Posts by Steve Barnes
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Also, may I repeat my plea for fellow Kiwis to call a backside an arse rather than an ass.
Has anyone else noticed that on the Herald's "your poos" column any word with ass in it, like pass, class or even passive gets gets the *** treatment, whereas the good old arse gets a clear run?
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"Sure, if I reprehend any thing in this world it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!"
Mrs. Malaprop in Richard Sheridan's play The Rivals (1775).
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There are 10 kinds of people that understand the binary system, those that do and those that don't.
I always hated that one, if they understand then they do, do they not?
Anyway, I was brung up to talk proper like what my mum learned me and if the Queens english was good enough for Jesus then it's good enough for moi.
I am also partial to the occasional Malapropism if only to piss off pedants. :-) -
Thanks, Steve, for that unforgettable factoid. Maybe it will come in handy on quiz night.
My pleasure, welcome to PA and the wonderful world of badger factoids. ;-)
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In this world, titled ladies, down-and-outs and middle class students mingle with the hard men of the Glasgow underworld. Alliances shift and change as Laidlaw tries to find Tony Veitch, a young student who may have killed the vagrant and a criminal.
Is there no end to this man's skullduggery?
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Vermeer's paintbrushes were made of badger hair.
Not a lot of people know that.
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"Kenwood KDC-MP5033 unit.
To transform it to the European system, you should turn it off, press 1+5+SRC until it will turn on again. And that does the job.""Apparently on all JVC radios if you want to change from US to EU or visa versa, you hold the am/fm button and the button “5” in for 3-5 seconds until you hear beep! Mine actually showed area changed on the screen."
Found this for you. ;-)
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@ Jen Ferguson
While a devoted fan of Morning Report (when I get to listen to it, that is, since my car radio decided to give up playing even-numbered frequencies - go figure),
Ah Ha, the problem is likely to be that the radio has reset itself to US radio bands, they only broadcast on ODD frequencies, there should be a way to set it back to Euro radio setting. Depending on the model it could be a physical switch or a software one. The software switches are usually reset by holding down a button for a few seconds, which can be done accidentally. Try pressing the 5 button for 5 seconds, if it has one. If not, do a google search on your radio model with the words "even frequencies" in parentheses.
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Stuffs up his spelling too.