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From: csg020@cch.coventry.ac.uk (***CURTIS***)
Subject: Re: TV licence authorities get wrists smacked
Organization: Coventry Polytechnic, Coventry, UK.
Distribution: uk
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:40:58 GMT

In article <By0oKJ.3sx@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> dam@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (David Morning) writes:
>
>
>What did you say your login was again?
>
>$ finger cei352@cck.coventry.ac.uk

Pity that site isnt on the internet aint it! :)

>Hmmm...that'd be Bailey Street, just round from the chip shop right?

I think everywhere in Coventry is just round from the chip shop!!

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From: idf@cs.bham.ac.uk (Ian Fitchet)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: new groups, how?
Date: 12 Nov 92 17:26:55 GMT
Distribution: uk
Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham

Hi,

	With the new uk.bcs.* groups I am wondering what happened to
the old procedure of having a month of voting etc etc.  This also
follows from the appearance of rec.games.abstract which appeared
(here) today/yesterday with half the (100 or so) postings asking what
the newsgroup was for => no-one knew it was coming.



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From: malcolm@muir.demon.co.uk ("Malcolm S. Muir")
Subject: Re: 29 Feb 2000? 
Distribution: world
Organization: Muir
Reply-To: malcolm@muir.demon.co.uk
X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.18)
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:30:14 +0000

In article <CC.92Nov17175024@arran.dcs.ed.ac.uk> cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk 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.
>
>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.

It depends on whether you feel the first year was year 0 or year 1

Define 'In the *first* year of our Lord ...'

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From: simpsong@dns0.bham.ac.uk (Glyn Simpson)
Subject: Re: humor in England
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 09:29:06 GMT
Reply-To: G.Simpson@bham.ac.uk
Organization: The University of Birmingham, England
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]

Ian Fitchet (idf@cs.bham.ac.uk) wrote:
>  On 20 Nov 92, Neil Cook wrote
> 
> > Anywhere else have this weird behaviour? What's the hottest curry YOU've ever
> > had? Answers on a postcard to uk.misc...
> 
>  Bristol Road (outside the Uni) have always been rumoured to offer a
> Phal (sp?), not for the fainthearted...
> 
>  You usually hear of how so and so spent a couple of years on hotter
> and hotter vindaloo's before making the break.
> 
There was someone i knew who went to eat *two* of these for comic relief.
He finished the first in 5 minutes, the second took 25 more minutes before
his time was up. We all gave him the money anyway, as he was mad enough to
do it. 

I bet he had great relief when he finished.

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From: alan@ssd.ukpoit.co.uk (Alan Barclay)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: Was: Re: 29 Feb 2000?, Now: 2000/2001
Date: 22 Nov 92 21:29:38 GMT
Organization: iT - The Information Technology Business Of The Post Office

In article <722101150snx@klaatu.demon.co.uk> steve@klaatu.demon.co.uk writes:
>
>But his birthday was apparently Dec 25th; So was AD 1 just a week?  And

Well, No. Dec 25th was the historical pagan mid winter piss up here  Other
parts of the world, IE parts not influenced by the Roman Catholics, celebrate
at slightly different times. 

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From: snail@lsl.co.uk
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: Subtle (i.e. obscure) cigarette adverts
Date: 20 Nov 92 13:57:58 GMT
Organization: Laser-Scan Ltd., Cambridge

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.

That's because they don't relax you (they make you more hyper) and they sure as
hell don't taste nice. Some may taste nicer than others, but they don't taste
nice.

In my experience, most people learn to smoke so they can smoke drugs -
myself included (except I don't do drugs, found I didn't like them, alcohol
excepted and I don't smoke that).

Coffee and Tea also make you hyper - I don't do those either, caffeine is a
very powerful drug indeed, not life threatening in average quantities. If you
don't beleive the addictive powers of it, try giving it up for a month or so.
If you last that long, you'll never need it again, and you'll be much more
relaxed into the bargain (I started at Glastonbury '90, still going strong, 
except a meeting a Sun UK Head office when all they had was tea or coffee and
I was bloody thirsty and getting water out of them involved too much hassle).

Caffeine free coke is joke, there's so little caffeine, it doesn't bear (?) 
thinking about.

