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From: gerard@galaxy.nsc.com (Gerry Dowling x3188)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Why only ONE british olympic team
Date: 19 Aug 92 23:17:35 GMT
Organization: Disorganization

In article <1992Aug7.161339.49450@ccvax.ucd.ie> h234_112@ccvax.ucd.ie (Return to Sender...) writes:
>
>I noticed that too, but in the the other official languages, (Spanish, French
>and Catalan I think) they simply said Great Britain. Does this mean that
>the country grows in size in English? Since French is the official language,
>maybe you are just Great Britain. But where does this leave the poor
>competitors from Northern Ireland?

Competing for Ireland. Wayne McCullough from Belfast won a silver medal for
Ireland in boxing.
From: scrl@otter.hpl.hp.com (Simon Lewis)
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 11:09:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Vet UK Based Consultant?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british

A consultant in what area of expertise?

If in an engineering discipline, is the object of your investigations a member
of one of the recognised professional bodies?  For example, the Institution
of Electrical Engineers, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the British
Computer Society.  Unlike other bodies (casting no aspersions, but simply
noting a difference), these are not `pay for membership' organizations, but
have a Royal Charter, and thus a certain standard to maintain.  Membership
in itself should be an indication of the professional standards and experience
of the member, and the institution may be able to act as a referee.  Look
for "corporate" rather than "associate" membership, and the title "Chartered
Engineer".

Simon Lewis
HP Labs, Bristol, UK.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
From: cushion@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Megan S McCormick)
Subject: What happened to punch magazine?
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 02:52:31 GMT

I used to have a subscription to Punch. which I let expire due to general
poverty.  At about that time (Jan. of '92?)  I heard that the magazine had
actually ceased publishing.  This would have been a shame; is the rumor
true, or am I just trying to make myself feel better that I didn't
resubscribe?  This is my first post, so I suppose replies can be e-mailed to
me unless people feel like discussing it.

			Thanks 
					megan

cushion@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu.
From: dj@ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: royal family
Date: 20 Aug 92 15:32:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: pixel.1992Aug20.153242.8403
Distribution: soc
Organization: :noitazinagrO

In article <1992Aug20.125755.6868@osf.org> sp@mirabeau.osf.fr (Simon Patience) writes:
>In article <1992Aug20.095732.19229@cs.hw.ac.uk>, neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil
>Postlethwaite) writes:
>> Q/	Is Tesco's more important to the UK than The Queen
>> 
>> A/	YES.
>
>Of course the answer is yes. I doubt if The Queen has ever been to Tescos.
>
Of course she hasn't.  They don't sell horse fodder.

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From: martin.baines@uk.sun.com (Martin Baines - Sun UK - SE Manager Cambridge)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: What are the yellow "H" signs?
Date: 18 Aug 1992 14:58:50 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Ltd
Distribution: world
Reply-To: martin.baines@uk.sun.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: bottomdog.uk.sun.com

In article 6712@ttinews.tti.com, jackson@soldev.tti.com (Dick Jackson) writes:
>Chris Lee writes:
>>
>>Fire hydrant. In the UK they're below street level, under metal covers.
>
>In the US, as many of you know, they stick up at the side of the road
>and the kerb is pained red to try to prevent cars being parked where
>they could block access by firemen. I don't remember any such thing
>in the UK but there must be, right? Do you "get a ticket" in England
>for parking on a hydrant?

No, there are no automatic parking restrictions near a hydrant.
My parents house has one right out side the front door, and my
dad has parked his car their for as long as I can remember.

I guess the fire service, just stop in the middle of the road
and put their hoses over any cars in the way.

