Avast Pro

Thanks, Mikey............but I won't try and tell a Canadian that cuz we all
think of it as you say...."within the sound of Bow Bells"....even the
Cockneys say yes to that. As for the Yanks, well..........they won't have a
clue as to what we are talking about. (G)

Just back from a huge feed of shrimp and crab legs.........at the Mandarin
Buffet. All you can eat. Want to come over for a feast?? It is always
Elayne's first restaurant request. She says HI to all as well.

Hugs.........Heather and Ron

"Mike M" wrote in message
...
Heather wrote:

Lordy, is that "Bow Bells"???? We have allowed the odd (emphasis on
ODD) Cockney into this country, but no one can understand them, so
they are sent to night school to learn English as a Second
Language...............ROFL!!!!!

There's often confusion about what is a Cockney. "Technically" to be a
Cockney one has to be born "within the sound of Bow Bells", however the
Bow Bells are those of St Mary le Bow in Cheapside which is not in Bow nor
in the east end of London but instead quite near to St Pauls in the City
although today many think that being born in the east end of London means
that they are a cockney. As it happens both of my parents were born in
the London Borough of Holborn less than a mile from St Mary Le Bow (not
that they met until nearly 30 years later and many miles from Holborn) so
technically both were cockneys however neither spoke with either a cockney
or east end accent.
--
Mike

well now for one "yank" i have no problem with the English, so long
as they leave those god off-el wiggs at home..

God Save The Queen, what -ho....



"Heather" wrote in message
...
Thanks, Mikey............but I won't try and tell a Canadian that cuz we
all
think of it as you say...."within the sound of Bow Bells"....even the
Cockneys say yes to that. As for the Yanks, well..........they won't have
a
clue as to what we are talking about. (G)

Just back from a huge feed of shrimp and crab legs.........at the Mandarin
Buffet. All you can eat. Want to come over for a feast?? It is always
Elayne's first restaurant request. She says HI to all as well.

Hugs.........Heather and Ron

"Mike M" wrote in message
...
Heather wrote:

Lordy, is that "Bow Bells"???? We have allowed the odd (emphasis on
ODD) Cockney into this country, but no one can understand them, so
they are sent to night school to learn English as a Second
Language...............ROFL!!!!!

There's often confusion about what is a Cockney. "Technically" to be a
Cockney one has to be born "within the sound of Bow Bells", however the
Bow Bells are those of St Mary le Bow in Cheapside which is not in Bow
nor
in the east end of London but instead quite near to St Pauls in the City
although today many think that being born in the east end of London
means
that they are a cockney. As it happens both of my parents were born in
the London Borough of Holborn less than a mile from St Mary Le Bow (not
that they met until nearly 30 years later and many miles from Holborn)
so
technically both were cockneys however neither spoke with either a
cockney
or east end accent.
--
Mike

Where's the problem? Within the sound of Bow Bells is correct. The only
confusion is to where those bells are located with their actual location
being the church of St Mary Le Bow in the city rather than in the district
known as Bow which is 5km to the east and in what is thought of as the east
end. I'm sure that on a still day in the 19th Century before noisy traffic
and aircraft came to plague our lives it was quite possible to hear the
sound of Bow Bells when in Bow, that is of course, assuming that one could
distinguish them from all of the other church bells that then existed.

Feast! Now that sounds good, shrimp and crab legs, yum yum. How about
sending a doggie bag over disguised as an aid package?

Say hi to Elayne for me and cheers and best wishes to all who are reading
this.
--
Mike


Heather wrote:

Thanks, Mikey............but I won't try and tell a Canadian that cuz
we all think of it as you say...."within the sound of Bow
Bells"....even the Cockneys say yes to that. As for the Yanks,
well..........they won't have a clue as to what we are talking about.
(G)
Just back from a huge feed of shrimp and crab legs.........at the
Mandarin Buffet. All you can eat. Want to come over for a feast?? It is
always Elayne's first restaurant request. She says HI to all
as well.

"Mike M" wrote in message
...
Where's the problem? Within the sound of Bow Bells is correct. The only
confusion is to where those bells are located with their actual location
being the church of St Mary Le Bow in the city rather than in the district
known as Bow which is 5km to the east and in what is thought of as the
east end. I'm sure that on a still day in the 19th Century before noisy
traffic and aircraft came to plague our lives it was quite possible to
hear the sound of Bow Bells when in Bow, that is of course, assuming that
one could distinguish them from all of the other church bells that then
existed.

