New House Rules?

[gmatov]

Will,
What an ass I am. After I finished my letter and went to the garage, I smacked myself in the forehead and said "He said it's the name OF a place in a movie, not a town named AFTER a fictitious movie town!"
Idjit!!! Then I go on about housing developments!!! Sheesh!
Sorry about that
George

I think the flavour of the thread has changed.

[txpharoah]

What the hell is this thread about anyway?

Nah, cowboy jokes wear off after a while.

Down here you need Aggie jokes or blonde jokes.

[gmatov]

txpharoah,
I'm a little too tired right now to go all the way back to the beginning to see if I could remind myself what it's about. Confusing, no?
I know it's not DVDR, DoggieDaddy found that out, so I guess it's still possible to get here by accident.
It's not really a cowboy joke, it's a shot at truckdrivers. Someone from TAMKO driving a truck is one thing. A New England Yankee is quite another.
Aggies is good. I've even gotten into, well, I hate to say arguments, but not many pipple up here believe what the A&M means; Farming and engineering, agriculture and manufacturing. Sorry, I don't know any jokes about them.
Blondes is another matter entirely, but I'll save 'em for another time and thread. Someone might remember what this one is and accuse me of trying to change the subject.
Gotta find one that doesn't get my dander up so I can just read and learn.

George

Oh, yeah, golf jokes can be pretty good, too.

[txpharoah]

Oh, yeah, golf jokes can be pretty good, too.

I am a golf joke right now. I need to apologize to my clubs for that last game. Not a golfer, but it's fun every now and then.

[gll99]

gmatov:

Airplanes, at least jet airplanes, can't fly. they are more or less guided missiles. The wings provide ADDED lift, to increase payload, but when the engines quit, they drop like rocks. The thrust of the engines is what keeps them going

You and I have been so agreeable I will have to disagree with you. This thread seems to have a bit of everything anyway. It's in "feedback" but may have belonged in "OT" where few rules seem to apply.

Anyway, a number of years ago in Canada when we converted from Imperial measure to the metric system, a commercial passenger jet plane took off from Montreal heading out west but ran out of fuel by the time they reached the Manitoba border. A mistake was made in Montreal and due to a conversion error too little fuel was put in the tanks. The jet was equipped with a newly installed wind turbine generator which was dropped from the underbelly of the jetplane when the power went out. This gave the crew some degree of control and use of the controls and radio equipment but the jet was still only functionning as a glider. They were able to find and land at an abandoned airfield in Brandon manitoba. They were at the max glide path and would not have been able to go any further when it was finally located and they successfully landed. It was not a straight line descent either and covered many miles with a number of turns. I can't recall the distance but believe it was at least 40 miles or more.

The first 20 or so pilots who tried to duplicate this feat in a simulator all crashed.

They made a TV movie about this. I don't know if it ever played in the USA. haven't seen it in a while so may have messed up a thing or 2 but it's essentially right.

See how nasty I can be.


PS: I think were in the same timezone.

[Will Hay]

Will,
What an ass I am. After I finished my letter and went to the garage, I smacked myself in the forehead and said "He said it's the name OF a place in a movie, not a town named AFTER a fictitious movie town!"
Idjit!!! Then I go on about housing developments!!! Sheesh!
Sorry about that
George

You beat me to it, I was just going to respond with 'double the dose of the medicine George, it isn't working'
As far as I know it is a fictitious town, in Ireland.
A wonderful film, and despite me being only 32 (I picked silky31 a year ago!) I can appreciate movies made in a forgotten age.

I think I read the posts you mention. I took a quick glance at the Complaints Department, some name like pquezl? He said "Oops, sorry, my medication wore off.", and the Mod advised him to take his medicine before he posted?
That the one?

Yeah, that's him, poor soul.

I think the flavour of the thread has changed.

And perhaps the tone too, and no bad thing
Pretty much like you I tend not to get too rattled on this wonderful site, and again like you I have been spending too much time in off-topic, although I am regularly contributing elsewhere.
If there's one thing me and Governer txpharoah agree on it's you shouldn't try help anyone if you don't fully understand the subject.
The only time I got a litle annoyed (well, I went a little far actually) is when some guy made some comment in suggesting an abortion for my next child. I didn't appreciate that one.
Will

[Will Hay]

Never saw the movie. I do like a lot of the stuff on BBC we get here, "Monarch of the Glen", "Keeping Up Appearances" or whatever with the Buckets (Oops, sorry, Boo-kay), "Are You Being Served?", and most of the other comedies, as well as Poirot and other mystery series. Jolly good fun, what?

