.
Organising anything for London.pm once a year is enough. (Oh, did the
pub evaluation sessions happen this week, or did I miss something?)
No, I was really busy last week. Will try and do them this week.
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simon wistowwireless systems coder
only second toughest
::Binary and
Apache::Session::SharedMem so I should at least 3=
:(
/me pouts
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simon wistowwireless systems coder
only second toughest
of the
familiarity part but...
'cos they're all based on the Slash code? Which isn't all that amenable
to total reskinning.
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simon wistowwireless systems coder
only second toughest
/org.globus.applications.mapper.GeographicalLocator.html
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simon wistowwireless systems coder
only second toughest
Dave Thorn wrote:
that settles it, yes. everything's for sale, even pride.
London Pride?
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simon wistowwireless systems coder
only second toughest
(passing
credentials along unix sockets is still pretty slow and non-portable).
But isn't it roiughly the same scheme that mod_perl uses? And that *is*
demonstrably useful.
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only second toughest
/askslashdot/99/09/29/0520201.shtml
RAID Solutions For Terrabyte Databases?
http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/01/01/11/2243216.shtml
might also have some useful links
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simon wistowwireless systems coder
i think, i said i think this is our fault.
or ...
I'll get me coat.
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simon wistowwireless systems coder
i think, i said i think this is our fault.
Leon Brocard wrote:
Hey, groovy, you can join Simon and me on a drive down to crazy
Mexico. We'll pick up beer, chicks and crazy Mexican guitar-playing
people. Just remember to bring a stake just in case we happen to bump
into a vampire-filled bar...
or a handy vampire slayer.
Cross David - dcross wrote:
Cost me £660, but I notice that this morning Ebookers are showing only £1200
seats left on those flights :(
Eeeek. Must. book. Flight.
p.s. Oh, and I'm staying in the East Tower of the Sheraton.
Moi aussi I think.
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simon wistowwireless systems
on the floors,
no stairs, is quiet and has nice food and also a there's pub in the
market which I can't remember the name of but is quiet nice when it
iusn't heaving.
Simon
[0] Technically Guy's, Kings and St Thomas'.
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simon wistowwireless systems coder
i think, i said i think
Neil Ford wrote:
Only one question food?
Yes, AFAIK. Standard pub grub.
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simon wistowwireless systems coder
i think, i said i think this is our fault.
Cross David - dcross wrote:
[1] http://www.pair.com/spook [2] for those of you not yet acquainted with
Mr Corley's particualt brand of madness.
[2] At least, that _was_ his web site, but trying to access it from behind
this firewall I get The Websense category Tasteless is restricted.
a kick in the tits with a wet
haddock.
http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/
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simon wistowwireless systems coder
i think, i said i think this is our fault.
Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
https://www.joker.com/ ?
Who appear to have clue.
I *heart* Joker.com
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simon wistowwireless systems coder
i think, i said i think this is our fault.
in London. It was initiated by Thomas Doggett to commemorate the
coronation of George I. The badge is silver and shows the white horse of
Hannover. The race is now held in July.
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simon wistowwireless systems coder
i think, i said i think this is our fault.
Andy Williams wrote:
Has any one used this module at all?
How does it match up against tchrist's stuff?
http://sunsite.lanet.lv/ftp/mirror/x2ftp/msdos/admtools/ckaddr
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simon wistowwireless systems coder
i think, i said i think this is our fault.
and
everybody's got full functionality again.
I think this article talks about it some
http://advogato.org/article/59.html
Like I said, I looked into and didn't find anything and didn't have the
time/experience/inclination to start doing something myself - too many
gotchas :(
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simon wistow
Paul Makepeace wrote:
Like I said, I looked into and didn't find anything and didn't have the
time/experience/inclination to start doing something myself - too many
gotchas :(
Like what kind of gotchas, besides the padding/endianity stuff?
