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Frocester from the air

From : Phil Wright

One Wednesday evening ...

Interference from mobile phones

From : Bob Smith

This morning (Tuesday 8 August) at 1130 am Maurice Smith and I were doing circuits and bumps at Selsley. Lift was patchy. We were on the west slope and on our left were three young guys attempting to para-glide. They gave up while we were still footling about. Nice guys they were. Suddenly I was shot down. One of the lads, who was about 100yards from us, was using his mobile phone to report that lift was bad. Maurice and I went over to them for a natter and they said that they would ask all their mates not to use their phones if we were about. It's the first time that I've personally been affected by mobiles, but they obviously can floor us ! We were flying Futaba gear ( FM single stage receivers and crystals No. 68). It may be that you were aware of this already - if not, please pass it on as there are some very nice models in the club.

English as she is spoke

From : Phil

A Reply To The Revolting Pedants

I disagree with the revolting pedants and the militant wing of the Apostrophe Protection Society, we should not be bound by the rules a few scribes have made to make life hard for the ordinary folk. If the pleural of mouse is mice, then it should be house and hice, only Prince Charles says hice. We should not abide by the grammar rules and millions of exceptions for what is a highly corrupted, obscure Germanic language. I have spent 40 years reading badly translated technical manuals and now I read over mistakes without noticing; Lines like "All men are fools, and what makes them so is having beauty like what I have got" in one of Ernie's play what he wrote, just seem normal to me. Phrases like "But yes, but no, but yes, but no, but yeah" will become normal in time, they make our language richer and mistakes like the ones below make us laugh.

In an Acapulco hotel: "The manager has personally passed all the water served here"

In a New York drugstore: "We dispense with accuracy."

In a New York restaurant: "Customers who find our waitresses rude ought to see the manager."

Please let us have our news letters with the mistakes, When I edited the news letter many of the readers enjoyed finding fault, as words like, principal instead of principle and break instead of brake got past the spell checker; we are people not machines, the pedants should allow us a few mistakes, a misplaced comma sometimes makes a difference like, eats, shoots and leaves, but 9 out of 10 times we would not notice; even Lynne Truss has several punctuation errors in her book. If you don't agree with me, try listening to Stan Freeburg's politically and grammatically correct version of Ol' Man River, renamed Elderly Man River (click here to listen). Also if everybody followed the rules of grammar, we would not have had Star Trek Those of you who rely on the spell checker, may like to read the poem below

Owed to a Spelling Checker

I have a spelling checker. It came with my PC.
It plane lee marks four my revue Miss steaks I can knot sea.
Eye ran this poem threw it, Your sure reel glad two no.
Its very polished in it's weigh. My checker tolled me sew.

A checker is a bless sing. It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed, And aides me when aye rime.
Bee fore a veiling checkers Hour spelling mite decline,
And if we're lacks oar have a laps, Wee wooed bee maid too wine.

Butt now bee cause my spelling Is checked with such grate flare,
Their are know faults with in my cite, Of nun eye am a wear.
Now spelling does knot phase me, It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den With wrapped words fare as hear.

To rite with care is quite a feet Of witch won should bee proud,
And wee mussed dew the best wee can, Sew flaws are knot aloud.
Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays such soft wear four pea seas,
And why eye brake in two averse buy righting want too pleas.

Discus 2a onboard video link

From : Adrian Mesbah

There's a video on my website: www.kisstheblade.com

It’s a full resolution 11 minute video - compressed from 3gb down to 53mb – but still reasonable quality.