Is this thing working?

I blame the Russians.
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On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 07:32:17 -0000
"Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> Is this thing working?

No, this post is an illusion, there's nobody here.

The sun is shining, I can finish replacing the shed roof this weak
end.

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On 25/03/2022 10:00, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 07:32:17 -0000
> "Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Is this thing working?
>
> No, this post is an illusion, there's nobody here.
>
> The sun is shining, I can finish replacing the shed roof this weak
> end.
>

So that's where my round tuit went!

Tone

On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 11:29:35 +0000
Tone <tone@email.com> wrote:

> On 25/03/2022 10:00, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 07:32:17 -0000
> > "Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> Is this thing working?
> >
> > No, this post is an illusion, there's nobody here.
> >
> > The sun is shining, I can finish replacing the shed roof this
> > weak end.
> >
>
> So that's where my round tuit went!

I've been hoarding it since the wind blew bits out of the roof
several fortnights ago, it's a complicated roof on the hexashed but i
have the fiddly ends done so it's just the long miggle to do.

I found this one on that there interwebby thing, might cumminhandi.

.@@@@@@@@@@@.
.@@@' '@@@.
@@' '@@
@' '@
@ @
@ @@@@@ @ @ @ @@@@@ @
@ @ @ @ @ @ @
@ @ @ @ @ @ @
@ @ '@@@' @ @ @
@ @
@. .@
@@. .@@
@@@. .@@@'
jgs '@@@@@@@@@@@'
'''''

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Tone said:
> On 25/03/2022 10:00, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>> On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 07:32:17 -0000
>> "Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Is this thing working?
>>
>> No, this post is an illusion, there's nobody here.
>>
>> The sun is shining, I can finish replacing the shed roof this weak
>> end.
>>
>
> So that's where my round tuit went!

Frisbeetarianism ?

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On 25/03/2022 14:32, Richard Robinson wrote:
> Tone said:
>> On 25/03/2022 10:00, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>>> On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 07:32:17 -0000
>>> "Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is this thing working?
>>>
>>> No, this post is an illusion, there's nobody here.
>>>
>>> The sun is shining, I can finish replacing the shed roof this weak
>>> end.
>>>
>>
>> So that's where my round tuit went!
>
> Frisbeetarianism ?
>
>

Izzen that a belief in flying saucers?

Tone

Keep it under your @

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"Ahem A Rivet's Shot" <steveo@eircom.net> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 11:29:35 +0000
> Tone <tone@email.com> wrote:
>
>> On 25/03/2022 10:00, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>> > On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 07:32:17 -0000
>> > "Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Is this thing working?
>> >
>> > No, this post is an illusion, there's nobody here.
>> >
>> > The sun is shining, I can finish replacing the shed roof this
>> > weak end.
>> >
>>
>> So that's where my round tuit went!
>
> I've been hoarding it since the wind blew bits out of the roof
> several fortnights ago, it's a complicated roof on the hexashed but i
> have the fiddly ends done so it's just the long miggle to do.
>
> I found this one on that there interwebby thing, might cumminhandi.
>
> .@@@@@@@@@@@.
> .@@@' '@@@.
> @@' '@@
> @' '@
> @ @
> @ @@@@@ @ @ @ @@@@@ @
> @ @ @ @ @ @ @
> @ @ @ @ @ @ @
> @ @ '@@@' @ @ @
> @ @
> @. .@
> @@. .@@
> @@@. .@@@'
> jgs '@@@@@@@@@@@'
> '''''
>
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On Sat, 26 Mar 2022 08:40:30 -0000
"Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> Keep it under your @
>
Issat a *very small* round tuit?

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I'm assuming that was ascii art, which of course sounds ridiculous in da
spoken word.
I often wondered who invented these symbols like@ � $^&_ and the hash,
sometimes known as number.
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"Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 26 Mar 2022 08:40:30 -0000
> "Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Keep it under your @
>>
> Issat a *very small* round tuit?
>
> --
> Bah, and indeed Humbug.

Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:

> he hash, sometimes known as number

or octothorpe.

Tease'n'Seize said:
>
> octothorpe.

Its daddy was an orang-utan called Thorpe ?

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On 2022-03-27, Richard Robinson <richardR@privacy.net> wrote:
> Tease'n'Seize said:
>>
>> octothorpe.
>
> Its daddy was an orang-utan called Thorpe ?

Jeremy's boyfriends?
>
>

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> Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
>
>> he hash, sometimes known as number
>
> or octothorpe.

Only plastic ones as when the dog grabs the china ones they tend to break.

As I recall, most flying saucers I've seen look a lot like American 1960s
cars hub caps being flung in the air. Apparently these days they don't look
like that any more, some are triangular and very big while others look like
glowing orbs.

One particular uk Freeview channel would have nothing to show if it were not
for all the stories around ufos.

