A mystical silence broods.....
Siderius Nuncius
Was it something I said?
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Sid
Shepherds Bush, West London
Kim Andrews
<siderius...@tesco.net> wrote:
>Eleven posts since yesterday morning?
>
>Was it something I said?
Please Sir, I've got a note Sir, don't need to post much on Grand Prix
weekends Sir. ;o)
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Cheers, Kimbo
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TonyPhiz
"Siderius Nuncius" <siderius...@tesco.net> wrote in message
news:be8j16$2dltg$2...@ID-70308.news.dfncis.de...
I am beset with another mystery... I missed the conclusion of the £5 note
signatures survey, and the thread his disappeared from my news server; would
any umrat care to enlighten me as to the outcome?
Ahhhhh.... it's Sunday morning, the omni is on the wireless (just packed
wofe off to Kempton Park to do the race for life - sun is shining, so I'm
sure she'll enjoy) breakfast is on the go, French Grand Prix and the men's
final at Wombledin to come, and if all else fails I have a good book to
read... what a day! (I just thought I'd share that.)
Tony
Serena Blanchflower
wrote:
> I am beset with another mystery... I missed the conclusion of the £5 note
> signatures survey, and the thread his disappeared from my news server; would
> any umrat care to enlighten me as to the outcome?
We haven't been told. It seems to have disappeared into ether, along
with the rest of umra.
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Cheers, Serena
Sometimes I sits and thinks ... and sometimes I just sits. (Punch cartoon)
George Middleton
>I am beset with another mystery... I missed the conclusion of the £5
>note signatures survey, and the thread his disappeared from my news
>server; would any umrat care to enlighten me as to the outcome?
It hasn't finished yet but here is another input.
Daughter - 2 and 0
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George
Andrew Thomas Croft
"George Middleton" <Geo...@Middleton.net> wrote in message
news:XtAh7ZDdo+B$Ew...@blueyonder.co.uk...
I had one yesterday. My newsagent's got it now.
TonyPhiz
"Serena Blanchflower" <nos...@sblanchflower.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in
message news:ujqfgvoip95s7qf0q...@4ax.com...
Ah, I see. My mail server seems to hold only a very small cache of messages,
bless it, before they disappear for ever, and I thought I'd missed the boat.
Thanks - Tony
Fenny
I heard TonyPhiz say...
> Ahhhhh.... it's Sunday morning, the omni is on the wireless (just packed
> wofe off to Kempton Park to do the race for life - sun is shining, so I'm
> sure she'll enjoy) breakfast is on the go, French Grand Prix and the men's
> final at Wombledin to come, and if all else fails I have a good book to
> read... what a day! (I just thought I'd share that.)
>
assignment about "the importance of relating the design to its
surroundings" in order to get a distinction. It's that or watch the
tennis, so I'll be trawling Google for some photographic examples.
--
Fenny
Fictitious Facts of the Day - from a list by Andrew Burford
#130: The European space program is run by a single Sinclair ZX81 with
16k RAM pack.
Michael Parry
<Geo...@Middleton.net> writes
There's a reference in the BBC round up of the career of Eddie George at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3023336.stm to 'the five pound note
fiasco of last year'. I must have missed that.
<reuse>
>>would any umrat care to enlighten me?
</reuse>
--
Michael Parry michael...@ntlworld.com
TonyPhiz
"Michael Parry" <mic...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:ZEPbb994RCC$Ew...@ntlworld.com...
Ahhhhhh..... the fivers where the print rubs off?
Tony
Mike Ruddock
<siderius...@tesco.net> wrote:
>Eleven posts since yesterday morning?
>
>Was it something I said?
Similar results here: in my case only 5 posts in that time.
Mike Ruddock
Chris McMillan
<a...@blueyonder.co.uk> writes
>
>"Siderius Nuncius" <siderius...@tesco.net> wrote in message
>news:be8j16$2dltg$2...@ID-70308.news.dfncis.de...
>> Eleven posts since yesterday morning?
>wofe off to Kempton Park to do the race for life - sun is shining, so I'm
>sure she'll enjoy) breakfast is on the go, French Grand Prix and the men's
>final at Wombledin to come, and if all else fails I have a good book to
>read... what a day! (I just thought I'd share that.)
>
varying kinds. (Toodles dividing his life between graduation ceremonies
and concerts)
Sincerely Chris
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Chris McMillan
reply to: chris.m...@ntlworld.com
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mike.mcmillan/
TonyPhiz
"Chris McMillan" <spam...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:0y0pZCFeJFC$Ew...@ntlworld.com...
Ah well now, I have to say that I too can enjoy a Sunday without so much as
a whiff of sport. If the mood is right, and the pace is easy (and there's a
good supply of tea and coffee) I can relax with the best of 'em, with
neither sight nor sound of propelled ball or turned wheel. Today though, was
a day which seemed to unfold in front of me with an inviting array of wheels
and balls, even if ultimately neither really provided the promised
spectacle. That's life.