Ciao

snail@lsl.co.uk      

"para-phrasing an American's .sig"....
For the record, I did not vote for Bill Clinton
:-)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
From: ljp@cch.coventry.ac.uk (Guido)
Subject: Re: humor in England 
Organization: Coventry University
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 12:17:45 GMT

In article <Bxwv1y.Jvo@cck.coventry.ac.uk> cei352@cck.coventry.ac.uk (The Freak) writes:
>In article <BxwuA9.DMv@cck.coventry.ac.uk> ljp@cch.coventry.ac.uk (Guido) writes:

>>I thought they had sold Scotland to England in the 18th century!
>>
> One of the worst decisions ever made in the entire history of man ,me thinks
>

What England buying or Scotland selling? Your being ambiguous again.
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From: paj@uk.co.gec-mrc (Paul Johnson)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: uPVC doors and Windows
Date: 20 Nov 92 10:59:37 GMT
Reply-To: paj@uk.co.gec-mrc (Paul Johnson)
Organization: GEC-Marconi Research Centre, Great Baddow, UK

In article <1730@lucifer.UUCP> rob@liciren.li.co.uk (Rob Clive) writes:

>I seem to remember (probably from A level) that aluminium oxide is
>relatively inert but susceptible to attack by mercury.  This gave rise
>to visions of creeping out in the dead of night to the nearest
>electricity pylon armed with a pot of mercury and bringing down the
>national grid.  Wouldn't be any good now though 'cause they all seem to
>move around a lot :-)

Yup.  I don't know the exact reaction, but airline companies get very
nervous about shipping mercury around.  Even mercury thermometers are
dangerous.

Hijacker: OK.  This is a hijack.  Do what I say, or I drop the mercury...


Paul.
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From: peter@memex.co.uk (Peter Ilieve)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: Satellite Dishes
Date: 17 Nov 92 13:53:37 GMT
Organization: Memex Information Systems Ltd, East Kilbrde, Scotland

In article <OKES.92Nov11203051@SunLab40.essex.ac.uk> okes@essex.ac.uk (Simon Oke) 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.

This has got to be the way to go in the long run --- equip houses with radomes.

People who live in really old listed buildings (in Oxford or otherwise)
may already have windows that were bricked up to avoid the Window Tax.
The answer for them is to unbrick them and cover the hole with fibreglass
sheet, transparent to radio waves. The sheet could be painted to match the
original. Then fit the dish in the space behind, building a cupboard into
the room behind as necessary.

This is a serious suggestion. If it is expected that everyone will need
a dish it will look awful if everyone bolts something onto some random part
of their hose. Builders of new houses should provide some sort of dish
cupboard, with the outside wall made with radio transparent material.
I'm sure a market would soon develop for artwork to cover the external face
of this. This would alow the dish to live inside, protected from the wind,
and it could be fitted with a steering mechanism much more easily than if
it were outside.


		Peter Ilieve		peter@memex.co.uk
From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: How do you claim?
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 13:50:31 GMT
Distribution: uk
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.

lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun) writes:
>                                               During the time
> the car is away for repair, it means my wife cannot take the kids
> to playgroup - can I claim for a hired car to cover that?

I thought they had buses and trains in London.  They certainly did last time
I was there...


mathew
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From: mmh@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Matthew Huntbach)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: 29 Feb 2000?
Date: 20 Nov 92 21:14:58 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK.

From: malcolm@muir.demon.co.uk ("Malcolm S. Muir")
>In article <CC.92Nov17175024@arran.dcs.ed.ac.uk> cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk 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.
>
>It depends on whether you feel the first year was year 0 or year 1

There was no AD 0. When the BC/AD system was defined, people
didn't have the concept of '0', so the years go straight from 1
BC to 1 AD. Check it up in any book of, say, Ancient Roman
history. You won't find anything listed as going on in year 0.

Matthew Huntbach
From: ccs@aber.ac.uk (Christopher "Jd" Samuel)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: Data Protection Act
Date: 22 Nov 92 15:36:03 GMT
Organization: University of Wales - Aberystwyth - Prifysgol Cymru

In article <3206@ucl-cs.uucp>,
 G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly) doodled:

>Do bitmapped/raster images on students and staff come under the Act?
>Can they be stored on disk and veiwed by all?

They do indeed come under the act, our Computer Science department here
had to withdraw their _public_ 'showme' system as it contravened the DP
Acts rules that you shouldn't store data that revealed peoples ethnic
background. 

The keywork is that if it is open to all then it is illegal. However if
it is controlled (only specific registered users can access it) then it
is legal.

The implication here is that the xfaces archive is also illegal in the UK.

