Re: Crazy Idea

Alex Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:29:04PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > How would people in London.pm like a one night camp out, subject > > to the F&M issue going away. The plan would be - we bundle into > > vehicles on a given afternoon (probably saturday)

Re: Crazy Idea

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:06:13AM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > > *grin* That sounds like an evil flan. Mmm... flan... -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ A feature is often a bug with seniority.- Chip Salzenberg

Re: Crazy Idea

> We once had a nuts teacher at school who let some 12-year-old kid (whose dad Pah, I was allowed to bring my 12 bore shotgun into school for a presentation for gcse english. They just asked that I didn't bring in any amunition with it ;) In the end I brought in live ammunition and no shotgun a

Re: Crazy Idea

At 12:39 04/04/2001 +0100, Martin Ling wrote: >I received a 240V shock whilst still in the womb. Various people have >made the obvious comic-book connections about my affinity for all things >electronic I once got an electric shock off a stage lantern whilst 18ft up a ladder. The only reaso

Re: Crazy Idea

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 12:12:56PM +0100, Neil Ford wrote: > > > > Which reminds me of the time someone shorted out a mains socket with a > > paper clip "to see what happened". > > Or the case of taking the wire from inside a scalextric hand controller, > attaching on end to a sucker, affixing

Re: Crazy Idea

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 11:53:09AM +0100, Simon Wilcox wrote: > At 11:33 04/04/2001 +0100, Chris Heathcote wrote: > >on 4/4/01 11:27 am, Simon Wilcox wrote: > > >c. > >(who also used to cut live mains cables with secateurs, for fun) > > Which reminds me of the time someone shorted out a mains so

Re: Crazy Idea

At 11:33 04/04/2001 +0100, Chris Heathcote wrote: >on 4/4/01 11:27 am, Simon Wilcox wrote: > > > Luckily it only did minor damage to the backstage area. > >I bought a supply of various flashes and explosions, but did not have a >firing box. > >Using the switch on a 4 way extension block (with a nu

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on 4/4/01 11:27 am, Simon Wilcox wrote: > Luckily it only did minor damage to the backstage area. I bought a supply of various flashes and explosions, but did not have a firing box. Using the switch on a 4 way extension block (with a number of mains plugs to croc clips) is probably not the saf

Re: Crazy Idea

At 09:50 04/04/2001 +, Robin Szemeti wrote: >1) LeMaitre make some very big marroons for stage use. The very brand :-) >2) it says they need to be in some form of container when they go off. Nah. Bury them in sand for realistic WWII FX. Mwahahahaha >3) do NOT use those funny square du

RE: Crazy Idea

> Subject: Re: Crazy Idea > We once had a nuts teacher at school who let some 12-year-old kid (whose dad was a pyrotechnics expert) bring some of these in for a war scene in a production. I don't know whether they were made by LeMaitre, but the large ones were 10 inches long, wi

Re: Crazy Idea

At 11:12 04/04/2001 +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: >On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 02:38:44AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > >any you have the ``right'' attitude when it comes to beer and > >explosives > >http://firedrake.org/roger/fireworks/ ooh, ahh !

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On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 11:05:17PM -0400, Alex Page wrote: > > But where would we find a camping ground with a fast net connection > and wireless LAN connections? The bit of park that the Laurie bros' consume nodes cover? Martin

Re: Crazy Idea

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 02:38:44AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: >any you have the ``right'' attitude when it comes to beer and >explosives http://firedrake.org/roger/fireworks/ 'nuff said. R

Re: Crazy Idea

On Wed, 04 Apr 2001, you wrote: > At 02:38 04/04/2001 +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > >* Simon Wilcox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > > Count me in. I have a tent and everything ! > > > > > > >any you have the ``right'' attitude when it comes to beer and > >explosives > > I used to use theatr

Re: Crazy Idea

On Wed, 04 Apr 2001, you wrote: > * Robin Szemeti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Tue, 03 Apr 2001, you wrote: > > > > > > > > Hmmm. Do the words "foot" and "mouth" mean nothing to you? > > > > > > > maybe ... > > > > do the words 'I have my own field' mean anything to you ;) true .. it is

