Yes. But it is popular culture (like bread mould) and if you wanted to try to sopund English (as opposed to Scots or Welsh) then this is not the role model to choose.
It's easy as long as you don't sound like Dick Van Dike.
" Up the apple and pears me ol' china muffin gum an' give yer plates of meat a rest so get those daisy roots orf, Mary Poppins"
and you'll do fine, just avoid words like "actually, old boy" and "I say there", in fact any typical "English" phrase seen in any American film, especially Disney, none of those have been used here for decades.
I remember watching a review of digital cameras on a gadget show a year or so ago. The reviewer pointed out that the key to the image was the lens, if that is bad, then nothing else matters.
RIMMER: But a Black Hole's a huge, compacted star! It's millions of miles wide! Why didn't you see it on the radar screen?
HOLLY: Well, the thing about a Black Hole - it's main distinguishing feature - is it's black. And the thing about space, your basic space colour is black. So how are you s'posed to see them?
RIMMER: But thrity of them! How can you be ambushed by thirty Black Holes?
HOLLY: Always the way, isn't it? You look into Deep Space for years and you don't see one. Then, all of a sudden, thirty all
turn up at once.
Modified from Red Dwarf, Series 3, Episode 2 "Marooned"
At the end of the war, the British Gov gave Enigma machines out to various bits of the Commonwealth to use. I think that this is mentioned in Simon Singhs The Code Book, but I could be wrong.
Nobody in the outside world, not even the Germans(though some has suspected), knew that Enigma had been broken till IIRC the 1960's.
Quite a few years ago there was an interview with one of the guys who worked on the Colossus. He stated that he had produced a machine code implementation of the task and ran it on the best PC he could find (may have been a PI or PII), expecting the PC code to run faster. He was surprised to find that Colossus was still much faster.
We use a mixture of on-line and local stores, mind you, our on-line shopping is all from major UK chains. Not having a car, it's much nicer than battling on the bus with shopping to have assorted munchies delivered to your door.
In the UK there was a pop-science programme called Brainiac, amongs there experiments was an attempt to set light to petrol fumes using a mobile phone which went like this:
[1] Take a small caravan
[2] Douse inside with petrol and leave pools of the stuff in trays
[3] Put at least 5 mobile phones in the caravan in various locations
[4] Shut the caravan door and leave for a while for the fumes to build up
[5] Ring the phones
Nothing happened, they then tried to use static electricity to ignite the fumes, que one long wire and a guy standing on an insulating mat. After half a minute of rubbing hands together and building up a static charge, he touched the wire and kaboom whent the caravan.
Possessing a long maritime tradition, here in the UK we could offer the writers a selection punishments
[1] Keel Hauling from stem to stern
[2] Flogging with a cat-o'-9 tails
[3] Hanging (if the worm caused a fire in a naval dockyard)
[4] Run the Gauntlet
[5] Picking okum
At a previous job one of the most subtle tricks was to drill a very small hole in a persons mug with a laser welder, this resulted in a very slow leak, a slowly expanding puddle and a puzzled mug owner. When I worked at University, one Christmas we turned our shared office into a "fairly grotty" using expanded polystyrene chips as snow, much to the horror of the German exchange student who also used the office.
Count Moriarty: Will you give me your password for this chocolate bar?
Grytpype-Thynne: What, how dare your, sir. I'll have you know that I'm a patriotic English gentleman!
Count Moriarty: Which means?
Grytpype-Thynne: I'll only do it for money
This is the hollow moon that contains the reptile invasion forces, only it has run out of gas. This explains it's position and slow rate of rotation. NASA doctored the Hubble photo to remove the image of the Captain walking to Neptune with a gas can.
Hello? Yes hello slashdot, what? I'M ON THE TRAIN. No it's not annoying, Hello, What? Say that again? No it's just the same as taking to the person next to you. Hang on a bit we are about to go through, I SAID WE ARE ABOUT TO GO THROUGH A TUNNE........boop, boop, boop
For full effect, turn this all into caps.
UK special forces have used these VSV's for high-speed insertion of troops, not data. Saw some film of one of these many years ago, it was dammed fast, not that bothered by high seas either as it just cut through the waves even if it meant being submerged for a few seconds.
The findings have yet to be peer-reviewed.
News just in...
An further experiment has produces tantalising evidence that the buckyballs were put there by giant doughnut-eating anti-science squid funded by Prince Charles (him of the grey goo of doom fame) seeking to frame the nano-tech developers thereby allowing the House of Windsor and their squid allies to corner the world market in kidney beans, however the findings have yet to be peer-reviewed.
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It's the guy(s) in the board room I'd worry more about.
Yes. But it is popular culture (like bread mould) and if you wanted to try to sopund English (as opposed to Scots or Welsh) then this is not the role model to choose.
It's easy as long as you don't sound like Dick Van Dike.
