Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Heh heh. Of that ilk, I always remember Caroline staggering back on air
in 1989 after the raid and playing on quite high rotation Ride on Time –
Black Box. Unashamedly fond of hearing it being 'jocked' by Peter
Chicago to whom musically it was very probably a bit of a mystery.And, on the theme of history being changed, doesn't the video include
some attractive slim lady dancing about and miming to what was actually
the voice of what some might unkindly call 'some huge fat bird' who
actually did the singing?
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Well Christopher as one of the people who sometimes contributes to Garry's board to answer a question if I can help, but referred to by Steve Martin on this board as 'people needing to be worshipped for what they once did many years ago, and failed to do more recently',( I haven't actually failed at anything recently!). I can help you out here. 'Ride On Time' was played by Peter to wind up PM who hated and despised the song when played prior to the raid. So it was just his impish devilment I suspect.
Yes. Yes. Meh.
Or more fully, yes I've got a Blackberry, and use it.
When I was in a tech support managerial role, it was exceedingly handy for being in touch all the time. The company
really appreciated that I'd answer emails at 4am - or any time of the day or night. You see the little light flashing, and
think "ooh, I wonder what happened... maybe it's important..." - and off you go working in your free time.
Nowadays, my job has a good deal less pressure, and the Blackberry amuses me for endless hours while my wife
goes shopping for clothes. I stand outside the cubicle checking the news, while she tries on some outfits.
It's like they say about fire - it's a good servant, but a bad master. Same for Blackberries.
Oh... and a tip... try the Opera Mini browser. The standard Blackberry one is shite.
T.
The Archers only reaches 5 million people. This radio soap from rwanda reaches 10 million. Perhaps radio drama has a future after all.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7453044.stm
This is probably not big anorak news, but I was rather pleased to purchase for £29 a credit card sized MP3 player from Aldi incorporating an FM transmitter. The TX is a little lacking in field strength but it is just the job for listening to my law lectures on the FM radio in the car without wires.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_music
1920s dance music
Dance music became enormously popular during the 1920s. Night clubs were frequented by large numbers of people at which a form of jazz, which was characterized by fancy orchestras with strings instruments and complex arrangements, became the standard music at clubs. A particularly popular dance was the fox-trot. At the time this music was simply called jazz, although today people refer to it as "white jazz" or big band. The late 1960s saw the rise of soul and R&B music which used lavish orchestral arrangements. These orchestras would gradually develop a new form of dance music, which came to be known as disco.
There is a whole business culture surrounding the Blackberry.
It is often the mark of seniority having one in business.
Once you have one it is most important to flash it around.
It gives the owner the right to expect quick fire responses to his whims.
Typically, owners of them become thoroughly objectionable. They fire out demands 24/7 and expect immediate responses. They grow increasingly angry when their requests are not answered immediately.
They are best avoided at all costs.
When a lady manager of mine got her Blackberry, she immediately visited Harvey Nicks in Leeds to purchase big brand Blackberry bag that cost almost as much as the Blackberry.
Sterling Times <2@slewis.biz> said:
<html><head><title></title></head><body><p>There is a whole business culture surrounding the Blackberry.</p><p>It is often the mark of seniority having one in business.</p><p>Once you have one it is most important to flash it around.</p><p>It gives the owner the right to expect quick fire responses to his whims.</p><p>Typically, owners of them become thoroughly objectionable. They fire out demands 24/7 and expect immediate responses. They grow increasingly angry when their requests are not answered immediately. </p><p>They are best avoided at all costs.</p><p>When a lady manager of mine got her Blackberry, she immediately visited Harvey Nicks in Leeds to purchase big brand Blackberry bag that cost almost as much as the Blackberry.</p></body></html>
I'm very wary of people who mince aroud the office with pockets full of gadgets, it mainly proves they are incapable of doing their job and wish to look good instead, a bit like the person who floats around armed with a clip board trying to look important and busy. Another pet hate is internal email, why message someone sitting not more than 8 feet away from you. The art of conversation is dissapearring. As for blackberry gadgets, something else we'll look back on as we do now with the zx spectrum. 'Gadet Men' worry me as 9 times out of 10 they spend more time f***ing around with their bleeping, touch screen, c*ck extending piece of kit rather than just getting on with their job.
Sterling Times <2@slewis.biz> said:
<html><head><title></title></head><body><h2><br /></h2><h2>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_music<br /></h2><h2><span class="mw-headline">1920s dance music</span></h2><p>Dance music became enormously popular during the 1920s. Night clubs were frequented by large numbers of people at which a form of jazz, which was characterized by fancy orchestras with strings instruments and complex arrangements, became the standard music at clubs. A particularly popular dance was the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox-trot" title="Fox-trot">fox-trot</a>. At the time this music was simply called jazz, although today people refer to it as "white jazz" or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_band" title="Big band">big band</a>. The late 1960s saw the rise of soul and R&B music which used lavish orchestral arrangements. These orchestras would gradually develop a new form of dance music, which came to be known as disco.</p></body></html>
Wasn't a Charlston dance song remixed in around 1993/4 - 'Doop' or something like that?
