HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: rob@liciren.li.co.uk (Rob Clive)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: Network Marketing
Date: 17 Nov 92 14:09:56 GMT
Organization: Lucas Powertrain Systems, Electronic Control Group, UK

In article <721456841snz@mccomp.demon.co.uk> imcneill writes:
>Has anyone come across network marketing?.  ...

No more than 5 or 6 hundred times - mostly in this newsgroup.  As you
say: what you sell is irrelevant, it's getting new mugs, sorry people
that pays.  Doubtless at the presentation you were shown a book entitled
'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous' and told all these people had made
their money from NM.  I would strongly suggest that, *before* you go any
further (and shell out any cash), you read a fascinating publication
called 'Multi Level Selling Schemes' produced by the DTI.  It's
available from some public libraries or direct and forms an invaluable
antidote to some of the claims.

>  The company involved with this
>one is ASA, selling environmental products (water & air filters)
...and almost certainly part of Amway International.
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From: grahame@demon.co.uk (Grahame Davies)
Subject: Re: Pavements 
Distribution: world
Organization: Demon Systems Ltd.
Reply-To: grahame@demon.co.uk
X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.18)
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 08:28:50 +0000


In article <28461@castle.ed.ac.uk> cam@castle.ed.ac.uk writes:

>In article <Bxz5B4.DwM@cck.coventry.ac.uk> csg189@cch.coventry.ac.uk (Paranoid !>!!) writes:
>
>
>It's to do with allocation of blame. The first dead person I ever saw
>was a dead pedestrian on a zebra crossing. He had been run over by a
>police car. Since he was on a zebra crossing it was clearly the fault
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>of the police driver, whom I have no doubt got a good spanking for
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>this naughty behaviour. If there had been no lines on the road, the
>police driver wouldn't have got spanked.
>-- 
>Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.aifh          +44 (0)31 650 3085
>Department of Artificial Intelligence,    Edinburgh University
>5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, UK                DoD #205
>
>
I take issue with this.

My partner knocked a young lad over on a zebra crossing.  The police
said he was not guilty of any crime and didn't prosecute.  The lad's
insurance company played silly buggers mind you.

So what you ar saying is wrong.

For your information, the circumstances were that the boy had moved to
the central island and then stepped back into the path of the car.

Grahame
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From: peter@serdlm34.essex.ac.uk (Peter Allott)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: 29 Feb 2000?
Date: 18 Nov 92 15:35:05 GMT
Reply-To: peter@essex.ac.uk (Peter Allott)
Organization: University of Essex, Colchester, UK

In article <CAH.92Nov17192855@fat-controller.bham.ac.uk> cah@cs.bham.ac.uk (Ceri Hopkins) writes:
>IIDs (Ill-informed drunks): "Happy New Year, Happy New Decade, Happy
>New Millenium!"
>Angus M. Marshall (McRamm): "Actually..."
>IIDs: "F*** you"

Obviously a Fortran programer
	IYO = IYEAR - 1900
	WRITE(5,5) IYO
5	FORMAT(' F',I2,' you')

Me thinks things are going to get worse.
Newsgroups: uk.misc
From: dhd@exnet.co.uk (Damon)
Subject: Re: 29 Feb 2000?
Organization: ExNet Systems Ltd Public Access News, London, UK
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:22:51 GMT

In article <6493@sersun1.essex.ac.uk> peter@essex.ac.uk (Peter Allott) writes:
>In article <CAH.92Nov17192855@fat-controller.bham.ac.uk> cah@cs.bham.ac.uk (Ceri Hopkins) writes:
>>IIDs (Ill-informed drunks): "Happy New Year, Happy New Decade, Happy
>>New Millenium!"
>>Angus M. Marshall (McRamm): "Actually..."
>>IIDs: "F*** you"
>
>Obviously a Fortran programer
>	IYO = IYEAR - 1900
>	WRITE(5,5) IYO
>5	FORMAT(' F',I2,' you')
>
>Me thinks things are going to get worse.

