HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: pt@curie.lif.icnet.uk (Paul Taylor <pt@acl.icnet.uk>)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: The miners, again
Date: 22 Dec 1992 17:46:09 -0000
Organization: Imperial Cancer Research Fund
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In article <1992Dec22.155450.14295@bristol.ac.uk> P.Smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee) writes:
>
>Since the original announcement, though, something on the order of
>5000 miners have taken voluntary redundancy.  (For the US readers,
>that's 'We (the company) will give you a nice lump-sum payment if you
>will resign voluntarily'.)  Average redundancy awards seem to have been
>somewhere between 12000 and 18000 pounds.
>
Which sounds a lot, but remember a lot of these people have mortgaged
properties in towns where no one, but no one, is going to be able to live and
work IF the mines close down.
From: yadallee@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Dave Shariff Yadallee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Happy 1993 mates
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 05:54:16 MST
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #3, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Happy New Year Mates!

Remember!  Good Republicans, Euronationalists and Eurofederalists are dead
ones!!

Dave Shariff Yadallee (B. Sc. (Econ/Math) (U of Alberta 1990) )
 (yadallee@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca, userLIBE@mts.ucs.ualberta.ca)
God Save the Queen, God Bless us All! Remember! Jesus Saves!!
Happy Christmas and Merry New Year to One and All - John Lennon
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
From: hugh@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Hugh Graham)
Subject: Re: Green cards etc
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:37:48 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

<David Brooks) writes:
>cockburn@edieng.enet.dec.com (Craig Cockburn) writes:
>| Craig
>|       (no social security number and intending to keep it that way)
>Don't you have a NI number?  Mine began, or more strictly begins, with
>YP and ends with 99A; I forget the bits in between.  Your GP should be
able to tell you what it is :-)                      ^^^^^^^|
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|
Or do you mean your NHS number?  Mine is of the form MIVB 339.  My NI number
is WE 25 44 55 D. (Nearly).  Plus I have 2 passport numbers etc.
On the other hand, in the US I have a social security number,
driving licence number and, most importantly, a credit card number.  
At least my account on this computer is no longer mere digits.


Hugh


hugh@lamar.colostate.edu
Free at last! Free at last!
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
From: casseres@apple.com (David Casseres)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Robertson's Golly Badges.
Date: 18 Dec 92 19:23:45 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.british
Organization: Apple Computer Inc.

In article <Bz3G2H.5Lp@sunlab1.bath.ac.uk>, ccsdhd@sunlab1.bath.ac.uk
(Dennis Davis) wrote:
> 
> In the referenced article, tmo@harry.engin.umich.edu (Tanya M Ollick) writes:
> >What's a Robertson's Golly badge?
> 
> Robertson's are a UK manufacturer of jam/marmalade.  I suspect that
> their product may be referred to as jelly in the States.  Their jars of
> jam had, and still have, a small pictograph or picture of a golliwog
> (**) on the label.

In the States, the only Robertson's product I've seen is marmalade, and
yes, we do know what marmalade is over here, thank you, and that's what we
call it.  I don't think the jars sold here have golliwogs on them.

> (**) A golliwog is a soft child's toy, something like a teddy bear.
>      Later, and inferior, toys on this theme would include gruesome
>      things like Cindy dolls.  Golliwogs are normally clothed and have
>      black faces and frizzy hair.  As a sacrifice to the altar of
>      Political Correctness "Golliwog Badges" are now referred to as
>      "Golly Badges".  Similar things have happened to the "Noddy" books of
>      Enid Blyton.  They have been rewritten and the naughty golliwogs
>      have been removed.  Some might think our children's heritage is
>      being pasteurised.

On the other hand, some might think a nasty bit of ugly, ignorant, outdated
racism is being phased out, and none too fast either.

I didn't know you had whining and wanking about "political correctness" in
the U.K. too.  Pity.

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
From: sp@osf.org (Simon Patience)
Subject: Re: Do we really need the monarchy?
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 07:38:07 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.183910.26701@cunews.carleton.ca>, ahall@library1.library.carleton.ca (Alison Hall) writes:
> >>   I furthur arge that the people show, based on a value system, should keep the
> >> government in check.
> >
> >Shurely, as well asthat, it shold only be people. govenrments should not,
> >no circonstunces, be allwed to do it.
> 
> Um, what?
> 
> >Simon.
> >
> >Marks out of 10 anyone?


OK, so I appear to have passed the uninteligability test, but you didn't 
mark my first attempt at Yadalleean.

Simon.

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From: ahall@library1.library.carleton.ca (Alison Hall)
Subject: Re: Old British Films (movies, y'all)
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:32:54 GMT

>	2) Similar film about a section of London that declared independence
>owing to the discovery of a charter granted by William the Conqueror.

Passport to Pimlico.

Alison_Hall@carleton.ca
From: sandee@vs11.scri.fsu.edu (Daan Sandee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Green cards
Date: 21 Dec 92 20:22:28 GMT
Reply-To: sandee@vs11.scri.fsu.edu (Daan Sandee)
Organization: SCRI, Florida State University

In article <1992Dec19.001203.20144@hemlock.cray.com> trk@palm15.cray.com (Tim Kirby) writes:
>zoran siveski fac ee (zoran@hertz.njit.edu) wrote:
>: 
>: Rather don't plan on carrying your "green card" with you (unless you
>: travel abroad, of course.) You are not required by the law to do it.
>
>Bzzzzzt. Well, sort of. It rather depends on how you want to interpret the
>following text which was on the paperwork which came with my shiny new
>pink card earlier this year (I just happen to have it on file):
>
>     Enclosed is your identification card.
>     The law requires that you keep this card in your posession at all times.
>
>The operative word is "posession". It is (possibly) arguable that keeping the
>card in a safe deposit box at the bank is "keeping it in your posession".

No, that's not what they mean.
An alien caught without documentation (i.e., green card, or passport with visa)
may be subject to immediate deportation. 
I got caught once at a Border Patrol checkpoint in Texas and got yelled at
loudly and they let me stew for an hour before deciding to let me go.
Not at a border crossing - at one of those checkpoints they have in states
along the Mexican border.
Moral : if they catch you without a green card, tell them you're an
American - it's up to them to prove otherwise. Of course, if your skin is
the wrong color, they may deport you anyway ; there have been numerous cases
of INS roundups where they just kicked out everybody without ID and some of
them turned out to be U.S. citizens.

So the dilemma is carrying around, risking theft, or not carrying it around,
risking deportation. Generally, I *don't* carry it, unless travelling along
the Mexican border.

>Did anyone else see the "worst voice mail in the country" survey earlier this
>year ? The INS phone line won by a phenomenal margin over the next worst
>offender (I guess you really have to try it to understand why ,,, ;-)

Not that I really want to defend the INS, but improving phone service is
just a matter of funding. Why should anybody in Washington care about the
service to aliens ? They don't vote. They just pay taxes. Don't blame the
INS from being permanently underpaid and overworked.

Daan Sandee                                           sandee@scri.fsu.edu
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From: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Giles
Date: 21 Dec 92 16:49:18 GMT
Reply-To: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
Organization: COMANDOS Project, Glesga Yoonie

jmb@ukc.ac.uk (Mike Bremner) wrote:
> jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll) writes:
>>> I lived in London from 1961-1965, and acquired a fondness for a comic
>>> strip  named 'Giles'. I used to  pick up the  annual collections,  but
>>> I  haven't seen  one  in the last couple of years -  is it still being
>>> produced?
> Yes and no.  Last year's collection contained some "current" cartoons
> dated up to about June; the rest of the collection was selected from
> earlier work (going back to the forties).  No explanation was given.
> This year's collection consists entirely of "old" material, explaining
> that, due to a long stay in hospital, Giles has not produced any
> cartoons in the past year.

I don't see why that should make much difference.  Giles has not done these
unassisted for decades; I know someone who once went for job interview with
Giles - he wanted an assistant specifically to draw cars at the time.  I'd
have thought the team could have kept the show running without assistance
from Giles himself by now.

I suppose he must have done it all at some point - but his work got a lot
less interesting after about 1970; maybe that's when he started turning into
a corporation. Rather Giles in decline than Jak at any point in his career,
though.


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From: harrison@src.dec.com (Stephen Harrison)
Subject: Re: English Tea Kettle
Reply-To: harrison@src.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Systems Research Center
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 23:25:46 GMT



In article <1992Dec29.200341.24195@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>, bob@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Bob Collinge 525-B126) writes:

> I am interested in locating a store (preferably U.S. West Coast) which sells
> English style electric tea kettles (115 volts), i.e the kind currently in
> vogue in England - tall cylindrical, not the older, shiny metal exterior
> type, which resemble ones you heat up on a stove.  If anyone is familiar
> with a store or a distributor in the U.S. or Canada that deals with such
> kettles, I would appreciate hearing from you.

I'm not making this up ... Macy's.  That's where I got mine a couple of years
back.  Can't remember the make--I'll look tonight.

/Stephen

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From: dam@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (David Morning)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: British Imperial Weights and Measures
Date: 23 Dec 92 18:04:09 GMT
Organization: Glasgow University Computing Science Dept.

vogelm@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Michael Vogel) writes:


>I would like to get some information about weights and measures.
>Is the UK ever going to change from the British imperial system to the 
>metric system?