Tim Shepherd <...> said:
<html><head><title></title><title>Blackberry</title></head><body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><p>Yes. Yes. Meh.<br /><br />Or more fully, yes I've got a Blackberry, and use it.<br /><br />When I was in a tech support managerial role, it was exceedingly handy for being in touch all the time. The company<br />really appreciated that I'd answer emails at 4am – or any time of the day or night. You see the little light flashing, and<br />think "ooh, I wonder what happened… maybe it's important…" – and off you go working in your free time.<br /><br />Nowadays, my job has a good deal less pressure, and the Blackberry amuses me for endless hours while my wife<br />goes shopping for clothes. I stand outside the cubicle checking the news, while she tries on some outfits.<br /><br />It's like they say about fire – it's a good servant, but a bad master. Same for Blackberries.<br /><br />Oh… and a tip… try the Opera Mini browser. The standard Blackberry one is shite.<br /><br />T.<br /><br />Christopher England wrote:</p><blockquote><div class="kinomi"><div class="main"><div class="message"><div class="parts"><div class="part"><p>Anybody here got and use a Blackberry?</p><p>Are they wonderful or are they dog pooh?<br />--<br />* <a class="contact" href="http://www.anoraknation.com/tags/people/Christopher%20England">Christopher England</a> just said that *</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="footer"><p>Free thought + Free speech + Free radio = Anorak Nation</p><p><a href="http://www.jigluhood.com">www.jigluhood.com</a> – communities that think for themselves</p></div></blockquote><br /></body></html>
Don't tell me you've got a Burberry case for your Blackberry :-)
Read the latest news about this topic
Boodschap uit het gastenboek van Radio Veronica van vandaag, 17 juni. http://www.norderney.nl/logboek.html
Hans Brouwers
Toch blijft het zonde dat de Top 40 (weer) niet verkrijgbaar is als gedrukt exemplaar. Alleen helpt het volschrijven van nieuwsgroepen
(tot in het buitenland aan toe) en gastenboeken daar niets aan. Dat de Free bedondert je shop ermee gestopt is, heeft alles te maken met de door Erik aangekondigde Top 40 website, die er in mei zou zijn. Daarop ondermeer de mogelijkheid om nummers uit de lijsten direct te downloaden. En tja, dan zit je in de wijk van Hansie. Het onmiddelijk stoppen met publiceren van de Top 40 in zijn blaadje heeft volgens mij die aanleiding. Anders stop je niet midden in een jaar. Gewoon wraak dus.
Mijn antwoord hierop op dezelfde website..
Hallo Hans Brouwers. Héél hartelijk bedankt voor jouw antwoord! Zoiets zei Erik de Zwart ook al op zaterdag 19 april in hotel "Lapershoek" tijdens de zeezender Radio Veronica-dag m.b.t. (enkel en alleen) zijn nieuwe top-40 website die overigens er nu nog steeds niet is, als ik mij nu niet vergis.
Tja, dan kan ik de reactie van de F.R.S. wel zéér levendig voorstellen temeer omdat ik weet dat men aldaar een groeiend bezwaar had tegen de wijze van samenstellen van de top-40.
Hartelijke top-40 groeten van Nico uit Gouda
Sterling Times <2@slewis.biz> said:
<html><head><title></title></head><body><p>The Archers only reaches 5 million people. This radio soap from rwanda reaches 10 million. Perhaps radio drama has a future after all.</p><p>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7453044.stm</p></body></html>
Well there's certainly not much on the telly to engage ones brain. I admit, I listen to radio more and more nowadays. Why I invested on a £1200 TV i'll never know.....Oh yes, it kept the missus quiet.
Thank god for internet radio and talk radio, I find TV just winds me up to the point I'd like to launch my foot through it, I could personally live with out a TV and just live with a internet radio.
Our TV dominates the lounge and it just makes me more and more angry, I spend more time in our small study as I feel like the TV gets annoyed with me two when I shout at it, it'll probably get a court order to keep me out of the house next. It was hard to resist committing commona assault on my TV last night as I mistakingly stumbled apon the 'Despatches' programme on Ch4. So I bit me arm off, kicked the cat and listened to Nick Abbot instead whilst a so called 'radical / exteme islamist' covered his face pouring out hate for the west whilst dressed in a New York baseball cap on a 52 inch screen in my lounge.
Da Guff -
Q_1_2_3_4_5_6 <...> said:
Read the latest news about this topic
Boodschap uit het gastenboek van Radio Veronica van vandaag, 17 juni.
http://www.norderney.nl/logboek.htmlHans Brouwers
Toch blijft het zonde dat de Top 40 (weer) niet verkrijgbaar is als
gedrukt exemplaar. Alleen helpt het volschrijven van nieuwsgroepen
(tot in het buitenland aan toe) en gastenboeken daar niets aan. Dat de
Free bedondert je shop ermee gestopt is, heeft alles te maken met de
door Erik aangekondigde Top 40 website, die er in mei zou zijn. Daarop
ondermeer de mogelijkheid om nummers uit de lijsten direct te
downloaden. En tja, dan zit je in de wijk van Hansie. Het onmiddelijk
stoppen met publiceren van de Top 40 in zijn blaadje heeft volgens mij
die aanleiding. Anders stop je niet midden in een jaar. Gewoon wraak
dus.Mijn antwoord hierop op dezelfde website..
Hallo Hans Brouwers. Héél hartelijk bedankt voor jouw antwoord! Zoiets
zei Erik de Zwart ook al op zaterdag 19 april in hotel "Lapershoek"
tijdens de zeezender Radio Veronica-dag m.b.t. (enkel en alleen) zijn
nieuwe top-40 website die overigens er nu nog steeds niet is, als ik
mij nu niet vergis.
Tja, dan kan ik de reactie van de F.R.S. wel zéér levendig voorstellen
temeer omdat ik weet dat men aldaar een groeiend bezwaar had tegen de
wijze van samenstellen van de top-40.
Hartelijke top-40 groeten van Nico uit Gouda
Poptastic, not alf mate!
Sterling Times <2@slewis.biz> said:
The TX is a little lacking in field strength but it
is just the job for listening to my law lectures on the FM radio in the
car without wires.
About a year ago, I bought an FM microtransmitter and it sends out a more than adequate signal. In fact after following advice from this board, I also bought a 12' stereo audio connection cable which boosts the signal up to about quarter of a mile with a cheap transistor, probably further on a good set or car radio. (This is so I can hear stuff from the house down on the allotment!) It works great. Here's a link to the tx details http://www.diytrade.com/china/4/products/2564878/MP3_FM_transmitter.html
Also, I wonder if anyone else uses the free Audacity sofware? It lets you 'record' stuff from the web and export recordings as MP3 files for your device- it's great and I've been sad enough to record 4 or 5 hours of Arrow Classic Rock at a time so I can listen to it on my way to work and back. And at work if the boss buggers off. See http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Apologies if this is really old news folks- computers n'that are not really my thing, Cheers
Giles.
Quoting a previous DAVE RICHARDS 'JACK SPARROW' contribution:-
referred to by
Steve Martin on this board as 'people needing to be worshipped for what
they once did many years ago, and failed to do more recently',
a) Steve Martin never said that. I said that.
b) I wasn't referring to you. I don't even know who you are or what you be doing these days or those days!
'Ride On Time' was played by Peter to wind up PM who hated and despised
the song when played prior to the raid. So it was just his impish
devilment I suspect.
Aha. No wonder I used to really like Chicago. :-)
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Quoting a previous Tim Scrimshaw contribution:-
Oh... and a tip... try the Opera Mini browser. The standard Blackberry
one is shite.
Yeah, I use Opera on my trusty N95. I don't get why so many seem to 'love' the Blackberry over the N95 though. Still, it could be worth. They could be iSheep with their iPhones. Shudder.
Speaking of Macs... You know how yer PC mouse has a left button, a right button and a scroller wheel? Well, why do the standard Apple mice only have one button? The answer being that a sheep's hoof can't operate multiple buttons and a scroller wheel. Ha ha ha.
I'll go and hide...
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Quoting a previous Alan Milewczyk contribution:-
I'm no expert on the matter but didn't people do folk dancing in
mediaeval days, not to mention the traditional dancing round the maypole
stuff, Morris dancing, etc? I suspect whoever first came up with a tune
that had a tappable rhythm would have been one of the pioneers of dance
music.
How did I know this would go off this way? Heh heh!
Surely there must be a time in the 50s/60s when modern dance music 'started'?
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Christopher England wrote:
Quoting a previous Alan Milewczyk
<http://www.anoraknation.com/tags/people/Alan%20Milewczyk> contribution:-I'm no expert on the matter but didn't people do folk dancing in
mediaeval days, not to mention the traditional dancing round the
maypole
stuff, Morris dancing, etc? I suspect whoever first came up with a
tune
that had a tappable rhythm would have been one of the pioneers of
dance
music.How did I know this would go off this way? Heh heh!
Surely there must be a time in the 50s/60s when modern dance music
'started'?
Of course cave men danced to sticks clicked together (as do aborigines today).
People danced to Rock n Roll and to similar things before and after. You can call anything with a beat dance music. Here's the legal definition from the Criminal Justice & Public Order Act, 1994 ... amplified music 'wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats' ...
OK, do I win the 'I can be more pedantic than you' competition Alan? :-)
Going back to my suggestion, I would call 'modern' dance music that with an electronic element, so I would put the start in to the mid 70s.
Andy
'Ride On Time' was played by Peter to wind up PM who hated and
despised the song when played prior to the raid. So it was just his
impish devilment I suspect.
Earlier that year the rather good first album from Neneh Cherry was sitting in the record library unplayed and unloved so I featured some album tracks on the 819 Overnight Alternative late one night. It had only been out a couple of months at the time. Anyway the next day the call came through from land and I was told not to play it again. I wasn't deliberately winding up PM, just pushing the boundaries to see what I could get away with. But it seemed to do the trick. Oh well. http://www.answers.com/topic/raw-like-sushi?cat=entertainment
Andy
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