Can I BAOU in hoping that Rooorie's mention of the gee-gees was an omen 
of the resurgence of the half-horse that B&S once invested in together? 
I'd make that an OP, only I suspect the SW's have actually forgotten all 
about it.

-- 
Kate B

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want to reply personally

On 19 Jun, 19:23, Kate Brown  wrote:
> Can I BAOU in hoping that Rooorie's mention of the gee-gees was an omen
> of the resurgence of the half-horse that B&S once invested in together?
> I'd make that an OP, only I suspect the SW's have actually forgotten all
> about it.
No. We reminded them a few weeks back.
"Mummy and Daddy have a horse. Do you and Daddy have one as well?"

Kate Brown wrote:
> Can I BAOU in hoping that Rooorie's mention of the gee-gees was an omen 
> of the resurgence of the half-horse that B&S once invested in together? 
> I'd make that an OP, only I suspect the SW's have actually forgotten all 
> about it.
> 
Of course, you are NAOU :-) Although I took it as a signal that the SW's 
might actually have remembered the half-horse :-)

-- 
Tout de bonbon,
Anne, Seriously, Traditionally Built Gumrat

Gumrat  writes:
>Kate Brown wrote:
>> Can I BAOU in hoping that Rooorie's mention of the gee-gees was an omen 
>> of the resurgence of the half-horse that B&S once invested in together? 
>> I'd make that an OP, only I suspect the SW's have actually forgotten all 
>> about it.
> 
>Of course, you are NAOU :-) Although I took it as a signal that the SW's 
>might actually have remembered the half-horse :-)

i'm worried about half-horses.  don't they fall over?

(of course, i didn't hear the episode, so i've no idea _which_
thursday this might be.)
-- 
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge

Robin Fairbairns wrote:
>  Gumrat  writes:
>> Kate Brown wrote:
>>> Can I BAOU in hoping that Rooorie's mention of the gee-gees was an omen 
>>> of the resurgence of the half-horse that B&S once invested in together? 
>>> I'd make that an OP, only I suspect the SW's have actually forgotten all 
>>> about it.
>> Of course, you are NAOU :-) Although I took it as a signal that the SW's 
>> might actually have remembered the half-horse :-)
> 
> i'm worried about half-horses.  don't they fall over?
> 
Not if they're careful. You manage OK on two legs most of the time, 
don't you?
-- 
Marjorie

To reply, replace dontusethisaddress with marje

On Jun 19, 8:23 pm, Kate Brown  wrote:
> Can I BAOU in hoping that Rooorie's mention of the gee-gees was an omen
> of the resurgence of the half-horse that B&S once invested in together?

Was it named "Eric"?

In message 
, 
Ralph B  writes
>On Jun 19, 8:23 pm, Kate Brown  wrote:
>> Can I BAOU in hoping that Rooorie's mention of the gee-gees was an omen
>> of the resurgence of the half-horse that B&S once invested in together?
>
>Was it named "Eric"?

No: that was Eric the Boar.  We haven't heard about him for a very long 
time.  He can't surely be providing Tom with piggies still.

Sincerely Chris
-- 
Chris McMillan
http://www.chinavision.org.uk/
http://www.oneplusone.org.cn

chris mcmillan wrote:
> In message 
> , 
> Ralph B  writes
>> On Jun 19, 8:23 pm, Kate Brown  wrote:
>>> Can I BAOU in hoping that Rooorie's mention of the gee-gees was an omen
>>> of the resurgence of the half-horse that B&S once invested in together?
>>
>> Was it named "Eric"?
> 
> No: that was Eric the Boar.  We haven't heard about him for a very long 
> time.  He can't surely be providing Tom with piggies still.

<cough> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_the_Half-a-Bee </cough> ;o))

Kimbo xx
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Robin Fairbairns wrote...
> Gumrat  writes:
>>Kate Brown wrote:
>>> Can I BAOU in hoping that Rooorie's mention of the gee-gees was an omen
>>> of the resurgence of the half-horse that B&S once invested in together?
>>> I'd make that an OP, only I suspect the SW's have actually forgotten all
>>> about it.
>>
>>Of course, you are NAOU :-) Although I took it as a signal that the SW's
>>might actually have remembered the half-horse :-)
>
>i'm worried about half-horses.  don't they fall over?
>
Depends whether it's the top half or the bottom half.
-- 
Martin

On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:42:18 +0100, Martin Clark 
wrote:

>Robin Fairbairns wrote...
>> Gumrat  writes:
>>>Kate Brown wrote:
>>>> Can I BAOU in hoping that Rooorie's mention of the gee-gees was an omen
>>>> of the resurgence of the half-horse that B&S once invested in together?
>>>> I'd make that an OP, only I suspect the SW's have actually forgotten all
>>>> about it.
>>>
>>>Of course, you are NAOU :-) Although I took it as a signal that the SW's
>>>might actually have remembered the half-horse :-)
>>
>>i'm worried about half-horses.  don't they fall over?
>>
>Depends whether it's the top half or the bottom half.

