ipswich itself is rather a long way from its railway station, as I
> discovered when I was there.
OBSCURE RAILWAY STATION ALERT!!!
I visited Newark, Nottinghamshire t'other day, travelling via Brum to Newark
Castle. This was clearly a station of some importance in its day, but all the
buildings are now boarded-up, leaving the station with the status of a rural
halt.
--
Joe
Tracy T.
: I visited Newark, Nottinghamshire t'other day, travelling via Brum to Newark
: Castle. This was clearly a station of some importance in its day, but all the
: buildings are now boarded-up, leaving the station with the status of a rural
: halt.
Today we were driving to a Regional Park and saw a track that had been
abandoned and somebody had taken some of the rails away. It seemed kind
of forlorn until you drove a bit further and saw there was a nice freight
multiple-line thing right over there-->.
We also saw one of those bright flip-board signs along the track with some
rather obscure numbers on it, and we realised we didn't know what it was,
but figured it might be train-related.
Naturally I thought of Ken.
So I said, "Ken would know what that number thing is!" Of course if the
number thing had been in a swimming pool, it would have meant the train
had done 32 laps, but in this case, you wouldn't think the train would
care how many laps it had done.
Anyway, Ken do you know what the number-thing is?
Tracy, communicator of train trivia
John Rowland
jos...@joehutch.demon.co.uk (joseph hutcheon) writes:
> In article <37589fc0...@pubnews.demon.co.uk>
> but...@mscs.dal.ca "Ken Butler" writes:
>
> > Ipswich itself is rather a long way from its railway station, as I
> > discovered when I was there.
>
> OBSCURE RAILWAY STATION ALERT!!!
>
> Castle. This was clearly a station of some importance in its day, but all the
> buildings are now boarded-up, leaving the station with the status of a rural
> halt.
>
every time I've been through Newark, I've had to get from one station to
the other. The run from Newark Castle into Nottingham Midland is particularly
enjoyable, with a whole string of unlikely station names.
In Nottingham, they're planning to put a tram line in from the old Victoria
station to the Midland station, and out along Mansfield Road. The old station
got turned into a shopping centre, but two freight lines were used for longer,
so the shopping centre already has the tunnel cut through the cellars. Handy.
Not to mention the new timetable on the Midland Main Line routes, with
new shiny trains (which are slower than the old crap trains, but you can't
have everything).
john
vb...@my-deja.com
abm...@aoarg.ao.pn (A B Magee) wrote:
> On 4 Jun 1999 14:06:49 GMT, cgru...@bradford.ac.uk (Vibrating
> Bum-Faced Goats) wrote:
>
> [Marmite]
>
> >I bought some recently so that we weren't the only house in the
country
> >that didn't have a jar of uneaten Marmite in the cupboard.
>
> Joining the establishment, are you?
>
> >Speaking of shopping, last month Dave bought six litres of long
lasting milk
> >and it lasted us all month. Dave, who is in charge of things like
milk,
> >didn't take into account this month that I also bought some
flavoured
> >milk mix. Twelve litres lasted us a week as we / I grew fat in an
orgy of
> >strawberry and banana flavoured milk refreshment.
>
> Two litres of milk lasts me about two months. Then I throw the rest
> out because I figure it can't possibly last that long.
>
> ><HOMER>
> >Enchilaaaaaadas!
> ></HOMER>
>
> Enchilada-flavoured milk?
There's a scene in one episode where Homer sits on the bed with a
distended gut and says just that.
Chris, who's mixing watching a home shopping channel sell golfing
accessories with netnews and cigarettes at 4:20am. I hate being ill and
unable to sleep. Some strawberry milk is in order I think.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
Ken Butler
> OBSCURE RAILWAY STATION ALERT!!!
Whatwhatwhat?
You certainly know how to grab a guy's attention. This guy, at any rate.
> I visited Newark, Nottinghamshire t'other day, travelling via Brum to
Newark
> Castle. This was clearly a station of some importance in its day,
but all the
> buildings are now boarded-up, leaving the station with the status of
a rural
> halt.
That's sort of strange, because I don't think that particular line
(from Nottingham to Lincoln) has come especially far down in the world.
That Central Trains Class 150 you travelled on is about as good as
trains on that line ever got. (Count yourself lucky if you got a Class
158.)
Not far to the east is where the Lincoln line crosses over the East
Coast Main Line (which has its own station called Newark North Gate, or
"Northgate" depending on where you look). This used to be (and, I
think, still is) a flat crossing, with the two lines crossing each
other on the level. A bit scary when the trains crossing your path are
going over 120 mph.
Another station that's come down in the world is March, in
Cambridgeshire (in railway terms, between Peterborough and Ely). This
used to be a major junction, and was laid out with about six platforms
to cope with people changing for trains to all kinds of places in
Lincolnshire. Now, it's not a junction for anywhere, and some of the
trains don't even stop there. It looked very forlorn the second-to-last
time I passed through, but the last time I noticed that a cunningly
high fence had been built between the two extant platforms and the
others, so that the station looked in decent shape provided you didn't
look over the fence to the rest of it.
On the other hand, Birmingham New Street, otherwise known as
"Blackhole", has twelve platforms but they're only just enough to cope
with all the new services that pass through Brum these days.
--
This is not a sig.
Ken Butler
> but...@mscs.dal.ca (Ken Butler) writes:
>
> >My sources tell me that Kesgrave is handily situated on bus routes
> >from Ipswich to Woodbridge and Wickham Market, with some of the
buses
> >going on to Saxmundham and Aldeburgh. They assert, however, that
these
> >buses are run by Eastern Counties and don't admit to a number 66. I
> >shall have to Have a Quiet Word.
>
> Superoute 66 is a new-fangled invention - a circular service that
serves
> the big new developments at Kesgrave and Martlesham, joining them to
BT
> Labs at one end and Ipswich town centre at the other.
Sounds handy. Do you use it?
> >Ipswich itself is rather a long way from its railway station, as I
> >discovered when I was there.
>
> I haven't managed to find the railway station yet - defeated by the
one
> way system which carefully manages the traffic to keep it all away
from
> the station.
I wondered why there were lots of people at Ipswich station but no
cars. Now I know.
Ken Butler
> Hi all!
<AA meeting>
Hi, Steve!
</AA meeting>
> I'm back online after a whole month spent living in a B+B with all my
> possessions in storage 'cos the Bank couldn't get it together to
> process a mortgage application.
To switch from Alcoholics Anonymous to South Park, "that sucks ass,
man".
> Nice new house, but the same crap humour.
We'd expect nothing less. Or more. One of those.
Tracy T.
: Superoute 66 is a new-fangled invention - a circular service that serves
: the big new developments at Kesgrave and Martlesham, joining them to BT
: Labs at one end and Ipswich town centre at the other.
Does Superoute 66 have Superdiners and SuperCadillac Deserts on it?
Tracy, who would have visited
Steve Austin
>Steve Austin <st...@edensfld.demon.co.uk> wrote:
The closest we have to a Superdiner is a "Fatty Arbuckle's" American Diner
and it isn't on the 66 bus route. I don't know what a "SuperCadillac
Desert" is; the only desert here is a cultural one.
Steve Austin
>I wondered why there were lots of people at Ipswich station but no
>cars. Now I know.
Perhaps it's because not many cars feel the need to catch a train.
I know my car has never had that particular urge.
Steve Austin
>On Thu, 3 Jun 1999 21:04:15 +0100, Steve Austin wrote:
>> I'm back online after a whole month spent living in a B+B with all my
>> possessions in storage 'cos the Bank couldn't get it together to
>> process a mortgage application.
>To switch from Alcoholics Anonymous to South Park, "that sucks ass,
>man".
Don't I know it. I've never seen so much pissing about in all my life.
Still, it worked - eventually. I could go into a goat-style rant
about the whole dismal non-performance, but you wouldn't believe it
all.
Mr C
> : On Fri, 04 Jun 1999 12:43:31 +1000, Nobody <nob...@nowhere.com>
wrote:
>
> : >A B Magee wrote:
>
where
> : >> anything is.
>
> : >My Jar of marmite is sat next to my monitor.
>
> : Strangely enough, I do know where my Marmite is. It's on my computer
> : desk, though not beside the monitor.
>
> : >Dave - who likes to share useful information, and badly needs a
loaf of
> : >bread.
>
> : You're not planning to actually *eat* that Marmite, are you? I
thought
> : we'd all agreed it was for repairing roofs.
>
country
> that didn't have a jar of uneaten Marmite in the cupboard.
If you want to shift it, here's a little recipe I've cooked
(I use the word under advice) up:
<blue peter>
For your toasted salty snax you will need:
Beer (large portions thereof)
Marmite
Bread (sliced, preferably stale but with any mould cut off)
Worcestershire sauce
Tomato Ketchup
Smoked Bacon
Cheese (any you find lying about but the saltier (eg Feta)
the better - again remove all mould)
Consume the large portion of beer. In as little time as
possible (aim for an intake of greater than 4 pints per
hour over at least four hours for best taste). Crawl home
or, if already home, crawl to the kitchen.
Take a table spoon and a mug and measure out three spoons of
ketchup into the mug. Add a spoon full of worcestershire
sauce and stir merrily (due to the beer intake above it's
probably not possible to stir it any other way, but I thought
I'd say just to be on the safe side), trying not to throw it
all over the place.
Place as much bread as you safely are able into a toaster
and toast it (slice the bread first if the supermarket was
not kind enough to do this for you - you might want to get a
sober person to help you with this bit).
Fry the bacon in lots of oil/fat/lard - do NOT under ANY
circumstances grill it. While you're doing this your toast
should pop out of the toaster. Slice/grate loads of cheese,
spread marmite onto the toast (thickly), and smother it with
the contents of the mug you haven't been using as an ashtray.
(The one with the Ketchup mix in) Place the bacon on the
pre-treated toast. Cover with cheese, pour the remaining fat
in the frying pan over the top of it all, and finally, using
the grill or a blow torch melt the cheese.
Eat, and die of simultaneous heart, liver and kidney failure
from all the fat and sodium.
</blue peter>
The perfect friday night snack. (If you want you can also
dollop mayonnaise on top too.)
