THINGS THAT GO BUMP
Virtually everyone has experienced the phenomenon of things that go bump in the 
night. Our own editress, many years ago, even wrote a poem on the subject and 
entitled it rather nattily 'Things that go bump in the night'. This piece of 
literature is now hopefully lost to us but even so, there is still a body of 
evidence and considerable research relating to this subject.
It is said that things go bump in the night and scientists have told us that in 
fact, things go bump all the time but because our environment is usually quieter 
at night, and because our hearing is at its best at 0200 hours (apparently), 
things are heard to go bump at that time only.
On the face of it, that is a plausible enough explanation, except for one thing. 
Sundays! Often, this is a quiet enough day and in the summer time, Sunday 
afternoons are sometimes so quiet that you can almost hear the grass growing. 
The question which now arises is 'Do things go bump on Sunday afternoons?'. This 
is a good question.
Another good question usually ignored by scientists is 'What was it that went 
bump?'.  One could add to that 'Why did it go bump anyway?'.
We are getting ahead of ourselves here. The first point to be clarified is 'When 
do things go bump?'. We can consider the 'what' and the 'why' later. We must 
also limit our consideration to UTTGBs or 'Unidentified Things That Go Bump'. By 
this means, we eradicate the sounds made by the plumbing, the heating system, 
floorboards and stairs etc, which will gurgle, click, creak and groan but which 
seldom if ever go bump.
If we are to get to the truth here, it beseems all of us to maintain a log of 
UTTGBs. We should note the date, give a brief description and, most importantly, 
note the time of the incident using the twenty-four hour clock. The matter of 
the acuity of our hearing is probably a coloured fish; in this writer's 
experience, many UTTGBs are so loud even the dead could hear them.
Readers might like to write into this magazine, detailing their experiences, in 
time for next month's issue. This would enable us to carry this fascinating 
research on to its ultimate conclusion. Keep listening.

©1996.


-- 
Blue Sow

On May 25, 11:37 am, Blue Sow  wrote:
> THINGS THAT GO BUMP
> Virtually everyone has experienced the phenomenon of things that go bump in the
> night. Our own editress, many years ago, even wrote a poem on the subject and
> entitled it rather nattily 'Things that go bump in the night'. This piece of
> literature is now hopefully lost to us but even so, there is still a body of
> evidence and considerable research relating to this subject.
> It is said that things go bump in the night and scientists have told us that in
> fact, things go bump all the time but because our environment is usually quieter
> at night, and because our hearing is at its best at 0200 hours (apparently),
> things are heard to go bump at that time only.
> On the face of it, that is a plausible enough explanation, except for one thing.
> Sundays! Often, this is a quiet enough day and in the summer time, Sunday
> afternoons are sometimes so quiet that you can almost hear the grass growing.
> The question which now arises is 'Do things go bump on Sunday afternoons?'. This
> is a good question.
> Another good question usually ignored by scientists is 'What was it that went
> bump?'.  One could add to that 'Why did it go bump anyway?'.
> We are getting ahead of ourselves here. The first point to be clarified is 'When
> do things go bump?'. We can consider the 'what' and the 'why' later. We must
> also limit our consideration to UTTGBs or 'Unidentified Things That Go Bump'. By
> this means, we eradicate the sounds made by the plumbing, the heating system,
> floorboards and stairs etc, which will gurgle, click, creak and groan but which
> seldom if ever go bump.
> If we are to get to the truth here, it beseems all of us to maintain a log of
> UTTGBs. We should note the date, give a brief description and, most importantly,
> note the time of the incident using the twenty-four hour clock. The matter of
> the acuity of our hearing is probably a coloured fish; in this writer's
> experience, many UTTGBs are so loud even the dead could hear them.
> Readers might like to write into this magazine, detailing their experiences, in
> time for next month's issue. This would enable us to carry this fascinating
> research on to its ultimate conclusion. Keep listening.
>
> ©1996.
>
> --
> Blue Sow

This is one of your published folio then
I take it?

Initial observations are along the lines
of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
in the night as well if all it's down to
is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
sight is temporarily diminished.

Were there any observations from Europe,
in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?

Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
be down to temperature changes as houses
contract at different rates as it drops,
a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
beams in the roof contract less than the
tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
contract at all.

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

On May 25, 11:37 am, Blue Sow  wrote:
> THINGS THAT GO BUMP
> Virtually everyone has experienced the phenomenon of things that go bump in the
> night. Our own editress, many years ago, even wrote a poem on the subject and
> entitled it rather nattily 'Things that go bump in the night'. This piece of
> literature is now hopefully lost to us but even so, there is still a body of
> evidence and considerable research relating to this subject.
> It is said that things go bump in the night and scientists have told us that in
> fact, things go bump all the time but because our environment is usually quieter
> at night, and because our hearing is at its best at 0200 hours (apparently),
> things are heard to go bump at that time only.
> On the face of it, that is a plausible enough explanation, except for one thing.
> Sundays! Often, this is a quiet enough day and in the summer time, Sunday
> afternoons are sometimes so quiet that you can almost hear the grass growing.
> The question which now arises is 'Do things go bump on Sunday afternoons?'. This
> is a good question.
> Another good question usually ignored by scientists is 'What was it that went
> bump?'.  One could add to that 'Why did it go bump anyway?'.
> We are getting ahead of ourselves here. The first point to be clarified is 'When
> do things go bump?'. We can consider the 'what' and the 'why' later. We must
> also limit our consideration to UTTGBs or 'Unidentified Things That Go Bump'. By
> this means, we eradicate the sounds made by the plumbing, the heating system,
> floorboards and stairs etc, which will gurgle, click, creak and groan but which
> seldom if ever go bump.
> If we are to get to the truth here, it beseems all of us to maintain a log of
> UTTGBs. We should note the date, give a brief description and, most importantly,
> note the time of the incident using the twenty-four hour clock. The matter of
> the acuity of our hearing is probably a coloured fish; in this writer's
> experience, many UTTGBs are so loud even the dead could hear them.
> Readers might like to write into this magazine, detailing their experiences, in
> time for next month's issue. This would enable us to carry this fascinating
> research on to its ultimate conclusion. Keep listening.
>
> ©1996.
>
> --
> Blue Sow

This is one of your published folio then
I take it?

Initial observations are along the lines
of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
in the night as well if all it's down to
is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
sight is temporarily diminished.

Were there any observations from Europe,
in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?

Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
be down to temperature changes as houses
contract at different rates as it drops,
a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
beams in the roof contract less than the
tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
contract at all.

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

FCS wrote:
> 
> This is one of your published folio then
> I take it?

Yes.  Admittedly a 'throwaway' example but one would perhaps not post anything 
beyond that here.


> Initial observations are along the lines
> of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
> in the night as well if all it's down to
> is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
> sight is temporarily diminished.
> 
> Were there any observations from Europe,
> in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
> optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?
> 
> Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
> be down to temperature changes as houses
> contract at different rates as it drops,
> a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
> beams in the roof contract less than the
> tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
> contract at all.
> 

I am not sure that it matters.  The piece was written to size requirements and 
to some extent to content requirements on a general theme of taking something 
ridiculous or pointless and treating it with the utmost seriousness.

In this instance, I implied that a common occurrence with no real mystery 
attached to it was being subjected to serious scientific research.

I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if 
there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without 
worrying about what others may think of it.


-- 
Blue Sow

On May 25, 11:37 am, Blue Sow  wrote:
> THINGS THAT GO BUMP
> Virtually everyone has experienced the phenomenon of things that go bump in the
> night. Our own editress, many years ago, even wrote a poem on the subject and
> entitled it rather nattily 'Things that go bump in the night'. This piece of
> literature is now hopefully lost to us but even so, there is still a body of
> evidence and considerable research relating to this subject.
> It is said that things go bump in the night and scientists have told us that in
> fact, things go bump all the time but because our environment is usually quieter
> at night, and because our hearing is at its best at 0200 hours (apparently),
> things are heard to go bump at that time only.
> On the face of it, that is a plausible enough explanation, except for one thing.
> Sundays! Often, this is a quiet enough day and in the summer time, Sunday
> afternoons are sometimes so quiet that you can almost hear the grass growing.
> The question which now arises is 'Do things go bump on Sunday afternoons?'. This
> is a good question.
> Another good question usually ignored by scientists is 'What was it that went
> bump?'.  One could add to that 'Why did it go bump anyway?'.
> We are getting ahead of ourselves here. The first point to be clarified is 'When
> do things go bump?'. We can consider the 'what' and the 'why' later. We must
> also limit our consideration to UTTGBs or 'Unidentified Things That Go Bump'. By
> this means, we eradicate the sounds made by the plumbing, the heating system,
> floorboards and stairs etc, which will gurgle, click, creak and groan but which
> seldom if ever go bump.
> If we are to get to the truth here, it beseems all of us to maintain a log of
> UTTGBs. We should note the date, give a brief description and, most importantly,
> note the time of the incident using the twenty-four hour clock. The matter of
> the acuity of our hearing is probably a coloured fish; in this writer's
> experience, many UTTGBs are so loud even the dead could hear them.
> Readers might like to write into this magazine, detailing their experiences, in
> time for next month's issue. This would enable us to carry this fascinating
> research on to its ultimate conclusion. Keep listening.
>
> ©1996.
>
> --
> Blue Sow

This is one of your published folio then
I take it?

Initial observations are along the lines
of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
in the night as well if all it's down to
is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
sight is temporarily diminished.

Were there any observations from Europe,
in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?

Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
be down to temperature changes as houses
contract at different rates as it drops,
a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
beams in the roof contract less than the
tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
contract at all.

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

FCS wrote:
> 
> This is one of your published folio then
> I take it?

Yes.  Admittedly a 'throwaway' example but one would perhaps not post anything 
beyond that here.


> Initial observations are along the lines
> of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
> in the night as well if all it's down to
> is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
> sight is temporarily diminished.
> 
> Were there any observations from Europe,
> in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
> optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?
> 
> Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
> be down to temperature changes as houses
> contract at different rates as it drops,
> a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
> beams in the roof contract less than the
> tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
> contract at all.
> 

I am not sure that it matters.  The piece was written to size requirements and 
to some extent to content requirements on a general theme of taking something 
ridiculous or pointless and treating it with the utmost seriousness.

