Happy days indeed. I still had three months to go before I popped out. My mother blamed me for starting the war! Brian Staffordshire, UK List Admin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Sharpe" <jimm.sharpe@virgin.net> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 10:44 PM Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] ITMA - Just a blast from the past > Ah Happy days, I remember them well. What a lovely and very apt name for > dear old Hattie. > Do any other of the senior members remember where they were when war broke > out as Rob Wilton used to say. > I was on holiday in Blackpool and on September the 7th was it, the lights > went out. I was devastated and heaped what deprecations a seven year old boy > knew on the head of that nasty man Hitler. > We used to go to Blackpool every year in September ( yes, I know how > fortunate I was but my dad always had a job because he drove a tram for > Manchester Corporation Tramways Dept.) > We always stayed about half a mile from the sea front near Lytham Road at > the house of Mrs. Nicholson who had a son Peter my age. > With Peter's help I got to know Blackpool inside out. > Mrs. Nicholson was a widow and she let her parlour and front bedroom for ten > shillings a week. My mum used to buy our food and Mrs. Nicholson would cook > it for us all for ten bob. So mum also had a holiday. > I loved blackpool in those days and I can't ever remember it raining but of > course it must have now and again. > These days you're lucky to get a fine day at Blackpool. > To get an idea of even our poverty a visit to the South Shore pleasure beach > fairground was always reserved for Friday the last day before we boarded the > special Manchester employees bus for home. > > Jim Sharpe > Shaw, Oldham, UK --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 25/05/2002

Jim, I was only 3 months and 3 days old at the time and my memory is somewhat vague ! Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Sharpe" <jimm.sharpe@virgin.net> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 10:44 PM Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] ITMA - Just a blast from the past Ah Happy days, I remember them well. What a lovely and very apt name for dear old Hattie. Do any other of the senior members remember where they were when war broke out as Rob Wilton used to say. I was on holiday in Blackpool and on September the 7th was it, the lights went out. I was devastated and heaped what deprecations a seven year old boy knew on the head of that nasty man Hitler. We used to go to Blackpool every year in September ( yes, I know how fortunate I was but my dad always had a job because he drove a tram for Manchester Corporation Tramways Dept.) We always stayed about half a mile from the sea front near Lytham Road at the house of Mrs. Nicholson who had a son Peter my age. With Peter's help I got to know Blackpool inside out. Mrs. Nicholson was a widow and she let her parlour and front bedroom for ten shillings a week. My mum used to buy our food and Mrs. Nicholson would cook it for us all for ten bob. So mum also had a holiday. I loved blackpool in those days and I can't ever remember it raining but of course it must have now and again. These days you're lucky to get a fine day at Blackpool. To get an idea of even our poverty a visit to the South Shore pleasure beach fairground was always reserved for Friday the last day before we boarded the special Manchester employees bus for home. Jim Sharpe Shaw, Oldham, UK ----- Original Message ----- From: Marged <marged@btinternet.com> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 2:31 AM Subject: [GEN-FRIENDS] ITMA - Just a blast from the past > Its that man again > > It was at 8.15 pm on Wednesday, July 12, 1939, that a BBC announcer > said; > > "This is the National Programme. Ladies and Gentlemen-"I ts that man > again!" > > The Liverpool comedian, Tommy Handley [and his famous team] launched > ITMA, the radio show that was to run for ten years. > The show became an institution and a legend, with characters like Mrs > Mopp [Dorothy Summers]: Frisby Dyke [Deryck Guyler]; Sophie Tuckshop > [Hattie Jacques]; Miss Hotchkiss [Diana Morrison]; Colonel Chinstrap > [Jack Train] and Mona Lott [Joan Harben]. > Some of their catchphrases, like TTFN ["Ta,ta for now"], "Can I do you > now sir?" and "I go, I come back," became part of our daily speech. > News of Tommy Handleys death reached the BBC as a recording of the 310th > edition was going out on the Light Programme. > Listeners were still laughing at his jokes when the 6pm bulletin > announced that "that man" was no more. > People stood six deep along the six-mile route of his funeral procession > to St,Paul's Cathedral, to pay their last respects to this "fellow of > infinate jest." > > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 24/05/02 > > > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== > If you are unsubscribed from the list unintentionally, > simply resubscribe. A full mailbox, computer error, > or spam may cause you to be unsubscribed. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== If you are unsubscribed from the list unintentionally, simply resubscribe. A full mailbox, computer error, or spam may cause you to be unsubscribed. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

