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From: Robert.Turner@brunel.ac.uk (Robert Turner)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Brunel Uni. in TV
Date: 22 Jan 93 13:38:06 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, West London, UK

tfj@apusapus.demon.co.uk (Trevor Jenkins) writes:
%The block has been featured in at least one other programme---in the Comic
%Strip episode where a university summer school had a re-construction of a
%pre-historic settlement.

The best scenes in this show 'Summer School' were Ade Edmundson tracking
students down the Maths. Department corridor,  the student who got
mugged on the way to deliver an assignment, and the 'pure' neanderthal
who was trying to catch fish in the river running across campus.

Now, as anyone will tell you who has been here, the Pinn (said river)
has only has living in it those strange creatures made up from
Supermarket trollys and driftwood. Yet he managed to catch quite a
handsome fish.

Btw, anyone know where I can get a copy?

%Trevor Jenkins

Robert


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From: arkhive@apusapus.demon.co.uk (Ailsa Jenkins)
Subject: Yorkshire and Countdown 
Distribution: world
Organization: QLA - Quantum Leap Anonymous
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 00:50:42 +0000


In article <C1BAwA.Bq0@cck.coventry.ac.uk> api053@cch.coventry.ac.uk writes: 
> In article <C1B7w9.2wv@cck.coventry.ac.uk> cei352@cck.coventry.ac.uk 
(The Freak) writes:

> >       It is beyond me how Countdown has continued to live its 
> >       exsistence after all these years.It is one of the most dire
> >       shows ever to have been known on this god-forsaken planet
> >       of ours. 

They probably have loadsapeople in the waiting list to go on this show.
Enough for the next 20 years at a guess.

> What's happening to Carol Vordermann?  She's been slowly deteriorating in 
> recent times.  In the past couple of weeks, in the only two shows that I've
> managed to watch recently, she hasn't been able to complete the numbers game,
> where others have (My mum and the guy in dictionary corner).

Its the post natal hormones. I can attest to this (having two little 'uns
of my own).  Expect Carol's brain to return to normal some time soon. How
old is her baby now???

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                 Croxley Green, RICKMANSWORTH, Herts, UK

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        understand.'    Alfred Von Wilmers in "Romance, Romance"
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From: ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Channel 4 adverts
Date: 21 Jan 1993 12:28:42 -0000
Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
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Keywords: Channel 4, bloody annoying.

In article <1993Jan21.120458.8333@spider.co.uk> colint@spider.co.uk (Colin Tinto) writes:
>
>On a similar note, we have all spotted the small stripy square in the top
>right corner before the adverts, but has anyone spotted anything to
>tell you when the adverts finish ?

The last advert usually includes it's throw away ending (usually a
long still of the last frame of the advert, but not always).

>
>This would be a great feature for a video recorder - automatically cuts out
>adverts....

Better technology exists, in the form of a better method of setting up
video recorders to record, if only someone would start using it.
(Actually I think C4 started using it last year as an experiment, but
nothing much has been said about it for a long time).

The idea was that you'd set your video to record a program, not giving
times. Then, in a similar way to teletext, information would be sent
with the picture to say when each program was starting, etc. Thus even
if your program was delayed by a long time, you always got the full
thing, without the need for extra waste before and after. This system
would have been easily extended to stop the video during the adverts
*if* the T.V. company wanted to (which of course they wouldn't).

I guess that the problem with this system is that the video needs to
keep monitoring the signal to see when programmes it has been set up
to record start.

Ian

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From: zzassgl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Channel 4 adverts
Keywords: Channel 4, bloody annoying.
Date: 25 Jan 93 09:11:48 GMT
Distribution: uk
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre, Manchester, England, M13 9PL.


It's also quite good at gaining your attention if you are not actually
directly watching the screen - a fast moving image which appears to be
approaching makes you glance up to see what is going on.

The people knocking on the inside of the screen also seem to be nothing but
attention getters for the ads that follow.

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Exactly who makes the Tannoy announcements in M*A*S*H?  It can't be Radar
and there is never anyone else in the office.  (This refers to `classic'
M*A*S*H of course, not M*A*S*H*Lite with all the Radar removed at source.)
From: imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Ian Collier)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Yorkshire and Countdown
Date: 27 Jan 93 16:31:22 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory
X-Local-Date: Wednesday, 27th January 1993 at 4:31pm GMT
Originator: imc@msc7.comlab

In article <7469@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>, M.Whidby@mcc.ac.uk wrote:
>Anybody see that clip from Countdown a couple of weeks ago (might have been
>on 'The Word') where the letters were  ANKERSWXQ (not sure about the last
>two ;-)  ) and both contestants came up with the same 7 letter word?

