So, hello then...

Penny suggested that I should pop back in and say 'hello'.

I'm not dead yet.

Jenny M Benson

2020-04-11 12:47:24 UTC

Post by Martin Clark
Penny suggested that I should pop back in and say 'hello'.
I'm not dead yet.

Hurrah!

--
Jenny M Benson
Wrexham, UK

BrritSki

2020-04-11 12:50:16 UTC

Post by Martin Clark
Penny suggested that I should pop back in and say 'hello'.
I'm not dead yet.

Hello Martin, I didn't see you there...

Rosalind Mitchell

2020-04-11 12:53:38 UTC

Post by Martin Clark
Penny suggested that I should pop back in and say 'hello'.
I'm not dead yet.

Hello Martin, welcome back.

R

Martin Clark

2020-04-11 12:55:48 UTC

Please don't expect ten years or so's worth of gillivery.

Penny

2020-04-11 13:50:52 UTC

On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 05:55:48 -0700 (PDT), Martin Clark

Post by Martin Clark
Please don't expect ten years or so's worth of gillivery.

That's good to know - welcome back, do stay :)

--
Penny
Annoyed by The Archers since 1959

Martin Clark

2020-04-11 14:33:55 UTC

Post by Penny
welcome back, do stay :)

I will try. Google Groups seems a very inelegant tool and I may miss things.

Dumrat

2020-04-11 15:50:49 UTC

Post by Martin Clark

Post by Penny
welcome back, do stay :)

I will try. Google Groups seems a very inelegant tool and I may miss things.

Nice to see you again, Martin. What have you been up to in all this time (seems like
yesterday, to be honest, but apparently was a lot longer)?

--
Salaam Alaykum,
Anne, Exceptionally Traditionally-built Dumrat

Chris McMillan

2020-04-13 09:31:32 UTC

Post by Martin Clark

Post by Penny
welcome back, do stay :)

I will try. Google Groups seems a very inelegant tool and I may miss things.

It is. Some of us make do with Newstap, which isn’t a patch on Turnpike
but can live with,

Sincerely Chris

Nick Odell

2020-04-11 19:39:05 UTC

On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 05:44:14 -0700 (PDT), Martin Clark

Post by Martin Clark
Penny suggested that I should pop back in and say 'hello'.
I'm not dead yet.

Hello, not dead yet!

Still up in the Pennines? Or have you narrowboated away to somewhere
else these days?

Good to see you again, wherever you are google-groping from.

Nick

J. P. Gilliver (John)

2020-04-11 18:10:54 UTC

On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 16:39:05, Nick Odell

Post by Nick Odell
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 05:44:14 -0700 (PDT), Martin Clark

Post by Martin Clark
Penny suggested that I should pop back in and say 'hello'.
I'm not dead yet.

"Get on the cart!"

Post by Nick Odell
Hello, not dead yet!
Still up in the Pennines? Or have you narrowboated away to somewhere
else these days?
Good to see you again, wherever you are google-groping from.
Nick

Google groups _is_ a bad tool; can you not use, well, _anything_ else?
UMRA is carried by I think both free and the very cheap news server, as
well as the others. Thunderbird's reasonably well supported; plenty of
others too.

--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)***@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

You make it from scratch?
Yep.
Do you make your own scratch?
--
"pyotr filipivich" in alt.windows7.general 2017-5-20

steveski

2020-04-11 23:04:11 UTC

Post by J. P. Gilliver (John)
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 16:39:05, Nick Odell

Post by Nick Odell
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 05:44:14 -0700 (PDT), Martin Clark

Post by Martin Clark
Penny suggested that I should pop back in and say 'hello'.
I'm not dead yet.

"Get on the cart!"

Post by Nick Odell
Hello, not dead yet!
Still up in the Pennines? Or have you narrowboated away to somewhere
else these days?
Good to see you again, wherever you are google-groping from.
Nick

Google groups _is_ a bad tool <LW> (Very bad).
UMRA is carried by I think both free and the very cheap news server

Free ones include eternalseptember.org of which I have heard, over the
years, good things.

The one I use is news.individual.net (which used to be the Berlin
University server CIS.DFN.DE) until it got so popular that they had to
introduce a nominal Ꞓ10 fee to pay administrative staff. It has been Ꞓ10
for years now and the service (text only) is PDG at filtering spam.

