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From: miriam@seismo.gps.caltech.edu (Miriam Jackson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Driving in UK.
Date: 10 Oct 1992 19:27:14 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: earth.gps.caltech.edu

There seem to be a few people out there who know what they're talking so let's
see if anyone can help on this one:

My husband and I (British) both have California drivers licences, but he has
a British licence which is for automatic cars only, whereas mine covers
manuals, too.  Last time he was home he wasn't able to drive his sister's car
(which is manual) because her insurance company wouldn't cover him, although
they spent a while saying yes, no, maybe, before they came back to the no.
Could he drive a rental car which is manual?  Is he obliged to show his
British licence?  If they ask him if he has one and he says no, will he get
his hand slapped if anyone finds out?
 	Thanks,


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Newsgroups: soc.culture.autralian,soc.culture.british,soc.culture.canada
From: gibanez@dcc.uchile.cl (Gabriel Ibanez C.)
Subject: Need your experience ...
Originator: gibanez@dcc.uchile.cl
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 18:24:51 GMT
Distribution: soc.culture
Organization: Universidad de Chile, Depto. de Ciencias de la Computacion

  Friends:

    We want to contact you in order to find out administratives methods
of computings resources in yours Universities and/or colleges. That is,
we need join your experiences about it, for example, in front of
a bigger demand of WorkStation, PC's, Mac's, etc..

    Our attempt is to know about this:

   - You use some reserve method in order to work in a terminal ??
   - Do you have some kind of restrictions in its use ?
   - Is there some carrere having privilegies of use ? which ?
   - Do you have adecuate environments for your works ?
       (sillas ergonometricas ?? )
   - Where is located the computers room ?
       near of some kitchen , coffe shop ? 
   - How many time you wait for your print papers ?
   - How many times you may print daily ??
   - What kind of printers do you have ?
   - From where you get financial supports ?
   - What kind of editors do you use, for developing programs, reports,
       so on ? 
   - Do you have some restricted hours of the day for using computers ?
   - How many hours you get daily ?

  Everything you can give us, about your experience, will be wellcome.



-- 

   Gabriel Iban~ez C.          
   gibanez@dcc.uchile.cl
From: ray@philmtl.philips.ca (Ray Dunn)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Edinburgh
Date: 10 Oct 92 00:47:51 GMT
Organization: On the Brew.

In referenced article, chem91@Elroy.UH.EDU writes:
>In article <BvrCJx.oA@acsu.buffalo.edu>, v064myby@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Christophe J Quaranta) writes:
>>
>>	Can anyone tell me how you're supposed to pronounce Edinburgh?
>>Every Scot I talk to seems to say Edinboro!  I assume they're not referring
>>to Pennsylvania.
>
>In this case... they're quite correct! A Brit would barely know what you
>were talking about if you asked the way to Edin-burg (as in hamBURGer). 

And they wouldn't know where Edinboro is either!

The capital city of Scotland is pronounced ED-in-burra, with the 'u' as in
'burn' and the 'rr's rolled - (can you roll your ar'se)?

>A Brit would really say Edinbrur (sorry, don't know how to write it
>phonetically).

If you want to _really_ slip into the vernacular, say 'EM-bra'.

>Now; try these ;=) Worcester, Gloucester, Leicester, Leominster, 
>Towcester, Vale of Belvoir, Uttoxeter, Beaulieu... (hope I spelled 'em 
>right).

If we want to stay north of the border, try Kircubright (kir-COO-bry),
Milngavie (miln-GUY), Kirkaldy (kir-CAW-dy).

Glasgow is pronounced, not with an 'ou' as in 'ouch', but 'GLAS-go', or
'Du-mp', if you come from Embra.

"The man walked with a pronounced limp, L-I-M-P, pronounced limp" - Spike
Milligan
-- 
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From: smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Privatisation snippets
Date: 14 Oct 92 16:06:13 GMT
Reply-To: P.Smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee)
Organization: University of Bristol

In article <1992Oct13.115324.5165@osf.org> david@postman.gr.osf.org (David George) writes:
>In article <1992Oct13.090412.27631@bristol.ac.uk>, smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee) writes:
>
>|> It's been suggested that if the rules for local councillors applied to
>|> the Government, Major and Lawson would have been 'surcharged'
>
>It could also be suggested that they were simply following the policy that the
>government recently won an election on.  That is maintaining the pounds value
>within the ERM, a policy supported by Mr Smith and Mr Ashdown.

