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Come Inside... => The Snug => Topic started by: Nick on September 20, 2007, 09:47:26 AM
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It's about the most annoying thing about the pointless LibDem conference.
It's Menzies, pronounced MENZIES
And where are the Cheeky Girls?
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It's about the most annoying thing about the pointless LibDem conference.
It's Menzies, pronounced MENZIES
And where are the Cheeky Girls?
Ming is short for the Scottish way of pronouncing his name which is "Mingus".
Rather like in England Cholmondely is pronounced Chumley.
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Well it's all just wrong!
Snoopy, pronounced Snopply.
See?
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Don't shoot the messenger.
I'm not saying it is right ~ just explaining the how and why ~ with examples.Banghead
Accept the value of the information and do not started nitpicking because you don't like the facts. ::)
We can't all have what we want in this life you know (Wags finger and frowns in stern fashion)
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Bar Wench
Pronunced Berringer? Bratwurst? Bra Wench?
No letters are letters and phonemes are phonemes.
Oh I forgot, the idiot is Scottish!
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It's about the most annoying thing about the pointless LibDem conference.
It's Menzies, pronounced MENZIES
And where are the Cheeky Girls?
They're having a conference are they? rubschin:
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So one hears. We are all waiting for the Cheeky Girls to turn up and enliven it. As I am sure you are evil:
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So one hears. We are all waiting for the Cheeky Girls to turn up and enliven it. As I am sure you are evil:
Shall I send them over then... when I've finished with them of course... whistle:
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LANDLADY
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More Scottish Names and how to pronounce them:
Farquhar is pronounced Farker
Dalziel is pronounced Deeyell
Smellie is pronounced Smiley
Chrichton is pronounced Cryton
And that is just from Mrs Snoopy's class mates.
No she is not Scottish ~ just went to school there (with Nick Nairn ..... who often set fire to things and still does)
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Normal
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Based on my knowledge of you two it does seem to be a "Nick" thing.
I am told Nick Nairn once set fire to a classmate's blazer ~ the classmate was the head's son. ::)
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More Scottish Names and how to pronounce them:
Farquhar is pronounced Farker
Dalziel is pronounced Deeyell
Smellie is pronounced Smiley
Chrichton is pronounced Cryton
And that is just from Mrs Snoopy's class mates.
No she is not Scottish ~ just went to school there (with Nick Nairn ..... who often set fire to things and still does)
This applies in English too. I have work "colleagues" with names like "Stephen, Neil, Robin, Louise, Nikki, Natalie, Sarah" and so forth yet I just pronounce them "Useless Cunt"... Banghead
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No Sharons then!
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No Sharons then!
Only one and she is legendary...she is the girl, who when first introduced to a PC and mouse, put the mouse on the screen and rolled it around thinking that it was the way to select applications. noooo:
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Only one and she is legendary...she is the girl, who when first introduced to a PC and mouse, put the mouse on the screen and rolled it around thinking that it was the way to select applications.
Shades of Scotty and "computer?"
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No Sharons then!
Only one and she is legendary...she is the girl, who when first introduced to a PC and mouse, put the mouse on the screen and rolled it around thinking that it was the way to select applications. noooo:
My Mum did that. noooo:
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No Sharons then!
Only one and she is legendary...she is the girl, who when first introduced to a PC and mouse, put the mouse on the screen and rolled it around thinking that it was the way to select applications. noooo:
My Mum did that. noooo:
Your mum. Yes. Of course point:
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No Sharons then!
Only one and she is legendary...she is the girl, who when first introduced to a PC and mouse, put the mouse on the screen and rolled it around thinking that it was the way to select applications. noooo:
My Mum did that. noooo:
Your mum. Yes. Of course point:
I can't really remember a time before computer had mice.
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No Sharons then!
Only one and she is legendary...she is the girl, who when first introduced to a PC and mouse, put the mouse on the screen and rolled it around thinking that it was the way to select applications. noooo:
My Mum did that. noooo:
Your mum. Yes. Of course point:
I can't really remember a time before computer had mice.
Mouses is the correct plural, young lady.
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No Sharons then!
Only one and she is legendary...she is the girl, who when first introduced to a PC and mouse, put the mouse on the screen and rolled it around thinking that it was the way to select applications. noooo:
My Mum did that. noooo:
Your mum. Yes. Of course point:
I can't really remember a time before computer had mice.
Mouses is the correct plural, young lady.
Mices, mouses, houses, hovels. Pah!
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No Sharons then!
Only one and she is legendary...she is the girl, who when first introduced to a PC and mouse, put the mouse on the screen and rolled it around thinking that it was the way to select applications. noooo:
My Mum did that. noooo:
Your mum. Yes. Of course point:
I can't really remember a time before computer had mice.
eeek:
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This thread has taken a fast left turn off-topic methinks.
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No Sharons then!
Only one and she is legendary...she is the girl, who when first introduced to a PC and mouse, put the mouse on the screen and rolled it around thinking that it was the way to select applications. noooo:
My Mum did that. noooo:
Your mum. Yes. Of course point:
I can't really remember a time before computer had mice.
eeek:
I vaguely remember the old BBCs. But in general pretty much whenever I've used a computer it has had a mouse.
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I remember the first PCs, IBM with twin floppys. I can remember stuff before that as well.
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My Dad used to be an engineer when they first started. He used to crawl around them and replace valves and stuff. My Mum was an operator for them, ticker tape etc.
When we first got a desktop they couldn't quite get their heads round the fact that we owned something more powerful and smaller than anything they had ever worked on.
