Quiet in here, isn't it?
Even the stupid trolls are silent.

Has everyone fucked off, and got a life?

Bastards!

-- 
This could be the last time

In article ,
August West   wrote:

>Has everyone fucked off, and got a life?

Not me, I just got an Eee.

-- Richard
-- 
Please remember to mention me / in tapes you leave behind.

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:00:23 +0100, August West wrote:

> Quiet in here, isn't it?
> Even the stupid trolls are silent.
> 
> Has everyone fucked off, and got a life?

Nah. Listening to old episodes of the News Quiz, and watching police chase
programs on TV. What we need is an interesting fred that won't cause
fights, and is easily mutable into other topics...

How about something simple - film titles with a word replaced with HORSE...

I'll start with The Way Of The HORSE.


-- 
The other day I was killing this pig with a hammer.
I thought - "I need to relax".

On 15 Aug 2008 20:19:48 GMT, Richard Tobin wrote:

> In article ,
> August West   wrote:
> 
>>Has everyone fucked off, and got a life?
> 
> Not me, I just got an Eee.

presumably it will eventually be the Eee of yore.


-- 
I don't have a life. I have a program.

Richard Tobin  wrote:

> >Has everyone fucked off, and got a life?
> 
> Not me, I just got an Eee.

Feh, I got a puncture. A hundred and ten rotten quid 
and a wasted afternoon

-- 
^Ï^                                Sn!pe  

      o------<< [   Shake it to wake it, oh yes.   ] >>------o

Hot Badger Deluxe  wrote:

> How about something simple - film titles with a word replaced with HORSE...
> 
> I'll start with The Way Of The HORSE.

HORSE Of Cards

-- 
^Ï^                                Sn!pe  

      o------<< [   Shake it to wake it, oh yes.   ] >>------o

Hot Badger Deluxe  writes:

> How about something simple - film titles with a word replaced with HORSE...
>
> I'll start with The Way Of The HORSE.

A man called HORSE (er...)

Kind HORSE and Coronets

Bridget Jones: The HORSE of Reason

Bleak HORSE

Gone with the HORSE

-- 
The future was never like this

richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:

> In article ,
> August West   wrote:
>
>>Has everyone fucked off, and got a life?
>
> Not me, I just got an Eee.

Thus far, I have resisted.
Can't last much longer, I feel.

-- 
sometimes I is, sometimes I ain't

Hot Badger Deluxe set the following eddies spiralling through the space-time
continuum:

> On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:00:23 +0100, August West wrote:
> 
>> Quiet in here, isn't it?
>> Even the stupid trolls are silent.
>> 
>> Has everyone fucked off, and got a life?
> 
> Nah. Listening to old episodes of the News Quiz, and watching police chase
> programs on TV. What we need is an interesting fred that won't cause
> fights, and is easily mutable into other topics...
> 
> How about something simple - film titles with a word replaced with
> HORSE...
> 
> I'll start with The Way Of The HORSE.

A fistful of HORSES
-- 
ξ:) Proud to be curly

Interchange the alphabetic letter groups to reply

In article ,
Hot Badger Deluxe   wrote:

>How about something simple - film titles with a word replaced with HORSE...

ET, the Extra HORSE

-- Richard
-- 
Please remember to mention me / in tapes you leave behind.

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:21:31 +0100, Sn!pe wrote:

> Hot Badger Deluxe  wrote:
> 
>> How about something simple - film titles with a word replaced with HORSE...
>> 
>> I'll start with The Way Of The HORSE.
> 
> HORSE Of Cards

HORSE on a hot tin roof


-- 
Why is the alphabet in that order? 
Is it because of that song?

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:23:58 +0100, August West wrote:

> Hot Badger Deluxe  writes:
> 
>> How about something simple - film titles with a word replaced with HORSE...
>>
>> I'll start with The Way Of The HORSE.
> 
> A man called HORSE (er...)
> 
> Kind HORSE and Coronets
> 
> Bridget Jones: The HORSE of Reason
> 
> Bleak HORSE
> 
> Gone with the HORSE

HORSE busters


-- 
Real men don't dance - they sit, sweat and curse.

In article ,
August West   wrote:

>> Not me, I just got an Eee.

>Thus far, I have resisted.
>Can't last much longer, I feel.

Don't get it from Scan.

I got mine from the Philip-K-Dick-ly-named "Misco".

"Safe if used as directed."

-- Richard
-- 
Please remember to mention me / in tapes you leave behind.

Hot Badger Deluxe  writes:

> HORSE busters

Batman: The Dark HORSE

The Empire Strikes HORSE

Dances with HORSEs

-- 
the second hand unwinds

In article <1o69c1qupwchy$.t4ko9nevpg3b$.dlg@40tude.net>,
Hot Badger Deluxe   wrote:

>HORSE on a hot tin roof

On Her Majesty's Secret HORSE.

A HORSE with a view.

Four weddings and a HORSE.

Raiders of the Lost HORSE.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, HORSE.

HORSE Diggers of '49.

A Day at the HORSES.

The HORSE of King George (cf uk.misc passim).

Everything You Wanted to Know about HORSES* (*But Were Afraid to Ask).

Pale HORSE.

-- Richard
-- 
Please remember to mention me / in tapes you leave behind.

In article , 
watercress@spamcop.org says...
> How about something simple - film titles with a word replaced with HORSE...
> 
> I'll start with The Way Of The HORSE.

Bring Me The HORSE Of Alfredo Garcia.
-- 
SAm.

August West wrote (apparently) in uk.misc on Fri 15 Aug 2008 21:24:31:

> richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:
> 
>> In article ,
>> August West   wrote:
>>
>>>Has everyone fucked off, and got a life?
>>
>> Not me, I just got an Eee.
> 
> Thus far, I have resisted.
> Can't last much longer, I feel.
> 
I have one too. I use it more for monitoring other stuff than for yer 
actual typing on as the keyboard isn't ideal. I have a backup of my 
newsreader configuration on there as well. The solid state disk thing 
does make it more rapid in general operation than I'd expected.

I also picked up an Advent 4211 from Purple World more recently (MSI 
Wind/U100 equivalent) and that's easier to operate. With a bit of 
bodging about (and a different wireless card and extra RAM) I now have 
Mac OS X running on it. It's shiny.