Front half or back half, shirley?

-- 
Jo

Jo Lonergan wrote...
>On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:42:18 +0100, Martin Clark 
>wrote:
>>Robin Fairbairns wrote...
>>> Gumrat  writes:
>>>>Of course, you are NAOU :-) Although I took it as a signal that the SW's
>>>>might actually have remembered the half-horse :-)
>>>
>>>i'm worried about half-horses.  don't they fall over?
>>>
>>Depends whether it's the top half or the bottom half.
>
>Front half or back half, shirley?
>
That would be silly!
-- 
Martin

>>>>Of course, you are NAOU :-) Although I took it as a signal 
>>>>that the SW's
>>>>might actually have remembered the half-horse :-)
>>>
>>>i'm worried about half-horses.  don't they fall over?
>>>
>>Depends whether it's the top half or the bottom half.
>
> Front half or back half, shirley?

Nah. Left half or right half. (Somebody had to say it)

Anne B

In message , Anne Burgess 
 writes
>>>>i'm worried about half-horses.  don't they fall over?
>>>>
>>>Depends whether it's the top half or the bottom half.
>>
>> Front half or back half, shirley?
>
>Nah. Left half or right half. (Somebody had to say it)

Somebody *should* have said "near half or off half"!
-- 
Jenny
"I always like to have the morning well-aired before I get up."
(Beau Brummel, 1778-1840)

In message , Kim Andrews 
 writes
>chris mcmillan wrote:
>> In message 
>>, 
>>Ralph B  writes
>>> On Jun 19, 8:23 pm, Kate Brown  wrote:
>>>> Can I BAOU in hoping that Rooorie's mention of the gee-gees was an omen
>>>> of the resurgence of the half-horse that B&S once invested in together?
>>>
>>> Was it named "Eric"?
>>  No: that was Eric the Boar.  We haven't heard about him for a very 
>>long  time.  He can't surely be providing Tom with piggies still.
>
><cough> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_the_Half-a-Bee </cough> ;o))
>
The only bit of that I understand are the words Monty Python.  In other 
words ISIHAC.

Sincerely Chris
-- 
Chris McMillan
http://www.chinavision.org.uk/
http://www.oneplusone.org.cn

chris mcmillan wrote...
> writes
>>chris mcmillan wrote:
>>>Ralph B  writes
>>>> On Jun 19, 8:23 pm, Kate Brown  wrote:
>>>>> Can I BAOU in hoping that Rooorie's mention of the gee-gees was an omen
>>>>> of the resurgence of the half-horse that B&S once invested in together?
>>>>
>>>> Was it named "Eric"?
>>>  No: that was Eric the Boar.  We haven't heard about him for a very 
>>>long time.  He can't surely be providing Tom with piggies still.
>>
>><cough> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_the_Half-a-Bee </cough> ;o))
>>
>The only bit of that I understand are the words Monty Python.  In other 
>words ISIHAC.
>
Kate's suggestion that the half-horse might be called Eric was a 
reference to Monty Python's "Eric the half-a-bee".

Who's Eric the Boar?
-- 
Martin

Anne Burgess wrote:
>>>>> Of course, you are NAOU :-) Although I took it as a signal
>>>>> that the SW's
>>>>> might actually have remembered the half-horse :-)
>>>>
>>>> i'm worried about half-horses.  don't they fall over?
>>>>
>>> Depends whether it's the top half or the bottom half.
>>
>> Front half or back half, shirley?
>
> Nah. Left half or right half. (Somebody had to say it)
>
> Anne B

I'd say that a left half has a better chance of balancing than a back half.

-- 

CaroleT

In message <jSf6AlEfhpYIFwva@chris.mcmillan>, chris mcmillan 
 writes
[]
>><cough> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_the_Half-a-Bee </cough> ;o))
>>
>The only bit of that I understand are the words Monty Python.  In other 
>words ISIHAC.
>
>Sincerely Chris

Don't knock it; although (like many such things) it is over-praised by 
its fans, the Pythons did have elements of surrealism, that have indeed 
enriched our culture. Though not one of their best, Eric the half a bee 
(which was a few words of, sort of, philosophy and wordplay, followed by 
a song) has its place, and certainly illustrates an aspect of their 
nature.