Martin


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From: cockburn@edieng.enet.dec.com (Craig Cockburn)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Brits and Irish ---
Date: 18 Aug 92 16:12:00 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Co. Ltd., Reading, England


In article <sasages@vadier.gr.osf.org>, emcmanus@gr.osf.org (Eamonn McManus) writes...
>cockburn@edieng.enet.dec.com (Craig Cockburn) writes:
>>p.s. The English _language_ is called "Beurla" in Scots Gaelic, only 
>>     English _people_ can be sassenachs. The Gaelic is probably
>>     "sasainnach", due to vowel balancing.
> 
>Hmmm...this must be a different kind of vowel balancing than occurs in
>Irish Gaelic, then, where you would never get away with ramming a
>slender I and a broad A together like that.  In Irish, the word is
>Sasanach (the country being Sasana and the language B\'earla).
> 
No it isn't different, it was an error on my part. The Scottish Gaelic
is actually 'Sasunnach', I just looked it up.

Craig

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From: pm3_norr@csd.brispoly.ac.uk (Paul Norris)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Dum dee dum...
Date: 14 Aug 92 12:58:03 GMT
Organization: Bristol Polytechnic, England

In article <9809@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> colin@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
}Any news? Withdrawal symptoms are setting in.

Mummy's back!



















Julia Pargetter that is.  She's causing all sorts of havoc over at Lower
Locksley (Loxley?)  Last week she sent away a chap who had an appointment
with Nigel, put down the phone on someone wanting info on conferences, made
it clear to Lizzy that she no longer had a job "As all this *nonsense* is 
going to stop now" and was unspeakably rude to Jack Woolley.  Poor Nigel...

Shula persuaded Linda Snell back into village life by getting her to offer
to design someone's garden at the "promises auction" to raise money for the
church.  Only problem was, the only person bidding for it was Robert Snell.
The other interesting lot was an evening's babysitting by Brian Aldridge (put
in by Jennifer) which went to Sharon Richards...

I've not heard much of it this week.

Paul


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From: beaurega@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Denis Beauregard)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british,soc.culture.canada,soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re: Any more new countries due???
Date: 14 Aug 92 02:53:03 GMT
Organization: Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Quebec, Varennes, Canada

In article <BsEJKx.4LK@newcastle.ac.uk> w.p.coyne@newcastle.ac.uk writes:
>
>   HOW MANY OTHER candidates for independent statehood are there?
>
>2 Quebec - Does it still look as if Quebec is going to leave Canada?

Last propositions about getting Quebec back in constitution (she was not
a signer in 1982 movement of constitution from London to Ottawa) are
still very far from most demands of Quebec.  THhere is suppose to be a
referendum in next October, but the subject (a new deal or a new status)
is still unknown.

>
>help the atlas industry, split your country :-)
>                                         W.P.Coyne@newcastle.ac.uk 

Many years ago, when I was a shortwave listening, the challenge was to
catch the more "countries" possible.  In many clubs, it was already accepted
to count USSR republics as separate countries.  In other words, 15 years
ago, I was used to a different method of counting countries!


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J   __>  Barthelemy Jarret (1471) -> Andre Jarret, sieur de Beauregard (1665)
\_.-===   -> Denis Beauregard (1992)                  Opinions ? Et pis non !
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From: neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Postlethwaite)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: New World beer (was Re: Americanising
Date: 20 Aug 92 09:42:57 GMT
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland


Whoops, slight mistake on the last post.

The Fountain brewery makes McEwan's lager, not Tennants.

Apart from a different company brand, they both taste pretty bad and
have much of the Scottish lager marker sewn up.

Tennant's do brew something in Edinburgh though.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
From: mfriley@pacman.WPI.EDU (Margaret F Riley)
Subject: Re: New World Beers (ROLLING ROCK)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 12:42:47 GMT

In article <92226.110615U48073@uicvm.uic.edu> U48073@uicvm.uic.edu (Cole Kendall) writes:
>In article <1992Aug13.110207.29401@cs.hw.ac.uk>, neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil
>Postlethwaite) says:
>>
>>In article <92221.025727DFE100@psuvm.psu.edu> DFE100@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>>>
>>>Rolling Rock is indeed an American beer.  It's hard to believe that you
>>>can get it in Britain because it is not really well known here in the States
>>>--except on the east coast.
>
>I have not bought any of the "Green Death"(*) recently, but in my
>college days (in Pennsylvania) Rolling Rock was one of the
>cheaper beers around.  It was similarly priced to Miller or
>Bud, less than Michelob.
>
>(*) so named due to bottle color and intensity of hangover induced
>by overconsumption.