But I've still not got a life. Yet.
-- 
MrGuest
Always, seemingly, on the road to nowhere

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:40:19 +0100, August West wrote:

<snip>

I Spit On Your HORSE

Star Trek: The HORSE of Khan

HORSEfly


-- 
Nobody realises that some people expend
tremendous energy merely to be normal.

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:31:47 +0100, Hot Badger Deluxe
 wrote:

>> Gone with the HORSE

HORSE With The Wind.

HORSES in the mist.

CloverHORSE

Bob and Ted and Carol and HORSE
-- 
JAF anarchatntlworldfullstopcom
     Sapere Aude

On 15 Aug 2008 20:46:52 GMT, Richard Tobin wrote:

>In article <1o69c1qupwchy$.t4ko9nevpg3b$.dlg@40tude.net>,
>Hot Badger Deluxe   wrote:
>
>>HORSE on a hot tin roof
>
>On Her Majesty's Secret HORSE.
>
>A HORSE with a view.
>
>Four weddings and a HORSE.
>
>Raiders of the Lost HORSE.
>
>Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, HORSE.
>
>HORSE Diggers of '49.
>
>A Day at the HORSES.
>
>The HORSE of King George (cf uk.misc passim).
>
>Everything You Wanted to Know about HORSES* (*But Were Afraid to Ask).
>
>Pale HORSE.

2001, a HORSE Odyssey

Carry on HORSE

The HORSEfather

Straw HORSEs.

A HORSE Called Wanda

-- 

Peter

I'm an alien
email: home at peteward dot gotadsl dot co dot uk
Here am I, brain the size of a planet, and I spend my time posting to Usenet!

Hot Badger Deluxe  wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:40:19 +0100, August West wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> I Spit On Your HORSE
> 
> Star Trek: The HORSE of Khan
> 
> HORSEfly

The HORSE Of Oz

-- 
^Ï^                                Sn!pe  

      o------<< [   Shake it to wake it, oh yes.   ] >>------o

In article <1ilqjpq.1t6091qctuyzwN%snipe@spambin.fsnet.co.uk>, 
snipe@spambin.fsnet.co.uk says...
> Hot Badger Deluxe  wrote:
> > On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:40:19 +0100, August West wrote:
> > HORSEfly
> 
> The HORSE Of Oz

The HORSE Wears Prada.

Quatermass And The HORSE.

Mean HORSEs.

Ten Things I Hate About HORSEs.
-- 
SAm.

Sam Nelson  wrote:

> Ten Things I Hate About HORSEs.

Not enough wheels on 'em, obv.

-- 
^Ï^                                Sn!pe  

      o------<< [   Shake it to wake it, oh yes.   ] >>------o

In article <g84pvs$28lk$3@pc-news.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, 
richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk says...
> In article <1o69c1qupwchy$.t4ko9nevpg3b$.dlg@40tude.net>,
> Hot Badger Deluxe   wrote:
> 
> >HORSE on a hot tin roof
> On Her Majesty's Secret HORSE.
> A HORSE with a view.
> Four weddings and a HORSE.
> Raiders of the Lost HORSE.
> Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, HORSE.
> HORSE Diggers of '49.
> A Day at the HORSES.
> The HORSE of King George (cf uk.misc passim).
> Everything You Wanted to Know about HORSES* (*But Were Afraid to Ask).
> Pale HORSE.
> 

The HORSE Always Rings Twice
Arsenic and Old HORSE
Monty Python's HORSE of Brian
The Great St Trinian's HORSE Robbery
The Unbearable Lightness of HORSE
I'm All HORSE Jack
HORSEfinger
From Russia With HORSE
The HORSE With the Golden Gun
HORSE Comes To Frogtown
HORSE Alone
Back to the HORSE
Goodbye HORSE Pie
HORSE Exit to Brooklyn
The BirdHORSE of Alcatraz
2001: A HORSE Oddysey

-- 
eric
Live fast, die only if strictly necessary.

Bing Trotsky  wrote:

> 2001: A HORSE Oddysey

HORSEY 3, starring Sylvester Stallion.

-- 
^Ï^                                Sn!pe  

      o------<< [   Shake it to wake it, oh yes.   ] >>------o

And Sam Nelson  was like:

> In article , 
> watercress@spamcop.org says...
>> How about something simple - film titles with a word replaced with HORSE...
>> 
>> I'll start with The Way Of The HORSE.
>
> Bring Me The HORSE Of Alfredo Garcia.

How to marry HORSE millionaire

-- 
| Patrick Hardlentil -  patrick@dogslobber.demon.co.uk
| Like death in a top hat

And richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) was like:

> In article ,
> Hot Badger Deluxe   wrote:
>
>>How about something simple - film titles with a word replaced with HORSE...
>
> ET, the Extra HORSE

The HORSE

-- 
| Patrick Hardlentil -  patrick@dogslobber.demon.co.uk
| Do not touch happy fun gnooby

And August West  was like:

> richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:
>
>> In article ,
>> August West   wrote:
>>
>>>Has everyone fucked off, and got a life?
>>
>> Not me, I just got an Eee.
>
> Thus far, I have resisted.
> Can't last much longer, I feel.

Friend of mine has been asking whether he should get an Eeeeee or an
Intel Netbook. Why he asks me, I don't know. I've no idea what he's
talking about.

-- 
| Patrick Hardlentil -  patrick@dogslobber.demon.co.uk
| Like death in a top hat

On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:11:19 +0100, Patrick Hardlentil wrote:

<snip>

>> ET, the Extra HORSE
> 
> The HORSE

HORSE!


-- 
The lino sleeps tonight

August West  writes:

> Quiet in here, isn't it?
> Even the stupid trolls are silent.
>
> Has everyone fucked off, and got a life?
>
> Bastards!

Worcester beer festival, wunnit.

Chris
-- 
Chris Eilbeck

"Patrick Hardlentil"  writes:

> And August West  was like:
>
>> richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:
>>
>>> In article ,
>>> August West   wrote:
>>>
>>>>Has everyone fucked off, and got a life?
>>>
>>> Not me, I just got an Eee.
>>
>> Thus far, I have resisted.
>> Can't last much longer, I feel.
>
> Friend of mine has been asking whether he should get an Eeeeee or an
> Intel Netbook. Why he asks me, I don't know. I've no idea what he's
> talking about.