Mr C, very hungry kid
--
When inspiration strikes, it usually uses a bar of soap.
In a sock.
Mr C
> Hi all!
Hello!
> I'm back online after a whole month spent living in a B+B with all my
> possessions in storage 'cos the Bank couldn't get it together to
> process a mortgage application.
I shall send Vern and his brother around poste haste to their
business address if you would be so kind as to forward it to me.
> Nice new house, but the same crap humour.
Oh.
Mr C, really should do some disappearing of his own to revise kid
A B Magee
<st...@edensfld.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>abm...@aoarg.ao.pn (A B Magee) writes:
>>On Fri, 4 Jun 1999 06:33:48 +0100, Steve Austin
>><st...@edensfld.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>>Still near Ipswich, living on the edge of a big new housing development
>>>that's swamping a village called Kesgrave. I can see the radio tower
>>>at the labs from my back bedroom window.
>>Is that a good thing? Still, I suppose it'll come in handy when you
>>get your rocket launcher.
>Maybe. I could try to shoot the top off it from my back garden....
Beats that boring old shooting the beer cans with your air pistol
routine.
Ken Butler
> Today we were driving to a Regional Park and saw a track that had been
> abandoned and somebody had taken some of the rails away. It seemed kind
> of forlorn until you drove a bit further and saw there was a nice freight
> multiple-line thing right over there-->.
<looks>
So there is.
> We also saw one of those bright flip-board signs along the track with some
> rather obscure numbers on it, and we realised we didn't know what it was,
> but figured it might be train-related.
>
> Naturally I thought of Ken.
I have you well trained.
(ho, ho.)
> So I said, "Ken would know what that number thing is!" Of course if the
> number thing had been in a swimming pool, it would have meant the train
> had done 32 laps, but in this case, you wouldn't think the train would
> care how many laps it had done.
>
> Anyway, Ken do you know what the number-thing is?
If it was a black number on a fairly small white board (possibly
attached to a telegraph pole), then it was a milepost, telling you
that you were 32 rail miles from, well, somewhere -- the end of the
"subdivision". If this was (a new bit of) one of the original
transcontinental lines, each subdivision is about 125 miles long,
which is how far one of the old steam freight trains could travel in
12 hours. This means that the towns at the ends of the subdivisions
are (or at least were) bigger than the others along the way, because
they had to have places to feed and water the train crews and their
locomotives.
That's if it was a permanent-looking 32. If it looked as if you could
change the board to make it say something else, then it's, well,
something else.
It's always seemed curious to me that swimmers on this continent swim
"laps". Those are what you'd do on a circular track, running or on a
fast bike or car. Don't swimmers do "lengths"? (Or, of course, play
water-polo viciously.)
Ken Butler
> In article <375c9871...@news.nbnet.nb.ca>,
> abm...@aoarg.ao.pn (A B Magee) wrote:
> > Enchilada-flavoured milk?
>
> There's a scene in one episode where Homer sits on the bed with a
> distended gut and says just that.
Hmm. This is very worrying, because I don't remember which episode
this is from.
> Chris, who's mixing watching a home shopping channel sell golfing
> accessories with netnews and cigarettes at 4:20am. I hate being ill and
> unable to sleep. Some strawberry milk is in order I think.
That's bound to have *some* effect, even if not sleep.
A B Magee
>> ><HOMER>
>> >Enchilaaaaaadas!
>> ></HOMER>
>> Enchilada-flavoured milk?
>There's a scene in one episode where Homer sits on the bed with a
>distended gut and says just that.
I've never seen a bed with a distended gut. I wonder if they're
comfortable.
>Chris, who's mixing watching a home shopping channel sell golfing
>accessories with netnews and cigarettes at 4:20am. I hate being ill and
>unable to sleep. Some strawberry milk is in order I think.
Known as slobbery milk around here. But I like slobbery shortcake much
better.
Anne, thinking that slobbery shortcake season will be starting soon
vb...@my-deja.com
> >
> > There's a scene in one episode where Homer sits on the bed with a
> > distended gut and says just that.
>
> this is from.
Grampa vs Sexual Inadequacy:
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/2F07.html
It's the one where Grampa sells his love potion to put the dowsers in
your trousers. All the parents disappear off the streets to have sex
and the kids come up with conspiracy theories to explain where all the
grown ups have gone.
One of the best for stealing obscure-ish quotes from IMO. I
say "Enchilaaaaadas" every time I pig out now. I'm also in the habit of
saying "I assure you <name of minor flaw in whatever I'm doing> is the
result of an unrelated alcohol problem."
> > Chris, who's mixing watching a home shopping channel sell golfing
> > accessories with netnews and cigarettes at 4:20am. I hate being ill
and
> > unable to sleep. Some strawberry milk is in order I think.
>
> That's bound to have *some* effect, even if not sleep.
It wasn't down there for long but it was nice while it lasted. I never
did get to sleep BTW. By 5am I was on a Star Trek: TNG binge which
lasted until 10am, at which point the cricket World Cup took over.
That night I also saw the fourth Alien film for the first time. I won't
go into too much detail lest I spoil it for someone else but at the
beginning when the creatures get loose the computer starts making
evacuation announcements. It's best one is, when all the lifeboats have
gone, "Evacuation incomplete: There are 9 unarmed civilians in the
following locations".
The following dialogue would seem to me more appropriate:
"In the event of armed rebellion, terrorist attack and alien
insurgence, the Series-H computer will broadcast the location of crew
and civilians as well as their numbers and strength. Thank you for
buying the Series-H computer". Fuckwit writers. Honestly, you'd think
if they're going to spend millions on making a film, with an otherwise
decent storyline albeit with the same plot as the first, they'd put
some bloody effort into the dialogue.
If the BBC are to be believed, the SAS do the same thing. The thing
they made of Bravo Two Zero with Sean Bean (does anyone else say "Seen
Bean" first and then have to correct themselves? No? Well you will now)
had him stood there in the heat of battle slapping his mates on the
back as he very vocally counted them past his position.
Tomorrow's installement from the Goatish Industries Film School will be
how to make the perfect love scene with neither the goat nor the red
leather catsuit looking out of place.
j.hut...@hefce.ac.uk
vb...@my-deja.com wrote:
<jolly big snip>
> If the BBC are to be believed, the SAS do the same thing. The thing
> they made of Bravo Two Zero with Sean Bean (does anyone else say "Seen
> Bean" first and then have to correct themselves? No? Well you will
now)
Oh aye, we've always called him Seen Bean round our house. I've got a
mate called Seamus, and I always refer to him as Seaman, with hilarious
results.
> had him stood there in the heat of battle slapping his mates on the
> back as he very vocally counted them past his position.
I sometimes catch a few minutes of a Channel 5 film as I scan the
airwaves for something vaguely watchable. If there's no rump-pumpy in
progress, it's always the closing scene of a "crazed killer" type film,
where the woman has (she thinks) just polished off the baddie, only for
said baddie to reappear and have to be properly finished off by the
hero.
> Tomorrow's installement from the Goatish Industries Film School will
be
> how to make the perfect love scene with neither the goat nor the red
> leather catsuit looking out of place.
Bit of a bugger geting the goat into the catsuit though but.
Tracy T.
: On 6 Jun 1999 18:09:01 GMT, Tracy T. wrote:
: > Naturally I thought of Ken.
: I have you well trained.
You do realise it took me 2 days to see that pun?
: That's if it was a permanent-looking 32. If it looked as if you could
: change the board to make it say something else, then it's, well,
: something else.
The above-deleted being the mo impressive answer thus far, it is the
answer I will share.
There should be, in addition to the comparative and superlative, a
comparison for when there is in fact only one item compared with other
non-existent items.
: It's always seemed curious to me that swimmers on this continent swim
: "laps". Those are what you'd do on a circular track, running or on a
: fast bike or car. Don't swimmers do "lengths"? (Or, of course, play
: water-polo viciously.)
We don't do lengths. Probably we are troubled by the number of
consecutive consonants at the end of the word, so we swim around
purposefully in circles so we can say "laps" instead.
Tracy, would go for a doughnut-shaped pool though, if you have one
Ken Butler
> Ken Butler <but...@mscs.dal.ca> wrote:
> : On 6 Jun 1999 18:09:01 GMT, Tracy T. wrote:
>
> : > Naturally I thought of Ken.
>
> : I have you well trained.
>
> You do realise it took me 2 days to see that pun?
I am appalled and disgusted. Or possibly even in the other order.
> : That's if it was a permanent-looking 32. If it looked as if you could
> : change the board to make it say something else, then it's, well,
> : something else.
>
> The above-deleted being the mo impressive answer thus far, it is the
> answer I will share.
The only place I've seen non-permanent numbers like that is on
passenger cars on North American trains. But even then there seems to
be no logic to what numbers are used on a particular train.
> There should be, in addition to the comparative and superlative, a
> comparison for when there is in fact only one item compared with other
> non-existent items.
Mathematicians have no such trouble with this. Any set of numbers has
a maximum, even if there's only one number in the set. (Proofs about a
maximum, or an supremum if it's that kind of set, tend to involve
first proving that the set has at least one number in it, so that
talking about a maximum does indeed make (mathematical) sense.)
But I won't go on about this, because that would antagonise Karen,
and, as is well known, I go out of my way to be nice to Karen at all
times.
> We don't do lengths. Probably we are troubled by the number of
> consecutive consonants at the end of the word, so we swim around
> purposefully in circles so we can say "laps" instead.
I see.
Curiously enough, the French for "length" is "longueur", which seems
to have too many vowels near the end. Even worse is Longueuil, which
is a suburb of Montreal at the end of one of the subway lines.
> Tracy, would go for a doughnut-shaped pool though, if you have one
Or, I have no doubt, a doughnut.
Ken Butler
> In article <928678...@joehutch.demon.co.uk>,
> jos...@joehutch.demon.co.uk (joseph hutcheon) writes:
> > OBSCURE RAILWAY STATION ALERT!!!
> >
> > I visited Newark, Nottinghamshire t'other day, travelling via Brum to Newark
> > Castle. This was clearly a station of some importance in its day, but all the
> > buildings are now boarded-up, leaving the station with the status of a rural
> > halt.