You called Rolling Rock the "Green Death?"   Gee, we reserved that 
designation for Haffenreffer (major sp problem here).   We called
Rolling Rock piss water.

Margaret
(originally from Philly via Williamsport)
From: ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british,uk.misc
Subject: Henson's the name
Date: 14 Aug 92 11:17:54 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.british,uk.misc
Organization: Bugs-R-Us


In article <1992Aug10.181119.17378@cl.cam.ac.uk> ag129@cl.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant) writes:


%  [Far] more people have heard of Sherpa Tenzing Norgay than have heard of
%  Matthew Henson. 


In article <1992Aug13.143926.16518@ttinews.tti.com> jackson@soldev.tti.com (Dick Jackson) writes:


#  Who's he??

Come to think of it, far more people have heard of Jim Henson than have
heard of Matthew Henson. 

-- Ken "square eyes" Johnson


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From: davel@ampex.com (Dave Larkins)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: New World beer (was Re: Americanising of the UK)
Date: 13 Aug 92 16:57:41 GMT
Organization: Ampex Corporation, Redwood City CA

In article <3822@wyse.wyse.com> jmunro@wyse.wyse.com (Jim Munro x2497) writes:
>RE: The UK/US Beer Discussion
>
>What no one seems to have noticed is that the BRitish are no better than the 
>Americans when it comes to discerning taste in beer. Just because there is a
>
Stuff deleted
>
>Jim Munro
>
>
I would definitely agree with you Jim, especially about the high quality of
some local beers. Unfortunately, I prefer the lower carbonation of a draught
ale rather than a lager and am not particularly wild about cascade hops, I
feel the mellowness of fuggles with a dry hopped beer is a better drink.
But considering the advances the US micro-breweries have made in the last
few years, it won't be long until they are world class. Especially when
I set up my own small establishment.

ciao		davel
From: Robert.Evans@cm.cf.ac.uk (Robert Evans)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Current members of the Commonwealth
Date: 17 Aug 92 14:23:15 GMT
Organization: University of Wales College of Cardiff, Cardiff, WALES, UK.

In article <kuehnel.713629836@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE>, kuehnel@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Hans Kuehnel) writes:
|> > Country                 Form of Government              Head of State
|> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
|> > Mauritius               Parliamentary Democracy         Queen E/Gov Gen
I believe that Mauritius became a Republic earlier this year.

-- 
  Robert Evans, Department of Computing Mathematics,
  University of Wales College of Cardiff, Wales, UK.  +44 (0)222 874000 x 5518
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From: gray@rz-berlin.mpg.de
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Manifest: No Dope for Untied Byronic Notions
Date: 21 Aug 92 16:25:37 +0100
Organization: Rechenzentrum MPG Berlin

This is aimed at the citizens of the following countries:
  United Kingdom
  Scotland
  Botswana
  Hong Kong
  Lithuania
  Pimlico
  St. Kitts
  Rockall
  The New Hebrides
  Texas

  All others, hit 'n' now or abandon all sanity


  We are common people.  Under the crown of the most
wonderful man in a grey suit ever to rule the Sceptered
Isle, as we (boldly, no doubt) venture into the 1790s, I
propose that we (boldly again) venture together as one big
happy family and not as individuals swimming against the
fire of change that is sweeping through the world like a
new broom.  I present to you my manifesto, I hope that it
will be objectfully disputated and other pert manifestations
may likewise find their way to pertinatious newsgroups.

  Forward together to a better United!

  So much to say, so few braincells to use.  I will do the
following:  Title the issue: Address Space, the final, 
front ear.

