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From: idf@cs.bham.ac.uk (Ian Fitchet)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Anglepoise Lamps
Date: 15 Dec 92 19:53:17 GMT
	<1992Dec14.083539.10855@nuscc.nus.sg> <Bz90Ew.9I1@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham


 On 14 Dec 92, David Morning wrote

> What's been annoying me lately is not being able to remember the American
> name for them. There's a rather famous short animation film which, I believe,
> was the first fully computer generated solid animation ever.
> It's called "Son of XXXXXX", where XXXXX is the name of an anglepoise lamp.
> Consisted of two lamps, a big one, and its smaller offspring. The big one is
> watching the little one playing with a football. The big one ends up squishing
> the ball.

 Done by the same people that won the computer animation competition
the next year with the story of the unicycle in the shop...

 Can't remember the name though :-(

--
Cheers,

	Ian

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
From: johnf@apollo.hp.com (John Francis)
Subject: Re: Anglepoise Lamps
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:46:32 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA

In article <IDF.92Dec15195317@fat-controller.cs.bham.ac.uk> idf@cs.bham.ac.uk (Ian Fitchet) writes:
>
> On 14 Dec 92, David Morning wrote
>
>> What's been annoying me lately is not being able to remember the American
>> name for them. There's a rather famous short animation film which, I believe,
>> was the first fully computer generated solid animation ever.
>> It's called "Son of XXXXXX", where XXXXX is the name of an anglepoise lamp.
>> Consisted of two lamps, a big one, and its smaller offspring. The big one is
>> watching the little one playing with a football. The big one ends up squishing
>> the ball.
>
> Done by the same people that won the computer animation competition
>the next year with the story of the unicycle in the shop...
>
> Can't remember the name though :-(
>
A short summary of Pixar animations:

Their first computer-generated animation short was "Andre and Wally B.".  This
wasn't the first fully computer-generated solid animation, but it was the first
one that used real animation techniques like squash & stretch.

The lamp animation is "Luxo Jr."  The summary of the plot ending above is wrong.
(And it's not a football - it's a small inflatable beachball.  I still have one
0f the balls they were giving out at the SIGGRAPH party that year).

The unicycle story is "Red's Dream" (1987)

Later works include "Tin Toy" (The first computer-generated animation to get an
Oscar nomination).


Pixar are now almost indistinguishable from Lucasfilms & Industrial Light and Magic.
-- 
John Francis                                 johnf@apollo.hp.com
with 9 cats to feed, I don't have time to think up a clever .sig
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From: icking@gmd.de (Werner Icking)
Subject: Re: London Underground sell-off?
Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:34:27 GMT

In <1992Dec14.184250.17362@netcom.com> ewadams@netcom.com (Ernest Adams) writes:

>Andrew Merritt writes:
>>Has anyone else heard rumours about the London Underground system being
>>privatised in the new year?  Apparently the lines will be sold separately;
>>I'm not sure if the stations are to be sold as a separate package (i.e. I'm
>>not sure how they plan to manage the stations that are interchanges between
>>different lines).

>Since it's not April 1, the only possible response to this is....

>     PROLONGED SCREAMS OF HORROR!!

>The London Underground is a British institution MUCH more important than
>democracy, monarchy, cricket, colonialism, fair play, unheated loos and
>so on. What's next? Privatizing the British Museum? [...]

Didn't they already begin to privatize Buckingham Palace with *ALL* the
people "working" in it?                                                 :-)

Werner
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From: cam@syzygy.DIALix.oz.au (Cameron Newham)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Robertson's Golly Badges.
Distribution: world
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 12:02:58 GMT
Organization: Baldrick Fan Club
Reply-To: cam@syzygy.DIALix.oz.au


In article <1992Dec12.235315.13565@netcom.com> sue@netcom.com writes:

 > 
 > Your children's heritage is being changed to suit the times in which
 > they live.  There is nothing wrong with that.  BTW if you look up
 > "golliwog" in a dictionary, you might be mildly surprised at how the
 > definition reads.
 > 

Why?  My dictionaries say things along the lines of "a soft, floppy doll with
a black face."