Chris

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From: malcolm@muir.demon.co.uk ("Malcolm S. Muir")
Subject: Re: 29 Feb 2000? 
Distribution: world
Organization: Muir
Reply-To: malcolm@muir.demon.co.uk
X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.18)
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:25:04 +0000

In article <1992Nov17.103050.29411@memex.co.uk> scott@memex.co.uk writes:

>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.
>>
>
>So what? When the party-poppers and champagne corks go off on 1/1/2000
>are you going to be the one sitting in the corner drinking orange juice
>saying "you're all wrong, stop celebrating"?

But I celebrate *every* new year anyhow :-)

BTW - What's orange juice, some new form of Beer ?

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From: dhd@exnet.co.uk (Damon)
Subject: Re: Bicycle riders
Organization: ExNet Systems Ltd Public Access News, London, UK
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 23:01:55 GMT

In article <11062@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> dmarsh@cs.strath.ac.uk (David R Marsh CS91) writes:
>1 This is *my* lane. That's why I'm cycling in the centre of it. I've left a 
>  lane on my right for you (gosh, I'm so generous).
>2 If you (a car) enter my lane you do so at your own risk.
>3 If you pass by me so closely that I can touch your car <thump> then I will
>  do so. You're *too* close.
>4 If you have a problem with that then I'll be happy to argue about it at the
>  next traffic lights. Failing that, I'll take down your numberplate and report
>  you to the police. (I've not tried this, but many rec.bicycles.* people 
>  confirm that this has the desired effect.)
>
>This is the technique I use, and it works! I get very little hassle, and 
>every time I go out I see more and more people cycling...

I have never found cycling on the pavement *necessary*.  Sometimes I do
it if the pavement is fee and the traffic terribly heavy.  You should
get off and push if there are people walking on the pavement.  Just
because some motorists are bastards doesn't give a cyclist a right to
be one (this is not directed against David but against those advocating
cycling on the pavement).

I just cycle in the middle of my lane if being hassled.  Why not?  I'm
a vehicle with the same status as any other (when not on a motorway
B^>).

Damon
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From: rpt@edscom.demon.co.uk (Richard Tomlinson)
Subject: Re: humor in England
Organization: EDS-Scicon, Milton Keynes, UK
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 12:44:45 GMT

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. 
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From: alan@ssd.ukpoit.co.uk (Alan Barclay)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: 29 Feb 2000?
Date: 20 Nov 92 12:15:50 GMT
Distribution: uk
Organization: iT - The Information Technology Business Of The Post Office

In article <sb380.721988321@KingsX> sb380@city.ac.uk (HOLT A D) writes:
>>As it also thinks 29 Feb 4000 will exist It's clearly wrong
>Probably won't exist - but only because it is unlikely that another
>2000 years will pass without the calender being reorganised.
>

ANOTHER implies that 2000 years already have, and:

   September 1752
 S  M Tu  W Th  F  S
       1  2 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30

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From: nlc@vulcan.xtel.co.uk (Neil Cook)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Scallops
Date: 16 Nov 92 15:14:08 GMT
Organization: X-Tel Services Ltd.

I used to get scallops in our local chippy in Southam, Warwickshire, about 15
years ago. They were just potato in batter. I loved them. You can get them
in some Nottingham chippies under the pseudonym "fritters" or "potato fritters"

I have heard of scraps, but my mum comes from Sheffield, so...

Neil.
Newsgroups: uk.misc,soc.culture.celtic
From: walker@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Graham Walker, 227 West Old Main,268-3847,)
Subject: Re: humor in England
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:02:54 GMT

From article <1992Nov19.124012.1601@rdg.dec.com>, by cockburn@edieng.enet.dec.com (Craig Cockburn):
> 
> 
> I have never seen Pakora in an Indian restaurant in England, and I've been
> to quite a few including Southall probably the Curry Capital of Britain!
> Pakora is, however, available in supermarkets.
> 
> Pakora is available in virtually every Indian restaurant/take-away in 
> Scotland. Does anyone know why there is this difference?
> 
> Craig
> 
This also used to be one of my pet peeves when I lived in Southampton.
In Glasgow you could get it in any of the Indian restaurant around
Glasgow University. In the US and Canada I have had mixed success, also if
anyone visits NYC and wants to find the Indian Restaurants, they can be
found on 6th Street on the east side - 4th Avenue).

														GW
From: ceram@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr J W Bottomley)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: Coventry vs. London/etc (was Re: humor in England)
Date: 23 Nov 1992 19:52:32 -0000
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
Distribution: uk
NNTP-Posting-Host: clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk

In article <1992Nov23.132752.3500@its.bt.co.uk> tjo@its.bt.co.uk (Tim Oldham) writes:
>In article <BxzEpH.HBw@cck.coventry.ac.uk> apj003@cch.coventry.ac.uk (James W Bottomley) writes:
>>My fave part of the B'ham roads system is Five-Ways island. 
>
>Easy. What you want is the junction by the Bull Ring, top of Digbeth, next
>to New Street. Loads of two and three carriageway roads meet in the most
>splendid confabulation. Dropping someone at New St and then going back
>the way you came is heaps of fun.

Yes, this is a nice unpleasant road. I particularly like the way buses try
to merge with you by rolling right over the top of you - also very good
fun here having arguments with highly distressed taxi drivers about the 1"
of road space available for 27 cars and 2 heavy lores. Still not my
overall winner 'though, as it tends to be slow and I prefer a more fast-
and furious lifestyle.

>The other enjoyable feature of Brum roads is the ``disappearing lane''.
>Imagine three lanes at traffic lights, all going straight on. You all
>start off, jockeying for position, when the lane you're in disappears in
>the space of 20m. Merging into an artic isn't easy. They're too solid.

I don't know if this only happens in Brum, but it does seem prone to this
type of thing. I particularly enjoy the one on the A45 at Sheldon lights
heading out of town - this is wonderful in the rush hour when the worst
side of human / driver behavious is fully allowed to emerge. A big thank you
t road engineers of Birmingham City Council for making all of this
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From: idf@cs.bham.ac.uk (Ian Fitchet)
Newsgroups: uk.misc,soc.culture.celtic
Subject: Re: humor in England
Date: 20 Nov 92 04:14:04 GMT
	<BxG2AG.3HE@cck.coventry.ac.uk> <1992Nov12.141530.2632@lsl.co.uk>
	<1992Nov19.124012.1601@rdg.dec.com>
Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham


 On 19 Nov 92, Craig Cockburn wrote

> I have never seen Pakora in an Indian restaurant in England, and I've been
> to quite a few including Southall probably the Curry Capital of Britain!
> Pakora is, however, available in supermarkets.

 Might I suggest a sojourn in the Birmingham, Balti Capital of
Britain?  I haven't been to a curry house where you CAN'T get pakora
(vegetable by default and as for chicken, mushroom...) ah my mouth
waters even now at the thought.

 And lucky for me, I'm getting a free curry tonight.  Shall I eat
pakora and think of you? :-)

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Newsgroups: uk.misc
From: cmh004@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Dave)
Subject: Re: Was: Re: 29 Feb 2000?; Now: Gregorian Calendar
Organization: Lanchester Polytechnic
Distribution: uk
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:50:22 GMT

In article <28444@castle.ed.ac.uk> rwb@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Bingham) writes:
>In <Bxyurt.F5t@cck.coventry.ac.uk> cmh004@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Dave) writes:
>)>  No I was right the second time. As the 'new' calander wasn't thought up by
>)>  a few people in a pub on 2/9/1752 who thought it would be a good idea to
>)>  wake up the next day on the 13th. The 'new' calander was in planning for
>)>  several years. The transfer was, day after 31/12/1751 is 1/1/1752 and the day
>)>  after 2/9/1752 is 13/9/1752. So it would be the months of January and Febuary
>)>  1751 which would not exist plus the first 24 days of March 1751.

>Eh???  They must teach a different form of arithmetic in Coventry to
>that which my school taught me more than 30 years ago... 
>The only missing days I can see there are those between 2/9/1752 and
>13/9/1752, hence the "Give us back our eleven days" protesters.  I
>also understood that the "Twelve Days of Christmas" originated from
>those missing days.

OK everyone I have with me a copy of the:
CALENDER (NEW STYLE) ACT 1750 (24 Geo 2 c 23).

Section 1
"...which the year of our Lord beginneth on the twenty-fifth day of March,
shall not be made use of from and after the last day of December one thousand
seven hundred and fifty-one; and from that first day of January next following
...(31/12/1751)...shall be reckoned, deemed, and accounted to be the first
of the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty-two;...."

Hence because 1751 started on the 25th March and ended on the 31/12/1751
that means that January, February and the first 24 days of March 1751 would
never have existed. Yet the cal program will still produce a calender for those
months as they are really the January and February of 1750.

Those who want to look for the rule for leap years it will be found in section
2 of the act, but it is not very clear.
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