Well, Parse::RecDescent didn't do binary (I
Niklas Nordebo wrote:
I happened to find this on DVD at Tower yesterday, 2 for £25[0], so I
bought it, and will bring it on Sunday.
Groovesome.
May have to pick that up myself as well.
Leon Brocard wrote:
I could bring along Real Genius? (slightly more old-skool hackers
though)
Ooh, yes.
I was going to dig out my (recorded-from-tv) copy of that from home next
weekend. Can't seem to find it anywhere as an original. [0]
I also have D.A.R.Y.L (Data Analyising Robot Youth
Chris Ball wrote:
I used to use At-mail a lot at work. Pseudo-interesting question of the
day; do you really feel it was ripped off (in the stigmatism-attached
sense of the word), or given that it was GPLed or Artistic'd anyway, that
it's fair play to them and that's something that happens
Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
If that counts, then Weird Science counts too!
Got that as well.
I'm more than willing to just put on the 'creation' scene from that.
Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Wow, and she's got three kids by Steven Seagal.
The eighties were a crazy decade and people did a lot of things they
regret.
Greg McCarroll wrote:
but [Steven Seagal] can also cook!
And he's rather good at Aikido (he's a 7th Dan and also a shinto priest
IIRC). I vaguely rmemeber something about him openign up the first
wstern run Aikido dojo in Japan but I have absoultley no way of backing
that up.
Piers Cawley wrote:
And if anyone has a half decent copy of _Better Off Dead_ (early John
Cusack film) I'd be *very* happy to see it again. Even though it's not
quite in this genre, and I won't be making it to the film fest
anyway...
No but I do have The Sure Thing (imdb: John
Simon Cozens wrote:
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:43:23AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
It didn't hit critical mass. Discuss.
Yet Another Webmail Client; it wasn't exactly filling a gaping niche.
(And I say that as someone who may soon be maintaining one of the others...)
It did at the time -
Simon Cozens wrote:
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:04:19AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
that Mail::Cclient is powerful but complicated and can be a bitch to
install,
And use. Ripping that fucker out would be my first act. :)
There's also http://www.horde.org/imp/ which is reasonably popular
Simon Cozens wrote:
I've yet to hear a Labour MP talk eloquently about anything at all. Anyone
ever talked - sorry, tried talking - to their MP about RIP?
Harriet Harman tried to tell me that I didn't really know about
computers or the Internet.
Personally I don't believe a word anybody says
Robin Szemeti wrote:
I suspect the current 'Lad's' magazines phase is a backlash against the
crazy political correctness of the 80's .. hopefully the whole thing will
settle down eventually.
If you see it lying around the reading 'Getting away with it - the story
of Loaded' by Tim Southwell
Jonathan Peterson wrote:
Anyone know a windows IMAP client that:
1. Isn't Netscape
2. Isn't Eudora
3. Actually Works
4. Is free or cheap
Pc-Pine?
http://www.washington.edu/pine/pc-pine/
Jonathan Peterson wrote:
Netscape - works, can filter mail, poor interface, dreadfully slow
Hmm, I like Netscape's Interface - does everything I want it to, no
unessecarily wasted screen territory, excellent configuartion system.
The only thing that narks me off is the fact that, unlike the
Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
He was touring with Norman Lovett, who wasn't nearly as good.
I found Norman Lovett really funny. Managed to keep the whole audience
laughing without actually saying anything for a few minutes and thena
few minutes more just by saying what?
Simon
[easily amused]
Leon Brocard wrote:
Cross David - dcross sent the following bits through the ether:
I need three volunteers to join me in the london.pm team for Jon Orwant's
Internet Quiz at The Perl Conference.
If you'll accept me, I'd be happy to join you...
I'm up for it as well unless you find
Simon Cozens wrote:
One of the things I plan to do on my way around America after TPC is sit
down with Kevin and DHD and start writing some funky robots. sphinx +
infobot + reefknot + festival -- why hire a secretary when you can write
one? :)
I've been meaning to have a crack at hooking
Barbie wrote:
...and then sunny Birmingham ..