In this instance, I implied that a common occurrence with no real mystery 
attached to it was being subjected to serious scientific research.

I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if 
there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without 
worrying about what others may think of it.


-- 
Blue Sow

On Jun 7, 2:16 pm, Blue Sow  wrote:
> FCS wrote:
>
> I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if
> there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without
> worrying about what others may think of it.

I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
not care one jot how it's received.

Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
olden village which is now a suburb from another after
a while, the approximations of spellings which are
supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
consistent?

I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.

It would be interesting to spend sufficient time in the
libraries round there to see if the same late-Victorian
theories of racial supremacy abound in dialect linguistics
textbooks there as they do in Yorkshire.

> --
> Blue Sow- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

On May 25, 11:37 am, Blue Sow  wrote:
> THINGS THAT GO BUMP
> Virtually everyone has experienced the phenomenon of things that go bump in the
> night. Our own editress, many years ago, even wrote a poem on the subject and
> entitled it rather nattily 'Things that go bump in the night'. This piece of
> literature is now hopefully lost to us but even so, there is still a body of
> evidence and considerable research relating to this subject.
> It is said that things go bump in the night and scientists have told us that in
> fact, things go bump all the time but because our environment is usually quieter
> at night, and because our hearing is at its best at 0200 hours (apparently),
> things are heard to go bump at that time only.
> On the face of it, that is a plausible enough explanation, except for one thing.
> Sundays! Often, this is a quiet enough day and in the summer time, Sunday
> afternoons are sometimes so quiet that you can almost hear the grass growing.
> The question which now arises is 'Do things go bump on Sunday afternoons?'. This
> is a good question.
> Another good question usually ignored by scientists is 'What was it that went
> bump?'.  One could add to that 'Why did it go bump anyway?'.
> We are getting ahead of ourselves here. The first point to be clarified is 'When
> do things go bump?'. We can consider the 'what' and the 'why' later. We must
> also limit our consideration to UTTGBs or 'Unidentified Things That Go Bump'. By
> this means, we eradicate the sounds made by the plumbing, the heating system,
> floorboards and stairs etc, which will gurgle, click, creak and groan but which
> seldom if ever go bump.
> If we are to get to the truth here, it beseems all of us to maintain a log of
> UTTGBs. We should note the date, give a brief description and, most importantly,
> note the time of the incident using the twenty-four hour clock. The matter of
> the acuity of our hearing is probably a coloured fish; in this writer's
> experience, many UTTGBs are so loud even the dead could hear them.
> Readers might like to write into this magazine, detailing their experiences, in
> time for next month's issue. This would enable us to carry this fascinating
> research on to its ultimate conclusion. Keep listening.
>
> ©1996.
>
> --
> Blue Sow

This is one of your published folio then
I take it?

Initial observations are along the lines
of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
in the night as well if all it's down to
is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
sight is temporarily diminished.

Were there any observations from Europe,
in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?

Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
be down to temperature changes as houses
contract at different rates as it drops,
a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
beams in the roof contract less than the
tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
contract at all.

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

FCS wrote:
> 
> This is one of your published folio then
> I take it?

Yes.  Admittedly a 'throwaway' example but one would perhaps not post anything 
beyond that here.


> Initial observations are along the lines
> of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
> in the night as well if all it's down to
> is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
> sight is temporarily diminished.
> 
> Were there any observations from Europe,
> in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
> optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?
> 
> Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
> be down to temperature changes as houses
> contract at different rates as it drops,
> a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
> beams in the roof contract less than the
> tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
> contract at all.
> 

I am not sure that it matters.  The piece was written to size requirements and 
to some extent to content requirements on a general theme of taking something 
ridiculous or pointless and treating it with the utmost seriousness.

In this instance, I implied that a common occurrence with no real mystery 
attached to it was being subjected to serious scientific research.

I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if 
there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without 
worrying about what others may think of it.


-- 
Blue Sow

On Jun 7, 2:16 pm, Blue Sow  wrote:
> FCS wrote:
>
> I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if
> there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without
> worrying about what others may think of it.

I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
not care one jot how it's received.

Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
olden village which is now a suburb from another after
a while, the approximations of spellings which are
supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
consistent?

I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.

It would be interesting to spend sufficient time in the
libraries round there to see if the same late-Victorian
theories of racial supremacy abound in dialect linguistics
textbooks there as they do in Yorkshire.

> --
> Blue Sow- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

On May 25, 11:37 am, Blue Sow  wrote:
> THINGS THAT GO BUMP
> Virtually everyone has experienced the phenomenon of things that go bump in the
> night. Our own editress, many years ago, even wrote a poem on the subject and
> entitled it rather nattily 'Things that go bump in the night'. This piece of
> literature is now hopefully lost to us but even so, there is still a body of
> evidence and considerable research relating to this subject.
> It is said that things go bump in the night and scientists have told us that in
> fact, things go bump all the time but because our environment is usually quieter
> at night, and because our hearing is at its best at 0200 hours (apparently),
> things are heard to go bump at that time only.
> On the face of it, that is a plausible enough explanation, except for one thing.
> Sundays! Often, this is a quiet enough day and in the summer time, Sunday
> afternoons are sometimes so quiet that you can almost hear the grass growing.
> The question which now arises is 'Do things go bump on Sunday afternoons?'. This
> is a good question.
> Another good question usually ignored by scientists is 'What was it that went
> bump?'.  One could add to that 'Why did it go bump anyway?'.
> We are getting ahead of ourselves here. The first point to be clarified is 'When
> do things go bump?'. We can consider the 'what' and the 'why' later. We must
> also limit our consideration to UTTGBs or 'Unidentified Things That Go Bump'. By
> this means, we eradicate the sounds made by the plumbing, the heating system,
> floorboards and stairs etc, which will gurgle, click, creak and groan but which
> seldom if ever go bump.
> If we are to get to the truth here, it beseems all of us to maintain a log of
> UTTGBs. We should note the date, give a brief description and, most importantly,
> note the time of the incident using the twenty-four hour clock. The matter of
> the acuity of our hearing is probably a coloured fish; in this writer's
> experience, many UTTGBs are so loud even the dead could hear them.
> Readers might like to write into this magazine, detailing their experiences, in
> time for next month's issue. This would enable us to carry this fascinating
> research on to its ultimate conclusion. Keep listening.
>
> ©1996.
>
> --
> Blue Sow

This is one of your published folio then
I take it?

Initial observations are along the lines
of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
in the night as well if all it's down to
is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
sight is temporarily diminished.

Were there any observations from Europe,
in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?

Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
be down to temperature changes as houses
contract at different rates as it drops,
a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
beams in the roof contract less than the
tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
contract at all.

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

FCS wrote:
> 
> This is one of your published folio then
> I take it?

Yes.  Admittedly a 'throwaway' example but one would perhaps not post anything 
beyond that here.


> Initial observations are along the lines
> of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
> in the night as well if all it's down to
> is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
> sight is temporarily diminished.
> 
> Were there any observations from Europe,
> in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
> optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?
> 
> Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
> be down to temperature changes as houses
> contract at different rates as it drops,
> a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
> beams in the roof contract less than the
> tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
> contract at all.
> 

I am not sure that it matters.  The piece was written to size requirements and 
to some extent to content requirements on a general theme of taking something 
ridiculous or pointless and treating it with the utmost seriousness.

In this instance, I implied that a common occurrence with no real mystery 
attached to it was being subjected to serious scientific research.

I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if 
there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without 
worrying about what others may think of it.


-- 
Blue Sow

On Jun 7, 2:16 pm, Blue Sow  wrote:
> FCS wrote:
>
> I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if
> there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without
> worrying about what others may think of it.

I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
not care one jot how it's received.

Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
olden village which is now a suburb from another after
a while, the approximations of spellings which are
supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
consistent?

I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.

It would be interesting to spend sufficient time in the
libraries round there to see if the same late-Victorian
theories of racial supremacy abound in dialect linguistics
textbooks there as they do in Yorkshire.

> --
> Blue Sow- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

FCS wrote:

> I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
> of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
> you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
> connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
> not care one jot how it's received.


Indeed.  Much as is the case with painting, composing, drama, etc., etc..
Pearls 'n' piggies anyone?


> Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
> olden village which is now a suburb from another after
> a while, the approximations of spellings which are
> supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
> consistent?
 >
> I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
> the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
> people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.


Convergence is not unusual, and with casual correspondence between diverse 
locations now commonplace, no doubt the pace will quicken.



-- 
Blue Sow

On May 25, 11:37 am, Blue Sow  wrote:
> THINGS THAT GO BUMP
> Virtually everyone has experienced the phenomenon of things that go bump in the
> night. Our own editress, many years ago, even wrote a poem on the subject and
> entitled it rather nattily 'Things that go bump in the night'. This piece of
> literature is now hopefully lost to us but even so, there is still a body of
> evidence and considerable research relating to this subject.
> It is said that things go bump in the night and scientists have told us that in
> fact, things go bump all the time but because our environment is usually quieter
> at night, and because our hearing is at its best at 0200 hours (apparently),
> things are heard to go bump at that time only.
> On the face of it, that is a plausible enough explanation, except for one thing.
> Sundays! Often, this is a quiet enough day and in the summer time, Sunday
> afternoons are sometimes so quiet that you can almost hear the grass growing.
> The question which now arises is 'Do things go bump on Sunday afternoons?'. This
> is a good question.
> Another good question usually ignored by scientists is 'What was it that went
> bump?'.  One could add to that 'Why did it go bump anyway?'.
> We are getting ahead of ourselves here. The first point to be clarified is 'When
> do things go bump?'. We can consider the 'what' and the 'why' later. We must
> also limit our consideration to UTTGBs or 'Unidentified Things That Go Bump'. By
> this means, we eradicate the sounds made by the plumbing, the heating system,
> floorboards and stairs etc, which will gurgle, click, creak and groan but which
> seldom if ever go bump.
> If we are to get to the truth here, it beseems all of us to maintain a log of
> UTTGBs. We should note the date, give a brief description and, most importantly,
> note the time of the incident using the twenty-four hour clock. The matter of
> the acuity of our hearing is probably a coloured fish; in this writer's
> experience, many UTTGBs are so loud even the dead could hear them.
> Readers might like to write into this magazine, detailing their experiences, in
> time for next month's issue. This would enable us to carry this fascinating
> research on to its ultimate conclusion. Keep listening.
>
> ©1996.
>
> --
> Blue Sow

This is one of your published folio then
I take it?

