HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: UK SITCOM LIST
Date: 16 Oct 92 15:18:53 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620

In article <zlsiida.239@fs1.mcc.ac.uk>, zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd) writes:
> In article <1992Oct8.113408.9347@vax.oxford.ac.uk> wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
>>And the entry for the Addams Family ought to say "Not as funny as the
>>Munsters." (well you were asking for that one.)
> 
> No it should say 'Far funnier than the Munsters which was a cheap attempt to 
> cash in on the success of The Addams Family but was in fact totally crap'
> 
What were the relevant dates? Having watched both recently I would have guessed
that the Munsters were actually older than the Addams family, based on things
like picture quality and decor. As for the difference in quality, there is no
contest: the Munsters were so much better characterised than the Addams family,
and they are so much less American. You are just wrong. ;-)
-- 

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From: phudl@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr S J Liddicott)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: UK SITCOM LIST
Date: 16 Oct 92 08:37:50 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
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In article <zlsiida.239@fs1.mcc.ac.uk> zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd) writes:

>>About Hancock's half hour. Weren't these just TV recordings of the radio shows,
>>so a synopsis would be "Miserable old sod who always (just) falls on his feet."
>>Other cast included Sid James and Kenneth Williams.
>
>Wasn't there an Aussie in it?
>

Yeah
It was William Kerr, the well known Australian vagabond, who had no property
of his own, just a picture of Sidney harbour bridge and a boomerang,
who sponged off Hancock along with Sid James

Hmmm

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From: nrp@csug3.cs.reading.ac.uk ("Mischievous bee will-o'-the-wisps" Neilski)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: UK SITCOM LIST
Date: 9 Oct 92 09:35:31 GMT
Reply-To: nrp@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk
Organization: University of Reading

wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:

>About Hancock's half hour. Weren't these just TV recordings of the radio shows,
>so a synopsis would be "Miserable old sod who always (just) falls on his feet."
>Other cast included Sid James and Kenneth Williams.

No!  Hhhancock's half hour was on the radio for > 100 episodes and then
transferred to telly.  Try watching "Hancock Alone" one day and then just
listen to the soundtrack.

Sorry, I didn't look at the original list too hard but other cast included
Hugh Lloyd and June Whitfield (though not regularly).

-- neilski

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From: dias@milton.u.washington.edu (Vivian Dias)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Hugh Laurie Sighting
Date: 8 Oct 92 21:48:30 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

In article <MICHAEL.92Oct8162811@albert.bu.edu> michael@albert.bu.edu (Michael Chaplin) writes:
>
>Was that Hugh Laurie of Blackadder fame
>as Annie Lennox's companion in her new
>video for the song "Walking on Broken Glass" ?
>
>Chaplin.

  Looked like him to me but I thought it was because I'd just gone 
  through a 14 hour Black Adder marathon and I've been seeing those
  three everywhere...

  -Vivian
From: v128juxa@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (SCHUYJUANNAH)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: WANTED: Hedge Sketch
Date: 15 Oct 92 20:51:00 GMT
Organization: SUNY@Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <nrp.719139881@reading>, nrp@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk writes...
>Can someone please mail me a copy of Fry & Laurie's Hedge Sketch?

Better yet, please post it on alt.comedy.british!
From: ptaylor@airfarce.Canada.Sun.COM (Peter Taylor - Sun Toronto)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: UK SITCOM LIST G-N
Date: 14 Oct 92 17:25:08 GMT
Reply-To: ptaylor@airfarce.Canada.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems


csedlack@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Christopher Sedlack) writes:
> 
> Night Court:
> 
> cast: Marsha Warfield, and I think "Harry Stone" is a mistake.  There is likely
> some confusion as Harry Anderson's character is Judge Stone...
> 

No....the name was correct......the character is Judge Harry Stone.