You must have been dreaming!
I was stuck in the Chamberlain hotel on Broad Street. I wanted to go out
for a walk and go to a bar and a restaurant (rather than being stuck in
the hotel ones) but it was absolutley pissing it down with rain so I
Lucy McWilliam wrote:
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Mark Fowler wrote:
(I don't eat chocolate.)
*shock*
Me neither. I came to the startling conclusion about 5 years ago that I
don't really like. I don't hate it, just don't particularly enjoy it
except in odd moods and even then mostly dark
Steve Mynott wrote:
Libertarianism seems more popular than socialism on the internet as as
a whole, at least, with many American programmers.
To counter Dave's left wing views (trolllhave you ever
noticed how left wingers tend to be less tolerant to the fact that their
views may
Chris Ball wrote:
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:21:59PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote:
STPPPIDD!
OoOoOoh, Red Snapper! Very tasty!
/obscure_quoting
UHF++
Ghandi II - No more Mister Passive Resistance, Spatula City, Conan the
Librarian (Donch yew
Struan Donald wrote:
wasn't it an auction? i like to look on this as some sort of crack
induced madness on the side of tha various telcos involved in which
thet actually belived the hype aboug 3G comming out of their marketing
departments.
Basically it went like this:
As a telco you ahve
Robin Houston wrote:
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:06:42PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
Is this the point where I can try and recruit some of you compscis to the
bioinformatics revolution?
I've always thought it sounded like fun.
How does one go about joining the bioinformatics
Greg McCarroll wrote:
Penderels Oak, and afterwards I have a table at the Gaucho Grill for
steak.
Can't we just eat beef instead? It will be a lot less wooden for a
start.
Badoom, boom. Thankyourveramuch ladies and germs I'll be here all week.
Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
ARGH! Sorry, I got PHB-ed.
Psycho Hose Beasted?
/me suspects that Dave and Simon have very different definitions of PHB
Greg McCarroll wrote:
Psycho Hose Beasted?
Simon, if you are going to reveal next week's Buffy episode at least
put SPOILER in the subject ;-)
Huh?
Can't remember where I first heard it although both Red Dwarf and Calvin
and Hobbes spring to mind.
Mike Wyer wrote:
Can't remember where I first heard it although both Red Dwarf and Calvin
and Hobbes spring to mind.
Wayne's World.
That's the ticket.
I was getting it confused with Calvin and Hobbes' Homicidal Psycho
Jungle Cat :)
David Cantrell wrote:
I've got bored with my Defender, so am selling it. Anyone interested?
ObLondon.pm: defender beats watching buffy on the stupid-box any day of
the week.
Will. To. Save. Money. Fading.
Is it an original Williams cab? How much? (important things first)
Want me to
Chris Heathcote wrote:
Off the top of my head:
ICA bar, Match (Noho/Farringdon/Sosho), lab (on Old Compton St.), aka...
also heard about Smiths of Smithfield, but never been there.
Smiths isn't really a cocktail bar IIRC.
Cocktails at the Marriot (aka the old County Hall) aren't
Cross David - dcross wrote:
I'll get my photos up before too long. But I do need to get them developed
the old fashioned way, so if anyone wants to prevent photos taken on the
Staten Island Ferry from being published then they still have a few days to
approach me with an appropriate bribe.
Cross David - dcross wrote:
At least _I_ was on the roller coaster at Coney Island - unlike some people
I could mention. And I'm hoping that Gill has the photo to prove it :)
I'd have been on it too if I hadn't needed to go back to Manhattan.
Gah, publish and be damned Cross.
Leon Brocard wrote:
Leon, who didn't get as many points snowboarding than he does
in SSX. Somehow falling hurts more...
*cough*
Deja-Angst : http://www.inktank.com/index.cfm?toon=02-26-01
Cross David - dcross wrote:
Now, take yer lame ass fountain pens, and leave me alone. I'm in Hereford,
England on business, and have _NO_ time to deal with this I'm right/your
wrong/i kill/you write crap.
