Re: crazy golf
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 05:41:43PM +0100, Chris Heathcote wrote: > Beware, it's in Flash (or Shockwave) > http://www.electrotank.com/lab/minigolf.html > > Hole 17 is a bugger How much time did it take you to find out this incredible fact? -Dom -- | Semantico: creators of major online resources | | URL: http://www.semantico.com/ | | Tel: +44 (1273) 72 | | Address: 33 Bond St., Brighton, Sussex, BN1 1RD, UK. |
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On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 02:31:39PM +, Redvers Davies wrote: > > Assuming you're not a Masai tribesperson. And assuming that the > > Romans weren't lying about the Celts (Though why would they want to do > > that?) > > It would seem to me to be counter-productive. If you want to conquer > a country you don't spread rumours that they drink their victims blood. True, cos that would tend to unsettle your troops. However, as a post facto rationalisation, it's great. Look at how well off you are under your Roman overlords! Your kings no longer drink your blood! -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it-- Agatha Christie
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On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 01:38:44AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote: > Assuming you're not a Masai tribesperson. On this list, anything is possible. -- I don't understand how people can think SCSI is anything more quirky than a genius with peculiar dietary requirements in a world where the creators of Notes, and their new owners, are allowed to walk the streets without fearing for their very lives. - Graham Reed, asr
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At 14:31 04/06/01 +, you wrote: > > Assuming you're not a Masai tribesperson. And assuming that the > > Romans weren't lying about the Celts (Though why would they want to do > > that?) > >It would seem to me to be counter-productive. If you want to conquer >a country you don't spread rumours that they drink their victims blood. Sure you do. That way everyone thinks they are barbarians, and they don't mind you invading them and civilising them. As it happens the Celts were barbarians*, and the Romans did bring civilisation to them (insert relevant Life of Brian sketch). You also spread rumours of there being lots of gold and "so many pearls they lie uncollected on the beaches". Works like a charm. *This is not a value judgement so just don't start. -- Jonathan Peterson Technical Manager, Unified Ltd, 020 7383 6092 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 02:31:39PM +, Redvers Davies wrote: > > Assuming you're not a Masai tribesperson. And assuming that the > > Romans weren't lying about the Celts (Though why would they want to do > > that?) > > It would seem to me to be counter-productive. If you want to conquer > a country you don't spread rumours that they drink their victims blood. Well why not? It allows you to claim a moral reason for conquering them in the first place (which is as necessary for keeping morale and a sense of purpose among your own people as anything else), and quite possibly has longer-term military benefits, as in "The Celts were a bunch of mad, blood-drinking nutters, But we conquered them anyway, so why don't you open your doors and play nicely, and we won't have to unleash our fearsome military power upon you". For some reason, the mental image of a horde of wild Celts quaffing blood keeps mixing in my head with that of a bunch of perl programmers in a cellar bar, quaffing TVRs... Must be the full moon :) -- simon batistoni | [EMAIL PROTECTED] stop right here cos i know where i'm going to
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> Assuming you're not a Masai tribesperson. And assuming that the > Romans weren't lying about the Celts (Though why would they want to do > that?) It would seem to me to be counter-productive. If you want to conquer a country you don't spread rumours that they drink their victims blood.
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Redvers Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I find it strange that the only surviving English/British religion, > > Nah, you want an interesting old religion, look at the Celts. Drinking > blood has gone out of style though... Assuming you're not a Masai tribesperson. And assuming that the Romans weren't lying about the Celts (Though why would they want to do that?) -- Piers Cawley www.iterative-software.com
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On Friday, June 1, 2001, at 10:41 PM, Redvers Davies wrote: >> I find it strange that the only surviving English/British religion, > > Nah, you want an interesting old religion, look at the Celts. Drinking > blood has gone out of style though... Has it? Angel drinks blood; Spike does as well. Oops, wrong thread... Marcel -- $ perl -we time Useless use of time in void context at -e line 1.
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> I find it strange that the only surviving English/British religion, Nah, you want an interesting old religion, look at the Celts. Drinking blood has gone out of style though...