I'm afraid I'm going to have to disagree with you here!
You've probably identified what is fundamentally the worst of British TV there, in my opinion anyway.
I've never been a big fan of this easy-going, sitcom thing, tends to be the same each week.
And are the being served?
Are you kidding me?
There's only so many times Mrs Sloacombe (spelling?) can use the 'stroke my pussy' joke in one episode (for those of you not family with 'are you being served' Mrs Sloacombe is referring to a cat, very funny eh?)
Sorry George
Maybe I'm living in the wrong era, I watch far too many old movies - It's a Wonderful Life is my favourite movie, what does that tell you?
I obviously should be watching Arnie kill 300 men a minute, or watch Rambo sew his own leg back on
Oh, tell a lie, I'm a big fan of 'One Foot In The Grave', similar kind of UK sitcom show, you seen that?
You in the U.S. by the way George?
Will

[gmatov]

Will,
You're right in most of the critique.The 'stroking' does go a little too far, too often If it were an occasional thing, it might be different.
And the sitcoms here are no better; if someone comes up with a "winner" there'll be 6 of the same in 2 weeks.
You gotta admit "Keeping Up Appearances" is decent. Hyacinth completely dominates (I think his name is) Robert, and completely terrorizes her neighbors.
One Foot is very good; I think the activist, refuses to get old, leading lady plays her part well, and her "boyfriend", Tom, I think, is generally a perfect foil. I haven't seen some of these for a while. Actually, I haven't had the TV on for a while. I just got cable, after about 8 years of the Dish Network satellite, and there is less on and whatever is on, I can't find.
AT&T sold their business to Comcast, and a week or 3 later, Comcast threatened to raise my cable internet fees 15USD per month, unless I signed up for cable TV. Since I didn't watch enough TV to keep paying the Dish fee, and pay 15 additional for internet, and, since they gave me a 400USD credit for my 8 year old Dish reciever, I took them up on it.
Jimmy Stewart is one of my favorites.. I especially liked his westerns. Winchester 73, for example..
How does Rumpole(?) the detective series strike you.

How many kids have you? I've 4 daughters, 36 down to 28, and my 4th grandchild due in less than a month, as I've mentioned above. The thing I like best in daughters is I more or less chose my "sons". They'd bring a boy home and if I didn't seem too enthusiastic, they'd dump 'em and try another. 3 out of 4 are damn fine sons-in-law. The drawback is, my surname ends with me.

I guess the jerk was invoking his "freedom of speech" with the abortion crack. The only thing you could wish for was that he'd be close enough to punch his lights out.

Oh, yes, I'm in the US, SW corner of Pennsylvania, 20 miles or so from Pittsburgh. Lived on this same patch of ground nearly my whole life. Seen just about every country in the Med with the Navy in the 60's, a dozen or so states in the same period. No desire to see most of the rest of the world, although I still have relatives living in what's left of Yugoslavia. My dad left there nearly 100 years ago, nothing there for him, so I don't think there's anything for me either

Ah,well....
Later,
George

[gmatov]

gll99,
Hi,Doc,

I'm gonna have to defer to your expertise on the jet "flying".
And I'm going to aasume it was a Bombardier or some such, and they quit making the particular model.
Generally speaking, I think I'm right, tho'. They still can't "fly" And military jets, fighters and the like are even worse. The lift surfaces are tiny, compared to the "armed weight".
And I didn't complete the bumblebee thing. I forgot to say it'd been mathematically proven they can't fly. But damned if they don't.
And the C-5, that humongous monster, scared the heck out of me when I went to pick up my Air Force kids in Delaware. Driving down the highway, the sun disappears, you look up and there's an airplane damn near hovering over you. I was doing 50 or so mph,and I'd swear it wasn't going any faster. Unbelievable.
I think they did a measurement in the wrong system with either a satellite or rocket launch some years ago. Metric when it should have been English, or vice versa. Cost the flight or whatever it was, deployment?
I've heard some funny things from co-workers over the years after trips to Canada. "Wow, I got fantastic mileage on Canadian gas. Instead of 20, I got like 25 miles to the gallon." Well, duh, no kidding.
Are you completely metric, now, or do you still use miles? I'm not paying enough attention to the rest of the world, lately.
BTW, I found a couple of your posts re: duping public domain material. I would tend to agree that it would be legal so long as any added titles and the like were stripped, as you mentioned. I think a good indicater would be if it had FBI and piracy warnings. I will have to check, but I think some of the old DVDs I've bought don't have it.
Damned crib hardware came in yesterday. End of the box was mangled. Opened it, and a 5/16 (8 mm) rod was bent to near a right angle. Unusable. At a standstill till the replacement gets here.
Well, gotta leave now. Youngest g'son plays Tee Ball tonight. Can't miss that. I don't know if you have it up there. They let the littlest, worst batters tee it up on a rubber post to hit. Excuse me if this is obvious.

