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Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: Barman on April 26, 2007, 01:28:42 PM
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This is worthy of Nick!
Had to have ?a man? around today to fix the TV.
We are on the fringe of the Sky satellite (a geostationary satellite I?ll have you know) footprint so you need a huge dish (between 2.7m and 4.2m depending on which end of the island you are on) to get a signal at all?
Anyway, all had been working fine ?til recently when we lost a load of channels. The weather has been fairly poor until the last week or so and I?d assumed that it was ?atmospheric conditions? or perhaps even the wind had moved the dish.
When the weather changed it was clear that it wasn?t ?atmospherics? so I got the engineer in today to re-align the dish only to find that a huge spider spider: had chosen to make its home inside of the LNB. :-[
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Did you kill it, chase it away, cook it, or back off gently?
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Did you kill it, chase it away, cook it, or back off gently?
?The Man? (that can) shook it out and I shoo?d it away? ;)
It won?t find its way back will it? ???
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Did you take a picture!?!?!?
We had a similar problem with our large dish. Only it was a date rat nest. :o
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Did you take a picture!?!?!?
We had a similar problem with our large dish. Only it was a date rat nest. :o
Um no... Why would I climb on the roof with a camera? ::)
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Just me that doesn't go anywhere without my camera then. :-[
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Just me that doesn't go anywhere without my camera then. :-[
Anywhere??? :o
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Ok almost anywhere.
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Ok almost anywhere.
Phew! 8)
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I HATE spiders ~ I think its the way they look at me :o
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I HATE spiders ~ I think its the way they look at me :o
With all those eyes! :o
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It's more the legs really!
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It's not knowing which way the little buggers are going to run next that gets me.
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It's not knowing which way the little buggers are going to run next that gets me.
As long as they do run and don’t front you up! :sad1:
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When RJH was living with BF and I for a bit I came home from work one evening to find him huddled on the sofa staring at the wall. HUGE spider! We put a glass on it and hate to wait for BF to come home and sort it out. We were both to afraid to move. :'(
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When RJH was living with BF and I for a bit I came home from work one evening to find him huddled on the sofa staring at the wall. HUGE spider! We put a glass on it and hate to wait for BF to come home and sort it out. We were both to afraid to move. :'(
BF has some skills then? thumbsup:
Well at least one?
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We are on the fringe of the Sky satellite (a geostationary satellite I’ll have you know) footprint so you need a huge dish (between 2.7m and 4.2m depending on which end of the island you are on) to get a signal at all…
You have a 4.2 metre dish on your ROOF? :o
Do you perchance sail over to Tartus when the wind is right?
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We are on the fringe of the Sky satellite (a geostationary satellite I’ll have you know) footprint so you need a huge dish (between 2.7m and 4.2m depending on which end of the island you are on) to get a signal at all…
You have a 4.2 metre dish on your ROOF? :o
Do you perchance sail over to Tartus when the wind is right?
No, ours is a mere 2.7m in diameter but we're (I'm redface:) thinking of upgrading to a 3m to improve reception... thumbsup:
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I got to thinking about the "old threads"
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You are Leslie Welsh and I demand my ?5
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Who is? We had a thread about that dish too. Shall I go and fetch it?
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Who is? We had a thread about that dish too. Shall I go and fetch it?
Leslie Welsh was known as "The Memory Man" ~ An old Music Hall act who later appeared on Radio and TV answering questions from the audience designed to test his memory.
TAKE IT FROM HERE
There are a couple of post-war radio series that can be said to have shaped comedy and this is certainly one of them. Written by Denis Norden and the late Frank Muir, this show first aired in 1948 and ran for 13 seasons. It was different in its outlook to shows like ITMA and was completely post war in its attitudes, acknowledging more than a passing nod that the audience was both intelligent and with some level of literacy. The style of the show was more akin to that of revue, and showed influences of the American style of radio comedy.
It is probably wiser to start with a show before TIFH, Navy Mixture, which ran for 25 editions from the 5th July, 1947. This show was one in the variety vein, with comedy, music and novelty, all introduced by the young Australian radio prodigy, Joy Nicholls. Featuring 'Professor' Jimmy Edwards (an odd association considering that Edwards, complete with handle-bar moustache, spent the war serving in the RAF), Vic Oliver, a regular on Hi Gang!, Leslie Welsh (a memory man) and The Song Pedlars. Edwards' regular spot, a sort of light hearted lecture, was written by Frank Muir, and a guest on one show, Dick Bentley (incidentally another Australian) performed material penned by Denis Norden. It was the producer Charles Maxwell who joined Muir and Norden, after the end of the series, to plan another vehicle for Nicholls, Bentley and Edwards, this was to be Take it From Here.
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Oh, like in the 39 Steps.
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Sort Of