(Oh dear - I didn't really mean to sound like whoeveritwas who did a 
thesis on TA.)
-- 
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL(+++)IS-P--Ch+(p)Ar+T[?]H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for thoughts on PCs. **

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

In message <GalFCILYY6YIFw6P@oooah.noooah>, Martin Clark  
writes
>chris mcmillan wrote...
>> writes
>>>chris mcmillan wrote:
>>>>Ralph B  writes
>>>>> On Jun 19, 8:23 pm, Kate Brown  wrote:
>>>>>> Can I BAOU in hoping that Rooorie's mention of the gee-gees was an omen
>>>>>> of the resurgence of the half-horse that B&S once invested in together?
>>>>>
>>>>> Was it named "Eric"?
>>>>  No: that was Eric the Boar.  We haven't heard about him for a very 
>>>>long time.  He can't surely be providing Tom with piggies still.
>>>
>>><cough> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_the_Half-a-Bee </cough> ;o))
>>>
>>The only bit of that I understand are the words Monty Python.  In 
>>other words ISIHAC.
>>
>Kate's suggestion that the half-horse might be called Eric was a 
>reference to Monty Python's "Eric the half-a-bee".
>
>Who's Eric the Boar?

Probably was.  He was a boar Neil had when he set up his own pig unit. 
(Herd of pigs?).  He was around at about the same time as Niggle and 
Lizzie's cow Maisie.

Sincerely Chris


-- 
Chris McMillan
http://www.chinavision.org.uk/
http://www.oneplusone.org.cn

chris mcmillan wrote:

> (Herd of pigs?). 

This made me realise I had no idea. So I googled a collective nouns 
list, which gives:

drove	of	pigs
herd	of	pigs
litter	of	pigs
farrow	of	pigs (piglets)
sounder	of	pigs (wild pigs)

I was hoping for something... muddier!


Kimbo xx
-- 
www.bykimbo.com

Kim Andrews wrote...
>chris mcmillan wrote:
>
>> (Herd of pigs?).
>
Of course I have! They mention them on TA from time to time!

>This made me realise I had no idea. So I googled a collective nouns 
>list, which gives:
>
>drove  of      pigs
>herd   of      pigs
>litter of      pigs
>farrow of      pigs (piglets)
>sounder        of      pigs (wild pigs)
>
>I was hoping for something... muddier!
>
A wallow?
-- 
Martin

Martin Clark wrote:
> Kim Andrews wrote...

>>
>> I was hoping for something... muddier!
>>
> A wallow?

Yes! That would do very nicely. :o)


Kimbo xx
-- 
www.bykimbo.com

"chris mcmillan"  wrote

> Probably was.  He was a boar Neil had when he set up his own pig unit.

Neil's Boar?  Really?  Presumably he was researching a paper on the
conflicts between Quantum Mechanics and Classical Piggies.  (It's 
calculating the sty-function that's the real problem - but then he was a 
Nobel Prize-weaner.)
-- 
Sid
Make sure Matron is away when you reply

In article , 
matron.nuncius@tesco.net says...
> 
> "chris mcmillan"  wrote
> 
> > Probably was.  He was a boar Neil had when he set up his own pig unit.
> 
> Neil's Boar?  Really?  Presumably he was researching a paper on the
> conflicts between Quantum Mechanics and Classical Piggies.  (It's 
> calculating the sty-function that's the real problem - but then he was a 
> Nobel Prize-weaner.)
> 
One of your rasher statements, Sid.
I believe you're getting confused with Weaner von Braun.

-- 
Sam

In message , Kim Andrews 
 writes
>chris mcmillan wrote:
>
>> (Herd of pigs?).
>
>This made me realise I had no idea. So I googled a collective nouns 
>list, which gives:
>
>litter of      pigs
 >
I always think of this as piglets rather than the collective term for 
families thereof.