Later,
George

[gmatov]

txpharoah,

If the game wasn't so much fun it sure would be frustrating, wouldn't it?
I just got back from a game. Satisfied with a 51, but if I coulda thrown out about 15 really bad shots, I'da had a good game.
Briefly, a guy hits behind a barn, cusse, his wife says she'll hold the door open to hit thru, ball hits a post, smacks her in the head, knocks her dead. Year later, same lie, his buddy says he'll hold the door open , the guy says "Are you nuts? Last time I tried that, I shot a 9."

Sorry 'bout that.

Kinda nice to not argue.

[gll99]

gmatov:

The jet was at least 737 (Probably American made) or something like that. I'm sure this movie will play again one day so I can get all the facts right. Now this plane had no fuel so must have been practically at it's lightest. I imagine a fully loaded fighter jet would drop pretty quickly.

As far as metric. Yes the schools are all switched over. Imports from other countries (even the USA) must be sold with metric on the package ( but lots have dual measures). Advertisement can be in both but must at least be in metric. Official weights and scales in meat markets and such must be in metric (although again they can show both but not just imperial). Gas is sold in litres (or liters) as some spell it. It's like (Theatre and theater). Must be the British / American influences at play here. Our official English dictionnaries while Canadian are still somewhat influenced by British spelling (We were a respectful colony after all) and still while fully independent officially have a limited monarchy. Hence "colour" instead of "color".

This decision was made mostly due to globalization shows much forethought by our politicians. Much of the industrial world is now Metric. It was a tough switch for some but while I was schooled on Imperial, my courses included good portions on american measures and metric. The hardest part was visualising. It's easy for me to picture 1/4 or 1/2 an inch by holding up my thumb and first finger but it took a bit more to see 1 centimetre. I still do a lot of mental conversion. 2.2 centimeter per inch and 454 grams to a pound. Stuff like that. Your quart (32 oz) is the same as a litre but our Imperial quart was 40 oz. Fluid oz, I use soft drink (Coke or Pepsi) as an example we buy a 355ml can and that's 12 liquid oz. Not too bad once you get the hang of it. When we first switched over we thought some companies would try to make smaller packaging and sneak in increases. We watched very closely. I must admit most companies were well behaved and many actually gave more for the same price or adjusted prices favorable to the consumer.
The kids think only one way though and that's metric. If say 1 inch or 1 foot they say what's that in metric?

Even the american industries have to deal with those issues everyday when trading with other nations including the EEC.

Hope you get that crib done in time!

Cheers

What a funny thread.... hey!! (That's a Canadian hey)
Is this what the originator of this thread had in mind???

[gmatov]