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From: "Simon Cozens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:53:53PM +0100, Barbie wrote: > > the only surviving English/British religion, Paganism > > Nice try. Are you saying it isn't a religion or there is another one? Barbie
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On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:53:53PM +0100, Barbie wrote: > the only surviving English/British religion, Paganism Nice try. -- diff: usage diff [whatever] etc. - plan9 has a bad day
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From: "Cross David - dcross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Paul Mison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Um. Bad example. Unfortunately May Day is at a *really* silly point, > > coming just after Easter and just before the 'Early Summer' (aka > > Whitsun) Bank Holiday. > > Besides, people have been celebrating Mayday for _far_ longer than Easter. I find it strange that the only surviving English/British religion, Paganism, is the target for being abolished. Mayday was traditionally the fertility festival. It would make more sense to embrace the Pagan holidays seeing as they are celebrated more evenly throughout the year. Plus they don't glorify death and have a healthy celebration for life. Barbie.
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On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:28:43PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > So *that's* the secret to your boyish good looks Dave! I knew there had > to be *something* good about contracting :-) That and getting to drain the life out of the permanent staff ;) Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon
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On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:40:38PM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: > > Or make the Queen's Birthday celebrations be on a Monday and make that > > a bank holiday, if you have to wrap things up in pageantry. > > Only a very short term solution. What do you do when we become a republic? Then we have independence day, to celebrate the overthrowing of N hundred years of Dutch and German oppression. Yes, if I were a royalist, I'd be a Jacobite. > [1] "But you've got to admit, she does look good for her age." Yeah, well so > would I if I HADN'T DONE A FUCKING DECENT DAY'S WORK IN MY LIFE. So *that's* the secret to your boyish good looks Dave! I knew there had to be *something* good about contracting :-) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Rip, Mix, Burn, unless you're using our "most advanced operating system in the world" which we decided to release incomplete just for a laugh
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* Cross David - dcross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > [1] "But you've got to admit, she does look good for her age." Yeah, well so > would I if I HADN'T DONE A FUCKING DECENT DAY'S WORK IN MY LIFE. > Well you don't look that good, and you are a contractor ;-) -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
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From: Paul Mison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 1:28 PM > On 01/06/2001 at 13:16 +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: > > > >Whatever happened to the plan to do away with that nasty socialist holiday > >on Mayday and replace with something much more Jingoistic - Trafalgar Day > >wasn't it? > > Um. Bad example. Unfortunately May Day is at a *really* silly point, > coming just after Easter and just before the 'Early Summer' (aka > Whitsun) Bank Holiday. No. _Good_ example. Neatly demonstrating the madness of baseing public holidays around the vagaries of a minority religion. It's not Mayday that's causing a problem here, but the three xtian dates. Abolish them and replace them with three other holidays spaced out in a more sensible fashion. Besides, people have been celebrating Mayday for _far_ longer than Easter. > Anyway, Trafalgar Day would be in October- that's a shite idea, the > weather's awful. We [0] want June and July holidays how about US > Independence Day? We've imported plenty of other ideas from them. Hmm. I wouldn't mind a holiday in late September or October. Thanks to global warming that's often a pretty warm part of the year. Actually, celebrating US Independence Day makes a certain amount of sense. It's certainly a war _I'd_ have fought to lose :) > Or make the Queen's Birthday celebrations be on a Monday and make that > a bank holiday, if you have to wrap things up in pageantry. Only a very short term solution. What do you do when we become a republic? (checks - wait a minute, that pledge seems to be missing from my copy of the Labour Manifesto, shurely shome mishtake) > (Isn't there an extra bank holiday next year for Golden Jubilee shenanigans?) $deity, don't remind me. As mentioned on the walk on Monday, I think our best hope is that the QM[1] dies at about the same time and it all cancels out :) Dave... [1] "But you've got to admit, she does look good for her age." Yeah, well so would I if I HADN'T DONE A FUCKING DECENT DAY'S WORK IN MY LIFE. -- The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please re-send this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system.
