When Ronnie Barker died, the BBC set up a nice tribute to him in the foyer of TV Centre - a portrait of him, with four candles in front of it. I'd been walking past it for several days before I got the significance.
- martin On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Richard P Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you mean fork-candles? :-) > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_candles > > Definitely something fishy going on Brian.... > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound-force > > Rich > > > > On 28 Nov 2008, at 11:37, Sean DALY wrote: > > Could you please explain foot-candles? >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Brian Butterworth >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> A little nerdy Friday amusement... >>> I saw an article about "Mystery of dolphins' speed solved" on BBC News. >>> There was a small error - the measure of force was quoted in "kilograms". >>> I wrote a little email ... >>> COMMENTS: Whoever wrote http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7748754.stm >>> must have failed basic science. >>> >>> "kg" is a measure of mass, but the story uses "kg" as a measure of >>> force. >>> >>> Force is measured in Newtons (N)! >>> >>> I got a nice email back this morning saying >>> Many thanks for alerting us. This error has now been corrected. >>> So, I went to have a look .. and they have changed "kg" to the imperial >>> mass measure, lbs, and added "of force". >>> --- >>> >>> Brian Butterworth >>> >>> follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist >>> web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and >>> switchover >>> advice, since 2002 >>> >>> - >> Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, >> please visit >> http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. >> Unofficial list archive: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ >> > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ >
