Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

2001-03-23 Thread James Powell 

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 07:45:54PM +, Leon Brocard wrote:
 
 And finally, it appears that Schwern, Michael is an Alien Drag Queen:
 http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg03105.html
 http://us.imdb.com/Title?0103645
 

Excellent, Trevor McDonald style "And finally" wrap-up to the news!


jp

ps - For an extra point, what show had an impression of Trevor McDonald
called "Trevor McDoughnut"?

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

2001-03-23 Thread Andrew Bowman 

From: "James Powell" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 ps - For an extra point, what show had an impression of Trevor McDonald
 called "Trevor McDoughnut"?

Trevor McDoughnut is/was a Lenny Henry character - so it was probably Three
of a Kind (remember that?), or another programme with Lenny H. in it.

For another point, who were the other two 'comedians' in Three of a Kind?
And, for half a point, to whom is Lenny Henry married?

Andrew.

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

2001-03-23 Thread Simon Wilcox 

At 05:25 23/03/2001 -0500, Dave Cross wrote:

For even more points: What was the first TV show the Lenny Henry
appeared on?

Dave...


Tiswas !

Actually - I think this was where McDoughnut first appeared ?

Simon.

RE: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

2001-03-23 Thread Matthew Jones 

 For even more points: What was the first TV show the Lenny Henry 
 appeared on?

Ironically for "right-on" Lenny, it was The Black And White Minstrel Show.

Ph3@r my Lenny Henry trivia skills!

-- 
matt
"'scuse me trooper, will you be needing any packets today?
hey, baby, don't be pulling on my socket, okay?"

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

2001-03-23 Thread Simon Wistow 

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.

RE: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

2001-03-23 Thread Dave Cross 

At Fri, 23 Mar 2001 05:31:25 -0500 (EST), Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 At Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:30:19 -, Matthew Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   For even more points: What was the first TV show the Lenny Henry 
   appeared on?
  
  Ironically for "right-on" Lenny, it was The Black And White 
  Minstrel Show.
 
 Hmm... now you've gone and made me doubt myself. I thought it was
 New Faces.

According to http://members.tripod.com/~cmarshall/lenny.html, I'm
right. New Faces was first, then The Fosters and Tiswas and only later,
The Black  White Minstrel Show.

Dave...

RE: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

2001-03-23 Thread Matthew Jones 

  Ironically for "right-on" Lenny, it was The Black And White 
  Minstrel  Show.
 
 Hmm... now you've gone and made me doubt myself. I thought it was
 New Faces.

http://homepages.go.com/~chefjunkie/Lennysnotlaughing.html
http://ayup.co.uk/gods/gods0-4.html

Search for "Minstrel". Okay, so he was a token black guy without a major
role, but I *think* he appeared there first.

Interestingly, IMDB dewclines to mention the Minstrel show appearance *at
all*.

-- 
matt
"'scuse me trooper, will you be needing any packets today?
hey, baby, don't be pulling on my socket, okay?"

London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

2001-03-22 Thread Leon Brocard 

This is the ninth of hopefully many weekly summaries of the Earth, UK,
London, Perl Mongers mailing list. For the week starting 2001-03-19:

Don't forget the London.pm website for meetings etc. The next meeting
is on Thursday 5th April:
http://london.pm.org/

Cozens, Simon misparsed a phrase from the previous summary: "a picture
of him drinking a beer from the London.pm website", which implied a
Content-type header of either matter-transport/beer-stream or
beer/guinness:
http://www.illuminated.co.uk/humour/Beer.html
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc1437.html

Cantrell, David wondered if the number of logins on a workstation per
hour should be modelled with a Poisson distribution. We didn't know,
but it was pretty:
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg02956.html

Duncan, James asked if LWP::Simple supported the un:pw@url URL
convention for basic authentication. It does, even though there's no
standard:
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg02972.html

There was some talk of the Matt's Scripts rewrite project. People
seemed to forget how simple the scripts had to be to install:
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg03012.html

Ford, Neil forwarded a post from the London Macintosh User Group: an
Apple UK person will be demoing MacOS X at their next meeting, and
they may even be giving away a copy:
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg03039.html
http://www.lmug.org.uk/
http://www.apple.com/macosx/

By far the most amusing thread this week was Cross, Dave pointing out
the pointless, badly-written Date-MMDDYY module on CPAN, clearly
pointing to a need for kwalitee control on CPAN. It should obviously be
-MM-DD, which is ISO standard 8601 instead (if you ignore the Y10K
problem for now). Peterson, Jonathan took this slightly futher and
suggested we move to "LASTNAME, FIRSTNAME" and "ISO planet code, ISO
country code, POSTCODE, Building Number[, apartment number][, business
name]". Bowman, Andrew explained Jewish, Irish, and Icelandic naming:
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg03045.html
http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Date-MMDDYY
http://www.saqqara.demon.co.uk/datefmt.htm
ftp://ftp.qsl.net/pub/g1smd/8601v03.pdf
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg03097.html
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/postal.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg03119.html

Fowler, Mark asked about Perl training courses in the UK (apart from
Learning Tree). Lots of discussion followed about what exactly is
required: good programming practices, CPAN, OO, debugging (see ptkdb).
celia delurked. Torkington, Nathan pointed that the London Open Source
Covention will have Perl tutorials [and that organising a conference
isn't easy - well duh, we knew that ;-],. Looks like Iterative and
NetThink (contact Cozens, Simon) might be organising some training:
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg03112.html

And finally, it appears that Schwern, Michael is an Alien Drag Queen:
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg03105.html
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0103645

Leon
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