--
Steveski

Martin Clark

2020-04-11 23:10:04 UTC

Thanks for the kind words.
I couldn't quite work out how to reply to specific comments.
Most of the existing threads seem to have large numbers of posts which I don't have the spirit to wade through at the moment. I'll try to join in but there's this newfangled thing called Facebook that seems to have captured me, and I am in so many groups there. It has pretty pictures, too.

J. P. Gilliver (John)

2020-04-11 23:16:24 UTC

On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 16:10:04, Martin Clark

(No, trying to follow via Google Groups is a pain.)

Post by Martin Clark
in but there's this newfangled thing called Facebook that seems to have
captured me, and I am in so many groups there. It has pretty pictures,
too.

Ah, but as a TA listener, you should know: the pictures are always so
much better on the radio.

--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)***@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. -Leo Tolstoy,
novelist and philosopher (1828-1910)

Vicky Ayech

2020-04-12 07:59:49 UTC

On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 00:16:24 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"

Post by J. P. Gilliver (John)
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 16:10:04, Martin Clark

(No, trying to follow via Google Groups is a pain.)

Post by Martin Clark
in but there's this newfangled thing called Facebook that seems to have
captured me, and I am in so many groups there. It has pretty pictures,
too.

The pictures of some of us here wouldn't be pretty anyway. You really
don't want those. And Seeing Tony on Midsommer Murders last night
showed me you don't want to see some of the pictures that go with the
voices on TA

Post by J. P. Gilliver (John)
Ah, but as a TA listener, you should know: the pictures are always so
much better on the radio.

Sam Plusnet

2020-04-12 19:49:33 UTC

Post by J. P. Gilliver (John)
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 16:10:04, Martin Clark

(No, trying to follow via Google Groups is a pain.)

Post by Martin Clark
in but there's this newfangled thing called Facebook that seems to
have captured me, and I am in so many groups there. It has pretty
pictures, too.

Ah, but as a TA listener, you should know: the pictures are always so
much better on the radio.

Also, UMRA will never sell your data to the highest bidder.

--
Sam Plusnet

BrritSki

2020-04-12 20:17:14 UTC

Post by J. P. Gilliver (John)
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 16:10:04, Martin Clark

(No, trying to follow via Google Groups is a pain.)

Post by Martin Clark
in but there's this newfangled thing called Facebook that seems to
have captured me, and I am in so many groups there. It has pretty
pictures, too.

Ah, but as a TA listener, you should know: the pictures are always so
much better on the radio.

Also, UMRA will never sell your data to the highest bidder.

Oooh, I don't know...

Any advance on a brass razoo ?

steveski

2020-04-12 23:31:23 UTC

Post by J. P. Gilliver (John)
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 16:10:04, Martin Clark

(No, trying to follow via Google Groups is a pain.)

Post by Martin Clark
in but there's this newfangled thing called Facebook that seems to
have captured me, and I am in so many groups there. It has pretty
pictures, too.

Ah, but as a TA listener, you should know: the pictures are always so
much better on the radio.

Also, UMRA will never sell your data to the highest bidder.

Oooh, I don't know...
Any advance on a brass razoo ?

It won't sell *my* data - it's not even *worth* a brass razoo :-)

--
Steveski

BrritSki

2020-04-13 07:40:50 UTC

Post by J. P. Gilliver (John)
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 16:10:04, Martin Clark

(No, trying to follow via Google Groups is a pain.)

Post by Martin Clark
in but there's this newfangled thing called Facebook that seems to
have captured me, and I am in so many groups there. It has pretty
pictures, too.

Ah, but as a TA listener, you should know: the pictures are always so
much better on the radio.

Also, UMRA will never sell your data to the highest bidder.

Oooh, I don't know...
Any advance on a brass razoo ?

It won't sell *my* data - it's not even *worth* a brass razoo :-)

:) Exactly my thinking when everyone goes up in arms about privacy. The
only effect someone else having my "data" can have on me is to serve me
ads, but since I have very effective ad-blockers - including on FB - I
don't see them anyway. I suppose there's some vulnerability to financial
attack, but I have my security tied down pretty well there as well, so
if they did get thru 2sv somehow, I'm guessing I'd get a refund...

steve hague

2020-04-13 08:02:15 UTC

Post by J. P. Gilliver (John)
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 16:10:04, Martin Clark

(No, trying to follow via Google Groups is a pain.)