					PKT
From: sprooney@unix1.tcd.ie (Simon Rooney)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Black Adder series I summary
Date: 12 Oct 92 21:21:17 GMT
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin


>	By the Bye- Hugh Laurie can be seen in 
>the most excellent video "Walking on Broken glass"
>The artistt's name escapes me at the moment-
>she used to be in the Pretenders.

Don't tell anyone this (keep it between the X000 of us), but I like
the song, and the vid, and it's Annie Lenox.

IOSnm
From: ptaylor@airfarce.Canada.Sun.COM (Peter Taylor - Sun Toronto)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: UK SITCOM LIST G-N
Date: 15 Oct 92 14:48:34 GMT
Reply-To: ptaylor@airfarce.Canada.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems


csedlack@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Christopher Sedlack) writes:
> ptaylor@airfarce.Canada.Sun.COM (Peter Taylor - Sun Toronto) writes:
> >csedlack@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Christopher Sedlack) writes:
> >> 
> >> Night Court:
> >> cast: Marsha Warfield, and I think "Harry Stone" is a mistake.  There is likely
> >> some confusion as Harry Anderson's character is Judge Stone...
> 
> >No....the name was correct......the character is Judge Harry Stone.
> >					PKT
> 
> Except that "Harry Stone" was listed as a cast member....
> 

OOppss....sorry.....I misunderstood.  You're right, Chris.  
Where the Sitcom List said "Harry Stone" it should read "Harry Anderson".

I'll just go and sit in the corner now.................PKT
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: jason@cray.com (Jason Parker)
Subject: Re: Black Adder series I summary
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 8 Oct 92 09:16:27 CDT

In article <1992Oct8.090100.25612@walter.cray.com>, jason@cray.com (Jason Parker) writes:
> 
>       B L A C K   A D D E R    P R O G R A M M E    G U I D E
>       -------------------------------------------------------

Ooops.  Well I guess it was the whole thing.  4 for the price of 1!
So I will not be making 3 other posts.  The entire summary was there.

Jason
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From: dwight@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Dwight Robert Stone)
Subject: red dwarf book vs. tv
Keywords: red dwarf
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 17:17:35 GMT

How does the Red Dwarf tv series compare to the book?  Which came first?
Thanks
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From: imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Ian Collier)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: UK SITCOM LIST
Date: 9 Oct 92 14:54:09 GMT
Distribution: uk
Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
X-Local-Date: Friday, 9th October 1992 at 3:53pm BST
Originator: imc@msc3.comlab

In article <1992Oct8.113408.9347@vax.oxford.ac.uk>, wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk wrote:
>Three more current sitcoms you haven't got:

>Terry and Julian
>Julian Clarey moves in with A.N.Other;

Terry is played by Lee Simpson.

>Nurses
>About nurses; from the team that brought you the Golden Girls. From the
>trailers (no I hgaven't seen the series) the cast appears to include Robin
>Williams.

It doesn't, as far as I have noticed.  I can only name two cast members as
of this moment: Arnetia Walker and Stephanie Hodge.  Except that Florence
Stanley puts in an occasional appearance.

>Let the blood run free

No comment. ;-)

Ian Collier
Ian.Collier@prg.ox.ac.uk | imc@ecs.ox.ac.uk
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From: ccamfiel@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Christopher Camfield)
Subject: Re: Carry On Columbus
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 18:37:35 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.232123.23803@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> brom@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (David Bromage) writes:
>
>I recently saw a TV news item about Carry on Columbus.
>
>As far as I can make out, the cast is Jim Dale (as Columbus), Rik Mayall,
>Nigel Planer, Alexie Sayle and Julian Clary.
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^

Speaking of Alexei, what are his film credits?  I've only seen the first
two series of Stuff (though the third one is now being broadcast :)
Also, are there any videotapes available of his live shows?  (ie standup)

-- 
Christopher Camfield (ccamfiel@descartes.uwaterloo.ca)
"Be yourself, no matter what they say" --Sting

Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: mefoster@laplace.uwaterloo.ca (Mary Ellen Foster)
Subject: Re: UK SITCOM LIST O-Tha
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 16:27:05 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.133530.3787@newscan.canada.sun.com> ptaylor@airfarce.Canada.Sun.COM writes:
>
>csedlack@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Christopher Sedlack) writes:
>> 
>> Perfect Strangers
>Synopsis: Madcap antics of a Chicago writer & his foreign cousin.
>Cast:  Bronson Pinchot, <can't remember the actor playing the Yank>.