No, I didn't.  Which word might that have been?

>Sadly it was never transmitted.

Hmm, that might be the reason why I didn't see it, you never know... :-)

What's wrong with "SWANKER" anyway?  (surely it is in the COD)  :-)

Ian Collier
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From: tchua@soda.berkeley.edu (Terence Chua)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: MORSE - Twilight Of The Gods
Date: 21 Jan 93 06:18:06
Organization: QMW Department of Laws
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In-reply-to: James Petts's message of Thu, 21 Jan 1993 13:06:43 GMT


Despite the so-called star-studded cast, I was a bit disappointed at
this last episode. Morse was in character, and so was Lewis - the
banter was superb as usual - but the mystery was so flat and obvious I
don't know why they didn't figure it out within the first hour that
the intended victim was Baden. 

I discovered the the episodes I enjoy most are those when he actively
pits his mind against the villain - "Masonic Mysteries" and the
previous one about the devil spring to mind immediately. It's rare to
find a msytery that is really engrossing and lives up to the name,
nowadays, on television... say on the par of an Ellery Queen.

Please let there be more Morse - this is no way to finish it.

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From: gerry@keele.ac.uk (G.D.Pratt)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Bring 'em back.
Date: 27 Jan 93 11:03:20 GMT
Organization: Keele University, England
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The Freak (cei352@cck.coventry.ac.uk) wrote:
: 	   a.) Treasure Hunt with Anneka Rice.

Now you're talking! This was the BEST TV PROGRAMME ever broadcast and I
have most of them now in MY EXTENSIVE VIDEO LIBRARY but nothing beats
the heart stopping excitement of watching them as real broadcast...those
CLOTHES, that SMALL TALK with HIJACKED car drivers...I tell you I can't
get enough...the best way to spend your life would be in a NICAM TV STEREO
SUITE with a GIANT WRAP ROUND SCREEN and a HEAD FULL OF CRANK and watch 
this GLOROIOUS PROGRAM forever - it was that good...hang on a SECOND
I hear the HELICOPTER BLADES NOW...here we go again...here SHE BLOWS!!
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From: djenkins@axion.bt.co.uk (David Jenkins)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: MORSE - Twilight Of The Gods
Date: 25 Jan 93 08:23:02 GMT
Reply-To: djenkins@axion.bt.co.uk (David Jenkins)
Organization: British Telecom Research Labs


In article <TCHUA.93Jan21061806@soda.berkeley.edu>,
tchua@soda.berkeley.edu (Terence Chua) writes:
|> 
|> Despite the so-called star-studded cast, I was a bit disappointed at
|> this last episode. Morse was in character, and so was Lewis - the
|> banter was superb as usual - but the mystery was so flat and obvious
|> I
|> don't know why they didn't figure it out within the first hour that
|> the intended victim was Baden. 
|> 

Never mind the plot - what about that awful Welsh accent exhibited by
the star character, Gwladis Probert!

I was born and raised not too far from her supposed home town, and I've
never heard an accent like that... her sister's accent wasn't bad, and
the Welsh-speaking professor was perfectly natural.

If they want a Welsh accent, why not get a Welsh actress?


David Jenkins

"In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times
like these." - Paul Harvey.
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From: Andy.Taylor@brunel.ac.uk (Andy J Taylor)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk,uk.misc
Subject: Re: Ariston music for TV Advert
Date: 21 Jan 93 13:05:36 GMT
Distribution: uk
Organization: Henley Management College, UK

In article <2943.imc@uk.ac.ox.prg> imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Ian Collier) writes:

>In article <1993Jan19.171322.12610@onionsnatcorp.ox.ac.uk>, dominic@natcorp.ox.ac.uk (Dominic Dunlop) wrote:

>
>>Cursory research (south Central, north Meridian, noisy Carlton/LWT,
>>very noisy western Anglia region signals) suggests to me that, since
>>the new year and the introduction of the silly coloured lozenge
>>signal, all Channel 4 advertising has been national.
>
>OK, well...
>
> 1. How do you get signals from Carlton and Anglia regions?  I can only find
>    Meridian (apart from Central, of course) (and that's only when I point
>    my aerial south).  The two signals come from Oxford (obviously) and
>    Hannington (wherever that is).

Hannington is at Kingsclere in Berkshire sort of south of a line drawn
between Reading and Newbury.  I can see the mast from my house and
consequently have an excellent picture.

> 2. At about 6.16pm yesterday the adverts happened to be on C4 and I
>    compared the signals from the two regions.  At first they were
>    identical, however towards the end of the advert break the two stations
>    started showing different adverts.  So Channel 4 advertising is not
>    national.
>

I hate the diamonds, loath the Meridian logo and yearn for TVS's much
more tasteful one (not the colour one, but the silvery one).


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From: esi001@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Dicky-Jim)
Subject: Keeny and Mercia
Organization: COVENTRY UNIVERSITY , Coventry , UK.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:24:33 GMT

This is the Mark Keen ( king of the wierd scene !!! ) thread now .... come
on all you fellow late-showites lets get a really good appriciation
conversation going on in here. ( maybe a midlands newsgroup would be more
appropriate , but who cares .... all you people out there need to know what
you're missing ! )

			I'm orff to toss meee caybour .....
			
							Gooodbyeeee !!!!!

									Rich.


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From: dplumb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Dave Plumb)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: Why is UK Gold thus unpunctual
Date: 24 Jan 93 18:30:00 GMT
Reply-To: dplumb@cix.compulink.co.uk
Cc: dplumb@cix.compulink.co.uk

>         The worst one has to be 'The Young Ones'...when it was originally 
> minutes by cutting out a) The pop group's appearance 
Due to copyright apparently. 
 
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From: cei308@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Jet Girl)
Subject: Re: More Coronation Street Crap
Organization: Coventry University
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 13:33:43 GMT



	    TOP 5 DISPOSABLE STREET CHARACTERS
	    
I wrote:
	    
>>I say bring back Suzie Burchill and the girl who Rita fostered (cant remember
>>her name in the prog.  She had a crush on Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran and was
>>played by the woman in Making Out who was having a lesbian affair...)					

Neal wrote:

>    b) Him out of the flying pickets.Dont know his name,hes not worth the
>       effort trying to remember.

Dont you think this is spooky????  The guy from the Flying Pickets played
Chunkie in Making Out.  Is there a conspiracy????  


Anyway, perhaps we should have a poll on who we would like to see meet their
maker due to a nasty accident involving a loaf of Bettabuy bread (all those
in the North who shop at Morrison's should get that one!!!) and one of Betty's
hot pots?

If anyone is interested, then e-mail me personally, not through the net
and mark it Coronation Street.  I'll compile the chart and put it up on
the net.  Closing date : 30th January

Joolz

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From: cei352@cck.coventry.ac.uk (The Freak)
Subject: Re: EBAT DESIGN BLUES (was: Bring 'em back.)
Keywords: bored, crap
Organization: Coventry University
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:10:46 GMT

In article <C1Isv7.6xE@cck.coventry.ac.uk> cei308@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Jet Girl) writes:
>
>>> Yep, we have done our brainstorming exercise, but have we finished our
>>> decision matrix???   NO!!!  And when has it to be in????  THURSDAY!!!
>>> Will we get it done???  NO!!!!!!!!!
>>>
>>   Well last week Mr.Wood told us we had done our report completely wrong.
>>  *BOO* and so we had to do it again.Sonja and I were due to have a meeting
>>  yesterday but she never turned up...*DOUBLE BOO*
>>  So I hope she has done it coz I havent.!
>>  Are you going to fix your decision matrix.? Of course you dream of
>>  doing anything like that would you.? Not like us...
>>  God I hate design,nearly as much as I do Blakes 7.
>>  Oh, by the way what do you reckon to us setting up -OUR- own 
>>  problem page newsgroup.? The Freak and Luddite Help Page.
>>  I reckon it would be excellent.!!
>
>Well, I think our report was okay...if it wasnt, well, bad luck. I'm not
>about to kill myself over a design project when I've got so much work to
>do.   Decision matrix???  We haven't even STARTED it yet!!!!  But naturally,
>when we decide on our best solution (probably about two days before the whole
>project has to be handed in) it WILL be fixed - just like my last design
>project and the one before that...
>
 What...?? You mean to say you choose your solution only days before it
 has to be handed in.Tusk.! Do you always have to copy me.?
 
>Readers of trn...let me explain...our design lessons are totally crap...
>we feel we have to share them with you....
  Really, you have to be there to sample the embarrassment of actually being
  a student on the course.
>
>The Freak and Luddite Help Pages...Neal dearie, you KNOW I changed my alias
>to Jet Girl at the start of this year...
>
 Oops I forgot ...sorry.Its senile dementure I am afraid.It sets in early in
 us Oldham folk.

