Beer Mats?
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Hi Robert,
I guess where you were staying didn't have any premium channels, HBO,
Cinemax, TMC etc. All premium movie channels. No ads on these, unless you
count their own and even the Beeb carries its own advertising, is that a
premium channel, I gather it costs over $150 per year; for that I get all
5 channels of HBO, 3 of Cinemax and 2 of TMC and change out of a $100
bill.
I am at the moment on my boat laying off West Palm Beach, FL, so
communications can be a little tough, depends where the cellular repeaters
are, I couldn't take another New Hampshire winter (last year was light
snowfall only 200"+)
Alternative uses for floppies #4: Poking sharks in their private parts;
(again not recommended if you want boot from them)
The 'TV License' we all pay here is abit of a rip off to be honest, the
BBC still advertises itself and it's publications – seems like a con to
me, thing is where i am lodging i cannot receive ANY TV signals in my room
so i haven't seen a TV prog in ages…
BTW Don't you have subscriber radio stations in the US, where you pay them
and they do no advertising ?
LYING ON A BOAT – <green with envy> damn you i'm inside, freezing coz it's
been snowing for the last two days and i nearly slammed my car into the
kerb yesterday coz of the ice…
Where geographically is New Hampshire ?
He he, do sharks let you get near enough to their private parts for you to
shove a disk up there ?
BTW Your confusing my count ?
Alternative uses for floppy disks, Number 6:
Bookmark
We have cable TV, which we pay a fee for, but we have a choice of between
20 and 50+ channels, depending on the cable system in the area. Some have
commercials on them, some do not. The biggest thing is that we have our
choice of what we want to watch(ever here the Bruce Springsteen song
titled "57 channels and Nothing on"?).
John
Sounds better, although from what i have heard you do get a LOT of british
reruns over there…. I dunno it is alledged that we have a very high
quality of TV programmes but it's hard to tell when you are a captive
audience…
Alternative uses for floppy disks, Number 8:
Credit cards (with some modification <g>)
We get the British reruns on the "snootier" channels, (Arts and
Entertainment being a prime example). I notice that the British shows we
do get are all rather high on the "snob appeal" scale, we don't get Benny
Hill much anymore. The television on cable runs from Masterpiece theatre
type dull snob appeal type shows with a lot of British accents(Not just
any british accents, but the snobby Oxford/Cambridge type accent), to
tractor pulls, Beavis and Butthead(huh-huh! huh-huh-huh!), and the latest
in the saga of Amy Fischer and Joey Bottafuoco.
John
Benny Hill is on every afternoon on Comedy Central. (I've got cable at
the office.)
Careful <g> your talking to a guy who guys to Oxford college every day
<g> nah your right a lot of people there are UNBELIEVABLE snobs, it's
really quite incredible… I've got to admit i have never really
seen much of the Beavis and buthead sketches, except for the old
'Play some skynard mand' bit like Bart simpson, don't think i ever
saw ONE show of that, my loss huh <g>
What is truly amazing about Beavis and Butt-head is that some people
think that they're cool and want to be like them. I thought perhaps
the creator was a bit too subtle with his sarcasm, or perhaps the
youth of America lacks the educational experience to master that
distinction. "CBM lives!" – grafitti found in a men's room stall.
Easy question first: NH is located approximately 200 miles north of New
York City touching the Canadian border at its top end, next state down is
Massachusetts, dosn't that sound like something you'd find in your tissue
after you've blown your nose? The early settlers here didn't have much
imagination when it came to naming towns, I used to live in Peterborough,
next town over was Dublin used to do my Grocery shopping in Manchester.
Sorry about you're being holed up due to snow, hope you don't get cabin
fever. But at least you can make a little progress on Frontier, which
sounds good, next time I make land, I'll try and find it, although Amiga
software dealers are a little thin on the ground.
Subscriber radio stations? I'm not much into radio but we do have Public
Broadcasting on TV which is very similiar in concept to the BBC, Motto;
We'll show you what we think you should watch. A lot of these stations
have a Brit Com section, old re-runs of sit-coms, the difference being
every few months they spend a week or so begging you to send them money.
I don't know if you started the Treacle debate but the last time I stocked
up at the supermarket in the syrup section there was a product called Tate
& Lyles Golden Syrup which seemed to fit the description, Green label,
cane sugar etc. Tried it on my pancakes and had to tone it down a little
with lemon juice.
What is BTW, I'm new to electronic mail; I figured out that <g> means
grin.
The secret to inserting floppies into sharks in mainly a matter of
distracting their attention by dragging a lawyer (attorney) as bait.
Alternative uses for floppy disks, Number 7:
Treacle spreader.
He He, yes naming things is a problem, you've got a sort of home from home
experience over there <g> I heard that in Australia there a mountains with
names which in Aboriginal mean 'It's a bloody heap of rock' or similar –
because explorers used to grab the nearest native and point at some object
and ask for a name, wrote down the first thing they said <g>
THE SNOW HAS MELTED – yipee, safety on the roads again (baring thick fog
of course…)
'begging you to send the money.'
Of course america is the humble father of TV Evangalism <g> somthing we
have as yet to take from you <g> (the longer the better i hope) actually
a lot of the TV i saw in the US was pretty dodgy, i remember a program
here a camera crew trailed a Police unit, they were called to the scene of
a rape, and the camera crew + lights + sound + interviewer were all there
asking the victim 'How do you feel ?' made me kinda sick…
Tate and Lyle – yup they are the people you are after for treacle <g>
syrup is pretty damned near so that'll do but it is VERY sweet isn't it
(glad to see you got pancakes – unfortunatel i was too ill prepared and
had nothing available – just settled for more pasta <g>)
Got somthing agains lawyers ?
(Good man <g>)
Alternative uses for floppy disks, Number 8:
Credit cards (with some modification <g>)
Lucky you the snow has melted, where I am there is still three feet of
snow on the ground. I think it'll melt in time for the fourth of July.
John
Still i guess you get bored of building snow men <g>
BTW => By The Way
OTOH => On The Other Hand
ROFL => Rolling On the Floor Laughing
<g,d,&r> => grin, duck, and run
PMFBI or PMFJI => Pardon Me For Butting/Jumping In
BTW, there are other abbreviations, but these will get you started! 🙂
We do have subscriber, non-PBS radio stations in the USA, but they are as rare
as hen's teeth. There's one in Madison, WI. I suspect there's less than 6 in
the nation, but I might be wrong. No commercials of the regular variety,
although they do have PBS-style sponsorship announcements. And they regularly
beg for money, and they are largely staffed by volunteers.
Still they do provide a VERY good service from the small sample i heard
while i was over there, plus you get dedicated 'Rock' 'Metal' etc…
stations, somthing we have not got yet…
Alternative uses for floppy disks, Number 10:
Road resurfacing