Mark Linn-Baker
From: michael@albert.bu.edu (Michael Chaplin)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Hugh Laurie Sighting
Date: 8 Oct 92 20:28:11 GMT
Organization: Boston University


Was that Hugh Laurie of Blackadder fame
as Annie Lennox's companion in her new
video for the song "Walking on Broken Glass" ?

Chaplin.
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From: ensalada@cats.ucsc.edu (Kevin Charles Rubio)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: I need consensus on BA wording
Date: 9 Oct 1992 22:55:21 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
Reply-To: keeper@deeptht.armory.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu
Keywords: BlackAdder


In article <yshah.718482961@lucpul.it.luc.edu> yshah@lucpul.it.luc.edu (Guessing) writes:
>  I'm starting to revise the Reworked BA quotes, and I need a consensus on
>a certain word.  The word is from BA4 "GoodByeee", and is when BA pretends 
>to be insane.  How do you think "wubble" "wobble" or "wibble" should be     
>spelled, or what you think should be the right way.

How about "Wbbl"?

If you must have a vowel, perhaps "wooble" is closest to what he says.
It's definitely not the three you list above.  They might sound right
when spoken in certain American dialects, but that's not what we're after.


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From: rtillery@crash.cts.com (Rick Tillery)
Subject: Wanted: Hitchhiker's Guide video (any format)
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Date: 11 Oct 92 18:59:17 PDT

I'm looking for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy TV programs on video
tape.  I can arrange to have most any format converted to a format I can
view, so I'm begging for any and all leads.  I've seen the recordings of the
radio show, but the TV show was a riot.
 
Rick Tillery
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Black Adder series I summary
From: koumis@husc4.harvard.edu (Anthony Koumis)
Date: 9 Oct 92 17:24:05 EDT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

In article <92Oct09.173015.36002@acs.ucalgary.ca> garbe@jasper.phys.ucalgary.ca (Greg Garbe) writes:
>In article <1992Oct8.090100.25612@walter.cray.com>, jason@cray.com (Jason Parker) writes:
>|>       B L A C K   A D D E R    P R O G R A M M E    G U I D E
>|>       -------------------------------------------------------
>|> Series 2: Black Adder II
>|> ------------------------
>|> 
>|> Written by:.....Richard Curtis and Ben Elton
>|> Director:.......Mandie Fletcher
>|> Producer:.......John Lloyd

[snippets of what seems to have been the summary guide deleted]

Please dont tell me I was too late to get the episode summary of BA.  THe
whole thing has not appeared on my monitor though the promise to
post it ddid.  I hope that thw whole thing is just delayed in
transit to my site.
From: ijw@praxis.co.uk (Ian Wright)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: The Dangerous Brothers???? Rik And Adrian
Date: 8 Oct 92 09:31:28 GMT
Organization: Praxis, Warwick, U.K.

>>Has anyone seen a show starring Rik Myall And Adrian Edmonson called
>>the Dangerous Brothers??
>	I didn't know they were on vid though I must visit my local shop.....

I think the video is titled: "The Dangerous Brothers' World of Danger"
 
I saw it on sale somewhere (in Tesco I think) a couple of months
back.