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"Tone" <tone@email.com> wrote in message news:t1lfvt$1tt$1@dont-email.me...
> On 25/03/2022 14:32, Richard Robinson wrote:
>> Tone said:
>>> On 25/03/2022 10:00, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 07:32:17 -0000
>>>> "Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Is this thing working?
>>>>
>>>> No, this post is an illusion, there's nobody here.
>>>>
>>>> The sun is shining, I can finish replacing the shed roof this weak
>>>> end.
>>>>
>>>
>>> So that's where my round tuit went!
>>
>> Frisbeetarianism ?
>>
>>
>
> Izzen that a belief in flying saucers?
>
> Tone

On 27/03/2022 09:51, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:

> I'm assuming that was ascii art, which of course sounds ridiculous in da
> spoken word.
> I often wondered who invented these symbols like@ £ $^&_ and the hash,
> sometimes known as number.

# = *hatch*, not hash. Hash crapped-in along with big clunky phobiles
with people who didn't know what a cross-hatch was. Most early users of
phobiles were flock like used-car dealers who needed to impress others
with their opulence.

I I once saw such a being murching up and down the pavement outside his
array of tarted-up motors with one of they remote handsets for
tellingbones, rather obviously hoping people would think it was one of
these arj-fangled phobile moans.

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RustyHinge <rusty.hinge@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote in
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>
> # = *hatch*, not hash. Hash crapped-in along with big clunky phobiles
> with people who didn't know what a cross-hatch was. Most early users
> of phobiles were flock like used-car dealers who needed to impress
> others with their opulence.
>
> I I once saw such a being murching up and down the pavement outside
> his array of tarted-up motors with one of they remote handsets for
> tellingbones, rather obviously hoping people would think it was one of
> these arj-fangled phobile moans.

I uster have one of those huge brick-like phobiles. I was on 24/7 emergency
call out and only Coastguard Stations had the number. They also kitted my
car out with a marine-band rajo, but never showed me how to use it. Didn't
matter - at night they'd normally just phone me at home, and daytime they'd
send a lad downstairs to my orifice from the the High Holbourn Coastguard
HQ during the day. During an incident I'd be in the local CG station
anyway, for the duration. The rajo and phobile were never used.

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previously worked for BNf, British Nuclear Fuels and called himself a
physicist Anyway he had one of those luggable mobiles dangling from his
belt. He could not run as it kept hitting him in the leg.
It was the size and weight of a house brick.
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"RustyHinge" <rusty.hinge@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On 27/03/2022 09:51, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
>
>> I'm assuming that was ascii art, which of course sounds ridiculous in da
>> spoken word.
>> I often wondered who invented these symbols like@ � $^&_ and the hash,
>> sometimes known as number.
>
> # = *hatch*, not hash. Hash crapped-in along with big clunky phobiles with
> people who didn't know what a cross-hatch was. Most early users of
> phobiles were flock like used-car dealers who needed to impress others
> with their opulence.
>
> I I once saw such a being murching up and down the pavement outside his
> array of tarted-up motors with one of they remote handsets for
> tellingbones, rather obviously hoping people would think it was one of
> these arj-fangled phobile moans.
>
> --
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> To err is human. To really foul things up requires a computer and the
> BOFH.

Now the problem is that back in the day, I had a manual for a new telephone
system which was installed at Racal. It said the word was definitely Hash,
it used it and star a lot for command sequences to allow people to have
conference calls and camp on to engaged phones etc.
Definitely a hash not a hatch. #

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"Peter" <myshed@prune.org.uk> wrote in message
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> RustyHinge <rusty.hinge@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote in
> news:t1sc7o$at0$1@dont-email.me:
>
>>
>> # = *hatch*, not hash. Hash crapped-in along with big clunky phobiles
>> with people who didn't know what a cross-hatch was. Most early users
>> of phobiles were flock like used-car dealers who needed to impress
>> others with their opulence.
>>
>> I I once saw such a being murching up and down the pavement outside
>> his array of tarted-up motors with one of they remote handsets for
>> tellingbones, rather obviously hoping people would think it was one of
>> these arj-fangled phobile moans.
>
> I uster have one of those huge brick-like phobiles. I was on 24/7
> emergency
> call out and only Coastguard Stations had the number. They also kitted my
> car out with a marine-band rajo, but never showed me how to use it. Didn't
> matter - at night they'd normally just phone me at home, and daytime
> they'd
> send a lad downstairs to my orifice from the the High Holbourn Coastguard
> HQ during the day. During an incident I'd be in the local CG station
> anyway, for the duration. The rajo and phobile were never used.
>
> --
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> -----

I used to have a Rabbit. No the phone!
It was a cordless, but the range on that thing in the open was nearly a
mile!