I'm just wondering how many programs are going to break 00:00:00
01/01/2000...

And I've forgotten just for the moment when the DOS (eek!) and UNIX
clocks wrap.  Of course we may be saved from the second one on new
machines by the ANSI time_t being expanded to 64 bits, but...

Damon
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Newsgroups: uk.misc
From: dsg@impmh.uucp (Dave Gordon)
Subject: Re: Pavements
Organization: Integrated Micro Products Ltd
Distribution: uk
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 14:22:03 GMT

In <JC.92Nov19092339@mr-potter-t-crosser-i-dotter.fulcrum.co.uk> jc@fulcrum.co.uk (John Callingham) writes:
>
>Does anyone know the definition of a pavement (the legal one, not the
>dictionary one). I ask because I was nearly run over this morning by a
>car crossing the pavement from a drop kerb to enter a drive. I thought
>I was still on the pavement, but the driver seemed to think that he
>had priority because he was still on the road.

1)	The dropped part of the pavement is known as a 'carriage crossing',
	and is part of the pavement, not part of the road.

2)	Practically, pedestrians have priority whenever they want it!
	A car driver can't run them over deliberately, even it they have
	no *right* to be there.  Even on motorways!
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Newsgroups: uk.misc
From: csg020@cck.coventry.ac.uk (***CURTIS***)
Subject: Re: Was: Re: 29 Feb 2000?, Now: 2000/2001
Organization: Coventry Polytechnic, Coventry, UK.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:46:39 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.103830.24680@black.ox.ac.uk> bob@black.ox.ac.uk (Bob Douglas) writes:
>In article <CC.92Nov17175024@arran.dcs.ed.ac.uk> cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Chris Cooke) writes:
>>2000 Anno Domini ought to mean that it's 2000 years since Jesus Christ was
>>born.  When he was born, it was no *years* since he was born, therefore his
>>first year of life was spent in AD 0, surely?  His second year of life was
>>therefore AD 1, and so on - so 2000 AD ought to be the start of the 21st century.
>
>But there was no year AD 0. The year following 1 BC was AD 1.

But I thought that there was no 0AD, 1AD or 2AD because they didn't know He
was the saviour until 3 years on?

I found an amazing coin the other day burried on the coast line. Must be
worth loads cos it's gold and has 2000BC as a date on it *)


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From: D.S.Walker@bradford.ac.uk (Simeon Walker)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: humor in England
Date: 21 Nov 92 13:00:40 GMT
Organization: University of Bradford, UK
Originator: 91909178@muser

In article <GRC.92Nov13113650@bhars109.stl.stc.co.uk> grc@stl.stc.co.uk (Gary Cook) writes:
>In article <721669346snx@klaatu.demon.co.uk> steve@klaatu.demon.co.uk (Steve Loft) writes:
>
>>
>>   battered. Don't seem to see these outside Yorkshire.  Same with scraps.
>>   Ask for 'scraps' outside Yorkshire and you get puzzled looks.  Or a fight 
>>
>>   Steve
>>
>
>I used to get scraps in Grimsby ... that's outside Yorkshire ! Not the
>fighting type, but the scraps of batter from the fish ..... can't get 
>them in Essex, can't get anything half-decent in Essex other than
>curry sauce (and that's only very occasionally).
>
>Oh what I'd do for decent chips-n-gravy.
>
>-grc.
>
I once got fish and chips from a shop in Luton, they left all the skin
on and the bones in it!! Awfull! Is there anywhere else in the country
that doesn't do this?

What about fish butties? I've never dared ask for one outside Yorkshire
as they don't seem to sell the teacakes that the fish would go in :-)

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I usually delete peoples .sigs from followups :-)

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From: D.Pidcock@bradford.ac.uk (Danny Pidcock)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: Bicycle riders
Date: 23 Nov 92 13:09:53 GMT
Organization: University of Bradford, UK
Originator: 91642540@saffron
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

R A Hollands (s0rah@exnet.co.uk) wrote:
: Of late it seems to me that people on bikes have started to believe
: they're pedestrians.  They ride past me on the pavement

Give me a cycle lane and I'll use it.  Give me a decent road system and
I'll use it.  Give me a space and I'll fill it (esp on the pavement :-) ).