Re: Crazy Idea

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Simon Wilcox wrote: > At 02:38 04/04/2001 +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > >* Simon Wilcox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Count me in. I have a tent and everything ! > >any you have the ``right'' attitude when it comes to beer and > >explosives > I used to use theatrical maroon

Re: Crazy Idea

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > * Lucy McWilliam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > *shock* > > You used the 'o' word. > > its ok, we can do the organisation as long as we have the > greg school of organisation in play, it will basically mean > agreeing with Dave Can. when he can take hi

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At 02:38 04/04/2001 +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: >* Simon Wilcox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Count me in. I have a tent and everything ! > > > >any you have the ``right'' attitude when it comes to beer and >explosives I used to use theatrical maroons (explosives with electrical detonators)

Re: Crazy Idea

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > * Robin Szemeti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Tue, 03 Apr 2001, you wrote: > > > Hmmm. Do the words "foot" and "mouth" mean nothing to you? > > maybe ... > > do the words 'I have my own field' mean anything to you ;) > yip, but its probably not near

Re: The Open Constitution Project (was Re: Crazy Idea)

Jonathan Stowe wrote: > OK. SO we persuade Mr Horne to blag us electronic copies of > the entire UK law, upload it to the CVS server on SourceForge > and then announce the project on slashdot Hm, checkout the US Bill of Rights, edit the First Amendment to include "free speech but no permis

Re: Crazy Idea

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:29:04PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > How would people in London.pm like a one night camp out, subject > to the F&M issue going away. The plan would be - we bundle into > vehicles on a given afternoon (probably saturday), go to a farm > shop and get lots of cider, and

Re: Crazy Idea

* Lucy McWilliam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, AEF wrote: > > > On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > > > Mmm. I shall bring Mr Pointy. All subject to FMD of course. > > > > I can probably be relied upon to bring a greater than strictly necessary > > collection of

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* dcross - David Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Don't the merkans do something like this (the camping, not the F&M)? They > call it "Camp Camel" - which always brings strange pictures to my mind... > they just don't do these things right, half their organisation efforts will concentrate

Re: Crazy Idea

* Simon Wilcox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At 15:29 03/04/2001 +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > >How would people in London.pm like a one night camp out, subject > >to the F&M issue going away. The plan would be - we bundle into > >vehicles on a given afternoon (probably saturday), go to a fa

Re: Crazy Idea

* Robin Szemeti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 03 Apr 2001, you wrote: > > > > > Hmmm. Do the words "foot" and "mouth" mean nothing to you? > > > > maybe ... > > do the words 'I have my own field' mean anything to you ;) > yip, but its probably not near sussex and you really don't wan

Re: Crazy Idea

* Lucy McWilliam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > * Somebody wrote > > > > Hmmm. Do the words "foot" and "mouth" mean nothing to you? > > > > i was using the working assumption, that the time for the F&M ban > > to be lifted was less than the time re

Re: Crazy Idea

* Paul Mison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Anyway, this fails on the 'crazy' test unless dawn til dusk walks are > included as part of a healthy regime. > thats where our definitions of crazy differ, for instance i think its fairly crazy to drag a pile of london.pm'ers into a forest, get them

Re: The Open Constitution Project (was Re: Crazy Idea)

On Tue 03 Apr, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > OK. SO we persuade Mr Horne to blag us electronic copies of the entire UK > law, upload it to the CVS server on SourceForge and then announce the > project on slashdot Why me ... ? (Quite a bit is getting onto http://www.bailii.org , run by the Auss

Re: The Open Constitution Project (was Re: Crazy Idea)

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 06:56:25PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > OK. SO we persuade Mr Horne to blag us electronic copies of the entire UK > law, upload it to the CVS server on SourceForge and then announce the > project on slashdot Bizarrely enough, I'm involved a project to do something

The Open Constitution Project (was Re: Crazy Idea)

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, AEF wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Paul Mison wrote: > > > http://www.openbritain.gov.uk/ > > Kewl. Is it GPL? > OK. SO we persuade Mr Horne to blag us electronic copies of the entire UK law, upload it to the CVS server on SourceForge and then announce the project on slashd

Re: Crazy Idea

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, David Cantrell wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:29:04PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > How would people in London.pm like a one night camp out, subject > > to the F&M issue going away. The plan would be - we bundle into > > vehicles on a given afternoon (probably satu