Tony
Stephen GC Tilley
>
>I am beset with another mystery... I missed the conclusion of the £5 note
>signatures survey, and the thread his disappeared from my news server; would
>any umrat care to enlighten me as to the outcome?
Not yet - if you stick around you'll understand.
>Ahhhhh.... it's Sunday morning, the omni is on the wireless (just packed
>wofe off to Kempton Park to do the race for life - sun is shining, so I'm
>sure she'll enjoy) breakfast is on the go, French Grand Prix and the men's
>final at Wombledin to come, and if all else fails I have a good book to
>read... what a day! (I just thought I'd share that.)
And the Tour de France on C4.
--
Stephen Tilley -+- Ste...@Tilley.net
No longer resident in the South East.
Stephen GC Tilley
>
>news:ZEPbb994RCC$Ew...@ntlworld.com...
>> In message <XtAh7ZDdo+B$Ew...@blueyonder.co.uk>, George Middleton
>> <Geo...@Middleton.net> writes
>> >TonyPhiz writes
>> >>I am beset with another mystery... I missed the conclusion of the £5
>> >>note signatures survey, and the thread his disappeared from my news
>> >>server; would any umrat care to enlighten me as to the outcome?
>> >
>> >It hasn't finished yet but here is another input.
>> >Daughter - 2 and 0
>>
>> There's a reference in the BBC round up of the career of Eddie George at
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3023336.stm to 'the five pound note
>> fiasco of last year'. I must have missed that.
>> <reuse>
>> >>would any umrat care to enlighten me?
>> </reuse>
>
They coat fivers with a new anti-wear preparation. In the original batches of
the current fivers they *then* printed the serial numbers on top of this. So the
numbers didn't 'stick' to the fiver as they would if they were printed on paper.
So one could rub them off and sell them as freaks for more than GBP5.
AIUI they have overcome this by printing the numbers before the applying the
preparation.
Of course if they'd continued with organic, chemical-free notes none of this
would have happened.
TonyPhiz
news:bebjk...@drn.newsguy.com...
Ah yes (laughs to self for the omission): I did catch a bit of cycling, as
well.
Tony
TonyPhiz
news:m4iOa.120$Tj5...@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk...
I believe I also saw some underwater chess
Tony :-)
K Richard W
Cablemodem News Service decided to tell uk.media.radio.archers that
>In message <tKRNa.5314$Pg7....@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk>, TonyPhiz
><a...@blueyonder.co.uk> writes
>>
>varying kinds. (Toodles dividing his life between graduation ceremonies
>and concerts)
>
bring back wooden rackets.
I spent much of day driving to Kings Cross and back, walking the dog,
mowing the lawn, eating dinner and collecting a daughter.
Oh and finally catching up on umra.
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Kosmo Richard W
SNELLSS
Fenny
I heard TonyPhiz say...
> a day which seemed to unfold in front of me with an inviting array of wheels
> and balls, even if ultimately neither really provided the promised
> spectacle. That's life.
>
>
happy ;-)
--
Fenny
Fictitious Facts of the Day - from a list by Andrew Burford
Nick Atty
It's pretty obvious. Those of us who post in our spare time are very
much in a minority. This evening's haul proves it.
--
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(Waterways World site of the month, April 2001)
Stephen GC Tilley
>
>I believe I also saw some underwater chess
>
>Tony :-)
>
TonyPhiz
... a stalagmite channel (it was underground chess) ouch
Tony
K Richard W
tell uk.media.radio.archers that
>Those of us who post in our spare time are very
>much in a minority.
If someone paid me as much as I get paid for going to work to post to
umra I would happily make a career out of it.
Any offers?
Marjorie Clarke
"Siderius Nuncius" <siderius...@tesco.net> wrote in message
news:be8j16$2dltg$2...@ID-70308.news.dfncis.de...
>
> Was it something I said?
Must be my fault, I've been away on holiday for a fortnight. But I'm back
now so all is well.
--
Marjorie Clarke
Carole Appleyard
<allspamwil...@rickmansworth.mersinet.co.uk> writes
>Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer ^W^W^W^W uk.media.radio.archers,
>I heard TonyPhiz say...
>> Today though, was
>> a day which seemed to unfold in front of me with an inviting array of wheels
>> and balls, even if ultimately neither really provided the promised
>> spectacle. That's life.
>>
>>
>And today there is no tennis and Neighbours is back. Some of us are
>happy ;-)
I'm glad there is someone out there sharing my secret vice, the sons
all laugh at me and groan - friends say things like "I never have time
to watch television until 10 o'clock" and here I am worried about Toady
- or was that an irony smiley?
--
Carole
Andrew John Wineberg
wrote:
>I'm glad there is someone out there sharing my secret vice, the sons
>all laugh at me and groan - friends say things like "I never have time
>to watch television until 10 o'clock" and here I am worried about Toady
>- or was that an irony smiley?
An honorary Melbourne-rat informs interested parties that he is led to
believe that the actor who plays Toady (Todd Something?) has been known
to be... exceedingly and very privately entertaining to some lady
visitors on /Neighbours/ tours. Are Fenny and Carole off to Pin Oak
Court?
