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Tim Hobbs

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For the last three days I've been on a bit of a tour of the UK
(Barnsley - Sheffield - Harrogate - Troon - Avonmouth - Barnsley).
Technology (well, computers) have ****ed me off at every available
opportunity - from panels that don't boot to emails that won't send
I've had it all.

I left Avonmouth at 1pm yesterday, and at 8pm ish came to a standstill
in yet another traffic jam on the M1 at J31. At 11.00 we were still
parked there, and the little one in the back was getting more than
slightly tetchy (3 hours past bedtime). Anyone know what was going on
BTW?

Anyhow, Mandy pulls out my tablet, puts in the 3G card and fires up
Boobah on the BBC website. For 30 minutes Charlotte giggled and
smacked hell out of the screen playing with a Flash game. It's the
most useful thing the internet has ever done for me....


--

Tim Hobbs

'58 Series 2 88" aka "Stig"
'77 101FC Ambulance aka "Burrt"
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"Tim Hobbs" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

> Anyhow, Mandy pulls out my tablet, puts in the 3G card and fires up
> Boobah on the BBC website. For 30 minutes Charlotte giggled and
> smacked hell out of the screen playing with a Flash game. It's the
> most useful thing the internet has ever done for me....

After 1700 Miles towing across France our best investment was a portable DVD
player for the kids... Never, but never has the rear of the car been so
quiet. Thing is I could then hear all the squeaks and rattles. ;-)


Lee D


 
On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 09:53:35 +0100, Tim Hobbs
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Anyhow, Mandy pulls out my tablet, puts in the 3G card and fires up
>Boobah on the BBC website. For 30 minutes Charlotte giggled and
>smacked hell out of the screen playing with a Flash game. It's the
>most useful thing the internet has ever done for me....

That boobah site could keep anybody entertained for a fair while!.
(http://www.boohbah.com/ if anyone is bored)

I remember first seeing it months ago, and the main site just kicked
straight into the wierd flash stuff without any kind of main page. I'd
never seen the TV program either and had no idea what was going on!
 
On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 09:53:35 +0100, Tim Hobbs
<[email protected]> made me spill my meths when he wrote:

>For 30 minutes Charlotte giggled and
>smacked hell out of the screen playing with a Flash game. It's the
>most useful thing the internet has ever done for me....

Almost analagous to the 3 year old spending more time playing with the
fancy wrapping paper instead of the birthday present that was inside
it.

<Four Yorksh...) Course we used to be able to go t' pictures, have a
pomegranite, AND get a pin with it, and have change of a farthing.


--
Wayne Davies - Mobile 07989 556213 - Harrogate, N.Yorks, UK
 
[email protected] wrote:
>
> <Four Yorksh...) Course we used to be able to go t' pictures, have a
> pomegranite, AND get a pin with it, and have change of a farthing.

Pin?

LUXURY!.....

--

Rich

Series 2a
RR 4.6
V8 trialler
dog, wife, kids, whatever


 
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 15:30:12 +0000 (UTC), "Richard Brookman"
<[email protected]> made me spill my meths when he wrote:

>[email protected] wrote:
>>
>> <Four Yorksh...) Course we used to be able to go t' pictures, have a
>> pomegranite, AND get a pin with it, and have change of a farthing.
>
>Pin?
>
>LUXURY!.....

Way back (probably aged 4) when things were in black and white I used
to get a bag of winkles at Dawlish, imagine the grief now selling such
things and giving them a pin to eat them with, same with the
pomegranites.

Give me E numbers any day, much safer, (twitch)
--
Wayne Davies - Mobile 07989 556213 - Harrogate, N.Yorks, UK
 
[email protected] wrote in message

> >4 Yorkshiremen joke...

> >LUXURY!.....
>
> Way back (probably aged 4) when things were in black and white I used
> to get a bag of winkles at Dawlish, imagine the grief now selling such
> things and giving them a pin to eat them with, same with the
> pomegranites.
>

Way (way) back, we used to get fish and chips in NEWSPAPER! No
sterilised and sanitised barrier layer. I used to reckon that the ink
made the chips taste better, but that's all gone now.

> Give me E numbers any day, much safer, (twitch)

As in - E-bah-gum?

Rich
 
On 6 Sep 2004 02:33:24 -0700, [email protected] (Richard
Brookman) wrote:

>[email protected] wrote in message
>
>> >4 Yorkshiremen joke...
>
>> >LUXURY!.....
>>
>> Way back (probably aged 4) when things were in black and white I used
>> to get a bag of winkles at Dawlish, imagine the grief now selling such
>> things and giving them a pin to eat them with, same with the
>> pomegranites.
>>
>
>Way (way) back, we used to get fish and chips in NEWSPAPER! No
>sterilised and sanitised barrier layer. I used to reckon that the ink
>made the chips taste better, but that's all gone now.

It can't have been that far back!. I remember getting fish and chips
in newspaper..
Or am i just getting old? :(

 
On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 18:48:24 +0100, Tom Woods <[email protected]>
made me spill my meths when he wrote:

>It can't have been that far back!. I remember getting fish and chips
>in newspaper..

Were they in black and white?
--
Wayne Davies - Mobile 07989 556213 - Harrogate, N.Yorks, UK
 
Tom Woods wrote:
>
>> Way (way) back, we used to get fish and chips in NEWSPAPER! No
>> sterilised and sanitised barrier layer. I used to reckon that the
>> ink made the chips taste better, but that's all gone now.
>
> It can't have been that far back!. I remember getting fish and chips
> in newspaper..
> Or am i just getting old? :(

Yes.

--

Rich

Series 2a
RR 4.6
V8 trialler
dog, wife, kids, whatever


 
On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 21:02:39 GMT, [email protected] wrote:

>On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 18:48:24 +0100, Tom Woods <[email protected]>
>made me spill my meths when he wrote:
>
>>It can't have been that far back!. I remember getting fish and chips
>>in newspaper..
>
>Were they in black and white?

I think it was generally half printed newspaper. I presume it was
either test prints or where one colour or part hadnt come out
(imagine, only the pictures or only the text or just some articles)
 
Tom Woods <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 21:02:39 GMT, [email protected] wrote:
>
> >On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 18:48:24 +0100, Tom Woods <[email protected]>
> >made me spill my meths when he wrote:
> >
> >>It can't have been that far back!. I remember getting fish and chips
> >>in newspaper..
> >
> >Were they in black and white?
>
> I think it was generally half printed newspaper. I presume it was
> either test prints or where one colour or part hadnt come out
> (imagine, only the pictures or only the text or just some articles)

COLOUR? Luxury!

You must have been in the post-Eddie Shah period. I was talking about
before The Times realised that having news on the front page was a
good idea, and the Guardian was the *Manchester* Guardian. Ah, them
were't days....

Rich
"Has Mafeking been relieved yet?"
 
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