Initial observations are along the lines
of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
in the night as well if all it's down to
is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
sight is temporarily diminished.

Were there any observations from Europe,
in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?

Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
be down to temperature changes as houses
contract at different rates as it drops,
a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
beams in the roof contract less than the
tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
contract at all.

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

FCS wrote:
> 
> This is one of your published folio then
> I take it?

Yes.  Admittedly a 'throwaway' example but one would perhaps not post anything 
beyond that here.


> Initial observations are along the lines
> of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
> in the night as well if all it's down to
> is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
> sight is temporarily diminished.
> 
> Were there any observations from Europe,
> in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
> optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?
> 
> Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
> be down to temperature changes as houses
> contract at different rates as it drops,
> a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
> beams in the roof contract less than the
> tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
> contract at all.
> 

I am not sure that it matters.  The piece was written to size requirements and 
to some extent to content requirements on a general theme of taking something 
ridiculous or pointless and treating it with the utmost seriousness.

In this instance, I implied that a common occurrence with no real mystery 
attached to it was being subjected to serious scientific research.

I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if 
there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without 
worrying about what others may think of it.


-- 
Blue Sow

On Jun 7, 2:16 pm, Blue Sow  wrote:
> FCS wrote:
>
> I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if
> there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without
> worrying about what others may think of it.

I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
not care one jot how it's received.

Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
olden village which is now a suburb from another after
a while, the approximations of spellings which are
supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
consistent?

I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.

It would be interesting to spend sufficient time in the
libraries round there to see if the same late-Victorian
theories of racial supremacy abound in dialect linguistics
textbooks there as they do in Yorkshire.

> --
> Blue Sow- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

FCS wrote:

> I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
> of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
> you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
> connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
> not care one jot how it's received.


Indeed.  Much as is the case with painting, composing, drama, etc., etc..
Pearls 'n' piggies anyone?


> Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
> olden village which is now a suburb from another after
> a while, the approximations of spellings which are
> supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
> consistent?
 >
> I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
> the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
> people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.


Convergence is not unusual, and with casual correspondence between diverse 
locations now commonplace, no doubt the pace will quicken.



-- 
Blue Sow

On May 25, 11:37 am, Blue Sow  wrote:
> THINGS THAT GO BUMP
> Virtually everyone has experienced the phenomenon of things that go bump in the
> night. Our own editress, many years ago, even wrote a poem on the subject and
> entitled it rather nattily 'Things that go bump in the night'. This piece of
> literature is now hopefully lost to us but even so, there is still a body of
> evidence and considerable research relating to this subject.
> It is said that things go bump in the night and scientists have told us that in
> fact, things go bump all the time but because our environment is usually quieter
> at night, and because our hearing is at its best at 0200 hours (apparently),
> things are heard to go bump at that time only.
> On the face of it, that is a plausible enough explanation, except for one thing.
> Sundays! Often, this is a quiet enough day and in the summer time, Sunday
> afternoons are sometimes so quiet that you can almost hear the grass growing.
> The question which now arises is 'Do things go bump on Sunday afternoons?'. This
> is a good question.
> Another good question usually ignored by scientists is 'What was it that went
> bump?'.  One could add to that 'Why did it go bump anyway?'.
> We are getting ahead of ourselves here. The first point to be clarified is 'When
> do things go bump?'. We can consider the 'what' and the 'why' later. We must
> also limit our consideration to UTTGBs or 'Unidentified Things That Go Bump'. By
> this means, we eradicate the sounds made by the plumbing, the heating system,
> floorboards and stairs etc, which will gurgle, click, creak and groan but which
> seldom if ever go bump.
> If we are to get to the truth here, it beseems all of us to maintain a log of
> UTTGBs. We should note the date, give a brief description and, most importantly,
> note the time of the incident using the twenty-four hour clock. The matter of
> the acuity of our hearing is probably a coloured fish; in this writer's
> experience, many UTTGBs are so loud even the dead could hear them.
> Readers might like to write into this magazine, detailing their experiences, in
> time for next month's issue. This would enable us to carry this fascinating
> research on to its ultimate conclusion. Keep listening.
>
> ©1996.
>
> --
> Blue Sow

This is one of your published folio then
I take it?

Initial observations are along the lines
of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
in the night as well if all it's down to
is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
sight is temporarily diminished.

Were there any observations from Europe,
in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?

Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
be down to temperature changes as houses
contract at different rates as it drops,
a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
beams in the roof contract less than the
tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
contract at all.

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

FCS wrote:
> 
> This is one of your published folio then
> I take it?

Yes.  Admittedly a 'throwaway' example but one would perhaps not post anything 
beyond that here.


> Initial observations are along the lines
> of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
> in the night as well if all it's down to
> is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
> sight is temporarily diminished.
> 
> Were there any observations from Europe,
> in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
> optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?
> 
> Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
> be down to temperature changes as houses
> contract at different rates as it drops,
> a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
> beams in the roof contract less than the
> tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
> contract at all.
> 

I am not sure that it matters.  The piece was written to size requirements and 
to some extent to content requirements on a general theme of taking something 
ridiculous or pointless and treating it with the utmost seriousness.

In this instance, I implied that a common occurrence with no real mystery 
attached to it was being subjected to serious scientific research.

I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if 
there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without 
worrying about what others may think of it.


-- 
Blue Sow

On Jun 7, 2:16 pm, Blue Sow  wrote:
> FCS wrote:
>
> I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if
> there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without
> worrying about what others may think of it.

I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
not care one jot how it's received.

Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
olden village which is now a suburb from another after
a while, the approximations of spellings which are
supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
consistent?

I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.

It would be interesting to spend sufficient time in the
libraries round there to see if the same late-Victorian
theories of racial supremacy abound in dialect linguistics
textbooks there as they do in Yorkshire.

> --
> Blue Sow- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

FCS wrote:

> I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
> of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
> you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
> connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
> not care one jot how it's received.


Indeed.  Much as is the case with painting, composing, drama, etc., etc..
Pearls 'n' piggies anyone?


> Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
> olden village which is now a suburb from another after
> a while, the approximations of spellings which are
> supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
> consistent?
 >
> I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
> the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
> people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.


Convergence is not unusual, and with casual correspondence between diverse 
locations now commonplace, no doubt the pace will quicken.



-- 
Blue Sow

On May 25, 11:37 am, Blue Sow  wrote:
> THINGS THAT GO BUMP
> Virtually everyone has experienced the phenomenon of things that go bump in the
> night. Our own editress, many years ago, even wrote a poem on the subject and
> entitled it rather nattily 'Things that go bump in the night'. This piece of
> literature is now hopefully lost to us but even so, there is still a body of
> evidence and considerable research relating to this subject.
> It is said that things go bump in the night and scientists have told us that in
> fact, things go bump all the time but because our environment is usually quieter
> at night, and because our hearing is at its best at 0200 hours (apparently),
> things are heard to go bump at that time only.
> On the face of it, that is a plausible enough explanation, except for one thing.
> Sundays! Often, this is a quiet enough day and in the summer time, Sunday
> afternoons are sometimes so quiet that you can almost hear the grass growing.
> The question which now arises is 'Do things go bump on Sunday afternoons?'. This
> is a good question.
> Another good question usually ignored by scientists is 'What was it that went
> bump?'.  One could add to that 'Why did it go bump anyway?'.
> We are getting ahead of ourselves here. The first point to be clarified is 'When
> do things go bump?'. We can consider the 'what' and the 'why' later. We must
> also limit our consideration to UTTGBs or 'Unidentified Things That Go Bump'. By
> this means, we eradicate the sounds made by the plumbing, the heating system,
> floorboards and stairs etc, which will gurgle, click, creak and groan but which
> seldom if ever go bump.
> If we are to get to the truth here, it beseems all of us to maintain a log of
> UTTGBs. We should note the date, give a brief description and, most importantly,
> note the time of the incident using the twenty-four hour clock. The matter of
> the acuity of our hearing is probably a coloured fish; in this writer's
> experience, many UTTGBs are so loud even the dead could hear them.
> Readers might like to write into this magazine, detailing their experiences, in
> time for next month's issue. This would enable us to carry this fascinating
> research on to its ultimate conclusion. Keep listening.
>
> ©1996.
>
> --
> Blue Sow

This is one of your published folio then
I take it?

Initial observations are along the lines
of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
in the night as well if all it's down to
is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
sight is temporarily diminished.

Were there any observations from Europe,
in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?

Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
be down to temperature changes as houses
contract at different rates as it drops,
a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
beams in the roof contract less than the
tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
contract at all.

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

FCS wrote:
> 
> This is one of your published folio then
> I take it?

Yes.  Admittedly a 'throwaway' example but one would perhaps not post anything 
beyond that here.


> Initial observations are along the lines
> of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
> in the night as well if all it's down to
> is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
> sight is temporarily diminished.
> 
> Were there any observations from Europe,
> in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
> optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?
> 
> Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
> be down to temperature changes as houses
> contract at different rates as it drops,
> a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
> beams in the roof contract less than the
> tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
> contract at all.
> 

I am not sure that it matters.  The piece was written to size requirements and 
to some extent to content requirements on a general theme of taking something 
ridiculous or pointless and treating it with the utmost seriousness.

In this instance, I implied that a common occurrence with no real mystery 
attached to it was being subjected to serious scientific research.

I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if 
there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without 
worrying about what others may think of it.


-- 
Blue Sow

On Jun 7, 2:16 pm, Blue Sow  wrote:
> FCS wrote:
>
> I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if
> there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without
> worrying about what others may think of it.

I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
not care one jot how it's received.

Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
olden village which is now a suburb from another after
a while, the approximations of spellings which are
supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
consistent?

I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.

It would be interesting to spend sufficient time in the
libraries round there to see if the same late-Victorian
theories of racial supremacy abound in dialect linguistics
textbooks there as they do in Yorkshire.

> --
> Blue Sow- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

FCS wrote:

> I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
> of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
> you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
> connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
> not care one jot how it's received.


Indeed.  Much as is the case with painting, composing, drama, etc., etc..
Pearls 'n' piggies anyone?


> Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
> olden village which is now a suburb from another after
> a while, the approximations of spellings which are
> supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
> consistent?
 >
> I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
> the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
> people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.


Convergence is not unusual, and with casual correspondence between diverse 
locations now commonplace, no doubt the pace will quicken.



-- 
Blue Sow

On May 25, 11:37 am, Blue Sow  wrote:
> THINGS THAT GO BUMP
> Virtually everyone has experienced the phenomenon of things that go bump in the
> night. Our own editress, many years ago, even wrote a poem on the subject and
> entitled it rather nattily 'Things that go bump in the night'. This piece of
> literature is now hopefully lost to us but even so, there is still a body of
> evidence and considerable research relating to this subject.
> It is said that things go bump in the night and scientists have told us that in
> fact, things go bump all the time but because our environment is usually quieter
> at night, and because our hearing is at its best at 0200 hours (apparently),
> things are heard to go bump at that time only.
> On the face of it, that is a plausible enough explanation, except for one thing.
> Sundays! Often, this is a quiet enough day and in the summer time, Sunday
> afternoons are sometimes so quiet that you can almost hear the grass growing.
> The question which now arises is 'Do things go bump on Sunday afternoons?'. This
> is a good question.
> Another good question usually ignored by scientists is 'What was it that went
> bump?'.  One could add to that 'Why did it go bump anyway?'.
> We are getting ahead of ourselves here. The first point to be clarified is 'When
> do things go bump?'. We can consider the 'what' and the 'why' later. We must
> also limit our consideration to UTTGBs or 'Unidentified Things That Go Bump'. By
> this means, we eradicate the sounds made by the plumbing, the heating system,
> floorboards and stairs etc, which will gurgle, click, creak and groan but which
> seldom if ever go bump.
> If we are to get to the truth here, it beseems all of us to maintain a log of
> UTTGBs. We should note the date, give a brief description and, most importantly,
> note the time of the incident using the twenty-four hour clock. The matter of
> the acuity of our hearing is probably a coloured fish; in this writer's
> experience, many UTTGBs are so loud even the dead could hear them.
> Readers might like to write into this magazine, detailing their experiences, in
> time for next month's issue. This would enable us to carry this fascinating
> research on to its ultimate conclusion. Keep listening.
>
> ©1996.
>
> --
> Blue Sow

This is one of your published folio then
I take it?

Initial observations are along the lines
of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
in the night as well if all it's down to
is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
sight is temporarily diminished.

Were there any observations from Europe,
in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?

Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
be down to temperature changes as houses
contract at different rates as it drops,
a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
beams in the roof contract less than the
tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
contract at all.

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

FCS wrote:
> 
> This is one of your published folio then
> I take it?

Yes.  Admittedly a 'throwaway' example but one would perhaps not post anything 
beyond that here.


> Initial observations are along the lines
> of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
> in the night as well if all it's down to
> is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
> sight is temporarily diminished.
> 
> Were there any observations from Europe,
> in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
> optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?
> 
> Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
> be down to temperature changes as houses
> contract at different rates as it drops,
> a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
> beams in the roof contract less than the
> tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
> contract at all.
> 

I am not sure that it matters.  The piece was written to size requirements and 
to some extent to content requirements on a general theme of taking something 
ridiculous or pointless and treating it with the utmost seriousness.

In this instance, I implied that a common occurrence with no real mystery 
attached to it was being subjected to serious scientific research.

I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if 
there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without 
worrying about what others may think of it.


-- 
Blue Sow

On Jun 7, 2:16 pm, Blue Sow  wrote:
> FCS wrote:
>
> I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if
> there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without
> worrying about what others may think of it.

I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
not care one jot how it's received.

Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
olden village which is now a suburb from another after
a while, the approximations of spellings which are
supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
consistent?

I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.

It would be interesting to spend sufficient time in the
libraries round there to see if the same late-Victorian
theories of racial supremacy abound in dialect linguistics
textbooks there as they do in Yorkshire.

> --
> Blue Sow- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

FCS wrote:

> I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
> of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
> you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
> connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
> not care one jot how it's received.


Indeed.  Much as is the case with painting, composing, drama, etc., etc..
Pearls 'n' piggies anyone?


> Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
> olden village which is now a suburb from another after
> a while, the approximations of spellings which are
> supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
> consistent?
 >
> I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
> the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
> people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.


Convergence is not unusual, and with casual correspondence between diverse 
locations now commonplace, no doubt the pace will quicken.



-- 
Blue Sow

On May 25, 11:37 am, Blue Sow  wrote:
> THINGS THAT GO BUMP
> Virtually everyone has experienced the phenomenon of things that go bump in the
> night. Our own editress, many years ago, even wrote a poem on the subject and
> entitled it rather nattily 'Things that go bump in the night'. This piece of
> literature is now hopefully lost to us but even so, there is still a body of
> evidence and considerable research relating to this subject.
> It is said that things go bump in the night and scientists have told us that in
> fact, things go bump all the time but because our environment is usually quieter
> at night, and because our hearing is at its best at 0200 hours (apparently),
> things are heard to go bump at that time only.
> On the face of it, that is a plausible enough explanation, except for one thing.
> Sundays! Often, this is a quiet enough day and in the summer time, Sunday
> afternoons are sometimes so quiet that you can almost hear the grass growing.
> The question which now arises is 'Do things go bump on Sunday afternoons?'. This
> is a good question.
> Another good question usually ignored by scientists is 'What was it that went
> bump?'.  One could add to that 'Why did it go bump anyway?'.
> We are getting ahead of ourselves here. The first point to be clarified is 'When
> do things go bump?'. We can consider the 'what' and the 'why' later. We must
> also limit our consideration to UTTGBs or 'Unidentified Things That Go Bump'. By
> this means, we eradicate the sounds made by the plumbing, the heating system,
> floorboards and stairs etc, which will gurgle, click, creak and groan but which
> seldom if ever go bump.
> If we are to get to the truth here, it beseems all of us to maintain a log of
> UTTGBs. We should note the date, give a brief description and, most importantly,
> note the time of the incident using the twenty-four hour clock. The matter of
> the acuity of our hearing is probably a coloured fish; in this writer's
> experience, many UTTGBs are so loud even the dead could hear them.
> Readers might like to write into this magazine, detailing their experiences, in
> time for next month's issue. This would enable us to carry this fascinating
> research on to its ultimate conclusion. Keep listening.
>
> ©1996.
>
> --
> Blue Sow

This is one of your published folio then
I take it?

Initial observations are along the lines
of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
in the night as well if all it's down to
is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
sight is temporarily diminished.

Were there any observations from Europe,
in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?

Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
be down to temperature changes as houses
contract at different rates as it drops,
a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
beams in the roof contract less than the
tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
contract at all.

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

FCS wrote:
> 
> This is one of your published folio then
> I take it?

Yes.  Admittedly a 'throwaway' example but one would perhaps not post anything 
beyond that here.


> Initial observations are along the lines
> of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
> in the night as well if all it's down to
> is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
> sight is temporarily diminished.
> 
> Were there any observations from Europe,
> in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
> optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?
> 
> Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
> be down to temperature changes as houses
> contract at different rates as it drops,
> a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
> beams in the roof contract less than the
> tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
> contract at all.
> 

I am not sure that it matters.  The piece was written to size requirements and 
to some extent to content requirements on a general theme of taking something 
ridiculous or pointless and treating it with the utmost seriousness.

In this instance, I implied that a common occurrence with no real mystery 
attached to it was being subjected to serious scientific research.

I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if 
there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without 
worrying about what others may think of it.


-- 
Blue Sow

On Jun 7, 2:16 pm, Blue Sow  wrote:
> FCS wrote:
>
> I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if
> there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without
> worrying about what others may think of it.

I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
not care one jot how it's received.

Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
olden village which is now a suburb from another after
a while, the approximations of spellings which are
supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
consistent?

I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.

It would be interesting to spend sufficient time in the
libraries round there to see if the same late-Victorian
theories of racial supremacy abound in dialect linguistics
textbooks there as they do in Yorkshire.

> --
> Blue Sow- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

FCS wrote:

> I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
> of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
> you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
> connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
> not care one jot how it's received.


Indeed.  Much as is the case with painting, composing, drama, etc., etc..
Pearls 'n' piggies anyone?


> Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
> olden village which is now a suburb from another after
> a while, the approximations of spellings which are
> supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
> consistent?
 >
> I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
> the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
> people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.


Convergence is not unusual, and with casual correspondence between diverse 
locations now commonplace, no doubt the pace will quicken.



-- 
Blue Sow

On May 25, 11:37 am, Blue Sow  wrote:
> THINGS THAT GO BUMP
> Virtually everyone has experienced the phenomenon of things that go bump in the
> night. Our own editress, many years ago, even wrote a poem on the subject and
> entitled it rather nattily 'Things that go bump in the night'. This piece of
> literature is now hopefully lost to us but even so, there is still a body of
> evidence and considerable research relating to this subject.
> It is said that things go bump in the night and scientists have told us that in
> fact, things go bump all the time but because our environment is usually quieter
> at night, and because our hearing is at its best at 0200 hours (apparently),
> things are heard to go bump at that time only.
> On the face of it, that is a plausible enough explanation, except for one thing.
> Sundays! Often, this is a quiet enough day and in the summer time, Sunday
> afternoons are sometimes so quiet that you can almost hear the grass growing.
> The question which now arises is 'Do things go bump on Sunday afternoons?'. This
> is a good question.
> Another good question usually ignored by scientists is 'What was it that went
> bump?'.  One could add to that 'Why did it go bump anyway?'.
> We are getting ahead of ourselves here. The first point to be clarified is 'When
> do things go bump?'. We can consider the 'what' and the 'why' later. We must
> also limit our consideration to UTTGBs or 'Unidentified Things That Go Bump'. By
> this means, we eradicate the sounds made by the plumbing, the heating system,
> floorboards and stairs etc, which will gurgle, click, creak and groan but which
> seldom if ever go bump.
> If we are to get to the truth here, it beseems all of us to maintain a log of
> UTTGBs. We should note the date, give a brief description and, most importantly,
> note the time of the incident using the twenty-four hour clock. The matter of
> the acuity of our hearing is probably a coloured fish; in this writer's
> experience, many UTTGBs are so loud even the dead could hear them.
> Readers might like to write into this magazine, detailing their experiences, in
> time for next month's issue. This would enable us to carry this fascinating
> research on to its ultimate conclusion. Keep listening.
>
> ©1996.
>
> --
> Blue Sow

This is one of your published folio then
I take it?