gll99,
I thought that was "eh", rather than "hey", or am I thinking of either New England states or Wisconsin? The old computer tech joke of "Hit control\:a".
"I am hitting control, eh?"
I have no problem with the metric system. I've been a machinist, or a machinery repairman (Journeyman) most of my adult life. Metrics was an ingrained part of it as a lot of the machine tools were imported, as well as nearly all antifriction bearings (ball and roller) are metric. Inch size bearings are not as prevalent. And I handle math pretty well in my head, so conversion isn't difficult.And km approximate 5/8 of a mile. Easy enough.
I think you're right on the conversion not being used to cut quantities while keeping the same price. I don't know about up there, but down here, they do quite well cutting the measure without it. A 16 oz bag of chips is down to 12 3/4 and still 3 bucks. The lumber companies, many years ago, tried to go metric. Plywood would be 1200 X2400; approx. 3/4 inch narrower and 1 1/2 inch shorter. 1 square foot less per sheet. Minor windfall, about 3 %.
You think that was some model of Boeing jet? I'd be curious to know for sure. I'll have to look it up. I'm gonna have to do a little more research on jets, in general, but it can wait. I keep forgetting all the things I do want to check on. When I do a search, usually something irrelevant pops up that looks interesting, and I hie off in another direction. Jeez, there's just so much out there, both true and BS, that you have to buckle down to keep on topic. Amazin', ain't it?
Have you checked to see if those old cartoons or whatever have warnings on them? Are you thinking of a duplicator, or just 1 or so per 1/2 hour with your computer DVD burner?
I've seen CD duplcators. Expensive, but not outrageously so. I wouldn't hazard a guess as to the DVD version.
By the way, I hope you meant "I will hate to disagree", rather than "have" to disagree.

Talk at you later,
George

[txpharoah]

I may be made fun of up north because I use "ya'll" and "ain't" -- but the "eh!" from Canada has got to be the most annoying things in the world. On business trips I have more than once wanted to reach across the counter of wherever I was shopping and strangle the person on the other side for some smart-ass comment like "You must be from down south with the way you talk, eh!" I just want to say "eh! this" and hit them over the head with something. On more than one occasion, I've answered "what'd you say, B?"

[gmatov]

txpharoah,
It IS Canadian to your mind? I wasn't sure. They might spell it hey and pronounce it the same. 30 years since I've been to Canada, so forget.
Sure isn't as bad as "y'know" or "like" every 3rd word.. I don't know how an actor or sports celebrity does it. Well, not the jock, but the actors. You hear one in an interview and wonder why his script lines aren't full of them, also.
Y'all is one thing, but ain't made it into the dictionary, so....
Besides, 90% of the time you're talkin' to someone with the same dialect, or jargon, so it's un-noticed. Hell, if someone didn't use it, you'd almost have to interpret what he's saying.
I was just on a page where you were talking about Vid cables and humming. I have Radio Shack RCA cables, gold plate and all to try to record my old LPs and get a hell of a buzz thru the speakers. turntable, pre-amp, sd card= buzz. Would RG6 with RCAs help me? I've tried moving the power cord to the other side of the main panel buss, thinking a common ground might be my problem, no help. Isolation transformer?

George

[txpharoah]

I was just on a page where you were talking about Vid cables and humming. I have Radio Shack RCA cables, gold plate and all to try to record my old LPs and get a hell of a buzz thru the speakers. turntable, pre-amp, sd card= buzz. Would RG6 with RCAs help me? I've tried moving the power cord to the other side of the main panel buss, thinking a common ground might be my problem, no help. Isolation transformer?George

RG6 is a type of coax. Spend money for MONSTER cables gold-plated RCA.

I'll get back to you in more detail soon... bad weather is causing surges.... be back.... I can help....

[JamesB69]

i hope nobobdys already said this but im got tired of reading the bickering. In the USA, "the right to swing your fist ends where the next guys nose begins". Sorry, dont remember who said it and its probably paraphrased.

[gmatov]

txpharoah,
I know it's coax. What I'm asking is would the shielding help with the buzz? The RCAs I bought are RS's good ones but no better than the thin ones I had before, buzzwise.
Thanks,
George

James,
Hell, I'm tired of the bickering, too. Just wish I knew if it was OK to talk about ANYthing here, or if it should be slotted to a specific thread. This is more like an ANY topic than an off topic. Doesn't bother me, just that if anyone wants to chime in, they don't know what it is unless they come to the page, and if they were here a few days ago, they might say uh-uh, I don't wanta read any more of that crap.
Sorry.

[Peter H]

txpharoah,
I know it's coax. What I'm asking is would the shielding help with the buzz? The RCAs I bought are RS's good ones but no better than the thin ones I had before, buzzwise.
Thanks,
George

i take it when you are talking about a pre amp you are talking about a phono pre amp. if this has a seperate power supply you might want to check that, because power supplies or notorious for cuasing a hum in a system.

[gll99]

gmatov & txpharoah:

The funny thing is that we never use it print. eh may well be the proper form. "Hey" may be more appropriate in "hey you!".