It has partially. Weights are generally metric eg sugar is in kg, liquid
measures are a mix, pints of milk, litres of Coke, distances are generally
miles and yards, however the construction industry uses metric measurements..

>To which extent and in which fields and professional branches is the metric
>system used in the UK?

Most science branches are SI metric.

>Who knows any abolished or rare weight and measures which are applied in 
>special professional branches only, such as in mining, farming, navigation, 
>etc.?

Off the top of my head, the only one I can think of is fathoms which I believe
is still used. Their might be others in specialised industries like diamond
sales.

>Is temperature still measured in degrees Fahrenheit?

No, Centigrade, though the Fahrenheit equivalent is usually mentioned in passing
for older folks.

>How is liquor sold in pubs?

In pints and gills still.

>In which units are the height and the weight of a person given in the passport?

Metric. Metres and kilograms.

>Is petrol still sold by the gallon?

Priced per litre, sold by the gallon. Petrol consumption is given as miles
per gallon.

Confusing huh?

Dave
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From: cockburn@edieng.enet.dec.com (Craig Cockburn)
Subject: Re: Banned: ``Happy Holidays'' [sic]
Organization: Digital Equipment Co. Ltd., Reading, England
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 12:02:32 GMT


>In article <vl=r41m@lynx.unm.edu>, MPLATT@MEDUSA.UNM.EDU (Mark Platt) writes:
>> In article <128030003@otter.hpl.hp.com> Andrew Farmer,
>> arf@otter.hpl.hp.com writes:
>>>	Bah! Humbug!
>> 
>> good old Tim Oldham, yes tim it is Xmas in England one good reason that
>> england has a way of making all other religions feel worthless, after 6
>> years of being beaten up as a "YID" at a fairly good grammer school I can
>> safely say that the attitude its Xmas I'm the majority and stuff it you
>> lot is fairly typical of what I encountered from my school "chums" it may
>> be PC to say happy holidays but it does acknowledge that there are some
>> others in the world carry on with your merry Xmas though it makes me
>> remmeber my school days

But the root of "holiday" is "Holy Day". How can it be PC to say "Happy
Holidays" when it isn't a holiday, nor a Holy day for everyone? Maybe
it's just PC for the Jews who have a strong presence in the US.
About 4/5 of shop assistants were saying "Happy Holidays" to me when
I was over there, the rest said "Merry Christmas"

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
From: chorley@vms.ocom.okstate.edu
Subject: Old British Films (movies, y'all)
Organization: OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:33:33 GMT

Request for information about a couple of 1950s films, Ealing comedies, I
think.
	1) Need the title of a film about a seaside pier that was reclassified 
as a ship for commercial reasons.
	2) Similar film about a section of London that declared independence
owing to the discovery of a charter granted by William the Conqueror.

T.V.M D.N.C.

Objoke: what do William the Conqueror, Jack the Ripper and Kermit the Frog have 
in common?

They have the same middle name, "the". 8-)
From: wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Happy Christmas!
Date: 23 Dec 92 15:50:48 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620

In article <1992Dec23.091338.1014@sei.cmu.edu>, firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes:
> 
> A mistranslation, not a misquote:
> 
> 	Gloria in excelsis deo,
> 	et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis

Which is in turn a mistranslation of something in Greek which was once upon a
time a quotation in Hebrew.

Still, a very merry Christmas to you all.
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
From: dj@ekcolor.ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones)
Subject: Re: Studying Meteorology in the UK
Organization: Vonnegut Tent Rentals, Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 18:33:05 GMT

Robert Firth (firth@sei.cmu.edu) wrote:
> In article <9T3kwB2w165w@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> waldo@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (Todd J. Dicker) writes:
> 
> >I thought the weather report was always the same in Canada-- cold and 
> >snowy!
> 
> No, that's only in the winter.  In the summer, it's warm and snowy.

Or, as they say: 8 months of snow and 4 months of bad sledding.

(4-1/2 months in Newfoundland)

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From: chem91@Elroy.UH.EDU ("Bill Harrison (713)-743-2789")
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Yankee behind the wheel.. {HELP!}
Date: 21 Dec 1992 15:41:40 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Reply-To: chem91@Elroy.UH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: elroy.uh.edu

[...]
>
>A couple of other things: there is no right turn on red: red means stop,
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>-- Ernest

There *certainly* isn't in Britain, but *no LEFT turn on red*, either... 

Just to clarify that -- the other advice is very good...   ;=)

Bill
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From: Geraint.Jones@comlab.oxford.ac.uk (Geraint Jones)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british,soc.culture.celtic
Subject: Re: British Flags (was Re: The Welsh Flag)
Date: 23 Dec 92 06:58:36 GMT
Organization: Cthonic water
Originator: geraint@clts1.comlab

In an uncharacteristic fit of seasonal good cheer holohan@mark.enet.dec.com 
(Mark Holohan) burst forth:
(  
 )   The Union Flag should more appropriately be called, the Jolly-Roger.