Whatch out for the " highly dangerous 'crocodile snogging'...  "

Ian W
=====
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: yunus@loro-next.Stanford.EDU (Jonas Sami Celebiler)
Subject: Re: Reworked BA Quotes List *LONG* 2/4
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 10:05:04 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.151002.19220@pellns.alleg.edu>  
twiddyd@quig12.alleg.edu (David Twiddy) writes:
> > 
> > o  "I'm afraid that might not be far enough. Apparently the head  
Mongol
> >     and the Duke are good friends. They were at Eaton together."
> >        - Blackadder to the Prince trying to escape the Dukes wrath,  
BA2
> > 
> This ain't from BA2, It's from the last episode of BA3, "Duel and  
> Dualibility."
> --

Duel and duality "you thickie black thickiee adder...thickie" (just for  
the quote)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
From: davros@phobos.unm.edu (Seymour Butt)
Subject: Are You Being Served?
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 92 19:12:41 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque


>>    I need to know everybody that worked in
>>    the mens department at grace brothers.
>>    i can only remember the following
>>
>>          Men's Department:

          Mr. Earnest Granger, Senior Head of Gents Department.

          Mr. Tebbs, Senior Head of Gents Department.

          Mr. Klein, Senior Head of Gents Department.

          Mr. Goldstein, Senior Head of Gents Department.

          Mr. Clayborne Wilburforce Humpries, Senior Assistant.

          Mr. Dick Lucas, Junior.

          Mr. Bert Spooner, Junior.


>>   thanks
>>   please email me

-ketan-


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From: v115p8d6@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (I have a cunning plan...)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: Hugh Laurie Sighting
Date: 9 Oct 92 16:34:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Oct8.214830.15116@u.washington.edu>, dias@milton.u.washington.edu (Vivian Dias) writes...
>In article <MICHAEL.92Oct8162811@albert.bu.edu> michael@albert.bu.edu (Michael Chaplin) writes:
>>
>>Was that Hugh Laurie of Blackadder fame
>>as Annie Lennox's companion in her new
>>video for the song "Walking on Broken Glass" ?
>>
>>Chaplin.
> 
>  Looked like him to me but I thought it was because I'd just gone 
>  through a 14 hour Black Adder marathon and I've been seeing those
>  three everywhere...


I caught that video a couple of days ago and it is definitely Hugh Laurie.
It was easy to recognize him in that costume.:-)
From: nrp@csug3.cs.reading.ac.uk ("Mischievous bee will-o'-the-wisps" Neilski)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: WANTED: Hedge Sketch
Date: 15 Oct 92 09:04:41 GMT
Reply-To: nrp@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk
Organization: University of Reading

Can someone please mail me a copy of Fry & Laurie's Hedge Sketch?

Ta,
-- neilski

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From: john@argon.iss.nus.sg (John Waterworth)
Subject: Re: I need consensus on BA wording
Keywords: BlackAdder
Reply-To: john@iss.nus.sg (John Waterworth)
Organization: Institute of Systems Science, NUS, Singapore
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 02:41:33 GMT

It's wibble, no doubt about it.
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From: kmrc@ellis.uchicago.edu (Hoosier Red)
Subject: Re: Hugh Laurie Sighting
Reply-To: kmrc@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 05:27:44 GMT

Interesting.  I know that Tim McInnery was also in the Kate Bush
video for her song, "This Woman's Work."  Took me about two
watchings to recognize Hugh, though--altho that wig should've
tipped me off immediately.

I'm just wondering who's Annie's main squeeze was, now.  He's so
damned familiar. . .

MAM
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From: khill@leven.appcomp.utas.edu.au (Katrina Hill)
Subject: Re: Black Adder series I summary
Organization: University of Tasmania at Launceston
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 22:25:56 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.183330.25788@nmsu.edu>, jgoodric@dante.nmsu.edu (GOODRICH) writes:
>
>	By the Bye- Hugh Laurie can be seen in 
>the most excellent video "Walking on Broken glass"
>The artistt's name escapes me at the moment-
>she used to be in the Pretenders.
>
>	The Laughing Priest!
>
>"Laugh-a while you can, monkey-boy!"  -Lord John Whorfin

	I think the artist was Annie Lennox...I don't think she was in the 
	Pretenders rather in partnership with a guy called Dave Stewart.