Initial observations are along the lines
of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
in the night as well if all it's down to
is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
sight is temporarily diminished.

Were there any observations from Europe,
in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?

Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
be down to temperature changes as houses
contract at different rates as it drops,
a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
beams in the roof contract less than the
tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
contract at all.

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

FCS wrote:
> 
> This is one of your published folio then
> I take it?

Yes.  Admittedly a 'throwaway' example but one would perhaps not post anything 
beyond that here.


> Initial observations are along the lines
> of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
> in the night as well if all it's down to
> is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
> sight is temporarily diminished.
> 
> Were there any observations from Europe,
> in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
> optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?
> 
> Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
> be down to temperature changes as houses
> contract at different rates as it drops,
> a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
> beams in the roof contract less than the
> tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
> contract at all.
> 

I am not sure that it matters.  The piece was written to size requirements and 
to some extent to content requirements on a general theme of taking something 
ridiculous or pointless and treating it with the utmost seriousness.

In this instance, I implied that a common occurrence with no real mystery 
attached to it was being subjected to serious scientific research.

I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if 
there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without 
worrying about what others may think of it.


-- 
Blue Sow

On Jun 7, 2:16 pm, Blue Sow  wrote:
> FCS wrote:
>
> I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if
> there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without
> worrying about what others may think of it.

I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
not care one jot how it's received.

Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
olden village which is now a suburb from another after
a while, the approximations of spellings which are
supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
consistent?

I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.

It would be interesting to spend sufficient time in the
libraries round there to see if the same late-Victorian
theories of racial supremacy abound in dialect linguistics
textbooks there as they do in Yorkshire.

> --
> Blue Sow- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

FCS wrote:

> I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
> of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
> you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
> connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
> not care one jot how it's received.


Indeed.  Much as is the case with painting, composing, drama, etc., etc..
Pearls 'n' piggies anyone?


> Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
> olden village which is now a suburb from another after
> a while, the approximations of spellings which are
> supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
> consistent?
 >
> I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
> the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
> people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.


Convergence is not unusual, and with casual correspondence between diverse 
locations now commonplace, no doubt the pace will quicken.



-- 
Blue Sow

On May 25, 11:37 am, Blue Sow  wrote:
> THINGS THAT GO BUMP
> Virtually everyone has experienced the phenomenon of things that go bump in the
> night. Our own editress, many years ago, even wrote a poem on the subject and
> entitled it rather nattily 'Things that go bump in the night'. This piece of
> literature is now hopefully lost to us but even so, there is still a body of
> evidence and considerable research relating to this subject.
> It is said that things go bump in the night and scientists have told us that in
> fact, things go bump all the time but because our environment is usually quieter
> at night, and because our hearing is at its best at 0200 hours (apparently),
> things are heard to go bump at that time only.
> On the face of it, that is a plausible enough explanation, except for one thing.
> Sundays! Often, this is a quiet enough day and in the summer time, Sunday
> afternoons are sometimes so quiet that you can almost hear the grass growing.
> The question which now arises is 'Do things go bump on Sunday afternoons?'. This
> is a good question.
> Another good question usually ignored by scientists is 'What was it that went
> bump?'.  One could add to that 'Why did it go bump anyway?'.
> We are getting ahead of ourselves here. The first point to be clarified is 'When
> do things go bump?'. We can consider the 'what' and the 'why' later. We must
> also limit our consideration to UTTGBs or 'Unidentified Things That Go Bump'. By
> this means, we eradicate the sounds made by the plumbing, the heating system,
> floorboards and stairs etc, which will gurgle, click, creak and groan but which
> seldom if ever go bump.
> If we are to get to the truth here, it beseems all of us to maintain a log of
> UTTGBs. We should note the date, give a brief description and, most importantly,
> note the time of the incident using the twenty-four hour clock. The matter of
> the acuity of our hearing is probably a coloured fish; in this writer's
> experience, many UTTGBs are so loud even the dead could hear them.
> Readers might like to write into this magazine, detailing their experiences, in
> time for next month's issue. This would enable us to carry this fascinating
> research on to its ultimate conclusion. Keep listening.
>
> ©1996.
>
> --
> Blue Sow

This is one of your published folio then
I take it?

Initial observations are along the lines
of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
in the night as well if all it's down to
is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
sight is temporarily diminished.

Were there any observations from Europe,
in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?

Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
be down to temperature changes as houses
contract at different rates as it drops,
a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
beams in the roof contract less than the
tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
contract at all.

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

FCS wrote:
> 
> This is one of your published folio then
> I take it?

Yes.  Admittedly a 'throwaway' example but one would perhaps not post anything 
beyond that here.


> Initial observations are along the lines
> of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
> in the night as well if all it's down to
> is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
> sight is temporarily diminished.
> 
> Were there any observations from Europe,
> in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
> optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?
> 
> Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
> be down to temperature changes as houses
> contract at different rates as it drops,
> a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
> beams in the roof contract less than the
> tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
> contract at all.
> 

I am not sure that it matters.  The piece was written to size requirements and 
to some extent to content requirements on a general theme of taking something 
ridiculous or pointless and treating it with the utmost seriousness.

In this instance, I implied that a common occurrence with no real mystery 
attached to it was being subjected to serious scientific research.

I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if 
there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without 
worrying about what others may think of it.


-- 
Blue Sow

On Jun 7, 2:16 pm, Blue Sow  wrote:
> FCS wrote:
>
> I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if
> there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without
> worrying about what others may think of it.

I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
not care one jot how it's received.

Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
olden village which is now a suburb from another after
a while, the approximations of spellings which are
supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
consistent?

I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.

It would be interesting to spend sufficient time in the
libraries round there to see if the same late-Victorian
theories of racial supremacy abound in dialect linguistics
textbooks there as they do in Yorkshire.

> --
> Blue Sow- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

FCS wrote:

> I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
> of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
> you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
> connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
> not care one jot how it's received.


Indeed.  Much as is the case with painting, composing, drama, etc., etc..
Pearls 'n' piggies anyone?


> Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
> olden village which is now a suburb from another after
> a while, the approximations of spellings which are
> supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
> consistent?
 >
> I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
> the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
> people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.


Convergence is not unusual, and with casual correspondence between diverse 
locations now commonplace, no doubt the pace will quicken.



-- 
Blue Sow

On May 25, 11:37 am, Blue Sow  wrote:
> THINGS THAT GO BUMP
> Virtually everyone has experienced the phenomenon of things that go bump in the
> night. Our own editress, many years ago, even wrote a poem on the subject and
> entitled it rather nattily 'Things that go bump in the night'. This piece of
> literature is now hopefully lost to us but even so, there is still a body of
> evidence and considerable research relating to this subject.
> It is said that things go bump in the night and scientists have told us that in
> fact, things go bump all the time but because our environment is usually quieter
> at night, and because our hearing is at its best at 0200 hours (apparently),
> things are heard to go bump at that time only.
> On the face of it, that is a plausible enough explanation, except for one thing.
> Sundays! Often, this is a quiet enough day and in the summer time, Sunday
> afternoons are sometimes so quiet that you can almost hear the grass growing.
> The question which now arises is 'Do things go bump on Sunday afternoons?'. This
> is a good question.
> Another good question usually ignored by scientists is 'What was it that went
> bump?'.  One could add to that 'Why did it go bump anyway?'.
> We are getting ahead of ourselves here. The first point to be clarified is 'When
> do things go bump?'. We can consider the 'what' and the 'why' later. We must
> also limit our consideration to UTTGBs or 'Unidentified Things That Go Bump'. By
> this means, we eradicate the sounds made by the plumbing, the heating system,
> floorboards and stairs etc, which will gurgle, click, creak and groan but which
> seldom if ever go bump.
> If we are to get to the truth here, it beseems all of us to maintain a log of
> UTTGBs. We should note the date, give a brief description and, most importantly,
> note the time of the incident using the twenty-four hour clock. The matter of
> the acuity of our hearing is probably a coloured fish; in this writer's
> experience, many UTTGBs are so loud even the dead could hear them.
> Readers might like to write into this magazine, detailing their experiences, in
> time for next month's issue. This would enable us to carry this fascinating
> research on to its ultimate conclusion. Keep listening.
>
> ©1996.
>
> --
> Blue Sow

This is one of your published folio then
I take it?

Initial observations are along the lines
of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
in the night as well if all it's down to
is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
sight is temporarily diminished.

Were there any observations from Europe,
in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?

Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
be down to temperature changes as houses
contract at different rates as it drops,
a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
beams in the roof contract less than the
tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
contract at all.

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

FCS wrote:
> 
> This is one of your published folio then
> I take it?

Yes.  Admittedly a 'throwaway' example but one would perhaps not post anything 
beyond that here.


> Initial observations are along the lines
> of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
> in the night as well if all it's down to
> is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
> sight is temporarily diminished.
> 
> Were there any observations from Europe,
> in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
> optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?
> 
> Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
> be down to temperature changes as houses
> contract at different rates as it drops,
> a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
> beams in the roof contract less than the
> tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
> contract at all.
> 

I am not sure that it matters.  The piece was written to size requirements and 
to some extent to content requirements on a general theme of taking something 
ridiculous or pointless and treating it with the utmost seriousness.