" Up the apple and pears me ol' china muffin gum an' give yer plates of meat a rest so get those daisy roots orf, Mary Poppins"
and you'll do fine, just avoid words like "actually, old boy" and "I say there", in fact any typical "English" phrase seen in any American film, especially Disney, none of those have been used here for decades.
The label says dry-clean only?
I remember watching a review of digital cameras on a gadget show a year or so ago. The reviewer pointed out that the key to the image was the lens, if that is bad, then nothing else matters.
Don't talk pixels, talk optics.
"Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough."
Your lap is also a heatsink.
Translated entry from Plato's "Roungh Guide to the World"
Atlantis: Mostly Harmless
RIMMER: But a Black Hole's a huge, compacted star! It's millions of miles wide! Why didn't you see it on the radar screen?
HOLLY: Well, the thing about a Black Hole - it's main distinguishing feature - is it's black. And the thing about space, your basic space colour is black. So how are you s'posed to see them?
RIMMER: But thrity of them! How can you be ambushed by thirty Black Holes?
HOLLY: Always the way, isn't it? You look into Deep Space for years and you don't see one. Then, all of a sudden, thirty all turn up at once.
Modified from Red Dwarf, Series 3, Episode 2 "Marooned"
At the end of the war, the British Gov gave Enigma machines out to various bits of the Commonwealth to use. I think that this is mentioned in Simon Singhs The Code Book, but I could be wrong.
Nobody in the outside world, not even the Germans(though some has suspected), knew that Enigma had been broken till IIRC the 1960's.
Quite a few years ago there was an interview with one of the guys who worked on the Colossus. He stated that he had produced a machine code implementation of the task and ran it on the best PC he could find (may have been a PI or PII), expecting the PC code to run faster. He was surprised to find that Colossus was still much faster.
We use a mixture of on-line and local stores, mind you, our on-line shopping is all from major UK chains. Not having a car, it's much nicer than battling on the bus with shopping to have assorted munchies delivered to your door.
It should be Tokyo being destroyed, by Godzilla wearing ear-muffs and a scarf.
In the UK there was a pop-science programme called Brainiac, amongs there experiments was an attempt to set light to petrol fumes using a mobile phone which went like this:
[1] Take a small caravan
[2] Douse inside with petrol and leave pools of the stuff in trays
[3] Put at least 5 mobile phones in the caravan in various locations
[4] Shut the caravan door and leave for a while for the fumes to build up
[5] Ring the phones
Nothing happened, they then tried to use static electricity to ignite the fumes, que one long wire and a guy standing on an insulating mat. After half a minute of rubbing hands together and building up a static charge, he touched the wire and kaboom whent the caravan.
But would you keep it in the closet?
Possessing a long maritime tradition, here in the UK we could offer the writers a selection punishments [1] Keel Hauling from stem to stern [2] Flogging with a cat-o'-9 tails [3] Hanging (if the worm caused a fire in a naval dockyard) [4] Run the Gauntlet [5] Picking okum
At a previous job one of the most subtle tricks was to drill a very small hole in a persons mug with a laser welder, this resulted in a very slow leak, a slowly expanding puddle and a puzzled mug owner.
When I worked at University, one Christmas we turned our shared office into a "fairly grotty" using expanded polystyrene chips as snow, much to the horror of the German exchange student who also used the office.
Count Moriarty: Will you give me your password for this chocolate bar?
Grytpype-Thynne: What, how dare your, sir. I'll have you know that I'm a patriotic English gentleman!
Count Moriarty: Which means?
Grytpype-Thynne: I'll only do it for money
This is the hollow moon that contains the reptile invasion forces, only it has run out of gas. This explains it's position and slow rate of rotation. NASA doctored the Hubble photo to remove the image of the Captain walking to Neptune with a gas can.
Hello? Yes hello slashdot, what? I'M ON THE TRAIN. No it's not annoying, Hello, What? Say that again? No it's just the same as taking to the person next to you. Hang on a bit we are about to go through, I SAID WE ARE ABOUT TO GO THROUGH A TUNNE........boop, boop, boop For full effect, turn this all into caps.
UK special forces have used these VSV's for high-speed insertion of troops, not data. Saw some film of one of these many years ago, it was dammed fast, not that bothered by high seas either as it just cut through the waves even if it meant being submerged for a few seconds.
The findings have yet to be peer-reviewed. News just in... An further experiment has produces tantalising evidence that the buckyballs were put there by giant doughnut-eating anti-science squid funded by Prince Charles (him of the grey goo of doom fame) seeking to frame the nano-tech developers thereby allowing the House of Windsor and their squid allies to corner the world market in kidney beans, however the findings have yet to be peer-reviewed.
I welcome our new industrial-stength prototyping overlords
I like targeted content, gives me a sence of satisfaction when I avoid it.
couldn't give a scox for anything else