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Re: Joined Up TV Documentaries

#28751
From: Holly
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:21
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On Jun 18, 12:44 am, ah <splifing...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Holly wrote:
> > On Jun 4, 10:29 pm, ah <splifing...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Holly wrote:
> >> > On May 31, 9:37 pm, ah <splifing...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> Holly wrote:
> >> >> > On May 30, 8:36 pm, ah <splifing...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> >> Holly wrote:
> >> >> >> > On May 29, 8:17 pm, ah <splifing...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> >> >> Holly wrote:
> >> >> >> >> > On May 28, 9:36 pm, ah <splifing...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> >> >> >> Holly wrote:
> >> >> >> >> >> > On May 26, 10:04 pm, ah <splifing...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> >> >> >> >> Holly wrote:
> >> >> >> >> >> >> > On May 26, 4:44 am, ah <splifing...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Holly wrote:
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > On May 22, 5:36 am, Phil Kyle <philkyle2...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Holly <simsala...@mac.hush.com> wrote innews:vLWdndYoIKeIoM3bnZ2dnUVZ_ufinZ2d@comcast.com:
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> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > Phil Kyle wrote:
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Holly <noon_un...@yahoo.com> wrote in
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>news:1179594870.447060.247740@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com:
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> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> On May 19, 6:02 am, Phil Kyle <philkyle2...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>> JF <j...@NOSPAMmarage.demon.co.uk> wrote
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>> innews:WEsn2tE1XpTGFwJK@marage.demon.co.uk:
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> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>>> X-No-Archive: yes
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>>> My wife is displeased with ITV.
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>> Maybe because ITV is shit?
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> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>>> Last Monday the 'Ternight with Trev'
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>>> documentary was all about England's roads and the appalling state
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>>> they've gotten into. Certainly that's the case in Surrey where
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>>> stretches of asphalt are used to keep the potholes apart. Several
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>>> disgruntled users made the point that one needs a 4 by 4
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>>> off-roader for the suspension to survive.
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>> So an off roader is better on the road because it has potholes in
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>> it? You do talk some shite, Jimbo.
>
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>>> About an hour later there was a programme fronted by Paul Sergeant
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>>> which was one long whinge about 4 by 4 cars and how they're
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>>> unsuitable for English roads and are the cause of galactic
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>>> warming. What annoyed my wife is that the same shot of a row of
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>>> parked 4 by 4s was used over and over again. Trouble is most of
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>>> them in this oft-repeated clip weren't 4 by 4s -- they were Honda
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>>> CRVs. She bought one last year and, although it has a suspension
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>>> that owes much to good, old-fashioned marine engineering, it's
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>>> definitely not a 4 by 4.
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>> Yes, Honda CRV's are two wheel drive pretend 4x4s for hairdressers
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>> and other povvos wot can't afford real ones.
>
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>>> My car, which we sold last year and never got around to replacing,
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>>> was an Ultima Cosworth Scorpio. It was low and sleek. It didn't
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>>> look big but it was. There's more room in the garage around the
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>>> Honda than there was around the Scorpio. At a guess I'd say that
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>>> the Honda CRV is about a metre shorter. True it's higher than the
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>>> Scorpio (thank God -- which makes it a joy for me to get into) but
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>>> additional height doesn't detract from road space and I doubt if
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>>> it makes a significant contribution to galactic warming.
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>> Well done for buying one the ugliest cars Ford ever made. Sleek?
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>> SLEEK? It's a fucking bus.
>
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>>> My feeling is that people see the chunky nature of 4 by 4s and
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>>> automatically think they're bigger than ordinary saloons. Maybe
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>>> they ought to take a closer look at those overall dimensions?
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>> But as you've said the CRV isn't a 4x4, thus contradicting
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>> yourself, you silly twunt.
>
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>> --
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> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>> P
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>> h
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>> i
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>> l
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> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>> K
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>> y
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>> l
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>> e
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> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>> W
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>> o
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>> z
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> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>> E
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>> r
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>> e
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> How can you be so rude to this poor, sick, feeble man?  
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> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Quite easily, as it happens. I did the same when he was a strapping
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> (i.e. fat) young (i.e. not ancient) man.
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> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > Blood oath?
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> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> No thanks, I've already eaten.
>
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> I thought he
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> was quite witty in the line "Certainly that's the case in Surrey
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> where stretches of asphalt are used to keep the potholes apart."
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> Your callousness causes me to wonder ... do you have a hidden agenda
> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> here?
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> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> No it's blatantly obvious what my agenda is.
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> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > <snicker> a sleight of hand.
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> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Hmm.
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> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > Hmm..
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> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Hmm...
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> >> >> >> >> >> >> > Hmm....
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> >> >> >> >> >> >> Hmm.....
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> >> >> >> >> >> > Hmm......
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> >> >> >> >> >> Hmm.......
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> >> >> >> >> > Hmm........
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> >> >> >> >> Hmm.........
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> >> >> >> > Humm..........
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> >> >> >> >> > Some thoughts that came to mind: "we CAN count; ho-hum, resistance is
> >> >> >> >> > fuTILE, *approaching the event horizon*, hold that focus ... hum."
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> >> >> >> >> > You know I have ADHD ... right?
>
> >> >> >> >> Not a sign, evident.
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> >> >> >> >> Do you feel inadequate?-
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> >> >> >> > To counting?  Hahahahhaha.  Pinched.  Oppositional.
> >> >> >> > In a Spelling Bee?  Yes.  I was always in the first ten out.
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> >> >> >> ITYM "Math quiz."
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> >> >> > No <don't be too surprised>, I am sure it was the third grade spelling
> >> >> > bees that challenged my self esteAm.  Thank Goodness for spellcheck.
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> >> >> Third grade didn't have much of an influence on me.
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> >> >> Fourth, on the other hand . . . .
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> >> > Actually, third grade was okay ... but fourth grade was a bitch.
> >> > Interesting.
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> >> >> >> > Do you feel rule ridden?
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> >> >> >> Constantly.
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> >> >> >> You?
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> >> >> > Nah.  I'm fairly good at dodging or avoiding.  It seems to come with
> >> >> > the impulsivity.
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> >> >> Impulsivity?
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> >> >> I did not know you were a neologist!
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> >> > It is in Random House Webster's and in many online dictionaries.
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> >> I'm quite wary of circuitous definitions.
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> > It's in the DSM -IV.
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> Which section!
>