Post by Martin Clark
in but there's this newfangled thing called Facebook that seems to
have captured me, and I am in so many groups there. It has pretty
pictures, too.

Ah, but as a TA listener, you should know: the pictures are always so
much better on the radio.

Also, UMRA will never sell your data to the highest bidder.

Oooh, I don't know...
Any advance on a brass razoo ?

It won't sell *my* data - it's not even *worth* a brass razoo :-)

I'm too poor to have ever possessed a brass razoo. I used to have a tin one.
Steve

Mike

2020-04-13 09:18:44 UTC

Post by J. P. Gilliver (John)
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 16:10:04, Martin Clark

(No, trying to follow via Google Groups is a pain.)

Post by Martin Clark
in but there's this newfangled thing called Facebook that seems to
have captured me, and I am in so many groups there. It has pretty
pictures, too.

Ah, but as a TA listener, you should know: the pictures are always so
much better on the radio.

Also, UMRA will never sell your data to the highest bidder.

Oooh, I don't know...
Any advance on a brass razoo ?

It won't sell *my* data - it's not even *worth* a brass razoo :-)

I'm too poor to have ever possessed a brass razoo. I used to have a tin one.
Steve

You had a tin one?! We had to make do with a lousy sketch on the back of a
used fag packet...

--
Toodle Pip

krw

2020-04-13 12:44:40 UTC

Post by Mike
You had a tin one?! We had to make do with a lousy sketch on the back of a
used fag packet...

I hope you have paid the right royalties to Tim Brooke-Taylor for using
that line.

--
Kosmo Richard W
www.travelswmw.whitnet.uk
https://tinyurl.com/KRWpics

Mike

2020-04-13 12:53:05 UTC

Post by krw

Post by Mike
You had a tin one?! We had to make do with a lousy sketch on the back of a
used fag packet...

I hope you have paid the right royalties to Tim Brooke-Taylor for using
that line.

A day too late, though I think he was dying to hear from me.

--
Toodle Pip

Sid Nuncius

2020-04-13 09:26:21 UTC

Post by J. P. Gilliver (John)
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 16:10:04, Martin Clark

(No, trying to follow via Google Groups is a pain.)

Post by Martin Clark
in but there's this newfangled thing called Facebook that seems to
have captured me, and I am in so many groups there. It has pretty
pictures, too.

Ah, but as a TA listener, you should know: the pictures are always so
much better on the radio.

Also, UMRA will never sell your data to the highest bidder.

Oooh, I don't know...
Any advance on a brass razoo ?

It won't sell *my* data - it's not even *worth* a brass razoo :-)

I'm too poor to have ever possessed a brass razoo. I used to have a tin one.

Luxury. We used to *dream* of a tin razoo...

--
Sid (Make sure Matron is away when you reply)

steve hague

2020-04-13 12:01:59 UTC

Post by J. P. Gilliver (John)
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 16:10:04, Martin Clark

(No, trying to follow via Google Groups is a pain.)

Post by Martin Clark
in but there's this newfangled thing called Facebook that seems to
have captured me, and I am in so many groups there. It has pretty
pictures, too.

Ah, but as a TA listener, you should know: the pictures are always so
much better on the radio.

Also, UMRA will never sell your data to the highest bidder.

Oooh, I don't know...
Any advance on a brass razoo ?

It won't sell *my* data - it's not even *worth* a brass razoo :-)

I'm too poor to have ever possessed a brass razoo. I used to have a tin one.

Luxury. We used to *dream* of a tin razoo...

Well when I say it were a tin razoo, it were just a drawing of one
really. On Izaal toilet paper.
Steve

BrritSki

2020-04-13 12:05:45 UTC

Post by J. P. Gilliver (John)
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 16:10:04, Martin Clark

(No, trying to follow via Google Groups is a pain.)

Post by Martin Clark
in but there's this newfangled thing called Facebook that seems to
have captured me, and I am in so many groups there. It has pretty
pictures, too.

Ah, but as a TA listener, you should know: the pictures are always so
much better on the radio.

Also, UMRA will never sell your data to the highest bidder.

Oooh, I don't know...
Any advance on a brass razoo ?

It won't sell *my* data - it's not even *worth* a brass razoo :-)

I'm too poor to have ever possessed a brass razoo. I used to have a tin one.

Luxury. We used to *dream* of a tin razoo...

Well when I say it were a tin razoo, it were just a drawing of one
really. On Izaal toilet paper.

