Sweepstake

In article <313030303432373947987C3953.RemoveThis@zetnet.co.uk>,
guy.king.RemoveThis@zetnet.co.uk says...

> The message <slrnfpgo43.3hg.Ivan.Reid.RemoveThis@loki.brunel.ac.uk>
> from "Dr Ivan D. Reid" <Ivan.Reid.RemoveThis@brunel.ac.uk> contains these words:
>
> > How many days before the first vehicle crashes into the new
> > roadside furniture near my house? Day-zero was yesterday...
>
> When's bin-day?

*DING*

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On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:28:34 +0000, Champ <neal.RemoveThis@champ.org.uk>
wrote in <0v0hp3tfcek4m0g11q684u9t5hveqt4jvv.RemoveThis@4ax.com>:
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:57:17 +0000 (UTC), "Dr Ivan D. Reid"
><Ivan.Reid.RemoveThis@brunel.ac.uk> wrote:

>> How many days before the first vehicle crashes into the new
>>roadside furniture near my house? Day-zero was yesterday...

>>http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~eesridr/bollards.jpg

>> Prace bets!

> I like the colour coding! I presume red = LHS of road (to correspond
> with tail lights) and white is RHS (to correspond with headlights).

Is that not usual here? In Oz the reflectors on opposite sides
of the road are the different colours, but I can't remember which is which.

> Reminds me of the first time I went thru the Mt Blanc tunnel on a bike
> (in 1989 or 90). Competely ignoring speed limits, I treated it as a
> video game - red lights = something to overtake, white lights =
> something to avoid.

Heh. Riding back from Uni at night through the Clarence and Richmond
cane-fields I'd often hit fog, and slow semis. No way of knowing where the
road was going, so SOP was to wait until you saw headlights through the fog,
judge how far away the car was, and go for the pass -- hoping that it wasn't
a Land-Rover coming towards you...

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On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:08:17 -0000, Whinging Courier
<markonusenet DeleteThis @TAKEITAWAYyahoo.co.uk>
wrote in <MPG.22029e17ccd05a94989a08 DeleteThis @news.individual.net>:
> In article <313030303432373947987C3953 DeleteThis @zetnet.co.uk>,
> guy.king DeleteThis @zetnet.co.uk says...

>> The message <slrnfpgo43.3hg.Ivan.Reid DeleteThis @loki.brunel.ac.uk>
>> from "Dr Ivan D. Reid" <Ivan.Reid DeleteThis @brunel.ac.uk> contains these words:

>> > How many days before the first vehicle crashes into the new
>> > roadside furniture near my house? Day-zero was yesterday...

>> When's bin-day?

> *DING*

Tomorrow...

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Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
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On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:24:46 GMT, Howard <dghoward.RemoveThis@gmail.com>
wrote in <252mj.82471$c_1.18069@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk>:
> Dr Ivan D. Reid wrote:
>> On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:28:34 +0000, Champ <neal.RemoveThis@champ.org.uk>
>> wrote in <0v0hp3tfcek4m0g11q684u9t5hveqt4jvv.RemoveThis@4ax.com>:
>>> On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:57:17 +0000 (UTC), "Dr Ivan D. Reid"
>>> <Ivan.Reid.RemoveThis@brunel.ac.uk> wrote:

>>> I like the colour coding! I presume red = LHS of road (to correspond
>>> with tail lights) and white is RHS (to correspond with headlights).

>> Is that not usual here? In Oz the reflectors on opposite sides
>> of the road are the different colours, but I can't remember which is which.

> Sorry to butt in, but why on earth did Champ's message not
> get thro' to me?

Probably because you are reading in ukrm; I'd set follow-ups to
ukrs because some people don't like a lot of cross-posting, but since
the chances were high that Neal was posting from ukrm and hadn't noticed
the f/u, I put ukrm back in in my reply (as now -- you may not see your
own post! ...unless, like Adny Woodwrad, you're in your own killfile and don't
expect to see it...)

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Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
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On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:36:44 +0000 (UTC), "Dr Ivan D. Reid"
<Ivan.Reid.DeleteThis@brunel.ac.uk> wrote:

>>>> I like the colour coding! I presume red = LHS of road (to correspond
>>>> with tail lights) and white is RHS (to correspond with headlights).
>
>>> Is that not usual here? In Oz the reflectors on opposite sides
>>> of the road are the different colours, but I can't remember which is which.
>
>> Sorry to butt in, but why on earth did Champ's message not
>> get thro' to me?

I wondered that!

> Probably because you are reading in ukrm; I'd set follow-ups to
>ukrs because some people don't like a lot of cross-posting, but since
>the chances were high that Neal was posting from ukrm and hadn't noticed
>the f/u,

Nearing 1, in fact!

>I put ukrm back in in my reply (as now -- you may not see your
>own post! ...unless, like Adny Woodwrad, you're in your own killfile and don't
>expect to see it...)

Hang on a mo - what's the point of posting to one newsgroup and
setting follow-ups to another? Your OP appeared in ukrm.

Anyway, I've got no problems with cross-posting, least of all with the
Shedde, who've always struck me as a set of decent coves.

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Champ wrote:

> >> Sorry to butt in, but why on earth did Champ's message not
> >> get thro' to me?
>
> I wondered that!

Yeah, me too.

> Hang on a mo - what's the point of posting to one newsgroup and
> setting follow-ups to another? Your OP appeared in ukrm.

I never did get this whole 'follow-ups reset' lark that gets posted
occasionally.

> Anyway, I've got no problems with cross-posting, least of all with the
> Shedde, who've always struck me as a set of decent coves.

But quite, *quite* mad.

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Tomorrow afternoon I say.
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On 24 Jan 2008 15:48:46 GMT, "CT" <me.DeleteThis@christrollen.co.uk> wrote:

>> Anyway, I've got no problems with cross-posting, least of all with the
>> Shedde, who've always struck me as a set of decent coves.
>
>But quite, *quite* mad.

Of course. But that's all part of their charm!
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Champ wrote:
>
> On 24 Jan 2008 15:48:46 GMT, "CT" <me.TakeThisOut@christrollen.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >> Anyway, I've got no problems with cross-posting, least of all with the
> >> Shedde, who've always struck me as a set of decent coves.
> >
> >But quite, *quite* mad.
>
> Of course. But that's all part of their charm!

"I'm mad, me."

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CT wrote:
> Champ wrote:
>
>>>> Sorry to butt in, but why on earth did Champ's message not
>>>> get thro' to me?
>> I wondered that!
>
> Yeah, me too.
>
>> Hang on a mo - what's the point of posting to one newsgroup and
>> setting follow-ups to another? Your OP appeared in ukrm.
>
> I never did get this whole 'follow-ups reset' lark that gets posted
> occasionally.
>
>> Anyway, I've got no problems with cross-posting, least of all with the
>> Shedde, who've always struck me as a set of decent coves.
>
> But quite, *quite* mad.
>

How dare you sirrah, handbags at forty paces!
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ogden wrote:
> Champ wrote:
>> On 24 Jan 2008 15:48:46 GMT, "CT" <me DeleteThis @christrollen.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>> Anyway, I've got no problems with cross-posting, least of all with the
>>>> Shedde, who've always struck me as a set of decent coves.
>>> But quite, *quite* mad.
>> Of course. But that's all part of their charm!
>
> "I'm mad, me."
>
Int mad brilliant
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On or around Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:23:07 +0000, Champ <neal DeleteThis @champ.org.uk>
enlightened us thusly:

>On 24 Jan 2008 15:48:46 GMT, "CT" <me DeleteThis @christrollen.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>> Anyway, I've got no problems with cross-posting, least of all with the
>>> Shedde, who've always struck me as a set of decent coves.
>>
>>But quite, *quite* mad.
>
>Of course. But that's all part of their charm!

says he, who rides a GPZ750 turbo (when it's not broken...)

'ere, while we've got the bikers here... you can sign my petition:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/SORN-rules/

gwaaan, pleeease!

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In article <slrnfph4tl.320.Ivan.Reid.RemoveThis@loki.brunel.ac.uk>,
Ivan.Reid.RemoveThis@brunel.ac.uk says...

> On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:08:17 -0000, Whinging Courier
> <markonusenet.RemoveThis@TAKEITAWAYyahoo.co.uk>
> wrote in <MPG.22029e17ccd05a94989a08.RemoveThis@news.individual.net>:
> > In article <313030303432373947987C3953.RemoveThis@zetnet.co.uk>,
> > guy.king.RemoveThis@zetnet.co.uk says...
>
> >> The message <slrnfpgo43.3hg.Ivan.Reid.RemoveThis@loki.brunel.ac.uk>
> >> from "Dr Ivan D. Reid" <Ivan.Reid.RemoveThis@brunel.ac.uk> contains these words:
>
> >> > How many days before the first vehicle crashes into the new
> >> > roadside furniture near my house? Day-zero was yesterday...
>
> >> When's bin-day?
>
> > *DING*
>
> Tomorrow...

I'll put a fiver on the Bin lorry pulling at least one of those out of
the ground tomorrow.
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