I remember that PC 49 rejoiced in the wonderful name of Archibald Berkeley Willoughby Perhaps for the benefit of our friends fro across the water I ought to mention that PC 49 was a radio programme from the 1950's about a bungling Police Constable who had a catch phrase "Bless my Sunday helmet !" David ----- Original Message ----- From: "mikemail" <michael@ae.net.sa> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 7:22 AM Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] Brian has sent you a digital photo! No doubt for PC49 - remember him? Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian To: GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 1:31 AM Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] Brian has sent you a digital photo! Whitehall 1212 [if your memory is good]. Careful you don't make me jealous :-) Brian Staffordshire, UK List Admin ----- Original Message ----- From: "davspark" <davspark@ntlworld.com> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 8:44 PM Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] Brian has sent you a digital photo! > Any phone number, Brian ? > Dave > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 24/05/2002 ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== Please delete unwanted taglines and signatures before sending your message to avoid over-long messages. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.361 / Virus Database: 199 - Release Date: 07-May-02 ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== I want to die peacefully, in my sleep, like my grandfather, not screaming, terrified, like his passengers. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

I think Gracie must be dead - she'd be very old. We visited Capri - what a wonderful place but so incredibly expensive. I must admit that we were warned about getting things stolen in that area of Italy, yet we found northern Italy very good. Bubbles from Robin Hood Country ----- Original Message ----- From: "mikemail" <michael@ae.net.sa> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 7:27 AM Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] 28 May Trivia and Happenings Is Gracie still with us? Never hear of her perhaps she is rather ill on Capri? On my one visit there with Sorrento girlfriend I bought a smart bag which was stolen next day in Rome ! Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Marged To: GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 12:38 AM Subject: [GEN-FRIENDS] 28 May Trivia and Happenings 28th May Thought for the day : " Every human being comes equipped with a brain at no extra cost. " 1533: England's archbishop voids King Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn's marriage 1588: The Spanish Armada set sail from Lisbon under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia to invade England. The fleet of 130 vessels was the mightiest ever assembled. 1660: George I King of England is born(1714-27). 1738: Birth of Joseph Ignace Guillotin, French physician and revolutionary who suggested a decapitating machine which bears his name. Adopted in 1791, it was not a new invention. Similar instruments of execution were used in other countries including Scotland. 1742: The first indoor swimming pool in England opened in London. The entrance fee was one guinea. 1756: Williamsond Advertiser (Liverpool) first published. It came out weekly. 1759: Birth of William Pitt the Younger, English statesman, who was Prime Minister from 1783-1801. He was England’s youngest prime minister ever. He was elected again in 1804-6. 1858: Tonic water was patented by Erasmus Bond of London. 1884: Birth of Eduard Benes, founder of modern Czechoslovakia who was President of the republic from 1935. During the Second World War, he ran the government in exile from London. He was President again from 1945, resigning shortly before his death in 1948. 1891: The first world weightlifting championships were held at the Café Monico, Piccadilly. 1898: In Italy, the Shroud of Turin was first photographed by Secundo Pia in Turin's Cathedral, where it had rested for 320 years. 1906: Picton Road Baths, Wavertree, opened by J. Ball, Lord Mayor. 1917: Happy Birthday Gracie!!! 85 today!! 1932: The world’s largest sea dam was completed in Holland. It stretched 2,000m across the mouth of the Zuider Zee creating a new inland lake, the Ijsselmeer. 1934: Birth of the Dionne Quintuplets, to Mrs Oliva Dionne in Ontario, Canada: Emilie, Yvonne, Cecile, Marie and Annette. 1951: The first Goon Show was broadcast by the BBC. Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan (who also wrote the script) and Harry Secombe brought to life Henry Crunn, Major Bloodnock, Minnie Bannister, Bluebottle, Neddy Seagoon and Eccles. British comedy would never be the same - or sane - again. 