Feast! Now that sounds good, shrimp and crab legs, yum yum. How about
sending a doggie bag over disguised as an aid package?

Say hi to Elayne for me and cheers and best wishes to all who are reading
this.

Thanks, Mike. I think to have the picture in focus now, about the 'Bow
Bells' I mean, and best wishes to you also.

Harry.

--
Mike


Heather wrote:

Thanks, Mikey............but I won't try and tell a Canadian that cuz
we all think of it as you say...."within the sound of Bow
Bells"....even the Cockneys say yes to that. As for the Yanks,
well..........they won't have a clue as to what we are talking about.
(G)
Just back from a huge feed of shrimp and crab legs.........at the
Mandarin Buffet. All you can eat. Want to come over for a feast?? It is
always Elayne's first restaurant request. She says HI to all
as well.

"Mike M" wrote in message
...

Feast! Now that sounds good, shrimp and crab legs, yum yum. How about
sending a doggie bag over disguised as an aid package?

Chuckle!! The shrimp were huge and the crablegs were very sweet.....yummy!!
The Mandarin is one of the best and most well-known Chinese Buffet in Canada
and it started right here in Brampton. We love it!! Won ton
soup.........salads......and they even have "flan" but over here it is
called "creme caramel". Strawberries dipped in
chocolate.........Sigh...........gained a pound or two.

Tonight is a medium rare T-Bone roast of beef with onions and potatoes
around it. Those two are having brussel sprouts (double
yuck)..........hungry again?? See, you have to fly over for a week or so to
have a taste. And a Tim Hortons donut, lol. The national food of
Canada.....forget maple syrup.

Elayne sends her best back to you all and she is in the basement helping her
dad set up shelving and is also tackling my jewellery making room so she can
find room to sit down. (G) It was my dining room, but no longer.

Big hugs from all..........Ron, Heather & the Mouse

Say hi to Elayne for me and cheers and best wishes to all who are reading
this.
--
Mike


Heather wrote:

Thanks, Mikey............but I won't try and tell a Canadian that cuz
we all think of it as you say...."within the sound of Bow
Bells"....even the Cockneys say yes to that. As for the Yanks,
well..........they won't have a clue as to what we are talking about.
(G)
Just back from a huge feed of shrimp and crab legs.........at the
Mandarin Buffet. All you can eat. Want to come over for a feast?? It is
always Elayne's first restaurant request. She says HI to all
as well.

Noel Paton wrote:
Oi! - Wotcher mate!!
I'll get the lads onter yer!
...... nah - can't be bovvered.......
I might have many problems, but being welsh is not one of them

Ha! Wish I could say supporting Tottenham was one of them. But then I also
wish I hadn't eaten so many mince pies tonight, so it just goes to show,
really. If wishes were horses, mine would win the National.

Still quiet here then. See I'm posting from WinMe (VM) just to show some
solidarity (but so much for Cool Type)? Elsewhere people are still
rubbishing Me as a great big FAIL, but it is still the only pre-XP version I
actually don't mind running.

So, is that a Catherine Tate reference? I don't think she does anything any
more like the one where she's dumping her boyfriend (Mark Heap) for a
temporary traffic light. Shame.

Of is it because you know I'm a Chelsea supporter of a certain age?


Living in Wales maybe......


Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
www.crashfixpc.co.uk
"Morgan Alabaster-Artichoke" wrote in
message ...
So he says!

Joan Archer wrote:
Neither is Noel you numpty g


"Morgan Alabaster-Artichoke" wrote
in message ...
It's Morgan, Harry. Or possibly Potter, Colonel? Anyway my inner
Welshman decided to take the controls for a few hours, to make Joan
and Noel feel at home!

Of course, Joan isn't Welsh (I keep forgetting!).

Merry Xmas to you either way.

Actually I just realised why I put my Morgan hat on. Same thing
that led me back here today in fact!

Morgan

webster72n wrote:
Pardon the interruption, Shane, or is it Tarquin?
Mighty good to 'hear' from you again and know you are all right
(?) Was wondering about the 'blind' effect on Figg's husband
myself, but assumed it to be true bg.
This group will live forever, almost, depending on our life span.
The best to you and Figgs, and everyone here now and always,

Harry.


"Tarquin T. Shuttlecock" wrote in
message ...
P'raps I'll make a point of only turning up at Christmas! It'll
be interesting to see how long that goes on (I expect the Win 95
groups are still going though, eh? In which case it'll be
inteeresting to see how long the regulars go on! ROFL!!).

