That old subject.....

[Richard Farrant]

Now that the UK has gone back to GMT this weekend, I notice that MLU is 2 hours ahead on a GMT of its own, very confusing when looking at the time of messages.

Perhaps I have it wrong and it does not stand for Greenwich Mean Time........but in fact it is Geoff's Maple Time?

Richard ( standing by for flak from Mr. Withered Balls )

[Keith Webb]

( standing by for flak from Mr. Withered Balls )

Yes, I was wondering the same thing myself. What of it, Mr. Scratching-ya-Balls?

[Jon Skagfeld]

Originally posted by Keith Webb
Yes, I was wondering the same thing myself. What of it, Mr. Scratching-ya-Balls?

See previous posts relavant to subject line.

I rest my case.:

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Piss off, the lot of you. I'll set the server time in any time zone I see fit. RHIP, laddies!

[Jon Skagfeld]

Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
Piss off, the lot of you. I'll set the server time in any time zone I see fit. RHIP, laddies!

Ohhhh.....don't we have a bad attitude now.

Just because you got no sweeties from the goblins and gremlins, don't you be havin' a hissy fit with us!



Now, brew up a cup of cocoa, sip away at it, put on your jammies, crawl into whatever cave you exited from this morning, then piss off yourself!

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

THERE'S the pot talkin' to the kettle.

I put out claymores and pungi pits to kep the kids away this eve, and it obviously worked. Don't need no steenkin sweets, gots three cats, a satellite TV connection and DSL. Oh yeah, and a fridge full of beer. Screw you too, Old Guy!





Pee Ess: Happy B-Day to Mrs Notton; why she continues to appreciate you, Mr. Notton, is a mystery to all of us, but that she does elevates her to sainthood at the very least. Our kind regards to both of you!

Originally posted by Jon Skagfeld
Ohhhh.....don't we have a bad attitude now.

Just because you got no sweeties from the goblins and gremlins, don't you be havin' a hissy fit with us!



Now, brew up a cup of cocoa, sip away at it, put on your jammies, crawl into whatever cave you exited from this morning, then piss off yourself!

[Keith Webb]

I know what a Claymore is, but what's a pungi pit?
Conjures up images of a pit full of sharpened stakes, doesn't it!
Anyway, you'll have to check 'em at first light.

[Jon Skagfeld]

Originally posted by Keith Webb
I know what a Claymore is, but what's a pungi pit?
Conjures up images of a pit full of sharpened stakes, doesn't it!
Anyway, you'll have to check 'em at first light.

Just before first light, you kinda make sure they're sorta crappy...

Then you make sure the Claymores are still armed.

"Odd Angry Shot", you know, ol' boy! Rented the video yet, Keefy?

[Keith Webb]

Originally posted by Jon Skagfeld
Just before first light, you kinda make sure they're sorta crappy...

Then you make sure the Claymores are still armed.

"Odd Angry Shot", you know, ol' boy! Rented the video yet, Keefy?

Ahhh I get it! The sort of trap which wouldn't work quite as well in your winters I s'pose.

I must rent that movie sometime.

[Bob Moseley (RIP)]

Hi Keefy and others
No wonder you are confused as our time-warped Winballton can't even spell correctly. PANJI PIT. Basically a hole in the ground with sharpened bamboo stakes facing up to penetrate the feet of people becoming trapped in them. A clever method of inflicting injury that required the logistics of more personnel to remove the wounded as opposed to removing the dead.
Bob

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally posted by Bob Moseley
Hi Keefy and others
No wonder you are confused as our time-warped Winballton can't even spell correctly. PANJI PIT. Basically a hole in the ground with sharpened bamboo stakes facing up to penetrate the feet of people becoming trapped in them. A clever method of inflicting injury that required the logistics of more personnel to remove the wounded as opposed to removing the dead.
Bob

Actually, Bob, my spelling IS allowed. The word comes from the old English "pungent", with the following abridged definition according to Volume II of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary:

1. Pricking, piercing, sharp-pointed [1601]; 2. Sharp, keen, acute, poignant; causing or inflicting sharp pain; keenly distressing [1597].

The word comes from the Latin pungere. Americans in Viet Nam commonly called them punji sticks or punji pits but I chose the English derivation of the word.

Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
Piss off, the lot of you.

Oh my. How rude. Copped have we? Being reeled in by the august assemblage? Mickey Mouse's left hand fallen off?

I'll set the server time in any time zone I see fit. RHIP, laddies!

Consult the time catalogue Uranus. If you want to get ahead in time, look up your Uranus.

While you're there, refer again to the efficatious link I sent you and take the time from me since we own the reference line and invented it in the first place. Lets have no more insubordination from the colonies thank you very much.
http://www.worldtimeserver.com/?locationid=GB

R.
-The land of time reference-
West 001º 11' 18.2"

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally posted by FV623
Oh my. How rude. Copped have we? Being reeled in by the august assemblage? Mickey Mouse's left hand fallen off?
Consult the time catalogue Uranus. If you want to get ahead in time, look up your Uranus.

If I'm rude, you silly English kniiiiggett... it's only because I learned it all from you (mind you, bloodline might have something to do with it). Have at you!

While you're there, refer again to the efficatious link I sent you and take the time from me since we own the reference line and invented it in the first place. Lets have no more insubordination from the colonies thank you very much.

That's just about enough out of you. Tell it to the Yanks who host our server and can't figure out the time for themselves. Mind you, they're embroiled in an interesting election at the moment, so are obviously distracted. We shall carry on regardless, chop-chop. There's a good fellow.

Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
If I'm rude, you silly English kniiiiggett... it's only because I learned it all from you (mind you, bloodline might have something to do with it). Have at you!

Definitely copped.

That's just about enough out of you. Tell it to the Yanks who host our server and can't figure out the time for themselves. Mind you, they're embroiled in an interesting election at the moment, so are obviously distracted. We shall carry on regardless, chop-chop. There's a good fellow.

I think the assembled MLU chums can make merry with the hilarity of the time issue, expect an amount of ribald incoming then.

I have moved the Shirrell Heath Sigs Office from "GMT -1 Azores, Cape Verde Islands" to "GMT -2 Mid Atlantic" this has the desired effect on the displayed numbers.

As keeper of MLU surely its your duty to get the Yanks correctly on-time, I'm minded though they were a couple of years late for WWII also so you may well have a bit of a struggle.

On the word of command, double away and get it sorted.

DETAIL. . . . . .Brace up, brace up, stop wavin' about like a field of corn.

TIME CORRECTION. . . . . . . . . GO.



R.