Monoclinic

The Kinks.... How about Golden Earring? They were formed in 1961 and the last time they changed their line up was in 1970. Or, for serious rock fans, The Beverly Sisters released their first record in 1951 and they're still going with the original line up. The original 1968/9 incarnation of Mott the Hoople (Hunter, Watts, Buffin, Ralphs and Allen) has reformed for a residency at the Hammersmith Apollo later this year. Looks like we forgot about Peter, Paul and Mary - they were together for nearly 50 years. Yesterday it may have been 1-0 DDT but today like a dodgy second goal from the Arsenal she equalises with PPAM.

French gameshows, I am getting quite into them. The cheesier the better. Some of the contestants or audience in some of the ones I've seen seem to be on day release. Although this one is apart, I genuinely like it and not for any strange freakwatch. Perhaps I just haven't seen it enough times to find the tone deaf loony wannabies. NB: Us top posters for 101 are also the top posters for here, which I think means we're not whinging poms really!

He (I think) was on The One Show (I think) some time this week, I remember flicking on the TV and caught the very very end of the piece. They were in Exeter cathedral and I'm afraid that's about all I can say. For those more curious try looking it up on iplayer, it was definitely BBC1 as barring CNN it's the only English channel I can get. It was a feature on Raphael Ravenscroft, the saxophonist on Baker Street, there was no mention of our missing hero's whereabouts. Ok, I'm sorry for not paying attention keep up the good work.

He (I think) was on The One Show (I think) some time this week, I remember flicking on the TV and caught the very very end of the piece. They were in Exeter cathedral and I'm afraid that's about all I can say (they mentioned Baker Street at least). For those more curious try looking it up on iplayer, it was definitely BBC1 as barring CNN it's the only English channel I can get.

I can't buy a bottle of wine from the supermarket (nor anything else drinkable, alcoholic or not, in a glass bottle) until 8 am monday morning. In fact no shop in town is allowed to sell glass bottles until our street festival is over. Apparently it is a law, so glad to see the government have confidence on its population. Most beer comes in glass bottles, except those cans drunk by tramps for breakfast. What a way to force people to buy the overpriced alcohol on the street. Even with this law it's not as if there is someone policing the crowd that come from out of town. The festival's not a patch on the likes of Glastonbury however it is free and you do get to laugh at the French cover versions of the classics.

Honestly MC, your post at 1.07 is so-o-o-o-o 1.06. I wasn't about to wet myself by coming first, I went to the effort of providing a link

Another day another BBC obit

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I think that headmaster's a champion. "The school now plans to buy pigs to use them to make sausages." Brilliant. I wouldn't want to be a pedant Juan Carlos but I think you'll find that unless Andrea Charman is a JLC, it's headmistress. Otherwise I agree, she is a champion. Maybe during their French classes they could try shoving a funnel down the ducks neck to force feed them and produce some foie gras, or for religious studies call up the local imam to sacrifice the goat. If they go to sea world on a school trip I hope they remember to take on board the geography lessons about Norwegian and Japanese hunting traditions. Have I gone too far? Someone pass my jacket.

You could be right, pre-computers I used to read a lot (I could read all day given the opportunity and a good book). Now I find that after a few pages I can't keep my eyes open, and doze off. Might be the comfiness of the sofa though. I was told that in fact computers are in fact extremely bad for our eyes as the focal point is neither near nor far and thus points them under a great deal of strain. I'd hazard a guess that the true effects of computers won't be seen until those who have lived with Windows since birth grow up. At least when I was 5 we had to wait about 30 minutes for a game to load from a cassette and the school BBCs were black with white text... ah guaranteed everytime we'd play Granny's Garden someone whould have first typed in something to BASIC 10 RUN 20 COLOUR 8 30 PRINT "MRS JONES SMELLS OF POO" 40 GOTO 30 And then that would be it in flashing cyan and magenta the teacher or whichever misfortunate would be dissed in the only way a 7 year old knows.

I have to admit I don't re-read and there is one simple explanation for that, there are only 24 hours in the day and so many books that I want and most likely will never get around to read. IMHO one major factor in why we read less these days is because the 9-5 job is less common. I am sure a lot of you out there would be in the same position as me in that you work a lot more than your "contractual" hours, whether at work or home. As long as you are interested in your job you don't resent it either, well I don't. Couple this with the enormous amount of computer use required in many modern jobs, we just don't have the eyes for reading for hours on end and it'll be a while before evolution catches us up.

Or you could open the bonnet of a car and ask him/her to point out the various working parts. And for this you'd have to assume a man would be capable of identifying his crankshaft from his fuel injector, where exactly to apply lubricant or what roll his big end plays in the suck, squeeze, bang, blow processes of a 4 stroke engine? I was thinking about a Wankel engine, but......... Perhaps the Germans have a sense of humour after all; I see your Wankel and raise you a Fuckel. Just today I happened to stumble upon the plant pathogen Botryotinia fuckeliana named after a German botonist called Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel. Unfortunately for the finely named fellow fetishist, he is dead.

Or you could open the bonnet of a car and ask him/her to point out the various working parts. And for this you'd have to assume a man would be capable of identifying his crankshaft from his fuel injector, where exactly to apply lubricant or what roll his big end plays in the suck, squeeze, bang, blow processes of a 4 stroke engine?

OK, if you say so. So what does anyone think? How the hell did he predict those numbers? Depends how live it actually was... A-ha, now I understand not having C4. I'd just seen a facebook comment, a friend was highly suspicious that his hand seemed to be permanently attached to his head (speaker watch?). I myself am personally suspicious of anyone who can't spell the name Darren. Perhaps he is a dyslexic?

