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"Marky P" wrote in message
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I had a Captain Kramen digital watch in the late 70's. He was a
character devised by Kenny Everett. It had a touch sensitive button
for showing date and seconds. Everyone at school thought it was well
cool.

They used to sell Captain Kremmen watches in Woolworths that were just an
ordinary boring digital watch on a colourful card. Once you took the watch
off the card no-one would know it had anything to do with Captain Kremmen.

--
Max Demian

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On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 17:26:58 -0000, "Bill Wright"
wrote:


"Robin Faichney" wrote in message
.. .
Actually, instead of digital vs analogue, we should be talking
discrete versus continuous, here. A traditional clock face is
analogue, but a sweep second hand is continuous, whereas a non-sweep
one (stepping, jerky, you know what I mean) is discrete.
When I was 13 I got a microscope fror Christmas. One fascinating discovery
was that I could see the minuites hand move on my watch.

I wish I had all those minutes back. I've wasted most of them.

Ah, but those minutes you spent watching that minutes hand move: were
they wasted??
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http://www.robinfaichney.org/

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On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 18:32:34 -0000, "Max Demian"
wrote:

"Marky P" wrote in message
.. .

I had a Captain Kramen digital watch in the late 70's. He was a
character devised by Kenny Everett. It had a touch sensitive button
for showing date and seconds. Everyone at school thought it was well
cool.

They used to sell Captain Kremmen watches in Woolworths that were just an
ordinary boring digital watch on a colourful card. Once you took the watch
off the card no-one would know it had anything to do with Captain Kremmen.

So was Kenny like Krusty?
--
http://www.robinfaichney.org/

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Halmyre wrote:

I still have my first Timex LCD watch. One of these days I'll try and power
it up and see if it still works. Meanwhile it comes in handy as a boat
anchor, or for stunning rhinoceroses.

I bought my first LCD watch in 1977, it was a Casio, lasted until 1982. I
bought another Casio LCD and that lasted until 1999, I had to throw it away
because all of its rubber membranes had perished.

Back in 1977 a friend of mine also had an LCD watch, with a tritium backlight.
His father had bought it for him in the US.



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Mark
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Ian wrote:

Round these parts, people seem to be completely au fait with TV
terminology.

There are three types, Sky, Freeview, and Ordinary. ¬)

My wife refers to analogue terrestrial, as 'ordinary TV'.

I confused her the other day, she'd forced me to have a clear out, and I came
across an old analogue satellite box. "What's that ?" she asked. I explained.
"You could sell it on ebay ?". I said that would be pointless, as there are no
[1] analogue satellite channels left in the UK, Sky switched the last of
theirs off in 2001. She suddenly looked very confused. I moved on quickly to
the next piece of junk.

[1] Just how many DTH analogue sat channels are there left ?

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On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 18:32:34 -0000, "Max Demian"
wrote:

"Marky P" wrote in message
.. .

I had a Captain Kramen digital watch in the late 70's. He was a
character devised by Kenny Everett. It had a touch sensitive button
for showing date and seconds. Everyone at school thought it was well
cool.

They used to sell Captain Kremmen watches in Woolworths that were just an
ordinary boring digital watch on a colourful card. Once you took the watch
off the card no-one would know it had anything to do with Captain Kremmen.

Now I think about it, you may be right. The watch itself was just
black with a silver button, no mention of Captain Kramen (or Kremmen)
at all :-(

Marky P.

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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
I've got used to the fact that when a customer says 'analogue' they
probably mean 'terrestrial'.

Bill


But that's reasonable IMHO.
It's when they say terrestrial and mean analogue, that's when they are
confused.

--
Graham

%Profound_observation%

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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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I've got used to the fact that when a customer says 'analogue' they
probably mean 'terrestrial'.

Bill

People (customers aka peasants) really are totally stupid, aren't they?
Mike.

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"Marky P" wrote in message
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On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 18:32:34 -0000, "Max Demian"
wrote:

"Marky P" wrote in message
. ..

I had a Captain Kramen digital watch in the late 70's. He was a
character devised by Kenny Everett. It had a touch sensitive button
for showing date and seconds. Everyone at school thought it was well
cool.

They used to sell Captain Kremmen watches in Woolworths that were just an
ordinary boring digital watch on a colourful card. Once you took the watch
off the card no-one would know it had anything to do with Captain Kremmen.

Now I think about it, you may be right. The watch itself was just
black with a silver button, no mention of Captain Kramen (or Kremmen)
at all :-(

What a rip off. Did you take the card into school, or did your pals take
your word it was Captain Kremmen?

I expect the watch cost a few pence to the distributors.

--
Max Demian

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"Mark Carver" wrote in message
...
Ian wrote:

Round these parts, people seem to be completely au fait with TV
terminology.

There are three types, Sky, Freeview, and Ordinary. ¬)

My wife refers to analogue terrestrial, as 'ordinary TV'.

I used to have a landlady who called ordinary pasteurised milk "cows' milk",
so her note to the milkman might say, "2 cows, 1 stir [sterilised]." I don't
know where she thought the sterilised milk came from.

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Max Demian