Sincerely Chris
-- 
Chris McMillan
http://www.chinavision.org.uk/
http://www.oneplusone.org.cn

Plusnet wrote:
> In article , 
> matron.nuncius@tesco.net says...
>> "chris mcmillan"  wrote
>>
>>> Probably was.  He was a boar Neil had when he set up his own pig unit.
>> Neil's Boar?  Really?  Presumably he was researching a paper on the
>> conflicts between Quantum Mechanics and Classical Piggies.  (It's 
>> calculating the sty-function that's the real problem - but then he was a 
>> Nobel Prize-weaner.)
>>
> One of your rasher statements, Sid.
> I believe you're getting confused with Weaner von Braun.
> 
Or Einstyn perhaps ?

BrritSki wrote:
> Plusnet wrote:
>> In article , 
>> matron.nuncius@tesco.net says...
>>> "chris mcmillan"  wrote
>>>
>>>> Probably was.  He was a boar Neil had when he set up his own pig unit.
>>> Neil's Boar?  Really?  Presumably he was researching a paper on the
>>> conflicts between Quantum Mechanics and Classical Piggies.  (It's 
>>> calculating the sty-function that's the real problem - but then he 
>>> was a Nobel Prize-weaner.)
>>>
>> One of your rasher statements, Sid.
>> I believe you're getting confused with Weaner von Braun.
>>
> Or Einstyn perhaps ?

Enrico Farmi, the Dry-Curies, Becquerasherel, Oppenhammer were all gilty 
too.

"BrritSki"  wrote
> BrritSki wrote:
>> Plusnet wrote:
>>> matron.nuncius@tesco.net says...
>>>> "chris mcmillan"  wrote
>>>>
>>>>> Probably was.  He was a boar Neil had when he set up his own pig unit.

>>>> Neil's Boar?  Really?  Presumably he was researching a paper on the
>>>> conflicts between Quantum Mechanics and Classical Piggies.  (It's 
>>>> calculating the sty-function that's the real problem - but then he was 
>>>> a Nobel Prize-weaner.)
>>>>
>>> One of your rasher statements, Sid.
>>> I believe you're getting confused with Weaner von Braun.
>>>
>> Or Einstyn perhaps ?
>
> Enrico Farmi, the Dry-Curies, Becquerasherel, Oppenhammer were all gilty 
> too.

They made a good Salam-i, though.  I understand they also produced 
first-rate Dirac of Lamb and some tasty Heisenburgers.  Not too good on the 
Frisch fruit, though.
-- 
Sid
Make sure Matron is away when you reply

In article , 
matron.nuncius@tesco.net says...
> 
> "BrritSki"  wrote
> > BrritSki wrote:
> >> Plusnet wrote:
> >>> matron.nuncius@tesco.net says...
> >>>> "chris mcmillan"  wrote
> >>>>
> >>>>> Probably was.  He was a boar Neil had when he set up his own pig unit.
> 
> >>>> Neil's Boar?  Really?  Presumably he was researching a paper on the
> >>>> conflicts between Quantum Mechanics and Classical Piggies.  (It's 
> >>>> calculating the sty-function that's the real problem - but then he was 
> >>>> a Nobel Prize-weaner.)
> >>>>
> >>> One of your rasher statements, Sid.
> >>> I believe you're getting confused with Weaner von Braun.
> >>>
> >> Or Einstyn perhaps ?
> >
> > Enrico Farmi, the Dry-Curies, Becquerasherel, Oppenhammer were all gilty 
> > too.
> 
> They made a good Salam-i, though.  I understand they also produced 
> first-rate Dirac of Lamb and some tasty Heisenburgers.  Not too good on the 
> Frisch fruit, though.
> 

In the USSR in 1930, Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov married Marya 
Putintseva.
Newspaper reports of the wedding described the bride as 'radiant'.

What?  Relevant? - well no, I suppose not.

-- 
Sam

"Plusnet"  wrote
> matron.nuncius@tesco.net says...
>> "BrritSki"  wrote
>> > BrritSki wrote:
>> >> Plusnet wrote:
>> >>> matron.nuncius@tesco.net says...
>> >>>> "chris mcmillan"  wrote
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> Probably was.  He was a boar Neil had when he set up his own pig 
>> >>>>> unit.
>>
>> >>>> Neil's Boar?  Really?  Presumably he was researching a paper on the
>> >>>> conflicts between Quantum Mechanics and Classical Piggies.  (It's
>> >>>> calculating the sty-function that's the real problem - but then he 
>> >>>> was
>> >>>> a Nobel Prize-weaner.)
>> >>>>
>> >>> One of your rasher statements, Sid.
>> >>> I believe you're getting confused with Weaner von Braun.
>> >>>
>> >> Or Einstyn perhaps ?
>> >
>> > Enrico Farmi, the Dry-Curies, Becquerasherel, Oppenhammer were all 
>> > gilty
>> > too.
>>
>> They made a good Salam-i, though.  I understand they also produced
>> first-rate Dirac of Lamb and some tasty Heisenburgers.  Not too good on 
>> the
>> Frisch fruit, though.
>>
>
> In the USSR in 1930, Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov married Marya
> Putintseva.
> Newspaper reports of the wedding described the bride as 'radiant'.
>
> What?  Relevant? - well no, I suppose not.