1967: Francis Chichester, a 65-year-old English yachtsman, sailed into Plymouth to a huge welcome at the end of his solo circumnavigation of the world in Gypsy Moth IV. 1972: The Duke of Windsor dies in Paris at 77. 1982: Diego Maradona of Argentinos Juniors was bought by Barcelona football club for a record £5 million. 1987: Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German, flew his small aircraft through Soviet air space from Helsinki to Moscow, landing right in Red Square. 1990: The Maiden arrived in Southampton, completing the Whitbread around-the-world yacht race. The first ever all-woman crew was skippered by Tracy Edwards. <><><><><><><><><> --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 24/05/02 ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== I want to die peacefully, in my sleep, like my grandfather, not screaming, terrified, like his passengers. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.361 / Virus Database: 199 - Release Date: 07-May-02 ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== I want to die peacefully, in my sleep, like my grandfather, not screaming, terrified, like his passengers. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Seems good to me, Jim. At least Father Christmas can't deliver his bills" Brian Staffordshire, UK List Admin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Sharpe" <jimm.sharpe@virgin.net> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 10:11 PM Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] QVC Shopping Channel > Sounds good Brian but isn't it a devil what you have to do since the buggers > made us all brick up our fireplaces. > > Jim Sharpe > Shaw, Oldham, UK > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Brian <brian@lordbramhall.co.uk> > To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 12:58 AM > Subject: [GEN-FRIENDS] QVC Shopping Channel > > > > I just received the shredder I ordered last week from the QVC TV Channel > and > > have to tell you I think it is very good value. For anyone thinking of > > buying, here is my report: > > > > It is free standing and about 16 inches high [400 mm]. It is mains driven > > [I wasn't sure if it was battery] and demolishes up to seven sheets of A4 > at > > a time. It has a safety cut out if the lid is removed. > > > > Not only does it shred into quarter inch strips [2.5 mm] but each length > is > > cut into pieces about 2 inches [50 mm] long on a cross cut. No way could > > anyone piece this little lot together. > > > > The machine can be set to switch on maually [if kids are around] or will > > automatically detect the insertion of paper and switch off after this has > > passed through. > > > > Cost in UK = £37:79 incl tax & del. > > > > Brian > > Staffordshire, UK > > List Admin > > > > > > --- > > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > > Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 24/05/2002 > > > > > > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== > > Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot. > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== > If you are a blood donor please ask to go on the Bone Marrow > Register. You won't be told about it if you don't ask. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 24/05/2002

I remember my first day at school well, and I was four years and nine months. also remember being in my pram and a black and white dog jumping up and looking in at me. Marj I > started school at Varna Street when I was five, I remember that well. It was > very traumatic although the teacher was a lovely lady. > I thwqeamed all day. > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 24/05/02

I can't remember the Silver Jubilee of George V because I'd be three then, but I can remember when I must have been four before I started school. I can remember sitting on the front door step looking up the street where I could just see the end of Stanley Street which was concreted and all the older kids played there and wishing I was older so I could cross the road. Our street Ogden Lane was a bus route and I was forbidden to cross the road. I started school at Varna Street when I was five, I remember that well. It was very traumatic although the teacher was a lovely lady. I thwqeamed all day. Big soft sod. Jim Sharpe Shaw, Oldham, UK ----- Original Message ----- From: Marged <marged@btinternet.com> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 7:13 AM Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] ITMA - Just a blast from the past > My own memories of that day are non existent since I was three! > > Plenty of other wartime memories though, about bombing etc. > > Remember many of the shows you mention here, Jim. > > Marj

My own memories of that day are non existent since I was three! Plenty of other wartime memories though, about bombing etc. Remember many of the shows you mention here, Jim. Marj > Ah Happy days, I remember them well. What a lovely and very apt name for > dear old Hattie. > Do any other of the senior members remember where they were when war broke > out as Rob Wilton used to say. > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 24/05/02

Well - Mailwasher also detects viruses and even if it doesn't you can read the mail before it enters your box. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Marged To: GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 3:01 PM Subject: [GEN-FRIENDS] MESSAGE FROM A FRIEND ON ANOTHER LIST I found that AVG programme from Grisoft had failed a test by PC Magazine. It did not detect 6 types and wrongly rejected 7 others which were not virus carriers. That was performed on the Professional version so I do not think that the free version will be better. Norton 2002 detected all correctly, so maybe I will see if I can scrape up the cash to get a copy. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 24/05/02 ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== If you are unsubscribed from the list unintentionally, simply resubscribe. A full mailbox, computer error, or spam may cause you to be unsubscribed. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.361 / Virus Database: 199 - Release Date: 07-May-02

I still think that you are trying to pull the wig over our eyes Brian! Grace

What was that about shooting the harbinger of bad tidings. <BG> Jim Sharpe Shaw, Oldham, UK ----- Original Message ----- From: Marged <marged@btinternet.com> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 5:01 AM Subject: [GEN-FRIENDS] MESSAGE FROM A FRIEND ON ANOTHER LIST > I found that AVG programme from Grisoft had failed a test by PC > Magazine. It did not detect 6 types and wrongly rejected 7 others which were > not virus carriers. That was performed on the Professional version so I do > not think that the free version will be better. Norton 2002 detected all > correctly, so maybe I will see if I can scrape up the cash to get a copy. > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 24/05/02 > > > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== > If you are unsubscribed from the list unintentionally, > simply resubscribe. A full mailbox, computer error, > or spam may cause you to be unsubscribed. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Ah Happy days, I remember them well. What a lovely and very apt name for dear old Hattie. Do any other of the senior members remember where they were when war broke out as Rob Wilton used to say. I was on holiday in Blackpool and on September the 7th was it, the lights went out. I was devastated and heaped what deprecations a seven year old boy knew on the head of that nasty man Hitler. We used to go to Blackpool every year in September ( yes, I know how fortunate I was but my dad always had a job because he drove a tram for Manchester Corporation Tramways Dept.) We always stayed about half a mile from the sea front near Lytham Road at the house of Mrs. Nicholson who had a son Peter my age. With Peter's help I got to know Blackpool inside out. Mrs. Nicholson was a widow and she let her parlour and front bedroom for ten shillings a week. My mum used to buy our food and Mrs. Nicholson would cook it for us all for ten bob. So mum also had a holiday. I loved blackpool in those days and I can't ever remember it raining but of course it must have now and again. These days you're lucky to get a fine day at Blackpool. To get an idea of even our poverty a visit to the South Shore pleasure beach fairground was always reserved for Friday the last day before we boarded the special Manchester employees bus for home. Jim Sharpe Shaw, Oldham, UK ----- Original Message ----- From: Marged <marged@btinternet.com> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 2:31 AM Subject: [GEN-FRIENDS] ITMA - Just a blast from the past > Its that man again > > It was at 8.15 pm on Wednesday, July 12, 1939, that a BBC announcer > said; > > "This is the National Programme. Ladies and Gentlemen-"I ts that man > again!" > > The Liverpool comedian, Tommy Handley [and his famous team] launched > ITMA, the radio show that was to run for ten years. > The show became an institution and a legend, with characters like Mrs > Mopp [Dorothy Summers]: Frisby Dyke [Deryck Guyler]; Sophie Tuckshop > [Hattie Jacques]; Miss Hotchkiss [Diana Morrison]; Colonel Chinstrap > [Jack Train] and Mona Lott [Joan Harben]. > Some of their catchphrases, like TTFN ["Ta,ta for now"], "Can I do you > now sir?" and "I go, I come back," became part of our daily speech. > News of Tommy Handleys death reached the BBC as a recording of the 310th > edition was going out on the Light Programme. > Listeners were still laughing at his jokes when the 6pm bulletin > announced that "that man" was no more. > People stood six deep along the six-mile route of his funeral procession > to St,Paul's Cathedral, to pay their last respects to this "fellow of > infinate jest." > > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 24/05/02 > > > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== > If you are unsubscribed from the list unintentionally, > simply resubscribe. A full mailbox, computer error, > or spam may cause you to be unsubscribed. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

