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Old March 23rd 09, 12:09 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Noel Paton[_3_]
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Only if it's purple! g

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"Shane" wrote in message
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You mean 'cabbage', don't you?

Would cauliflower do?

Shane


Noel Paton wrote:
I never realised that Tiscali was headquartered in Sardinia! (Anybody
need anything doing over there, slip me a large bunch of green ones -
my brother-in-law's father was chief of police there! )


Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
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"Mike M" wrote in message
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UK "funny"! I was being serious! g

Tiscali, the ISP used by Shane, has its head office in Cagliari,
Sardinia. The one part of my reply that is probably false, is that
it is run my the mafia since I was under the impression that the
mafia are to a degree reasonably competent at what they do whereas
those who run Tiscali, at least in the UK, are probably some of the
most incompetent individuals around.
Where the mafia comes in is that Tiscali provide little more
capacity to their users than one would get if one was to use string
to connect users to their system. Similarly they hate to see their
customers leave. My first ADSL connection was with a company
(WorldOnline) that was
taken over by Tiscali. I left them in 2003 only in 2005 to receive
an invoice for two years service, two years during which I had been
with another ISP to whose equipment my line was physically connected
thus a physical impossibility that I had been with Tiscali. Tiscali
denied this and continued to claim ever increasing sums for a
further 15 months until eventually I sent them a letter stating that
I was going to start legal proceedings against them at which point
they decided to give up on me and turn instead on their latest
victim, Shane. :-) Cheers,

Mike


Heather wrote:

ROFL!!! I am not to bright until noon so started to read this as a
serious reply to a slightly deranged Shane.......until I hit the
word *string*.......bwa ha ha.

Mike, you are so *UK funny*.....lol. (meaning dry humour)




  #52  
Old March 23rd 09, 12:45 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Joan Archer[_2_]
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I didn't watch Angel or Buffy Kelly did though and she was the one that got
me into Bones, never watched ER either g

We're into series 9 at the moment with CSI: Crime Scene Investigation but of
course I didn't start watching it until a few months ago and I can forgive
Gil for leaving as he's joined up with Sarah studying her monkeys g

I enjoy watching them as they're programs that actually show you how things
can be worked out and solved through science.


--
Joan Archer
http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher
http://lachsoft.com/photogallery

"Shane" wrote in message
...
Don't care for Bones. 'Angel' is typecast as far as I'm concerned, and I
only liked Buffy for Sarah Michelle Gellar anyway (so didn't watch it
religiously). I kind of like NCIS because Mark Harmon is always good, but
also I sort of like the Israeli bit, and funny old Pauly Pellet or
whatever her name is (the only soap I was ever interested in - apart from
'Soap', that is - was 'Flamingo Road' which, naturally, got dropped after
2 seasons. Morgan Fairchild was 'interesting'). But NCIS seems a little
too gung-ho.

Crime Scene Investigation is the only one of the CSI franchise I like.
Never could get into the New York one and the Miami one just makes me
cringe! But the William Peterson one has been generally high quality
(though I can't watch when her from Chancer and House of Elliot is in it
playing an American. I can't suspend my disbelief when she's on, so I
don't watch those episodes).

When Warwick was shot I was so surprised I looked it up online as it would
have been too unbelievable for him to be shot in the head at close range
and back on the job in a week or two. Well, Gary Dourdan is a bit of a
lad, isn't he. A bit of a boy. But then Jorja Fox leaves (slowly) and now
Peterson has, almost as though there were some disillusion arisen. Or it
just made them think and they realised it's time to get out if they don't
want to be typecast?

I keep missing the current series. I've seen three episodes so far! Even
though they're shown so many times, I've missed the first one, which is
presumably the resolution of the Warwick murder, I've missed the 2nd part
of the Miniture Killer (as I believe it was called) though seen the one
where Grissom goes to see her in chokey and talks at her trial. A long
time ago I lost track of which season I was watching. I'm glad I don't
have Sky anymore, as it eliminates about half the channels showing it!

But I did see Peterson bowing out.

I can *just* watch Jorja Fox and not see her as a surgeon in a Chicago
hospital. I stopped watching ER a couple of seasons back, but I'm sure the
one they brought in to replace her was also an ER doctor? Guess I stopped
watching ER when Kristen Johnston from 3rd Rock turned up in it.



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Old March 23rd 09, 09:24 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Noel Paton[_3_]
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Careful, Joan!
the science in CSI is OK as far as it goes...... but the timescales are
totally of-the-wall. a 'proper' gene match can take days (not the
'while-you-wait' service that the program implies), if not weeks!
A lot of the other stuff has a fair amount of poetic license applied as well
to speed up the story - although they do stick to the realms of the possible
while ignoring the time-spans involved (and the pressures of other work). No
forensics team can afford to spend the amount of time they do on-scene (and
none does the amount of off-scene investigation) that they do.


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Noel Paton
CrashFixPC

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
www.crashfixpc.co.uk
"Joan Archer" wrote in message
...
I didn't watch Angel or Buffy Kelly did though and she was the one that got
me into Bones, never watched ER either g

We're into series 9 at the moment with CSI: Crime Scene Investigation but
of course I didn't start watching it until a few months ago and I can
forgive Gil for leaving as he's joined up with Sarah studying her monkeys
g

I enjoy watching them as they're programs that actually show you how
things can be worked out and solved through science.