Can I put my vote in for next year's 'significant' second? 2 minutes and 1 second past 1 o'clock in the morning on the 11th of October 2010? I'll let you work out why. I must however point out that these 'significancies' happen 24 times in the space of 24 hours and if we were to cross the dateline going eastwards we could experience them again! EDIT: I've not quite taken off my anorak, I was thinking how this would be lost on the likes of BC Alum (not CA, she's lived over in Europe and thus exempted) with his American system. Our system of ascending order is clearly the most logical (in the pharma world you actually have to write JAN etc. overcoming the discrepancy) so should we be applying this to our significant second of the (arbitrary) millenia quest? Thus should we first consider the seconds then the minutes then the hours before getting into the whole date shennanigans?

Seconds to go! All gone! But what a moment. Bugger, misssed it. but what about nine minutes past eight pm, on the 20th September? 20:09 20-09-2009 Let us not forget that it will be 09:09:09 09.09.09 tomorrow morning. It hardly compares with the once in a millennia spectacular that occurred last month, but we'll all be dead by the time it happens again....Although actually, thinking about it, the same argument could be applied to every second that passes, but even so, tomorrow morning there will be a significant second. Edit - Thinking about it even more, I'd like to challenge Godot's claim that 12.34.56 07.08.09 can't happen again for another 1000 years, as it will happen again in 2109. This means that Rotten Ali's above mentioned moment in time is the most significant second and our two offerings are merely B List by comparison. Another edit - Continuing to think about it - straining my brain in the process - I don't think RA's selection is valid in the sense that with the date and time displayed like that, then no date could ever be repeated. But then again, wouldn't the other two mentioned be also unique if they weren't abbreviated? Does this mean that there isn't any such thing as a signficant second (not including the description of a spouse or partner)? Massively confused now and coming up with more questions than answers . I hope Monoclinic reads this, she'll be able to help. Man arbitrarily set time some 'time' ago to a fixed point in 'time' that was not the starting point of the universe. The only thing significant about tomorrow is that we shall be getting a day older. Some of us become a year older, by my not so arbitrary date of birth. DDT I believe mental confusion is a symptom of metal poisoning, that tractor might be starting to take its toll. Do we need to alert Peter Falk of a potential soul mate?

Happy birthday Lady G!

It is not a clearly definable term, multifaceted if you like though essentially you are either a nobber or you are not. It is thus subjective. In terms of USAians and, of course my own opinions, the following may be classed as 'nobber': George W. Bush Tom Cruise Paris Hilton (ironically nobbing is her specialist subject) Fred Phelps Michael Jackson (dead nobber) Britney Spears O. J. Simpson David Blaine The Hoff You get the idea. Completeness comes with the degree of nobbingness endured by the general public through the usual media outlets. So, a nobber is a stupid scientologist who's a sexy hate monger with multiple plastic surgeries who goes around without panties and is a violent running back with a talent for illusions and an alcohol problem who wears stupid purple flares. Now I get it. You missed a bit. Godot in nobber shocker!

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It is not a clearly definable term, multifaceted if you like though essentially you are either a nobber or you are not. It is thus subjective. In terms of USAians and, of course my own opinions, the following may be classed as 'nobber': George W. Bush Tom Cruise Paris Hilton (ironically nobbing is her specialist subject) Fred Phelps Michael Jackson (dead nobber) Britney Spears O. J. Simpson David Blaine The Hoff You get the idea. Completeness comes with the degree of nobbingness endured by the general public through the usual media outlets.

If you hadn't slipped the Baroness in we could have all hoped for a significant Simon Cowell fancier death, Nicki Chapman. Who I think finds herself in the annoying camp, though on a scale of 1 to Katona to be fair she probably falls somewhere near the bottom.

Personalised spam, whatever next. I was forwarded this by my current boss, they didn't even bother to email me directly even though my boss has nothing to do with where I studied nor has he ever seen the work in question: Dear *************, I am writing on behalf of the international academic publisher, VDM Publishing House Ltd. In the course of a research at the Library of The University of *********, we came across a reference to your thesis on "*****************************". As we would like to make your work available to a larger audience, I am wondering if you may be interested in publishing your thesis in the form of a printed book. Your reply including an e-mail address to which I can send an e-mail with further information in an attachment will be greatly appreciated. I am looking forward to hearing from you. Sincerely yours, Best Regards, ************** Acquisition Editor VDM Publishing House Ltd. 17, Meldrum Str. | Beau-Bassin | Mauritius Tel / Fax: +230 467-5601 s.fabre@vdm-publishing-house.com | www.vdm-publishing.com Business Registration No.: C07072290 Board of Directors: Benoit Novel, Saleem Choyote If I get to hand deliver it that wouldn't be so bad but you'd be a misguided fool to think that anyone would ever ask for a copy to be printed. Have they not heard of the British library's useless collection of microfiched PhDs?

Here's one for Vaagie and BC Alan: La Meurte Loca by Christian Poveda And yes, I know this isn't the right thread but there are far too many to waste time looking, can't we combine all the relevant things in one place? It's ridiculous but if you post in the dead thread you get lambasted because there is already a death by ingrowing toenail thread. [end of p'tit rant]

What do you call an angry buccaneer? Why is Father Christmas like a pirate? Where do pirates store their sportswear? How is a pirate flag like a West Coast baseball player? What do you get when you cross a pirate swordsman with a pumpkin? Where does a pirate go to the toilet? Why did the pirate give his ship an extra coat of paint? Why couldn't the young pirate get in to the pirate movie?

Perhaps we need to introduce an any one Kennedy rule to these death listy pool things and the mods carve its complementary thread from the bollocks here. Quite an extensive list (probably). There's even a Dutchy for Vaagie at the end there.