I used to see bk and his ilk when I used to go to Hereford - they were
hanging around
Jonathan Stowe wrote:
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Simon Wistow wrote:
segwayed
I dont think so Simon ...
Neither did I. But i was tired.
/me waves hands vaguely
Simon Wistow wrote:
This is the thirteenth of hopefully many weekly summaries of the London
*cough*
Frscking, sucking, send shortcuts in netscape.
Apologies.
Dean wrote:
I've been using [Kdevelop] for C coding recently and its not too bad. It has a
couple of nice tricks though like clicking on the compile errors and being
taken to the line.
Ultraedit does this. It's great and I love it. And it works under Wine.
Aaron Trevena wrote:
the new version of autodial - codenamed DiaKiller,
is available at http://droogs.org/autodial/
From the FAQ (http://droogs.org/autodial/FAQ)
Q: Why is AutoDIAL so rubbish.
A: Because Trelane told me to 'just release it' although blame is
automatically deferred to
Dave Cross wrote:
I understood that you had delegated the actual work to someone else.
Can you ensure that your vice-chair is able to speak in your place.
Umm. Ok.
Somebody give me the designs and I'll get them printed.
Talk over.
Or am I missing something?
Neil Ford wrote:
Do we need to dig up the original meeting notes regarding .pm/colour
combinations or is Simon to 'wing it'?
Got em, cheers.
Simon Cozens wrote:
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:19:15PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
Feature request - IMAP client.
Mail::IMAPClient exists, so I guess it's a real possibility. When I get a
spare second. (Yeah, right.)
There's also Mail::Cclient (by Malcolm Beattie) which can be
Simon Cozens wrote:
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 10:41:56AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
There's also Mail::Cclient (by Malcolm Beattie) which can be tricky to
install and the interface is a bit unfriendly
That's the fault of the underlying Cclient library. :(
Yeah, tell me about it.
hence
dcross - David Cross wrote:
How would people in London.pm like a one night camp out, subject
to the FM issue going away. The plan would be - we bundle into
^^^
Hmmm. Do the words "foot" and "mouth" mean nothing to you?
/me suspects Dave may have been kidnapped
James Powell wrote:
RANDAL SCHWARTZ slams London.pm's "Perl is my bitch"
T-Shirt - odd, considering:
http://www.stonehenge.com/perl/amihooternot/ ...
*cough*
Will email NTK and point out that it is not and was never a London.pm
t-shirt.
Aaron Trevena wrote:
I think the jamie olover link has saved them - it is mighty fine.
Which is from pobitch anyway.
Robin Szemeti wrote:
IMHO to be of any use certification needs to be HUGE .. eg we need
O'Reilly AND Manning behind it or it simply won't fly. We could write a
very comprehensive set of tests and assesment levels, do all that.
The theory driving test in this country was doen by getting
Greg McCarroll wrote:
# locally an rpc call is made to the remote package server, which creates
# an object and returns the local id to the other machine
That was the way I was thinking of doing it as well.
Hmm, nother thing to add to the list of things to do.
Robin Houston wrote:
A stateful server would definitely help here.
It was going to be a stateful server. But stateless could be an option.
Dave Cross wrote:
For even more points: What was the first TV show the Lenny Henry
appeared on?
Black and White Minstrel show IIRC . Although I think he was a on a
couple of talent shows first.
Chris Devers wrote:
Probably, as is "The Matt's Wrong Archive", which is probably far
too negative obvious anyway... ;)
But if Matt Sergeant put it up ...
David Cantrell wrote:
Quick question for any statisticians out there:
Does this look like it should be modelled with a Poisson distribution to
you? This data represents the number of logins on a workstation per hour.
