OT - Patrick Moore RIP

In message , Rick writes


"Tim Streater" wrote in message
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In article ,
Martin wrote:

On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:57:41 -0000, Roderick Stewart
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In article , Grimly
Curmudgeon wrote:
I visited the old Edinburgh Observatory once and spotted a plaque on
the wall saying that the re-furbed building had been opened by one
P.Moore. I felt utterly humbled and awed to think I was standing in
the same spot as was once occupied by the world's baggiest suit.

He mentioned once in an off-air studio moment that he'd worn the
same one for 12 years. We found this entirely credible, despite our
inability to dismiss completely the possibility that he slept in it.

Do you remember the cartoon with of him, in PE, with a fly button
fastened to a button hole in his jacket?

Anyone remember him as one of the sketches in a Monty Python episode
of about 1969? As the more and more enthusiastic astronomy presenter
getting more and more excited at the new discovery that the Moon
really is made of ... green cheese. He gets so excited he catches
fire and they have to douse him with a bucket of water.



Remember this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKX5J...t=PL878D9B0B47
49D424&feature=results_video







I remember that well, and I also remember noticing that the aliens seem
to have a very limited vocabulary, and keep repeating themselves. :¬)
--
Ian

On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:48:51 -0000, JohnT wrote:

"Martin" wrote in message
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On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:57:41 -0000, Roderick Stewart
wrote:

In article , Ian wrote:
I'm sure there are a few of us on here who would find it difficult to
erase "Uncle Mac" from our personal history.

He is of course too dead to be charged.

Really? Him as well? I never knew.

We only have the Daily Mail's word for it. It's amazing that they
haven't discovered the relationships between Weed and the Flower Pot
Men, and Mr Mayor and Larry the Lamb.

Wasn't it John Simpson who made the oblique allegation, changing the name to
"Uncle Dick"?
And surely Weed and Flowerpot Men is troilism

Lies! - the evidence was planted.
--
Peter.
The gods will stay away
whilst religions hold sway

On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:59:09 -0000, Roderick Stewart
wrote:

We used to take a great deal of trouble over something we called "colour
matching", with the intention that photography would depict things so that they
reasonably resembled what they would look like in real life. We'd read books
and been to BBC training sessions all about how to line up cameras with this
aim in mind, then spent some time helping more experienced engineers before we
were regarded as competent to do it ourselves. Looking at this crap, I wonder
why we bothered. Pictures as off-colour as these would have had us checking for
a technical fault of some kind. A complete ignoramus could manage better with a
mobile phone, and probably hold the wretched thing steady too.

I'm afraid, Rod, that it's a different world now and we just have to put
up with it. I worked for the BBC as an Engineer for twenty-eight years
(1963-1991) and have given up as it's effect on my blood pressure isn't
worth the effort. I've complained but the anodyne, patronising replies
are worse than that about which I'm complaining.

Technical standards no longer exist.

Sad but true.

--
Alan White
Mozilla Firefox and Forte Agent.
By Loch Long, twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.co.uk/weather

On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:14:11 +0000, PeterC
wrote:

On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:48:51 -0000, JohnT wrote:

"Martin" wrote in message
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On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:57:41 -0000, Roderick Stewart
wrote:

In article , Ian wrote:
I'm sure there are a few of us on here who would find it difficult to
erase "Uncle Mac" from our personal history.

He is of course too dead to be charged.

Really? Him as well? I never knew.

We only have the Daily Mail's word for it. It's amazing that they
haven't discovered the relationships between Weed and the Flower Pot
Men, and Mr Mayor and Larry the Lamb.

Wasn't it John Simpson who made the oblique allegation, changing the name to
"Uncle Dick"?
And surely Weed and Flowerpot Men is troilism

Lies! - the evidence was planted.

groan!

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

On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:34:25 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

My daughter's husband's mother came round here looking all furtive just
after my daughter and her husband married. She had a picture of the
happy couple and the friends and family, you know, a typical wedding
group shot. I was asked to remove one person from the group. This was
the daughter's husband's mother's brother-in-law. Just after the picture
was taken it had come to light (due to an unfortunate chance observation
from the top deck of the bus through the window of Waterstone's
cafeteria) that he had been guilty of serious marital infidelity lasting
many years, and was now persona non grata. In fact he was, as my
daughter's husband's mother put it, 'a slimy little **** what wants his
******** cut off.' Luckily there was no-one standing behind him on the
picture, so I simply had to remove his head and shoulders and extend the
shrubbery a bit. As for the ********, I believe they were also removed.

A few years ago, before digital photography had been invented, I was
at the photo lab I used then and the woman before me in the queue, a
lady of middle years, was asking if they could make a copy of her
daughter's wedding photograph and remove the husband. I assumed that
the once happy couple had since separated.

CD wrote:
The highlight of the month for me on TV, & here's to hoping TSAN carries on
in his memory with his supporting regulars.

Just watched his final show, must say I had a lump in the throat as he
signed off, telling us he'd be back to tell us how to get the best from
your new telescope that you may have got for christmas.

A broadcasting legend.

He was getting a bit doddery.

Roderick Stewart wrote:
In article , Grimly
Curmudgeon wrote:
I visited the old Edinburgh Observatory once and spotted a plaque on
the wall saying that the re-furbed building had been opened by one
P.Moore. I felt utterly humbled and awed to think I was standing in
the same spot as was once occupied by the world's baggiest suit.

He mentioned once in an off-air studio moment that he'd worn the same
one for 12 years. We found this entirely credible, despite our
inability to dismiss completely the possibility that he slept in it.

Well; 'we simply don't know'

--
Mark
Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply.

www.paras.org.uk

On Sun, 9 Dec 2012 23:13:01 +0000, CD wrote:

The highlight of the month for me on TV, & here's to hoping TSAN carries on
in his memory with his supporting regulars.

Agreed.

The most difficult problem for the BBC might be where to broadcast TSAN
from. Could they continue to use his house and garden in Selsey or would
they need to find somewhere else, and if so where?

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

"Peter Duncanson" wrote in message
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The most difficult problem for the BBC might be where to broadcast TSAN
from. Could they continue to use his house and garden in Selsey or would
they need to find somewhere else, and if so where?

Err. A studio, like they used to?

--
Max Demian

Peter Duncanson wrote:
On Sun, 9 Dec 2012 23:13:01 +0000, CD wrote:

The highlight of the month for me on TV, & here's to hoping TSAN carries on
in his memory with his supporting regulars.

Agreed.

The most difficult problem for the BBC might be where to broadcast TSAN
from. Could they continue to use his house and garden in Selsey or would
they need to find somewhere else, and if so where?

I suspect somewhere closer to the programme's production base, which at
present is BBC Birmingham ?


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Mark
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