And that comment comes straight after watching Tales of the Unexpected, where the husband has just dug a deep hole in his cellar, in order to dispose of his wife (the delightful Cheryl Hall) who has been unfaithful.

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And that comment comes straight after watching Tales of the Unexpected, where the husband has just dug a deep hole in his cellar, in order to dispose of his wife (the delightful Cheryl Hall) who has been unfaithful.

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not seen it, when's that on TV John? I was thinking more of the patio in Brookside.

My TV at the moment tends to be Suits on a Sunday night plus Silicon Valley and Banshee on the now TV box as at least you can watchboxsets on that long after all of the other channels have given up trying to entertain people for the evening. (This job definitely makes you nocturnal).

I remember seeing those Tales of the unexpected many, many years ago (back when there were only three channels on the TV). The one that stuck out in my mind was the antique dealer who found a chippendale in perfect condition in a house clearance. He convinced its owners (who had acquired it in a sale at the local hall) that it was just scrap and all that he was interested in were the handles.

Needless to say as he went away all happy to get the van the owners smashed it up in order to be helpful so that the handles were ready for him on his return.

You had a week off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How very dare you Julie.  

Actually I read a post recently from a self employed bookkeeper (not on here!) that had me howling laughing.  Asking who would do the work if she took time off (or words to that effect).

Hahahaha Joanne, yes I certainly do

The internet was 25 years old last week, and it's amazing how it's revolutionised the way we do things now.

And it's thanks to youtube that we can bring to life the episode Shaun was referring to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vur_qMcxxBA

"The internet was 25 years old last week"

It's older than that!

I think early August 1991 (i.e. 25 years ago last week) is recognised by some as the birth of the web - which isn't the internet, it's just a service running on top of it, just like email for example.

I deliberately chose email as an example because - inspired by an intriguing question on a forum -  I wrote a bloggy thing just over a year ago comparing how emails should be formatted (interleaved replies, plain text) against how most people typically format them (reply at the top, usually html), because I'd noticed that a couple of my clients sometimes reply to me attempting to interleave their replies but using html.

Key dates mentioned in that post: POP3, 1988 (that's POP3; there was POP2 before that, and POP earlier still) and IMAP, 1986.

Email, like the web, is merely a service that is provided over a network - usually the internet.

Another key date in that post: the web's true birth was in 1989. The reason August 1991 is recognised is because that's when Tim Berners-Lee made a document available publicly (on a usenet newsgroup no less - NNTP, another network protocol that was already in use on the internet), and is therefore when the web became a service that anyone on the internet could use.

"mae culpa"

What about your culpa? (And what is a culpa anyway?)*

I also only know the odd phrase - I didn't go to a posh school that taught foreign dead languages. I went to a common school where we were taught French and/or German.

Well, I say "taught" - but I use the term very loosely, because for it to have been "taught" there really should have been some "learning". o;)

* I'm probably being a little obtuse there, so I'll explain myself. The correct first word is "mea" not "mae", so I'm deliberately reading the "ae" in "mae" as ponounced like "eye", to give "my" - i.e. "my culpa". Before I spotted the mistake I was going to ask "You're a what, now?" - reading it as "me a".