Agriculture:  Many cows and pigs will soon be ours, we
              must use them to grow productivity and
              feed the citizens.  The government should
              do this.

Employment:  The people will talk with the employers and
             new jobs will be found for the most deserving
             individuals.  Immigrants must be British to
             qualify for entry.

Social Policy:  All nice people will be asked to spend a
                few hours a week deciding what to do about
                nasty people.

Labour:  Labour has been represented by men (and women!)
         for quite a bit now, mostly.  We propose the
         founding of a new political party called the
         Conservative Party to represent poorly paid
         lawyers and bankers.

Education and Training:  A tricky one this, but we're 
                         WORking on it, and are sure
                         that government and industry
                         may play a leading role.

Foreign Affairs:  The country needs to be a member of
                  NATO, UNESCO, WEF, KGB, EC, CEGB,
                  DSO (with bar), KPMG, MMB, JCB,
                  ISIHAC, IMHO, and the Tufty Club.
                  Ministerings to be accounted to
                  the previously said nice people.

That is all at this time.  IT is time to work to
this thing, and to do it so that we are.  Reject
Maastrick, NALGO, and small knobbly things with
raffia work at one end.  Let us Byronic Counts
untie this time, and lead the future into a 
great past.

Dove Shandy Yandipops
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From: gingell@rock.concert.net (Michael J Gingell -- Personal Account)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british,rec.arts.tv.uk,rec.arts.drwho,alt.tv.prisoner
Subject: Re: Americanising of the UK, Now: British TV in North America
Date: 22 Aug 92 23:00:36 GMT
Organization: CONCERT-CONNECT -- Public Access UNIX

In article <2812@perl-sun.dwrsun4.UUCP> perl@dwrsun4.UUCP (Robert Perlberg) writes:
>Public television has borrowed (almost depended) on the BBC for
>as long as I can remember, and there is no trace of British TV on any
>of the commercial stations.
>

There are one or two notable exceptions. Benny Hill has been on many
newtwork stations. Also on cable channels like A&E (Black Adder), Comedy
CHannel (Black Adder, Monty Python), Bravo (Lenny Henry, Fry & Laurie),
Alias Smith & Jones was on late night on one of the national big 3
network stations last year.

There is also a 'trace' of British TV that may not be so obvious. US commercials
are now being made in a few cases by British companies - UK commercials are
much more adventurous than US made ones.
From: rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns)
Newsgroups: uk.telecom,soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: National Code Change
Date: 12 Aug 92 12:57:05 GMT
Reply-To: rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns)
Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK

In article <1992Aug7.102702.8962@aston.ac.uk> evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) writes:
>[quotes and detail of what life is like in brum omitted]
>Presumably at one time, in the dim and distant past, it was necessary to 
>insert a pause in to the number to allow a physical connection to take
>place.

No.  Brum (and London, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester) had
"director systems" in the dim and distant past (Edinburgh was added in
1958, which is of course _very_ recent ;-).

Director systems were central-control exchanges - everything you
dialled went into a register, and came out at the other end
(asynchronously) when translation had been completed and the
connection (if any) to the destination exchange had been set up.  I
wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that every director exchange has
now gone to the great scrap heap in the sky (they were fundamentally
Strowger technology - the earliest registers were electromechanical
devices).

>There is no good reason for not simply having a number which is dialable
>anywhere. The local exchange knows where it is.

Only if it has intelligent central control.  Strowger exchanges have,
by default, distributed control (each switch separately decides what
to do next at each stage).  However, I once worked in a Strowger
exchange (Stoke Bishop in Bristol) with Discriminating Selector
Repeaters, that attempted at the cost of enourmous controlling relay
sets to emulate this sort of self-knowledge; I was totally boggled by
them, and they weren't terribly reliable (i.e., I had to spend an
awful lot of my time cleaning dirty wiper banks to keep the exchange
going).

