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In message , Basil Jet
writes:
On 2010\11\21 16:18, Bob Eager wrote:
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:23:27 +0000, Graeme wrote:

In
wrote:
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BBC also, in various fields stood for: British Bacon Company (of
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http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&t=...73,-0.230742&p
anoid=x3GI2WA5fsJmKT02atTUEQ&cbp=12,281.81,,2,-8.5&ll=51.567504,-0.23048
2&spn=0.001944,0.004823&z=18

Methinks they probably tacked on the "British" to commercialise, though
- their website being only www.bathcentre.com. (If they were really keen
on their Britishness, they'd at least have been .co.uk, if not put the
British into it.)
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God must love the common man; He made so many of them.

J G Miller wrote:
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 01:27:04 +0000, Bill Wright wrote:

There's nothing I like less but I did it.

Is my recollection correct that on the other hand you take great
satisfaction in killing cats?
Only in jest. I don't like cats at all, but they seem to like me.

http://www.wrightsaerials.tv/annexe/...-no-cats.shtml

http://www.wrightsaerials.tv/annexe/the-nurses.shtml

Bill

In article , says...

On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 01:27:04 +0000, Bill Wright wrote:

There's nothing I like less but I did it.

Is my recollection correct that on the other hand you take great
satisfaction in killing cats?

Now, what a coincidence!

I often read out some of Bill's humourous posts to my wife.

A couple of days ago, she forwarded this post to me:

https://groups.google.com/group/uk.m...ad/61926bb1a35
a8d88/130e785d49beabb6?hl=en&rnum=81&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fuk .media.radio.archers%
2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2F61926bb1a35a8d88%3Fhl%3Den %26#doc_130e785d49beabb6

Wow! 240 characters ...!

I think you'd better use this: http://tinyurl.com/2aq7nvq

which, I think, will be a copy of the post you have in mind ...

I think you ought to read it again and see if you still draw the same conclusion ...

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Terry

In article o.uk,
says...

On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 22:45:09 +0000, Geoff Berrow wrote:

Talking of smells, does anyone remember the delicious smell of radio
and television shops in the 50s and 60s?

What was that, hot valves?

Hot bakelite, wax covered capacitors, dust singeing gently on the
valves.

I rember a radio that turned up in our workshop in the 60s that was made in eastern
europe somewhere - Poland? Czechoslovakia (as it was then)? I can't remember ...

Anyway, this set had an unusual smell - at least, it was unusual to me, but when two of
my older colleagues caught a whiff they instantly recognised it as the smell of Luftwaffe
aircraft! (They'd both been schoolboys during the war and made a beeline for any Jerry
plane that got shot down ...)

We assumed it was the anodised chassis that was the source - it had a distinct light
yellow appearance to it.

--

Terry

On Sunday, November 21st, 2010 at 17:33:06h +0000, Terry Casey wrote:

which, I think, will be a copy of the post you have in mind ...

It was a more recent posting in "Switch Off At The Socket"
which was the basis of my question --

QUOTE

On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:02 +0100,
Bill Wright wrote: I wanted to kill the cat.

UNQUOTE

In message , at 16:26:23 on
Sun, 21 Nov 2010, Basil Jet remarked:
"BBC" was the Registered Trademark (in the electrical sales field) of
"Brown, Boverie et Cie" - a Swiss based manufacturer.

BBC also, in various fields stood for: British Bacon Company (of
Swindon), Barnes Borough Council, Borough of Brentford& Chiswick,
Barking Brassware Company - and probably many others.

Bush Bedding Centre - in Shepherds Bush market, overlooked by Lime Grove
Studios.

Bursledon Brick Company, I've one of their bricks, stamped BBC,
somewhere.

Boston Beer Company, Boston Borough Council, Ballet British Columbia,
Bergen Brunswick Corporation, Berkeley Biodiesel Collective, Balham Bowls
Club, Belper Baptist Church, Bournemouth Borough Council.,.. etc.

You appear to have omitted: the Broken Biscuit Corporation (an insider's
nickname).
--
Roland Perry

J G Miller wrote:
On Sunday, November 21st, 2010 at 17:33:06h +0000, Terry Casey wrote:

which, I think, will be a copy of the post you have in mind ...

It was a more recent posting in "Switch Off At The Socket"
which was the basis of my question --

QUOTE

On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:02 +0100,
Bill Wright wrote: I wanted to kill the cat.

UNQUOTE
Yes, but luckily my basic morality prevented this.

Changing the subject a bit, the recent discussion about fluorescent
lights (I think it was here) included my school memory of watching a
teacher I hated poke the light to make it come on, and me actually
praying that she would be killed. I'd be about eight I should think. Has
anyone else ever really wished that someone would die, or am I a psychopath?

Bill

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

(Sorry for leaping to your defence Bill, I know you're quite capable.)

All help gratefully received.

Bill

In message
Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 16:26:23 on
Sun, 21 Nov 2010, Basil Jet remarked:
"BBC" was the Registered Trademark (in the electrical sales field) of
"Brown, Boverie et Cie" - a Swiss based manufacturer.

BBC also, in various fields stood for: British Bacon Company (of
Swindon), Barnes Borough Council, Borough of Brentford& Chiswick,
Barking Brassware Company - and probably many others.

Bush Bedding Centre - in Shepherds Bush market, overlooked by Lime Grove
Studios.

Bursledon Brick Company, I've one of their bricks, stamped BBC,
somewhere.

Boston Beer Company, Boston Borough Council, Ballet British Columbia,
Bergen Brunswick Corporation, Berkeley Biodiesel Collective, Balham Bowls
Club, Belper Baptist Church, Bournemouth Borough Council.,.. etc.

You appear to have omitted: the Broken Biscuit Corporation (an insider's
nickname).

a pedant speaks

Broken Biscuit Company, as an ex-insider.

/pedant

--
Graeme Wall

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Transport Miscellany at www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail
Photo galleries at http://graeme-wall.fotopic.net/

On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:54:41 +0000, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 16:26:23 on
Sun, 21 Nov 2010, Basil Jet remarked:
"BBC" was the Registered Trademark (in the electrical sales field)
of "Brown, Boverie et Cie" - a Swiss based manufacturer.

BBC also, in various fields stood for: British Bacon Company (of
Swindon), Barnes Borough Council, Borough of Brentford& Chiswick,
Barking Brassware Company - and probably many others.

Bush Bedding Centre - in Shepherds Bush market, overlooked by Lime
Grove Studios.

Bursledon Brick Company, I've one of their bricks, stamped BBC,
somewhere.

Boston Beer Company, Boston Borough Council, Ballet British Columbia,
Bergen Brunswick Corporation, Berkeley Biodiesel Collective, Balham
Bowls Club, Belper Baptist Church, Bournemouth Borough Council.,..
etc.

You appear to have omitted: the Broken Biscuit Corporation (an insider's
nickname).

(I had heard that one but it didn't come to mind...)

I was just being sad and adding a few for fun! Rather passed by an
earlier poster..



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