Re: Petulent Little Bitches - was: How to build the regex datablade

Marco Greco said: > > Paul Watson wrote: >> TV as we know it, ie electrical as opposed to mechanical was invented by >> an American, out of Utah I believe > > You disappoint me Paul - electronic television was devised in 1908 by A C > Swinton, some 20 years earlier than Baird ever dreamed of mechanical > television, although it wouldn't be until the early 30's that the system > saw > the light of day. > Campbell Swinton was, guess what, a Scot. (and so was Baird, BTW) Don't be too harsh on Paul, he's not a real Scot, he's a Geordie makeweight. (And don't get me started on Geordies!) :o) -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche did i mention i like nulls? heck, i even go so far as to say that all columns in a table except the primary key could/should be nullable. this has certain advantages, for example, if you need to insert a child record and you don't have a parent row for it, just do an insert into the parent table with the primary key value (everything else null), and voila, relational integrity is preserved. but this is, admittedly, a bit controversial among modellers. --r937, dbforums.com

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 15:48:55 -0000 (GMT), "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@serendipita.com> wrote: > >Marco Greco said: >> >> Paul Watson wrote: >>> TV as we know it, ie electrical as opposed to mechanical was invented by >>> an American, out of Utah I believe >> >> You disappoint me Paul - electronic television was devised in 1908 by A C >> Swinton, some 20 years earlier than Baird ever dreamed of mechanical >> television, although it wouldn't be until the early 30's that the system >> saw >> the light of day. >> Campbell Swinton was, guess what, a Scot. (and so was Baird, BTW) > >Don't be too harsh on Paul, he's not a real Scot, he's a Geordie makeweight. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ OK, OTC, I give . . . . what's a "Geordie makeweight"? Better yet, maybe I *don't* want to know........8-) JWC

"John Carlson" <jwcarlson1@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote in message news:81gmr1te6vt8mjh3qeuiov810roh7isbp9@4ax.com... > On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 15:48:55 -0000 (GMT), "Obnoxio The Clown" > <obnoxio@serendipita.com> wrote: > >> >>Marco Greco said: >>> >>> Paul Watson wrote: >>>> TV as we know it, ie electrical as opposed to mechanical was invented >>>> by >>>> an American, out of Utah I believe >>> >>> You disappoint me Paul - electronic television was devised in 1908 by A >>> C >>> Swinton, some 20 years earlier than Baird ever dreamed of mechanical >>> television, although it wouldn't be until the early 30's that the system >>> saw >>> the light of day. >>> Campbell Swinton was, guess what, a Scot. (and so was Baird, BTW) >> >>Don't be too harsh on Paul, he's not a real Scot, he's a Geordie >>makeweight. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > OK, OTC, I give . . . . what's a "Geordie makeweight"? A Geordie is someone who comes from the city of Newcastle upon Tyne. However the term is often (mistakenly) used to describe people from the wider area of the North-East of England, because they all sound the same to those of us who speak unaccented English. Not sure about the "makeweight" bit ...

John Carlson said: > > On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 15:48:55 -0000 (GMT), "Obnoxio The Clown" > <obnoxio@serendipita.com> wrote: > >> >>Marco Greco said: >>> >>> Paul Watson wrote: >>>> TV as we know it, ie electrical as opposed to mechanical was invented >>>> by >>>> an American, out of Utah I believe >>> >>> You disappoint me Paul - electronic television was devised in 1908 by A >>> C >>> Swinton, some 20 years earlier than Baird ever dreamed of mechanical >>> television, although it wouldn't be until the early 30's that the >>> system >>> saw >>> the light of day. >>> Campbell Swinton was, guess what, a Scot. (and so was Baird, BTW) >> >>Don't be too harsh on Paul, he's not a real Scot, he's a Geordie >> makeweight. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > OK, OTC, I give . . . . what's a "Geordie makeweight"? > > Better yet, maybe I *don't* want to know........8-) A Geordie is a person from Newcastle (northern England), viewed with derision by the Scots who consider them soft southern gits and by the English who regard them as wannabe Scots (talk about a lack of ambition!) They overcompensate hugely by walking around in t-shirts and /or mini-skirts in the depths of arctic winters. A makeweight is something inert and dull that you use to add weight to something. I guess that's me off the Christmas card list. :o) -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche did i mention i like nulls? heck, i even go so far as to say that all columns in a table except the primary key could/should be nullable. this has certain advantages, for example, if you need to insert a child record and you don't have a parent row for it, just do an insert into the parent table with the primary key value (everything else null), and voila, relational integrity is preserved. but this is, admittedly, a bit controversial among modellers. --r937, dbforums.com