HP Mininote.  Nice display.  Nice keyboard.  Plenty of features.

Chris
-- 
Chris Eilbeck

And Chris Eilbeck  was like:

> "Patrick Hardlentil"
>  writes:
>>
>> Friend of mine has been asking whether he should get an Eeeeee or
>> an Intel Netbook. Why he asks me, I don't know. I've no idea what
>> he's talking about.
>
> HP Mininote.  Nice display.  Nice keyboard.  Plenty of features.

<fx: google>

Thanks, I'll tell him. It looks neat, if a bit pricier. Curious how
all these sub-boathooks are offered with Linux, while with a Proper
Computer you have to put it on yourself, mostly.

-- 
| Patrick Hardlentil -  patrick@dogslobber.demon.co.uk
| Don't make me fetch my cormorant

Chris Eilbeck  writes:

> August West  writes:
>
>> Quiet in here, isn't it?
>> Even the stupid trolls are silent.
>>
>> Has everyone fucked off, and got a life?
>>
>> Bastards!
>
> Worcester beer festival, wunnit.

Oh, aye. 
Bloody drunks!

-- 
I'm going on to something sweeter

"Sn!pe"  wrote in message 
news:1ilqgir.4l9tuy75hrbxN%snipe@spambin.fsnet.co.uk...
> Richard Tobin  wrote:
>
>> >Has everyone fucked off, and got a life?
>>
>> Not me, I just got an Eee.
>
> Feh, I got a puncture. A hundred and ten rotten quid
> and a wasted afternoon
>
Be thankful you were not in Portugal. There you are legally obliged to 
replace both tyres on the same axle if one is punctured beyond repair. Mind 
you tyres are not the exhorbitant price they are in UK.

-- 
Chris, (on tour)
Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
Schopenhauer

Cerumen  wrote:

> > Feh, I got a puncture. A hundred and ten rotten quid
> > and a wasted afternoon
> >
> Be thankful you were not in Portugal. There you are legally obliged to
> replace both tyres on the same axle if one is punctured beyond repair. Mind
> you tyres are not the exhorbitant price they are in UK.

Blimey. I can sort of see the sense, I much prefer my tyres to be
equally worn; but fexake, they had less that 4,000 miles on them.

-- 
^Ï^                                Sn!pe  

      o------<< [   Shake it to wake it, oh yes.   ] >>------o

And Hot Badger Deluxe  was like:

> On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:11:19 +0100, Patrick Hardlentil wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>>> ET, the Extra HORSE
>> 
>> The HORSE
>
> HORSE!

The Delta HORSE.

-- 
| Patrick Hardlentil -  patrick@dogslobber.demon.co.uk
| That was all. beer atheism Did he believe that?

On 2008-08-15, August West  wrote:
> richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:
>
>> In article ,
>> August West   wrote:
>>
>>>Has everyone fucked off, and got a life?
>>
>> Not me, I just got an Eee.
>
> Thus far, I have resisted.
> Can't last much longer, I feel.

YMYA.

Quick look on eBay & I reckon I can sell the Psion 5MX & Nokia 770 & have nearly
enough wonga for an eee.


-- 
          "Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain
                 and presumptuous desire for a second one."
               [email me at huge {at} huge (dot) org <dot> uk]

On 2008-08-16, Patrick Hardlentil  wrote:
>
> And Chris Eilbeck  was like:
>
>> "Patrick Hardlentil"
>>  writes:
>>>
>>> Friend of mine has been asking whether he should get an Eeeeee or
>>> an Intel Netbook. Why he asks me, I don't know. I've no idea what
>>> he's talking about.
>>
>> HP Mininote.  Nice display.  Nice keyboard.  Plenty of features.
>
><fx: google>
>
> Thanks, I'll tell him. It looks neat, if a bit pricier. Curious how
> all these sub-boathooks are offered with Linux, while with a Proper
> Computer you have to put it on yourself, mostly.

Get the price down, innit? Isn't Winblows about 200 quid all by itself?


-- 
          "Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain
                 and presumptuous desire for a second one."
               [email me at huge {at} huge (dot) org <dot> uk]

On 2008-08-15, Sn!pe  wrote:
> Richard Tobin  wrote:
>
>> >Has everyone fucked off, and got a life?
>> 
>> Not me, I just got an Eee.
>
> Feh, I got a puncture. A hundred and ten rotten quid 

Lucky you. We got a puncture a copupe of weeks ago, and that was 158 quid.

Tyres are made of oil.   :o(


-- 
          "Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain
                 and presumptuous desire for a second one."
               [email me at huge {at} huge (dot) org <dot> uk]

Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:

> Quick look on eBay & I reckon I can sell the Psion 5MX & Nokia 770 & have
> nearly enough wonga for an eee.

Some of the other Atom based notebooks are now looking more interesting
than an Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.......

Especially the ones that seem able to run Leotard.

Chris Eilbeck  wrote:

> August West  writes:
> 
> > Quiet in here, isn't it?
> > Even the stupid trolls are silent.
> >
> > Has everyone fucked off, and got a life?
> >
> > Bastards!
> 
> Worcester beer festival, wunnit.

Damn, first one I've missed in ages.

August West  wrote:

> Quiet in here, isn't it?
> Even the stupid trolls are silent.
> 
> Has everyone fucked off, and got a life?

Quite the opposite I'm now incredibly fucking busy. I've realised that
I'm now staring up at an Everest of work and I have managed to move a
couple of smallish rocks in a week.

No wonder everyone else is looking like a zombie.

Small compensation Gigabyte access to the net. Other problem, no time to
use it.

In article <1ilrq6l.1sl8fp9u1gbp3N%%steve%@malloc.co.uk>, %steve%
@malloc.co.uk says...
> Small compensation Gigabyte access to the net.

Gigabyte?  You mean, like 8 load-balancing gigabit connections?

> Other problem, no time to use it.

You won't need very long, if it's that fast.
-- 
SAm.

%steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) writes:

> Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Quick look on eBay & I reckon I can sell the Psion 5MX & Nokia 770 & have
>> nearly enough wonga for an eee.
>
> Some of the other Atom based notebooks are now looking more interesting
> than an Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.......