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At 14:23 01/06/01 +0100, you wrote: >"Jonathan Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Personally I'd rather get rid of the overtly christian holidays and >stick with good old pagan stuff like May day. And not because of the >labour movement, it's a *way* older holiday than that. True enough - but look! Among the nine saints that are celebrated on 1st may is St Joseph who is the patron saint of those who fight against communism. YAY No, I'm not making this up: http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/pst00162.htm -- Jonathan Peterson Technical Manager, Unified Ltd, 020 7383 6092 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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"Jonathan Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 13:27 01/06/01 +0100, you wrote: > > >weather's awful. We [0] want June and July holidays how about US > > Quite the opposite!!! We need more winter holidays to cheer us up > during those dark rainy months. We should have holidays for all the > major Saint's days, and get rid of silly artificial things like > Mayday. Or we should just not work half the time, like the French. Personally I'd rather get rid of the overtly christian holidays and stick with good old pagan stuff like May day. And not because of the labour movement, it's a *way* older holiday than that. -- Piers Cawley www.iterative-software.com
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On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:10:22PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > blech has just informed me, its 27/8/2001, which would make > the first annual grand London.pm crazy golf open on the 25/8/2001 ECLASHESWITHLBW -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Rip, Mix, Burn, unless you're using our "most advanced operating system in the world" which we decided to release incomplete just for a laugh
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From: "Roger Burton West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On or about Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:27:44PM +0100, Paul Mison typed: > > >(Isn't > >there an extra bank holiday next year for Golden Jubilee shenanigans?) > > http://www.dti.gov.uk/er/bankhol.htm > Well, as today is my first day working as a contractor, I want less holidays, so that I can make more money. Thinking about it again, I'll just make sure that the system needs some "essential" maintenance those days, and increase my rate appropriately! /Robert
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From: "Paul Mison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (Isn't > there an extra bank holiday next year for Golden Jubilee shenanigans?) Apparently so. Allegedly there is a move to bring the UK more into line with the rest of Europe with regards to bank holidays. Several European nations put us to shame when you compare us with countries like Germany (14 days IIRC). The Golden Jubilee is the first to be introduced, with another 3 added over the next few years. I guess the Golden Jubilee one will then be known as Coronation Day or some such. There was a link all about it on the bbc site, but that was earlier in the year when I was living that other life, blissfully unaware I was about to be made redundant :) Barbie.
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At 13:27 01/06/01 +0100, you wrote: >weather's awful. We [0] want June and July holidays how about US Quite the opposite!!! We need more winter holidays to cheer us up during those dark rainy months. We should have holidays for all the major Saint's days, and get rid of silly artificial things like Mayday. Or we should just not work half the time, like the French. -- Jonathan Peterson Technical Manager, Unified Ltd, 020 7383 6092 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Paul Mison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > how about US > Independence Day? We call that Thanksgiving... -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy
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On or about Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:27:44PM +0100, Paul Mison typed: >(Isn't >there an extra bank holiday next year for Golden Jubilee shenanigans?) http://www.dti.gov.uk/er/bankhol.htm
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On 01/06/2001 at 13:16 +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: >From: Paul Mison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 1:07 PM > >> (Anyone standing on the platform of reforming bank holidays? >> I'd buy that for a dollar.) > >Whatever happened to the plan to do away with that nasty socialist holiday >on Mayday and replace with something much more Jingoistic - Trafalgar Day >wasn't it? Um. Bad example. Unfortunately May Day is at a *really* silly point, coming just after Easter and just before the 'Early Summer' (aka Whitsun) Bank Holiday. (Thankfully the same arguments tend to work against St George's Day as a bank holiday- far too jingoistic). Unfortunately it's the only one of those three I care about. Anyway, Trafalgar Day would be in October- that's a shite idea, the weather's awful. We [0] want June and July holidays how about US Independence Day? We've imported plenty of other ideas from them. Hmm. Or make the Queen's Birthday celebrations be on a Monday and make that a bank holiday, if you have to wrap things up in pageantry. (Isn't there an extra bank holiday next year for Golden Jubilee shenanigans?) (Wondering if this shouldn't cross the (void)/london-lists osmosis barrier) [0] Well, I, but I'm probably not alone here. -- :: paul :: stay all day :: if you want to
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On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:16:51PM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote: > From: Paul Mison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 1:07 PM > > > (Anyone standing on the platform of reforming bank holidays? > > I'd buy that for a dollar.) > > Whatever happened to the plan to do away with that nasty socialist holiday > on Mayday and replace with something much more Jingoistic - Trafalgar Day > wasn't it? > > Dave... > [who thinks it's about time we decimalised the calendar] What a stunningly daft idea! It might just work! Actually, I think we should go back to using base60 numbers instead, so that time and dates just fall out of the wash (I think the ancient sumerians used them). -Dom -- | Semantico: creators of major online resources | | URL: http://www.semantico.com/ | | Tel: +44 (1273) 72 | | Address: 33 Bond St., Brighton, Sussex, BN1 1RD, UK. |
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From: Paul Mison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 1:07 PM > (Anyone standing on the platform of reforming bank holidays? > I'd buy that for a dollar.) Whatever happened to the plan to do away with that nasty socialist holiday on Mayday and replace with something much more Jingoistic - Trafalgar Day wasn't it? Dave... [who thinks it's about time we decimalised the calendar] -- The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please re-send this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system.