As unbelievable as it may seem to you I can't recall any other time where I had to write the word as an emphatic or inquisitive end to a sentence.
I think it's the canadian way of seeking approval, agreement or keeping the conversation going.

e.g.
That ship sure is big eh? Yes that ship is big John.
Another varation is to add the person's name at the end.
You sure do like beer? eh Paul? Yes I like beer John.
I am right? eh? eh? Yes you are right (notice the double "eh")
Guaranteed to force the other person to answer.

I was born in Quebec (yes! I speak the freedom language also) but have lived in Ontario most of my life. Canada as any other country has regional dialects. Easterners (east of Quebec) tend to use the eh more frequently, more emphatically and expecting a response. They might even repeat it if you don't respond. In Ontario it's more of an occasional thing and usually we are not even aware that we have said it so we don't expect a response. Manitoba to Alberta has a lot of farmland and guess what in the rural areas especially it's the same as down east.
I've travelled to Vancouver on business a number of times but did not notice too many eh's

Common saying goes "save you eh (hey,hay) in case you marry a horse".
Don't ask me where it comes from but it's something I heard as a kid and 1000 times since (but not directed towards me of course).

It's very easy to catch so be careful or it may spread to the US.

We hear all the american dialects and accents on tv so we are used to them. The northern NY and Ontario speech patterns are not easily discernable.

Cheers

Bickering? who said that? Where?

Haven't seen any on this thread?

[vitualis]

The Off Topic rules are simple and have been stated as above.

As far as I know, the mods always read the threads before locking them. That doesn't mean mistakes won't happen. When I read threads, I may have up to 10 threads open at once (Mozilla and tab browsing... ) and I have more than once locked the wrong one... Usually I catch myself but then I wouldn't know if I didn't...

In terms of off topic, there are rules. You can argue freedom of speech all you want, but this is Baldrick's place and he can do as he see fits. It's no different that he can kick you out of his house if he doesn't like the way you talk, etc.

As far as I see it, the off topic rules are fair and pragmatic. The no politics and no religion rule came about simply because political and religious discussions brewed too much bad blood on the forums.

As for other posts, just keep cool and behave. Extended flamewars are not tolerated and generally will be eventaully locked. When, will depend on the discretion of the moderators.

If you think a thread has been unfairly locked, then send us a PM. We may have made a mistake, but I think that I speak for all when I say that it is fairly unlikely (and never if it was Baldrick... ).

Regards.

[Will Hay]

Will,
You're right in most of the critique.The 'stroking' does go a little too far, too often If it were an occasional thing, it might be different.

I think I laughed the first time and now, some six million times later, it's kinda' worn off

And the sitcoms here are no better; if someone comes up with a "winner" there'll be 6 of the same in 2 weeks.

Actually, some of my favourite shows are American:
Scrubs, Malcolm in the Middle, Friends (yes, I know, I'm sorry!), The Simpsons - those four I just can't miss, and then there's the one's I just can't abide:
Married with Children (truly awful, is that still running?), Third Rock from The Sun (is this a comedy?) and then this untalented girl in that law thing, somebody Flockheart, truly a horrendous actress.

You gotta admit "Keeping Up Appearances" is decent. Hyacinth completely dominates (I think his name is) Robert, and completely terrorizes her neighbors.

Awful show, horrendous.
The only smile I can force out is saved for that scruffy old guy, who used to be in Coronation Street (you know that?) many moons ago.

One Foot is very good; I think the activist, refuses to get old, leading lady plays her part well, and her "boyfriend", Tom, I think, is generally a perfect foil. I haven't seen some of these for a while.

Wow, I think her boyfriend only featured for a couple of episodes, and considering it ran for five or six seasons wasn't really a big deal as far as the show went.
Very boring show on paper but the writing is superb, and that's what sets it up above the rest, for me at least!

Jimmy Stewart is one of my favorites.. I especially liked his westerns. Winchester 73, for example..

Strangely enough I prefer him in his non-western roles which I imagine is blasphemous for real fans!

How does Rumpole(?) the detective series strike you.

A little before my time I'm afraid.

How many kids have you? I've 4 daughters, 36 down to 28, and my 4th grandchild due in less than a month

Just the one, a boy, 15 months old and an absolute angel, pure joy.

The thing I like best in daughters is I more or less chose my "sons". They'd bring a boy home and if I didn't seem too enthusiastic, they'd dump 'em and try another. 3 out of 4 are damn fine sons-in-law. The drawback is, my surname ends with me.

