Re: BBC on Emley moor.


"harrogate2" <harrogate2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Bill Wright" <insertmybusinessname@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> "harrogate2" <harrogate2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> >> "Mike E" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> >> > Hello all.
>> > Also bear in mind that not all frequencies protend the same
>> > propagation pattern, so you could be in a signal dip for that
> channel.
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>> Protend: to hold out; to stretch forth.
>> That's a new one on me. It isn't in COD. Care to expain your arcane
>> vocabulary? Grammar school boy?
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>> Bill (winking)
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> OK, so it was a speeling mistook. Portend old boy, portend.
> ...but maybe that was the wrong word anyway!
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> And on the assumption that you too made a spelling mistake William,
> you really must stop that - it'll send you blind;-))
> --
> Woody

No, you can't have meant portend. It doesn't make sense. Protend makes much
more sense. I think this is an example of automatic writing, in which the
spirits of the dead take over our hands and make us write things we don't
know. I suffer from it sometimes. The demon drink causes me to reliquish
control, and next morning I find that I have written a great swathe of
gibberish on uk.tech.digital-tv.
Anyway, the last person to call me William was a Sunday School teacher who
turned out to be . . . oh, you don't want to know. Ancient history; let's
bury it. But just bear in mind that if you call me William I will visualise
you florid faced and breathing heavily, with one hand holding the Holy Bible
aloft and the other fiddling about in your trouser pocket as you instruct us
ten-year olds in scripture.

Bill


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