UMRA ages (for FAQ and general interest)
J. P. Gilliver (John)
ages, so maybe someone might create a histogram (and they could be added
to the FAQ/Welcome as well). I'll start the ball rolling - I am 35 (36
on St. George's day), though haven't been a continuous listener all that
time (only about a decade I think).
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Archers Addict
(John)" <G6...@soft255.demon.co.uk> writes
>he `Forced out of Lurkdom' thread has thrown up some discussion of our
>ages, so maybe someone might create a histogram (and they could be added
>to the FAQ/Welcome as well). I'll start the ball rolling - I am 35 (36
>on St. George's day), though haven't been a continuous listener all that
>time (only about a decade I think).
Well I think that's a brilliant idea - but I've gone all coy. Oh well I
will if you will Robin. I am 48 and have been listening since I was
about 12 with a non-listening period during my 30s (oddly it didn't seem
difficult to catch up when I returned!)
Whose going to collect these BTW?
--
Linda Tame.
Mark Whidby
I'm 39 and been listening for 6 years.
> Whose going to collect these BTW?
Not me :-)
--
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Gordon Woods
Archers Addict <li...@reflect.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Whose going to collect these BTW?
I am keeping a list - but I'm not sure that they would add much to
Welcome to umra.
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Paul Martin
sjoh...@sable.ox.ac.uk (Gordon Woods) wrote:
>I am keeping a list - but I'm not sure that they would add much to
>Welcome to umra.
I think it's quite a good idea to add them to the profiles, particularly for
the ones we make up. We can run the figures through SPSS and sell the results
to the BBC (UMRA Audience Research Inc.), using the profits to pay for an
illuminated manuscript of the FAQ 1.2 for every umra person mentioned therein.
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Graham Allsopp
>I'll start the ball rolling - I am 35 (36
>on St. George's day), though haven't been a continuous listener all that
>time (only about a decade I think).
OK, I'll go with the pack and mirror John's profile. I'm 36 and have been
a regular listener for about 10 years (though I used to get The Archers
subliminally from the age of 5 by going to my Grannie's for dinner, and
hear it on the Home Service whilst waiting for that nice Daphne Oxenford
to come on)
Pip pip
Graham
jacqueline wesselius
>
> (snip)
I'll start the ball rolling - I am 35 (36
> > >on St. George's day), though haven't been a continuous listener all that
> > >time (only about a decade I think).
and Linda-with-an-i wrote:
> >
> > Well I think that's a brilliant idea - but I've gone all coy. Oh well I
> > will if you will Robin. I am 48 and have been listening since I was
> > about 12 with a non-listening period during my 30s (oddly it didn't seem
> > difficult to catch up when I returned!)
and Mark Whidby (I think) wrote,
> I'm 39 and been listening for 6 years.
>
Well, I'm almost 53, and have been listening for I don't really know.
At least 15 years, first from Paris, & the past 11 years from Amsterdam
(which is much better, because here we have R4 on the cable). Started
listening in the early 70s, but didn't really get caught, partly because
of the poor quality of the broadcasting. It's a shame The Archers aren't
on the World Service. What am I going to do when on holiday in Provence?
:-(
Jacqueline.
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Tony Fry
>The `Forced out of Lurkdom' thread has thrown up some discussion of our
>ages, so maybe someone might create a histogram (and they could be added
>to the FAQ/Welcome as well). I'll start the ball rolling - I am 35 (36
>on St. George's day), though haven't been a continuous listener all that
>time (only about a decade I think).
And I'm 38 (39 the day after St George's Day). Been listening for
about sixteen years.
Tony Fry
Archers Addict
<sjoh...@sable.ox.ac.uk> writes
>I am keeping a list - but I'm not sure that they would add much to
>Welcome to umra.
Well I think it does. We have already had one lurker saying they
thought their age was a bar from the usual poster. I think its really
interesting and including to recognise a range of interest - especially
as so many of you post from organisations and institutions.
--
Linda Tame.
Laurie Evanson-Goddard
>
> In article <rggdkaA0...@reflect.demon.co.uk>,
> Archers Addict <li...@reflect.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >Whose going to collect these BTW?
>
> Welcome to umra.
I think it is a reasonable idea, if only to encourage lurkers of all ages
to participate. When first lurking a couple of months ago, I thought umra
was only for young academics.
For the record I am 52 and have been listening to the Archers
intermittently from the beginning, when it replaced Dick Barton -
Special Agent. The reason was not an 8 yr old's natural enthusiasm for
agricultural propaganda, but rather grandparents who had retired to a
smallholding in Norfolk and with whom I stayed for the school holidays:
listening to the Archers was a religious rite every evening. To parody
another saying - catch'em young and they stay hooked for life.
There have been a lot of enforced gaps due to moving around when a
regular soldier and since as a IT Consultant. Funnily enough I have
usually found it easier to listen regularly when serving abroad, thanks
to BFBS. Listening in Hong Kong is probably worth a separate topic - I
will post in due course.
Laurie
A temporary exile in Nicosia
Simon Reap
>In article <YZRA$yAs0D...@soft255.demon.co.uk>, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
><G6...@soft255.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>I'll start the ball rolling - I am 35 (36
>>on St. George's day), though haven't been a continuous listener all that
>>time (only about a decade I think).
>
>OK, I'll go with the pack and mirror John's profile. I'm 36 and have been
>a regular listener for about 10 years (though I used to get The Archers
>subliminally from the age of 5 by going to my Grannie's for dinner, and
>hear it on the Home Service whilst waiting for that nice Daphne Oxenford
>to come on)
Well, we seem to have hit the modal age already - I am 36 (going on
seventeen) and have been listening (with breaks) since I was 10 or so.
A common refrain in my mid teens were _What's Shula done *this* time_.
--
Simon Reap - s...@dial.pipex.com
David Goddard
>
> In article <4l3310$3...@news.ox.ac.uk>, Gordon Woods
> <sjoh...@sable.ox.ac.uk> writes
> >Welcome to umra.