Shame on the surname.
I don't often tell people this but hey, there's only 50,000 dvdrhelp subscribers so what the hell.
My actual surname is my mothers maiden name. I changed it a couple of years before I got married as my father was, frankly a complete and utter son of a bitch, a real nasty peice of work, never worked, hit my mum etc. so I didn't want to carry on his name.
I took my grandfather's name who was a big influence on me but sadly died when I was 16, a year or two after he retired.
Worked all his life and never got chance to live a little.
Up until me changing my surname (it starts with Silk....., Will Hay ain't my real name, as you've probably guessed, silky was the name my grandma called my grandad and I kind of inherited it, by accident, when all my footie/soccer friends adopted it), anyway up until changing my surname the name would have stopped too, so I'm quite happy I've carried it on.
My son has my grandad's first name as his middle name too

I guess the jerk was invoking his "freedom of speech" with the abortion crack. The only thing you could wish for was that he'd be close enough to punch his lights out.

Please don't search for the thread, I kinda made that clear
Take care George, I'm sure we'll communicate later
Will

[Hardcoreruss]

Will,
You're right in most of the critique.The 'stroking' does go a little too far, too often If it were an occasional thing, it might be different.

I think I laughed the first time and now, some six million times later, it's kinda' worn off

And the sitcoms here are no better; if someone comes up with a "winner" there'll be 6 of the same in 2 weeks.

Actually, some of my favourite shows are American:
Scrubs, Malcolm in the Middle, Friends (yes, I know, I'm sorry!), The Simpsons - those four I just can't miss, and then there's the one's I just can't abide:
Married with Children (truly awful, is that still running?), Third Rock from The Sun (is this a comedy?) and then this untalented girl in that law thing, somebody Flockheart, truly a horrendous actress.

You gotta admit "Keeping Up Appearances" is decent. Hyacinth completely dominates (I think his name is) Robert, and completely terrorizes her neighbors.

Awful show, horrendous.
The only smile I can force out is saved for that scruffy old guy, who used to be in Coronation Street (you know that?) many moons ago.

One Foot is very good; I think the activist, refuses to get old, leading lady plays her part well, and her "boyfriend", Tom, I think, is generally a perfect foil. I haven't seen some of these for a while.

Wow, I think her boyfriend only featured for a couple of episodes, and considering it ran for five or six seasons wasn't really a big deal as far as the show went.
Very boring show on paper but the writing is superb, and that's what sets it up above the rest, for me at least!

Jimmy Stewart is one of my favorites.. I especially liked his westerns. Winchester 73, for example..

Strangely enough I prefer him in his non-western roles which I imagine is blasphemous for real fans!

How does Rumpole(?) the detective series strike you.

A little before my time I'm afraid.

How many kids have you? I've 4 daughters, 36 down to 28, and my 4th grandchild due in less than a month

Just the one, a boy, 15 months old and an absolute angel, pure joy.

The thing I like best in daughters is I more or less chose my "sons". They'd bring a boy home and if I didn't seem too enthusiastic, they'd dump 'em and try another. 3 out of 4 are damn fine sons-in-law. The drawback is, my surname ends with me.

Shame on the surname.
I don't often tell people this but hey, there's only 50,000 dvdrhelp subscribers so what the hell.
My actual surname is my mothers maiden name. I changed it a couple of years before I got married as my father was, frankly a complete and utter son of a bitch, a real nasty peice of work, never worked, hit my mum etc. so I didn't want to carry on his name.
I took my grandfather's name who was a big influence on me but sadly died when I was 16, a year or two after he retired.
Worked all his life and never got chance to live a little.
Up until me changing my surname (it starts with Silk....., Will Hay ain't my real name, as you've probably guessed, silky was the name my grandma called my grandad and I kind of inherited it, by accident, when all my footie/soccer friends adopted it), anyway up until changing my surname the name would have stopped too, so I'm quite happy I've carried it on.
My son has my grandad's first name as his middle name too

I guess the jerk was invoking his "freedom of speech" with the abortion crack. The only thing you could wish for was that he'd be close enough to punch his lights out.

Please don't search for the thread, I kinda made that clear
Take care George, I'm sure we'll communicate later
Will

More Quotes that my English A-Level !!!