: and they don't
: have lights at night.
: 
: It must be months since I saw a bicycle at night with lights.  Is this
: anyone else's experience?
: 
I find that cycling with just a rear light is quite good: if cars can see
your front light then you can dodge them.  Also that cycling faster is safer:
the faster you move the harder it is for motorists to hit you ;-)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
From: ian@eonsw.demon.co.uk (Ian Leonard)
Subject: Re: car insurance scam
Organization: EON Software, Oxford, UK
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 10:51:58 GMT

In article <722097911.3647@minster.york.ac.uk> simpson@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
>My car was stolen from outside my house and the insurers have taken a long
>time to do anything about it. The latest scam that they have come up with
>is to ask for a copy of my licence. This seems irrelevant to me since I
>was in bed at the time the car was stolen and my licence is fully valid for
>the XXX category (being in sole charge of a stationary bed). The only thing
>that I can think of is that they want to delay or evade paying by seeing
>if there is something dodgy on another part of the contract unrelated to the
>theft. Bastards.
They probably want to check that you didn't falsify your policy by saying
you had no convictions when in fact you were stopped for doing 35 in a
30 limit.

>
>Anyone care to join me in hating insurers?

Yes me. My modem got zapped by lighting. I tried to claim. They are 
refusing because although I don't connect to any customers or earn
any money from the modem (I just read the news and a bit of email), I
may read an article which is helpful in my work. It should therefore
be covered by a business policy. They are right in their logic but
the frightening thing is the way they questioned me. They were looking
for an escape and they continued until they found one. This concerns
me because they can use the same tactics to squirm out of something
really important.

On a recent TV program, it was shown that insurance companies will
wiggle out of home theft claims if they didn't like the look of the
locks on your windows - very worrying.

I am going to write to my insurance company (sorry, my new insurance
company) to check that in the event of a burglary, the sods will actually
pay up. It seems to me that any house holder should do the same. Also
check the small print in the policy for escape clauses.

-- 
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From: agodwin@acorn.co.uk (Adrian Godwin)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: TV licence authorities get wrists smacked
Date: 18 Nov 92 14:08:45 GMT
Distribution: uk
Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, UK


There's an article in today's (Wednesday) Guardian (back page, main section) about
a chap in Edinburgh (no, not Graham) who's _WON_ a court case against the TV
licence authorities. Seems they tried to insist on searching his house because they'd
senn a 'flickery light' there, and the judge reprimanded them for it!

-adrian
From: cah@cs.bham.ac.uk (Ceri Hopkins)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: Subtle (i.e. obscure) cigarette adverts
Date: 20 Nov 92 18:33:48 GMT
	<JC.92Nov19091603@mr-potter-t-crosser-i-dotter.fulcrum.co.uk>
	<BxyrLG.5w9@cck.coventry.ac.uk>
	<1992Nov19.204919.3758@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK

>>>>> On 19 Nov 92 20:49:19 GMT, gdb15@grebe.cl.cam.ac.uk (Guy Barry) said:

Guy> In article <BxyrLG.5w9@cck.coventry.ac.uk> gdg019@cch.coventry.ac.uk (Ridley McIntyre) writes:

>It's weird. No one says "Smoke
>these because they relax you and taste quite nice" anymore. 

Guy> That's because it's illegal.

Indeed. However I remember seeing an ad in US published "Psychology
Today" for Benson & Hedges which pictured a number of adults lounging
in a room, smiling and chatting -- some of whom were smoking -- with
the caption.

"Benson & Hedges. For people who like to smoke."

I quite liked it because of its simplicity, compared with the UKs
Golden Pyramids, the piss-poor JPS "Black" series, and those which
have followed.