> Well I think it does. We have already had one lurker saying they
> thought their age was a bar from the usual poster. I think its really
> interesting and including to recognise a range of interest - especially
> as so many of you post from organisations and institutions.
> --
> Linda Tame.
I would agree with that - I never realised there was such a wide range
of ages on this group..
Um.. er.. personally I'm 24 and have been listening religiously for,
well, um... er... half a year.. As I've said elsewhere, I was quite
recently converted to the Archers by my girlfriend..
There, I've come out - a novice Archers fan. I feel so relieved 8)
Dave
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Jon Wallis
>
>The `Forced out of Lurkdom' thread has thrown up some discussion of our
>ages, so maybe someone might create a histogram (and they could be added
>on St. George's day), though haven't been a continuous listener all that
>time (only about a decade I think).
Well, FWIW, I'm 32 and have been listening for about 7 or 8 years.
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John Wright
>The `Forced out of Lurkdom' thread has thrown up some discussion of our
>ages, so maybe someone might create a histogram (and they could be added
>to the FAQ/Welcome as well). I'll start the ball rolling - I am 35 (36
>on St. George's day), though haven't been a continuous listener all that
>time (only about a decade I think).
Well I'm 46 and have been listening to the Archers since I was old enough
to understand it. My mother got me into it, but she has stopped listening
now, except when I go and see her on a Sunday morning and she puts the
Omnibus on without even asking me!
--
John Wright
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Now she's 95 and we don't know where the hell she is
- Ellen de Generes
Rex Belcher
>
> The `Forced out of Lurkdom' thread has thrown up some discussion of our
> ages, so maybe someone might create a histogram (and they could be added
> to the FAQ/Welcome as well). I'll start the ball rolling - I am 35 (36
> on St. George's day), though haven't been a continuous listener all that
> time (only about a decade I think).
I have to confess to being 49 years old and I have been listening off and
on probably since the start, although being well on the way to senility
I can remember very little of the early days :'(
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Nick Davies
Nick Davies
says...
>as so many of you post from organisations and institutions.
Institutions...........quite.
Glynis Baguley
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Archers Addict
100...@apus.cus.cam.ac.uk>, Harry Powell <hrp...@cus.cam.ac.uk> writes
>I'm 37 and have listened since 1985, if anyone's interested.
>
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Sarah Hill
: Gordon Woods wrote:
: >
: > In article <rggdkaA0...@reflect.demon.co.uk>,
: > Archers Addict <li...@reflect.demon.co.uk> wrote:
: >
: > >Whose going to collect these BTW?
: > I am keeping a list - but I'm not sure that they would add much to
: > Welcome to umra.
28 listening as long as I can remember.
Sarah Hill
De Montfort University
Leicester
Robin Fairbairns
>will if you will Robin.
Wow ... she's a one, this Linda. Coy about her own age, yet bruits
the fact that mine is available (a fact that had even escaped me,
though I had heard the words on the web being spoken by their
author...).
> I am 48 and have been listening since I was
>about 12 with a non-listening period during my 30s (oddly it didn't seem
>difficult to catch up when I returned!)
Ho hum. I'm 49 (feeling as if I'm going on 97, just now). I've been
listening as long as I can remember, though memories of the early 50s
are pretty hazy. (I do remember one or two things pretty clearly,
including the demise of Grace, though I was surprised when I heard
recently a replay of Phil's words to Dan when he came back from the
hospital, so I probably wasn't paying terribly careful attention).
--
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Margaret Morrison
(John)" <G6...@soft255.demon.co.uk> writes
>The `Forced out of Lurkdom' thread has thrown up some discussion of our
>ages, so maybe someone might create a histogram (and they could be added
>to the FAQ/Welcome as well). I'll start the ball rolling - I am 35 (36
>on St. George's day), though haven't been a continuous listener all that
>time (only about a decade I think).
27 and am pretty sure I remember the theme tune from my playpen days -
but all plot detail lost in the mists of time and the rebellion of
adolescence until I went up to university and realised the error of my
ways.
Why universities (institutions)? After all, not everyone can be studying
Land Economy? My theory is a) students are poor and cannot afford TVs b)
an unacknowledgeable need to enter a normal (ha!) community for 20 mins
once a day, where you get all sorts and no one talks about essay crises.
--
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David Stretch
John Wright <j...@isise.rl.ac.uk> wrote:
>Well I'm 46 and have been listening to the Archers since I was old enough
>to understand it.
I'm 42, and am also in this group who seem to have listened to it since as
far back as I can remember (certainly before I was 12.)
> My mother got me into it,
It was my grandmother.
I went through periods where it was difficult to listen regularly, and
on one occasion, went through a (short) patch where I listened to it
just because people where I then worked (Psychology dept at Newcastle
University) thought it silly, irritating, and/or boring.
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Chris Harrison
> ages, so maybe someone might create a histogram (and they could be added
> to the FAQ/Welcome as well). I'll start the ball rolling - I am 35 (36
> on St. George's day), though haven't been a continuous listener all that
> time (only about a decade I think).
As some of the tv-viewing populace will suspect, I am one of the younger
members of the group, only 24. I have been listening for as long as I can
remember, another of those whose parents passed on their addiction .....
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>
>I think it's quite a good idea to add them to the profiles, particularly for
>the ones we make up. We can run the figures through SPSS and sell the results
>to the BBC (UMRA Audience Research Inc.), using the profits to pay for an
>illuminated manuscript of the FAQ 1.2 for every umra person mentioned therein.
>
Can I have an illuminated manuscript? I'm 43.
Cheers, Chris.
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SandyGor
parents were not fans, although my Mother now listens to the Sunday
omnibus. My grandfather, who died before I was born, was a big fan...so I
looks as if the addiction can skip a generation!
Helen B.
Michael Warren
>Welcome to umra.
I'm 46, I have a beard and I wear glasses. Do you require any more
information?
--
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Andy Howard
>
Started
> listening in the early 70s, but didn't really get caught, partly because
> of the poor quality of the broadcasting. It's a shame The Archers aren't
> on the World Service. What am I going to do when on holiday in Provence?