[Will Hay]

Sorry, I can't resist this one:

More Quotes that my English A-Level !!!

You mean than my English A-Level?
I take it you failed the exam then?

As far as the quotes go yeah, it did take a while, but did you have to quote it all, it was boring the first time!
Will

[gmatov]

Will,
Jimmy Stewart was also a native here. His home town is Indianna, PA, about 30 miles from here. They've erected a statue in his memory, I believe.
You'd mentioned in an earlier writing that Will Hay was the character in the old movie. I wasn't confused on that one.
Terrible. The shows you can't miss are some of the ones I can't abide. Fortunately, the ones you can't abide are on my same list. Well, Malcolm in the Middle is watchable.
I have to add Drew Cary. I don't think I have ever cracked a smile while watching that. When my kids insisted or in a tavern or elsewhere, work, even, as we have a TV, VCR, DVD available. We're "unofficially" permitted to amuse ourselves when nothing's broken down. I'm now an EOT Crane(Electric Overhead Traveling) repairman in a steel mill. A comedown from my former trade of repairing precision metalworking machinery, but the pay is good. Anyhow, when they're all running properly, we stand by, do as we wish, within limits, watch movies, TV, radio, whatever, snooze. When one breaks, we swarm over it to get it back in operation. Hot, heavy, dirty work. Some times you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you. I may sit for 8 hours, or I may spend 16 hours on top in 130+ F heat, working my ass off. All balances out in the end.
Too many of us old farts work all our lives, only to die just before, or shortly after, retirement. With the years of service they have, a lot of my co-workes are working for a buck an hour, if they consider their pension as a percentage of what their pay is AFTER all the taxes, Union dues, etc. are deducted. They could be greeters at WalMart for 8 bucks and be 7 bucks ahead.
I've got 3 1/2 to go, myself, and will be gone on my first day of eligibility.
But I'm not allowed to die. My youngest forbade me. She constantly reminds me of how many times I told her, growing up, how I wished her grandpap had lived to see her. So I guess I gotta stick around till 75 to see my newbie graduate High School, and bossy as she is, the daughter will probably make me watch him/her graduate college, too.
(I'm the only person in the family who doesn't know what it is. I prefer to be surprised. 2 eyes, 10 fingers and toes, right # of everything in the right place, all I ask for.)

Reserving his surname to maintain privacy, what did you name your son?
My own favorite granddaughter, my soccer buddy, is a Kalsey Julietta. Love the name. And, I always use their full first (given?) names.
I've been taking her to soccer for 5 years, now. Love watching her play. Loving the game too, but don't understand enough of the rules, just enough to think the refs made a bad call when it's against us, and missed the call when "they" do something wrong.
I split this from the other. It's too long. As a single message, it would have resembled a book.
Well, gotta go take my baby to soccer now.
Later,
George

[gmatov]

vitualis,
Thank you, very clear and concise. Simply keep a civil tongue in your head and all should be well.

gll99,
Not a criticism. South of your border, the most used verbal pause, or whatever, would be "huh?" Close to "eh?", eh? "Man, that was a close one, huh?" I'm gonna have to watch the movie "Fargo" again. I can't for the life of me recall the "word" the North Dakota German-Dutch natives use; "ya", or "ja" or something. Sounds cute enough to cause a smile as you listen. The leading lady in that movie is a native of my little corner of the world, SW Pennsylvania. Her home was about 30 miles from here, but my memory's too poor to remember either her name or her home town. I'm probably showing poor taste, but I liked the movie.
I should have sent you a couple disks of a backup I had made if it weren't illegal. When I replayed it, it was in French. How I let it default to French, I don't know, but I have maybe half a dozen French words in my vocabulary, so it was useless to me. BTW, is Quebecois French true, or rather removed from that spoken in France? I know there are different dialects, argots, patois, in France, but you know what I mean.
I speak Serbo-Croat fairly well (this coal mining patch was all Serb, Croat, Hungarian and Italian, when I was growing up. We all (almost) spoke in our parents native tongues, but a lot of words changed, became "Americanized", to the point that I had some trouble with discourse with some relatives who came for a visit from Yugoslavia. They spoke no English. The funniest thing was trying to explain what I was trying to say and having them finally tell me the word and it was actually a variant of what I would call an American word. American English rather than British English. At a loss to explain that I had a business installing insulation in old houses. Insulation? Oh, you mean insulasiu?
Does the average Quebecois (?) child get to school age speaking only, or mostly, French? I didn't speak ANY English till I started first grade. I must have been a quick study, as in second grade the Principal brought down the 5th and 6th graders to hear me read a book about Abraham Lincoln. I guess the age of 5 was a good time to teach me English, as I have no hint of an accent, whereas some kids who immigrated in their teens, now, 30 plus years later, still have a discernible accent.
And I use few of our colloquialisms. "Outsiders" and some who want to make a quick buck often write about the strange speech used here, but I don't hear it nearly as much as they say. Exaggeration.
Well, gotta go.
Talk at you again. (colloquialism?)
George