I swapped the mini-ITX board in the jukebox from a 1GHz Via Nehemiah to
a 1.6GHz Atom 230 based one. I've been pleasantly surprised by quite how
much of an upgrade this was - especially at the pocket-money price. And
much lower power consumption, too. Just a bit weird that the only fan in
it is on the Northbridge.

-- 
Your lover's lover's alibi

Sam Nelson  wrote:

> In article <1ilrq6l.1sl8fp9u1gbp3N%%steve%@malloc.co.uk>, %steve%
> @malloc.co.uk says...
> > Small compensation Gigabyte access to the net.
> 
> Gigabyte?  You mean, like 8 load-balancing gigabit connections?

Yup.

> > Other problem, no time to use it.
> 
> You won't need very long, if it's that fast.

Believe me, I'm so f'ing busy I really have no time to use it.

Bigger fish and all that. Anyway TBH it make not much difference since
the bottlenecks are elsewhere.

"Sn!pe"  wrote in message 
news:1ilrc14.y9c07q1y4qlwxN%snipe@spambin.fsnet.co.uk...
> Cerumen  wrote:
>
>> > Feh, I got a puncture. A hundred and ten rotten quid
>> > and a wasted afternoon
>> >
>> Be thankful you were not in Portugal. There you are legally obliged to
>> replace both tyres on the same axle if one is punctured beyond repair. 
>> Mind
>> you tyres are not the exhorbitant price they are in UK.
>
> Blimey. I can sort of see the sense, I much prefer my tyres to be
> equally worn; but fexake, they had less that 4,000 miles on them.
>
Mine on the land yacht were similarly low mileage but two light goods 
vehicle tyres just before Easter in Portugal cost me in Euros about 125.00 
AFAIR.

-- 
Chris, (on tour)
Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
Schopenhauer

And Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> was like:

> On 2008-08-16, Patrick Hardlentil  wrote:
>>
>> And Chris Eilbeck  was like:
>>>
>>> HP Mininote.  Nice display.  Nice keyboard.  Plenty of features.
>>
>> Thanks, I'll tell him. It looks neat, if a bit pricier. Curious how
>>all these sub-boathooks are offered with Linux, while with a Proper
>>Computer you have to put it on yourself, mostly.
>
> Get the price down, innit? Isn't Winblows about 200 quid all by
> itself?

I expect HP get it for a bit less, but you have a point.

-- 
| Patrick Hardlentil -  patrick@dogslobber.demon.co.uk
| Do not touch happy fun gnooby

Costing the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars, August West said:
> 
> Quiet in here, isn't it?
> Even the stupid trolls are silent.
> 
> Has everyone fucked off, and got a life?
> 
> Bastards!
> 
> 
Did you see the thing about a penguin being made a Norwegian knight?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7562773.stm

-- 
teh internets is populated by eggshells armed with hammers

The HORSES of Madison County
Two HORSE Blacktop
The HORSE who came in from the cold
Four weddings and a HORSE
The HORSES from Brazil
The Wicker HORSE

-- 
teh internets is populated by eggshells armed with hammers

On 2008-08-16, Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote:
> Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Quick look on eBay & I reckon I can sell the Psion 5MX & Nokia 770 & have
>> nearly enough wonga for an eee.
>
> Some of the other Atom based notebooks are now looking more interesting
> than an Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.......

Well, so long as it's tiny and does what I want.

>
> Especially the ones that seem able to run Leotard.

Yeah, don't care about that.

-- 
          "Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain
                 and presumptuous desire for a second one."
               [email me at huge {at} huge (dot) org <dot> uk]

On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:32:56 +0100, %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth)
wrote:

>> Worcester beer festival, wunnit.
>
>Damn, first one I've missed in ages.

Not a lot of people went last year, either.

It was a bit wet on the Saturday so we went to an archaelogical gig
instead.

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:46:00 +0100, Sam Nelson wrote:

> In article , 
> watercress@spamcop.org says...
>> How about something simple - film titles with a word replaced with HORSE...
>> 
>> I'll start with The Way Of The HORSE.
> 
> Bring Me The HORSE Of Alfredo Garcia.

Bastard.  That was going to be mine.

Anyway. I went in search of a life, and now I is back.  I went all 
the way to the very Eastern-most rock of the Iberian peninsula [1] , 
and I found a bloke fishing.

Hmmm.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad HORSE.

[1] 42 19' 10.01" N 3 19'20.14" E



-- 
One way ticket from Mornington Crescent to Tannhauser Gate please.

On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:32:56 +0100, Steve Firth wrote:

> Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> Quick look on eBay & I reckon I can sell the Psion 5MX & Nokia 770 & have
>> nearly enough wonga for an eee.
> 
> Some of the other Atom based notebooks are now looking more interesting
> than an Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.......
> 
> Especially the ones that seem able to run Leotard.

ISTR El Reg ran a run-down of the various Eee-alikes recently.

-- 
One way ticket from Mornington Crescent to Tannhauser Gate please.

On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:52:20 +0000, Huge wrote:

> On 2008-08-16, Patrick Hardlentil  wrote:
>>
>> And Chris Eilbeck  was like:
>>
>>> "Patrick Hardlentil"
>>>  writes:
>>>>
>>>> Friend of mine has been asking whether he should get an Eeeeee or
>>>> an Intel Netbook. Why he asks me, I don't know. I've no idea what
>>>> he's talking about.
>>>
>>> HP Mininote.  Nice display.  Nice keyboard.  Plenty of features.
>>
>><fx: google>
>>
>> Thanks, I'll tell him. It looks neat, if a bit pricier. Curious how
>> all these sub-boathooks are offered with Linux, while with a Proper
>> Computer you have to put it on yourself, mostly.
> 
> Get the price down, innit? Isn't Winblows about 200 quid all by itself?

<guffaw>

General figgerin' from the prices of Asus machines with and without is 
that it's about 25 quid.

Of course it's free if you are a 3rd world gummint and you can convince 
MS that you are about to buy 100,000 Linux boxen.

-- 
One way ticket from Mornington Crescent to Tannhauser Gate please.