> :-(
1). Take a good quality portable radio that has Long Wave, I've been able to receive
R4-LW in most parts of France over the years, on a Grundig Yacht Boy and more
recently a Sony ICF SW7600.
2). Fit an extremely long extension to your cable feed.
3). If you have access to satellite on holiday then R4 is available on Astra I think (not
having a satellite system I'm not too sure about this)
Obviously (2). is the best option though.
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Glyn Pollington
>The `Forced out of Lurkdom' thread has thrown up some discussion of our
>ages, so maybe someone might create a histogram (and they could be added
>to the FAQ/Welcome as well). I'll start the ball rolling - I am 35 (36
>on St. George's day), though haven't been a continuous listener all that
>time (only about a decade I think).
Since you ask, I will be 36 at the end of this month and old enough
(so many say) to know better. I had a brief flirt with the Archers
during '82-'83 but only became a regular listener in 1985.
--
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http://www.tcp.co.uk/~glypol
Angus Townley
(John)" <G6...@soft255.demon.co.uk> writes
>The `Forced out of Lurkdom' thread has thrown up some discussion of our
>ages, so maybe someone might create a histogram (and they could be added
>to the FAQ/Welcome as well). I'll start the ball rolling - I am 35 (36
>on St. George's day), though haven't been a continuous listener all that
>time (only about a decade I think).
I'm 32 and been listoning to the Archers for as long as I can remember.
--
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Joe Boswell
<d.m.g...@ic.ac.uk> writes
>
>Um.. er.. personally I'm 24 and have been listening religiously for,
>well, um... er... half a year.. As I've said elsewhere, I was quite
>recently converted to the Archers by my girlfriend..
>
>There, I've come out - a novice Archers fan. I feel so relieved 8)
>
as this novice lad taken in hand by a more experienced woman who
introduces him to these pleasures of the sophisticated?
I'm 36, and if there are any young ladies lurking who would appreciate
the reciprocal of the above arrangement... why are you lurking on umra
when you don't listen to the Archers?
--
*Joe* "If I cannot be free - I'll be cheap."
Liz Blades
>Archers Addict wrote:
>>
>> In article <4l3310$3...@news.ox.ac.uk>, Gordon Woods
>> <sjoh...@sable.ox.ac.uk> writes
>> >I am keeping a list - but I'm not sure that they would add much to
>> >Welcome to umra.
>> >--
>> Well I think it does. We have already had one lurker saying they
>> thought their age was a bar from the usual poster. I think its really
>> interesting and including to recognise a range of interest - especially
>> as so many of you post from organisations and institutions.
>> --
>> Linda Tame.
>I would agree with that - I never realised there was such a wide range
>of ages on this group..
>Um.. er.. personally I'm 24 and have been listening religiously for,
>well, um... er... half a year.. As I've said elsewhere, I was quite
>recently converted to the Archers by my girlfriend..
>There, I've come out - a novice Archers fan. I feel so relieved 8)
>Dave
>--
>David Goddard
>Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, UK
>Telephone: +44 (0)171 594 7282, Fax: +44 (0)171 594 7277
>If it can go wrong, it wSegmentation fault (core dumped)
Hi,
I'm 42 and have been listening since the night Grace Archer
died
(It's a bit like everyone knowing where they were the day Kennedy was
killed).We didn't have one of those fancy do-dabs you needed to get
ITV.
Cheers
Liz Blades
Bolton
Lanc's
PS Just for the record this is my own computer :-)
David Boothroyd
I'm 23 and have been listening regularly for eight years, and irregularly
for several years before that.
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David & Margaret Gladstone
<rex.b...@eng.ox.ac.uk> writes
>"J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6...@soft255.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> The `Forced out of Lurkdom' thread has thrown up some discussion of our
>> ages, so maybe someone might create a histogram (and they could be added
>> to the FAQ/Welcome as well). I'll start the ball rolling - I am 35 (36
>> on St. George's day), though haven't been a continuous listener all that
>> time (only about a decade I think).
>
>on probably since the start, although being well on the way to senility
>I can remember very little of the early days :'(
>
I (the M bit) just turned (gone coy too) - but I can remember Walter G
quite clearly although my parents disdained to listen to the programme.
I went off to Canada in 1968 but in 1989 met the D side of the
partnership (a toy boy, he's 18 months younger than me) who was over
there on an assignment. He was an avid listener. So when we hove to in
1990 I started listening with him and there you are.
Perhaps if we did profiles too we'd probably end up with an Archers
Dating Agency or something! Now this opens up some possibilities -
parallel and triple universes . . .
M
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Jonathan Horner
> The `Forced out of Lurkdom' thread has thrown up some discussion of our
> ages
brother & I got too noisy so they gave up. (How dare they!)
Rediscovered while nurse training but infrequently. Regularly
listened since we got married (1990). We have 2 children now, (26
months & 8 months) so it is usually safest to record it.
While I'm temporarily out of lurkedom, where I mostly stay, our
youngest son is always cheered up by hearing 'Barwick Green'. I'll
try to do better than my parents with their necessary Archers education.
Helen - returning now to lurk.
p.s. I hope I've done this right. I haven't got husband here to help me.
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Sharon Cooper
> Well, we seem to have hit the modal age already - I am 36 (going on
> seventeen) and have been listening (with breaks) since I was 10 or so.
> A common refrain in my mid teens were _What's Shula done *this* time_.
> --
> Simon Reap - s...@dial.pipex.com
I'm just above average, then, at 37. I've been listening since
1980 when I first heard the Archers on BFBS when I was living
in Berlin.
I have also listened in Cyprus and the Falklands (and on longwave
whenever approaching a Channel port when travelling in Europe)
Sharon Cooper
Paul Forte
<s...@dial.pipex.com> writes
>G.Al...@Sheffield.ac.uk (Graham Allsopp) wrote:
>
>>In article <YZRA$yAs0D...@soft255.demon.co.uk>, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
>><G6...@soft255.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>I'll start the ball rolling - I am 35 (36
>>>on St. George's day), though haven't been a continuous listener all that
>>>time (only about a decade I think).