We could only draw on used Izal TP.

Sid Nuncius

2020-04-13 16:41:49 UTC

Post by J. P. Gilliver (John)
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 16:10:04, Martin Clark

(No, trying to follow via Google Groups is a pain.)

Post by Martin Clark
in but there's this newfangled thing called Facebook that seems to
have captured me, and I am in so many groups there. It has pretty
pictures, too.

Ah, but as a TA listener, you should know: the pictures are always so
much better on the radio.

Also, UMRA will never sell your data to the highest bidder.

Oooh, I don't know...
Any advance on a brass razoo ?

It won't sell *my* data - it's not even *worth* a brass razoo :-)

I'm too poor to have ever possessed a brass razoo. I used to have a tin one.

Luxury. We used to *dream* of a tin razoo...

Well when I say it were a tin razoo, it were just a drawing of one
really. On Izaal toilet paper.

We could only draw on used Izal TP.

You had Izal toilet paper? Don't know you're born. We 'ad to...

Well, there's no need to take that tone. I were just sayin'.

--
Sid (Make sure Matron is away when you reply)

Mike

2020-04-13 12:37:04 UTC

Post by J. P. Gilliver (John)
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 16:10:04, Martin Clark

(No, trying to follow via Google Groups is a pain.)

Post by Martin Clark
in but there's this newfangled thing called Facebook that seems to
have captured me, and I am in so many groups there. It has pretty
pictures, too.

Ah, but as a TA listener, you should know: the pictures are always so
much better on the radio.

Also, UMRA will never sell your data to the highest bidder.

Oooh, I don't know...
Any advance on a brass razoo ?

It won't sell *my* data - it's not even *worth* a brass razoo :-)

I'm too poor to have ever possessed a brass razoo. I used to have a tin one.

Luxury. We used to *dream* of a tin razoo...

Well when I say it were a tin razoo, it were just a drawing of one
really. On Izaal toilet paper.
Steve

And you can use it to wipe your.....

...smirk off that face.

--
Toodle Pip

Chris McMillan

2020-04-13 09:46:31 UTC

Post by J. P. Gilliver (John)
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 16:10:04, Martin Clark

(No, trying to follow via Google Groups is a pain.)

Post by Martin Clark
in but there's this newfangled thing called Facebook that seems to
have captured me, and I am in so many groups there. It has pretty
pictures, too.

Ah, but as a TA listener, you should know: the pictures are always so
much better on the radio.

Also, UMRA will never sell your data to the highest bidder.

Oooh, I don't know...
Any advance on a brass razoo ?

It won't sell *my* data - it's not even *worth* a brass razoo :-)

I'm too poor to have ever possessed a brass razoo. I used to have a tin one.
Steve

Having been in the tin mine to gather the shavings

Sincerely Chris

Mike

2020-04-13 07:53:31 UTC

Post by J. P. Gilliver (John)
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 16:10:04, Martin Clark

(No, trying to follow via Google Groups is a pain.)

Post by Martin Clark
in but there's this newfangled thing called Facebook that seems to
have captured me, and I am in so many groups there. It has pretty
pictures, too.

Ah, but as a TA listener, you should know: the pictures are always so
much better on the radio.

Also, UMRA will never sell your data to the highest bidder.

[maniacal laughter mode] Tee-Hee-hee-hee-hee, little do they know of my
regular untaxed income from ‘contributions’ to the ‘big data set’,
anonymously of course from big G. [maniacal laughter].

--
Toodle Pip

krw

2020-04-13 12:42:29 UTC

Post by Sam Plusnet
Also, UMRA will never sell your data to the highest bidder.

But GCHQ and the CIA read and memorise every word so that they can tell
Trump.

--
Kosmo Richard W
www.travelswmw.whitnet.uk
https://tinyurl.com/KRWpics

Sam Plusnet

2020-04-13 20:44:32 UTC

Post by krw

Post by Sam Plusnet
Also, UMRA will never sell your data to the highest bidder.

But GCHQ and the CIA read and memorise every word so that they can tell
Trump.

No problem there. He never listens to anything that didn't come from
one of his pals or Fox News.

--
Sam Plusnet

steveski

2020-07-19 00:33:58 UTC

On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 20:49:33 +0100, Sam Plusnet wrote:

[]

Post by Sam Plusnet
Also, UMRA will never sell your data to the highest bidder.