Don't think so, there's too much of a dip at 11:00 and 14:00
Dean wrote:
Not personally but i have this in my bookmark list:
http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_toc.html
Seems to be the ticket - I only needit for very quick stuff - compiling
and installing a .so and a program linked about it. Will have a look at
that page and other
Hamlet D'Arcy wrote:
Long story short... I won advance tickets, a mallrats CD, Mallrats baseball
hat, mallrats stickers, and... A FULL SET OF MALLRATS TRADING CARDS! (which
I still have).
Must. Resist. Urge. To Burgle. House.
"David H. Adler" wrote:
I'm guessing that those of us on this side of the atlantic are,
therefore, out of luck at this point?
Nope. Well, sort of. I saved 3 * XL for Merkins.
I'm also thinking of printing some more.
Struan Donald wrote:
couldn't all this sort of thing be summed up as:
my ($meme,$buzzword) = @ARGV;
$meme =~ s/$buzzword/perl/g;
print $meme;
or even
any(@memes) +~ /any(@buzzword)/perl/g;
print any(@memes);
or something
Dave Cross wrote:
"My name is Dave and it's been three weeks since I watched more than
one episode on Buffy on the same day."
Wah, due to circumstances beyond my control I haven't seen
(terrestrial) 8uffy for about a month now. I think the last episode I
saw was the one with Faith waking
Steve Purkis wrote:
A *few* tweaks to the core? Come on now, you'd have to make the core
grok multiple dimensions! (... and that would be about as easy as
building an infinite improbrability drive...)
We can reason that there is a Perl Core that spans multiple dimensions
so there must be a
Matthew Robinson wrote:
I have now implemented the changes to the constant pragma module so that
all scripts run in constant time (in fact they run instantaneously).
You're ill.
Get help.
dcross - David Cross wrote:
All worthy winners, but ask yourself - which one is most likely to buy you a
drink at a london.pm meeting if he wins the award?
Hopefully Matt - I nominated him ;)
Paul Mison wrote:
I'll welcome the help.
Consider this me co-volunteering then.
We could go for Wed 28 March to Mon 2 April instead; comments?
London.pm does April Fools' in NY. Hmm. Distinct possibilities. Means I
skip the flight home to go see my Dad on his birthday (also April 1 -
This'll probably mena nothing to you unless
a) you were at the last London.pm technical meeting
b) hang around on #london.pm
c) are also on ( void )
but, because of sudden but temporary free time yesterday afternoon
(Nokia WTLS gateway was down and we couldn't test RC5 connections with
our
Alex Page wrote:
It didn't seem too bad - my pints were 2.50 each, which for central London isn't
bad. There were certainly space issues, however.
Hmm. yeah. There was a bit of a mix up - I booked in advance and asked
for seating for 30 people but when I arrived they'd done standing space
Robin Houston wrote:
I've wondered that too.
Seems to be a #perl obsession...
As in "stroke the pony"?
Jonathan Peterson wrote:
There is nothing wrong with bad programming.
There is however lots of thinsg wrong with teaching bad pregramming.
Whilst I agree with you to a certain extent about cars a less sinister
explanation is that cars *ARE* getting hideously compilcated with
variable valve
Matthew Jones wrote:
so who else has had cool non-IT jobs in the past?
I walways had crappy non-IT jobs. The absolute worst was when I went to work
in a plastics factory. As new boy, it fell to me to make sure that all the
waste plastic was disposed of as efficiently as possible.
I
Matthew Jones wrote:
So how do That.pm feel about some northern tyke scuttling down to join you
for the odd beer and tech meeting on a sort of semi-regular basis?
For the love of God NO! Every time you're down in This I end up the next
morning feeling fragile wearing nothing but a traffic
Greg McCarroll wrote:
The Anchor, near London Bridge, 8/1/2001, starting 6.30 ish ;-)
(ask me for directions if you dont' know it)
Top pub.
Although I'm partial to Davy's Pot House under the bridge as well.
Conveniently close to Cynthia's Cyberbar.
Simon
[who decided to give up drinking
Dave Cross wrote:
Here's a top tip. Don't try to video two hours of programs on an hour and a
half of video tape.