>>
for 10-15 years and, as with many others, subliminally through
childhood. I can remember the last-Dan voice change whenever *that* was.
Am not bearded.
Paolo
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I close hospitals)
Ian Wilson
weeks ago. I don't remember much from the early episodes but I
do remember when it started as it replaced Dick Barton, Special
Agent and his disappearence, together with Jock and Snowy, was a
terrible thing to inflict on a generation of devoted fans.
I am often amazed when reading postings about early events how
chunks that I had completely forgotten suddenly emerge from the
mists of time. I am sure that during National Service on RAF Sylt,
Germany in 1958-9 many service people listened on BFN (pre-BFBS?)
During the time since then I have listened intermittantly but only
started an evening + omnibus routine when I took early retirement
when 53 years old in 1991.
I have been been taking many newsgroups since going online with
Demon a few years ago but the umra newsgroup has been especially
welcome and I think that it is unique both for the pleasure that
it seems to generate and the courtesy that its contributors
display to each other.
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Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England
John Whalley
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6...@soft255.demon.co.uk> said:-
>The `Forced out of Lurkdom' thread has thrown up some discussion of our
>ages, so maybe someone might create a histogram (and they could be added
>to the FAQ/Welcome as well). I'll start the ball rolling - I am 35 (36
>on St. George's day), though haven't been a continuous listener all that
>time (only about a decade I think).
Well, I'm 35, too. Been listening for two or three years now (got
hooked when Caroline fell off her horse and Mark Hebden decided to get
over-friendly with that tree).
John
__
John Whalley
jo...@whalley.demon.co.uk
Mike Totham
there is a lot in my past that I can't remember :). Shula and Nigel
stolen cars, Lizzie at the Echo, Colonel Danby, lost wills (no not
Clarrie's) I can recall but I know, from my parents, that I have been
listening a lot longer. Incidentally we have the 'Gloucestershire Echo'
here in Cheltenham so any mention of 'The Echo' on the prog always brings
things one step closer to reality (from which direction I'm not sure).
Anyway to help me, and possibly others, decide when exactly the habit
formed I could do with a year by year precis of the major storylines.
Just the main events to help place things in context. i.e. did Mr Whippy
come before or after Aunt Laura shuffled off her mortal coil. (No not
some perverted act just a question of chronology). No doubt it is all in
THE BOOK but I have yet to get a copy (not a crime I trust?)
--
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m...@cix.compulink.co.uk
Nicky Smith
>"J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6...@soft255.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>The `Forced out of Lurkdom' thread has thrown up some discussion of our
>>ages, so maybe someone might create a histogram (and they could be added
>>to the FAQ/Welcome as well). I'll start the ball rolling - I am 35 (36
>>on St. George's day), though haven't been a continuous listener all that
>>time (only about a decade I think).
>
>--
31 and listening since I was about 18 and Lucy Perks was doing the 11
plus
J. P. Gilliver (John)
.ox.ac.uk> writes
>In article <4l3310$3...@news.ox.ac.uk>,
> sjoh...@sable.ox.ac.uk (Gordon Woods) wrote:
>
>>I am keeping a list - but I'm not sure that they would add much to
>>Welcome to umra.
Well, a histogram (assuming we get enough to make it worth while) could
be moderately interesting, IMHO.
>
>I think it's quite a good idea to add them to the profiles, particularly for
>the ones we make up. We can run the figures through SPSS and sell the results
[]
Certainly feel free to add mine.
However, in both cases - we must keep track of them, i. e. tag the year
in which it was revealed to each age, otherwise they will get out of
date. (Or year of birth [1960 here].)
--
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UK source of Malzbier sought.
What do we do about these bovine creatures with spongy brains? Do we kill and
burn them, or just vote them out at the next election? (News quiz, 1996-3-30.)
J I Bradford
Jennifer Aldridge's Archers Cookbook for my birthday present, so my cup
runneth over....
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David Goddard
[..]
> Isn't it heart warming to see that the old stereotypes still exist, such
> as this novice lad taken in hand by a more experienced woman who
> introduces him to these pleasures of the sophisticated?
Hmmm.. not sure about that, I just couldn't be bothered to argue about
what channel the stereo was on on Sunday mornings and then, despite
myself, I started to listen.. Anyway, she's
younger than me 8)
> I'm 36, and if there are any young ladies lurking who would appreciate
> the reciprocal of the above arrangement... why are you lurking on umra
> when you don't listen to the Archers?
The wierd thing is that my SO doesn't read umra, even though she's a
computing PG and spends a whole chunk of time sat at computers with
free (sorry, Anorak) internet access..
Michael Hopkins
grow up !) and have been listening for at least ten years, I can remember
Aunt Laura dying and that was 1985, but I can't remember Polly Perks
dying and that was 1982.
So there you go !
Michael
Robin Fairbairns
Jon S Green <jo...@harlequin.co.uk> wrote:
>Jon is 32, and is living in Ward 3B at Fulbourn Hospital, under strong
>medication.
If, as I suspect, that's intended as a joke, I think you should know I
don't find it very funny.
AFAIK, there's no Ward 3B at Fulbourn (all the wards I know have names
rather than ciphers). ... and I know rather a lot of them; I spend
more of my time there than I find in the remotest bit pleasing ... an
even sadder place than the young girls' orthopaedic ward that my
sister spent 10 months in, in the 60s.
Kirsty Darbyshire
when i started listening full time; usually listen to the omnibus, but
keep sleeping through sunday mornings at the mo; rely on umra and tims
pages to keep me up to date; about 600 unread articles at the moment
(blug); no beard (odd that).
kirsty
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Sarah Hill
: Michael Hopkins wrote:
: >
: > I am 19 (20 next month - Arrgggh, that's frightening - I don't want to
: > grow up !)
: Speaking from personal experience, this doesn't seem to happen before
: the age of 25, so don't be too frightened. Anyone care to place a
: definite age on growing up? Is it reversible?
There isn`t a definite age for growing up & it is reversible. My darling
husband has been known to jump on the bed like a five year old & gurgle.
