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  #21  
Old July 24th 08, 01:08 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
ctowers
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Dr. Archibald Crumpenshtupa wrote:
happened and that nuclear bomber was recalled and finally got to drop
some ordinance - just the conventional kind - on Port Stanley,


You'd have thought - what with all the hiking and the maps that
requires - that I'd have learnt the word 'ordnance' by now, wouldn't
you?


A real "Dr." would have known. ;-)


  #22  
Old July 24th 08, 02:45 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Mart
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A real "Dr." would have known. ;-)

Ah! but witch doctor or doctor who?

Mart


"ctowers" wrote in message
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Dr. Archibald Crumpenshtupa wrote:
happened and that nuclear bomber was recalled and finally got to drop
some ordinance - just the conventional kind - on Port Stanley,


You'd have thought - what with all the hiking and the maps that
requires - that I'd have learnt the word 'ordnance' by now, wouldn't
you?


A real "Dr." would have known. ;-)




  #23  
Old July 24th 08, 09:51 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Mrs Doyle
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Mike M wrote:
I never really liked the Victor but that picture makes it look good.


I think they look much better without the refueling pods on the wings! It is
a very graceful aircraft and sometimes I think it looks better than the
Vulcan, while other times I think it looks ugly! It certainly was a
performer! Perhaps it is that from certain angles it looks good, and I'd
suggest those are the ones where it most resembles a Swallow. Or anyway
that's what *I* think it looks like.



BTW I have had sitting here for ages another disk of videos, not
Vulcan but rather various other UK post WWII aircraft including two
my Dad worked on - the Gannet and the Airco 121 (cannot remember if


The Gannet I know, but not the Airco. The Gannet was quite remarkeable,
wasn't it (and as if to prove it, I just remarked upon it!).

the number was 121) later DH121 then HS121 better known as Trident.


But I never realised how ahead of it's time the Trident was! I mean, I
(vaguely) remember it entering service; how noisy it was; and the Staines
crash. Amazing to think that we didn't have the black box requirement prior
to that.

Anyway, definate pilot error, not the aircraft, at fault. The aircraft was
yet another British aviation first and I wish I could go on one but...it
hardly needs saying, does it; you can take it as a given, there are none
flying anywhere in the world today!

I even managed to find on YouTube a clip of another he worked on
during the 50s, the Rotadyne, including shots of a demo it made of
moving a bridge where I was standing close to the film crew.


Right, I'll go take a look at that. I trust you're not actually in it, then,
since they probably didn't film themselves?

And btw, have you seen Jeremy Bentham's head then? That is/was a bizarre
one!

Okay, so; I'll just go and make a nice cup of tea now, Father!


  #24  
Old July 24th 08, 10:53 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Mike M
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Airco was a 1950s state engineered co-operative between DeHavilland,
Hunting and Fairey. It may have even included Bristol but I'm not so sure
there. The Trident was the result. When the big mergers of the 60s came
along the various parts of Airco ended up in different groups, for example
Fairey was subsumed within Westland (together with Saunders Roe),
DeHavilland within Hawker Siddley and I think Hunting ended up with the
likes of Miles, Auster and Beagle.

And btw, have you seen Jeremy Bentham's head then? That is/was a
bizarre one!


Yes, many a time and not in its customary glass dome either. What hair it
still has is a vivid orange!
--
Mike


Mrs Doyle wrote:

Mike M wrote:
I never really liked the Victor but that picture makes it look good.


I think they look much better without the refueling pods on the
wings! It is a very graceful aircraft and sometimes I think it looks
better than the Vulcan, while other times I think it looks ugly! It
certainly was a performer! Perhaps it is that from certain angles it
looks good, and I'd suggest those are the ones where it most
resembles a Swallow. Or anyway that's what *I* think it looks like.



BTW I have had sitting here for ages another disk of videos, not
Vulcan but rather various other UK post WWII aircraft including two
my Dad worked on - the Gannet and the Airco 121 (cannot remember if


The Gannet I know, but not the Airco. The Gannet was quite
remarkeable, wasn't it (and as if to prove it, I just remarked upon
it!).
the number was 121) later DH121 then HS121 better known as Trident.


But I never realised how ahead of it's time the Trident was! I mean, I
(vaguely) remember it entering service; how noisy it was; and the
Staines crash. Amazing to think that we didn't have the black box
requirement prior to that.

Anyway, definate pilot error, not the aircraft, at fault. The
aircraft was yet another British aviation first and I wish I could go
on one but...it hardly needs saying, does it; you can take it as a
given, there are none flying anywhere in the world today!

I even managed to find on YouTube a clip of another he worked on
during the 50s, the Rotadyne, including shots of a demo it made of
moving a bridge where I was standing close to the film crew.


Right, I'll go take a look at that. I trust you're not actually in
it, then, since they probably didn't film themselves?

And btw, have you seen Jeremy Bentham's head then? That is/was a
bizarre one!

Okay, so; I'll just go and make a nice cup of tea now, Father!


  #25  
Old July 24th 08, 11:54 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Mike M
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And btw, have you seen Jeremy Bentham's head then? That is/was a
bizarre one!


Yes, many a time and not in its customary glass dome either. What
hair it still has is a vivid orange!


PS I'm talking here about the real head which is kept under a dome in a
wooden box that until the mid 90s or so used to sit at his feet in his
glassfronted cabinet but is now kept under lock and key elsewhere
following a break-in when various of his personal artefacts were stolen
such as rings, pens and spectacles. The head on the autoicon that can be
seen by visitors is a wax model and looks almost respectable.