> >
> Obscure? Nonsense! I know it well. Not to be confused with Newark Northgate:
> every time I've been through Newark, I've had to get from one station to
> the other. The run from Newark Castle into Nottingham Midland is particularly
> enjoyable, with a whole string of unlikely station names.
Indeed. I've travelled that way a few times, but usually on my way to
Lincoln or some such place, so I've never had to guess my way across
Newark. (I did have to guess my way across Croydon once, which had
extra challenge because they seemed to be digging up the entire place
to put tram lines in.)
Fiskerton. Or possibly Bleasby.
> In Nottingham, they're planning to put a tram line in from the old Victoria
> station to the Midland station, and out along Mansfield Road. The old station
> got turned into a shopping centre, but two freight lines were used for longer,
> so the shopping centre already has the tunnel cut through the cellars. Handy.
Ah, an excuse for a visit to Nottingham.
> Not to mention the new timetable on the Midland Main Line routes, with
> new shiny trains (which are slower than the old crap trains, but you can't
> have everything).
Is there actually enough track space to run old crap trains and new
shiny slow ones *and* Thameslink down that way? Seems like an
impossible juggling act to me. But I guess the fast old crap trains
don't stop at Market Harborough or Kettering-for-Corby any more.
> john
Haven't I seen you on Another Newsgroup where talk is even more
incessantly of these matters?
John Rowland
kbu...@is.dal.ca (Ken Butler) writes:
> On 7 Jun 1999 00:58:49 GMT, John Rowland wrote:
>
> Fiskerton. Or possibly Bleasby.
>
>> In Nottingham, they're planning to put a tram line in from the old Victoria
>>station to the Midland station, and out along Mansfield Road. The old station
>>got turned into a shopping centre, but two freight lines were used for longer,
>>so the shopping centre already has the tunnel cut through the cellars. Handy.
>
>Ah, an excuse for a visit to Nottingham.
Not for another few years, I think. The latest extension on the Robin Hood line
would be an excuse, though. That was finished not long ago.
>>Not to mention the new timetable on the Midland Main Line routes, with
>>new shiny trains (which are slower than the old crap trains, but you can't
>>have everything).
>
>Is there actually enough track space to run old crap trains and new
>shiny slow ones *and* Thameslink down that way? Seems like an
>impossible juggling act to me. But I guess the fast old crap trains
>don't stop at Market Harborough or Kettering-for-Corby any more.
Two fast and two stopping trains an hour Leicester-London. Thameslink
is not known to me.
> > john
>
> Haven't I seen you on Another Newsgroup where talk is even more
> incessantly of these matters?
>
Unlikely. I don't follow trains much, but somehow I know about them.
Times and services, that is, not rivets and oil. Having to use public
transport most of the time might be a reason, I guess, but there's
probably more to it. Something metaphysical. Achieving wisdom by
travelling from Edinburgh to Blackpool North via Nottingham.
john
kse...@earthlink.net
>Lord, now there are two of you. Is this a fixation or a flair? A fetish
>or a forte? It's our own little travel agency! How about a motto?
>Something polite and unassuming like, "Let us plan your movements, why
>don't you?"
Save that slogan for National Constipation Week.
KS
kse...@earthlink.net
>kse...@earthlink.net wrote:
>Ken's Movements - Leave the grunt work to us.
Beethoven's Fifth...oh, never mind.
Someone asked today if one of my friends was "consternated". She also
thinks "flagellation" has to do with letting off gas.
KS
Michael Spooner
>Someone asked today if one of my friends was "consternated". She also
>thinks "flagellation" has to do with letting off gas.
Wasn't he the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe?
Michael, peeks from behind a bush.
Carol Lenore
spo...@mtnempire.net wrote:
> Wasn't he the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe?
> Michael, peeks from behind a bush.
Joining your buddies Michael in a little exploration?
Got newspapers? ...Got water?
--
Carol http://www.carols-art.com/
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a
banana."- Groucho Marx
kse...@earthlink.net
>On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 03:32:42 GMT, kse...@earthlink.net wrote:
>>Someone asked today if one of my friends was "consternated". She also
>>thinks "flagellation" has to do with letting off gas.
>Wasn't he the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe?
Pleeeze, that sounds painful.
KS, hoping she's on the intact side of the globe
Ken Butler
> kse...@earthlink.net wrote:
>
> : h...@nospam.clam (B Bigelow) wrote:
> :
> : >Lord, now there are two of you. Is this a fixation or a flair? A fetish
> : >or a forte? It's our own little travel agency! How about a motto?
> : >Something polite and unassuming like, "Let us plan your movements, why
> : >don't you?"
> :
> : Save that slogan for National Constipation Week.
>
> Ken's Movements - Leave the grunt work to us.
Hrmph.
(That's a token of my disapproval, not a grunt. Just so's you know.)
Ken, who seems to recall a thread entitled "Ken's Movements".
Michael Spooner
wrote:
>In article <3765ca3b...@enews.newsguy.com>,
> spo...@mtnempire.net wrote:
>
>
>> Wasn't he the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe?
>
>> Michael, peeks from behind a bush.
>
>Joining your buddies Michael in a little exploration?
>
>Got newspapers? ...Got water?
I would, but Campo Man has just barely mastered rudimentary English and I
don't think he's ready for a new language just yet.
Michael, Por Favor boy.
Carol Lenore
> Michael, Por Favor boy.
You coulda fooled me!
I heard Campo Man say French good language. And furthermore you may not
speak Spanish but....I sure wouldn't knock yo mock spanish accent
either!
(Especialmente cuando usted habla con una voz baja.... )
Ooops! ... I said the dirty word I guess.
..but you gotta
Ac-cent-tchu-ate... the pos-i-tive
Elim-i-nate the negative
Latch on to the "mister... in between".
Carol Lenore
Carol Lenore <art...@carols-art.com> wrote:
> In article <376b77e2...@enews.newsguy.com>,
> spo...@mtnempire.net wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 16:25:10 GMT, Carol Lenore
<art...@carols-art.com>
> > wrote:
>
> > I would, but Campo Man has just barely mastered rudimentary English
> and I
> > don't think he's ready for a new language just yet.
>
> > Michael, Por Favor boy.
>
> You coulda fooled me!
>
> I heard Campo Man say French good language. And furthermore you may
not
> speak Spanish but....I sure wouldn't knock yo mock spanish accent
> either!
>
> (Especialmente cuando usted habla con una voz baja.... )
>
> Ooops! ... I said the dirty word I guess.
>
> ..but you gotta
> Ac-cent-tchu-ate... the pos-i-tive
> Elim-i-nate the negative
> Latch on to the "mister... in between".
No now see this is wrong and it wasn't *my* fault. My word processor
gets an evil charge out of destroying what I type. I delete one
character and somehow it takes out the whole line!
Now this is really the way it goes:
Ac-cent-tchu-ate... the pos-i-tive
Elim-i-nate the neg-a-tive
Latch on to the affirm-a-tive
Don't mess with "mister... in between!"
You've got to spread joy up to the max-i-mum
Brig gloom down to the min-i-mum
Have faith or pan-de-mon-i-um
Li'ble to walk upon the scene.
Clint Eastwood recorded it on the CD Midnight in the 'Garden of Good and
Evil'.
A B Magee
wrote:
>In article <7kb7b9$ne2$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
> Carol Lenore <art...@carols-art.com> wrote:
>> ..but you gotta
>> Ac-cent-tchu-ate... the pos-i-tive
>> Elim-i-nate the negative
>> Latch on to the "mister... in between".
>No now see this is wrong and it wasn't *my* fault. My word processor
>gets an evil charge out of destroying what I type. I delete one
>character and somehow it takes out the whole line!
>Now this is really the way it goes:
>Ac-cent-tchu-ate... the pos-i-tive
>Elim-i-nate the neg-a-tive
>Latch on to the affirm-a-tive
>Don't mess with "mister... in between!"
I liked the first version better.
Anne, not latching onto any mister
Michael Spooner
wrote:
>In article <376b77e2...@enews.newsguy.com>,
> spo...@mtnempire.net wrote:
>> On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 16:25:10 GMT, Carol Lenore <art...@carols-art.com>
>> wrote:
>
>
>> I would, but Campo Man has just barely mastered rudimentary English
>and I
>> don't think he's ready for a new language just yet.
>
>> Michael, Por Favor boy.
>
>You coulda fooled me!
>
>I heard Campo Man say French good language. And furthermore you may not
>speak Spanish but....I sure wouldn't knock yo mock spanish accent
>either!
No, besides Campo Man Speak, Campo Man does a reasonable job at Pig Latin.
That's about it.
>
>(Especialmente cuando usted habla con una voz baja.... )
That's easy for you to say.
>
> Ooops! ... I said the dirty word I guess.
Well, did you or didn't you?
>
>..but you gotta
>Ac-cent-tchu-ate... the pos-i-tive
>Elim-i-nate the negative
>Latch on to the "mister... in between".
Did you know that residents of Boulevard, CA are having a "Killer Bee"
meeting at the Boulevard Fire Station June 26 at 6:00pm?
Michael, relevant boy.
Carol Lenore
spo...@mtnempire.net wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jun 1999 16:22:15 GMT, Carol Lenore <art...@carols-art.com>
> wrote:
>
> >In article <376b77e2...@enews.newsguy.com>,
> > spo...@mtnempire.net wrote:
> >> On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 16:25:10 GMT, Carol Lenore
<art...@carols-art.com>
> >> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I would, but Campo Man has just barely mastered rudimentary English
> >and I
> >> don't think he's ready for a new language just yet.
> >
> >> Michael, Por Favor boy.
> >
> >You coulda fooled me!
> >
> >I heard Campo Man say French good language. And furthermore you may
not
> >speak Spanish but....I sure wouldn't knock yo mock spanish accent
> >either!
>
> No, besides Campo Man Speak, Campo Man does a reasonable job at Pig
Latin.
I should ask Campo Man to teach me this way of talking. Then I could say
almost anything around here and not be understood... uh... er... well
actually that *is* the way it is now!
> That's about it.
> >
> >(Especialmente cuando usted habla con una voz baja.... )
>
> That's easy for you to say.
yes it is...
> > Ooops! ... I said the dirty word I guess.