Why on earth would you not get as much moolah as you could?

--
Steveski

Mike

2020-07-19 08:25:40 UTC

Post by steveski
[]

Post by Sam Plusnet
Also, UMRA will never sell your data to the highest bidder.

Why on earth would you not get as much moolah as you could?

“No, we sell it to everyone else except the highest bidder.”

--
Toodle Pip

Chris McMillan

2020-04-13 09:31:33 UTC

Post by Martin Clark
Thanks for the kind words.
I couldn't quite work out how to reply to specific comments.
Most of the existing threads seem to have large numbers of posts which I
don't have the spirit to wade through at the moment. I'll try to join in
but there's this newfangled thing called Facebook that seems to have
captured me, and I am in so many groups there. It has pretty pictures, too.

More than defeated me for TA, until lockdown we’re a shadow of our former
selves.

Sincerely Chris

Sid Nuncius

2020-04-12 05:05:43 UTC

Post by Martin Clark
Penny suggested that I should pop back in and say 'hello'.
I'm not dead yet.

How brilliant! Great to hear from you, Martin.

--
Sid (Make sure Matron is away when you reply)

Chris McMillan

2020-04-13 09:31:31 UTC

Post by Martin Clark
Penny suggested that I should pop back in and say 'hello'.
I'm not dead yet.

Oh good, you’ve turned the light back on again. (See, still remember you
by sig line). Welcome back, bunker’s still open.

Sincerely Chris

Mike

2020-04-13 09:53:59 UTC

Post by Chris McMillan

Post by Martin Clark
Penny suggested that I should pop back in and say 'hello'.
I'm not dead yet.

Oh good, you’ve turned the light back on again. (See, still remember you
by sig line). Welcome back, bunker’s still open.
Sincerely Chris

Extra supplies of Easter-orientated choccy goodies were delivered, wiped,
disinfected and quarantined for 96 hours before been stacked up in the
bunker...

--
Toodle Pip

Martin Clark

2020-04-18 09:34:43 UTC

Facebook certainly can't compete with umra for good old-fashioned full-cream thread drift.

Mike

2020-04-18 10:17:27 UTC

Post by Martin Clark
Facebook certainly can't compete with umra for good old-fashioned full-cream thread drift.

It’s the homogenization that does it!

--
Toodle Pip

Paul Herber

2020-04-18 12:51:25 UTC

Post by Martin Clark
Facebook certainly can't compete with umra for good old-fashioned full-cream thread drift.

Where is that Brave Ulysses when you need him?

--
Regards, Paul Herber
https://www.paulherber.co.uk/

Rosalind Mitchell

2020-04-18 14:21:09 UTC

On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 02:34:43 -0700 (PDT), Martin Clark

Post by Martin Clark
Facebook certainly can't compete with umra for good old-fashioned full-cream thread drift.

Where is that Brave Ulysses when you need him?

Still tied to the mast.

R

BrritSki

2020-04-18 15:56:14 UTC

Post by Rosalind Mitchell

On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 02:34:43 -0700 (PDT), Martin Clark

Post by Martin Clark
Facebook certainly can't compete with umra for good old-fashioned
full-cream thread drift.

Where is that Brave Ulysses when you need him?

Still tied to the mast.

Oh hello Rosy, [1] I didn;t see you there...

[1] Yes, I know, but needed to be consistent with previous post :)

steve hague

2020-04-18 16:17:47 UTC

Post by Rosalind Mitchell

On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 02:34:43 -0700 (PDT), Martin Clark

Post by Martin Clark
Facebook certainly can't compete with umra for good old-fashioned
full-cream thread drift.

Where is that Brave Ulysses when you need him?

Still tied to the mast.
R

Having his naked ears tortured, I imagine.
Steve

Sid Nuncius

2020-04-18 19:05:02 UTC

Post by Rosalind Mitchell

On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 02:34:43 -0700 (PDT), Martin Clark

Post by Martin Clark
Facebook certainly can't compete with umra for good old-fashioned
full-cream thread drift.

Where is that Brave Ulysses when you need him?

Still tied to the mast.

Having his naked ears tortured, I imagine.

I think the sparkling waves are calling me...[1]

[1]A megapedant writes: Not on Full Cream, but Disraeli Gears.

--
Sid (Make sure Matron is away when you reply)

BrritSki

2020-04-18 15:55:17 UTC