That's a slippery-slope argument, since you could also apply that
argument in a lot of the cases where local councillors have been
penalised, I believe.  That is, 'they were only doing what they told
their voters they would do if elected'.  Of course (witness rate-capping)
the central Government doesn't believe that the voters should have that
degree of control at local level.

-- 
Paul Smee, Computing Service, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UD, UK
 P.Smee@bristol.ac.uk - ..!uunet!uknet!bsmail!p.smee - Tel +44 272 303132
From: cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Chris Cooke)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: BBC Radio 4 Longwave
Date: 12 Oct 92 13:02:12 GMT
	<2930@nlsun1.oracle.nl>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

In article <2930@nlsun1.oracle.nl> mlemmerm@nl.oracle.com (Mick Lemmerman Publisher) writes:

   - The BBC is being very short sighted by choosing to lose half a million  
     listeners at a stroke. If the BBC ever does move towards the threatened
     commercialization (and I hope not), then ratings are going to directly
     affect their income.

If they "commercialise" their radio channels, Radios 2, 3, 4 & 5 would
probably be immediately closed down.

   - The BBC have not demonstrated that there is a need for a 24 hour per day
     news channel on long wave. They will receive little support for the idea
     until they do.

Agreed.
--
	-- Chris. 	cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk   (on Janet, cc@uk.ac.ed.dcs)
From: gray@rz-berlin.mpg.de (Struan Gray)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Them hills them hills them dry hills
Date: 16 Oct 92 15:36:28 GMT
Organization: Rechenzentrum MPG Berlin

Dave Shariff Yadallee (for it was he) writes:
 
>   A simple point:  The only city in john's time that had 7 hills was Rome!!
> Please read the verse carefully, and note the historic relevance.

  NNNNNGGGhhh, aaaarrgggghhh, (pant pant) nnnnnggggggghgnjnngjkgnblgykf, 
ffffffffffffiiiiiiidnfffdd......No, I can't help it.  I have to ask.
Sorry fellow netters, but my curiosity must be slaked.

  Dave.  My child.  Where exactly in the Book of Revalations does it say
that the seven hills of Edinburgh, Tallahassee, and yes, Cambridge, did
not exist in the time of John?  Or are you working on the neo-empiricist
basis that if you choose to ignore something it ceases to exist?


Struan
(who is now going to go and lie down for a bit)
From: jackson@soldev.tti.com (Dick Jackson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Sod
Date: 7 Oct 92 15:17:41 GMT
Organization: Transaction Technology Inc.


I just wanna say this. Stateside speaking-wise, there is a belief that
the Irish use the expression "The auld sod" to refer to their damp, green
land. The reference of course being to the lush turf with which Ireland
is well endowed. I have no Irish person nearby against which I can
calibrate this belief -- it may be part of American Irish mythology.

Dick Jackson
From: ray@philmtl.philips.ca (Ray Dunn)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Edinburgh
Date: 15 Oct 92 02:15:45 GMT
Organization: Not Philips.

In refd article, fbowles@gssec.bt.co.uk (frank) writes:
>In article <BvxI9L.51o@CAM.ORG>, dunn@CAM.ORG (Ray Dunn) writes:
>|>  ...
>|> >By the way, something different, what's the correct pronunciation of
>|> >the name "John Menzies"?
>|> 
>|> To me it's always been "Mingis", but I was reading something,
>|> somewhere, just recently about something, no, about the fact that
>|> since the John Menzies chain has spread south of the border they have
>|> decided that the obvious pronounciation should be used.
>
>The old Scottish "g" and "z" used to be written in a very similar
>fashion in tradtional script.  Hence Menzies is with a g-sound not a
>z-sound.

Must rush, I'm just on my way to a PA(*) meeting, but its actually a 'y'
not a 'g'.  Not so aparent in "Menzies", but definitely in "Dalziel".