>
> Well, did you or didn't you?
accent, accent accent
> >
> >..but you gotta
> >Ac-cent-tchu-ate... the pos-i-tive
> >Elim-i-nate the negative
> >Latch on to the "mister... in between".
>
> Did you know that residents of Boulevard, CA are having a "Killer Bee"
> meeting at the Boulevard Fire Station June 26 at 6:00pm?
>
> Michael, relevant boy.
Doesn't sound like something you may want to attend. Kinda might
discourage me from growing flowers.
HOTEL DE ( Dion Ross )
later in portuguese at http://www.brforum.com or vice versa. Discover
Brazil. Let be friends. dr
Michael Spooner wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 03:32:42 GMT, kse...@earthlink.net wrote:
>
> >Someone asked today if one of my friends was "consternated". She also
> >thinks "flagellation" has to do with letting off gas.
>
Michael Spooner
wrote:
>In article <376d060e...@enews.newsguy.com>,
> spo...@mtnempire.net wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Jun 1999 16:22:15 GMT, Carol Lenore <art...@carols-art.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >In article <376b77e2...@enews.newsguy.com>,
>> > spo...@mtnempire.net wrote:
>> >> On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 16:25:10 GMT, Carol Lenore
><art...@carols-art.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >> I would, but Campo Man has just barely mastered rudimentary English
>> >and I
>> >> don't think he's ready for a new language just yet.
>> >
>> >> Michael, Por Favor boy.
>> >
>> >You coulda fooled me!
>> >
>> >I heard Campo Man say French good language. And furthermore you may
>not
>> >speak Spanish but....I sure wouldn't knock yo mock spanish accent
>> >either!
>>
>> No, besides Campo Man Speak, Campo Man does a reasonable job at Pig
>Latin.
>
>I should ask Campo Man to teach me this way of talking. Then I could say
>almost anything around here and not be understood... uh... er... well
>actually that *is* the way it is now!
Shucks! You beat me to it.
>
>> That's about it.
>> >
>> >(Especialmente cuando usted habla con una voz baja.... )
>>
>> That's easy for you to say.
>
>yes it is...
And how do you say, I believe my dead reckoning tracer needs to be greased?
>
>> > Ooops! ... I said the dirty word I guess.
>>
>> Well, did you or didn't you?
>
>accent, accent accent
Is stuttering really a neurological problem?
>
>> >
>> >..but you gotta
>> >Ac-cent-tchu-ate... the pos-i-tive
>> >Elim-i-nate the negative
>> >Latch on to the "mister... in between".
>>
>> Did you know that residents of Boulevard, CA are having a "Killer Bee"
>> meeting at the Boulevard Fire Station June 26 at 6:00pm?
>>
>> Michael, relevant boy.
>
>Doesn't sound like something you may want to attend. Kinda might
>discourage me from growing flowers.
I wouldn't sweat it since it's going to take a few semesters for the
"Africanized Bees" to make it to LaPine.
MS
Carol Lenore
Eu acredito que meu tracer da conta inoperante necessita ser
lubrificado?
What happens to tell you you need yo dead reckoning tracer greased?
> >> > Ooops! ... I said the dirty word I guess.
> >>
> >> Well, did you or didn't you?
> >
> >accent, accent accent
>
> Is stuttering really a neurological problem?
Is that anutter stutter utter? ...."Lookie" Anne!
> >> >..but you gotta
> >> >Ac-cent-tchu-ate... the pos-i-tive
> >> >Elim-i-nate the negative
> >> >Latch on to the "mister... in between".
> >>
> >> Did you know that residents of Boulevard, CA are having a "Killer
Bee"
> >> meeting at the Boulevard Fire Station June 26 at 6:00pm?
> >>
> >> Michael, relevant boy.
> >
> >Doesn't sound like something you may want to attend. Kinda might
> >discourage me from growing flowers.
>
> I wouldn't sweat it since it's going to take a few semesters for the
> "Africanized Bees" to make it to LaPine.
Oh... am I staying in LaPine now?
Michael Spooner
>spo...@mtnempire.net (Michael Spooner) wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 03:32:42 GMT, kse...@earthlink.net wrote:
>
>>>Someone asked today if one of my friends was "consternated". She also
>>>thinks "flagellation" has to do with letting off gas.
>
>>Wasn't he the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe?
>
>Pleeeze, that sounds painful.
>
>KS, hoping she's on the intact side of the globe
And to think it was performed without the use of anesthetic.
I understand the job wasn't even complete until the digging of the Suez and
Panama canals.
Michael, this looks like a job for four skin divers.
Michael Spooner
Michael Spooner
wrote:
>In article <376fb2dc...@enews.newsguy.com>,
> spo...@mtnempire.net wrote:
>> And how do you say, I believe my dead reckoning tracer needs to be
>greased?
>
>Eu acredito que meu tracer da conta inoperante necessita ser
>lubrificado?
>
>What happens to tell you you need yo dead reckoning tracer greased?
The fact that your DRT squeaks.
Of course this is navy stuff.
Now, standard errands to send a new crewman fresh out of boot camp for
would include, but in no way be limited to:
100 feet of water line
100 feet of chow line
A hole remover
A board stretcher
A fallopian tube (the hapless crew member send for this came back from the
Electronic shop with a radio tube with a condom stretched over it)
Latitude and or longitude paste
Relative bearing grease
A radar wave bender
Forecastle wax
Mast extensions
And about a hundred million other things too obscure for the average
non-sailor.
>
>> >> > Ooops! ... I said the dirty word I guess.
>> >>
>> >> Well, did you or didn't you?
>> >
>> >accent, accent accent
>>
>> Is stuttering really a neurological problem?
>
>Is that anutter stutter utter? ...."Lookie" Anne!
Have you ever been to visit the Sphinx?
>
>> >> >..but you gotta
>> >> >Ac-cent-tchu-ate... the pos-i-tive
>> >> >Elim-i-nate the negative
>> >> >Latch on to the "mister... in between".
>> >>
>> >> Did you know that residents of Boulevard, CA are having a "Killer
>Bee"
>> >> meeting at the Boulevard Fire Station June 26 at 6:00pm?
>> >>
>> >> Michael, relevant boy.
>> >
>> >Doesn't sound like something you may want to attend. Kinda might
>> >discourage me from growing flowers.
>>
>> I wouldn't sweat it since it's going to take a few semesters for the
>> "Africanized Bees" to make it to LaPine.
>
>Oh... am I staying in LaPine now?
You wouldn't want to miss the bees would you?
Michael, wondering if the local European bees are Xenophobic?
Stuart Rogers
When Rachel was last at Uni she sent a friend (who really should
have known better) to the local Chinese supermarket for some
Chinese water in which to boil the rice.....
Stuart.
Carol Lenore
Michael Spooner wrote:
>
> On Sun, 20 Jun 1999 05:37:28 GMT, Carol Lenore <art...@carols-art.com>
> wrote:
>
> >In article <376fb2dc...@enews.newsguy.com>,
> > spo...@mtnempire.net wrote:
>
> >> And how do you say, I believe my dead reckoning tracer needs to be
> >greased?
> >
> >Eu acredito que meu tracer da conta inoperante necessita ser
> >lubrificado?
oh... excuse me. "I believe my dead reckoning tracer needs to be
greased." That's what you wanted right?
> >What happens to tell you you need yo dead reckoning tracer greased?
>
> The fact that your DRT squeaks.
DRT Squeaks huh?
>
> Of course this is navy stuff.
Could it be a Digital Refrence Thermoeter? ...or a portable
turbidimeter? 5000 fingers of Dr.T? ...maybe rebooting in drt?... or DRT
weather forcasting with recording snow fall in isopleths? .... How
about Demand Responsive Transport...? Dirt Resistant Technology?
...Dirt Road Trails??? ...Daughters of the Republic of Texas... DRT
Mastering the analong Specialist only $1800 for custom masters (but gee
you get one hour) But for California, I would bet on Disaster Response
Team for Earthquakes... but if you are in Japan it might be 専門：
総合画像診断学，放射線治療.
Is it bigger than a bread box?
>
> Now, standard errands to send a new crewman fresh out of boot camp for
> would include, but in no way be limited to:
>
> 100 feet of water line
> 100 feet of chow line
> A hole remover
> A board stretcher
> A fallopian tube (the hapless crew member send for this came back from the
> Electronic shop with a radio tube with a condom stretched over it)
> Latitude and or longitude paste
> Relative bearing grease
> A radar wave bender
> Forecastle wax
> Mast extensions
>
> And about a hundred million other things too obscure for the average
> non-sailor.
Otay, but where does one go to get all these odds and ends?
>
> >
> >> >> > Ooops! ... I said the dirty word I guess.
> >> >>
> >> >> Well, did you or didn't you?
> >> >
> >> >accent, accent accent
> >>
> >> Is stuttering really a neurological problem?
> >
> >Is that anutter stutter utter? ...."Lookie" Anne!
>
> Have you ever been to visit the Sphinx?
Uh... do you think that would help? And would I get a nose job too?
> >
> >> >> >..but you gotta
> >> >> >Ac-cent-tchu-ate... the pos-i-tive
> >> >> >Elim-i-nate the negative
> >> >> >Latch on to the "mister... in between".
> >> >>
> >> >> Did you know that residents of Boulevard, CA are having a "Killer
> >Bee"
> >> >> meeting at the Boulevard Fire Station June 26 at 6:00pm?
> >> >>
> >> >> Michael, relevant boy.
> >> >
> >> >Doesn't sound like something you may want to attend. Kinda might
> >> >discourage me from growing flowers.
> >>
> >> I wouldn't sweat it since it's going to take a few semesters for the
> >> "Africanized Bees" to make it to LaPine.
> >
> >Oh... am I staying in LaPine now?
>
> You wouldn't want to miss the bees would you?
I was so deathly affraid of yellow jackets when I was a kid, that my Dad
said he would not allow me to drive when I was 16. I got over it real
fast.
I remember I was on a 4 hour hike with a friend up Neahkanie Mountain
above Manzanita Beach when she casually mentioned that if she was stung
I would have to get her to a hospital..... ? She had not brought
anything with her incase of an attack. I was rather upset to say the
least.
