Wikipedia?

In article b83dc82a-22e7-4e18-bc91-
, Dr. HotSalt wrote:
My stoopit video player thingie won't frame by frame.

Fist, or forearm?

Warranty, or big hammer,

depending on availability & annoyance factor.

Rod.
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Ha!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_La's

"The remainder of the 1991 concerts were performed with
James Joyce on bass"

And Adolf Hitler on vibes, no doubt.

;-)
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Angus Rodgers

"Angus Rodgers" wrote in message
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Ha!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_La's

"The remainder of the 1991 concerts were performed with
James Joyce on bass"

And Adolf Hitler on vibes, no doubt.


Lord Snooty and his pals, tap-dancing!
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Gordon Davie
Edinburgh, Scotland

"Slipped the surly bonds of Earth...to touch the face of God."

Angus Rodgers wrote:
Ha!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_La's

"The remainder of the 1991 concerts were performed with
James Joyce on bass"

And Adolf Hitler on vibes, no doubt.

;-)
Bonzo Dog?

Bill

On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 15:55:23 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

Angus Rodgers wrote:
Ha!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_La's

"The remainder of the 1991 concerts were performed with
James Joyce on bass"

And Adolf Hitler on vibes, no doubt.

;-)
Bonzo Dog?

No thanks, I'm trying to give them up.
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Angus Rodgers

On 25/11/2010 15:55, Bill Wright wrote:
Angus Rodgers wrote:
Ha!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_La's

"The remainder of the 1991 concerts were performed with
James Joyce on bass"

And Adolf Hitler on vibes, no doubt.

;-)
Bonzo Dog?

My brother has a dog called Bonzo as it happens.

"Brian Gregory [UK]" wrote in message ...
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Clive George wrote:
On 17/11/2010 18:05, Andy Dingley wrote:
On Nov 17, 4:26 pm, Roland wrote:

That's my experience too. And the website is very biassed towards
published sources, even when they are wrong! Apparently, being there
when it happened, doesn't count.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yagi-Uda_antenna

There's a diagram showing inter-element spacing for a yagi as 10% of wavelength, but the text says it's usually 25% of
wavelength. As we all know these bald statements are both misleading. There's also a picture intended to illustrate the yagi
aerial type. Trouble is the aerial has been assembled incorrectly and the elements are in the wrong position.

To me these errors mean that no-one who actually knows anything about the subject has ever edited the page.

Actually, the item has a slight smell of radio amateur about it.

That's a bit cheeky. Some radio amateurs are highly knowledable people while others aren't. Bit like aerial riggers really.

I blame it on the multi-choice RAE. Now in my day you had to actually answer the questions
and draw your own diagrams.

Oh, and you had to be proposed by an existing member in order to join the RSGB,
Just like the Masons!

From what I've heard, nowadays getting your ticket is more like earning a Boy Scouts badge.

--
Graham.

%Profound_observation%

On 25/11/2010 10:13, David Kennedy wrote:

JNugent wrote:
On 24/11/2010 18:16, David Kennedy wrote:
JNugent wrote:

One I recall was in Manchester Street, Liverpool (adjacent to the Mersey
Tunnel entrance and formerly linking the Old Haymarket with Dale
Street). A chimney stack was painted with a huge sign proclaiming that
this was the premises of Frank Hessy (musical instrument retailer), who
had moved from there to Stanley Street back in the early fifties. Of
course, now the shop is completely out of business.

Good shop though. Better than Rushworths.

That depends very much on when the comparison is made.

Late 60s early [very] 70s

I'd have said it was the other way round just then - when the late Bob Hobbs
was in charge at R&D's and just after he left (in 1971, IIRC).

But later, it swapped back again - in the later seventies, Hessy's was the
more go-ahead dealer.

JNugent wrote:

But later, it swapped back again - in the later seventies, Hessy's was
the more go-ahead dealer.

We usually found we could get a better deal from Hessy.

--
David Kennedy

http://www.anindianinexile.com

On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:00:59 +0000, Peter Duncanson
wrote:

On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:19:29 +0000 (GMT), Jim Lesurf
wrote:


And anyone know what you get when you divide a loss of 6 billion pounds
in tax by the UK population? What a generous bunch we are to be sure! :-)

It could be called self-generosity.

Snippet from the FT:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/61ea26f8-f...#axzz1674bir9A

Ireland’s 4.5m people accounted for three times as many exports from
the UK as China in 2009 and more than the combined exports to the
Bric countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China.
....
Britain's exposure to Ireland arises from direct trade links,
financial sector assets and government liabilities. Were Ireland to
suffer a huge drop in output, UK exports to the country, worth a
little under 2 per cent of national income, would fall, damaging
Britain’s hopes of an export-led recovery from recession.

The UK's Gross National Income in 2009 was 1,471 billion pounds.

2% of that is 29.42 billion so 6 billion seems a reasonable "investment"
to protect that amount of trade. It is a loss of 6 billion to the UK
wallet but without it the loss could be much greater.

Another point is that a serious failure of the Irish economy would lead
to considerable immigration of jobseekers from Ireland to Britain.

A belated thought.

This "generosity" to the Irish Republic comes in the form of a loan with
a rate of interest that is beneficial to us the lenders.

--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)