Big Bertha Thing balloon
Tony Lance
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Inscribed;-
Barbara Death
From Aunt Emma
March 6th 1921
(C) Copyright Tony Lance 1999
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Big Bertha Thing welfare
29th April 1999
Operations Manager,
The Benefits Agency,
Dear Sirs,
Further to your letter of 28th April 1999,
regarding a list of questions, on the possibility of my working at
all.
I will attempt to answer your questions, in order as listed in your
letter.
1.I am not working, I am just pottering arround on the internet.
I last registered for course work with the Open University in
1997. This would have involved 6 hours work per week.
I could only manage half-an-hour per day, so totally failed
to do the work or complete the course. Not even one homework
assignment was completed.
In August 1997, I bought a second hand computer for 150 pounds
sterling, and was given free access to the Open University
computer along local telephone lines at a call charge of
1p per minute.
Since that time, I managed to build up a body of correspondence,
within the limits of half-an-hour per day mental or physical work.
In January 1999, this correspondence was transfered by me to my
web site; www.bertha.ndirect.co.uk(since disabled.)
I have to pay 14 pounds and 9p per month for this site.
2.Nobody suggested it, it just happened.
3.My doctor does not know that I have a web site.
4.See answer 1 for description of my activities.
No job is being done, so no job description exists.
5.No employer exists or payments have been recieved.
6.I can think straight for half-an-hour per day.
The rest of the time is spent pottering arround.
I can do one side of A4 paper of mathematics
or computer work per day.
7.On any day free of a major shopping expedition,
I can do half-an-hour of original work and
about an hour of copy typing at non-typist speeds.
8.My principle interest is a 50 year scientific project,
which was started 30 years ago.
If I could spend 48 hours per week doing it I would.
However half-an-hour work and an hour pottering,
seems to be all I can manage and
at that not every day of the week.
Due to my condition, I asked Mrs. Pam S....,
a fellow Open University student to be the project archivist
for my work on the Open University computer.
She agreed and kept the archive of the correspondence
which is now on my web site. This is both an unusual
request and an unusually generous service
to a fellow student on incapacity benefit.
9.Zero income for as far as the eye can see.
10.Not applicable, zero wages or income.
11.August 1997 and is ongoing.
I trust that the above will put the internet feeding frenzy
of the newspaper hype into some perspective.
Tony Lance
tony...@bigberthathing.com
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tony Lance <judema...@bigberthathing.co.uk>
Date: Aug 27 2007, 4:54 pm
Subject: Big Bertha Thing moisture
To: swnet.sci.astro, comp.std.c
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On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:13:12 -0700, kuyper <kuy...@wizard.net> wrote:
>Marcus Strömberg wrote:
>> Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:55:43 +0100 skrev Tony Lance:
Hi James,
Date: Mon, May 21st 2001 14:33:41
From:JamesKuyper <kuy...@gscmail.gsfc.nasa.gov>
To: Tony Lance <tonyla...@bravenet.net>
Subject: Re:Big Bertha Thing reason
On Mon, 21 May 2001, you wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2001 10:05:14 -0400JamesKuyper
<kuy...@gscmail.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> >On Sun, 20 May 2001, you wrote:
> >> On Sat, 19 May 2001 11:04:48 -0400 "JamesKuyper Jr."
> >> <kuy...@wizard.net> wrote:
> >> >Why do you keep posting this message on comp.std.c; as far as I can
> >> >tell, it's completely irrelevant to that newsgroup.
> >>Big Bertha Thing reason (see at end)
> >I'm sorry; I can't make head nor tail of your "reason".
> Hi James,
> Your wizard address does not work, even though you use it on usenet.
Most people have no trouble reaching me at that address. Perhaps as a
known spammer my ISP filters you out when you try to mail me at the
wizard.net address? However, in that case it's odd that you can reach
me through my NASA address; NASA usually has much better filters than
my ISP does.
> For a strategic overview you need to see;-
>http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/tonylance/series.html (disabled)
http://www.bigberthathing.com/series.html (Ed.)
> Try one of the 36K pages.
> For a weapon to work effectively, only the target needs to know, that
> he has been blown up. These guys know for sure.
I'm afraid I still don't understand. What's the weapon? Who's the
target? Who's using the weapon? Why is the weapon being used on the
target?
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Hi James,
six years later try this reply:-
Big Bertha is the name of a lady tramp in the cartoon series the
Tramps.
It is also the name of a german artillary field piece mounted on a
railway
carriage, used to bombard Paris.Big Bertha Thing is a scientific
cartoon series,
some work, some don't.
It is also a siege canon, assault rifle and first aid tent. (Carafat)
The anecdotes, poems and jokes, at the end of each postings (2nd
place),
started as postcards to the first aid tent. When it was attacked by
left wing moderators at university, they became assault rifle bullits.
They were then upgraded to artillary shells by the addition of
pictures
of sub-atomic particles, which looked like shell holes.
(gamma, electron, proton, positron and positive.)
Some additions were part of a scientific project.
(summation, extract, pastures, moisture, features, letter, outlandish)
Mathematical - PI
Contextual in terms of battle.
(pathos, tidings, sedan, chair, tidings, pin-wheel, progress,
balloon,
hacked, invite)
Scientific (spider, coil, gyro, monorail, halfrail, dwarf, burster,
uniform, lightcraft, unified, fusion.)
Collections of postings. (battle, faculty, retrenchment, redoubt,
mathematics and astronomy.)
http://www.bigberthathing.com/series.html
Thank you,
Tony Lance
judema...@bigberthathing.co.uk
Monday, November 10, 1997 01:41:47 PM
Message
From: Tony Lance
Subject: Big Bertha
To: OUSA Classical Particle
Hey! I've just found out, something really interesting.
For the next three months, this conference is the only
crap-shoot in town.
So step right up and try Big Bertha, otherwise known as
Pastures.
Just two things;-
1. If you see someone slogging away, but doing it all wrong.
Please remember, a great effort, with no results, is worth
more than a great result with no effort. The first is purchased
at great cost and the latter, in terms of cost, is worthless.
2. If it is not broken, do not fix it. Some parts of the project
may need repairing. If you cannot fix it, with a good suggestion,
then do not take it apart, in the first place, with a bad one.
Thank you,
Tony Lance
NB Subject Big Bertha and 'Just two things:-' gives brand name:-
Big Bertha Thing
Big Bertha Thing 3
Big Bertha Thing farm
Big Bertha Thing battle,farm (common)
Big Bertha Thing battle,farm,fusion (common, message)
There is an old joke about prisoners, who know all the old jokes,
so they gave them numbers. A new prisoner on finding out what is
going on, decides to call out a number. Nothing. Zilch. Dinada.
On querying this, he is told, that it is the way he tells them.
The parts of Big Bertha called common are based on this principle.