> Michael, wondering if the local European bees are Xenophobic?
I guess not... I read that AHBs often enter EHB colonies to mingle and
mate with them. And.. mating results in more HBB (hybrid baby bees)
having African genes and tendencies dominating over European ones. An
entire colony may suddenly take on aggressive and short-tempered
behavior. So both american bee keeping as the agriculture industry are
threatened by Afticanized Bees.
kse...@earthlink.net
>> ..but you gotta
>> Ac-cent-tchu-ate... the pos-i-tive
>> Elim-i-nate the negative
>> Latch on to the "mister... in between".
>No now see this is wrong and it wasn't *my* fault. My word processor
>gets an evil charge out of destroying what I type. I delete one
>character and somehow it takes out the whole line!
>Now this is really the way it goes:
>Ac-cent-tchu-ate... the pos-i-tive
>Elim-i-nate the neg-a-tive
>Latch on to the affirm-a-tive
>Don't mess with "mister... in between!"
I believe it's "Don't pay no never mind to Mister in between".
Good ol' Johnnie Mercer. Gotta love 'im.
>You've got to spread joy up to the max-i-mum
>Brig gloom down to the min-i-mum
>Have faith or pan-de-mon-i-um
>Li'ble to walk upon the scene.
>Clint Eastwood recorded it on the CD Midnight in the 'Garden of Good and
>Evil'.
I couldn't figure out why they used that tune, then I realized Johnnie
Mercer was from Savannah.
KS
Michael Spooner
<stuart...@no.spam.please.clara.co.uk> wrote:
>Michael Spooner wrote in message <3774746f...@enews.newsguy.com>...
>>On Sun, 20 Jun 1999 05:37:28 GMT, Carol Lenore <art...@carols-art.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>In article <376fb2dc...@enews.newsguy.com>,
>>> spo...@mtnempire.net wrote:
>>
>>>> And how do you say, I believe my dead reckoning tracer needs to be
>>>greased?
>>>
>>>Eu acredito que meu tracer da conta inoperante necessita ser
>>>lubrificado?
>>>
>>>What happens to tell you you need yo dead reckoning tracer greased?
>>
>>The fact that your DRT squeaks.
>>
>>Of course this is navy stuff.
>>
>>Now, standard errands to send a new crewman fresh out of boot camp for
>>would include, but in no way be limited to:
>>
>>100 feet of water line
>>100 feet of chow line
>>A hole remover
>>A board stretcher
>>A fallopian tube (the hapless crew member send for this came back from the
>>Electronic shop with a radio tube with a condom stretched over it)
>>Latitude and or longitude paste
>>Relative bearing grease
>>A radar wave bender
>>Forecastle wax
>>Mast extensions
>>
>>And about a hundred million other things too obscure for the average
>>non-sailor.
>
>When Rachel was last at Uni she sent a friend (who really should
>have known better) to the local Chinese supermarket for some
>Chinese water in which to boil the rice.....
Provided the operators of the supermarket are authentic ethnic Chinese, I'd
love to see the look on their faces as they are asked for "Chinese Water"
by a "round eye".
Michael, so solly for his part in wild goose chases.
Michael Spooner
wrote:
>
>
>Michael Spooner wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 20 Jun 1999 05:37:28 GMT, Carol Lenore <art...@carols-art.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >In article <376fb2dc...@enews.newsguy.com>,
>> > spo...@mtnempire.net wrote:
>>
>> >> And how do you say, I believe my dead reckoning tracer needs to be
>> >greased?
>> >
>> >Eu acredito que meu tracer da conta inoperante necessita ser
>> >lubrificado?
>
>oh... excuse me. "I believe my dead reckoning tracer needs to be
>greased." That's what you wanted right?
>
>
>
>> >What happens to tell you you need yo dead reckoning tracer greased?
>>
>> The fact that your DRT squeaks.
>
>DRT Squeaks huh?
I suppose it could.
>
>>
>> Of course this is navy stuff.
>
>
>
>Could it be a Digital Refrence Thermoeter? ...or a portable
>turbidimeter? 5000 fingers of Dr.T? ...maybe rebooting in drt?... or DRT
>weather forcasting with recording snow fall in isopleths? .... How
>about Demand Responsive Transport...? Dirt Resistant Technology?
>...Dirt Road Trails??? ...Daughters of the Republic of Texas... DRT
>Mastering the analong Specialist only $1800 for custom masters (but gee
>you get one hour) But for California, I would bet on Disaster Response
>Team for Earthquakes... but if you are in Japan it might be 専門：
>総合画像診断学，放射線治療.
>
>Is it bigger than a bread box?
Ummm, a little bigger than the average kitchen table.
>
>>
>> Now, standard errands to send a new crewman fresh out of boot camp for
>> would include, but in no way be limited to:
>>
>> 100 feet of water line
>> 100 feet of chow line
>> A hole remover
>> A board stretcher
>> A fallopian tube (the hapless crew member send for this came back from the
>> Electronic shop with a radio tube with a condom stretched over it)
>> Latitude and or longitude paste
>> Relative bearing grease
>> A radar wave bender
>> Forecastle wax
>> Mast extensions
>>
>> And about a hundred million other things too obscure for the average
>> non-sailor.
>
>Otay, but where does one go to get all these odds and ends?
To hell and back.
>
>>
>> >
>> >> >> > Ooops! ... I said the dirty word I guess.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Well, did you or didn't you?
>> >> >
>> >> >accent, accent accent
>> >>
>> >> Is stuttering really a neurological problem?
>> >
>> >Is that anutter stutter utter? ...."Lookie" Anne!
>>
>> Have you ever been to visit the Sphinx?
>
>Uh... do you think that would help? And would I get a nose job too?
Do you suffer from "the heartbreak of psoriasis"?
>
>
>> >
>> >> >> >..but you gotta
>> >> >> >Ac-cent-tchu-ate... the pos-i-tive
>> >> >> >Elim-i-nate the negative
>> >> >> >Latch on to the "mister... in between".
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Did you know that residents of Boulevard, CA are having a "Killer
>> >Bee"
>> >> >> meeting at the Boulevard Fire Station June 26 at 6:00pm?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Michael, relevant boy.
>> >> >
>> >> >Doesn't sound like something you may want to attend. Kinda might
>> >> >discourage me from growing flowers.
>> >>
>> >> I wouldn't sweat it since it's going to take a few semesters for the
>> >> "Africanized Bees" to make it to LaPine.
>> >
>> >Oh... am I staying in LaPine now?
>>
>> You wouldn't want to miss the bees would you?
>
>
>I was so deathly affraid of yellow jackets when I was a kid, that my Dad
>said he would not allow me to drive when I was 16. I got over it real
>fast.
I've heard of driving a beetle, but a yellow jacket?
OTOH, the remember the AMC Hornet.
Oh, and the Datsun Honeybee.
I suppose someone made a gnat as well?
OTOH, US sailors are called "Blue Jackets".
>I remember I was on a 4 hour hike with a friend up Neahkanie Mountain
>above Manzanita Beach when she casually mentioned that if she was stung
>I would have to get her to a hospital..... ? She had not brought
>anything with her incase of an attack. I was rather upset to say the
>least.
I guess you really felt like you'd been stung?
>
>> Michael, wondering if the local European bees are Xenophobic?
>
>I guess not... I read that AHBs often enter EHB colonies to mingle and
>mate with them. And.. mating results in more HBB (hybrid baby bees)
>having African genes and tendencies dominating over European ones. An
>entire colony may suddenly take on aggressive and short-tempered
>behavior. So both american bee keeping as the agriculture industry are
>threatened by Afticanized Bees.
Yes, Africanized bees produce about 5 times as much honey as European bees,
however since the so called "killer bees" are of the tropical variety they
don't store honey for the winter as the European bees do, leaving little
honey for a bee keeper to harvest.
Yeah, the mean ole KBs eat it all up.
MS
kse...@earthlink.net
>>> >> >> Did you know that residents of Boulevard, CA are having a "Killer
>>> >Bee"
>>> >> >> meeting at the Boulevard Fire Station June 26 at 6:00pm?
This sounds stupid, but I'd like to go to that. I've never been to a
small town towne meeting. Or a big one for that matter.
>I've heard of driving a beetle, but a yellow jacket?
>OTOH, the remember the AMC Hornet.
>Oh, and the Datsun Honeybee.
Datsun made a "Honeybee"? C'mon.
I remember Stingrays and Cobras and Thunderbirds.
KS
Ken Butler
> In article <3761dacb...@pubnews.demon.co.uk>,
> kbu...@is.dal.ca (Ken Butler) writes:
> >
> >Ah, an excuse for a visit to Nottingham.
>
> Not for another few years, I think. The latest extension on the Robin Hood line
> would be an excuse, though. That was finished not long ago.
I travelled on that two or three years ago, when it went as far as
Mansfield Woodhouse (which has, apparently, nothing to do with a
fearsome woman who used to train dogs, or, indeed, anything apparent
to do with the rest of Mansfield).
Doesn't it go as far as Worksop now, on the line from Sheffield to
Gainsborough (and other out of the way places)?
> Two fast and two stopping trains an hour Leicester-London.
That's definitely about twice what there was before.
(If something can be "definitely about".)
> Thameslink
> is not known to me.
Runs from Bedford and Luton down to almost St Pancras, then dives
under the rest of London before heading on either to Wimbledon or to
Gatwick Airport and Brighton. I once used Thameslink to travel from
Derby to Reading (well, why not), changing at Luton and Gatwick
Airport. Seemed reasonable at the time.
> Unlikely. I don't follow trains much, but somehow I know about them.
> Times and services, that is, not rivets and oil. Having to use public
> transport most of the time might be a reason, I guess, but there's
> probably more to it. Something metaphysical. Achieving wisdom by
> travelling from Edinburgh to Blackpool North via Nottingham.
This is my kind of wisdom. (Change at Doncaster, Sheffield,
Stoke-on-Trent and Manchester Piccadilly, ensuring that your ticket is
marked "route Uttoxeter".)
Ken Butler
> I would, but Campo Man has just barely mastered rudimentary English and I
> don't think he's ready for a new language just yet.
Ken Hombre no hablo inglés.