Fevric J Glandules <fevric@invalid.invalid> writes:

> On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:52:20 +0000, Huge wrote:
>
>> On 2008-08-16, Patrick Hardlentil  wrote:
>>>
>>> And Chris Eilbeck  was like:
>>>
>>>> "Patrick Hardlentil"
>>>>  writes:
>>>>>
>>>>> Friend of mine has been asking whether he should get an Eeeeee or
>>>>> an Intel Netbook. Why he asks me, I don't know. I've no idea what
>>>>> he's talking about.
>>>>
>>>> HP Mininote.  Nice display.  Nice keyboard.  Plenty of features.
>>>
>>><fx: google>
>>>
>>> Thanks, I'll tell him. It looks neat, if a bit pricier. Curious how
>>> all these sub-boathooks are offered with Linux, while with a Proper
>>> Computer you have to put it on yourself, mostly.
>> 
>> Get the price down, innit? Isn't Winblows about 200 quid all by itself?
>
> <guffaw>
>
> General figgerin' from the prices of Asus machines with and without is 
> that it's about 25 quid.
>
> Of course it's free if you are a 3rd world gummint and you can convince 
> MS that you are about to buy 100,000 Linux boxen.

It's 50 quid extra on the Mininote for Vista Business rather than Linux.

Chris
-- 
Chris Eilbeck

On 2008-08-17, Fevric J Glandules <fevric@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:52:20 +0000, Huge wrote:
>
>> On 2008-08-16, Patrick Hardlentil  wrote:
>>>
>>> And Chris Eilbeck  was like:
>>>
>>>> "Patrick Hardlentil"
>>>>  writes:
>>>>>
>>>>> Friend of mine has been asking whether he should get an Eeeeee or
>>>>> an Intel Netbook. Why he asks me, I don't know. I've no idea what
>>>>> he's talking about.
>>>>
>>>> HP Mininote.  Nice display.  Nice keyboard.  Plenty of features.
>>>
>>><fx: google>
>>>
>>> Thanks, I'll tell him. It looks neat, if a bit pricier. Curious how
>>> all these sub-boathooks are offered with Linux, while with a Proper
>>> Computer you have to put it on yourself, mostly.
>> 
>> Get the price down, innit? Isn't Winblows about 200 quid all by itself?
>
><guffaw>

No need for that. I've never bougth Winblows and hopefully never will.

> General figgerin' from the prices of Asus machines with and without is 
> that it's about 25 quid.

Which is a significant proportion of the price of an Eeeeeeeeeee. Which was my
point.

> Of course it's free if you are a 3rd world gummint and you can convince 
> MS that you are about to buy 100,000 Linux boxen.

Drug pushers. All the same. Although at least drugs make you feel good. Unlike
Windows.


-- 
          "Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain
                 and presumptuous desire for a second one."
               [email me at huge {at} huge (dot) org <dot> uk]

Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:

> Although at least drugs make you feel good. Unlike
> Windows.

I've had a week of trying to use Vista and Office 2007. To say that
Microsoft have completely lost the plot is a massive understatement.
It's damn near impossible to use Word 2007 to anythign other than the
basics - and even that badly - because every feature is now either
crippled or hidden behind an icon bar that takes up most of the screen.

M$ have been saying this is because people won't give Vista/2007 a
chance. Umm no, it's because they are broken, and possibly the worst
pile of crap it's ever been my misfortune to use.

In article <1ilv71a.1dqrsfzdu679zN%%steve%@malloc.co.uk>,
 %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) writes:
> Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
> 
> > Although at least drugs make you feel good. Unlike
> > Windows.
> 
> I've had a week of trying to use Vista and Office 2007. To say that
> Microsoft have completely lost the plot is a massive understatement.
> It's damn near impossible to use Word 2007 to anythign other than the
> basics - and even that badly - because every feature is now either
> crippled or hidden behind an icon bar that takes up most of the screen.

Some people quite like Office 2007.  I neither know nor care, because I
only ever use it in read-only mode.  The local enthusiast says the main
thing is to try to forget everything you thought you knew about Office
and start again from scratch.
 
> M$ have been saying this is because people won't give Vista/2007 a
> chance. Umm no, it's because they are broken, and possibly the worst
> pile of crap it's ever been my misfortune to use.

No particular reason why Office 2007 has to have Vista underneath it.
-- 
SAm.

Carlton Miniott wrote:
> The HORSES of Madison County

A HORSE called HORSE.

Cerumen wrote:

> Be thankful you were not in Portugal. There you are legally obliged to 
> replace both tyres on the same axle if one is punctured beyond repair. Mind 
> you tyres are not the exhorbitant price they are in UK.

Are you sure that's not just a rule for forriners as applied by tyre 
sellers?

Sam Nelson  wrote:

> In article <1ilv71a.1dqrsfzdu679zN%%steve%@malloc.co.uk>,
>  %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) writes:
> > Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
> > 
> > > Although at least drugs make you feel good. Unlike
> > > Windows.
> > 
> > I've had a week of trying to use Vista and Office 2007. To say that
> > Microsoft have completely lost the plot is a massive understatement.
> > It's damn near impossible to use Word 2007 to anythign other than the
> > basics - and even that badly - because every feature is now either
> > crippled or hidden behind an icon bar that takes up most of the screen.
> 
> Some people quite like Office 2007. 

They must be mad. The interface is beyind anger management. Whoever
thought it was a great idea to have an interface that hides options from
users (keystroke only for things like "paste without formatting" AFAICS)
and that requires a click to get the relevant menu bar shown then a
click to select the major options and another to select the specific
option want taking out and staking in a pit of fire ants.

> I neither know nor care, because I
> only ever use it in read-only mode.  The local enthusiast says the main
> thing is to try to forget everything you thought you knew about Office
> and start again from scratch.

Forget anything you have learned on any word processor/spreadsheet ever
because Office 2007 is broken.

> > M$ have been saying this is because people won't give Vista/2007 a
> > chance. Umm no, it's because they are broken, and possibly the worst
> > pile of crap it's ever been my misfortune to use.
> 
> No particular reason why Office 2007 has to have Vista underneath it.

No, but the combination is particularly repellent and it's what I have
to work with.

%steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) writes:

> and that requires a click to get the relevant menu bar shown then a
> click to select the major options and another to select the specific
> option want taking out and staking in a pit of fire ants.