Does anyone happen to have Friday's Angel taped - I only really need the
second half :(
Anybody got the 1st half of the terrestrial Buffy from this week taped?
And the second
Matthew Jones wrote:
Dave is sitting in his living room, leafing through his back issues of
"Canned Food and Preserved Rations Monthly".
Wrong Dave. More like "Dave is lounging casually in his Chippendale,
stroking his gold plated cat and having his feet massaged by a minion.
Another lackey
Michael Stevens wrote:
I hate to say it, but I'm slowly becoming converted to windows cut paste.
I like being able to highlight a block of text and hit ctrl-v to replace
that with the contents of the clipboard.
troll
Why do you hate to say it? It's better than cut and paste of X.
Linux
Andy Wardley wrote:
Having said that, I do very little "real" work at work, instead
spending my time reading/writing email, chatting to people, playing
table tennis, having meetings, and doing other brain dead tasks.
I sometimes feel guilty because 90% of my work gets done in 10% of my
time.
Andy Wardley wrote:
So without wishing to start another holy war, is it possible to change
the mailing list configuration to have a more sensible default Reply-to?
rant
I have arguments with Leon about this. He usually quotes 'Reply To
munging considered harmful'
Greg Cope wrote:
perl person: Hacked a drawing program in 2 hours.
other person: That long, oh dear ..
perl person: yeah but I was drunk at the time. Oh and it sends mail. And
it's written in Latin. And none of the sub routines are actually called.
It just sort of guesses which one you
Dave Cross wrote:
I'm therefore looking for a volunteer to organise this. The organiser
would, of course, be given a free login on the server.
Anyone fancy it?
I'll give it a go.
Dean S Wilson wrote:
What kind of low level stuff are you interested in? kernel/device
drivers kind of thing or something else entirely?
I've been working on compilers, WAP browsers and crypto since I got
here. I'd love to have a go working on kernel stuff or device drivers.
What I'd really
Redvers Davies wrote:
Is that a change in conditions such that you have to give 3 months notice
or that you don't have a termination clause such that you sign up on a
rolling 3 month contract.
I'm coming to the end of my 3 month probabtion period. AFter that,
becuase I work for the RnD part
David Cantrell wrote:
However, I don't believe it supports some of the more weird DNS entries
you can have like HINFO and LOC records.
You learn fast young Grasshopper. Oh, wait. You weren't there last
night.
http://www.2shortplanks.com/simon/ip2ll/2.html
Dave Cross wrote:
*ui8 = \U18;
*ui16 = \UI16;
*Word = \UI16;
*word = \UI16;
That's the ticket.
Brain still fried today.
Robin Houston wrote:
Although the best solution would (obviously) be to
use Symbol::Approx::Sub with an appropriate matcher :-)
[simon@ns0 simon]$ cat globtest
#!/usr/bin/perl
*foo = \UI;
UI16();
UI32();
SI402();
foo12();
sub UI () {
print $_[0],"\n";
}
sub SI() {
print
Dave Cross wrote:
OK. So we're now a speaker down. Anyone want to save the day by stepping in to give
a 20 min talk - or do I have to talk about Symbol::Approx::Sub _again_?
I could give a talk on either Flash stuff (again, although there's not
much else to say ATM that people don't already
Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Simon Wistow wrote:
... it's your birthday [0]
Well it's probably not. But it is mine.
I'll be drowning my sorrows in Southside bar (south east corner of
Princes Gardens, SW7 [1]) from about 6:30pm onwards
Dave Cross wrote:
Well, according to http://80s.koreamusic.net/billboard/1983.html
it made number one for one week on 3rd Sept 1983.
Number ones on this day ..
5 years ago .. Michael Jackson - 'Earth Song'
10 .. Iron Maiden - 'Take your daughter to the slaughter'
15 ..
Dave Cross wrote:
The language spoken by the droogs in 'A Clockwork Orange'.
Isn't it a pidgin mix of Russian and English?
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