Golliwogs forever!  I still have my golly brooch I got 20 years ago.


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From: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
Subject: Re: The Borsetshire Echo
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 20:15:58 GMT

wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
|Since no-one else has done it recently and I'm suffering from trying to read a
|whole week's backlog of s.c.b posts, here's a bit of news from Borsetshire.

This just goes to show how far behind some of us are getting...

| Meanwhile Mike Tucker has been putting in his claim for damages. He'll get
| 17,000 or so by rights for partial loss of sight

Did I miss some details here?

| Lizzie is still pining for Nigel but otherwise is in good spirits:

What happened to Nigel?  Did Mummy finally kidnap him?

-- 
David Brooks					dbrooks@osf.org
Open Software Foundation			uunet!osf.org!dbrooks
Allberall und ewig blauen licht die Fernen!  Ewig... ewig... ewig...
From: chem91@Elroy.UH.EDU ("Bill Harrison (713)-743-2789")
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Green cards
Date: 15 Dec 1992 22:22:04 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Reply-To: chem91@Elroy.UH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: elroy.uh.edu

>Can anyone tell me why Green Cards are actually blue? Mine is. Does
>the colour of these things have some significance? Are Green ones
>reserved for Hispanics, Blue for Europeans etc.? 
>
[...]
I produced said card with a flourish and was chastised for
>displaying it so prominently. The only reason I could see for this
>admonishment, assuming the general design of the cards to be the
>same, was that the colour might be significant. Or was the INS
>official just being a wally?
>

The plot thickens... The new-style "forgery proof" green cards are salmon 
pink in color (but talking about your "salmon-pink card" sounds a little 
silly :=)  ).  I can only guess that the US official was paranoid somebody 
might see what one looked like, and dash home and forge a few... 

Just as the new pink cards were introduced a few months ago, some dudes
were apprehended with about 100,000 supposedly perfect copies of the new
card... 

Bill
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From: jmb@ukc.ac.uk (Mike Bremner)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Mornington Crescent
Date: 11 Dec 92 20:52:47 GMT
Organization: Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Kent

Grave news:


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From: gdb15@grebe.cl.cam.ac.uk (Guy Barry)
Subject: Re: More Silly Songs-Colonel Bogey
Reply-To: gdb15@cl.cam.ac.uk
Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 09:52:47 GMT

In article <1gu9gdINNdg3@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> banarji@unixg.ubc.ca (Ajai Banarji) writes:

>Hitler, he had but one big ball
>Rommel, he had three but small
>Himmler, had something similar
>and Goebbels had NONE AT ALL!

Your version doesn't quite fit the tune.  The one I heard is:

Hitler has only got one ball,
Goering has two but rather small,
Himmler is very sim'lar
But poor old Goebbels has no balls at all.

Note the clever internal rhyme in the last line...

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Computer Laboratory                | Fax: +44 (0)223 334678
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Cambridge CB2 3QG, England, UK     | Internet: Guy.Barry@cl.cam.ac.uk 
Xref: sparky soc.culture.british:17529 soc.culture.celtic:8157
From: Robert.Evans@cm.cf.ac.uk (Robert Evans)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british,soc.culture.celtic
Subject: Re: The Welsh Flag
Date: 15 Dec 92 14:27:06 GMT
Organization: University of Wales College of Cardiff, Cardiff, WALES, UK.

In article <92348.112238X68147@BARILVM.BITNET>, X68147@BARILVM.BITNET (Danny Rothenberg) writes:
|> In article <1992Dec8.113836.17451@rdg.dec.com>, cockburn@edieng.enet.dec.com
|> (Craig Cockburn) says:
|> >
|> >Why is the Welsh flag not represented in the Union Flag?
|> >
|> 
|> I always thought it is because Wales was conquered by Edward I, and never,
|> unlike Scotland, regained her independence.  The Union flag recognises not
|> so much the Union of the Kingdoms (England & Wales with Scotland) in 1603
|> on the death of Elizabeth I of England and the accession to the English
|> throne of James VI of Scotland to become James I of England, but the Act
|> of Union

Wales was independent from 1400 to about 1410 under Owain Glyndwr but was
reconquered by the English crown.