I'm reminded of the endlessly cascading menus in Interleaf.
They were a mistake then, too.

-- 
white line fever

August West  writes:

> Has everyone fucked off, and got a life?

I went to Wales for the weekend. It rained.

Matthew

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August West  wrote:

> %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) writes:
> 
> > and that requires a click to get the relevant menu bar shown then a
> > click to select the major options and another to select the specific
> > option want taking out and staking in a pit of fire ants.
> 
> I'm reminded of the endlessly cascading menus in Interleaf.
> They were a mistake then, too.

Jings you've just brought back some horrible memories.

Of course most of the problems seem to be because M$ is turning its back
on common sense. Cascading style sheets exist, and should be
incorporated into any modern WP  but MS decide to do something slightly
different and click and point interfaces have been pretty much
standarised, cleaned up and made reasobably consistent between OSen and
applications. Then along comes Office 2007 continuing a trend that MS
slid towards with Autoroute 2003.

Matthew Vernon wrote:
> August West  writes:
> 
>> Has everyone fucked off, and got a life?
> 
> I went to Wales for the weekend. It rained.

NS,S.

I was messing about on the Thames last week. Had Tower Bridge open 
especially for me* and everything.


* Well alright, not _just_ me.

On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:24:03 +0100, Willy Eckerslyke 
wrote the following to uk.misc:

> Carlton Miniott wrote:
>> The HORSES of Madison County
>
> A HORSE called HORSE.

Little HORSE on the Prairie

mh.
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http://personal.nukesoft.co.uk

From address is a blackhole. Reply-to address is valid.

On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:05:38 +0100, Chris Eilbeck wrote:

> It's 50 quid extra on the Mininote for Vista Business rather than Linux.

Good point.  The non-crippled versions are a fair bit more.

-- 
One way ticket from Mornington Crescent to Tannhauser Gate please.

On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:28:00 +0000, Huge wrote:

> Which is a significant proportion of the price of an Eeeeeeeeeee. Which was my
> point.

True, but the interesting thing about all this (to me) is MS actually 
allowing the OEMs to sell significant numbers of non-MS equipped
machines.

-- 
One way ticket from Mornington Crescent to Tannhauser Gate please.

"Marcus Houlden"  wrote

>>> The HORSES of Madison County
>>
>> A HORSE called HORSE.
>
> Little HORSE on the Prairie

<cackle!>

The Best Little HORSE House in Texas

"Nine Cuts"  writes:

> "Marcus Houlden"  wrote
>
>>>> The HORSES of Madison County
>>>
>>> A HORSE called HORSE.
>>
>> Little HORSE on the Prairie
>
> <cackle!>
>
> The Best Little HORSE House in Texas 

Sex, HORSE, and video tape

-- 
we were wild in the old days

"August West"  wrote

>>>>> The HORSES of Madison County
>>>>
>>>> A HORSE called HORSE.
>>>
>>> Little HORSE on the Prairie

>> The Best Little HORSE House in Texas
>
> Sex, HORSE, and video tape

The Usual HORSES. (Who is Kaiser HORSEY?)

Willy Eckerslyke wrote:
> Matthew Vernon wrote:
>> August West  writes:
>>
>>> Has everyone fucked off, and got a life?
>>
>> I went to Wales for the weekend. It rained.
>
> NS,S.
>
> I was messing about on the Thames last week. Had Tower Bridge open
> especially for me* and everything.

How tall are you exactly?

"John of Aix"  writes:

> Willy Eckerslyke wrote:
>> Matthew Vernon wrote:
>>> August West  writes:
>>>
>>>> Has everyone fucked off, and got a life?
>>>
>>> I went to Wales for the weekend. It rained.
>>
>> NS,S.
>>
>> I was messing about on the Thames last week. Had Tower Bridge open
>> especially for me* and everything.
>
> How tall are you exactly? 

Standing up or lying down?

-- 
Maybe someday

"Willy Eckerslyke"  wrote in message 
news:6gt821Fhft09U2@mid.individual.net...
> Cerumen wrote:
>
>> Be thankful you were not in Portugal. There you are legally obliged to 
>> replace both tyres on the same axle if one is punctured beyond repair. 
>> Mind you tyres are not the exhorbitant price they are in UK.
>
> Are you sure that's not just a rule for forriners as applied by tyre 
> sellers?

It was an English tyre seller and he showed me the relevent law thingy which 
seemed genuine.


-- 
Chris, (on tour)
Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
Schopenhauer

"Matthew Vernon"  wrote in message 
news:7jskt278b5.fsf@rapun.sel.cam.ac.uk...
> August West  writes:
>
>> Has everyone fucked off, and got a life?
>
> I went to Wales for the weekend. It rained.
>
I'm still in Wales, it still is.

-- 
Chris, (on tour)
Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
Schopenhauer

August West wrote:
> "John of Aix"  writes:
> 
>> Willy Eckerslyke wrote:
>>> Matthew Vernon wrote:
>>>> August West  writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Has everyone fucked off, and got a life?
>>>> I went to Wales for the weekend. It rained.
>>> NS,S.
>>>
>>> I was messing about on the Thames last week. Had Tower Bridge open
>>> especially for me* and everything.
>> How tall are you exactly? 
> 
> Standing up or lying down?

About the same.

If anyone's sad enough to want to look, my non-holiday snaps are here:
http://www.sos.bangor.ac.uk/images/madog_london/Madog_London.htm
As you can see, it was done in the interests of top quality science.
And if anyone finds a green woolly hat floating out towards France, it's 
mine.

"Nine Cuts"  writes:

> "August West"  wrote
> 
> >>>>> The HORSES of Madison County
> >>>>
> >>>> A HORSE called HORSE.
> >>>
> >>> Little HORSE on the Prairie
> 
> >> The Best Little HORSE House in Texas
> >
> > Sex, HORSE, and video tape
> 
> The Usual HORSES. (Who is Kaiser HORSEY?)

On Her Majesty's Secret HORSE
The Man With The Golden HORSE
Never Say HORSE Again

Matthew

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The Lavender HORSE Mob
Kind HORSE And Coronets
The HORSE Who Would Be King
HORSE - East Of Java
The HORSE On The River Kwai
The Good, The Bad, And The HORSE
Once Upon A HORSE In The West



-- 
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Carlton Miniott  wrote:

> The Lavender HORSE Mob
> Kind HORSE And Coronets
> The HORSE Who Would Be King
> HORSE - East Of Java
> The HORSE On The River Kwai
> The Good, The Bad, And The HORSE
> Once Upon A HORSE In The West

The K00k, The Thief, His H0RSE and Its Lover.