On the subject of advertising, my favourite at the moment (for similar
reasons) is one which I believe [open to correction] is only shown
locally in the Midlands for Birmingham based East End foods (Asian
importer and packager). They buy slots quite late on C4 (and
Central??) -- must be quite cheap now. Anyway, the one I'm thinking
about proceeds as follows....

[Shot of cartons of fruit juice]

Voice over (slow and soft): "Drink East End Mango Juice... It's good."

Nice and simple, eh?

Ceri
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Newsgroups: uk.misc
From: dhd@exnet.co.uk (Damon)
Subject: Re: Pavements
Organization: ExNet Systems Ltd Public Access News, London, UK
Distribution: uk
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:51:32 GMT

In article <JC.92Nov19092339@mr-potter-t-crosser-i-dotter.fulcrum.co.uk> jc@fulcrum.co.uk (John Callingham) writes:
>Does anyone know the definition of a pavement (the legal one, not the
>dictionary one). I ask because I was nearly run over this morning by a
>car crossing the pavement from a drop kerb to enter a drive. I thought
>I was still on the pavement, but the driver seemed to think that he
>had priority because he was still on the road.

He still doesn't have the right to drive without due care and attention.

Damon
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From: peter@serv2.essex.ac.uk (Peter Allott)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: 29 Feb 2000?
Date: 16 Nov 92 15:23:05 GMT
Reply-To: peter@serv2.essex.ac.uk (Peter Allott)
Distribution: uk
Organization: University of Essex, Colchester, UK

Will there be a 29 Feb 2000?

The cal program thinks so!

As it also thinks 29 Feb 4000 will exist It's clearly wrong
some where.

What is the correct rule? Do all countries agree????
From: zlsiimw@mcchpc.mcc.ac.uk (Mark Whidby)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: Printing on Carrier Bags?
Date: 20 Nov 92 13:24:28 GMT
Reply-To: M.Whidby@mcc.ac.uk
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre

In article <722097050snz@kram.demon.co.uk>, mt@kram.demon.co.uk (Mark Turner)
writes:
|> I'm looking for someone who can either produce a carrier bag with custom
|> text on or somehow print text onto an existing carrier bag. This is a
|> one off and very low volume requirement, i.e. only one bag needed.
You could try Letraset I suppose.
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From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: The View from Canary Tower.
Date: 16 Nov 92 15:13:28 GMT


Went to the 50th floor viewing gallaery with my family on Saturady.
Very nice too...

Some stuff in Leytonstonne. Some stuff in a van in Stoke Newington and
some more stuff at Canary Tower onm Sunday evening...

So will that be the last chance to see.

Glad to that mob are doing their spying stuff so well.

El Gordo
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From: okes@essex.ac.uk (Simon Oke)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: 29 Feb 2000?
Date: 18 Nov 92 13:49:31 GMT
Distribution: uk
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, UK.
In-reply-to: cmh004@cck.coventry.ac.uk's message of 17 Nov 92 20:28:12 GMT

In article <BxvnJ1.6Ko@cck.coventry.ac.uk> cmh004@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Dave) writes:
| Well I think all countries use the Georgian calander in international

I hope you mean the *Gregorian* calendar - named after Pope Gregory.

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From: rpt@edscom.demon.co.uk (Richard Tomlinson)
Subject: Re: 29 Feb 2000? 
Organization: EDS-Scicon, Milton Keynes, UK
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 09:11:47 GMT

In article <721949208snz@muir.demon.co.uk> malcolm@muir.demon.co.uk writes:
>
>Next argument - I say the first year of the 21st. century is 2001, not 2000
>which is the last year of the 20th. century.

