On Wed, 06 Jun 2001, Paul Mison wrote:
> On 06/06/2001 at 10:47 +0100, Peter Haworth wrote:
> >On Sat, 2 Jun 2001 19:54:04 +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> >> however Sir Arnold Bax [1] got slightly closer to the truth:
> >>
> >> "One should try everything once, except incest and folk dancing"
>
> >Bah, I had it in my sig file (now amended) as Sir Thomas Beecham. However,
> >see the bottom of http://www.paston.co.uk/ukppg/kempsmen.html for a bit of
> >investigation.
yeah ... Beecham .. famous bloke .. his 'powders' are crap though :)
> Argh! Paston Chase! Norwich! Make the memories stop, Daddy!
>
> On the day of the last general election I saw the May Day morris men
> outside Norwich Cathedral. Odd juxtaposition if you ask me. Turns out
> it was this lot. (There was a surprisingly big group of people,
> considering how early in the morning it was.)
why do you find it strange .. Morrismen are odd to start with, the fact
that they get up early in the morning too should comea s no surprise ...
> >Incidentally, why won't AltaVista find any pages containing "arnold bax"?
> >(or "arnold", or "bax", for that matter)
>
> I think you'll find everyone's using Google these days, cos it's not
> shit. AV looks borked to me.
because, unlike something actually useful, AV only indexes words in its
dictionary. since bax (although semantically significant) is not in its
dictioanary it don;t find it. pile of shit. Google is oodddddleeeesss
better. if you have a part number AE1233499 and you bung it in google, if
its out there, it finds it. Altavista won't.
basically AV isn't worth the electrons its written with. use gooooooogle
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Robin Szemeti
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