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George Melly's died's a shame, he was always a good laugh. Age 80's alright though innit?

quote:We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the starsand a few of us are using Real Time Satellite Tracking.

Disgusting IMHO...http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKN0427851120070704Anselm

Steady on James, this is a thread on the "units" we are supposed to be watching.*My wife saw a programme on TV yesterday about drinking at home and how bad it's going to be for us if we are the types of people who drink a couple of beers or a couple...

Last week i went to Norway. One week without my naim set. I was near Sogndal. It was a beautiful area. Lots of nature and glacier and mountains. Didn't know it was so beautiful. Are there other naimpies been to Norway? And where are the naim members...

HelloAfter I have my nap 180 serviced and repaired, I get a hum on the speakers back, that is slowly driving me crazy.I wrote about that problem before. A dealer told me that this is definetely an earthing problem, and also naim states in their...

So, marrying a beautiful young woman when you are an ageing intellect doesn't always work, even if one has been knighted. Divorce x 4RegardsDiccus

Along with George announced today:- Bill Pinkney 81 the last of the Original Drfters Hy Zaret 99 & 11 months who wrote the words for Unchained Melody.

My son has just achieved a first class honours degree in history from Robinson college Cambridge. Obviously my wife and I are very proud of him and would like to buy something to commemorate this. The question is what. He's had the watch and fountain...

I am something of a sci-fi fan and am always amazed by the apparent shortage of high quality sci-fi being made. This strikes me as peculiar because many of the highest grossing movies and most popular TV series ever have been sci-fi.Some personal...

I don't usually complain, but watching the athletics over the week-end, Hazel Irvine said that a pole vaulter had “no-heighted” in his previous 2 attempts. This followed someone else saying that somebody had “podiumed” at their last event.

CSI shows Las Vegas/Miami/New York use 3 different Who songs for there title screens, do The Who/Pete Townsend get paid every time a show is aired?As in needle time payments by record stations, if this still exists.Howard

Does anyone use VNC with Zone Alarm.VNC has been set up on my computer by my support crew to allow me to access my work pc form home and to allow them access to my work pc for support.Zone alarm keeps giving me a warning about ultravnc.exe and even...

Read this question, come up with an answer This is not a trick question. It is as it reads.No one I know has got it right. Hoepfully you won't either.A woman, while at the funeral of her own mother, met a guy whom she did not know. She thought this...

Sunset at the NothpoleMy Norwegian Aunt sent me this very lovely picture, and I hope its brings pleasure to all who see it... Good night from Fredrik

The best chain of cd shops (IMHO) close...http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6252300.stmThey had the best selections, best prices and added new stock far more frequently than my local HMV or Virgin. RegardsGeoff

With my new whizzy Vista PC generally giving me very little bother except I should have got someone sensible to transfer everything over from the old PC instead of 'Brains' here trying to do it. Anyway some of my wife's word docs now seem to be in...

I was editing a post and may have hit the ctrl and something becouse the screen flashed and all the icons have now disappeared. I have restarted PC but it's still the same.I still have the buttons they press and contents show eg text to colour, url...

How great was that?!Classics lessons weren't like that! (Though our small sixth form class did once try to persuade our classics mistress to take us to the film 'Caligula'...)Exciting, engaging, compelling and in its historical thrust even moderately...

Earlier this year, during a nice warm and 'early' spring, climate change experts warned that the future weather patterns for the British Isles lay in warm and wet winters, early springs and hot, dry Summers due to the said change in climate. Now,...

Apparently he's off to promote peace in the Middle East - now that he's finished promoting war there...

One of the strong points of Tony Blair's reign for the last ten years is that he has been able to keep down the nasty that could be the Brown/Darling alliance. Guess who's to be the new Chancellor. Shit.Where's our electoral mandate when we need it?

I am thinking of using videos copied from sky+ etc copy them to DVD_RW and then like making a cd compilation drag and drop various sections into a final DVD.Any recommendations for Software that will achieve this as NERO seems unwilling to copy files...

I've just had 4 flights with Singapore Airlines and each time I had the best food, best wine, best service and best in-flight entertainment I have ever had from any other airline and the hostesses were drop dead gorgeous - beautiful, slim, elegant and...

There's nothing on these days, it's all repeats.