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I bought as 750Gbyte hard drive today?
When I first started the biggest hard disk we sold was 5Mbytes ? it had to be formatted as four 1.2Mbyte drives to emulate an 8? floppy.
The first ?PC? I sold was a NEC Advanced PC which was based on twin 8? floppy drives.
Prior to that I sold some specialised HP systems with a huge 16K of RAM
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My Dad used to be an engineer when they first started. He used to crawl around them and replace valves and stuff. My Mum was an operator for them, ticker tape etc.
When we first got a desktop they couldn't quite get their heads round the fact that we owned something more powerful and smaller than anything they had ever worked on.
Punched tape - great until it broke and you had to use special sticky things to repair them. Good fun to throw around afterwars providing no-one wanted it.
Ever heard of chad?
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I, and I alone, introduced the word processing machine into the UK. I did!
Sort of
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What like those big Xerox boxes with disks like 78 records?
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Golf ball typewriters, big boxes, brown magnetic cards and the new NEC. 1978-9
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And in 1963 I was one of the first batch of RAF personnel to be trained in the use of their new computerised stores accounting systems. Volumes of handwritten forms to fill out that then were used to prepare Punched cards which in turn produced Punched tapes which were stored on vast reels that were then connected to a teleprinter. We then dialled (note dialled as in old style telephone not push button) the magic number on the teleprinter which connected us to the main computer which was housed in two aircraft hangers (I cannot say where ~ Official secrets Act etc). Once connected the teleprinter reeled these huge tapes round and transmitted the data (holes) to the main computer. Thus all RAF Stations, world wide fed in details of their daily stores usage of everything from fuel, via aircraft spares, ammunition, bombs though to cap badges, buttons and toilet paper to the central accounts. Requests for replacements were sent the same way. Each station had a specific time slot in which to do this operation daily.
I saw "The Computer" (as it was known). It really did fill two aircraft hangers and yes it was all glowing valves and whirling discs of paper tape. 44 years on and I can sit here using a tiny lap-top and talk rubbish to you all.
Ain't it wunnerful? cloud9:
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That's what my Mum used to do!! Whilst wearing a tiny mini skirt. redface:
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That's what my Mum used to do!! Whilst wearing a tiny mini skirt. redface:
Well I dressed a little differently to your mum but as I have told you I have children at least fifteen years older than you.
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And that is just from Mrs Snoopy's class mates.
No she is not Scottish ~ just went to school there (with Nick Nairn ..... who often set fire to things and still does)
I do like Nick Nairn. Probably the only Ready Steady Cook worth watching was when he got everything wrong and ended up accidentally breaking a wine glass over the meal he had managed to produce.
Nice oatcakes too cool20:
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He's a nice guy .... very charming but Mrs S cannot forget those school days. scared2:
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That's what my Mum used to do!! Whilst wearing a tiny mini skirt. redface:
Well I dressed a little differently to your mum but as I have told you I have children at least fifteen years older than you.
True. Mum is 60 this year. eeek:
My step sister is 45 this year I think. eeek:
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That's what my Mum used to do!! Whilst wearing a tiny mini skirt. redface:
Me too, my first computer was punch tape and we sent the reels away to be processed at night and had a huge printout back the following morning with our data. that was 1969 /70 so a bit after yours then Snoopy. cloud9:
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That's what my Mum used to do!! Whilst wearing a tiny mini skirt. redface:
Well I dressed a little differently to your mum but as I have told you I have children at least fifteen years older than you.
True. Mum is 60 this year. eeek:
My step sister is 45 this year I think. eeek:
My eldest was born in 1968 ~ You work it out. I have grandchildren almost as old as you surrender:
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eeek:
Similar to my step sister. Dad had her when he was 21 he would have been 68 this year.
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eeek:
Similar to my step sister. Dad had her when he was 21 he would have been 68 this year.
When my son was born I was 21 ~ a whole life time older than him. When he was 21 I was 42 .... exactly twice his age. I told him this on his 21st. "Do you realise?" I said, jokingly, "that from now on you will be catching me up at an even faster rate. Never again will I be twice as old as you". He couldn't work that one out.
rubschin: I blamed the schools then as much as I blame them now.
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Banghead
My Dad turned 60 the same year I turned 21, 2000. Freaked him out a treat that my Mum managed to work that out not long after giving birth!
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What is this thread about.
Oh
DONKEYS
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Isn't every thread? ::)
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A classic thread!!
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rubschin:
I'm struggling with the news that Wenchy was 212000 (https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/index.php?topic=1535.msg27145#msg27145) eeek: Must have had a picture in the attic or summat
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rubschin:
I'm struggling with the news that Wenchy was 212000 (https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/index.php?topic=1535.msg27145#msg27145) eeek: Must have had a picture in the attic or summat
It's easy to be brave and make a comment on her age like that when she isn't around any more to whip you into submission... whistle:
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rubschin:
I'm struggling with the news that Wenchy was 212000 (https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/index.php?topic=1535.msg27145#msg27145) eeek: Must have had a picture in the attic or summat
It's easy to be brave and make a comment on her age like that when she isn't around any more to whip you into submission... whistle:
lol: lol: lol:
Great thread tho... cloud9:
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rubschin:
I'm struggling with the news that Wenchy was 212000 (https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/index.php?topic=1535.msg27145#msg27145) eeek: Must have had a picture in the attic or summat
It's easy to be brave and make a comment on her age like that when she isn't around any more to whip you into submission... whistle:
lol: lol: lol:
Great thread tho... cloud9:
Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be back then. noooo: