Rigger's Diary -- terminology

"I am just changing the output frequency of your satellite receiver to
752MHz so that you don't have Bilsdale ITV in the background since it
uses the same frequency"

This is a VERY GOOD idea.

Bill

Bill wrote:
"I am just changing the output frequency of your satellite receiver to
752MHz so that you don't have Bilsdale ITV in the background since it
uses the same frequency"

This is a VERY GOOD idea.

Indeed, though in my experience non technical types seem to
prefer and grasp the term 'wavelength', I think 'frequency' sounds too
scary for them !

Rather cumbersome though to say "39.89 cms" :-)

JPG wrote:
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 06:42:54 +0000 (UTC), Paul Webster
wrote:


(Bill) wrote:

snip

The trouble is, I'm like Mr Butcher, my dentist. He
always gives a running commentary as he works.

No doubt adds to the confusion ... when you say to your wife that you
are going to the butcher and come back wihtout a tasty joint.


"OK, I'm just going to have to
use the slow drill. Hold tight. It won't hurt a bit." I nod agreement, my mouth
full of scaffolding. He's right, it doesn't hurt a bit. It hurts a lot.

All part of the same plot .. he meant it won't hurt "the" (drill) bit.


The answer to the dentist problem is to wrap your hand firmly around his
testicles, and say "We're not going to hurt each other, are we?"

JPG


Which part of my female dentist should I grab, and would it help to
lessen my pain?

Indeed, though in my experience non technical types seem to
prefer and grasp the term 'wavelength', I think 'frequency' sounds too
scary for them !

Rather cumbersome though to say "39.89 cms" :-)


OK then. "I'm just changing the wavelength (allowing for the velocity factor of
the flylead) from eithteen and a quarter inches to one foot three and a bit."

Bill

Which part of my female dentist should I grab, and would it help to
lessen my pain?


Maybe you should offer some sort of inverse feedback. The more pain she gives
you the less pleasure you give her.

Bill

On 22 Sep 2004 10:08:25 GMT, o (Bill) wrote:

Which part of my female dentist should I grab, and would it help to
lessen my pain?


Maybe you should offer some sort of inverse feedback. The more pain she gives
you the less pleasure you give her.


Aargh! I'm not going to be able to look my (very sexy) dentist in the
eye again ;-))

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OK then. "I'm just changing the wavelength (allowing for the velocity
factor of
the flylead) from eithteen and a quarter inches to one foot three and a
bit."

But then you'd be dragged off by the measurement police for daring to use
imperial and not metric units.

DB wrote:
OK then. "I'm just changing the wavelength (allowing for the velocity factor of
the flylead) from eithteen and a quarter inches to one foot three and a bit."

But then you'd be dragged off by the measurement police for daring to use
imperial and not metric units.

My father used to refer to BBC Droitwich as "about a mile LW" rather
than 1500 metres.

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:46:48 +0100, Mike Henry
wrote:


In the early days we used the word 'programme' (Goddammit this Bill Gates
infested machine has just autocorrected to 'program' and it's set for UK
English!) - as in 'Third Programme' and 'Light Programme'. How nice it would be
if we had retained the word for television use. Apart from anything else, it
would have familiarised people with the UK spelling, which seems to be on the
way out. And it's rather nice, is 'programme'. It suggests that a sequence of
entertainments has been prepared, by humans, with their own hands, using care
and skill.

Programme in this sense to mean "schedule"/"line-up" ? So if you tune to
the Light Programme [station] on your wireless you will get a schedule
of programmes which is Light. What did they call individual broadcasts
on that station - they wouldn't have been programmes as well?

Thaose were almost prehistoric times - however, I seem to remember that the
individual broadcasts were simply known by their names. Recently I came
across a recording of a historic news programme (1940s) on the Home Service
(now Radio 4). It was introduced as "Here is a broadcast of news".

--
Peter Duncanson
UK

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:34:30 +0100, DB wrote:

OK then. "I'm just changing the wavelength (allowing for the velocity
factor of
the flylead) from eithteen and a quarter inches to one foot three and a
bit."

But then you'd be dragged off by the measurement police for daring to use
imperial and not metric units.

Except he is not selling anything based on those measurements so can use
whatever he wishes.

JAB.

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Northumberland, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 1661-832195