-- 
^Ï^                                Sn!pe  

      o------<< [   Shake it to wake it, oh yes.   ] >>------o

Carlton Miniott wrote :
> The Lavender HORSE Mob
> Kind HORSE And Coronets
> The HORSE Who Would Be King
> HORSE - East Of Java
> The HORSE On The River Kwai
> The Good, The Bad, And The HORSE
> Once Upon A HORSE In The West

There is a band of criminals in Southern Italy who refer to each other 
as "horse".

-- 
Count Baldoni

Baldoni  writes:

> There is a band of criminals in Southern Italy who refer to each other
> as "horse".

My youngest daughter sometimes goe by the name of "Horse" (it's a middle
German component of her first name).

-- 
Blame it on a simple twist of fate

Sn!pe submitted this idea :
> Carlton Miniott  wrote:
>
>> The Lavender HORSE Mob
>> Kind HORSE And Coronets
>> The HORSE Who Would Be King
>> HORSE - East Of Java
>> The HORSE On The River Kwai
>> The Good, The Bad, And The HORSE
>> Once Upon A HORSE In The West
>
> The K00k, The Thief, His H0RSE and Its Lover.

A Room With a Horse.
Horse Goes To Monte Carlo
The Horse Have Eyes
Schindler's Horse
20,000 Horse's Under The Sea.

-- 
Count Baldoni

Baldoni  writes:

> A Room With a Horse.
> Horse Goes To Monte Carlo
> The Horse Have Eyes
> Schindler's Horse
> 20,000 Horse's Under The Sea.

Oops. Fail! 
Good try, though.

-- 
Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole

All HORSE On The Western Front
Saving Private HORSE
HORSE Station Zebra
SlaughterHORSE 5
The Killing of Sister HORSE

-- 
eric
To a man who only has a hammer every job looks
like one for somebody with a proper toolkit.

In article , august@kororaa.com 
says...
> Baldoni  writes:
> 
> > There is a band of criminals in Southern Italy who refer to each other
> > as "horse".
> 
> My youngest daughter sometimes goe by the name of "Horse" (it's a middle
> German component of her first name).

I thought you only had the two.  Daughters, that is.
-- 
SAm.

Carlton Miniott set the following eddies spiralling through the space-time
continuum:

> The Lavender HORSE Mob
> Kind HORSE And Coronets
> The HORSE Who Would Be King
> HORSE - East Of Java
> The HORSE On The River Kwai
> The Good, The Bad, And The HORSE
> Once Upon A HORSE In The West

The Great St. Trinians HORSE Robbery 

(Come to think of it, those little beauties did steal a horse in one of the
films, but not that one.)
-- 
ξ:) Proud to be curly

Interchange the alphabetic letter groups to reply

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:00:03 +0100, Prai Jei wrote:

> The Great St. Trinians HORSE Robbery 

The HORSE Brothers.
Spinal HORSE.
The Gods Must Be HORSE.
Gone with the HORSE.

(Or did someone do that already?)

-- 
One way ticket from Mornington Crescent to Tannhauser Gate please.

Sam Nelson  writes:

> In article , august@kororaa.com 
> says...
>> Baldoni  writes:
>> 
>> > There is a band of criminals in Southern Italy who refer to each other
>> > as "horse".
>> 
>> My youngest daughter sometimes goe by the name of "Horse" (it's a middle
>> German component of her first name).
>
> I thought you only had the two.  Daughters, that is.

I'm hedging my bets.

-- 
Salt for the memory, black for the years

On 19 Aug 2008 14:38:38 +0100, Matthew Vernon 
wrote this:

>On Her Majesty's Secret HORSE
>The Man With The Golden HORSE
>Never Say HORSE Again

HORSEraker
OctoHORSEY




-- 
Grk.
Stevie Wonder's penis is erect because he's blind

A few Bogart movies:

The Maltese HORSE
To HORSE And HORSE Not
Key HORSE and the remake, HORSE Largo
The Big HORSE
HORSE Sierra (or was that High HORSE?)
The HORSE Of The Sierra Madre


The Third HORSE (with HORSon Welles Fargo)

Ocean's HORSE

The Italian HORSE (featuring a lot of Shetland Ponies)
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On 2008-08-18, Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote:
> August West  wrote:
>
>> %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) writes:
>> 
>> > and that requires a click to get the relevant menu bar shown then a
>> > click to select the major options and another to select the specific
>> > option want taking out and staking in a pit of fire ants.
>> 
>> I'm reminded of the endlessly cascading menus in Interleaf.
>> They were a mistake then, too.
>
> Jings you've just brought back some horrible memories.

Hasn't he just.

I used to teach people to use Interleaf.

I thought I'd forgotten.

-- 
          "Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain
                 and presumptuous desire for a second one."
               [email me at huge {at} huge (dot) org <dot> uk]

In article ,
 Hypodeemic Nerdle <grk@ku.gro.assednacni> writes:
> On 19 Aug 2008 14:38:38 +0100, Matthew Vernon 
> wrote this:
> 
> >On Her Majesty's Secret HORSE
> >The Man With The Golden HORSE
> >Never Say HORSE Again
> 
> HORSEraker
> OctoHORSEY

The HORSE Who Loved Me
HORSEfinger
Doctor HORSE
The HORSE Is Not Enough
HORSE Royale
-- 
SAm.

In article ,
 Carlton Miniott  writes:
> The Italian HORSE (featuring a lot of Shetland Ponies)

HORSE 2 (just when you thought it was safe to go back in the stable)
-- 
SAm.

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:16:06 +0100, Sam Nelson wrote:

> In article ,
>  Carlton Miniott  writes:
>> The Italian HORSE (featuring a lot of Shetland Ponies)
> 
> HORSE 2 (just when you thought it was safe to go back in the stable)

The HORSE machine
Through the black HORSE
A HORSE in Paris
Top HORSE
Harry Potter and the HORSE
HORSE of Iwo Jima
20 thousand HORSES's under the sea


-- 
All aboard
Brenda's iron sledge
Please don't call me Reg
It's not my name.