For a long time JB was brought in to meetings of UCL's Council where his
presence was recorded in the Minutes as "Present but not voting". I think
this stopped in the 1960s or 70s.
--
Mike Maltby



Mike M wrote:

Airco was a 1950s state engineered co-operative between DeHavilland,
Hunting and Fairey. It may have even included Bristol but I'm not so
sure there. The Trident was the result. When the big mergers of the
60s came along the various parts of Airco ended up in different
groups, for example Fairey was subsumed within Westland (together
with Saunders Roe), DeHavilland within Hawker Siddley and I think
Hunting ended up with the likes of Miles, Auster and Beagle.

And btw, have you seen Jeremy Bentham's head then? That is/was a
bizarre one!


Yes, many a time and not in its customary glass dome either. What
hair it still has is a vivid orange!


  #26  
Old July 25th 08, 03:17 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Mrs Doyle
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ctowers wrote:
Dr. Archibald Crumpenshtupa wrote:
happened and that nuclear bomber was recalled and finally got to
drop some ordinance - just the conventional kind - on Port Stanley,


You'd have thought - what with all the hiking and the maps that
requires - that I'd have learnt the word 'ordnance' by now, wouldn't
you?


A real "Dr." would have known. ;-)


I am a doctor of Pseudology!

In fact, if you look ever so carefully out of your peripheral vision...and
then *suddenly* turn your head!...you might catch a glimpse of my diploma.
But as it is from the University of Brigadoon, you just might not see it!

Dr Mrs Doyle


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Old July 25th 08, 04:45 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Heather
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"Mrs Doyle" wrote in message
...
ctowers wrote:
Dr. Archibald Crumpenshtupa wrote:
happened and that nuclear bomber was recalled and finally got to
drop some ordinance - just the conventional kind - on Port Stanley,

You'd have thought - what with all the hiking and the maps that
requires - that I'd have learnt the word 'ordnance' by now, wouldn't
you?


A real "Dr." would have known. ;-)


I am a doctor of Pseudology!

In fact, if you look ever so carefully out of your peripheral
vision...and then *suddenly* turn your head!...you might catch a
glimpse of my diploma. But as it is from the University of Brigadoon,
you just might not see it!

Dr Mrs Doyle


And this is the mother of Dr. Mrs. Doyle.......

GET TO BED!!!! IT IS LIKE 5 AM OVER THERE!!!




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Old July 25th 08, 10:47 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Dr Archibald Crumpenshtumpa
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Heather wrote:
"Mrs Doyle" wrote in message
...
ctowers wrote:
Dr. Archibald Crumpenshtupa wrote:
happened and that nuclear bomber was recalled and finally got to
drop some ordinance - just the conventional kind - on Port
Stanley,

You'd have thought - what with all the hiking and the maps that
requires - that I'd have learnt the word 'ordnance' by now,
wouldn't you?

A real "Dr." would have known. ;-)


I am a doctor of Pseudology!

In fact, if you look ever so carefully out of your peripheral
vision...and then *suddenly* turn your head!...you might catch a
glimpse of my diploma. But as it is from the University of Brigadoon,
you just might not see it!

Dr Mrs Doyle


And this is the mother of Dr. Mrs. Doyle.......

GET TO BED!!!! IT IS LIKE 5 AM OVER THERE!!!


Jeez Louise! Je n'avais aucune idée!


  #29  
Old July 26th 08, 10:15 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Arturo Seis
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"Mike M" wrote in message
...
And btw, have you seen Jeremy Bentham's head then? That is/was a
bizarre one!


Yes, many a time and not in its customary glass dome either. What
hair it still has is a vivid orange!



That is strange, isn't it? I presume it isn't the consequence of an
deliberate act or an accident?

PS I'm talking here about the real head which is kept under a dome in a
wooden box that until the mid 90s or so used to sit at his feet in his
glassfronted cabinet but is now kept under lock and key elsewhere
following a break-in when various of his personal artefacts were stolen
such as rings, pens and spectacles. The head on the autoicon that can be
seen by visitors is a wax model and looks almost respectable.

For a long time JB was brought in to meetings of UCL's Council where his
presence was recorded in the Minutes as "Present but not voting". I think
this stopped in the 1960s or 70s.


Ha ha!

Mind you, you'll probably find that he was down the road, in the Commons, a
few weeks back "Voting but not present" when they got 42 days through!

Presumably when they hold the innocent incommunicado for 42 days, they'll be
hoping to find the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.


Arturo

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Old July 26th 08, 10:36 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Mike M
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Arturo Seis wrote:

That is strange, isn't it? I presume it isn't the consequence of an
deliberate act or an accident?


I think that is more a consequence of his pickling instructions not having
quite the effect he had hoped for or expected.

Ha ha!

Mind you, you'll probably find that he was down the road, in the
Commons, a few weeks back "Voting but not present" when they got 42
days through!


You're getting on dangerous ground here. There are quite a few that I
would like to see locked up for 42 days without charge, all known to
occasionally frequent the Commons including GB and several in his Cabinet.

Presumably when they hold the innocent incommunicado for 42 days,
they'll be hoping to find the answer to Life, the Universe, and
Everything.


It would take far more than 42 days for our beloved leader to admit to any
error let alone discover the meaning of anything.

And to think I didn't used to be a fan of Liar!
--
Mike M


 




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