Re: Crazy Idea

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 04:47:02PM +0100, Andrew Bowman wrote: > > Either that or he misread F&M as S&M, or, worse, FHM. "Worse"? You haven't seen those Alyson Hannigan pictures, have you? :-) dha -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ "If it's not Jewish, it's C

Re: Crazy Idea

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 05:21:48PM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > Is dave cross written in Perl? "Dave Cross Munging with Perl" ISAGN. -- Only two things are infinite: the universe and human ignorance. -A. Einstein

RE: Crazy Idea

On Tue, 03 Apr 2001, you wrote: > > Hmmm. Do the words "foot" and "mouth" mean nothing to you? > maybe ... do the words 'I have my own field' mean anything to you ;) -- Robin Szemeti The box said "requires windows 95 or better" So I installed Linux!

Re: Crazy Idea

Richard Clamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Cool, it may even spur me into getting the van a little more habitable > than it currently is. Uh, oh. Locked in a barn with a van, some welding gear and assorted bits of steel... -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.

RE: Crazy Idea

From: Rob Partington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 03 April 2001 17:24 > In message , > dcross - David Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dave... > > [thing are getting strange, i'm starting to worry...] > > Should I call Mulder and Scully? Was

Re: Crazy Idea

* at 03/04 17:21 +0100 Matthew Byng-Maddick said: > On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Struan Donald wrote: > > * at 03/04 16:47 +0100 Andrew Bowman said: > > > Either that or he misread F&M as S&M, or, worse, FHM. > > well, that unstructured data is difficult tp parse :) > > Is dave cross written in Perl? wel

RE: Crazy Idea

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, dcross - David Cross wrote: > From: Lucy McWilliam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Mmm. I shall bring Mr Pointy. All subject to FMD of course. > > /me wonders if Lucy realises just how on-topic "Mr Pointy" is for this list. Oh, I do... L. "For puppies! And Christmas!"

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In message , dcross - David Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dave... > [thing are getting strange, i'm starting to worry...] Should I call Mulder and Scully? -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/

Re: Crazy Idea

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Struan Donald wrote: > * at 03/04 16:47 +0100 Andrew Bowman said: > > Either that or he misread F&M as S&M, or, worse, FHM. > well, that unstructured data is difficult tp parse :) Is dave cross written in Perl? MBM (thinks his visual parser algorithms are probably written in

RE: Crazy Idea

From: Lucy McWilliam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 03 April 2001 16:40 > On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Dean wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:29:04PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > How would people in London.pm like a one night camp out > > > > I'll come if we can have marshmallows ;) > > Mmm. I s

Re: Crazy Idea

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Paul Mison wrote: > http://www.openbritain.gov.uk/ Kewl. Is it GPL? Tony

Re: Crazy Idea

* at 03/04 16:47 +0100 Andrew Bowman said: > > From: Simon Wistow [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >>> How would people in London.pm like a one night camp out, subject > >>> to the F&M issue going away. The plan would be - we bundle into > > ^^^ > >> Hmmm. Do the words

Re: Crazy Idea

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, AEF wrote: > On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > > Mmm. I shall bring Mr Pointy. All subject to FMD of course. > > I can probably be relied upon to bring a greater than strictly necessary > collection of sharp edges. I have a pointy stick especially for the toast

Re: Crazy Idea

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > * Somebody wrote > > > Hmmm. Do the words "foot" and "mouth" mean nothing to you? > > i was using the working assumption, that the time for the F&M ban > to be lifted was less than the time required for london.pm to > organise this *shock* You used th

RE: Crazy Idea

From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 03 April 2001 16:53 > * Simon Wistow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > dcross - David Cross wrote: > > > > > > How would people in London.pm like a one night camp out, subject > > > > to the F&M issue going away. The plan would be - we bundle into > >

RE: Crazy Idea

From: Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 03 April 2001 16:48 > dcross - David Cross wrote: > > > > How would people in London.pm like a one night camp out, subject > > > to the F&M issue going away. The plan would be - we bundle into > ^^^ > > Hmmm. Do the words

Re: Crazy Idea

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 04:52:52PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > Hmmm. Do the words "foot" and "mouth" mean nothing to you? > i was using the working assumption, that the time for the F&M ban > to be lifted was less than the time required for london.pm to > organise this London PM and the