In article <g8famm$d9m$3@aioe.org>, pvstownsend@zyx-abc.fsnet.co.uk 
says...
> Carlton Miniott set the following eddies spiralling through the space-time
> continuum:
> 
> > The Lavender HORSE Mob
> > Kind HORSE And Coronets
> > The HORSE Who Would Be King
> > HORSE - East Of Java
> > The HORSE On The River Kwai
> > The Good, The Bad, And The HORSE
> > Once Upon A HORSE In The West
> 
> The Great St. Trinians HORSE Robbery 
> 
> (Come to think of it, those little beauties did steal a horse in one of the
> films, but not that one.)

That was on the telly at the weekend, I think. The Radio Times had a 
cast list. Considering it was St Trinian's film, I was slightly 
surprised to discover that the cast was, apparently, all male.

Amethyst Deceiver wrote:

>> The Great St. Trinians HORSE Robbery 
>>
>> (Come to think of it, those little beauties did steal a horse in one of the
>> films, but not that one.)
> 
> That was on the telly at the weekend, I think. The Radio Times had a 
> cast list. Considering it was St Trinian's film, I was slightly 
> surprised to discover that the cast was, apparently, all male. 

I always thought Joyce Grenfell was suspiciously broad in the shoulders.

Dial M for HORSE

In article ,
Amethyst Deceiver   wrote:

>> The Great St. Trinians HORSE Robbery 
>> 
>> (Come to think of it, those little beauties did steal a horse in one of the
>> films, but not that one.)

>That was on the telly at the weekend, I think. The Radio Times had a 
>cast list. Considering it was St Trinian's film, I was slightly 
>surprised to discover that the cast was, apparently, all male. 

The headmistress is Alastair Sim, but the girls are definitely
girls!  And there's Joyce Grenfell.

-- Richard
-- 
Please remember to mention me / in tapes you leave behind.

richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:

> In article ,
> Amethyst Deceiver   wrote:
>
>>> The Great St. Trinians HORSE Robbery 
>>> 
>>> (Come to think of it, those little beauties did steal a horse in one
>>> of the films, but not that one.)
>
>>That was on the telly at the weekend, I think. The Radio Times had a 
>>cast list. Considering it was St Trinian's film, I was slightly 
>>surprised to discover that the cast was, apparently, all male. 
>
> The headmistress is Alastair Sim,

In The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery (which was the one on at the
weekend), the headmistresswas played by Dora Bryan.

> but the girls are definitely girls!  And there's Joyce Grenfell.

Did she wear a gymslip and black stockings? 
I think not!

-- 
Can I have my money back?

Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:

> I used to teach people to use Interleaf.

Interleaf, the product that made LaTex look easy to use.

In article ,

>>>> The Great St. Trinians HORSE Robbery 
>>>> 
>>>> (Come to think of it, those little beauties did steal a horse in one
>>>> of the films, but not that one.)

>>>That was on the telly at the weekend, I think. [...]

>In The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery (which was the one on at the
>weekend)

Ah, I interpreted the above as meaning that the one with the stolen
horse was on.  Which is the first one, the Belles of St. Trinian's.

The original St Trinneans (sic) is now part of Edinburgh University's
Pollock halls of residence.

-- Richard
-- 
Please remember to mention me / in tapes you leave behind.

August West  wrote:

> > but the girls are definitely girls!  And there's Joyce Grenfell.
> 
> Did she wear a gymslip and black stockings? 
> I think not!

Woof woof woof... 

You've bloomin' set me off now, reminiscing about the 
twang of suspender elastic once you get past the laugh-line.

-- 
^Ï^                                Sn!pe  

      o------<< [   Shake it to wake it, oh yes.   ] >>------o

In article , august@kororaa.com 
says...
> richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:
> 
> > In article ,
> > Amethyst Deceiver   wrote:
> >
> >>> The Great St. Trinians HORSE Robbery 
> >>> 
> >>> (Come to think of it, those little beauties did steal a horse in one
> >>> of the films, but not that one.)
> >
> >>That was on the telly at the weekend, I think. The Radio Times had a 
> >>cast list. Considering it was St Trinian's film, I was slightly 
> >>surprised to discover that the cast was, apparently, all male. 
> >
> > The headmistress is Alastair Sim,
> 
> In The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery (which was the one on at the
> weekend), the headmistresswas played by Dora Bryan.

Indeed. But not mentioned in the Radio Times cast list. 
 
> > but the girls are definitely girls!  And there's Joyce Grenfell.
> 
> Did she wear a gymslip and black stockings? 
> I think not!

Possibly a good thing.

In message , August West 
 writes
>richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:

>In The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery (which was the one on at the
>weekend), the headmistresswas played by Dora Bryan.
>
>> but the girls are definitely girls!  And there's Joyce Grenfell.

It's interesting to note, or possibly not, that in the recent St 
Trinians movie the girls were allowed to be shown fornicating, 
dismembering staff members, snorting frost, hot whirring and stealing 
cars, in fact doing all the things that healthy young girls do, but NOT 
SMOKING!

-- 
James Follett. Novelist. (G1LXP) http://www.jamesfollett.dswilliams.co.uk

In uk.misc,  (Huge) wrote in <g864c2$1ob$4@anubis.demon.co.uk>::

>On 2008-08-15, Sn!pe  wrote:
>> Richard Tobin  wrote:
>>
>>> >Has everyone fucked off, and got a life?
>>> 
>>> Not me, I just got an Eee.
>>
>> Feh, I got a puncture. A hundred and ten rotten quid 
>
>Lucky you. We got a puncture a copupe of weeks ago, and that was 158 quid.
>
>Tyres are made of oil.   :o(

A bit.  But a lot of it is still rubber, which isn't.
-- 
Marc

"Work only when someone is watching. 
Make love as though you don't need the money. 
Dance and hope no one gets hurt" - Anonymous

Marc Wilson  wrote:

> >Tyres are made of oil.   :o(
> 
> A bit.  But a lot of it is still rubber, which isn't.

I read that as a styrene/butadiene copolymer filled with carbon black
and nodded sagely.

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