In this instance, I implied that a common occurrence with no real mystery 
attached to it was being subjected to serious scientific research.

I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if 
there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without 
worrying about what others may think of it.


-- 
Blue Sow

On Jun 7, 2:16 pm, Blue Sow  wrote:
> FCS wrote:
>
> I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if
> there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without
> worrying about what others may think of it.

I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
not care one jot how it's received.

Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
olden village which is now a suburb from another after
a while, the approximations of spellings which are
supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
consistent?

I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.

It would be interesting to spend sufficient time in the
libraries round there to see if the same late-Victorian
theories of racial supremacy abound in dialect linguistics
textbooks there as they do in Yorkshire.

> --
> Blue Sow- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

FCS wrote:

> I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
> of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
> you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
> connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
> not care one jot how it's received.


Indeed.  Much as is the case with painting, composing, drama, etc., etc..
Pearls 'n' piggies anyone?


> Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
> olden village which is now a suburb from another after
> a while, the approximations of spellings which are
> supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
> consistent?
 >
> I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
> the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
> people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.


Convergence is not unusual, and with casual correspondence between diverse 
locations now commonplace, no doubt the pace will quicken.



-- 
Blue Sow

On May 25, 11:37 am, Blue Sow  wrote:
> THINGS THAT GO BUMP
> Virtually everyone has experienced the phenomenon of things that go bump in the
> night. Our own editress, many years ago, even wrote a poem on the subject and
> entitled it rather nattily 'Things that go bump in the night'. This piece of
> literature is now hopefully lost to us but even so, there is still a body of
> evidence and considerable research relating to this subject.
> It is said that things go bump in the night and scientists have told us that in
> fact, things go bump all the time but because our environment is usually quieter
> at night, and because our hearing is at its best at 0200 hours (apparently),
> things are heard to go bump at that time only.
> On the face of it, that is a plausible enough explanation, except for one thing.
> Sundays! Often, this is a quiet enough day and in the summer time, Sunday
> afternoons are sometimes so quiet that you can almost hear the grass growing.
> The question which now arises is 'Do things go bump on Sunday afternoons?'. This
> is a good question.
> Another good question usually ignored by scientists is 'What was it that went
> bump?'.  One could add to that 'Why did it go bump anyway?'.
> We are getting ahead of ourselves here. The first point to be clarified is 'When
> do things go bump?'. We can consider the 'what' and the 'why' later. We must
> also limit our consideration to UTTGBs or 'Unidentified Things That Go Bump'. By
> this means, we eradicate the sounds made by the plumbing, the heating system,
> floorboards and stairs etc, which will gurgle, click, creak and groan but which
> seldom if ever go bump.
> If we are to get to the truth here, it beseems all of us to maintain a log of
> UTTGBs. We should note the date, give a brief description and, most importantly,
> note the time of the incident using the twenty-four hour clock. The matter of
> the acuity of our hearing is probably a coloured fish; in this writer's
> experience, many UTTGBs are so loud even the dead could hear them.
> Readers might like to write into this magazine, detailing their experiences, in
> time for next month's issue. This would enable us to carry this fascinating
> research on to its ultimate conclusion. Keep listening.
>
> ©1996.
>
> --
> Blue Sow

This is one of your published folio then
I take it?

Initial observations are along the lines
of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
in the night as well if all it's down to
is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
sight is temporarily diminished.

Were there any observations from Europe,
in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?

Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
be down to temperature changes as houses
contract at different rates as it drops,
a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
beams in the roof contract less than the
tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
contract at all.

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

FCS wrote:
> 
> This is one of your published folio then
> I take it?

Yes.  Admittedly a 'throwaway' example but one would perhaps not post anything 
beyond that here.


> Initial observations are along the lines
> of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
> in the night as well if all it's down to
> is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
> sight is temporarily diminished.
> 
> Were there any observations from Europe,
> in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
> optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?
> 
> Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
> be down to temperature changes as houses
> contract at different rates as it drops,
> a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
> beams in the roof contract less than the
> tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
> contract at all.
> 

I am not sure that it matters.  The piece was written to size requirements and 
to some extent to content requirements on a general theme of taking something 
ridiculous or pointless and treating it with the utmost seriousness.

In this instance, I implied that a common occurrence with no real mystery 
attached to it was being subjected to serious scientific research.

I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if 
there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without 
worrying about what others may think of it.


-- 
Blue Sow

On Jun 7, 2:16 pm, Blue Sow  wrote:
> FCS wrote:
>
> I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if
> there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without
> worrying about what others may think of it.

I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
not care one jot how it's received.

Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
olden village which is now a suburb from another after
a while, the approximations of spellings which are
supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
consistent?

I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.

It would be interesting to spend sufficient time in the
libraries round there to see if the same late-Victorian
theories of racial supremacy abound in dialect linguistics
textbooks there as they do in Yorkshire.

> --
> Blue Sow- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

FCS wrote:

> I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
> of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
> you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
> connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
> not care one jot how it's received.


Indeed.  Much as is the case with painting, composing, drama, etc., etc..
Pearls 'n' piggies anyone?


> Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
> olden village which is now a suburb from another after
> a while, the approximations of spellings which are
> supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
> consistent?
 >
> I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
> the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
> people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.


Convergence is not unusual, and with casual correspondence between diverse 
locations now commonplace, no doubt the pace will quicken.



-- 
Blue Sow

On May 25, 11:37 am, Blue Sow  wrote:
> THINGS THAT GO BUMP
> Virtually everyone has experienced the phenomenon of things that go bump in the
> night. Our own editress, many years ago, even wrote a poem on the subject and
> entitled it rather nattily 'Things that go bump in the night'. This piece of
> literature is now hopefully lost to us but even so, there is still a body of
> evidence and considerable research relating to this subject.
> It is said that things go bump in the night and scientists have told us that in
> fact, things go bump all the time but because our environment is usually quieter
> at night, and because our hearing is at its best at 0200 hours (apparently),
> things are heard to go bump at that time only.
> On the face of it, that is a plausible enough explanation, except for one thing.
> Sundays! Often, this is a quiet enough day and in the summer time, Sunday
> afternoons are sometimes so quiet that you can almost hear the grass growing.
> The question which now arises is 'Do things go bump on Sunday afternoons?'. This
> is a good question.
> Another good question usually ignored by scientists is 'What was it that went
> bump?'.  One could add to that 'Why did it go bump anyway?'.
> We are getting ahead of ourselves here. The first point to be clarified is 'When
> do things go bump?'. We can consider the 'what' and the 'why' later. We must
> also limit our consideration to UTTGBs or 'Unidentified Things That Go Bump'. By
> this means, we eradicate the sounds made by the plumbing, the heating system,
> floorboards and stairs etc, which will gurgle, click, creak and groan but which
> seldom if ever go bump.
> If we are to get to the truth here, it beseems all of us to maintain a log of
> UTTGBs. We should note the date, give a brief description and, most importantly,
> note the time of the incident using the twenty-four hour clock. The matter of
> the acuity of our hearing is probably a coloured fish; in this writer's
> experience, many UTTGBs are so loud even the dead could hear them.
> Readers might like to write into this magazine, detailing their experiences, in
> time for next month's issue. This would enable us to carry this fascinating
> research on to its ultimate conclusion. Keep listening.
>
> ©1996.
>
> --
> Blue Sow

This is one of your published folio then
I take it?

Initial observations are along the lines
of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
in the night as well if all it's down to
is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
sight is temporarily diminished.

Were there any observations from Europe,
in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?

Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
be down to temperature changes as houses
contract at different rates as it drops,
a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
beams in the roof contract less than the
tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
contract at all.

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

FCS wrote:
> 
> This is one of your published folio then
> I take it?

Yes.  Admittedly a 'throwaway' example but one would perhaps not post anything 
beyond that here.


> Initial observations are along the lines
> of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
> in the night as well if all it's down to
> is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
> sight is temporarily diminished.
> 
> Were there any observations from Europe,
> in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
> optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?
> 
> Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
> be down to temperature changes as houses
> contract at different rates as it drops,
> a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
> beams in the roof contract less than the
> tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
> contract at all.
> 

I am not sure that it matters.  The piece was written to size requirements and 
to some extent to content requirements on a general theme of taking something 
ridiculous or pointless and treating it with the utmost seriousness.

In this instance, I implied that a common occurrence with no real mystery 
attached to it was being subjected to serious scientific research.

I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if 
there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without 
worrying about what others may think of it.


-- 
Blue Sow

On Jun 7, 2:16 pm, Blue Sow  wrote:
> FCS wrote:
>
> I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if
> there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without
> worrying about what others may think of it.

I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
not care one jot how it's received.

Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
olden village which is now a suburb from another after
a while, the approximations of spellings which are
supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
consistent?

I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.

It would be interesting to spend sufficient time in the
libraries round there to see if the same late-Victorian
theories of racial supremacy abound in dialect linguistics
textbooks there as they do in Yorkshire.

> --
> Blue Sow- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

FCS wrote:

> I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
> of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
> you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
> connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
> not care one jot how it's received.


Indeed.  Much as is the case with painting, composing, drama, etc., etc..
Pearls 'n' piggies anyone?


> Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
> olden village which is now a suburb from another after
> a while, the approximations of spellings which are
> supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
> consistent?
 >
> I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
> the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
> people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.


Convergence is not unusual, and with casual correspondence between diverse 
locations now commonplace, no doubt the pace will quicken.