Take his posh suit off & he regresses instantly!! Don`t worry
Sarah Hill
De Montfort University
Leicester
Jon S Green
Archers. Said Jon: "I've been listening on and off for as long as I can
remember, but it's only in the last six or seven years that I've really
started to pay attention. I am contantly amazed at the depth of the
characters. The political aspects are well covered: dealing sensitively
with issues of race, disability and alternative sexuality, without tokenism
or predictability, and I look forward to the upcoming plot threads
concerning Linda Snell's facial hair."
Jon is 32, and is living in Ward 3B at Fulbourn Hospital, under strong
medication.
<g>
Jon
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Steve Riddle
>
>Since you ask, I will be 36 at the end of this month and old enough
>(so many say) to know better. I had a brief flirt with the Archers
>during '82-'83 but only became a regular listener in 1985.
>
Well, I'm 27 at the end of next month and relieved to read from all
the other posts in this thread that I'm not the youngest here. I used
to listen on and off throughout my youth but can be fairly sure I've
been listening regularly (along with my wife Sandra who knows about
umra but [especially since the modem went awol along with the
computer, printer, cameras, phone over the Easter weekend... grrr] is
not in a position to lurk here) since about 1991, when Phil and Jill
had an argument about the B&B and Ruth patched things up by arranging
a chance meeting between them on Lakey Hill... I think we were on the
M6 at the time.
I must say I find all this who-we-are business a bit akin to seeing
photos of the cast - I hadn't realised I'd been building mental images
of youse lot, but some of them are going to have to be altered
slightly.
Steve.
R A Burroughs
glasses. Another Rosemary, but almost no-one calls me that. Listening on
and off as long as I can remember, but regularly only since I started
sharing a room with my current room-mate (whom I am still trying to
convert to umra).
Rosie
Patrick Smith
>
> I am 19 (20 next month - Arrgggh, that's frightening - I don't want to
> grow up !)
Speaking from personal experience, this doesn't seem to happen before
the age of 25, so don't be too frightened. Anyone care to place a
definite age on growing up? Is it reversible?
--
Appropriate pleasantries,
Paddy.
Tex Bennett
If anyone is interested, I'm 30 and have been listening since I
discovered 'grown up' Radio about 5 years ago. I can recall at the age
of about 5, my mother listening to it quite avidly. Thats better, I'm
'outed' now!
Regards
Tex
===
ANDY W
>3). If you have access to satellite on holiday then R4 is available on Astra I think (not
>having a satellite system I'm not too sure about this)
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Its on one of the audio carriers for UK gold. Can't remeber which one but
shouldn't be too hard to find.
ooops I've de lurked. I'll have to join in from now on.
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Kevinmap
years, which coincides with leaving Hampshire to live in Munich. I was
listening at that time via the Astra Satellite, although I,ve realised now
(uk.media.radio.r4) that I was hearing everything 1 sec. after the people
back home.
I,m back in the UK now and I have to have every radio in the house tuned
to R4 so that I can go from room to room without missing anything. Is this
sad?
Rosemary Mapplebeck
(How many Rosemarys in this group?)
Jon S Green
> In article <31775dd9.603358173@newshost>,
> Jon S Green <jo...@harlequin.co.uk> wrote:
> >Jon is 32, and is living in Ward 3B at Fulbourn Hospital, under strong
> >medication.
>
> If, as I suspect, that's intended as a joke, I think you should know I
> don't find it very funny.
My (public) apologies if I offended; the humour was meant to be entirely
self-deprecating, and not at the expense of mental illness sufferers.
Liz Blades
Hi,
Not sad but sensible,in fact my radios freak out if I try and change
from radio 4.
Sorry not Rosemary but
Liz Blades
Archers Addict
>I look forward to the upcoming plot threads
>concerning Linda Snell's facial hair."
Now look you here Jon - this whole thing is gathering an unfortunate
momentum and I am *stamping* on it *right now*.
And *another* thing Jon - the lady is v. particular about the 'y'
(sniff)
--
Archers Addict
John Ross
<Snip>
> Helen - returning now to lurk.
>
> p.s. I hope I've done this right. I haven't got husband here to help me.
Off topic, serious mode on:
I teach IT in a comprehensive school. My experience is that
association of the female sex with inferior IT skills is a mistake.
Proportionately I have more good female pupils than male - they're
more concerned to get results than to show off to their friends.
Don't you love sweeping generalisations!
Trust yourself - I bet you've read more of the manual than your
husband!
Off topic, serious mode off:
I think I've mentioned in another thread that I am 46. I should add
that I am beardless, spectacled and have listened since the
mid-seventies.
--
John Ross
grinnyp
for 3 months.
Probably the newest Archers fan on the list,
Carol Ann
Rosemary Morris
<li...@reflect.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>I am keeping a list - but I'm not sure that they would add much to
>>Welcome to umra.
>>--
>Well I think it does. We have already had one lurker saying they
>thought their age was a bar from the usual poster. I think its really
>interesting and including to recognise a range of interest - especially
>as so many of you post from organisations and institutions.
Thanks Linda. I was the ex lurker who hesitated feeling you were all
young flibbertygibbets! Can I go for the record so far? I confess
to getting the pink card in July.......bus pass as well possibly.
Yes a magnificent 59, going on 22.
Rosemary
Roy Harrison, Winchester, UK
>
> As some of the tv-viewing populace will suspect, I am one of the younger
> members of the group, only 24. I have been listening for as long as I can
> remember, another of those whose parents passed on their addiction .....
>
> --
Guilty. Clean shaven. From the middle slice of Winchester. Just scored ny half
century. Puzzled by all those things in the book that a don't
remember a thing about but must have heard at the time.
--
Roy Harrison
Winchester
I think if I were to die tonight, I would still want to hear the
Archers / cricket scores (delete as appropriate).
David & Margaret Gladstone
writes
>Michael Hopkins wrote:
>>
>> I am 19 (20 next month - Arrgggh, that's frightening - I don't want to
>> grow up !)
>
>definite age on growing up? Is it reversible?
People only grow up if they want to - all the best people I know (lots
of them) never have and never want to - okay, they may appear to be
terribly responsible with terribly hifalutin jobs and whatnot, but
underneath it all, yeah, catapults and frogs in the pocket. And they're
such fun to be with. You ask if it is reversible. I don't know -
suspect not. But would welcome theories of others on this one.
M who has a husband 48 going on 9, has a brother 53 going on 9 and used
to have the best boss ever, 45 going on 9.
>
--
David & Margaret Gladstone
John Ross
> Michael Hopkins wrote:
> >
> > I am 19 (20 next month - Arrgggh, that's frightening - I don't want to
> > grow up !)
>
> Speaking from personal experience, this doesn't seem to happen before
> the age of 25, so don't be too frightened. Anyone care to place a
> definite age on growing up? Is it reversible?
>
Well I'm mid-40s, teach in a comprehensive, and still have not decided
what to do when I leave school.
--
John Ross
Colin Batchelor
age of 18, except I've just remembered that I had my 20th birthday during
the Easter holidays, so I can't be 18 any more.
I do wear glasses, but I'm not virile enough to grow a beard I'm afraid.
--
Yours,
Colin - Stretches like spaghetti - snaps like a brick.
Martin Hill
mothers knee (or some such phraseology). One of my earliest memories is
the 'dum de dum de dumde dum' of Barwick Gr. Used to listen on my
crystal set (ah! obsolete technology) from the Moorside Edge transmitter
of the Northern Home Service during the mid to late 50's. Missed 10
years (68-78) when living in USA (_why_ isn't it on World Service)(I
know, I know -'Cultural Differences or some such hogwash), but faithful
since.
Cheers
M.
--
Martin Hill
Laurence Slater
I am 38 and have been listerning to the Archers since the night that
Jack Archer (Piggy's original husband) died. My dad listerned and made
us all listen to that episode. It ended up in the air and I had to
know what happened next. So it all started.....
Laurence Slater
Jonathan Horner
> >
> > p.s. I hope I've done this right. I haven't got husband here to help me.
> Trust yourself - I bet you've read more of the manual than your
> husband!
He is a computer programmer & therefore has read very little (if any
) of the manual. I have read none. I try to learn but he will agree
that the computer often goes wrong when I try to do things exactly
the same as he does. He is often completely baffled how I managed to
make it go wrong!
Helen
--
Jonathan & Helen Horner
E-Mail: jonatha...@zetnet.co.uk
Alan Fitch
year for 6 months, and the only English speaking radio stations I could pick
up were Radio 4 on LW, and BFBS). As well as the Archers, I also became
addicted to the Flying Doctors on televison :->
regards,
Alan
P.S. Is it my imagination or is there a preponderance of
Winchester/Southampton UMRA-ites? I've seen a number of .tcp and aladdin
email addresses. Shall I start a "do you leave in the
Winchester/Southampton/Portsmouth metropolitan area?" thread?
--
Alan Fitch
Tel.: +44 (0)1703 472342 (voice)
E-mail: al...@cycle.demon.co.uk
This tagline is left intentionally blank.
Joe Boswell
>> >
>> > I am 19 (20 next month - Arrgggh, that's frightening - I don't want to
>> > grow up !)
>>
>> Speaking from personal experience, this doesn't seem to happen before
>> the age of 25, so don't be too frightened. Anyone care to place a
>> definite age on growing up? Is it reversible?
>>
years old. Plenty of tea, and my breakfast, bring me to something like
retiring age. I go to work, and by the time that's done, I am near to my
chronological age. I go home, get changed, play some rousing music and
i'm in my early twenties as I head to town. By the time last orders is
called I'm no more than 4 years old, and I toddle off to bed... and my
age mysteriously increases by 175 before morning.
--
*Joe* "If I cannot be free - I'll be cheap."
Alan Gold
Richard Tibbetts
>In article <4l3310$3...@news.ox.ac.uk>,
> sjoh...@sable.ox.ac.uk (Gordon Woods) wrote:
>
>>I am keeping a list - but I'm not sure that they would add much to
>>Welcome to umra.
>
>I think it's quite a good idea to add them to the profiles, particularly for
>the ones we make up. We can run the figures through SPSS and sell the results
>to the BBC (UMRA Audience Research Inc.), using the profits to pay for an
>illuminated manuscript of the FAQ 1.2 for every umra person mentioned therein.
Naa, they'd only be interested if we asked for social classification
as well (or has John Precott finished off that idea?)
BTW, I'm 39, and have listened seriously for over a decade, and off
and on since Mrs Dale's Diary ended (never could get on with
Waggoner's Walk).
--
Richard Tibbetts
Robin Fairbairns
Helen Horner <jonatha...@zetnet.co.uk> wrote:
>> Trust yourself - I bet you've read more of the manual than your
>> husband!
>
>He is a computer programmer & therefore has read very little (if any)
>of the manual. I have read none. I try to learn but he will agree
>that the computer often goes wrong when I try to do things exactly
>the same as he does. He is often completely baffled how I managed to
>make it go wrong!
So what? That happens all the time, for everyone, computer scientist
or not. Belief in a mystical capability of such people to make
everything work would be rapidly dispersed by a day or two in my
office (which I share with one other staff member and four students,
all of us CS graduates, one way or another).
--
Robin (Campaign for Real Radio 3) Fairbairns r...@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK
Home page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html
Tim Reid
>Um, I'm 32, going on 33, and ::hesitates:: I've only been listening
>for 3 months.
>
>Probably the newest Archers fan on the list,
Congratulations! Keep it up.
--
Tim Reid (tm...@cam.ac.uk)
WWW Server Administrator, Downing College, U. of Cambridge, UK
Archers plot summaries: http://www-jcr.dow.cam.ac.uk/~tmr13/archers.html
Tim Reid
Archers Addict <li...@reflect.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <31775dd9.603358173@newshost>, Jon S Green
><jo...@harlequin.co.uk> writes
>>I look forward to the upcoming plot threads
>>concerning Linda Snell's facial hair."