But amusing.

I once saw Cerenkov radiation for real around spent fuel-rods in a cooling 
pond.  It was amazing and rather beautiful, but il m'a donné les 
guillaumes[1] for some reason.  A terrible beauty is born, sort of thing. 
Twenty years on I still remember it vividly.
-- 
Sid
Make sure Matron is away when you reply
[1]As they don't say sur le continong.

Plusnet wrote:
> In article , 
> matron.nuncius@tesco.net says...
>> "BrritSki"  wrote
>>> BrritSki wrote:
>>>> Plusnet wrote:
>>>>> matron.nuncius@tesco.net says...
>>>>>> "chris mcmillan"  wrote
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Probably was.  He was a boar Neil had when he set up his own pig unit.
>>>>>> Neil's Boar?  Really?  Presumably he was researching a paper on the
>>>>>> conflicts between Quantum Mechanics and Classical Piggies.  (It's 
>>>>>> calculating the sty-function that's the real problem - but then he was 
>>>>>> a Nobel Prize-weaner.)
>>>>>>
>>>>> One of your rasher statements, Sid.
>>>>> I believe you're getting confused with Weaner von Braun.
>>>>>
>>>> Or Einstyn perhaps ?
>>> Enrico Farmi, the Dry-Curies, Becquerasherel, Oppenhammer were all gilty 
>>> too.
>> They made a good Salam-i, though.  I understand they also produced 
>> first-rate Dirac of Lamb and some tasty Heisenburgers.  Not too good on the 
>> Frisch fruit, though.
>>
> 
> In the USSR in 1930, Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov married Marya 
> Putintseva.
> Newspaper reports of the wedding described the bride as 'radiant'.
>
I expect the consummation video was X-rayted ?

"Siderius Nuncius"  writes:
>They made a good Salam-i, though.  I understand they also produced 
>first-rate Dirac of Lamb and some tasty Heisenburgers.  Not too good on the 
>Frisch fruit, though.

i knew frisch rather well; a very pleasant old man (by the time i knew
him), with no apparent political sense of the problems he had visited
upon the world.  (his memoirs "what little i remember" [nice title,
for a start] were fun to read.)

that lise meitner was a stunner, too.
-- 
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge

Plusnet  writes:
>In the USSR in 1930, Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov married Marya 
>Putintseva.
>Newspaper reports of the wedding described the bride as 'radiant'.
>
>What?  Relevant? - well no, I suppose not.

i wonder if the bride's family was one and the same as our present-day
putin's (the surname means "daughter of putin" -- roughly).
-- 
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge

"Robin Fairbairns"  wrote
> "Siderius Nuncius"  writes:

>>They made a good Salam-i, though.  I understand they also produced
>>first-rate Dirac of Lamb and some tasty Heisenburgers.  Not too good on 
>>the
>>Frisch fruit, though.
>
> i knew frisch rather well; a very pleasant old man (by the time i knew
> him), with no apparent political sense of the problems he had visited
> upon the world.  (his memoirs "what little i remember" [nice title,
> for a start] were fun to read.)

Yes - I enjoyed them very much.  He seemed like a jolly good egg.

> that lise meitner was a stunner, too.

Indeed.  And not dim, either.  :o)
-- 
Sid
Make sure Matron is away when you reply

Plusnet wrote:
> 
> In the USSR in 1930, Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov married Marya 
> Putintseva.
> Newspaper reports of the wedding described the bride as 'radiant'.
> 
> What?  Relevant? - well no, I suppose not.

Bit fast was she?

"Anne Burgess"  writes:
>>>>>Of course, you are NAOU :-) Although I took it as a signal 
>>>>>that the SW's
>>>>>might actually have remembered the half-horse :-)
>>>>
>>>>i'm worried about half-horses.  don't they fall over?
>>>
>>>Depends whether it's the top half or the bottom half.
>>
>> Front half or back half, shirley?
>
>Nah. Left half or right half. (Somebody had to say it)

'tis what i had assumed.  hence my concern.
-- 
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge