Prat Warning

Mark McN <[email hidden]> wrote in
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Quoted message said:

A true Southern Gentleman, he would genuinely flinch
if anybody took the name of The Lord in vain, but saw nothing wrong in
taking the doors off his jeep, firing up the six-speaker Bose system,
and treating the rest of the world to
http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/LIMP-BIZKIT/Hot-Dog.html
at an awesome volume.

Those lyrics are f***ing disgusting!

;-)

Graeme

Simon Brooke <[email hidden]> wrote in news:t3sep1-0u2.ln1
@gododdin.internal.jasmine.org.uk:

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You mean 'Perceived Order of Social Hierarchy', surely?

Is that one of the explanations for the origin of "posh"? The one I've
heard many times is that it was to do with P&O cruises travelling past
somewhere (in the Med I think) which one side of the boat (port) had a good
view on the way out and the other side (starboard) had the good view on the
way back, i.e. port out, starboard home.

Graeme

Mark McN said:

Sounds like the Edwardian opera house I work in. Matcham knew
what he was doing with acoustics and sight lines, even if he didn't
know a thing about providing a decent mixer position. ;-)

It was the Loft Theatre in Leamington Spa. The mixer position is a room
at the back, though there was plumbing in to run it from the auditorium
if needed. The plumbing wasn't trusted entirely - massive multicore
connector to the back of the patch panel.

Live music wasn't done often, it was mostly theatre with pre-recorded
effects, which is quite a different discipline. The size and acoustics
were good enough that you could probably get away without amplification
for musicians on stage. If I were to go back and do live music there
now, I'd suggest a smaller (physically, even if it has more channels,
the one fitted is quite roomy) sub mixer in the auditorium.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

The pantos are fun though.

Pantos are always fun. <Audience> Oh, no, they're not! </Audience>

At a recent job interview, I had "So you do panto - oh no you don't
:-)". The last one involved lots of dalmations. Before that it was about
a boy wizard called Parry Hotter, and his friend Hormonie. This year it
should be something more traditional like Cinderella.

- Richard

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Simon Brooke <[email hidden]> wrote in news:lrrep1-0u2.ln1
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There was a publican of a drinking dive in the West Bow in my youth
who drove around in a white Ferrari with the registration number
'50BER'

I remember that one (which wasn't *that* long ago, I hope you're
fairly young Simon). Apparently he (or a subsequent owner) sold the
registration as he was sick of getting pulled over by the police to be
breathalysed.

He might conceivably have had it a long time. I last lived in Edinburgh
in 1976, but I think I remember the Ferrari from around 1972, when I
was one of a group producing an 'underground' magazine, and hawking it
round the pubs.

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in message <[email hidden]>, Graeme

(') said:

Simon Brooke <[email hidden]> wrote in news:t3sep1-0u2.ln1
@gododdin.internal.jasmine.org.uk:

Quoted message said:

You mean 'Perceived Order of Social Hierarchy', surely?

Is that one of the explanations for the origin of "posh"?

No, it's one I made up on the spur of the moment.

Quoted message said:

The one I've
heard many times is that it was to do with P&O cruises travelling past
somewhere (in the Med I think) which one side of the boat (port) had a
good view on the way out and the other side (starboard) had the good
view on the way back, i.e. port out, starboard home.

That's the only one I've ever heard, too.

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Do not sail on uphill water.
- Bill Lee

Mark South <[email hidden]> wrote:

: There is no problem with the flag per se.

I dunno. I always get very wary when big groups of blokes get very
patriotic myself. But I'm Irish, what would I know?

: White van Bad. White van flying flag Worse.

Seen on the way to work today - mum taking kid to school on a trailer
bike (little boy - 7-8 ish?). Big St. George's Cross on the trailer
bike 🙂

Arthur

--
Arthur Clune http://www.clune.org
"Technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect"
- Paulina Borsook

Simon Brooke said:

Mind you, in the same period one of Edinburgh's drug squad
drove arounf in a convertible white Triumph Vitesse with a pink
flying pig painted on each door. As the car was exceedingly well
known it scarcely counted as 'plain clothes'.

Thank you, Simon. Please send new keyboard to:

Mr Larrington
The Nut Mines
London Town Devine

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Graeme said:

Is that one of the explanations for the origin of "posh"? The one I've
heard many times is that it was to do with P&O cruises travelling past
somewhere (in the Med I think) which one side of the boat (port) had
a good view on the way out and the other side (starboard) had the
good view on the way back, i.e. port out, starboard home.

The one wot I heard ran thusly: If you were a wealthy toff travelling from
the BRITONS' England to Indiah, where the Tigers come from, then having
one's cabin on the port side of the ship placed it away from the midday sun,
thus rendering it cooler and less likely to be invaded by Mad Dogs. And
vice-versa upon the return journey.

Wordorigins.org maintains that "This etymology of 'posh' is probably
incorrect, but its origin is somewhat in doubt."

Wikipedia.org sez: "However extensive searching of shipping company records
and tickets from that period has failed to reveal any evidence for this
claim. The fact that this folk etymology is only recorded 17 years after the
term's earliest known appearance (in the 25th September 1918 issue of Punch)
also lends weight to the theory that this etymology is apocryphal."

So:

horse, albeit plausible horse. My friend M. Smautf, a well-read and
raddled posho himself, maintains:

slang for 'dandy' (1890)
from meaning 'money' (1830)
originally 'coin of small value, halfpenny', possibly from the Romany posh
meaning 'half'.

But then again, he also maintains that Maffeo Barberini (1568-1644) was made
entirely of salmon.

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Pettifogger Jarnoyce, B.Sc.
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Leicester Institute of Brick-Throwing
Telford
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Simon Brooke said:

Quoted message said:

Mind you, in the same period one of Edinburgh's drug squad
drove arounf in a convertible white Triumph Vitesse with a pink
flying pig painted on each door. As the car was exceedingly well
known it scarcely counted as 'plain clothes'.

and Dave Larrington responded:

Quoted message said:

Thank you, Simon. Please send new keyboard to:

Quite. Perhaps it indicates that I'm spending too much time on urc when
someone describes a car that then appears in my dreams that night.

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<URL:http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/>
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine

Simon Brooke <[email hidden]> wrote in news:857gp1-k44.ln1
@gododdin.internal.jasmine.org.uk:

Quoted message said:

He might conceivably have had it a long time. I last lived in Edinburgh
in 1976, but I think I remember the Ferrari from around 1972, when I
was one of a group producing an 'underground' magazine, and hawking it
round the pubs.

Ah, so you are old ;-) I last remember seeing it in the early/mid nineties.
(can't remember what vehicle it was attached to, nothing particularly
memorable obviously). I was never around the centre of town much after that
so it may still be kicking about.

Graeme

In message <[email hidden]>, Simonb
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

Simon Brooke said:

And the blue lights under the car to illuminate the road surface.
_Most_ necessary.

I saw 'XR3i' in big, white, 20cm letters on a _windscreen_ the other day.

Remind me of the old joke:

What's the difference between a Hedgehog and an XR3i?

With the XR3i the [censored] are on the inside.
--
John B Wilkinson

In article <[email hidden]>,

Morton Burner said:

Now the lighter nights are here, we no longer have the luxury of
"Prat-Warning Lights" (i,e. always-on fog-lights) to alert us to the
approaching Prat.

The sainted Colin Schiller wrote in ``Which [Motor] Bike?'' magazine in
the mid-eighties that if you see a car in which all the occupants are
wearing hats, you should immediately pull over to the side of the road.
And isn't that just as true today, laygennulmen?

ian

John B Wilkinson said:

In message <[email hidden]>, Simonb
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

Simon Brooke said:

And the blue lights under the car to illuminate the road surface.
_Most_ necessary.

I saw 'XR3i' in big, white, 20cm letters on a _windscreen_ the other day.

Remind me of the old joke:

What's the difference between a Hedgehog and an XR3i?

With the XR3i the [censored] are on the inside.

No, the joke predates XR3i's. It used to be a 'police car'.
--
Michael MacClancy
Random putdown - "He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness
in others." -Samuel Johnson
www.macclancy.demon.co.uk
www.macclancy.co.uk

On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 19:35:03 GMT someone who may be Simon Brooke
<[email hidden]> wrote this:-

Quoted message said:

<macenroe>
You _cannot_ be serious!
</macenroe>

Please say you're not!

Sadly I am. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/919030.stm

As I understand it [1] the "human rights" case has not been heard
and is now unlikely to be heard as Lafarge claim to have dropped the
idea.

In parallel with the "human rights" case there was also a "planning"
case. Lafarge lost this in January
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3383515.stm and it appears that
this caused them to retire
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3594229.stm.

[1] My knowledge of the issue is very limited.

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I will always explain revoked keys, unless the UK government
prevents me using the RIP Act 2000.

In message <[email hidden]>, Ian G Batten
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Morton Burner said:

Now the lighter nights are here, we no longer have the luxury of
"Prat-Warning Lights" (i,e. always-on fog-lights) to alert us to the
approaching Prat.

The sainted Colin Schiller wrote in ``Which [Motor] Bike?'' magazine in
the mid-eighties that if you see a car in which all the occupants are
wearing hats, you should immediately pull over to the side of the road.
And isn't that just as true today, laygennulmen?

Especially trilby's. This was the mark of the complete prat in the 60's
when people still wore hats.

Equivalent to 4+ flags today
--
John B Wilkinson

David Hansen said:

As I understand it [1] the "human rights" case has not been heard
and is now unlikely to be heard as Lafarge claim to have dropped the
idea.

In parallel with the "human rights" case there was also a "planning"
case. Lafarge lost this in January
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3383515.stm and it appears that
this caused them to retire
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3594229.stm.

It's not just this side of the pond. An idiot judge in the US a brace
of centuries ago declared that a corporation had the rights of an
individual.

R.

John B Wilkinson said:

In message <[email hidden]>, Ian G Batten
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,
The sainted Colin Schiller wrote in ``Which [Motor] Bike?'' magazine
in the mid-eighties that if you see a car in which all the occupants
are wearing hats, you should immediately pull over to the side of
the road. And isn't that just as true today, laygennulmen?

Especially trilby's. This was the mark of the complete prat in the
60's when people still wore hats.

Equivalent to 4+ flags today

I think I may have mentioned earlier the Burberry-pattern baseball-stylee
cap - http://www.chavscum.co.uk/howto.html Just say "no", kids.

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http://www.bhpc.org.uk/
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Morton Burner said:

Now the lighter nights are here, we no longer have the luxury of
"Prat-Warning Lights" (i,e. always-on fog-lights) to alert us to the
approaching Prat.
Fortunately, this year, someone has introduced a quantitative Prat-Warning
system, involving flags of St. George. One flag signifies mild Prattism,
say, 25% Prat; 2 flags leaps the prat factor to 75%. You never see three.
Four plus indicates Prat factor 13.7, or 100% plus.
It's nice of them to wear their Prat indicator so prominently.

Each flag is probably made from 2 L-plates, discarded upon each driving
test failure.