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Mike Page
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| Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 1:56 am
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On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 17:38:40 +0100, "Mike Lyle"
<mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | JF wrote:
In message <3sc5suFnbkiqU3@individual.net>, Mike Lyle
mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> writes
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I knew I was a case-hardened father the day I found myself
changing
somebody else's baby. I won't brag about it, though: I was pretty
well trapped. I wonder why it's so difficult.
I've heard of changing nappies, or even changing diapers, but I've
never heard of anyone changing babies. Damn good job a cad and a
bounder such as yourself was trapped.
I don't know: I was fortunately able to produce photographic
evidence, so the Judge agreed with me that the change had been an
improvement. Have you _seen_ some of those other people's babies?
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Did you manage to score a better baby buggy at the same time?
Mike Page
mikeorang.page@portchimp.ac.uk
Kill the monkeys for email
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Mike Page
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| Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 2:06 am
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On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:14:36 -0700, "Skitt" <skitt99@comcast.net>
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| Quote: | Laura F. Spira wrote:
Skitt wrote:
Laura F. Spira wrote:
[...] My first post here was on 2 Nov 1997. I can
barely remember what life was like back then...
You beat me by only four days? I thought you have been here longer
than that.
It seems longer. I had heard much about aue before I ventured in. My
erudite and charming friend Professor Page arrived here first and
became deeply embroiled in brass monkey debates. He kept telling me
that I would enjoy the cut and thrust, and the puns, but I resisted
the temptation to investigate for quite a while.
whisper> And I've never read the FAQ...
Me neither. Well, I've read some of it.
I don't remember exactly how I found AUE, but it definitely was from work.
Prior to that I had access to the Internet from a DEC VAX VMS that could
handle only e-mail, so in 1995 (maybe even 1994) I participated in a BITNET
mailing list (several students from Peter Moylan's university were
participating there also). Later I was also given a system that could run
one of the early versions of Netscape, and I discovered newsgroups. I
briefly explored alt.devilbunnies, but then found AUE and settled in. At
home, after unfortunate experiences with free access providers and the
restricted access by AOL (as far from being free as it can get), I made
arrangements for unstructured Internet dial-up access. When DSL became
available, I got that, and when cable became available in my area, I
switched to that.
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I read the faq before I started reading aue. Someone (might have been
Mike Barnes or Geoff Butler) mentioned the faq in a letter to the
Notes and Queries column of the Guardian. I'd only recently discovered
newsgroups - someone told me about alt.fan.pratchett in the queue at a
Terry Pratchett booksigning.
Mike Page
mikeorang.page@portchimp.ac.uk
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 2:44 am
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Paul Wolff wrote:
| Quote: | In message <3saa3eFnd59vU3@individual.net>, Mike Lyle
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I think it was strictly speaking only for the RAF: sailors got the
DSO. Or such is my memory: I imagine I got the story from Paul
Brickhill's _The Dam-Busters_.
Or possibly from Guy Gibson's Enemy Coast Ahead (or from Leonard
Cheshire's book of the less memorable title). Gibson had a
beer-drinking Dog That Durst Not Speak Its Name, probably not
Brylcreemed though, which was killed the day before the dam busters
raid. Motto of 617 Squadron: Après moi, le deluge.
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Ah, yes. Did they kept the incorrect animal alive in the film?
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Mike.
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 2:48 am
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Mike Page wrote:
| Quote: | On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 17:38:40 +0100, "Mike Lyle"
mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> wrote:
JF wrote:
In message <3sc5suFnbkiqU3@individual.net>, Mike Lyle
mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> writes
[...]
I knew I was a case-hardened father the day I found myself
changing
somebody else's baby. I won't brag about it, though: I was
pretty
well trapped. I wonder why it's so difficult.
I've heard of changing nappies, or even changing diapers, but
I've
never heard of anyone changing babies. Damn good job a cad and a
bounder such as yourself was trapped.
I don't know: I was fortunately able to produce photographic
evidence, so the Judge agreed with me that the change had been an
improvement. Have you _seen_ some of those other people's babies?
Did you manage to score a better baby buggy at the same time?
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No: it was a change, not an exchange.
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JF
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| Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 6:02 am
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In message <3scsi6Fner95U3@individual.net>, Mike Lyle
<mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> writes
| Quote: | Paul Wolff wrote:
In message <3saa3eFnd59vU3@individual.net>, Mike Lyle
[...]
I think it was strictly speaking only for the RAF: sailors got the
DSO. Or such is my memory: I imagine I got the story from Paul
Brickhill's _The Dam-Busters_.
Or possibly from Guy Gibson's Enemy Coast Ahead (or from Leonard
Cheshire's book of the less memorable title). Gibson had a
beer-drinking Dog That Durst Not Speak Its Name, probably not
Brylcreemed though, which was killed the day before the dam busters
raid. Motto of 617 Squadron: Après moi, le deluge.
Ah, yes. Did they kept the incorrect animal alive in the film?
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In Morse code, yes. Radio ham folklore. To be taken with a niggardly
pinch of salt.
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M. J. Powell
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| Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 12:48 am
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In message <ediE0PB6pWYDFw12@marage.demon.co.uk>, JF
<jf@NOSPAMmarage.demon.co.uk> writes
| Quote: | In message <3scsi6Fner95U3@individual.net>, Mike Lyle
mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> writes
Paul Wolff wrote:
In message <3saa3eFnd59vU3@individual.net>, Mike Lyle
[...]
I think it was strictly speaking only for the RAF: sailors got the
DSO. Or such is my memory: I imagine I got the story from Paul
Brickhill's _The Dam-Busters_.
Or possibly from Guy Gibson's Enemy Coast Ahead (or from Leonard
Cheshire's book of the less memorable title). Gibson had a
beer-drinking Dog That Durst Not Speak Its Name, probably not
Brylcreemed though, which was killed the day before the dam busters
raid. Motto of 617 Squadron: Après moi, le deluge.
Ah, yes. Did they kept the incorrect animal alive in the film?
In Morse code, yes. Radio ham folklore. To be taken with a niggardly
pinch of salt.
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I have reference somewhere to the fact that the Signals Officer in the
film who received the messages was the actual signals Office who did the
same at the time.
PS The RAF charged the film company £180 per hour flying time for a
Lancaster and crew.
Mike
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