Ken Butler
> Now, standard errands to send a new crewman fresh out of boot camp for
> would include, but in no way be limited to:
>
> 100 feet of water line
> 100 feet of chow line
> A hole remover
... a bucket of steam?
Ken Butler
> oh... excuse me. "I believe my dead reckoning tracer needs to be
> greased." That's what you wanted right?
Ich glaube, daß mein Himmelunbeträchtigkeitsherauszeichner
unbeschmiert werden soll.
'Angonaminnit. Doesn't "dead reckoning" mean "navigation without
instruments"? So how can you have an instrument that enables you to
navigate without instruments?
Don't mind me, I'm just off to get 100 feet of chow line.
> Is it bigger than a bread box?
This is a Twenty Questions kind of thing, isn't it? According to what
answer you get, your next question is going to ask whether it's bigger
than two bread boxes or smaller than half a bread box.
A B Magee
>On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 21:54:12 -0700, Carol Lenore wrote:
>> oh... excuse me. "I believe my dead reckoning tracer needs to be
>> greased." That's what you wanted right?
>Ich glaube, daß mein Himmelunbeträchtigkeitsherauszeichner
>unbeschmiert werden soll.
>'Angonaminnit. Doesn't "dead reckoning" mean "navigation without
>instruments"? So how can you have an instrument that enables you to
>navigate without instruments?
I thought dead reckoning meant "navigating by the seat of your pants."
If this is true, you know where to put the grease.
Anne
Carol Lenore
Ken Butler wrote:
>
> On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 21:54:12 -0700, Carol Lenore wrote:
>
> > oh... excuse me. "I believe my dead reckoning tracer needs to be
> > greased." That's what you wanted right?
>
> Ich glaube, daß mein Himmelunbeträchtigkeitsherauszeichner
> unbeschmiert werden soll.
>
> 'Angonaminnit. Doesn't "dead reckoning" mean "navigation without
> instruments"? So how can you have an instrument that enables you to
> navigate without instruments?
>
> Don't mind me, I'm just off to get 100 feet of chow line.
>
> > Is it bigger than a bread box?
>
> This is a Twenty Questions kind of thing, isn't it? According to what
> answer you get, your next question is going to ask whether it's bigger
> than two bread boxes or smaller than half a bread box.
No, actually I got it in person so I know... or did, because I seem to
have forgotten... ? It is like a table that has lights in it to show
all the ships' movements in the area... summat like that.
Carol Lenore
Ken Butler wrote:
>
> On Sun, 20 Jun 1999 23:24:41 GMT, Michael Spooner wrote:
>
> > Now, standard errands to send a new crewman fresh out of boot camp for
> > would include, but in no way be limited to:
> >
> > 100 feet of water line
> > 100 feet of chow line
> > A hole remover
>
> ... a bucket of steam?
Oh! Put a lid on it Ken!
Michael Spooner
(Ken Butler) wrote:
>On Thu, 17 Jun 1999 04:24:00 GMT, Michael Spooner wrote:
>
>> I would, but Campo Man has just barely mastered rudimentary English and I
>> don't think he's ready for a new language just yet.
>
>Ken Hombre no hablo inglés.
No, but I'll bet he does a fine job of "signing".
Michael, No Ken man, not the three fingered salute boy.
Michael Spooner
(Ken Butler) wrote:
>On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 21:54:12 -0700, Carol Lenore wrote:
>
>> oh... excuse me. "I believe my dead reckoning tracer needs to be
>> greased." That's what you wanted right?
>
>Ich glaube, daß mein Himmelunbeträchtigkeitsherauszeichner
>unbeschmiert werden soll.
>
>'Angonaminnit. Doesn't "dead reckoning" mean "navigation without
>instruments"? So how can you have an instrument that enables you to
>navigate without instruments?
Yes I suppose "dead reckoning" does have summat to do with one's position
and knowing where one is going or summat like that sans navigational
devices. However, in this case the dead reckoning tracer is or was a
device that had an illuminated table top that was covered with white paper
with a sort of stylus that scribed the track of the ship on the paper with
pencil lead. The stylus with held in place in the middle of a calibrated
360 deg. hub which also held a movable pencil lead stylus. In some manner,
can't remember exactly how, the main stylus moved in relation to the white
paper and then the arm was moved to correspond to the bearings and ranges
of surface radar contacts, and then a mark was made on the paper to
identify that particular contact. So, ever three minutes the operator of
the DRT would swing the arm around and "mark" all of the radar contacts
with data from the radar repeater and in way a sort of overhead picture
could be seen of the ship's track with all of the other contacts moving in
relation to the ship.
BTW the DRT was WWII technology and was rarely used, especially since we
could flip a barrel switch on the front of a radar repeater and get a radar
picture from an AEW plane, or what they now call AWAKS aircraft. In this
way we could see not only ourselves, but also the other ships in our task
force and other surface contacts as well.
>
>Don't mind me, I'm just off to get 100 feet of chow line.
And believe me, chow line is one delicious thing to gnaw on. Just ask
Campo man.
>
>> Is it bigger than a bread box?
>
>This is a Twenty Questions kind of thing, isn't it? According to what
>answer you get, your next question is going to ask whether it's bigger
>than two bread boxes or smaller than half a bread box.
Maybe Possibly.
BTW, I have a friend who was a WWII Navy fighter pilot who, since he had no
radar had to fly by dead reckoning. He knew the coordinates of exactly
where the ship was when he left and he could calculate where the ship would
be at a given time, providing of course that the ship remained on the same
course and speed. Further, he knew the coordinates of his target and
certain land marks and so he could plot his route back to the ship with
this data on small plexiglass board and a grease pencil he kept in the
cockpit. Provided there were no clouds!
And, it's an awfully big ocean out there.
Michael, out of gas boy.
Michael Spooner
(Ken Butler) wrote:
>On Sun, 20 Jun 1999 23:24:41 GMT, Michael Spooner wrote:
>
>> Now, standard errands to send a new crewman fresh out of boot camp for
>> would include, but in no way be limited to:
>>
>> 100 feet of water line
>> 100 feet of chow line
>> A hole remover
>
>... a bucket of steam?
See, now I'd forgotten that one.
Michael, just sent Campo Man for a left handed monkey wrench.
Michael Spooner
>spo...@mtnempire.net (Michael Spooner) wrote:
>
>>>> >> >> Did you know that residents of Boulevard, CA are having a "Killer
>>>> >Bee"
>>>> >> >> meeting at the Boulevard Fire Station June 26 at 6:00pm?
>
>This sounds stupid, but I'd like to go to that. I've never been to a
>small town towne meeting. Or a big one for that matter.
Well I erred, this one is the 29th so there's still time.
I'll tell them to expect you.
>
>
>
>
>>I've heard of driving a beetle, but a yellow jacket?
>
>>OTOH, the remember the AMC Hornet.
>
>>Oh, and the Datsun Honeybee.
>
>Datsun made a "Honeybee"? C'mon.
The "Honeybee" was a "B-210" without little frills like reclining seats and
extra chrome and stuff like that there.
>
>I remember Stingrays and Cobras and Thunderbirds.
I understand that Ford has plans for a new T-Bird, and it will be a two
seater like the original.
Michael, more cars than brains boy.
Michael Spooner
wrote:
>
>
>Ken Butler wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 21:54:12 -0700, Carol Lenore wrote:
>>
>> > oh... excuse me. "I believe my dead reckoning tracer needs to be
>> > greased." That's what you wanted right?
>>
>> Ich glaube, daß mein Himmelunbeträchtigkeitsherauszeichner
>> unbeschmiert werden soll.
>>
>> 'Angonaminnit. Doesn't "dead reckoning" mean "navigation without
>> instruments"? So how can you have an instrument that enables you to
>> navigate without instruments?
>>
>> Don't mind me, I'm just off to get 100 feet of chow line.
>>
>> > Is it bigger than a bread box?
>>
>> This is a Twenty Questions kind of thing, isn't it? According to what
>> answer you get, your next question is going to ask whether it's bigger
>> than two bread boxes or smaller than half a bread box.
>
>No, actually I got it in person so I know... or did, because I seem to
>have forgotten... ? It is like a table that has lights in it to show
>all the ships' movements in the area... summat like that.
For some reason ship's movements always sounded sort of lower digestive to
me.
Never mind.
MS
Carol Lenore
Michael Spooner wrote:
>
> I understand that Ford has plans for a new T-Bird, and it will be a two
> seater like the original.
>
> Michael, more cars than brains boy.
One of my goals is to own like a '53 T-Bird and baby blue for the
paint... yep that's what I want. I saw a black one the other day and
almost crashed looking at it.
Carol Lenore
Michael Spooner grandlyenlightened by writin:
>
> >On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 21:54:12 -0700, Carol Lenore wrote:
> >
> >> oh... excuse me. "I believe my dead reckoning tracer needs to be
> >> greased." That's what you wanted right?
> >
> >Ich glaube, daß mein Himmelunbeträchtigkeitsherauszeichner
> >unbeschmiert werden soll.
I liked it better in Portuguese....although that Himmel business is
sorta neat. Heaven something, right?
> >
> >'Angonaminnit. Doesn't "dead reckoning" mean "navigation without
> >instruments"? So how can you have an instrument that enables you to
> >navigate without instruments?
>
> Yes I suppose "dead reckoning" does have summat to do with one's position
> and knowing where one is going or summat like that sans navigational
> devices. However, in this case the dead reckoning tracer is or was a
> device that had an illuminated table top that was covered with white paper
> with a sort of stylus that scribed the track of the ship on the paper with
> pencil lead. The stylus with held in place in the middle of a calibrated
> 360 deg. hub which also held a movable pencil lead stylus. In some manner,
> can't remember exactly how, the main stylus moved in relation to the white
> paper and then the arm was moved to correspond to the bearings and ranges
> of surface radar contacts, and then a mark was made on the paper to
> identify that particular contact. So, ever three minutes the operator of
> the DRT would swing the arm around and "mark" all of the radar contacts
> with data from the radar repeater and in way a sort of overhead picture
> could be seen of the ship's track with all of the other contacts moving in
> relation to the ship.
