Jamie's apology

"Vic" wrote in message
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Well, it seems you have been paying attention and actually learned
something from Bill - how to construct an amusing and readable post! This
is a first for you and a triumph for Bill, still able to teach after all
these years............
I'm beginning to think you are secretly quite fond of our Bill!!!!!!!!!

sycophant
noun
-A self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.

-A servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering influential
people.

On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:19:40 +0100, "jamie powell"
wrote:



-A servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering influential
people.


Are you seroiusly suggesting that you are an influential person?

****wit and arsewipe definitely, but influential - I think not
--
Cheers

Peter

"jamie powell" wrote in message
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I forgot to tell Bill about my 2nd year exam results coming through. I'm
sure he's been worried sick in case I'd failed any of them (a
near-instinctive trait left over from his teaching days which 100% did
exist).

Anyway, he'll be relieved to know that I passed all of them with flying
colours.
My lowest exam mark was 81% and my highest was 97%.


Congratulations on your exam results.

Having done well academically, it is time now for you to develop your social
skills.
You must learn that to boast about your successes, and to insult others
about what you perceive to be their weaknesses, is not clever and does not
gain you respect. On the contrary it makes you appear shallow and
self-centered, which is why you have received so many uncomplimentary
responses.

You really must rethink your relationships with others if you wish to be
successful in life as well as in exams.

"RG" wrote in message
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Congratulations on your exam results.

Having done well academically, it is time now for you to develop your
social skills.
You must learn that to boast about your successes, and to insult others
about what you perceive to be their weaknesses, is not clever and does not
gain you respect. On the contrary it makes you appear shallow and
self-centered, which is why you have received so many uncomplimentary
responses.

You really must rethink your relationships with others if you wish to be
successful in life as well as in exams.

As one who has many friends and no social issues whatsoever, Jamie Powell is
always in need of amateur relationship advice from internet messageboards.
We can only hope he takes your advice.
Meanwhile, I've personally written to the Dictionary and asked them to
commission a portrait of you, in oils, haloed in the light of your own
intellect. You are clutching a silver-engraved, self-compiled list of what
you perceive to be other people's weaknesses in your right hand, and a solid
gold computer keyboard in your left; the one on which you've sympathetically
typed out a bounty of indespensible faux-psychiatric advice from the comfort
and security of your armchair. They will use it, in a double-page colour
plate, as their definition of 'altruistic'.

In other news, I find it interesting how "RG" appears whenever "Nemo" has
been shown up for what he is, and always with the same brand of expert
advice. Obviously just a co-incidence though innit.

jamie powell wrote:
"RG" wrote in message
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Congratulations on your exam results.

Having done well academically, it is time now for you to develop your
social skills.
You must learn that to boast about your successes, and to insult others
about what you perceive to be their weaknesses, is not clever and does not
gain you respect. On the contrary it makes you appear shallow and
self-centered, which is why you have received so many uncomplimentary
responses.

You really must rethink your relationships with others if you wish to be
successful in life as well as in exams.

As one who has many friends and no social issues whatsoever, Jamie Powell is
always in need of amateur relationship advice from internet messageboards.
We can only hope he takes your advice.
Meanwhile, I've personally written to the Dictionary and asked them to
commission a portrait of you, in oils, haloed in the light of your own
intellect. You are clutching a silver-engraved, self-compiled list of what
you perceive to be other people's weaknesses in your right hand, and a solid
gold computer keyboard in your left; the one on which you've sympathetically
typed out a bounty of indespensible faux-psychiatric advice from the comfort
and security of your armchair. They will use it, in a double-page colour
plate, as their definition of 'altruistic'.

In other news, I find it interesting how "RG" appears whenever "Nemo" has
been shown up for what he is, and always with the same brand of expert
advice. Obviously just a co-incidence though innit.

Jamie,

Just out of interest...

Are you by any chance related to Chris Barker?

The resemblance is uncanny.

"jamie powell" wrote in message
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Your original story was that you'd found 6 Prima boxes being used as
modulators. When I pointed out that this wasn't possible, you changed your
story and hoped people wouldn't notice.

No I said Pace receivers, the ones shaped like weighing scales. Not Primas.
They came out later.

Bill

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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"jamie powell" wrote in message
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Your original story was that you'd found 6 Prima boxes being used as
modulators. When I pointed out that this wasn't possible, you changed
your story and hoped people wouldn't notice.

No I said Pace receivers, the ones shaped like weighing scales. Not
Primas. They came out later.

Here's the direct quote:
*

"Glenn Millar" wrote in message
o.uk...
Bill Wright wrote:

These 'Pace Prima' receivers where once popular on SMATV installs and
where used to provide Channel 5 to MDU when Five first started because
they where cheap and you could program the default power on channel, ie
005.

Yes, and last year I found six of them in the loft of a private house, all
second hand, all being used as modulators for CCTV.

*
End quote.

"jamie powell" wrote in message
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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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"jamie powell" wrote in message
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Your original story was that you'd found 6 Prima boxes being used as
modulators. When I pointed out that this wasn't possible, you changed
your story and hoped people wouldn't notice.

No I said Pace receivers, the ones shaped like weighing scales. Not
Primas. They came out later.

Here's the direct quote:
*

"Glenn Millar" wrote in message
o.uk...
Bill Wright wrote:

These 'Pace Prima' receivers where once popular on SMATV installs and
where used to provide Channel 5 to MDU when Five first started because
they where cheap and you could program the default power on channel, ie
005.

Yes, and last year I found six of them in the loft of a private house, all
second hand, all being used as modulators for CCTV.

*
End quote.

That is out of context, and you are deliberately ignoring what I said
subsequently. I made it plain that I was talking about the earlier model. It
was the wedge-shaped one, which made it all the more surprising that a pile
of six were in use as modulators.

Anyway, getting away from Jamie and his fixated nitpicking and point
scoring. . .

Some years ago a rather stout gentleman who used to use this newsgroup came
here in a Volvo and I gave him a bootful of these and other receivers. He
had a use for them in France, apparently. I can't remember who he was. Is he
still here, or can anyone remember him?

Bill

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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Some years ago a rather stout gentleman who used to use this newsgroup
came here in a Volvo and I gave him a bootful of these and other
receivers. He had a use for them in France, apparently. I can't remember
who he was. Is he still here, or can anyone remember him?

Have you still got any spare non-knackered analogue receivers left?

"jamie powell" wrote in message
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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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Some years ago a rather stout gentleman who used to use this newsgroup
came here in a Volvo and I gave him a bootful of these and other
receivers. He had a use for them in France, apparently. I can't remember
who he was. Is he still here, or can anyone remember him?

Have you still got any spare non-knackered analogue receivers left?


There's one on the shelf I think. It's one of those weighing scale ones that
I was on about, and when i can be bothered I'll go and get the model number
off it.

Some of the very early receivers were beautiful bits of kit, very upmarket.
It breaks my heart to throw them away but really there's no point in hanging
on. I threw out two NEC receivers and their accompanying positioners a while
back. Also a Chapperal Monteray (I think it was -- not one I sold originally
so not sure) In my backyard is a 1.2m dish with motor and mount, ever such a
nice bit of kit but I've no use for it.

The throw away society! Today I was in an electrical wholesalers and a
customer wanted a part for a shower unit. He was told that spares were not
held since the unit was four years old.

Bill