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> RustyHinge <rusty.hinge@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote in
> news:t1sc7o$at0$1@dont-email.me:
>
>>
>> # = *hatch*, not hash. Hash crapped-in along with big clunky phobiles
>> with people who didn't know what a cross-hatch was. Most early users
>> of phobiles were flock like used-car dealers who needed to impress
>> others with their opulence.
>>
>> I I once saw such a being murching up and down the pavement outside
>> his array of tarted-up motors with one of they remote handsets for
>> tellingbones, rather obviously hoping people would think it was one of
>> these arj-fangled phobile moans.
>
> I uster have one of those huge brick-like phobiles. I was on 24/7
> emergency
> call out and only Coastguard Stations had the number. They also kitted my
> car out with a marine-band rajo, but never showed me how to use it. Didn't
> matter - at night they'd normally just phone me at home, and daytime
> they'd
> send a lad downstairs to my orifice from the the High Holbourn Coastguard
> HQ during the day. During an incident I'd be in the local CG station
> anyway, for the duration. The rajo and phobile were never used.
>
> --
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> -----

On 28/03/2022 15:57, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
> Now the problem is that back in the day, I had a manual for a new telephone
> system which was installed at Racal. It said the word was definitely Hash,
> it used it and star a lot for command sequences to allow people to have
> conference calls and camp on to engaged phones etc.
> Definitely a hash not a hatch. #
>
And they were etymological experts?

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On 28/03/2022 14:12, RustyHinge wrote:
> On 27/03/2022 09:51, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
>
>> I'm assuming that was ascii art, which of course sounds ridiculous in da
>> spoken word.
>> I often wondered who invented these symbols like@ £ $^&_ and the hash,
>> sometimes known as number.
>
> # = *hatch*, not hash. Hash crapped-in along with big clunky phobiles
> with people who didn't know what a cross-hatch was. Most early users of
> phobiles were flock like used-car dealers who needed to impress others
> with their opulence.
>
> I I once saw such a being murching up and down the pavement outside his
> array of tarted-up motors with one of they remote handsets for
> tellingbones, rather obviously hoping people would think it was one of
> these arj-fangled phobile moans.
>

# has been a "hash sign" as long as I've been programming (1971).

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On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 19:00:12 +0100
Chris Elvidge <chris@mshome.net> wrote:

> # has been a "hash sign" as long as I've been programming (1971).

Hash, hatch, octothorpe, sharp, pound - the only one that's not
commonly used IME is the proper name.

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On 28/03/2022 15:54, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
> I knew a guy who was a computer journalist back in the 80s, he had
> previously worked for BNf, British Nuclear Fuels and called himself a
> physicist Anyway he had one of those luggable mobiles dangling from his
> belt. He could not run as it kept hitting him in the leg.
> It was the size and weight of a house brick.
> Brian
>

My first mobile when I were a-plumbing and heating was a full size
button dialphone stuck on top of a big black box that contained the
batteries and network receiver, with a three foot telescopic aerial
stuck on the side.

That were heavy too.

Tone

On 28/03/2022 19:00, Chris Elvidge wrote:
> On 28/03/2022 14:12, RustyHinge wrote:
>> On 27/03/2022 09:51, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
>>
>>> I'm assuming that was ascii art, which of course sounds ridiculous in da
>>> spoken word.
>>>   I often wondered who invented these symbols like@ £ $^&_ and the hash,
>>> sometimes known as number.
>>
>> # = *hatch*, not hash. Hash crapped-in along with big clunky phobiles
>> with people who didn't know what a cross-hatch was. Most early users
>> of phobiles were flock like used-car dealers who needed to impress
>> others with their opulence.
>>
>> I I once saw such a being murching up and down the pavement outside
>> his array of tarted-up motors with one of they remote handsets for
>> tellingbones, rather obviously hoping people would think it was one of
>> these arj-fangled phobile moans.
>>
>
> # has been a "hash sign" as long as I've been programming (1971).

There's no age limit on ignorance innit.

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This was around the time of that Amstrad Luggable computer that they all
had, then came Sinclair's z88, which used solid state storage and had a
completely water and coffee proof keyboard. It was very good for its time.
Brian

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"Tone" <tone@email.com> wrote in message news:t1t48k$i15$2@dont-email.me...
> On 28/03/2022 15:54, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
>> I knew a guy who was a computer journalist back in the 80s, he had
>> previously worked for BNf, British Nuclear Fuels and called himself a
>> physicist Anyway he had one of those luggable mobiles dangling from his
>> belt. He could not run as it kept hitting him in the leg.
>> It was the size and weight of a house brick.
>> Brian
>>
>
> My first mobile when I were a-plumbing and heating was a full size button
> dialphone stuck on top of a big black box that contained the batteries and
> network receiver, with a three foot telescopic aerial stuck on the side.
>
> That were heavy too.
>
> Tone