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"Bill Wright" wrote in message ...
Graham. wrote:

No no no! My poor joke was occasioned by your 'drunken' spelling of 'sure'.
Don't write in. I meant Ken's spelling of course.

Bill.

The funny thing is I very nearly owned up to it!

Do you know anything about semantics Bill?

Oh, that stirs ancient memories! When I was training to be a teacher we had to do 'Linguistics'. The lecturer was a tiny American
gent who used to sit on his desk and swing his legs. He went on and on about the Indo-European theory until I thought my head
would split. I can't remember whether he thought it was true or false. He also had a thing about phonemes, and would make us all
say b-b-b-b-b-b-b and k-k-k-k-k-k for what seemed like hours. He was pally with a Welshman on the staff who taught us Classical
Mythology. I've never, ever, in my chuffing life been so ****ing bored. They would have spoilt another couple, I can tell you.
Some years later I had an OU lecturer who commenced the Geology course with the words, "Now I have to teach you something called
Plate Tectonics. I will teach it, as best as I can, but I must inform you now that the theory is nonsense and within the next ten
years will be totally discredited."

Bill

What amazes me is continental drift in general wasn't a mainstream theory
until the 20th century The world looks like a giant jigsaw FFS any child can see that

Oh and you would have thought that some enterprising ancient Greek would
have discovered that blood circulates centuries before Harvey in 1628.


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Graham. wrote:


What amazes me is continental drift in general wasn't a mainstream theory
until the 20th century The world looks like a giant jigsaw FFS any child can see that

"Sir, why do Africa and America look as if they were once joined?"
"Shut up and get back to your pounds shillings and pence addition!"


Oh and you would have thought that some enterprising ancient Greek would
have discovered that blood circulates centuries before Harvey in 1628.
Everything necessary for photography was available in Shakespeare's time.

Bill

On 13/04/2011 17:18, wrote:

You can see the "actual" switches here (supposedly)...

http://www.itv.com/anglia/sandy-heat...-digital33932/

Better and more detailed BBC East coverage he-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpiI3rDMZ-E

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On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:27:36 +0100, Mark Carver
wrote:

On 13/04/2011 17:18, wrote:

You can see the "actual" switches here (supposedly)...

http://www.itv.com/anglia/sandy-heat...-digital33932/

Better and more detailed BBC East coverage he-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpiI3rDMZ-E


Thanks for that better link, Mark. I'm afraid David's link just went to a
(blank) page that was redirected back to itself. :-(


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On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:25:56 +0100, Johny B Good wrote:

You can see the "actual" switches here (supposedly)...

http://www.itv.com/anglia/sandy-heat...-digital33932/

Better and more detailed BBC East coverage he-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpiI3rDMZ-E

Thanks for that better link, Mark. I'm afraid David's link just went to a
(blank) page that was redirected back to itself. :-(

ITV disappearing up its own arse? There's a novelty...

On Friday, April 15th, 2011 at 12:27:36h +0100, Mark Carver wrote:

Better and more detailed BBC East coverage he-

Except BBC Look East reporter Clive Lewis did not understand
the difference between a transmitter and a mast, and proceeded
to misinform viewers as to the nature of a transmitter.

Now you may say, is it important to distinguish between a
transmitter and a mast?

Well if such a difference is not important, why even
bother doing the on site report at all?

It only show once again, how standards of reporting
and general education and intelligence at the BBC have
declined since the pygmies in grey suits wearing blindfolds
took over the management of the BBC.

J G Miller wrote:

It only show once again, how standards of reporting
and general education and intelligence at the BBC have
declined since the pygmies in grey suits wearing blindfolds
took over the management of the BBC.

You are Alan Towers AICMFP !


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Mark Carver wrote:
J G Miller wrote:

It only show once again, how standards of reporting
and general education and intelligence at the BBC have
declined since the pygmies in grey suits wearing blindfolds
took over the management of the BBC.

You are Alan Towers AICMFP !

No, Alan Towers is dead. Even though Mr Miller's prose style is rather
leaden and sometimes reminiscent of moribundity I don't believe he is
completely dead.

Bill

Bill Wright wrote:
Mark Carver wrote:
J G Miller wrote:

It only show once again, how standards of reporting
and general education and intelligence at the BBC have
declined since the pygmies in grey suits wearing blindfolds
took over the management of the BBC.

You are Alan Towers AICMFP !

No, Alan Towers is dead. Even though Mr Miller's prose style is rather
leaden and sometimes reminiscent of moribundity I don't believe he is
completely dead.

Oh dear, so he is, I'd missed that news:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Towers

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Mark Carver wrote:

No, Alan Towers is dead. Even though Mr Miller's prose style is rather
leaden and sometimes reminiscent of moribundity I don't believe he is
completely dead.

Oh dear, so he is, I'd missed that news:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Towers


Oh! It seems Mr Miller has passed away as well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_G_Miller

Bill