What is this ? ----- Original Message ----- From: Marged To: GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 12:11 PM Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] Firewalls I have the free edition running on my computer. Marj > ZoneAlarm Pro 3.0 has just been brought out for 2002 and is compatible [so > they say] with all versions of windows. Cost = $49.95. > > I believe there is a free edition also. Has good reports. > > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 24/05/02 ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== If you are a blood donor please ask to go on the Bone Marrow Register. You won't be told about it if you don't ask. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.361 / Virus Database: 199 - Release Date: 07-May-02

Sounds good Brian but isn't it a devil what you have to do since the buggers made us all brick up our fireplaces. Jim Sharpe Shaw, Oldham, UK ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian <brian@lordbramhall.co.uk> To: <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 12:58 AM Subject: [GEN-FRIENDS] QVC Shopping Channel > I just received the shredder I ordered last week from the QVC TV Channel and > have to tell you I think it is very good value. For anyone thinking of > buying, here is my report: > > It is free standing and about 16 inches high [400 mm]. It is mains driven > [I wasn't sure if it was battery] and demolishes up to seven sheets of A4 at > a time. It has a safety cut out if the lid is removed. > > Not only does it shred into quarter inch strips [2.5 mm] but each length is > cut into pieces about 2 inches [50 mm] long on a cross cut. No way could > anyone piece this little lot together. > > The machine can be set to switch on maually [if kids are around] or will > automatically detect the insertion of paper and switch off after this has > passed through. > > Cost in UK = £37:79 incl tax & del. > > Brian > Staffordshire, UK > List Admin > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 24/05/2002 > > > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== > Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

I found that AVG programme from Grisoft had failed a test by PC Magazine. It did not detect 6 types and wrongly rejected 7 others which were not virus carriers. That was performed on the Professional version so I do not think that the free version will be better. Norton 2002 detected all correctly, so maybe I will see if I can scrape up the cash to get a copy. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 24/05/02

No doubt it's evident that I'm back to normal with my computer. It may be interesting and helpful to some if I relate the solution to my last problem. After I had re- installed WIN98SE I found that my drastic re-format had also put paid to my video and sound drivers. No matter thought I, I have drivers for everything on the computer, I'd already installed the modem and printer drivers separately. so I unearthed the AGP [video] and sound drivers on a CD labelled Jetway 530 AGP and Sound. I put the disc in the ROM drive (E) and clicked on my computer/ E/ this showed one folder labelled Jetway. I clicked on that and got two sub folders Win 9x and sound, the win 9x proved to be the video driver which when clicked had a sub folder labelled instal which did just that when clicked. The trouble was that the sound driver remained securely on the disc and when clicked revealed a sub folder labelled drv which [when clicked] revealed 9 more folders none of which was an instal facility. So what todo? After much deliberation and manual reading the solution was established. Right click 'my computer' on the desk top. Click 'properties'.- device manager.... scroll down the box with CD ROM etc in it -- to sound devices click on each of the sound devices and delete each part of them. (the sound drivers). Restart the computer with the driver CD in and the machine finds the audio device. When asked for the driver choose 'have disc' and navigate to the folder on the CD with the sound drivers in it The entry for me was D:\jetway\sound\drv You may have to repeat this a few times to pick up everything. I apologise if this seems longwinded to anyone but it would have been invaluable to me to have a step by step account when I was struggling. Jim Sharpe Shaw, Oldham, UK

I've got another little anecdote from later in the same fortnight. In my limited circle all young men served their dancing apprenticeship at Chic Hibbert's Dance hall in Higher Openshaw, a quite innocuous establishment. There were professional teachers Bob Dale and Bobby Davis if you had the money. Usually I didn't have more than my entrance fee to the dances which were held Friday, Saturday and Wednesday. There was a dance club on Sunday which you had to be a member and the fee was rather extortionate we thought because it also included collective tuition. So we practiced our steps with the help of the local girls who somehow were mysteriously adept at Modern Waltz, Quickstep, Slow Foxtrot, and sundry Latin American dances including no less the Cha- Cha. Anyway after that pre-amble back to the Palace Ballroom, Douglas which was the scene of our first night out. We were surveying the talent available and making our selection and my particular pal and I approached two likely looking young ladies for a dance. They agreed and we walked onto the dance floor, the band I remember was the Squadronaires led by Paul Fenoulet which had until recently been the Royal Airforce Dance Orchestra. We took up our positions and were agreeably astonished when the two girls thrust their pelvises hard against our stomachs and leaned their shoulders backwards in true professional style. They obviously had far more resources than we ever had to be so trained. Off we glided our complexions registering our embarrassment at our evident excitement and hoping they wouldn't notice but by their giggles it was a forlorn hope. You see it wasn't all misery. Jim Sharpe Shaw, Oldham, UK ----- Original Message ----- From: mikemail <michael@ae.net.sa> To: Jim Sharpe <jimm.sharpe@virgin.net>; <GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 11:28 PM Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] Drag Queen. Splendid story from the days of innocence. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Sharpe To: GEN-FRIENDS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 7:41 AM Subject: [GEN-FRIENDS] Drag Queen. In all my long life I only had one near encounter with a drag artiste. It was in the Isle of Man at Douglas the main resort [for the Americans etc.]. I --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.361 / Virus Database: 199 - Release Date: 07-May-02

Its that man again It was at 8.15 pm on Wednesday, July 12, 1939, that a BBC announcer said; "This is the National Programme. Ladies and Gentlemen-"I ts that man again!" The Liverpool comedian, Tommy Handley [and his famous team] launched ITMA, the radio show that was to run for ten years. The show became an institution and a legend, with characters like Mrs Mopp [Dorothy Summers]: Frisby Dyke [Deryck Guyler]; Sophie Tuckshop [Hattie Jacques]; Miss Hotchkiss [Diana Morrison]; Colonel Chinstrap [Jack Train] and Mona Lott [Joan Harben]. Some of their catchphrases, like TTFN ["Ta,ta for now"], "Can I do you now sir?" and "I go, I come back," became part of our daily speech. News of Tommy Handleys death reached the BBC as a recording of the 310th edition was going out on the Light Programme. Listeners were still laughing at his jokes when the 6pm bulletin announced that "that man" was no more. People stood six deep along the six-mile route of his funeral procession to St,Paul's Cathedral, to pay their last respects to this "fellow of infinate jest." --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 24/05/02

Sorry - that greeting was for a Gracie on the Scousers' List Mike No, "Our Gracie" Fields died some years ago. Marj Is Gracie still with us? Never hear of her perhaps she is rather ill on Capri? On my one visit there with Sorrento girlfriend I bought a smart bag which was stolen next day in Rome ! --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 24/05/02

I have the free edition running on my computer. Marj > ZoneAlarm Pro 3.0 has just been brought out for 2002 and is compatible [so > they say] with all versions of windows. Cost = $49.95. > > I believe there is a free edition also. Has good reports. > > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 24/05/02