The union of England and Wales was more one-sided than the later Union with Scotland.
Welsh law and governmental institutions had been in abeyance since the
conquest by Edward I (1282) (except during Glyndwr's liberation).  So the Act of
Union (1535/6) annexed Wales with the Kingdom of England, confirming English Law
throughout Wales and adding Welsh MPs to the Westminster parliament. It was the stated
intention of the Act of Union to destroy entirely the distinctiveness and separateness
of Wales. The English crown already considered that it had over-lordship over Wales and
so no new Kingdom or flag was created.

The Act of Union with Scotland (1707) united the Westminster and Edinburgh parliaments
at Westminster.  It was preceeded by many soul-searching debates at Edinburgh in
which they wrested concessions, such as keeping Scots Law, from the pro-unionists.
A new Kingdom (Great Britain) was created and the flags of the two kingdoms were
merged into the Union Flag.

Incidentally, the Welsh flag, which is one of the oldest national emblems in Europe
was not officially recognised by the British government until 1956 (when they
finally noticed that the 1535 Act of Union had failed to make us disappear :-)).
The Crosses of St George (England) and of St Andrew (Scotland) are both unofficially
used to represent the English and Scots nations.  Their official use ended in 1707
when the Kingdoms were merged.

-- 
  Robert Evans, Department of Computing Mathematics,
  University of Wales College of Cardiff, Wales, UK.  +44 (0)222 874000 x 5518
  Robert.Evans@cm.cf.ac.uk                      (FAX) +44 (0)222 666182
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
From: ewadams@netcom.com (Ernest Adams)
Subject: Re: Stonehenge
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:22:56 GMT

If you're serious about removing Stonehenge, I think you should do it
properly. The Britons had their turn putting it up, and it's your
innings now, but you have to follow the rules. No thermonuclear
weapons or heavy lifting equipment -- that's not fair play.

No, you have to assemble a team of several thousand people with nothing
but copper tools, take the whole thing to bits by hand, haul the
sarsen stones 20 miles over the plain (dodging RAF strafing runs),
and ship the bluestones back to Wales one by one in coracles.

But to be fair, we'll give you as long as they took. 1000 years or so
ought to do it.
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From: gdb15@grebe.cl.cam.ac.uk (Guy Barry)
Subject: Re: game (no prizes)
Reply-To: gdb15@cl.cam.ac.uk
Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:51:35 GMT

In article <Bz8ss4.A41@dscomsa.desy.de> Hallam@zeus02.desy.de writes:

>11) How does one spell Colour?
>12) On which side of the road should on drive?
>13) Which side should one applaud during a cricket match.
>14) Who wrote Kipplings words to a passage from the Holt Planet Suite 
>	"I vow to thee my country..."
>15) Give three inconsequential facts about the Royal familly
>16) Explain how we managed to win Agincore, Trafalgar and Waterloo, fight
>	world wars I and II on their turf and still get trouble from them?
>17) If the Archbishop of Canterburie's daughter married the Speaker of the
>	House of Commons she would rise in precedence as a result True or False?
>18) Either a) Explaint the hallowed necessity of the first past the post
>system.
>     	or b) Describe three different systems of Proportional Representation.
>19) One of these words would not be heard on the BBC, which is it?
>	a) Clitoris b) antidisestablishmentarianism c) Prunes
>20) In the Mousetrap, whodunnit?

If you can answer all these questions correctly, you are Norman Tebbit.
--
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Computer Laboratory                | Fax: +44 (0)223 334678
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From: dj@ekcolor.ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones)
Subject: Re: Anglepoise Lamps
Organization: Vonnegut Tent Rentals, Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 16:47:42 GMT

