The totally off-topic thread

[cove]

Twice this year I have used the word torch when it meant flashlight. A torch in the UK and the US seems to have a different meaning that must come from their older civilizations.

 

[Buzzard]

Heard on the news this morning that the swallowed ring recovered following the Indroopilly theft will be auctioned with proceeds going to charity.

I suspect it will go for bottom dollar. Assuming it's not passed at auction.

 

[Hvr]

Heard on the news this morning that the swallowed ring recovered following the Indroopilly theft will be auctioned with proceeds going to charity.

I suspect it will go for bottom dollar. Assuming it's not passed at auction.

It might go for a higher price if the auctioneer does more than go through the motions. If he doesn't I suspect there will be a fair bit of paperwork to complete.

Maybe they should have made him vomit. There's always carrots in that.

 

[Simo]

Did you mean SFO rather than SFA?

Yes SFO... Oops

 

[Hvr]

And good bye to analogue television in Australia. You were great in your day but you were given the finger for digital television.

Melbourne was the last place in Australia to switch off.

 

[serfty]

The babel fish.
You put it in your ear.
Then you can understand any language.
...

(The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy)

"Meanwhile the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different cultures and races, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation" ...

I did like DA's books:

..."The Babel fish is small, yellow, leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the universe. It feeds on brain wave energy, absorbing all unconscious frequencies and then excreting telepathically a matrix formed from the conscious frequencies and nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain, the practical upshot of which is that if you stick one in your ear, you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language: the speech you hear decodes the brain wave matrix."

It is a universal translator that neatly crosses the language divide between any species. The book points out that the Babel fish could not possibly have developed naturally, and therefore it both proves and disproves the existence of God:

Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could evolve purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this:

"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.""But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.""Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic."Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white, and gets killed on the next zebra crossing.

Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys. But this did not stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme for his best selling book, Well That About Wraps It Up for God. Meanwhile the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different cultures and races, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation. ...[SUP][/SUP]

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[serfty]

...
Melbourne was the last place in Australia to switch off.

Originally scheduled to be completly switched over by end of 2008 ...

...
You were great in your day but you were given the finger for digital television. ...

Morso given the finger so the Oz Govmnt could increase revenue by allowing more lucrative (to them) commercial access to the freed up RF bandwidth

 

[Buzzard]

It might go for a higher price if the auctioneer does more than go through the motions. If he doesn't I suspect there will be a fair bit of paperwork to complete.

Maybe they should have made him vomit. There's always carrots in that.

One of my staff says that a ring like that, produced naturally, should go for a s**t load of cash

 

[markis10]

Morso given the finger so the Oz Govmnt could increase revenue by allowing more lucrative (to them) commercial access to the freed up RF bandwidth

Digital takes up more spectrum than Analog pretty much, nothing is being freed up so to speak other than VHF low band which may revert to World Radio Council standards for use, which being VHF is not lucrative.

 

[amaroo]

Have clients at various points on the Coast - so usually at any of these (in this order) Pelican Waters, Peregian Beach, Noosa Heads, Tewantin and Buderim.

plenty of scope there to fit into your schedule.

trying to see some of them this or next week - trying to line up the ducks. Will let you know if it transpires

Sunday we're heading off to LOTFAP/Quebec for 4+ weeks.....if you are heading this way in the next few days - no worries. I'll drop you a PM with my details...

 

[Simo]

Digital takes up more spectrum than Analog pretty much, nothing is being freed up so to speak other than VHF low band which may revert to World Radio Council standards for use, which being VHF is not lucrative.

Didn't the Telco's buy up the Analogue spectrum.

I don't think the Govt got what they thought they where going to get because it became a bit of a 1.5 horse race as Optus didn't want to compete for all of it and Telstra didn't want it all at the price they wanted to charge and Voda fell out when the communications minister said what he wanted for it which was not got by the Govt. They wanted Telco's to pay of the national debt with giving out the extra spectrum.

 

[QF WP]

Back to the off topic ring thief. I had to laugh in the story when it said:

The saga has sparked an internal probe

 

[Buzzard]

Back to the off topic ring thief. I had to laugh in the story when it said:

I'm sure a few sphincters are nervously twitching in the hope that some things pass unnoticed

 

[Simo]

Little Miss Simo swallowed a Diamond of a princess crown and it was app size of a 20c piece and we had to look in her number 2's.

I feel sorry for the poor guard or prison type person that had to do that Shi!!y job

 

[Buzzard]

Little Miss Simo swallowed a Diamond of a princess crown and it was app size of a 20c piece and we had to look in her number 2's.

I feel sorry for the poor guard or prison type person that had to do that Shi!!y job

According to the report I heard, the job was left to the prisoners own doing which is why he dumped one and only one ring recovered which is what QF WP was referring to above.

Maybe this whole thing smells of corruption. To sort these sorts of things out you need a nose for the job.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

And don't forget what tomorrow is - December 11, 2013 - or written in SH 11/12/13

 

[anat0l]

And don't forget what tomorrow is - December 11, 2013 - or written in SH 11/12/13

Someone going to try and score the timestamp at 14:15:16 tomorrow?

 

[Buzzard]

Back to the off topic ring thief. I had to laugh in the story when it said:

More on this topic....

Apperntly the person chosen to carry out the internal probe is underterred at the prospect of sniffing out the criminal ring.
Something stinks about this hole thing. It might even be an inside job.

 

[erkpod]

More on this topic....

Apperntly the person chosen to carry out the internal probe is underterred at the prospect of sniffing out the criminal ring.
Something stinks about this hole thing. It might even be an inside job.

Ch 9 reports that the ring still had the price tag & barcode attached.

The ring has gone full circle according to the reporter & has been placed back on sale after being sterlieized.

The guy is sookylalaing about anyone he can including the police, the medics & the woman working in the shop.

 

[JohnK]

The babel fish.
You put it in your ear.
Then you can understand any language.

Even better than an implant.