-- 
Blue Sow

On May 25, 11:37 am, Blue Sow  wrote:
> THINGS THAT GO BUMP
> Virtually everyone has experienced the phenomenon of things that go bump in the
> night. Our own editress, many years ago, even wrote a poem on the subject and
> entitled it rather nattily 'Things that go bump in the night'. This piece of
> literature is now hopefully lost to us but even so, there is still a body of
> evidence and considerable research relating to this subject.
> It is said that things go bump in the night and scientists have told us that in
> fact, things go bump all the time but because our environment is usually quieter
> at night, and because our hearing is at its best at 0200 hours (apparently),
> things are heard to go bump at that time only.
> On the face of it, that is a plausible enough explanation, except for one thing.
> Sundays! Often, this is a quiet enough day and in the summer time, Sunday
> afternoons are sometimes so quiet that you can almost hear the grass growing.
> The question which now arises is 'Do things go bump on Sunday afternoons?'. This
> is a good question.
> Another good question usually ignored by scientists is 'What was it that went
> bump?'.  One could add to that 'Why did it go bump anyway?'.
> We are getting ahead of ourselves here. The first point to be clarified is 'When
> do things go bump?'. We can consider the 'what' and the 'why' later. We must
> also limit our consideration to UTTGBs or 'Unidentified Things That Go Bump'. By
> this means, we eradicate the sounds made by the plumbing, the heating system,
> floorboards and stairs etc, which will gurgle, click, creak and groan but which
> seldom if ever go bump.
> If we are to get to the truth here, it beseems all of us to maintain a log of
> UTTGBs. We should note the date, give a brief description and, most importantly,
> note the time of the incident using the twenty-four hour clock. The matter of
> the acuity of our hearing is probably a coloured fish; in this writer's
> experience, many UTTGBs are so loud even the dead could hear them.
> Readers might like to write into this magazine, detailing their experiences, in
> time for next month's issue. This would enable us to carry this fascinating
> research on to its ultimate conclusion. Keep listening.
>
> ©1996.
>
> --
> Blue Sow

This is one of your published folio then
I take it?

Initial observations are along the lines
of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
in the night as well if all it's down to
is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
sight is temporarily diminished.

Were there any observations from Europe,
in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?

Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
be down to temperature changes as houses
contract at different rates as it drops,
a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
beams in the roof contract less than the
tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
contract at all.

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

FCS wrote:
> 
> This is one of your published folio then
> I take it?

Yes.  Admittedly a 'throwaway' example but one would perhaps not post anything 
beyond that here.


> Initial observations are along the lines
> of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
> in the night as well if all it's down to
> is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
> sight is temporarily diminished.
> 
> Were there any observations from Europe,
> in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
> optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?
> 
> Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
> be down to temperature changes as houses
> contract at different rates as it drops,
> a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
> beams in the roof contract less than the
> tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
> contract at all.
> 

I am not sure that it matters.  The piece was written to size requirements and 
to some extent to content requirements on a general theme of taking something 
ridiculous or pointless and treating it with the utmost seriousness.

In this instance, I implied that a common occurrence with no real mystery 
attached to it was being subjected to serious scientific research.

I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if 
there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without 
worrying about what others may think of it.


-- 
Blue Sow

On Jun 7, 2:16 pm, Blue Sow  wrote:
> FCS wrote:
>
> I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if
> there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without
> worrying about what others may think of it.

I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
not care one jot how it's received.

Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
olden village which is now a suburb from another after
a while, the approximations of spellings which are
supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
consistent?

I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.

It would be interesting to spend sufficient time in the
libraries round there to see if the same late-Victorian
theories of racial supremacy abound in dialect linguistics
textbooks there as they do in Yorkshire.

> --
> Blue Sow- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

FCS wrote:

> I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
> of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
> you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
> connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
> not care one jot how it's received.


Indeed.  Much as is the case with painting, composing, drama, etc., etc..
Pearls 'n' piggies anyone?


> Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
> olden village which is now a suburb from another after
> a while, the approximations of spellings which are
> supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
> consistent?
 >
> I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
> the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
> people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.


Convergence is not unusual, and with casual correspondence between diverse 
locations now commonplace, no doubt the pace will quicken.



-- 
Blue Sow

On May 25, 11:37 am, Blue Sow  wrote:
> THINGS THAT GO BUMP
> Virtually everyone has experienced the phenomenon of things that go bump in the
> night. Our own editress, many years ago, even wrote a poem on the subject and
> entitled it rather nattily 'Things that go bump in the night'. This piece of
> literature is now hopefully lost to us but even so, there is still a body of
> evidence and considerable research relating to this subject.
> It is said that things go bump in the night and scientists have told us that in
> fact, things go bump all the time but because our environment is usually quieter
> at night, and because our hearing is at its best at 0200 hours (apparently),
> things are heard to go bump at that time only.
> On the face of it, that is a plausible enough explanation, except for one thing.
> Sundays! Often, this is a quiet enough day and in the summer time, Sunday
> afternoons are sometimes so quiet that you can almost hear the grass growing.
> The question which now arises is 'Do things go bump on Sunday afternoons?'. This
> is a good question.
> Another good question usually ignored by scientists is 'What was it that went
> bump?'.  One could add to that 'Why did it go bump anyway?'.
> We are getting ahead of ourselves here. The first point to be clarified is 'When
> do things go bump?'. We can consider the 'what' and the 'why' later. We must
> also limit our consideration to UTTGBs or 'Unidentified Things That Go Bump'. By
> this means, we eradicate the sounds made by the plumbing, the heating system,
> floorboards and stairs etc, which will gurgle, click, creak and groan but which
> seldom if ever go bump.
> If we are to get to the truth here, it beseems all of us to maintain a log of
> UTTGBs. We should note the date, give a brief description and, most importantly,
> note the time of the incident using the twenty-four hour clock. The matter of
> the acuity of our hearing is probably a coloured fish; in this writer's
> experience, many UTTGBs are so loud even the dead could hear them.
> Readers might like to write into this magazine, detailing their experiences, in
> time for next month's issue. This would enable us to carry this fascinating
> research on to its ultimate conclusion. Keep listening.
>
> ©1996.
>
> --
> Blue Sow

This is one of your published folio then
I take it?

Initial observations are along the lines
of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
in the night as well if all it's down to
is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
sight is temporarily diminished.

Were there any observations from Europe,
in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?

Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
be down to temperature changes as houses
contract at different rates as it drops,
a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
beams in the roof contract less than the
tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
contract at all.

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

FCS wrote:
> 
> This is one of your published folio then
> I take it?

Yes.  Admittedly a 'throwaway' example but one would perhaps not post anything 
beyond that here.


> Initial observations are along the lines
> of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
> in the night as well if all it's down to
> is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
> sight is temporarily diminished.
> 
> Were there any observations from Europe,
> in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
> optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?
> 
> Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
> be down to temperature changes as houses
> contract at different rates as it drops,
> a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
> beams in the roof contract less than the
> tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
> contract at all.
> 

I am not sure that it matters.  The piece was written to size requirements and 
to some extent to content requirements on a general theme of taking something 
ridiculous or pointless and treating it with the utmost seriousness.

In this instance, I implied that a common occurrence with no real mystery 
attached to it was being subjected to serious scientific research.

I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if 
there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without 
worrying about what others may think of it.


-- 
Blue Sow

On Jun 7, 2:16 pm, Blue Sow  wrote:
> FCS wrote:
>
> I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if
> there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without
> worrying about what others may think of it.

I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
not care one jot how it's received.

Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
olden village which is now a suburb from another after
a while, the approximations of spellings which are
supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
consistent?

I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.

It would be interesting to spend sufficient time in the
libraries round there to see if the same late-Victorian
theories of racial supremacy abound in dialect linguistics
textbooks there as they do in Yorkshire.

> --
> Blue Sow- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

FCS wrote:

> I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
> of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
> you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
> connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
> not care one jot how it's received.


Indeed.  Much as is the case with painting, composing, drama, etc., etc..
Pearls 'n' piggies anyone?


> Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
> olden village which is now a suburb from another after
> a while, the approximations of spellings which are
> supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
> consistent?
 >
> I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
> the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
> people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.


Convergence is not unusual, and with casual correspondence between diverse 
locations now commonplace, no doubt the pace will quicken.



-- 
Blue Sow

On May 25, 11:37 am, Blue Sow  wrote:
> THINGS THAT GO BUMP
> Virtually everyone has experienced the phenomenon of things that go bump in the
> night. Our own editress, many years ago, even wrote a poem on the subject and
> entitled it rather nattily 'Things that go bump in the night'. This piece of
> literature is now hopefully lost to us but even so, there is still a body of
> evidence and considerable research relating to this subject.
> It is said that things go bump in the night and scientists have told us that in
> fact, things go bump all the time but because our environment is usually quieter
> at night, and because our hearing is at its best at 0200 hours (apparently),
> things are heard to go bump at that time only.
> On the face of it, that is a plausible enough explanation, except for one thing.
> Sundays! Often, this is a quiet enough day and in the summer time, Sunday
> afternoons are sometimes so quiet that you can almost hear the grass growing.
> The question which now arises is 'Do things go bump on Sunday afternoons?'. This
> is a good question.
> Another good question usually ignored by scientists is 'What was it that went
> bump?'.  One could add to that 'Why did it go bump anyway?'.
> We are getting ahead of ourselves here. The first point to be clarified is 'When
> do things go bump?'. We can consider the 'what' and the 'why' later. We must
> also limit our consideration to UTTGBs or 'Unidentified Things That Go Bump'. By
> this means, we eradicate the sounds made by the plumbing, the heating system,
> floorboards and stairs etc, which will gurgle, click, creak and groan but which
> seldom if ever go bump.
> If we are to get to the truth here, it beseems all of us to maintain a log of
> UTTGBs. We should note the date, give a brief description and, most importantly,
> note the time of the incident using the twenty-four hour clock. The matter of
> the acuity of our hearing is probably a coloured fish; in this writer's
> experience, many UTTGBs are so loud even the dead could hear them.
> Readers might like to write into this magazine, detailing their experiences, in
> time for next month's issue. This would enable us to carry this fascinating
> research on to its ultimate conclusion. Keep listening.
>
> ©1996.
>
> --
> Blue Sow

This is one of your published folio then
I take it?

Initial observations are along the lines
of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
in the night as well if all it's down to
is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
sight is temporarily diminished.

Were there any observations from Europe,
in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?

Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
be down to temperature changes as houses
contract at different rates as it drops,
a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
beams in the roof contract less than the
tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
contract at all.

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

FCS wrote:
> 
> This is one of your published folio then
> I take it?

Yes.  Admittedly a 'throwaway' example but one would perhaps not post anything 
beyond that here.