You know, this would be quite funny if it were better punctuated.
___
Who, me?  Read a Holohan posting all the way through?
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
From: cockburn@edieng.enet.dec.com (Craig Cockburn)
Subject: Re: US bombed Libyan civilians
Organization: Digital Equipment Co. Ltd., Reading, England
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 12:06:20 GMT


In article <1992Dec18.231903.6587@informix.com>, proberts@informix.com (Paul Roberts) writes...
>In article <BzArI5.7w7@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> dam@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (David Morning) writes:
>>andrewg@brtph346.BNR.CA  writes:
>>
>>>Who said anything about cheering them on. I merely said they could find some
>>>excuse for bombing Libya. Eg. Libya gives weapons and explosives to the
>>>IRA. The
>>

 The US bombing of Tripoli was little more than a thinly disguised 
attempt to kill Gadaffi which failed. The US aiming was completely
haywire and hit the building across the road from where my sister
was teaching in the British school to primary school age children.
Wouldn't that have looked messy on the headlines in America
"US fails to kill Gadaffi but gets British school children instead"

Craig

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From: david@postman.gr.osf.org (David George)
Subject: Re: British Imperial Weights and Measures
Organization: OSF RI Grenoble
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 11:34:14 GMT

In article <Bzq4uz.51E@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>, dam@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (David Morning) writes:
|> vogelm@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Michael Vogel) writes:

|> >I would like to get some information about weights and measures.
|> >Is the UK ever going to change from the British imperial system to the 
|> >metric system?

|> lots of irregularities deleted

|> Confusing huh?
|> 
|> Dave

Not half as confusing as some Munich grocers shop trying to flog a couple
of Pfunds of flour, only to find that they've been metricised and now weigh
500 grammes !  Still better than my local grocer who rounds a pound down
to about 450 grammes.  What was that ?  you've got a dutzend Eier going billig ?

The metric system has been taught in most British schools since I started
(in 1969).  It is only preserved in for 'traditional' reasons (and for old
folks, bless 'em).  After all you'd feel a right charlie going down the pub
and asking for "a litre of your best, bar steward".  Gallons of petrol, well
such weird things as litres/per hundred kilometres appear to require some real
mental gymnastics as compared to m.p.g.  However as Dave states, all petrol
is sold in litres.

> Who knows any abolished or rare weight and measures which are applied in 
> special professional branches only, 

do surveyors still use chaines ?  (about 9 inches), I guess not.

>>How is liquor sold in pubs?

> In pints and gills still.

Unlike here in sunny bargain basement France where the stuff which passes
for lager (yes it looks well passed) is sold in 25 cl. glasses but will
cost you at least the price of an English pint to buy.

> Petrol
>> Priced per litre, sold by the gallon.

rather tricky when the pump only displays litres.  Normally it's sold by
the 'worth'.  As in "I'll have a tenner's worth, guv.".

David.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
From: kelley@rapnet.sanders.lockheed.com (Sean Kelley)
Subject: Re: Anglepoise Lamps
Organization: Lockheed Sanders, Inc., Nashua, NH
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 00:57:22 GMT

I have several jpeg and gif images taken from animations.  But,
I don't have any scenes from the luxor lamp.  I could send them
to wuarchive if anyone is interested?


                   Sean


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From: gardner_c@apollo.hp.com (Cal Gardner)
Subject: Re: British Imperial Weights and Measures
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 03:03:54 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA

Have you not heard of 'furlongs per fortnight' ?

Cal gardner_c@apollo.hp.com
From: yadallee@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Dave Shariff Yadallee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Solution to the Candidates of the Republic of Great Britiain
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 05:41:58 MST
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #3, Edmonton, AB, Canada

wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:

- In article <Xuk9VB4w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>, yadallee@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
- > Sorry, that should be Britain.
- >
- > Put anyone who wants to be GB President in front of a firing squad and if t
- > person survives without medical attention, let them stand.
- >
-
- Oh goody goody goody. Can we do the same with the Royal Family? Pleeeeeze?

Mr Wilcox, would you please step up as a candidate for the British Presidency

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 (yadallee@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca, userLIBE@mts.ucs.ualberta.ca)
God Save the Queen, God Bless us All! Remember! Jesus Saves!!
Happy Christmas and Merry New Year to One and All - John Lennon
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
From: sue@netcom.com (Sue Miller)
Subject: Re: Solution to the Candidates of the Republic of Great Britiain
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:14:33 GMT

Dave Shariff Yadallee writes:
>
>  Then again, I am sitting on a massive nuclear stockpile waiting to see
>action.
>

This explains much.


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