This may be strictly true, but I bet all the good parties are on 31 December
1999.
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From: jpennell@axion.bt.co.uk (John Pennell)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: Satellite Dishes
Date: 17 Nov 92 10:04:19 GMT
Reply-To: jpennell@axion.bt.co.uk (John Pennell)
Organization: British Telecom Research Labs


In article <OKES.92Nov16184505@SunLab40.essex.ac.uk>, okes@essex.ac.uk (Simon Oke) writes:
|> 
|> In article <721841525snz@dims.demon.co.uk> dingram@dims.demon.co.uk ("Darren P. Ingram") writes:
|> | In article <OKES.92Nov11203051@SunLab40.essex.ac.uk> okes@essex.ac.uk writes:
|> |
|> | >We have a BSB squariel at home. It sits on the floor, pointing out the
|> | >(double-glazed) French windows. We get a perfect picture, even when it rains.
|> | >Of course, that changes when someone walks in front of it...
|> |
|> | Which won't be any use in its current state from 31/12/92:-)
|> |
|> I KNOW! We only got it because it was going for 5o quid!
|> Now will you all stop telling me that the transmissions are going to end
|> at the end of next month!
|> 
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|> Analysis of television viewing figures has shown that 80% of people in this
|> 	country are crap.

I don't know if you realise this but transmissions are scheduled to end
at the end of next month.   <HUGEGRIN>

Jon
Newsgroups: uk.misc
From: csg189@cch.coventry.ac.uk (Paranoid !!!)
Subject: Re: humor in England
Organization: Calling From Somewhere In Time !!!
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 12:52:51 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.124445.3678@edscom.demon.co.uk> rpt@edscom.demon.co.uk (Richard Tomlinson) writes:
>In article <Bxv9zp.J2w@cck.coventry.ac.uk> apj003@cck.coventry.ac.uk (James W Bottomley) writes:
>>As regards the architecture in Coventry, all I can say is that it grows
>>on you. And the roads do work well, despite looking like hell.
>
>Except that the designer of the Coventry ring road was obviously pissed when
>he designed it. 

Shows that we have a good taste of pubs down here ...

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From: jrg@doc.ic.ac.uk (James Grinter)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: Was: Re: 29 Feb 2000?, Now: 2000/2001
Date: 17 Nov 92 11:51:10 GMT
Organization: Dept. Of Computing, Imperial College of STM, UoL, UK
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In-reply-to: rwb@castle.ed.ac.uk's message of 17 Nov 92 09:52:50 GMT

In article <28248@castle.ed.ac.uk> rwb@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Bingham) writes:

   In <721949208snz@muir.demon.co.uk> malcolm@muir.demon.co.uk ("Malcolm S. Muir") writes:

   )> Next argument - I say the first year of the 21st. century is
   )> 2001, not 2000 which is the last year of the 20th. century.

   I agree with you Malcolm, but you can bet the press & TV will have us
   all celebrating the end of the century on 31st December 1999... 

And again on 31st December 2000 when they will then point out that the
real end of the 20th Centrury wasn't the previous year.

James.
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From: okes@essex.ac.uk (Simon Oke)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: Was: Re: 29 Feb 2000?, Now: 2000/2001
Date: 17 Nov 92 19:35:35 GMT
	<28248@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1992Nov17.101210.11982@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, UK.
In-reply-to: gdb15@grebe.cl.cam.ac.uk's message of 17 Nov 92 10:12:10 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.101210.11982@infodev.cam.ac.uk> gdb15@grebe.cl.cam.ac.uk (Guy Barry) writes:

| In article <28248@castle.ed.ac.uk> rwb@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Bingham) writes:
| >In <721949208snz@muir.demon.co.uk> malcolm@muir.demon.co.uk ("Malcolm S. Muir") writes:
| >
| >I agree with you Malcolm, but you can bet the press & TV will have us
| >all celebrating the end of the century on 31st December 1999... 
|
| It'll be horrendous.  In addition to all the usual "look back over the
| year" programmes, there'll be "look back over the decade" and "look
| back over the century" programmes.  I wonder if anyone will dare
| attempt a "look back over the millennium" programme though?  ("We've
| discovered some rare archive footage of the Battle of Hastings...")
|
Yes, but because there is so much disagreement, we can have TWO
"new milennium" parties!
(And just think of the hangover you can have - 1000 times your common-or-garden
"new year" hangover!)

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