David Morning (dam@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk) wrote:
> 
> >mad5c@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Michael DeLong) writes:
> 
> >: Would some kind soul please tell me what an anglepoise lamp is?
> >: Is 'Anglepoise' perhaps a trade name?
> 
> What's been annoying me lately is not being able to remember the American
> name for them. There's a rather famous short animation film which, I believe,
> was the first fully computer generated solid animation ever.
> It's called "Son of XXXXXX", where XXXXX is the name of an anglepoise lamp.
> Consisted of two lamps, a big one, and its smaller offspring. The big one is
> watching the little one playing with a football. The big one ends up squishing
> the ball.
> 
Someone else came up with the title - "Luxo Jr.". "Sesame Street" often 
carries short items made by the same animators.  They serve to illustrate
concepts like 'heavy' and 'light' (bowling ball vs. beach ball), 'light' and
'dark' etc.  The computer animation of the lamps is impressive, but what 
makes them stand out is the infusion of character in the objects.  You 
haven't lived until you've seen a desk-lamp do a double-take.  (All this
watching of kids' TV is, of course, merely part of the business of 
bringing up of one's young children.)

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Northern Ireland (Andy at Kingston)
From: bob@otago.ac.nz
Date: 17 Dec 92 12:59:13 +1300
Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

You might be interested in a book I published some three years ago entitled
"Britain's Irish Stew" which covers the question of partition amongst other
things.  I have about 50 remaindered copies which I am happy to mail on payment
of postage either surface or air mail plus a nominal charge.  Anyone interested
just e-mail me at BOB@Otago.ac.nz     I am an expatriate Northern Irelander
living in New Zealand.        

Bob Alexander          

sce
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From: trk@palm15.cray.com (Tim Kirby)
Subject: Re: "Green" Cards
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: 16 Dec 92 18:14:11 CST

Adam King (ark@unislc.uucp) wrote:
: ALICE BERTELSON X2572 P7331 (alice_bertelson@pts.mot.com) wrote:
: : In article 9B8@srgenprp.sr.hp.com, patk@sr.hp.com (Patrick Kearney) writes:
: : >*>Can anyone tell me why Green Cards are actually blue? Mine is ...
: : 	Stuff deleted..
: : NO I don't think so, Mine is WHITE ...
: : 
: Really! Mine (British also) is pink!

I gotta pink one too...

It may be regional, though I believe the cards themselves are all made
somewhere in Texas. Maybe it's goverened by 'date' ... i.e. the colo(u)r and
the date of issue have some meaning.

Maybe they're just using up old paper stocks ... ;-)

Tim
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
From: ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
Subject: Re: US bombed Libyan civilians
Organization: U of Cambridge, England
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:55:13 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.194450.7411@netcom.com> ewadams@netcom.com (Ernest Adams) writes:
>The War of 1812, which gets big hoopla in U.S. history books because
>it was a big threat to the fledgling nation, probably doesn't even
>make it *into* British history books -- as far as they're concerned,
>it was a minor skirmish over some trading rights.... about as important
>to them as the Grenada invasion was to us.

To be fair, in 1812 Britain had other things on its mind, such as
waging massive land and sea campaigns against Napoleon and the conscript
armies of half of Europe. America was just a minor distraction...
From: edente@pearl.tufts.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Giles
Date: 11 Dec 92 20:35:59 GMT
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA

In article <1992Dec5.164949.28327@julian.uwo.ca>, 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?
> 
> 							James Nicoll
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From: dj@ekcolor.ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones)
Subject: Re: An ENGLISH monarch??
Organization: Vonnegut Tent Rentals, Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 22:04:00 GMT

David Brooks (dbrooks@osf.org) wrote:
> CZ94@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA (CZ94000) writes:
> | 1,000,000 years ago, all the ancestors of the Royal Family were
> | probably living in Africa.  Does that make the Queen African?
> 
> Good movie, that.
>
Ah yes, the Yadallean version....

> David Brooks					dbrooks@osf.org
> Open Software Foundation			uunet!osf.org!dbrooks
> Allberall und ewig blauen licht die Fernen!  Ewig... ewig... ewig...

Please translate that.  Just because I can look up the words in a 
25-year-old Collins German Gem doesn't mean I understand it....

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
From: ELURONA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (R. Elul)
Subject: Information Wanted Re Modem Use in UK
Organization: Yale University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 20:34:21 EST

Could anyone tell me what the policy is (both official and unofficial)
regarding the use of 'non-approved' modems in the UK? Also, what is the
purpose of the different make/break ratio in Europe (as compared to the US) I
successfully dialed out using the US setting.
 
 
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