>
> BTW the DRT was WWII technology and was rarely used, especially since we
> could flip a barrel switch on the front of a radar repeater and get a radar
> picture from an AEW plane, or what they now call AWAKS aircraft. In this
> way we could see not only ourselves, but also the other ships in our task
> force and other surface contacts as well.
Where do I sign up for this course? ...oh, I am signed up.
> >
> >Don't mind me, I'm just off to get 100 feet of chow line.
Hey, I didn't even read the list... .. really.
>
> And believe me, chow line is one delicious thing to gnaw on. Just ask
> Campo man.
No... I'd never get out of the kitchen. Does Campo Man like to help
with the dishes? hmmm?
> >> Is it bigger than a bread box?
> >
> >This is a Twenty Questions kind of thing, isn't it? According to what
> >answer you get, your next question is going to ask whether it's bigger
> >than two bread boxes or smaller than half a bread box.
So that would bew my clock radio.
>
> Maybe Possibly.
Spooner, you take the cake for definitive answers.
> BTW, I have a friend who was a WWII Navy fighter pilot who, since he had no
> radar had to fly by dead reckoning. He knew the coordinates of exactly
> where the ship was when he left and he could calculate where the ship would
> be at a given time, providing of course that the ship remained on the same
> course and speed. Further, he knew the coordinates of his target and
> certain land marks and so he could plot his route back to the ship with
> this data on small plexiglass board and a grease pencil he kept in the
> cockpit. Provided there were no clouds!
Now that's flying! Whew!!!
> And, it's an awfully big ocean out there.
>
> Michael, out of gas boy.
Just requisition some more there Sailor! ha.
Carol Lenore
Ken Butler wrote:
>
> On Sat, 26 Jun 1999 10:33:57 -0700, Carol Lenore wrote:
>
> >
> > Michael Spooner grandlyenlightened by writin:
> > >
> > > On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 05:09:01 GMT, kbu...@knattspyrnusambandislands.dal.ca
> > > (Ken Butler) wrote:
> > > >
> > > >Ich glaube, daß mein Himmelunbeträchtigkeitsherauszeichner
> > > >unbeschmiert werden soll.
> >
> > I liked it better in Portuguese....although that Himmel business is
> > sorta neat. Heaven something, right?
>
> I made it up (but then it's easy to do that in German).
> "Heaven-not-considering-out-pointer" was what I came up with.
>
> "Unbeschmiert" is echt (so to speak) German, though. Those Latin
> languages just don't do grease nearly as well.
No the germanic language isn't very musical is it. I bet your guttural
sounds are right on though.
>
> > > And believe me, chow line is one delicious thing to gnaw on. Just ask
> > > Campo man.
> >
> > No... I'd never get out of the kitchen. Does Campo Man like to help
> > with the dishes? hmmm?
>
> I somehow suspect he'd say that it was Lapine Woman's job, Campo Man
> being an actual Neanderthal and all (well, an actual fantasy
> Neanderthal).
LaPine woman no wash dishes in kitchen... buy good bidet for clean up!
>
> > Spooner, you take the cake for definitive answers.
>
> Ooh, a cake. Did I ever tell you how to divide a cake into three
> pieces so that each person thinks they got at least a third?
Well LaPine Woman no need Bob Ted or Alice. LaPine Woman can forage a
few nuts by herself.
Carol Lenore
Ken Butler wrote:
>
> On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 19:06:08 -0700, Carol Lenore wrote:
>
> > Ken Butler wrote:
> > >
> > > ... a bucket of steam?
> >
> > Oh! Put a lid on it Ken!
>
> But then the steam won't escape.
I have a perfectly round glass candle I lit tonight and the top of the
glass tube that housed the wick was broken and I sat here watching it.
For some reason the smoke from the candle (and there was very little
really) was sucked down into the ball and it slowly swirled around in
there. I don't no why although I am wondering. I just liked the way it
looked.
Does this have anything to do with steam escaping?
Or pointless errands... or
Bidets ?
No.
Ken Butler
> In article <376d060e...@enews.newsguy.com>,
> spo...@mtnempire.net wrote:
> > No, besides Campo Man Speak, Campo Man does a reasonable job at Pig
> Latin.
>
> I should ask Campo Man to teach me this way of talking. Then I could say
> almost anything around here and not be understood... uh... er... well
> actually that *is* the way it is now!
Qual carapuça!
> > > Ooops! ... I said the dirty word I guess.
> >
> > Well, did you or didn't you?
>
> accent, accent accent
:-P
Hmm, that came out in blue (instead of black, as it is supposed to).
Perhaps Free Agent considers ":" to be a possible quoting character.
Talking of being a quoting character, I would like to quote something
at y'all in a moment. It's from a book I bought in Chapters today
(well, the store *was* on my route home from the fitba' match I'd been
watching, in which King of Donair beat Dartmouth United 1-0, the
winning goal coming in the 81st minute when George Kyreakakos scored a
penalty) called "Making the Alphabet Dance", which I bought mainly
because it was $6.99. Here's the quote:
"Gadsby was walking back from a visit down in Branton Hill's
manufacturing district on a Saturday night. A busy day's traffic had
had its noisy run; and with not so many folks in sight, His Honor got
along without having to stop to grasp a hand, or talk; for a Mayor out
of City Hall is a shining mark for any politician. And so, coming to
Broadway, a booming bass drum and sounds of singing told of a small
Salvation Army unit carrying on amidst Broadway's night shopping
crowds. Gadsby, walking toward that group, saw a young girl, back
toward him, just finishing a long, soulful oration."
This is from a novel, called "Gadsby", described in the text as
"dreadful", but there is something unusual about the novel (taking it
for granted that there's nothing unusual about a novel being dreadful)
which can be deduced from the quote above. What?
Ken, mystery man.
Ken Butler
>
> Michael Spooner grandlyenlightened by writin:
> >
> > On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 05:09:01 GMT, kbu...@knattspyrnusambandislands.dal.ca
> > (Ken Butler) wrote:
> > >
> > >Ich glaube, daß mein Himmelunbeträchtigkeitsherauszeichner
> > >unbeschmiert werden soll.
>
> I liked it better in Portuguese....although that Himmel business is
> sorta neat. Heaven something, right?
I made it up (but then it's easy to do that in German).
"Heaven-not-considering-out-pointer" was what I came up with.
"Unbeschmiert" is echt (so to speak) German, though. Those Latin
languages just don't do grease nearly as well.
> > And believe me, chow line is one delicious thing to gnaw on. Just ask
> > Campo man.
>
> No... I'd never get out of the kitchen. Does Campo Man like to help
> with the dishes? hmmm?
I somehow suspect he'd say that it was Lapine Woman's job, Campo Man
being an actual Neanderthal and all (well, an actual fantasy
Neanderthal).
> Spooner, you take the cake for definitive answers.
Ooh, a cake. Did I ever tell you how to divide a cake into three
pieces so that each person thinks they got at least a third?
Ken Butler
> Ken Butler wrote:
> >
> > ... a bucket of steam?
>
> Oh! Put a lid on it Ken!
But then the steam won't escape.
--
A B Magee
>:-P
Hoi!
>Hmm, that came out in blue (instead of black, as it is supposed to).
>Perhaps Free Agent considers ":" to be a possible quoting character.
In not-Free Agent, you can set anything you want to be a quoting
character. And you appear to be able to have as many quoting
characters as you want. Makes some people's sigs look multicoloured.
I wish you could tell it to use a different colour for each level of
quote though.
Michael Spooner
wrote:
>
>
>Michael Spooner wrote:
>
>>
>> I understand that Ford has plans for a new T-Bird, and it will be a two
>> seater like the original.
>>
>> Michael, more cars than brains boy.
>
>One of my goals is to own like a '53 T-Bird and baby blue for the
>paint... yep that's what I want. I saw a black one the other day and
>almost crashed looking at it.
Too bad Ford made so few of these cars before they had to screw up the
formula and made them "Longer - Lower - Wider".
This may be a disease from which Detroit is at long last beginning to
recover.
Michael, picky boy.
Michael Spooner
(Ken Butler) wrote:
>On Sat, 26 Jun 1999 10:33:57 -0700, Carol Lenore wrote:
>
>>
>> Michael Spooner grandlyenlightened by writin:
>> >
>> > On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 05:09:01 GMT, kbu...@knattspyrnusambandislands.dal.ca
>> > (Ken Butler) wrote:
>> > >
>> > >Ich glaube, daß mein Himmelunbeträchtigkeitsherauszeichner
>> > >unbeschmiert werden soll.
>>
>> I liked it better in Portuguese....although that Himmel business is
>> sorta neat. Heaven something, right?
>
>I made it up (but then it's easy to do that in German).
>"Heaven-not-considering-out-pointer" was what I came up with.
>
>"Unbeschmiert" is echt (so to speak) German, though. Those Latin
>languages just don't do grease nearly as well.
>
>> > And believe me, chow line is one delicious thing to gnaw on. Just ask
>> > Campo man.
>>
>> No... I'd never get out of the kitchen. Does Campo Man like to help
>> with the dishes? hmmm?
>
>I somehow suspect he'd say that it was Lapine Woman's job, Campo Man
>being an actual Neanderthal and all (well, an actual fantasy
>Neanderthal).
Campo Man would be happy to help with the dishes, however I suspect you
wouldn't be pleased with the results.
>
>> Spooner, you take the cake for definitive answers.
>
>Ooh, a cake. Did I ever tell you how to divide a cake into three
>pieces so that each person thinks they got at least a third?
This sounds immensely complicated.
Do tell.
Want to borrow my DRT?
Michael, searching for the CPA.
Michael Spooner
(Ken Butler) wrote:
>On Sat, 19 Jun 1999 13:50:06 GMT, Carol Lenore wrote:
>
>> In article <376d060e...@enews.newsguy.com>,
>> spo...@mtnempire.net wrote:
>
>> > No, besides Campo Man Speak, Campo Man does a reasonable job at Pig
>> Latin.
>>
>> I should ask Campo Man to teach me this way of talking. Then I could say
>> almost anything around here and not be understood... uh... er... well
>> actually that *is* the way it is now!
>
>Qual carapuça!
Yes, well we have several covey of those that like to hang around our
feeders.
>
>> > > Ooops! ... I said the dirty word I guess.