Under ADHD silly.

>
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> >> > Don't you think that the vitality of English is, in part, due to its
> >> > openness to such growth?
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> >> No; it's the top-down, fsck everything else mentality that lends dominance.
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> >> Or, maybe it's the hip-hip phenomenon.
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> > Ha ... at first I read "Hip-Hop" phenomenon. <still chuckling>  Maybe
> > "fienomenon."
> > What's the "hip-hip phenomenon"?  Hurrah?
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> Actually, I meant to write "hip-hop" ;/
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> >  Which rhymes with Sryah and
> > that makes me think of Cucamonga which is a funny sounding name ...
> > and a remote reference.
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> IAWTP.
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> >> > Of course, I can understand why "impulseness" is sufficient.  However,
> >> > the tone of the sentence would be sharper if I had omitted the
> >> > article.  In this place and time, I like the sound of "It seems to
> >> > come with impulsivity" over "it seems to come with impulseness."
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> >> I like words ending in "y", also.  Truly!
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> >> btw, ITYM "impulsiveness".
>
> > We're on the same wave length. ;)
>
> 540 micrometers?

450

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> >> > With further reflection on the construction of this sentence, I think
> >> > using the "the"  emphasis ... lends weight to the burden that
> >> > impulsiveness has given to my life.  Well ... now I am torn ... dare I
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> >> See!
>
> > What!?
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> I don't remember.
>

What?

>
> >> > move forward?  (talking conventionally)
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> >> Fore-ward, IMO, is the only option.
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> > You have one of those? <said with admiration>
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> Three, but two are kept in their cases.
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>
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> >> > Aren't you the "Ah" who made the very agreeable observation about
> >> > Canetti's writing, stating "he tends to micro manage"?
>
> >> Same "ah", diffferent bluff.-
>
> > legerdemain ~
>
> Great breed, I agree.  I didn't know you were a dog person.

What you don't might kill you.
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From:  Holly <noon_union@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Joined Up TV Documentaries
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:21:10 -0700
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