Anyway, how is everyone? I trust the bit about Ron being 'blind'
is exaggeration? Hope so.

How's my mate Casey? Kind of fearful asking that. It has been a
long time now! It is 9 years more-or-less to the day, I believe,
since I turned up here. So Mike must be feeling real old! So am I
now that Sonny and Cher just started going on about 'The Beat',
going on. La de da de dee. It's like they say about our
'bobbies', when you want a pine tree there's never one around!

What about her with the hips? Well, I hope, even if she did spurn
my advances back when we were young!

Later.

Shane. Or someone like him.






Heather wrote:
TARQUIN T SHUTTLECOCK????? ROFL!!

Merry Xmas, Shane.......where have you been??

Kissies......Figgs

"Tarquin T. Shuttlecock" wrote
in message ...
Yes, Mike, I stopped bothering to run 64-bit versions some
months ago now. Funnily enough it seemed to me that Server
2008 x64 beta(s) were less memory intensive than Win 7 x64,
which is what finally drove me back to x86.


Shane


Mike M wrote:
Avast might be on target by getting rid of support for old
OSs, but avast 5.0 still can't do a boot-time scan on 64 bit
machines.

That's something I've never felt the need to do so not
something I'll miss. As to running 64 bit, although I have
PCs running both Vista 64 and Win 7 64 I have yet to find a
compelling reason to running 64 bit rather than 32 bit other
than perhaps due to the increased memory demands that result
from application and os bloat. :-)
Avast might be on target by getting rid of support for old
OSs, but avast 5.0 still can't do a boot-time scan on 64 bit
machines. Kind of reminds me of the song (Mr. In-between).

--
Just realised I don't have my sig in OE!

--
Just realised I don't have my sig in OE!

I was born within the gurgle of Bow Locks!

:-)

By which I mean (at a push) how most of my mates when I was a nipper in
Basingstoke, were also from London, and pretty much every last one of us
claimed to be a Cockney at some point, though I don't recall a single one of
us being from that way. For a while I thought I was from the Sarf, though
really I'm from the West - which was of course one of the posher parts
before I was born.

Just trying to remember the rhyme. Oranges and Lemons and a partridge, in a
pear tree; Christ I don't know! said the great bell of Bow; So are you rich,
said the grasping old bitch. Something like that. It is a long time since I
heard it though so I wouldn't swear to anything.

Mike M wrote:
Where's the problem? Within the sound of Bow Bells is correct. The
only confusion is to where those bells are located with their actual
location being the church of St Mary Le Bow in the city rather than
in the district known as Bow which is 5km to the east and in what is
thought of as the east end. I'm sure that on a still day in the 19th
Century before noisy traffic and aircraft came to plague our lives it
was quite possible to hear the sound of Bow Bells when in Bow, that
is of course, assuming that one could distinguish them from all of
the other church bells that then existed.

Feast! Now that sounds good, shrimp and crab legs, yum yum. How
about sending a doggie bag over disguised as an aid package?

Say hi to Elayne for me and cheers and best wishes to all who are
reading this.

Thanks, Mikey............but I won't try and tell a Canadian that cuz
we all think of it as you say...."within the sound of Bow
Bells"....even the Cockneys say yes to that. As for the Yanks,
well..........they won't have a clue as to what we are talking about.
(G)
Just back from a huge feed of shrimp and crab legs.........at the
Mandarin Buffet. All you can eat. Want to come over for a feast??
It is always Elayne's first restaurant request. She says HI to all
as well.

tear or two dripping down the monitor. (G) Using an old MS keyboard
here, but at least there are letters on it. For some odd reason, I

I've got a Lenovo. Not that I'd get another - and as I confirmed to Joan
months ago I'll almost certainly build the next one myself. Anyway, I
finally got so fed up with the Lenovo/IBM USB keyboard I ripped it out of
the workstation and smashed it repeatedly on the floor. That's Lenovo/IBM
hardware for you! Then I dug out the cheapo Chinese PS2 keyboard that came
with the previous - WinMe - computer and instantly I had the responsiveness
back that had been driving me slowly up the wall the last two years! So
basically I'm using a ten year old keyboard here and it's just fine! A bit
like the really old Sony Trintron TV. It must be 20 years old and it works
just fine and I feel like if I replaced it with a widescreen LCD job I'd be
such an ingrate and the very least I should do is give it to a museum where
it'll be used daily.