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From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 1:10 PM > blech has just informed me, its 27/8/2001, which would make > the first annual grand London.pm crazy golf open on the 25/8/2001 > > now what do people want to do? go to hastings and return the > same day? stay over? Luckily for you all, I'll be in Edinburgh that weekend. This will make it an altogether more evenly matched game. Having grown up at the seaside my crazy golf is pretty shit-hot :) Dave... -- The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please re-send this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system.
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On Friday, June 1, 2001, at 02:07 PM, Paul Mison wrote: > On 01/06/2001 at 13:03 +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > >> so when is the next bang holiday weekend? > > 2001-08-27. Hence the crazy golf must be on 2001-08-25. (Palm Desktop)++ Cool; I might actually be in London that weekend. Marcel -- $ perl -we time Useless use of time in void context at -e line 1.
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* Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Jonathan Stowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > > > * Richard Clamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 07:40:46PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > > > > > I'm still up for organizing it - its just herding you cats up in one place > > > > > is the problem. > > > > > > > > If you book it, they will come. > > > > > > > > > > i suggest booking it for the saturday on the next bank holiday weekend > > > > > > this feels *good* > > > > > > > > > > Well we will all have recovered from Amsterdam by then :) > > > > Sounds like a plan. > > > > so when is the next bang holiday weekend? > blech has just informed me, its 27/8/2001, which would make the first annual grand London.pm crazy golf open on the 25/8/2001 now what do people want to do? go to hastings and return the same day? stay over? -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
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On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > * Jonathan Stowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > > > * Richard Clamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 07:40:46PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > > > > > I'm still up for organizing it - its just herding you cats up in one place > > > > > is the problem. > > > > > > > > If you book it, they will come. > > > > > > > > > > i suggest booking it for the saturday on the next bank holiday weekend > > > > > > this feels *good* > > > > > > > > > > Well we will all have recovered from Amsterdam by then :) > > > > Sounds like a plan. > > > > so when is the next bang holiday weekend? > The next *bank* holiday is in august. The bang holiday could be anytime :) /J\
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On 01/06/2001 at 13:03 +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: >so when is the next bang holiday weekend? 2001-08-27. Hence the crazy golf must be on 2001-08-25. (Palm Desktop)++ The next one after that is in December. (Anyone standing on the platform of reforming bank holidays? I'd buy that for a dollar.) -- :: paul :: stay all day :: if you want to
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* Jonathan Stowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > * Richard Clamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 07:40:46PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > > > > I'm still up for organizing it - its just herding you cats up in one place > > > > is the problem. > > > > > > If you book it, they will come. > > > > > > > i suggest booking it for the saturday on the next bank holiday weekend > > > > this feels *good* > > > > > > Well we will all have recovered from Amsterdam by then :) > > Sounds like a plan. > so when is the next bang holiday weekend? -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
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On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > * Richard Clamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 07:40:46PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > > > I'm still up for organizing it - its just herding you cats up in one place > > > is the problem. > > > > If you book it, they will come. > > > > i suggest booking it for the saturday on the next bank holiday weekend > > this feels *good* > > Well we will all have recovered from Amsterdam by then :) Sounds like a plan. /J\
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* Richard Clamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 07:40:46PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > > I'm still up for organizing it - its just herding you cats up in one place > > is the problem. > > If you book it, they will come. > i suggest booking it for the saturday on the next bank holiday weekend this feels *good* -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
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On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 07:40:46PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > I'm still up for organizing it - its just herding you cats up in one place > is the problem. If you book it, they will come. -- Richard Clamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On Thu, 24 May 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > What ever happened to the london.pm crazy golf game? > I'm still up for organizing it - its just herding you cats up in one place is the problem. /J\
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