>> >
>> > Well, did you or didn't you?
>>
>> accent, accent accent
>
>:-P
>
>Hmm, that came out in blue (instead of black, as it is supposed to).
>Perhaps Free Agent considers ":" to be a possible quoting character.
You could also change it to red or green if you so desire.
>
>Talking of being a quoting character, I would like to quote something
>at y'all in a moment. It's from a book I bought in Chapters today
>(well, the store *was* on my route home from the fitba' match I'd been
>watching, in which King of Donair beat Dartmouth United 1-0, the
>winning goal coming in the 81st minute when George Kyreakakos scored a
>penalty) called "Making the Alphabet Dance", which I bought mainly
>because it was $6.99. Here's the quote:
How very concise.
>
>"Gadsby was walking back from a visit down in Branton Hill's
>manufacturing district on a Saturday night. A busy day's traffic had
>had its noisy run; and with not so many folks in sight, His Honor got
>along without having to stop to grasp a hand, or talk; for a Mayor out
>of City Hall is a shining mark for any politician. And so, coming to
>Broadway, a booming bass drum and sounds of singing told of a small
>Salvation Army unit carrying on amidst Broadway's night shopping
>crowds. Gadsby, walking toward that group, saw a young girl, back
>toward him, just finishing a long, soulful oration."
>
>This is from a novel, called "Gadsby", described in the text as
>"dreadful", but there is something unusual about the novel (taking it
>for granted that there's nothing unusual about a novel being dreadful)
>which can be deduced from the quote above. What?
Gadsby forgot his trousers?
>
>Ken, mystery man.
MS
A B Magee
>On Sun, 27 Jun 1999 04:05:28 GMT, kbu...@knattspyrnusambandislands.dal.ca
>(Ken Butler) wrote:
>>Ooh, a cake. Did I ever tell you how to divide a cake into three
>>pieces so that each person thinks they got at least a third?>
>This sounds immensely complicated.
>Do tell.
He already did! Some other threadiculous over that ---> way.
Try to keep up, Michael.
A B Magee
>"Gadsby was walking back from a visit down in Branton Hill's
>manufacturing district on a Saturday night. A busy day's traffic had
>had its noisy run; and with not so many folks in sight, His Honor got
>along without having to stop to grasp a hand, or talk; for a Mayor out
>of City Hall is a shining mark for any politician. And so, coming to
>Broadway, a booming bass drum and sounds of singing told of a small
>Salvation Army unit carrying on amidst Broadway's night shopping
>crowds. Gadsby, walking toward that group, saw a young girl, back
>toward him, just finishing a long, soulful oration."
>This is from a novel, called "Gadsby", described in the text as
>"dreadful", but there is something unusual about the novel (taking it
>for granted that there's nothing unusual about a novel being dreadful)
>which can be deduced from the quote above. What?
The author could do with a semi-colon-ectomy?
>Ken, mystery man.
Does solving this mystery require some knowledge of New York or the
Salvation Army? If so, I'm out.
Anne, mystified girl
Alan Brand
> Quoth Ken Butler on Sun, 27 Jun 1999 04:05:27 GMT:
>
> >"Gadsby was walking back from a visit down in Branton Hill's
> >manufacturing district on a Saturday night. A busy day's traffic had
> >had its noisy run; and with not so many folks in sight, His Honor got
> >along without having to stop to grasp a hand, or talk; for a Mayor out
> >of City Hall is a shining mark for any politician. And so, coming to
> >Broadway, a booming bass drum and sounds of singing told of a small
> >Salvation Army unit carrying on amidst Broadway's night shopping
> >crowds. Gadsby, walking toward that group, saw a young girl, back
> >toward him, just finishing a long, soulful oration."
>
> >This is from a novel, called "Gadsby", described in the text as
> >"dreadful", but there is something unusual about the novel (taking it
> >for granted that there's nothing unusual about a novel being dreadful)
> >which can be deduced from the quote above. What?
>
> The author could do with a semi-colon-ectomy?
>
> >Ken, mystery man.
>
> Does solving this mystery require some knowledge of New York or the
> Salvation Army? If so, I'm out.
All I could find in an extensive (3 minute) search of the Internet was
"Gadsby' Hymns" by William Gadsby, which leads me to believe that the novel
in question is a Work-in-Progress by that well known author
Dr.Trainspotter.
--
AlanB
A B Magee
>A B Magee wrote:
>> Quoth Ken Butler on Sun, 27 Jun 1999 04:05:27 GMT:
[snip dreadfulness]
>> >This is from a novel, called "Gadsby", described in the text as
>> >"dreadful", but there is something unusual about the novel (taking it
>> >for granted that there's nothing unusual about a novel being dreadful)
>> >which can be deduced from the quote above. What?
>> The author could do with a semi-colon-ectomy?
>> >Ken, mystery man.
>> Does solving this mystery require some knowledge of New York or the
>> Salvation Army? If so, I'm out.
>All I could find in an extensive (3 minute) search of the Internet was
>"Gadsby' Hymns" by William Gadsby, which leads me to believe that the novel
>in question is a Work-in-Progress by that well known author
>Dr.Trainspotter.
I tried a less extensive search (30 seconds) and AltaVista came up
with this as its first choice:
http://home.nycap.rr.com/useless/gadsby/gadsby.html
Doh.
Anne
Ken Butler
<Gadsby>
> I tried a less extensive search (30 seconds) and AltaVista came up
> with this as its first choice:
>
> http://home.nycap.rr.com/useless/gadsby/gadsby.html
>
> Doh.
Well, that's the secret, all right.
I was rather hoping that somebody would look at the passage and
observe what was amiss with it, but nobody does that sort of thing
nowadays.
A B Magee
>On Mon, 28 Jun 1999 00:21:12 GMT, A B Magee wrote:
><Gadsby>
>> I tried a less extensive search (30 seconds) and AltaVista came up
>> with this as its first choice:
>> http://home.nycap.rr.com/useless/gadsby/gadsby.html
>> Doh.
>Well, that's the secret, all right.
>I was rather hoping that somebody would look at the passage and
>observe what was amiss with it, but nobody does that sort of thing
>nowadays.
I looked at it. I almost memorized it, and in this heat, that hurts. I
was looking for the wrong thing though. Like maybe a mention of
streets in two different cities or the Salvation Army doing things
that Salvation Armies don't do.
Maybe if my brain was working... Nah.
Anne, not born in a pool of liquor
Ken Butler
> Campo Man would be happy to help with the dishes, however I suspect you
> wouldn't be pleased with the results.
Am I to deduce that Campo Man hasn't yet deduced the difference
between "washing" and "smashing"?
Michael Spooner
>Quoth Michael Spooner on Sun, 27 Jun 1999 21:30:17 GMT:
>
>>On Sun, 27 Jun 1999 04:05:28 GMT, kbu...@knattspyrnusambandislands.dal.ca
>>(Ken Butler) wrote:
>
>>>Ooh, a cake. Did I ever tell you how to divide a cake into three
>>>pieces so that each person thinks they got at least a third?>
>
>>This sounds immensely complicated.
>
>>Do tell.
>
>He already did! Some other threadiculous over that ---> way.
Oh, pardon me I suffer from astigmatism. Where?
>
>Try to keep up, Michael.
It's not my fault, as a child I was over affectionate to my hobby horse.
Michael, seeking instruction in remedial afba.
Michael Spooner
(Ken Butler) wrote:
>On Sun, 27 Jun 1999 21:30:17 GMT, Michael Spooner wrote:
>
>> Campo Man would be happy to help with the dishes, however I suspect you
>> wouldn't be pleased with the results.
>
>Am I to deduce that Campo Man hasn't yet deduced the difference
>between "washing" and "smashing"?
I haven't quite been able to teach Campo Man the difference between ceramic
frisbees and plastic frisbees.
Oh, I suppose they're made out of polyethylene.
Michael, happy at least the Campo Man is house trained.
kse...@earthlink.net
I'll bet your wife is, too. That's *some* litter-box you have there.
KS
Ken Butler
> I thought dead reckoning meant "navigating by the seat of your pants."
> If this is true, you know where to put the grease.
<boy racer>
Grease my ass, baby!
</boy racer>
I can't imagine what it would mean, but it sounds like the kind of
thing the aforementioned boy racer would yell before speeding off on
an unnecessarily over-powered and thus unnecessarily noisy motorbike.
Ken Butler
<snip high-tech, 1930s-style>
> BTW the DRT was WWII technology and was rarely used, especially since we
> could flip a barrel switch on the front of a radar repeater and get a radar
> picture from an AEW plane, or what they now call AWAKS aircraft. In this
> way we could see not only ourselves, but also the other ships in our task
> force and other surface contacts as well.
That's more what I would have guessed.
> >Don't mind me, I'm just off to get 100 feet of chow line.
>
> And believe me, chow line is one delicious thing to gnaw on. Just ask
> Campo man.
Campo Man, him gnaw on chow line big time.
Hmm, guess you're right. And not a word longer than four letters.
Well, apart from "Campo", anyway.
> BTW, I have a friend who was a WWII Navy fighter pilot who, since he had no
> radar had to fly by dead reckoning. He knew the coordinates of exactly
> where the ship was when he left and he could calculate where the ship would
> be at a given time, providing of course that the ship remained on the same
> course and speed. Further, he knew the coordinates of his target and
> certain land marks and so he could plot his route back to the ship with
> this data on small plexiglass board and a grease pencil he kept in the
> cockpit. Provided there were no clouds!
... and all the while actually keeping the plane in the air! I'm
impressed.
One of my math(s) teachers at school was a keen sailor, so our
homework tended to be peppered with questions about boats and aircraft
heading in certain directions at certain speeds, all the while being
buffeted by winds and currents and suchlike. It was enough trouble
keeping track of where the plane was going, let alone plotting a route
back to an aircraft carrier that is also moving. And we were allowed
to use calculators, as well.
> And, it's an awfully big ocean out there.
That it is, full of an awful lot of nothing. Even when you're flying
over it.
Ken Butler
> Well LaPine Woman no need Bob Ted or Alice. LaPine Woman can forage a
> few nuts by herself.
LaPine Woman, she speak lingo real good.