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childhood inventions

On 14/01/2013 18:00, tony sayer wrote:

Umm ... just around the corner from where our HQ is there is this
rather quaint street.

What do you notice about it;?...

http://goo.gl/maps/SO2rm

Some of the houses have two aerials?

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On 1/14/2013 11:12 AM, Ian wrote:

I remember "Onion Johnny", a vendor who used to cycle round our
Edinburgh estate with onions tied around himself and his bike.

I was told he came all the way from France, but people hoodwink children
all the time, don't they?

We called them "Ingin Johnnies". My Granny's house must have been one of
his first stops of the day - his bicycle was almost invisible under all
the strings of onions.

In my mind I even picture him in a striped matelot shirt and beret.

I don't remember that, but I faintly remember seeing fishwives and their
creels on the trams running down the middle of Princes Street.

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On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:58:29 -0000, "R. Mark Clayton"
wrote:

"Bill" wrote in message
...
In message , Graham.
writes

In 1968 I could receive loads of American high school kids on 27 mc/s
on a Regonda stereogram, with just a few feet of wire as an aerial.
They seemed unaware that they could be heard on this side of the pond.

Foul language that I had never heard from a radio set before, so I had
to keep the volume down.

It's much easier these days, just listen to your local VHF amateur
repeater and you will hear lots of foul language. Probably worse than you
heard on 27.

--
Bill

Radio Piccadilly ~1980

phone in guest: - Keith Joseph - he's an ****hole
James Standege - there is not need for that kind of language; have you got
something sensible to say.
phone in guest: - I am sorry I just got carried away there.
James Stanegge - go ahead then
phone in guest: - Margaret Thatcher; she is just a ****ing ****.
James Stanedge - that's enough of that then...
engineers - station jingle, adverts, call sign etc.

The station was called Piccadilly Radio, but perhaps you were just
lampooning it.

Quite a topical issue, rude words on the wireless.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/t...al-V-poem.html

--
Graham.
%Profound_observation%

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In message , S Viemeister
writes
On 1/14/2013 11:12 AM, Ian wrote:

I remember "Onion Johnny", a vendor who used to cycle round our
Edinburgh estate with onions tied around himself and his bike.

I was told he came all the way from France, but people hoodwink children
all the time, don't they?

We called them "Ingin Johnnies". My Granny's house must have been one
of his first stops of the day - his bicycle was almost invisible under
all the strings of onions.

In my mind I even picture him in a striped matelot shirt and beret.

I don't remember that, but I faintly remember seeing fishwives and
their creels on the trams running down the middle of Princes Street.

I was going to type "Ingin", but decided not to.

I bet you didn''t also live in West Pilton.
--
Ian

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In article , Woody
wrote:
"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
...

The current issue of 'Hi Fi World' features a steam-driven turntable
for playing ye olde-fasioned LPs.

Was that in your column Jim or is it a very early April fool?

Not in my column. I've never written for HFW. I'd probably find it rather
difficult to get them to publish things I'd say. FWIW in the distant past
I've more than once written to them to point out their factual errors. They
dealt with that by ignoring it and continuing to publish mode = polite
euphamism dubious statements /mode. So instead I just sometimes point
out some by other means.

e.g. http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/ddd/Dirty...Delusions.html
and http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/inadither/Page1.html

Alas, HFW continue to publish questionable assertions as if 'fact'. In the
current issue, along with the steam turntable, they have a response to a
letter proudly claiming that MC carts are better than MM because they
produce no Johnson Noise. sigh. Maybe I should write about that
sometime...

However the closest I've got recently has been to write about something
else I was told that I realised was probably wrong, by an 'expert'. Since
that was a private comment, though, I have spared his blushes by not saying
who made the comment to me.

A difficulty here is that magazines don't like criticising one another
directly. It tends to end up with all involved losing out as readers become
annoyed or disillusioned. Better to hope they read more than one mag, and
treat with they read with some skepticism. I just hope people are able to
tell techno******** from reliable explanations, and form their own
opinions.

The 'steam' turntable is, so far as I can tell, a 'style' thing prompted by
the 'cyberpunk' DIY engineering enthusiasm. Bit of fun, I guess. :-)

Slainte,

Jim

--
Please use the address on the audiomisc page if you wish to email me.
Electronics http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scot...o/electron.htm
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Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html

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"Woody" wrote in message
...
"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
...
In article , Steve Terry
wrote:

I remember Steam Lorries, i'll get my zimmer frame

The current issue of 'Hi Fi World' features a steam-driven turntable for
playing ye olde-fasioned LPs.

Was that in your column Jim or is it a very early April fool?

Talking of weird ideas, there was a feature in World Service Click about
converting MP3s to vinyl records using a 3D printer:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p013hdl6 . The quality is dire, but I
suppose someone had to do it.

What is odd is that the modulation is to the depth of the groove rather than
side-to-side as with a normal mono record - though you will get a signal as
the stereo difference.

I think this was to utilise the superior vertical resolution of the printer,
but this wasn't made clear in the programme or the website:
http://www.amandaghassaei.com/3D_printed_record.html
http://www.instructables.com/id/3D-Printed-Record/

--
Max Demian

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On 1/14/2013 9:24 PM, Ian wrote:
writes
On 1/14/2013 11:12 AM, Ian wrote:

I remember "Onion Johnny", a vendor who used to cycle round our
Edinburgh estate with onions tied around himself and his bike.

I was told he came all the way from France, but people hoodwink children
all the time, don't they?

We called them "Ingin Johnnies". My Granny's house must have been one
of his first stops of the day - his bicycle was almost invisible under
all the strings of onions.

In my mind I even picture him in a striped matelot shirt and beret.

I don't remember that, but I faintly remember seeing fishwives and
their creels on the trams running down the middle of Princes Street.

I was going to type "Ingin", but decided not to.

I bet you didn''t also live in West Pilton.

Saughtonhall (E12), on the other side of the burn from the big stadium
at Murrayfield - but it was just a field, when I lived there.