(*) Pedantics Anonymous.
-- 
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ray@philmtl.philips.ca  |  dunn@cam.org          |  uunet!sobeco!philmtl!ray
From: smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: BBC Radio 4 Longwave
Date: 15 Oct 92 09:27:53 GMT
Reply-To: P.Smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee)
Organization: University of Bristol

In article <1992Oct14.125438.532@hasler.ascom.ch> kevinh@hslrswi.hasler.ascom.ch writes:
>
>In article <1992Oct13.163543.6750@unipalm.co.uk>, keith@unipalm.co.uk (Keith Mitchell) writes:
>|> 
>|> I do not understand why people are so against FM - AM, especially LW,
>|> sounds particulary awful
>
>Try picking up R4 in Switzerland with FM!!!

Forget Switzerland, there are large areas of 'mainland Britain' which
can't get R4 on FM.  The proposed change will cut them off from R4
completely.  (Though the BBC has said that they are working on
transmitter additions and upgrades which will mean there's 98% coverage
for R4 FM within the next few years.)  LW is also more forgiving of
geographical obstructions.  If you drive a lot, there are parts of the
country where even though you can get R4 FM, you have to retune to a
different transmitter every 10 miles or so.

-- 
Paul Smee, Computing Service, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UD, UK
 P.Smee@bristol.ac.uk - ..!uunet!uknet!bsmail!p.smee - Tel +44 272 303132
From: mmh@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Matthew Huntbach)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Betting on the Prez
Date: 13 Oct 92 17:41:34 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK.

From: jackson@soldev.tti.com (Dick Jackson)
>Since phone links across the Atlantic are now of such good quality and
>quite inexpensive (~$1 per minute) it seems that the British gambling
>industry could prosper mightily by serving the many avid gamblers in
>the US.

>What a golden opportunity for Britain! But then again being Britain no
>one would have the initiative to expand their business in this non-
>traditional way.

There was an article in the Guardian a while back about British
bookmakers advertising for telephone bets in the Italian press,
sufficient to the point that the Italian authorities were
getting worried about the consequences for their state lottery.
So it seems that they have had the initiative to expand in this
way, possibly it's legal restrictions that stop them doing
similarly in the USA.

Matthew Huntbach
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
From: jackson@soldev.tti.com (Dick Jackson)
Subject: Re: Betting on the Prez
Organization: Transaction Technology Inc.
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 15:21:52 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.112046.23258@cas.org> jac54@cas.org () writes:
(in a thread about betting on elections)
>	Betting is very limited in the U.S., the only place where betting
>	on the election would be legal is Nevada.  Betting is generally
>	otherwise restricted to on-track and gambling is limited to
>	state lotteries.  There is also some gambling on the Mississippi,
>	but I don't know how it's regulated.

Since phone links across the Atlantic are now of such good quality and
quite inexpensive (~$1 per minute) it seems that the British gambling
industry could prosper mightily by serving the many avid gamblers in
the US. Viz: I believe that I could open an account with a UK betting
organisation or establish credit in some way (Visa card?) and then pursue
my wagering by phone. I wonder if this is against US law? It probably is
but first they have to catch me -- they surely can't touch the UK end.

What a golden opportunity for Britain! But then again being Britain no
one would have the initiative to expand their business in this non-
traditional way.

Dick Jackson
From: jac54@cas.org
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Edinburgh
Date: 7 Oct 92 19:02:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: cas.1992Oct7.190238.20600
Organization: Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio

In article <1av8uvINNo66@gap.caltech.edu> miriam@seismo.gps.caltech.edu (Miriam Jackson) writes:
>chem91@Elroy.UH.EDU writes:
>>v064myby@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Christophe J Quaranta) writes:
>>>
>>>     Can anyone tell me how you're supposed to pronounce Edinburgh?
>>>     [various stuff deleted]
>>Now; try these ;=) Worcester, Gloucester, Leicester, Leominster,
>>Towcester, Vale of Belvoir, Uttoxeter, Beaulieu... (hope I spelled 'em
>>right).
>
>and what about: Alnwick, Alnmouth (careful), Berwick, Norwich, ...
>and if you're really getting into this: Carneddau, Betws-y-Coed,
>Pen yr Helgu Du, Llangollen, etc.

