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Points: 7003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2008 at 14:40
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

This place is beginning to sound like the Monty Python cheese shop sketch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3c3qJIwMDc

Venezuelan Beaver cheese anyone?
 
There's a deli in Raynes Park where you can get Stinking Bishop (as featured in Wallace & Grommitt) - lovely cheese but you need to keep it well sealed.
 
I'm also partial to Cornish Yarg (manufactured by the Gray family).
 
I once had some Japanese Camembert (made on the northern island of Hokkaido) that was actually not bad - beat that!
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Points: 19823 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2008 at 14:44
Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:

 
There's a deli in Raynes Park where you can get Stinking Bishop (as featured in Wallace & Grommitt) - lovely cheese but you need to keep it well sealed.
 
sold in the Kington Deli, most of the time...Wink
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2008 at 14:54
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cagxPlVqrtM

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For those of you who were talking about Powerpoint Presentations.
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Points: 1402 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2008 at 15:04
Originally posted by James James wrote:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cagxPlVqrtM

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For those of you who were talking about Powerpoint Presentations.



 
How very true. The number of times presenters in my old outfit that tried to impress with their knowledge of PowerPoint and gave a poor presentation
 
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am I alone in having NO IDEA what a power point presentation is?Ermm
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am I alone in having NO IDEA what a power point presentation is?Ermm
 
Quite possibly, and you should be profoundly thankful for it.
 
I remember once hearing somebody rework Churchill's wartime speeches as powerpoint presentations (possibly on Radio 4); simultaneously hilarious and a sobering reminder of just how much drivel gets spouted and how much of our precious time on the planet is squandered listening to it rather than actually Censoreding well getting on with something.
 
I think I need a nice cup of tea and a bit of a sit down now - thought it was the ranting room for a moment there.
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Perhaps, Rachel.... Wink

@limeyrob: I used PowerPoint, usually do, although since I started my own business I switchted to OpenOffice. I stay away from animations and gadgets like remote controls on occasions like this.

@chopper: nice one, DOS is not all that long ago
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I use OpenOffice too.

It would have cost me even more money from Dell.  So I got Works for free and have never used it.

OpenOffice does the business for me. Big%20smile


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Originally posted by prog-chick prog-chick wrote:

am I alone in having NO IDEA what a power point presentation is?Ermm


If you've got MS Office on your PC, it will be sitting in there - a very handy programme which allows you to impart information to those too thick to read long paragraphs of text; think of it as tabloid presentation - all bright colours, bold text, short sentences & little content of any value.



A bit like the Velvet Room...

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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 10 2008 at 03:43
Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

This place is beginning to sound like the Monty Python cheese shop sketch.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3c3qJIwMDcVenezuelan Beaver cheese anyone?

 

There's a deli in Raynes Park where you can get Stinking Bishop (as featured in Wallace & Grommitt)


That's the favorite of one of our friends at our local pub - he says it's pretty well named, too.

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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

This place is beginning to sound like the Monty Python cheese shop sketch.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3c3qJIwMDcVenezuelan Beaver cheese anyone?


is it excremently runny?
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Originally posted by prog-chick prog-chick wrote:

am I alone in having NO IDEA what a power point presentation is?Ermm
 
 
don't worry Rachel, it's nothing really, only a geek term for "picture slide show on a computer projected onto a screen  with gobbeldy-gook commentary". i've seen loads of these things and they always involve disjointed sentences, fiddling, coughing and embarrassed silences waiting-for-something-to-happen...   LOL
 
 
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AH! See, Fanny's answer made more sense than Jim's ! (Sorry Mr Garten!) Why do you need a special programe to be brief but bold? Is it not possible to be incoherrant in other programmes? (I'm sure it is, I achieve that daily!)

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Originally posted by prog-chick prog-chick wrote:

AH! See, Fanny's answer made more sense than Jim's ! (Sorry Mr Garten!)
 
I think that might have been Mystic Freddy, not Mystic Fanny....Embarrassed
 
Why do you need a special programe to be brief but bold? Is it not possible to be incoherrant in other programmes? (I'm sure it is, I achieve that daily!)
 
I believe the whole thing is designed to simultaneously push the envelope, think outside the box, somewhere in the blue skies....Confused

If you are registered to Purely Pendragon in a fit of sleeplessness (I miss my boyCry )
 
Yeah, but just remember, soon you'll be getting oodles of huggies (and not all of them will be from unshaven, overweight Pendies fans...LOL)
 
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Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by prog-chick prog-chick wrote:

am I alone in having NO IDEA what a power point presentation is?Ermm


If you've got MS Office on your PC, it will be sitting in there - a very handy programme which allows you to impart information to those too thick to read long paragraphs of text; think of it as tabloid presentation - all bright colours, bold text, short sentences & little content of any value.



A bit like the Velvet Room...


I doubt the managers and academics in my audience yesterday share that view, Jimbo.... LOL
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Points: 1402 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 10 2008 at 07:20
Forget your prog chicks. Take a look at these little droolers
 
 
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Points: 1402 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 10 2008 at 07:21
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Help required please. How do you add a photo image to your message. I've tried but as you can see above - no luck.Thumbs%20Down
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 10 2008 at 07:28
As long as the pic is on the web, then copy and past is the easiest way. If it is on you PC then you'll have to upload it first - most peeps use Photobucket.com
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Originally posted by limeyrob limeyrob wrote:

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Help required please. How do you add a photo image to your message. I've tried but as you can see above - no luck.Thumbs%20Down
 
this is what I like about Rob...his PC skills are almost as poor as mine...Smile
 
hey Rob, did I tell you that I have recently upgraded my 'pooter from hamster powered to gerbil powered? the wheel in the back goes around a bit quicker now...LOL
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Sorry I got my Fannys and Freddies mixed up there! Wink 


Rob, I am thoroughly impressed with your forum posting skills, be proud, be darned proud, it's the ability to be confused by these things is what keeps the Shed alive!


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