>If you still want the advantage of a shortened local code you could use
>a short replacement for the code
>e.g. 021-565-1979 is the standard form of a number 
>       #-565-1979 means use local number 
>          ##-1979 takes the idea even further.

I suppose your idea would work, except for the way in which # is
already used (soluble).  Whether anyone actually wanted to provide it
is another matter: it's clear to you or me (probably no gain), but to
my poor old blind grandmother it'ld be a significant learning load.
--
Robin (dump Brian Kay) Fairbairns, using the facilities of the U of
Cambridge Computer Lab, for which permission is gratefully acknowledged.
[Wonderful what a few job offers can do for one's self-esteem :-]
From: proberts@informix.com (Paul Roberts)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: K Registrations?
Date: 15 Aug 92 22:11:08 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

In article <l8o1vdINNiqr@news.bbn.com> clements@bbn.com (Bob Clements) writes:
>On my recent visit, I saw an article in the paper that "K"
>registrations (for motor vehicles) were about to begin.
>

You know you are getting old when .....

You have a nagging feeling that you can remember the last time "K"
registrations coming out.

I can definitely remember "S" ... 

  ``S-reg specials coming down the line!
    S-reg specials, right on time!''

Paul
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
From: sushilm@amgen.com (Sushil Madhogarhia)
Subject: email info required urgently please
Organization: AMGEN Inc., 1000 Oaks CA
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 22:24:47 GMT

HI:
I am looking for email address of MOBIL in london. Could 
anyone help me with this.
Thanks in advance
sushil
sushilm@amgen.com
From: pm3_norr@csd.brispoly.ac.uk (Paul Norris)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: How did Australia and New Zealand Decimalise?
Date: 14 Aug 92 13:05:15 GMT
Organization: Bristol Polytechnic, England


 sp@mirabeau.osf.fr (Simon Patience) writes:
}In article <BspsDD.GoD@newcastle.ac.uk>, w.p.coyne@newcastle.ac.uk writes:

}> The UK did it by going from 240 pence in the pound to 100 new pence
}> in the pound.  they kept the pound the same but messed about with
}> the subunits - so causing massive problems and possibly suffering
}> and distress to people as they struggled to cope with the conversion
}> of 1 old penny being 5/12 of a new penny.
}
}To say that this is an overstatement is an understatement. There were no
}'massive problems' or any real 'suffering and distress' except to maybe
}the elderly who normally take unkindly to change generally. 

I remember one old dear interviewed in a vox pop saying something like:

"Yes,well. It's very confusing for us old folks, isn't it?  I think they
 should have waited until we'd all died"

Paul
-- 
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
                                            --  Charlie Brown
From: gray@rz-berlin.mpg.de
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Champion Beer Of Britain 1992
Date: 19 Aug 92 14:28:06 +0100
Organization: Rechenzentrum MPG Berlin

In article <1992Aug17.222135.7316@amgen.com>,
  sushilm@amgen.com (Sushil Madhogarhia) writes:

> I am looking for email address of MOBIL in london.

  Is it me, or did Shushil just make the most succinct and
accurate comment yet about British beer?

Struan
From: hg798502@LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Hugh Graham)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: royal family
Date: 14 Aug 92 20:02:40 GMT
Distribution: soc
Organization: Colorado State U. Engineering College

In article <1992Aug14.895.16015@dosgate> "richard tanner" <richard.tanner@canrem.com> writes:
>On 08-12-92, Neil Postlethwaite wrote the following to All in an artic
>entitled, "ROYAL FAMILY":
>
>NP>What do we get in return. A few walk abouts and stuff. A little PR 
>NP>we won't question the amount they cost the country.
>
>Much more than a few walk-abouts and PR. From my point of view, as an 
>expatriate Brit living in Canada, the monarchy serves us in ways that 
>could never have a price tag<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<.

As an expatbrit in t'USA, I wonder whether there is a price tag for Canada.
Do just the UK government pay for her Royalness and the lesser royalites?:-)

Hugh (His first posting)

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