Re: Crazy Idea

On 03/04/2001 at 16:40 +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: >On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Dean wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:29:04PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: >> > How would people in London.pm like a one night camp out >> >> I'll come if we can have marshmallows ;) > >Mmm. I shall bring Mr Pointy. A

Re: Crazy Idea

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 04:48:15PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: > > Volunteers for a rescue party step forward. Do we get guns, lots of guns? -- Richard Clamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Crazy Idea

At 15:29 03/04/2001 +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: >How would people in London.pm like a one night camp out, subject >to the F&M issue going away. The plan would be - we bundle into >vehicles on a given afternoon (probably saturday), go to a farm >shop and get lots of cider, and then spend the nig

RE: Crazy Idea

> From: Simon Wistow [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>> How would people in London.pm like a one night camp out, subject >>> to the F&M issue going away. The plan would be - we bundle into > ^^^ >> Hmmm. Do the words "foot" and "mouth" mean nothing to you? > /me suspects Da

Re: Crazy Idea

Well, it /would/ give me an excuse to buy all that cool outdoor stuff I want (yes, of course I need that 200ukp sleeping bag...) On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > Mmm. I shall bring Mr Pointy. All subject to FMD of course. I can probably be relied upon to bring a greater than str

Re: Crazy Idea

* Simon Wistow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > dcross - David Cross wrote: > > > > How would people in London.pm like a one night camp out, subject > > > to the F&M issue going away. The plan would be - we bundle into > ^^^ > > Hmmm. Do the words "foot" and "mouth" mean

Re: Crazy Idea

* Clarke, Darren ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >Greg came up with the excellent suggestion: > >>How would people in London.pm like a one night camp out, subject >>to the F&M issue going away. The plan would be - we bundle into >>vehicles on a given afternoon (probably saturday)

Re: Crazy Idea

dcross - David Cross wrote: > > How would people in London.pm like a one night camp out, subject > > to the F&M 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 kidna

Re: Crazy Idea

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:29:04PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > How would people in London.pm like a one night camp out, subject > to the F&M issue going away. The plan would be - we bundle into > vehicles on a given afternoon (probably saturday), go to a farm > shop and get lots of cider,

Re: Crazy Idea

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Dean wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:29:04PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > How would people in London.pm like a one night camp out > > I'll come if we can have marshmallows ;) Mmm. I shall bring Mr Pointy. All subject to FMD of course. L. "I'm not as thunk as you

RE: Crazy Idea

> From: David Cantrell [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Why the hell not. The farm which I believe Greg has in mind > (www.middlefarm.com) also sells mead. Yum! And do they supply Butane canisters and matches too? ;-) Andrew.

RE: Crazy Idea

From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 03 April 2001 15:29 > How would people in London.pm like a one night camp out, subject > to the F&M issue going away. The plan would be - we bundle into > vehicles on a given afternoon (probably saturday), go to a farm > shop and get lots of cider, a

Re: Crazy Idea

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > How would people in London.pm like a one night camp out, subject > to the F&M issue going away. The plan would be - we bundle into > vehicles on a given afternoon (probably saturday), go to a farm > shop and get lots of cider, and then spend the night

Re: Crazy Idea

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:29:04PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > How would people in London.pm like a one night camp out, subject > to the F&M issue going away. The plan would be - we bundle into > vehicles on a given afternoon (probably saturday), go to a farm > shop and get lots of cider, and

Re: Crazy Idea

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:29:04PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > How would people in London.pm like a one night camp out, subject > to the F&M issue going away. The plan would be - we bundle into > vehicles on a given afternoon (probably saturday), go to a farm > shop and get lots of cider, and

Re: Crazy Idea

Greg McCarroll wrote: > > How would people in London.pm like a one night camp out, subject > to the F&M issue going away. The plan would be - we bundle into > vehicles on a given afternoon (probably saturday), go to a farm > shop and get lots of cider, and then spend the night around a > camp fir

RE: Crazy Idea

Title: RE: Crazy Idea Greg came up with the excellent suggestion: >How would people in London.pm like a one night camp out, subject >to the F&M issue going away. The plan would be - we bundle into >vehicles on a given afternoon (probably saturday), go to a farm >shop and g