[gmatov]

PeterH,
I mean something like a 1 or 2 watt little cube, RCA in, RCA out, + AC. It did used to give me fair volume. The milli- or micro-amps output by the moving magnet or moving coil cartridge would not pick up on the reciever I first bought it for. I have never tried to use the cables to go directly from the turntable to the sound card. I just assumed the output was too low to registeer, and be useable. Maybe I should try that before I get into esoterics.

[txpharoah]

We're a bit lazier down here. No need for adding "eh" or "ja" or "huh" or whatever. We just nod. And "Yep" can be a whole sentence. (Nope, not watching to much King of the Hill either. That show is more real than fake.)

I can't believe this thread is still ongoing.

Three great big pages... and just like Seinfeld... it's all about nothing. :P

[gmatov]

txpharoah,
Aw, man did you haveto bring up Seinfeld? He stinks, pure and simple. I have NEVER watched an episode of his to the end without wanting to , well, barf is strong, but, hey, he sucks big time.
What the hell is King of the Hill. I don't know if it's a Brit that I have watched, and forgot, or something else. How did Harold Robbins strike you. Mind, he wrote some 30 years ago, but he was well into the oil wildcatters, Texas, OK, etc. Whole buncha pther stuff also.
I don't think this thread is still going. I think it's changed entirely. I HOPE it's just a talk about whatever you want thing, buit I might have to hunt up a "Talk About Whaterver You Want" thread. If you are not uncomfortable here, please stick around. Maybe you'll unbend and enlighten me on what you hinted at a couple posts ago, that you could help me to get rid of the loud hum when I try to record my 50's, 60's country to the 'puter to either make CDs or MP3s out of, but I would prefer to make CDs.
Hey, Homer and Jethro, Hank Thompson, Hank Snow, Marty Robbins, Kay Starr, Chet Atkins, these need preserved. No one listens to them. They're old. It's George Strait, Garth Brooks, all these others who sound like they're reading a page to music, no rhyme or meter, that is THE thing today. About the only ones that sound good are the "Dixie Chicks", and the poor girl had to say something dumb 3000 miles away while GW had the country on a war footing. (Where ARE the WMD? It couldn't have been about OIL, could it?)
Leno and Letterman have made hay about the GW doll that could mispronounce 100 words, but the poor "Chick" gets boycotted.
Ah, well, who ever said life is fair?

[Will Hay]

Reserving his surname to maintain privacy, what did you name your son?

Daniel (I'd just bought an Elton John album, I know, sorry and had been singing the track of the same name to my wife's tummy before he was born and the name kinda' stuck) and Arthur (after his grandad).

Will

[gmatov]

Will,
Nothing wrong with either name , separately or together. I'm not an Elton John fan, so don't get the reference, but no matter. One of my grandsons is a Tyler Stephen, after some dorky rocker, but at least reversed. A friend has one named the other way and hates it, but too late. Both 7, so I guess he was big 7 some years ago.
I still don't know the gender of my new grand (only 10 days or so to go ) but when I mention that I don't like a name, the kids say, " Oh, we kinda like it! "
I had mentioned that Hermione, from Harry Potter, probably liked that more than Emma, and they kinda liked Emma. So, go figure.
BTW, an oldie, but do you know why kids have a middle name?
So they know how mad their Mom is when they're called.
" Daniel Arthur, you get home this instant!!!"
Bad news for me. My daughter just called and let slip that it is to be a grandson. I didn't know till 5 minutes ago. Ah, well, this way the g'daughter is still my favorite g'daughter. Every cloud has a silver lining, no?
George