Ron is not blind, but he is flippin' deaf when it comes to my voice,
grin. And she of the slim hips arrived on Wed. morning for 2 weeks,
so we have been shopping, natch. Jewellery design is next on the
list. Sadly, we lost Casey on Sept. 28th to cancer. It took me a
long time to get over losing that silly puss!! I never realized how
much I adored him. He was my baby...............Ron's too. We still
expect him to amble around the corner looking for treats. How is
Rosie?? Is she still with you?


Well, glad to hear Ron is sound as a Bow bell, but sad to hear about Casey.
Perhaps you'd better get another so I can send some more mice over. Though
with our increasingly fascist government, I'd probably go to prison for it.
Yes, Rosie's fine. Only problem with her is it is approaching 3am and I'm
beginning to desperately want to get to bed, but any moment now she'll arise
from her igloo-thing and want to go out. Mind you its my fault for still
being up at this time. At least she doesn't stay out long in this cold,
though I gather as ever you've got it worse than we have!

Off to go eat some brownies that slim hips made. Guess they won't be
all that slim from here on in, lol. She made out a list of what she
wanted for supper each night and actually that is a good idea. Takes
the guesswork out of "what shall we have for supper tonight".


You know, that's what I would want to do but resist doing because I'd figure
you'd think I was a bit strange. Which is itself a bit strange, isn't it. I
cook dinner and the moment it's gone try to figure out what to do tomorrow.
Sometimes I worry myself (I'm serious!).

I'm going to have to go to town and get linguini and a particular Aussie
white!

I must figure out what goes well with Jack Daniels (as an ingredient).

I made mince pies earlier. I'm getting quite good at pastry lately! I ate
nine of them before they were cool.

All the best and glad to see you back on here. We should meet up
once a month or some such and keep the old group going.

Glad to see you again too Figgs! But as for coming back monthly: I'd have to
be reliable, wouldn't I? Can't see it, myself!


XX Figgs

I'll see your XX and raise you X!

Shane

"Tarquin T. Shuttlecock" wrote in
message ...
P'raps I'll make a point of only turning up at Christmas! It'll be
interesting to see how long that goes on (I expect the Win 95 groups
are still going though, eh? In which case it'll be inteeresting to
see how long the regulars go on! ROFL!!).

Anyway, how is everyone? I trust the bit about Ron being 'blind' is
exaggeration? Hope so.

How's my mate Casey? Kind of fearful asking that. It has been a long
time now! It is 9 years more-or-less to the day, I believe, since I
turned up here. So Mike must be feeling real old! So am I now that
Sonny and Cher just started going on about 'The Beat', going on. La
de da de dee. It's like they say about our 'bobbies', when you want
a pine tree there's never one around!

What about her with the hips? Well, I hope, even if she did spurn my
advances back when we were young!

Later.

Shane. Or someone like him.






Heather wrote:
TARQUIN T SHUTTLECOCK????? ROFL!!

Merry Xmas, Shane.......where have you been??

Kissies......Figgs

"Tarquin T. Shuttlecock" wrote in
message ...
Yes, Mike, I stopped bothering to run 64-bit versions some months
ago now. Funnily enough it seemed to me that Server 2008 x64
beta(s) were less memory intensive than Win 7 x64, which is what
finally drove me back to x86.


Shane


Mike M wrote:
Avast might be on target by getting rid of support for old OSs,
but avast 5.0 still can't do a boot-time scan on 64 bit machines.

That's something I've never felt the need to do so not something
I'll miss. As to running 64 bit, although I have PCs running both
Vista 64 and Win 7 64 I have yet to find a compelling reason to
running 64 bit rather than 32 bit other than perhaps due to the
increased memory demands that result from application and os
bloat. :-)
Avast might be on target by getting rid of support for old OSs,
but avast 5.0 still can't do a boot-time scan on 64 bit
machines. Kind of reminds me of the song (Mr. In-between).

and instantly I had the responsiveness back *the absense of which* had
been driving me
slowly up the wall the last two years! So basically I'm using a ten

Well, glad to hear Ron is sound as a Bow bell, but sad to hear about
Casey. Perhaps you'd better get another so I can send some more mice

Just to explain about that, as it looks a bit insensitive. You know Rosie
was my fourth cat in four years and the first in that time I didn't have
euthanased! Along the way I came to the conclusion that the only thing you
can do is honour their species by going to a shelter and adopting another.

I'd have put it less coldly if I were more awake!

Shane