--
Joan Archer
http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher
http://lachsoft.com/photogallery

"Shane" wrote in message
...
Don't care for Bones. 'Angel' is typecast as far as I'm concerned, and I
only liked Buffy for Sarah Michelle Gellar anyway (so didn't watch it
religiously). I kind of like NCIS because Mark Harmon is always good, but
also I sort of like the Israeli bit, and funny old Pauly Pellet or
whatever her name is (the only soap I was ever interested in - apart from
'Soap', that is - was 'Flamingo Road' which, naturally, got dropped after
2 seasons. Morgan Fairchild was 'interesting'). But NCIS seems a little
too gung-ho.

Crime Scene Investigation is the only one of the CSI franchise I like.
Never could get into the New York one and the Miami one just makes me
cringe! But the William Peterson one has been generally high quality
(though I can't watch when her from Chancer and House of Elliot is in it
playing an American. I can't suspend my disbelief when she's on, so I
don't watch those episodes).

When Warwick was shot I was so surprised I looked it up online as it
would have been too unbelievable for him to be shot in the head at close
range and back on the job in a week or two. Well, Gary Dourdan is a bit
of a lad, isn't he. A bit of a boy. But then Jorja Fox leaves (slowly)
and now Peterson has, almost as though there were some disillusion
arisen. Or it just made them think and they realised it's time to get out
if they don't want to be typecast?

I keep missing the current series. I've seen three episodes so far! Even
though they're shown so many times, I've missed the first one, which is
presumably the resolution of the Warwick murder, I've missed the 2nd part
of the Miniture Killer (as I believe it was called) though seen the one
where Grissom goes to see her in chokey and talks at her trial. A long
time ago I lost track of which season I was watching. I'm glad I don't
have Sky anymore, as it eliminates about half the channels showing it!

But I did see Peterson bowing out.

I can *just* watch Jorja Fox and not see her as a surgeon in a Chicago
hospital. I stopped watching ER a couple of seasons back, but I'm sure
the one they brought in to replace her was also an ER doctor? Guess I
stopped watching ER when Kristen Johnston from 3rd Rock turned up in it.




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Old March 24th 09, 05:05 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Joan Archer[_2_]
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Oh I know that Noel, gbut as far as the workings go to me it's fascinating
to see how things can be worked out from a particular scenario.

And I do understand that what we see in an hour would probably take months
of work if not longer to come to a conclusion and there is also the chance
that it couldn't be solved g

I still like watching it though and I know you do g


--
Joan Archer
http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher
http://lachsoft.com/photogallery

"Noel Paton" wrote in message
...
Careful, Joan!
the science in CSI is OK as far as it goes...... but the timescales are
totally of-the-wall. a 'proper' gene match can take days (not the
'while-you-wait' service that the program implies), if not weeks!
A lot of the other stuff has a fair amount of poetic license applied as
well to speed up the story - although they do stick to the realms of the
possible while ignoring the time-spans involved (and the pressures of
other work). No forensics team can afford to spend the amount of time they
do on-scene (and none does the amount of off-scene investigation) that
they do.


--
Noel Paton
CrashFixPC

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
www.crashfixpc.co.uk
"Joan Archer" wrote in message
...
I didn't watch Angel or Buffy Kelly did though and she was the one that
got me into Bones, never watched ER either g

We're into series 9 at the moment with CSI: Crime Scene Investigation but
of course I didn't start watching it until a few months ago and I can
forgive Gil for leaving as he's joined up with Sarah studying her monkeys
g

I enjoy watching them as they're programs that actually show you how
things can be worked out and solved through science.


--
Joan Archer
http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher
http://lachsoft.com/photogallery



  #55  
Old March 24th 09, 05:57 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Heather
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I have been *glossing* over these posts cuz I hate those dumb CSI shows
and others like them, grin.

When I was taking jewellery lessons 2 years ago, one of the instructors
was a rather young *forensic pathologist* and I asked her how come they
could solve some huge serial killer set of crimes in less than 1 hour,
when the real cops couldn't.

She howled!! And said sarcastically, "I would be lucky to get blood
test results back in 3 weeks or so, let alone DNA. But I watch them
just the same, for the sheer idiocy".....lol

I only watch maybe 2 shows.......and Medium is one, naturally. Rather
well done, actually.

Heather

"Joan Archer" wrote in message
...
Oh I know that Noel, gbut as far as the workings go to me it's
fascinating to see how things can be worked out from a particular
scenario.

And I do understand that what we see in an hour would probably take
months of work if not longer to come to a conclusion and there is also
the chance that it couldn't be solved g

I still like watching it though and I know you do g


--
Joan Archer
http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher
http://lachsoft.com/photogallery

"Noel Paton" wrote in message
...
Careful, Joan!
the science in CSI is OK as far as it goes...... but the timescales
are totally of-the-wall. a 'proper' gene match can take days (not the
'while-you-wait' service that the program implies), if not weeks!
A lot of the other stuff has a fair amount of poetic license applied
as well to speed up the story - although they do stick to the realms
of the possible while ignoring the time-spans involved (and the
pressures of other work). No forensics team can afford to spend the
amount of time they do on-scene (and none does the amount of
off-scene investigation) that they do.


--
Noel Paton
CrashFixPC

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
www.crashfixpc.co.uk
"Joan Archer" wrote in message
...
I didn't watch Angel or Buffy Kelly did though and she was the one
that got me into Bones, never watched ER either g

We're into series 9 at the moment with CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation but of course I didn't start watching it until a few
months ago and I can forgive Gil for leaving as he's joined up with
Sarah studying her monkeys g

I enjoy watching them as they're programs that actually show you how
things can be worked out and solved through science.


--
Joan Archer
http://www.freewebs.com/crossstitcher
http://lachsoft.com/photogallery





 




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