	We have pet rabbits: Cholmondely and Featherstonehaugh, neither
	of whom likes Pontefract cakes.

	Alec Chambers
From: quigley@boston.sinet.slb.com (Joe Quigley)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: bad teeth
Date: 9 Oct 92 14:53:04 GMT
Reply-To: quigley@boston.sinet.slb.com (Joe Quigley)
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies CAD/CAM Division


Dental floss can produce great results, especially after my dentist
told me that I would likely keep my teeth longer if I take the time
to "floss" properly each day.  In our home it is nearly a ritual for
me as well as my two year old daughter and six year old son.  However,
today my daughter was having a "good hair day" :) , but some trouble
deciding on the mint flavor or non flavored floss.

Cheers,
Joe
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: E-Mail Address
From: rana@evax2.engr.arizona.edu (NAME=Vivek S.J.B. Rana)
Date: 15 Oct 92 22:12:27 MST
Reply-To: rana@evax2.engr.arizona.edu
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona, College of Engineering and Mines, Tucson

Could someone please send me the E-mail address of the following College:
                    Brighton Polytechnic,
                    Falmer, Moluescomb,
                    Brighton, Sussex.
        
      Thanks in advance.
                                               Vivek Rana
                               e-mail : rana@evax2.engr.arizona.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
From: evansg@uproar.enet.dec.com (Gwyn Evans @ IME)
Subject: VNS: Mon 12-Oct-1992
Keywords: VNS,news
Organization: Digital Equipment Service Industries Solutions Company Ltd
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 12:48:29 GMT


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     UK News
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     The chancellor faces a Commons select committee today when he will defend
     his economic policy.

     A new survey suggests that business confidence has dropped in the last 3
     weeks with 8 of 10 companies forecasting less business.

     Vickers may have failed to sell its tanks to Kuwait after news came from
     Kuwait that an american company has won the contract. The success
     came after considerable intervention by the US government.

     A new report says magistrates should not have the power to send people to
     jail because of the large variation of sentencing policies around the
     country.

     On Friday, the current underlying rate of inflation was announced as
     being 4%, lowest since March 1988. The "headline" rate, including
     mortgages and poll tax, is at 3.6%.

     European News
     -------------

     Serb forces in N Bosnia are reported to have increased their efforts at
     "ethnic cleansing" -- forcing people to leave their homes.

     International News
     ------------------

     The first TV debate of the US presidential elections took place last
     night. Pres. Bush and Gov Clinton clashed over character, judgement and
     patriotism. The third candidate, Ross Perot, challenged both candidates
     and is considered to have given a good performance. There are two more
     debates in the nex 8 days and 3 weeks to go before the election.

     {News courtesy of the BBC}

     Local Weather
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     A cloudy start, brighter later. High 14C/57F. There was frost in Scotland
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From: ST101019@brownvm.brown.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Attention : Dublin City University!
Date: 13 Oct 92 03:29:25 GMT
Organization: Brown University
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Disclaim1: Brown University accepts no responsibility for the
Disclaim2: contents of this article.  Please do not sue us!
News-Software: tBRUNO v0.9


Please Help Me!

I need to get in touch with students, staff or faculty of Dublin City
University. Here's my problem - I need to mail someone (SnailMail, not
email) at DCU but I am not able to use the regular channels to contact
them. So if you will be willing to help mend a broken heart, please
mail me back. (Sordid parental story follows.)

Su-Lyn Seah '9
Brown U. '94
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
Subject: Re: Betting on the Prez
Organization: Software Engineering Institute
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 12:54:27 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.001248.7752@dscomsf.desy.de> Hallam@zeus02.desy.de writes:

>Ah But can you bet on the brothel the president will go to next?

The president doesn't go to brothels.  He takes delivery at the White
House.
From: ithomas@mizar.usc.edu (Ian Thomas)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: The BBC on KALW - FM 91.7 in the San Francisco Bay Area
Date: 13 Oct 1992 17:57:28 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: mizar.usc.edu

In article <1992Oct13.130102.22509@nuscc.nus.sg> hiscrp@nuscc.nus.sg (C R Pennell) writes:

>	Ah yes, Mr Cooke....actually a pompous boring old fart...
>...Do other people agree with this assessment?

Yes, and I was surprised to hear him use his Mastee waffle segment
to defend the establishment by vehemently disagreeing with Alan Bennett's
comments about Anthony Blunt's role/effect.

Ian Thomas
USC
From: susher@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Renewable energy (was Re: The end of society as we know it)
Date: 14 Oct 92 11:07:23 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620

In article <JIM.92Oct6120940@hunter.cs.strath.ac.uk>, jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid) writes:
> In article <Oct05.180858.106433@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> hg798502@LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Hugh Graham) writes:
> 
>    As I recall, the University of Bristol was one of the centres of research
>    into the nodding duck wave power project.  However, someone else had screwed
>    up the wave spectrum measurements off the British coast and it transpired
>    that the promising wave power project would be economically unviable.
> 
> An "independent" survey into renewable energy sources like nodding
> ducks was done in the 1970. The survey was undertaken by a unit
> attached to the UK Atomic Energy Authority. Not surprisingly, this
> survey "proved" that renewable energy was far more expensive than that
> produced by the likes of nuclear power stations. The government then
> pulled the plug on research funding on renewable energy sources.
> 
> 		Jim

All government sponsored renewable energy projects are administered by AEA
Technologies under the name ETSU (Energy Technology Support Unit). I used to
work for the Camborne School of Mines Geothermal Energy Project in Cornwall.
This project (hot dry rock geothermal energy production) got the Salter's Duck
treatment just last year and has had its funding cut by 2/3rds from 3 million
per year to 1 million. The excuse was that the money was being spent on the
European collaborative project (at least 10 years behind the British project),
but the government has only put about 200,000 pounds into this effort.

The upshot of this is that ALL physical research has had to be abandoned, the
three research wells have had to be disguarded (once you stop the pressure
pumps you loose the reservoir), and the only research being done is
theoretical.

Steve
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
From: ggm@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (George Michaelson)
Subject: Re: Names of naughty politicians
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 05:15:29 GMT

cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:

>As I remember it, the security services, as part of their anti-Wilson
>campaign, tried very hard to blacken Kagan by the usual leaks to the
>Tory tabloids. But despite a very long, thorough, and expensive
>investigation by the police, nobody was able to make any of the dirt
>stick.

Then why did he do time in chokey? Making gannex famous hardly qualifies
for being banged up, as Kagan assuredly was. It may not be sexy and 
spy-related, but being PM and getting free raincoats from a tax-dodger
is not exactly good publicity.

-George

--
                         George Michaelson
G.Michaelson@cc.uq.oz.au The Prentice Centre      | There's no  market for
                         University of Queensland | hippos in Philadelphia
Phone: +61 7 365 4079    QLD Australia 4072       |          -Bertold Brecht
From: mickw@autodesk.com (Mick Washbrook)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Southwell (was Re: Edinburgh)
Date: 14 Oct 92 20:06:30 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.114820.23159@maths.nott.ac.uk>, anw@maths.nott.ac.uk (Dr A. N. Walker) writes:
> 
> which differs from mine] Southwell should be pronounced as spelled, and
> we'd all have been confused.  Wouldn't we?

Er...I think so?? I was dragged oop in Nottingham, and we always pronounced
it as "Suth-ull."

--
From: fofp@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Currency problems
Date: 16 Oct 92 09:40:47 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant) writes:

>Huh? MIRAS is an acknowledgement of the fact that some of peoples'
>earnings go to pay for the cost of living, and not on sports cars,
>pizzas, shell suits and other trashy luxuries. It is a reduction on
>the amount a person (or more likely a family) is forced to pay to the
>State. It is not a handout.

Bzzzzzt! Nope I'm sorry, that's wrong. A reduction in taxes would be
paid to anyone. Something that is paid (even in the form of a
tax-deduction) to some people at the expense of others is a subsidy.
Since MIRAS is paid to homeowners at the expense of people who do not
own homes, it is a particularly stupid subsidy.

To some people you see, owning a home *is* a luxury.

FoFP