> Initial observations are along the lines
> of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
> in the night as well if all it's down to
> is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
> sight is temporarily diminished.
> 
> Were there any observations from Europe,
> in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
> optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?
> 
> Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
> be down to temperature changes as houses
> contract at different rates as it drops,
> a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
> beams in the roof contract less than the
> tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
> contract at all.
> 

I am not sure that it matters.  The piece was written to size requirements and 
to some extent to content requirements on a general theme of taking something 
ridiculous or pointless and treating it with the utmost seriousness.

In this instance, I implied that a common occurrence with no real mystery 
attached to it was being subjected to serious scientific research.

I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if 
there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without 
worrying about what others may think of it.


-- 
Blue Sow

On Jun 7, 2:16 pm, Blue Sow  wrote:
> FCS wrote:
>
> I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if
> there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without
> worrying about what others may think of it.

I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
not care one jot how it's received.

Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
olden village which is now a suburb from another after
a while, the approximations of spellings which are
supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
consistent?

I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.

It would be interesting to spend sufficient time in the
libraries round there to see if the same late-Victorian
theories of racial supremacy abound in dialect linguistics
textbooks there as they do in Yorkshire.

> --
> Blue Sow- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

FCS wrote:

> I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
> of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
> you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
> connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
> not care one jot how it's received.


Indeed.  Much as is the case with painting, composing, drama, etc., etc..
Pearls 'n' piggies anyone?


> Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
> olden village which is now a suburb from another after
> a while, the approximations of spellings which are
> supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
> consistent?
 >
> I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
> the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
> people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.


Convergence is not unusual, and with casual correspondence between diverse 
locations now commonplace, no doubt the pace will quicken.



-- 
Blue Sow

On May 25, 11:37 am, Blue Sow  wrote:
> THINGS THAT GO BUMP
> Virtually everyone has experienced the phenomenon of things that go bump in the
> night. Our own editress, many years ago, even wrote a poem on the subject and
> entitled it rather nattily 'Things that go bump in the night'. This piece of
> literature is now hopefully lost to us but even so, there is still a body of
> evidence and considerable research relating to this subject.
> It is said that things go bump in the night and scientists have told us that in
> fact, things go bump all the time but because our environment is usually quieter
> at night, and because our hearing is at its best at 0200 hours (apparently),
> things are heard to go bump at that time only.
> On the face of it, that is a plausible enough explanation, except for one thing.
> Sundays! Often, this is a quiet enough day and in the summer time, Sunday
> afternoons are sometimes so quiet that you can almost hear the grass growing.
> The question which now arises is 'Do things go bump on Sunday afternoons?'. This
> is a good question.
> Another good question usually ignored by scientists is 'What was it that went
> bump?'.  One could add to that 'Why did it go bump anyway?'.
> We are getting ahead of ourselves here. The first point to be clarified is 'When
> do things go bump?'. We can consider the 'what' and the 'why' later. We must
> also limit our consideration to UTTGBs or 'Unidentified Things That Go Bump'. By
> this means, we eradicate the sounds made by the plumbing, the heating system,
> floorboards and stairs etc, which will gurgle, click, creak and groan but which
> seldom if ever go bump.
> If we are to get to the truth here, it beseems all of us to maintain a log of
> UTTGBs. We should note the date, give a brief description and, most importantly,
> note the time of the incident using the twenty-four hour clock. The matter of
> the acuity of our hearing is probably a coloured fish; in this writer's
> experience, many UTTGBs are so loud even the dead could hear them.
> Readers might like to write into this magazine, detailing their experiences, in
> time for next month's issue. This would enable us to carry this fascinating
> research on to its ultimate conclusion. Keep listening.
>
> ©1996.
>
> --
> Blue Sow

This is one of your published folio then
I take it?

Initial observations are along the lines
of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
in the night as well if all it's down to
is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
sight is temporarily diminished.

Were there any observations from Europe,
in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?

Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
be down to temperature changes as houses
contract at different rates as it drops,
a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
beams in the roof contract less than the
tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
contract at all.

G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

FCS wrote:
> 
> This is one of your published folio then
> I take it?

Yes.  Admittedly a 'throwaway' example but one would perhaps not post anything 
beyond that here.


> Initial observations are along the lines
> of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
> in the night as well if all it's down to
> is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
> sight is temporarily diminished.
> 
> Were there any observations from Europe,
> in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
> optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?
> 
> Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
> be down to temperature changes as houses
> contract at different rates as it drops,
> a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
> beams in the roof contract less than the
> tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
> contract at all.
> 

I am not sure that it matters.  The piece was written to size requirements and 
to some extent to content requirements on a general theme of taking something 
ridiculous or pointless and treating it with the utmost seriousness.

In this instance, I implied that a common occurrence with no real mystery 
attached to it was being subjected to serious scientific research.

I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if 
there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without 
worrying about what others may think of it.


-- 
Blue Sow

On Jun 7, 2:16 pm, Blue Sow  wrote:
> FCS wrote:
>
> I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if
> there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without
> worrying about what others may think of it.

I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
not care one jot how it's received.

Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
olden village which is now a suburb from another after
a while, the approximations of spellings which are
supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
consistent?

I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.

It would be interesting to spend sufficient time in the
libraries round there to see if the same late-Victorian
theories of racial supremacy abound in dialect linguistics
textbooks there as they do in Yorkshire.

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G DAEB

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FCS wrote:

> I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
> of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
> you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
> connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
> not care one jot how it's received.


Indeed.  Much as is the case with painting, composing, drama, etc., etc..
Pearls 'n' piggies anyone?


> Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
> olden village which is now a suburb from another after
> a while, the approximations of spellings which are
> supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
> consistent?
 >
> I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
> the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
> people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.


Convergence is not unusual, and with casual correspondence between diverse 
locations now commonplace, no doubt the pace will quicken.



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Blue Sow

On May 25, 11:37 am, Blue Sow  wrote:
> THINGS THAT GO BUMP
> Virtually everyone has experienced the phenomenon of things that go bump in the
> night. Our own editress, many years ago, even wrote a poem on the subject and
> entitled it rather nattily 'Things that go bump in the night'. This piece of
> literature is now hopefully lost to us but even so, there is still a body of
> evidence and considerable research relating to this subject.
> It is said that things go bump in the night and scientists have told us that in
> fact, things go bump all the time but because our environment is usually quieter
> at night, and because our hearing is at its best at 0200 hours (apparently),
> things are heard to go bump at that time only.
> On the face of it, that is a plausible enough explanation, except for one thing.
> Sundays! Often, this is a quiet enough day and in the summer time, Sunday
> afternoons are sometimes so quiet that you can almost hear the grass growing.
> The question which now arises is 'Do things go bump on Sunday afternoons?'. This
> is a good question.
> Another good question usually ignored by scientists is 'What was it that went
> bump?'.  One could add to that 'Why did it go bump anyway?'.
> We are getting ahead of ourselves here. The first point to be clarified is 'When
> do things go bump?'. We can consider the 'what' and the 'why' later. We must
> also limit our consideration to UTTGBs or 'Unidentified Things That Go Bump'. By
> this means, we eradicate the sounds made by the plumbing, the heating system,
> floorboards and stairs etc, which will gurgle, click, creak and groan but which
> seldom if ever go bump.
> If we are to get to the truth here, it beseems all of us to maintain a log of
> UTTGBs. We should note the date, give a brief description and, most importantly,
> note the time of the incident using the twenty-four hour clock. The matter of
> the acuity of our hearing is probably a coloured fish; in this writer's
> experience, many UTTGBs are so loud even the dead could hear them.
> Readers might like to write into this magazine, detailing their experiences, in
> time for next month's issue. This would enable us to carry this fascinating
> research on to its ultimate conclusion. Keep listening.
>
> ©1996.
>
> --
> Blue Sow

This is one of your published folio then
I take it?

Initial observations are along the lines
of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
in the night as well if all it's down to
is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
sight is temporarily diminished.

Were there any observations from Europe,
in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?

Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
be down to temperature changes as houses
contract at different rates as it drops,
a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
beams in the roof contract less than the
tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
contract at all.

G DAEB

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FCS wrote:
> 
> This is one of your published folio then
> I take it?

Yes.  Admittedly a 'throwaway' example but one would perhaps not post anything 
beyond that here.


> Initial observations are along the lines
> of: Yes, you'd think things went "poooh"
> in the night as well if all it's down to
> is the sharpening of sensory acuity once
> sight is temporarily diminished.
> 
> Were there any observations from Europe,
> in general, E.g., is aural acuity at its
> optimum at 02:00 in midsummer in Tromso?
> 
> Otherwise, FWIW, I thought much of it to
> be down to temperature changes as houses
> contract at different rates as it drops,
> a bit like how a thermocouple works. The
> beams in the roof contract less than the
> tiles, whilst the lead flashing does not
> contract at all.
> 

I am not sure that it matters.  The piece was written to size requirements and 
to some extent to content requirements on a general theme of taking something 
ridiculous or pointless and treating it with the utmost seriousness.

In this instance, I implied that a common occurrence with no real mystery 
attached to it was being subjected to serious scientific research.

I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if 
there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without 
worrying about what others may think of it.


-- 
Blue Sow

On Jun 7, 2:16 pm, Blue Sow  wrote:
> FCS wrote:
>
> I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if
> there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without
> worrying about what others may think of it.

I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
not care one jot how it's received.

Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
olden village which is now a suburb from another after
a while, the approximations of spellings which are
supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
consistent?

I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.

It would be interesting to spend sufficient time in the
libraries round there to see if the same late-Victorian
theories of racial supremacy abound in dialect linguistics
textbooks there as they do in Yorkshire.

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> Blue Sow- Hide quoted text -
>
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G DAEB

COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
--

FCS wrote:

> I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
> of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
> you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
> connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
> not care one jot how it's received.


Indeed.  Much as is the case with painting, composing, drama, etc., etc..
Pearls 'n' piggies anyone?


> Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
> olden village which is now a suburb from another after
> a while, the approximations of spellings which are
> supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
> consistent?
 >
> I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
> the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
> people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.


Convergence is not unusual, and with casual correspondence between diverse 
locations now commonplace, no doubt the pace will quicken.



-- 
Blue Sow