>
>Now look you here Jon - this whole thing is gathering an unfortunate
>momentum and I am *stamping* on it *right now*.
Couldn't that get rather painful?
Tim Reid
R A Burroughs <R.A.Bu...@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
>Nearly the youngest person here, as I'll be 20 next week.
Hooray. I've been worried to post to this thread, as I thought that I
might have been the youngest person here. But no!
I'm 23 and can't remember when I first heard the Archers. I seem to
remember Jethro's accident with a chainsaw (?) and someone being found
dead with a cup of tea. (Mrs P?) But I reckon that I really started
listening seriously during my year out after school in 1990-1991 when
I (and Chris Harrison - it's a small world) worked for IBM in Winchester.
No beard - unless it's been a long night.
Ben Hodgkiss
of a darts team called the Archers who rather bizarrely used to sing
the theme music very loudly every time they won a game!
Ben
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jacqueline wesselius
>
(snip)
(answering my distress about not being able to listen to the Archers in
Provence)
>
> 1). Take a good quality portable radio that has Long Wave, I've been able to receive
> R4-LW in most parts of France over the years, on a Grundig Yacht Boy and more
> recently a Sony ICF SW7600.
I've tried that one the Grundig Yacht Boy; don't think it worked, not
in that place (hills, mountains all around).
>
> 2). Fit an extremely long extension to your cable feed.
????????????
>
> 3). If you have access to satellite on holiday then R4 is available on Astra I think (not
> having a satellite system I'm not too sure about this)
>
> Obviously (2). is the best option though.
>
Thank you, Andy H (& Andy W, by the way), but the village/the house I
will be staying in is not cabled (if that is what you mean, that is).
Please explain again or I'll have to spend my holiday trying to fight
withdrawal symptoms.
jacqueline
--
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ac amsterdam, the netherlands, tel +3120 6426672, fax +3120 6422802
John Rodgers
Are we trying to set a new record for the longest thread??? According
to Free Agent this should be article 70.....
Aged 45 with glasses and listened to the Archers for over 20 years.
Glasses but no beard and hiding in Wiltshire.
John Rodgers
Melksham, Wilts
E-mail: joh...@telecall.co.uk
Paul Herber
Been listening for about 10 years.
Archers Addict mem. no. 11802
Regards, Paul Herber : phe...@pherber.com
http://www.pherber.com/
No alt="text", - just press 'Back'
jacqueline wesselius
>
> 1). Take a good quality portable radio that has Long Wave, I've been able to receive
> R4-LW in most parts of France over the years, on a Grundig Yacht Boy and more
> recently a Sony ICF SW7600.
I tried that one, I think, but I'll try again.
> 2). Fit an extremely long extension to your cable feed.
????
>
> 3). If you have access to satellite on holiday
^^^^^^No,alas
then R4 is available on Astra I think (not
> having a satellite system I'm not too sure about this)
>
> Obviously (2). is the best option though.
>
As long as the place you're staying in is cabled (if that is what you
mean)ŠŠŠŠ Please explain.
Jacqueline puzzled as ever.
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Dave Robinson
>The `Forced out of Lurkdom' thread has thrown up some discussion of our
>ages, so maybe someone might create a histogram (and they could be added
>to the FAQ/Welcome as well). I'll start the ball rolling - I am 35 (36
>on St. George's day), though haven't been a continuous listener all that
>time (only about a decade I think).
It's depressing to report that I am now 40. I have been listening to
the Archers for about the last 10-15 years. I also have a beard! :-)}
I started listening whilst driving home from business trips and
eventually became hooked (after all, where else does one learn about
setaside and Gloucester Old Spots?). As an 'addict' I now find
myself taping episodes (or the omnibus) to listen to in the car on the
way to work, or, even sadder, going out to the car during my lunch
break to listen to the episode I missed the night before.
Dave R.
Andy Howard
>
> > 2). Fit an extremely long extension to your cable feed.
>
> ????
> >
> > 3). If you have access to satellite on holiday
>
> ^^^^^^No,alas
>
> then R4 is available on Astra I think (not
> > having a satellite system I'm not too sure about this)
> >
> > Obviously (2). is the best option though.
> >
> As long as the place you're staying in is cabled (if that is what you
Sorry, it was a feeble joke, suggesting that if you had a long enough extension cable to
reach from Amsterdam...
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Chris Bennett
Re: age etc.
Coming up to 25. Due to maternal influence have listened on and off for
as long as I remember. Really became seriously interested in Summer 1994
and the thread of Nigel and Richard posting the fake letters inviiting
their cricket rivals to trials at Worcestershire C.C.C. I also set the
timer to record if I'm going to miss an episode.
Read and posted to umra (when I have the time or inclination) for approx
the last nine months.
Regards to all
Chris (with beard mentioned in another thread)
Jane Caddick
since 1978 when I was studying English Language and Literature and
produced a special study on how visual pictures of place, time, people
etc can be created using only the spoken word - I used the Archers of
course as my example and got a good mark for it. I am gradually
turning all of my friends and relatives into Archers listeners.
(In response to an earlier question, I am the sort of analyst wot
designs and builds databases - I am hoping one day to discover more
about what Robert Snell does - I suspect that he is one of those
clever programming types!)
Cheers
Jane
Principal Analyst, University of Wolverhampton
in1...@wlv.ac.uk
jacqueline wesselius
>
> In article: <317BBB...@euronet.nl> jacqueline wesselius
> <jacq...@euronet.nl> writes:
> >
> > > 2). Fit an extremely long extension to your cable feed.
> >
> > ????
> > >
> > >
> > As long as the place you're staying in is cabled (if that is what you
> > mean)???? Please explain.
>
> Sorry, it was a feeble joke, suggesting that if you had a long enough extension cable to
> reach from Amsterdam...
>
jacqueline.
P Woods
of The Archers since the start, and my family always listened. I remember
one occasion, probably about 1955, when I was roaming the street with my
mate Billy. Suddenly we were approached by the _neighborhood bully_
(whose real name I think I never knew; he was always called "Big Head",
because of his physical appearance rather than his conceitedness). He was
about a foot taller, and at least four years older than either of us. He
had been known to extort pocket money from smaller boys on occasion, so we
were a tad alarmed by his appearance.
To our surprise, his opening gambit was, "Do you listen to The Archers?"
(Thinks: Omigod, if I say yes he'll hit me, if I say no he'll hit me).
"Yes", I decided. "Well, you'd better get home then, hadn't you? It's on
in five minutes." he replied.
So we legged it.
But I never knew why he came up with such a strange question. Perhaps he
wasn't _all_ bad after all? And mayhap, he even went on to become a follower
of UMRA. Anyone want to own up to having lived in Harlesden Gardens
around 1955? 8-)=
Paul Woods
Robin E J Stevens
heard the Archers throughout childhood as my parents are avid listeners. I can
remember the demise of Dan Archer, but I probably got hooked 7-8 years ago and
have rarely missed an episode since (except for holidays etc). I'm now hooked
to the point of setting up a tape every morning to record the evening's
episode, so I can listen when I get back - I'm too impatient to wait for the
Sunday Omnibus!
Robin
To define recursion, we must first define recursion.
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Alison Galloway
Why not give the Grundy Yacht Boy a try instead.... it's made out
of old bits of a Morris Traveller.
BTW, apologies if this has already been suggested. Poor newsfeed
on CS so still just getting a fraction through. PC at work was
taken away on Thursday for repair 3 months after it was taken to
bits (while still working perfectly) and left in a quivering and
non-functioning heap. I was told on Thursday that I'd have it back
in 24 hours. Are "IT hours" different from the hours that us mere
mortals adhere to, because it's now Tuesday lunchtime (came home
for lunch to avoid staring at an empty desk) and there's still no
sign of it :-((
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Alison Galloway
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Chris
>Aged 45 with glasses and listened to the Archers for over 20 years.
How old are you *without* glasses?
Cheers, Chris.
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Andy Howard
Interesting to note than not only do we have a larger than expected number of
librarians, we also have a large number of people posting from academic sites and a
surprising number of umra folk with beards.
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jacqueline wesselius
>
> Interesting to note than not only do we have a larger than expected number of
> librarians, we also have a large number of people posting from academic sites and a
> surprising number of umra folk with beards.
>
And glasses. for the record: I do wear glasses. No beard.
jacqueline.
SD. Cox
: mortals adhere to, because it's now Tuesday lunchtime (came home
: for lunch to avoid staring at an empty desk) and there's still no
: sign of it :-((
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: Alison Galloway
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Ah that will be 24 hours scattered radomly over a few weeks ....
Skip,
41 last Sunday, (Lizzie and I share a birthday)
Recently de-bearded after a short dallience with a trendy goatee
Glasses normally lenses occasionally
Listening habitually for about 2 years
I usually leave for home (Bristol) after the theme music or call my similarly
addicted partner who works in London for a discussion of the plot ....
Stephen Turner
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Stephen Turner, Hassett Room Cybercafe, The Bull, Ambridge, Borsetshire.
1st World UMRA Convention Glasgow 1996
The Aragon (pub), Byres Rd, 1996-4-30:8pm
Alan Fitch
re...@astro.ox.ac.uk (Robin E J Stevens) wrote:
<snip>
> I'm now hooked
> to the point of setting up a tape every morning to record the evening's
> episode, so I can listen when I get back - I'm too impatient to wait for the
>
You are not alone! I have one alarm set on my el cheapo dual alarm
clock radio cassette recorder thingy to 7.03pm.
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Alan Fitch
Tel.: +44 (0)1703 472342 (voice)
E-mail: al...@cycle.demon.co.uk
To err is human, to moo bovine.
Robin Fairbairns
jacqueline wesselius <jacq...@euronet.nl> wrote:
>Andy Howard wrote:
>> Interesting to note than not only do we have a larger than expected
>> number of librarians, we also have a large number of people posting
>> from academic sites and a surprising number of umra folk with
>> beards.
>
>And glasses. for the record: I do wear glasses. No beard.
On the whole, I think we can do away with the references to women with
facial hair (even those from foreign climes where the social mores are
so different, such as jacqueline ;-).
Please?
It's either silly or downright offensive: Lynda with a moustache,
indeed!
Louise White
: I'm 35 and have been listening since 1988 (I worked in the Netherlands that
: year for 6 months, and the only English speaking radio stations I could pick
: up were Radio 4 on LW, and BFBS). As well as the Archers, I also became
: addicted to the Flying Doctors on televison :->
: regards,
: Alan
: P.S. Is it my imagination or is there a preponderance of
: Winchester/Southampton UMRA-ites? I've seen a number of .tcp and aladdin
: email addresses. Shall I start a "do you leave in the
: Winchester/Southampton/Portsmouth metropolitan area?" thread?
: --
: Alan Fitch
: Tel.: +44 (0)1703 472342 (voice)
: E-mail: al...@cycle.demon.co.uk
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I'm 28 years old , have been listening since Kate Aldridge ran away. No
beard no glasses. USED to live in So'ton (Shirley to be precise), now
live in Brighton.
Louise White :
Laboratory of Experimental Psychology :email lou...@epunix.sussex.ac.uk
Sussex University :
BRIGHTON :
U.K.
Brenda Selwyn
>The `Forced out of Lurkdom' thread has thrown up some discussion of our
>ages, so maybe someone might create a histogram (and they could be added
>to the FAQ/Welcome as well). I'll start the ball rolling - I am 35 (36
>on St. George's day), though haven't been a continuous listener all that
>time (only about a decade I think).
Since you ask, I will be 32 next month. I have been listening
regularly for about a year and a half.
Brenda
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Brenda Selwyn
East Twerton
Bath
England
bre...@matson.demon.co.uk
Jane Jackman
Out-Of-Lurkdom, I confess to being 38 and starting listening to The
Archers at Uni in the late 70s. Also got hooked on The Street at the
same time.
I feel so much better having got that off my chest.....
Jane
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