--
ajw, Stanmore
Fenny
> >And today there is no tennis and Neighbours is back. Some of us are
> >happy ;-)
>
> I'm glad there is someone out there sharing my secret vice, the sons
> all laugh at me and groan - friends say things like "I never have time
> to watch television until 10 o'clock" and here I am worried about Toady
> - or was that an irony smiley?
>
lots and lots of people who watch Corrie and Emmerdale and think that it
is perfectly acceptable, but sneer at Neighbours.
I hope Dee finds out about Darcy soon.
--
Fenny
Fictitious Facts of the Day - from a list by Andrew Burford
#101: Napoleon never said "Not tonight, Josephine" - it was Josephine
who said "Not tonight Napoleon - your breath stinks of garlic again."
Penny
allspamwil...@rickmansworth.mersinet.co.uk (Fenny) scrawled in the
dust...
>Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer ^W^W^W^W uk.media.radio.archers,
>I heard Carole Appleyard say...
>> >And today there is no tennis and Neighbours is back. Some of us are
>> >happy ;-)
>>
>> I'm glad there is someone out there sharing my secret vice, the sons
>> all laugh at me and groan - friends say things like "I never have time
>> to watch television until 10 o'clock" and here I am worried about Toady
>> - or was that an irony smiley?
>>
>I point out to people who laugh at me about Neighbours that there are
>lots and lots of people who watch Corrie and Emmerdale and think that it
>is perfectly acceptable, but sneer at Neighbours.
It occurred to me while following the "teenage girl absconds with internet
pen pal" story on radio news while we were away that tabloid journalism is
soap opera.
>I hope Dee finds out about Darcy soon.
Having missed all but two episodes over the last three weeks I am most
disappointed to find she _still_ hasn't done so.
--
Penny
Laughter is the dance of the spirit and the music of the soul.
umra Nicknames & Abbreviations http://www.bigwig.net/umra/nicks.html
Jenny M Benson
<sp...@labyrinth.freeuk.com> writes
>It occurred to me while following the "teenage girl absconds with
>internet pen pal" story on radio news while we were away that tabloid
>journalism is soap opera.
This prompts me to enquire of Umrats whether "we" ever heard the end of
the story of the little boy who went missing in Great Yarmouth a few
weeks ago?
Someone else asked me and I didn't know, but suspected that I would have
known if it had been published, so maybe it was a case of "not a pretty
little girl who can be described as An Angel so we're not interested in
this story any more".
--
Jenny
Michael Parry
<j...@cedarbank81.fsnet.co.uk> writes
>This prompts me to enquire of Umrats whether "we" ever heard the end of
>the story of the little boy who went missing in Great Yarmouth a few
>weeks ago?
No news is bad news it seems:
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/3052042.stm>:
:Police investigating the disappearance of seven-year-old Daniel
:Entwistle have withdrawn their search teams.
:Intensive searches of the river and coastlines around Great Yarmouth
:failed to find any trace of the boy.
<http://www.edp24.co.uk/content/News/story.asp?datetime=12+Jul+2003+13%3
A16&tbrand=EDPOnline&tCategory=NEWS&category=News&brand=EDPOnline&itemid
=NOED12+Jul+2003+13%3A16%3A46%3A487>:
:The father of missing seven-year-old Daniel Entwistle narrowly escaped
:being sent to prison yesterday for turning up at his estranged wife's
:home in the early hours in a drunken state.
--
Michael Parry
M...@mygaff0.demon.co.uk
<j...@cedarbank81.fsnet.co.uk> writes
drowned...sadly
--
Min
So where are all the buffaloes?
Fenny
> It occurred to me while following the "teenage girl absconds with internet
> pen pal" story on radio news while we were away that tabloid journalism is
> soap opera.
>
years that there is probably more truth in the average volume of Beano,
Dandy, Batman or comic of your choice than most tabloid papers. And the
comics tend to be a better read and have fewer pornographic images.
--
Fenny
Fictitious Facts of the Day - from a list by Andrew Burford
but I still wouldn't drink it.
Penny
>Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer ^W^W^W^W uk.media.radio.archers,
>I heard Penny say...
>> It occurred to me while following the "teenage girl absconds with internet
>> pen pal" story on radio news while we were away that tabloid journalism is
>> soap opera.
>>
>You've only just noticed this? I've been firmly of the belief for many
>years that there is probably more truth in the average volume of Beano,
>Dandy, Batman or comic of your choice than most tabloid papers. And the
>comics tend to be a better read and have fewer pornographic images.
I wasn't thinking so much of the fictitious nature of most journalism, I've
been aware of that since the age of about 12 when my ma was "quoted" by the
local paper when she hadn't even spoken to them. It was more a sort of
revelation about celebrity and its appeal to the masses. We will gossip and
speculate here about Susan Carter or Toady Rebecci, safe in the knowledge
that no real people will be harmed. "News" media try to give us the same
sort of insight into real people's lives, presumably so we will view them
in the same way and want to know what happens next. It's just a shame they
feel the need to make up the stuff they don't know.