	I thought the video was rather good too...don't like many videos
	as they often look sooooo tacky!

	trina
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From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: UK SITCOM LIST
Date: 15 Oct 92 14:49:57 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre

In article <1992Oct8.113408.9347@vax.oxford.ac.uk> wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:

>Three more current sitcoms you haven't got:
>Terry and Julian
>Nurses
>Let the blood run free

Yeah I've been getting lazy lately.  They're in now.

>About Hancock's half hour. Weren't these just TV recordings of the radio shows,
>so a synopsis would be "Miserable old sod who always (just) falls on his feet."
>Other cast included Sid James and Kenneth Williams.

Wasn't there an Aussie in it?

>And the entry for the Addams Family ought to say "Not as funny as the
>Munsters." (well you were asking for that one.)

No it should say 'Far funnier than the Munsters which was a cheap attempt to 
cash in on the success of The Addams Family but was in fact totally crap'

Thanks anyway!


              Have another day    [Armageddon, the musical] 
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From: csedlack@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Christopher Sedlack)
Subject: Re: UK SITCOM LIST G-N
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 01:32:36 GMT

Maude:

Similar to what was described, but she was DEFINITELY married more than twice.

Night Court:

cast: Marsha Warfield, and I think "Harry Stone" is a mistake.  There is likely
some confusion as Harry Anderson's character is Judge Stone...

Chris Sedlack
csedlack@uiuc.edu
csedlack@imsa.edu

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From: zzassgl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: UK SITCOM LIST O-Tha
Date: 7 Oct 92 10:27:00 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre, Manchester, England, M13 9PL.

In article <BvqDt7.2xy@news.cso.uiuc.edu> csedlack@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Christopher Sedlack) writes:
>Perfect Strangers
>
>The cousin is most definitely from the Soviet Union...
>
>Chris Sedlack


Surely an island called Mipos somewhere close to Albania or Greece.







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From: dunleavy@acsu.buffalo.edu (Houston Dunleavy)
Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british
Subject: Re: UK SITCOM LIST
Date: 16 Oct 92 18:55:23 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <zlsiida.239@fs1.mcc.ac.uk> zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd) writes:
>In article <1992Oct8.113408.9347@vax.oxford.ac.uk> wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:

>>About Hancock's half hour. Weren't these just TV recordings of the radio shows,
>>so a synopsis would be "Miserable old sod who always (just) falls on his feet."
>>Other cast included Sid James and Kenneth Williams.
>
>Wasn't there an Aussie in it?
>
	Actually, no. I don't think the actor was actually an Aussie. He 
sounds way too much like Chips Rafferty. I think he was an Englishman who 
was trying very hard. The regular cast for the Hancock's Half Hour radio shows
were originally part of a show called "All Star Bill". The surviving cast 
members who did the "Half Hours" were Hancock, Syd James, Hattie Jacques, 
Kenneth Williams and Bill Kerr, who played the Aussie, a "cousin in the 
colonial sense", who's character did not surviv the transition to television.
	In fact, the transition from "All Star Bill" to "Hancock's" was a 
little bumpy, one of the caualties being Graham Stark, who, Hancock decided,
was not right for the new show and was therefore "let go". This was just a
hint, of course, at the ruthless side of Hancock that eventually became so well
known. The writers, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, were the same for both shows.
They were eventually let go too after the television show had aired for several
seasons, as Hancock felt they could not help him to achieve the international 
stardom he craved. The BBC offered them a chance to write a series of ten
shows, one of which became "Steptoe and Son".

	Cheers all,

-- 
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"It is better to write for yourself and not have a public, than to write for 
the public and not have a self"  Cyril Connelly. "Time to get a job" H.D. 
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From: csedlack@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Christopher Sedlack)
Subject: Re: Douglas Adams
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 00:26:38 GMT

Yes, _Mostly Harmless_ is the new, fifth Hitchhikers' book.

Chris Sedlack

csedlack@uiuc.edu
csedlack@imsa.edu

The sigless wonder
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