 Right thats two potential new newsgroups....
 1.) rec.cozzers.....or rec.coronation street.
 2.) rec.Freak and Jet Girl....trns answer to Marje Proops.

 hmmmm...maybe rec.design,or rec.technology,or rec.small.business.management.
 Have you had your technology lab for this week.If you havent pretend you 
 are ill and dont turn up.Had I foresight thats exactly what I'd have done.
 
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From: api053@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Garion)
Subject: Re: EBAT DESIGN BLUES (was: Bring 'em back.)
Keywords: bored, crap
Organization: Coventry University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:22:09 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.175711.17546@infodev.cam.ac.uk> pe@cam-orl.co.uk (Philip Elwell) writes:
>
>I don't want to interrupt your conversation, but couldn't it be carried on
>somewhere more appropriate. You both (The Freak and Jet Girl) make valuable
>contributions to the group, but this isn't one of them. I don't directly
>have to pay to read the news but some people do. Perhaps you could find a
>group local to Coventry?
>
>Yours constructively and trying not to offend,
>      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
       constrictively

Just a little joke....because I agree that what those two are talking about
doesn't belong here; try cov.misc

With love and smiles to my fiancee and The Freak

Steven




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From: cei308@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Jet Girl)
Subject: Re: Keeny and Mercia
Organization: Coventry University
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 11:01:44 GMT

In article <C19psx.2oH@cck.coventry.ac.uk> esi001@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Dicky-Jim) writes:
>This is the Mark Keen ( king of the wierd scene !!! ) thread now .... come
>on all you fellow late-showites lets get a really good appriciation
>conversation going on in here. ( maybe a midlands newsgroup would be more
>appropriate , but who cares .... all you people out there need to know what
>you're missing ! )
>
>			I'm orff to toss meee caybour .....
>			
>							Gooodbyeeee !!!!!
>
>  ....well, I'm off to stroke a nice bit of two-by-four....

                           Joolz
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From: dvp@getafix (Dave Parry)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: News
Date: 22 Jan 93 18:13:07 GMT
Distribution: uk
Organization: The Mountains of Madness
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ABIGAIL RUTHERFORD YOUNG (ayoung@cck.coventry.ac.uk) wrote:
: In article <C163yD.5sB@cck.coventry.ac.uk> cei308@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Jet Girl) writes:
: > (Ben Hambidge) writes:
: > 
: >>I would just like to say that pathetic posting about Somalia can't have
: >>been written by anyone human...

:         I am human,and still stand by my views.The point I was
: 	and still am making is the fact that these news stories
: 	are becoming repetitive,to the extent where one gets
:         sick and tired' of such articles.People just build up
: 	a 'resistance' to these news articles.They have heard
: 	it all before

: 	.. And of course if I lost my job,car,house,etc I would want help.
: 	But that can be cured and put to right again.The problem
: 	in Somalia will remain the same.Malthus was right in
: 	his assumptions all those years ago.Where is
: 	Ethiopia today.? Still in the same state that it was about
: 	5 years ago,still suffering from the problems
: 	of starvation.But people got tired of hearing about Ethiopia
: 	all the time,so the media had to find somewhere new...
: 	..lets choose Somalia,after all it is providing some
: 	news other than starvation

Gosh, jolly sooper retort Abby old girl. Why can't the old Somalian
chappies take a leaf out of India's book? They have starving people
there (one has heard), but they don't make a song and dance about it do
they? No, they'd much rather have a good game of cricket - trouble is,
they've got quite good at it - it's not really on, colonials beating
their masters, what? Anyway, sorry old girl, sort of got orf track
there a bit ha ha, back to the starving. Believe it or not, I've had
an idea. They could eat you. What do you say old girl?

I think it's a spiffing idea Abby, that way the Soms get a bit of
tiffen, and we get shot of a complete twat.

Toodle pip!
From: u0f98@keele.ac.uk (DJ Robinson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: The Bill 28/1/93
Date: 28 Jan 93 21:13:25 GMT
Organization: Keele University, England
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]


At the end of tonight's Bill what exactly was the reason for Frank
Burnside recording over the video of the two boys raping the girl? I
know that they had the bad guy banged to rights for loads of charges but
why throw one of them away by destroying the video?
Can anyone explain or is he a complete bastard?
	Dominator
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