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― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 20 February 2003 12:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Aw, Weston-super-mare gets all the best acts! (I actually don't believe this story.)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 20 February 2003 12:23 (twenty-three years ago)

let's all go and watch!

― alix (alix), Thursday, 20 February 2003 12:23 (twenty-three years ago)

That would involve going to Weston, though.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 20 February 2003 12:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Weston-S-Mare cheese-magician FAP, anyone?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 20 February 2003 12:25 (twenty-three years ago)

That would involve going to Weston.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 20 February 2003 12:27 (twenty-three years ago)

We could laugh at the cheese-man and they go elsewhere?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 20 February 2003 12:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I went there once, but only because the car broke down on the way to Swansea. The tide was out. I don't reckon encasing yourself in cheese would be unpleasant. I think I would be ideal for the task, as I have had some experience with large amounts of cheese.

― alix (alix), Thursday, 20 February 2003 12:29 (twenty-three years ago)

cheese: in or out?

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 20 February 2003 12:32 (twenty-three years ago)

cheese: in your mouth.

― alix (alix), Thursday, 20 February 2003 12:54 (twenty-three years ago)

the man in that picture looks soooooooooooo cheesy

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Imagine the smell.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:17 (twenty-three years ago)

my favourite bit:

This is an endurance test - I'm not going to wimp out and use a mild cheese

andy

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:21 (twenty-three years ago)

An undisclosed media source* adds that paramedics will be on hand in case he is overcome by the fumes.

*Metro only I know how ILX h8s Metro.

― Emma, Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:27 (twenty-three years ago)

ILX suxx.

Blimey, train tickets from here are only a tenner. Shall I go?

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:29 (twenty-three years ago)

let's relese a load of mice in Weston Shopping Centre and scupper his crazy plans!

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 20 February 2003 14:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Wait -- he's bringing a laptop?!

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 20 February 2003 15:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Ha! We could encourage him to start posting from inside the cheese!

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 20 February 2003 15:04 (twenty-three years ago)

We could start a new board called I Love Emmenthal for him.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 20 February 2003 15:05 (twenty-three years ago)

accessing the interweb from inside a cube of cheese? probably using some sort of cheesewire? i wonder what cheese-baud he can get?

(why does nobody use the word baud anymore, it gets dropped and all you get is a number "56K". as a one-time science teacher, this appals me. you lose a mark for not putting in your units)

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 20 February 2003 15:29 (twenty-three years ago)

baud isn't the same as bps though, is it?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 20 February 2003 15:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Al surely you know full well that WOW! stands for Without A Wire? I thought your undies knowledge was unrivalled?

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 20 February 2003 15:34 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/fs-1037/dir-004/_0559.htm

"Note 2: Baud is sometimes used as a synonym for bit-per-second . This usage is deprecated"

point taken

still, CHEESE! ha ha. it's probably LANcashire cheese

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 20 February 2003 15:38 (twenty-three years ago)

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (09 FEB 02) [foldoc]:

baud /bawd/ (plural "baud") The unit in which the information carrying capacity or "{signalling rate}" of a communication channel is measured. One baud is one symbol (state-transition or level-transition) per second. This coincides with bits per second only for two-level {modulation} with no {framing} or {stop bits}. A symbol is a unique state of the communication channel, distinguishable by the receiver from all other possible states. For example, it may be one of two voltage levels on a wire for a direct digital connection or it might be the phase or frequency of a carrier. The term "baud" was originally a unit of telegraph signalling speed, set at one {Morse code} dot per second. Or, more generally, the reciprocal of the duration of the shortest signalling element. It was proposed at the International Telegraph Conference of 1927, and named after {J.M.E. Baudot} (1845-1903), the French engineer who constructed the first successful teleprinter. The UK {PSTN} will support a maximum rate of 600 baud but each baud may carry between 1 and 16 bits depending on the coding (e.g. {QAM}). Where data is transmitted as {packets}, e.g. characters, the actual "data rate" of a channel is R D / P where R is the "raw" rate in bits per second, D is the number of data bits in a packet and P is the total number of bits in a packet (including packet overhead). The term "baud" causes much confusion and is usually best avoided. Use "bits per second" (bps), "bytes per second" or "characters per second" (cps) if that's what you mean. (1998-02-14)

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 20 February 2003 15:39 (twenty-three years ago)

damn beat me to it

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 20 February 2003 15:39 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/fs-1037/dir-005/_0645.htm

"Note 2: The abbreviation "bps" is not in accordance with international standards, and is therefore deprecated."

bloody hell. you can't win can you

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 20 February 2003 15:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I read "the first successful teleprinter" as the first successful teleporter" and thought "truly he was a man ahead of his time!"

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:13 (twenty-three years ago)

oude gouda!!

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I probably wouldn't mind doing this if I got to choose the cheese (hmmm.. sharp cheddar?) and were supplied with at least one box of crackers.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:17 (twenty-three years ago)

(why does nobody use the word baud anymore, it gets dropped and all you get is a number "56K". as a one-time science teacher, this appals me. you lose a mark for not putting in your units)

Somebody asked me about baud rates this morning and I hadn't a fucking clue what they were talking about.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:19 (twenty-three years ago)

well now you do

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I would worry about that "overcome by fumes" bit: doesn't it seem as if you could be poisoned by some sort of low-level cheese toxicity, or have a massive allergic reaction, or something to that effect? Massive exposure to a single product (especially animal products) seems like it always leads to something bad happening, even if it's just all the bits of your body turning different colors.

I predict some sort of cheese jaundice. And significant liver damage from filtering cheese impurities.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:25 (twenty-three years ago)

well now you do

Indeed, I called on my immense personal resource of friends and found out from a technical bod. I was hoping it was going to be something more exciting.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:27 (twenty-three years ago)

get yourself a copy of dict and never have need for friends or the telephone again

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:30 (twenty-three years ago)

You misspelled... never mind.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:31 (twenty-three years ago)

How about 'bawd' rates? "Last evensong I quaffed 15 pints of mead and whore'd a young maid whilst singing a fair song!"

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Or 'bored' rates? "Today I posted to ilxor 347 times."

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Or 'board' rates? "Last month I gave myself a 300% pay rise."

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 20 February 2003 16:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Thus concludes today's episode of Puns that are Only Puns for English People.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 20 February 2003 17:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I predict some sort of cheese jaundice. And significant liver damage from filtering cheese impurities.

Also, let's hope this guy isn't lactose-intolerant. Or if he is, some really nasty fumes could result.

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 20 February 2003 17:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I lived for the first three and a half years of my life in Weston-super-Mare. It is England's most rub holiday resort, in that on average two people a week need rescuing from the thick black mud revealed when the tide goes out three miles. Some fools always try to follow it.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 20 February 2003 20:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I like the title of this thread. It makes New Answers look nice and "spammy" like it's ebay or something.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 20 February 2003 20:44 (twenty-three years ago)

most rub holiday resort

when I was a student we quite liked it as it was the closest place to Brizzle where we could go BOWLING.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 21 February 2003 16:20 (twenty-three years ago)

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