The Jinx wrote:
JNugent wrote:

Mike Cawood, HND BIT wrote:

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...559786,00.html
Some people should have been strangled at birth.
Mike.

Some of the "daft" questions are not so daft.

No just bloody stupid.

Only if you know the answer.

On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 13:41:02 -0000, Brimstone put finger to keyboard
and typed:

The Jinx wrote:
JNugent wrote:

Mike Cawood, HND BIT wrote:

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...559786,00.html
Some people should have been strangled at birth.
Mike.

Some of the "daft" questions are not so daft.

No just bloody stupid.

Only if you know the answer.

Well, many of the questions are daft, not because they have an obvious
answer but because they are based on faulty premises. For example, "Is
the British Museum closed during the winter?" would be a valid
question even though nearly everyone knows that the answer is "no".
But "Is Wales closed during the winter?" can only be asked by someone
who doesn't know what Wales is, and that's what makes it daft - it's
not daft because they don't know the answer, it's daft because they
don't know the meaning of the question.

The only one in that list that isn't really daft, IMO, is "Do you have
any information on Samantha Fox?". That's a perfectly valid question,
the only thing that's slightly daft is that maybe a tourist
information centre probably isn't the best place to ask it.

Mark
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Mark Goodge wrote:
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 13:41:02 -0000, Brimstone put finger to keyboard
and typed:

The Jinx wrote:
JNugent wrote:

Mike Cawood, HND BIT wrote:

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...559786,00.html
Some people should have been strangled at birth.
Mike.
Some of the "daft" questions are not so daft.
No just bloody stupid.
Only if you know the answer.


The only one in that list that isn't really daft, IMO, is "Do you have
any information on Samantha Fox?". That's a perfectly valid question,
the only thing that's slightly daft is that maybe a tourist
information centre probably isn't the best place to ask it.

The one about the May Day demonstration is permissible. After all,
so-called "May Day" isn't usually on the first of the month - and at the
Universities May Week is in June.

Regards

Jonathan

Jonathan Morton wrote:

The one about the May Day demonstration is permissible. After all,
so-called "May Day" isn't usually on the first of the month - and at the
Universities May Week is in June.

Is it? I've never noticed a "May Week" at any of the universities I've been
at. Also most have been rearranging their term structures so there's very
little term time in June now.

In message , Tim Roll-Pickering
writes

Jonathan Morton wrote:

The one about the May Day demonstration is permissible. After all,
so-called "May Day" isn't usually on the first of the month - and at the
Universities May Week is in June.

Is it? I've never noticed a "May Week" at any of the universities I've been
at.

AFAIR, only Cambridge has a "May Week" - originally in May, before the
exams, but now in June after exams. Even there, some colleges prefer
"June event" to the more traditional "May ball". The Oxford equivalent
is the Commem. ball.
--
Paul Terry

In article ,
(Paul Terry) wrote:

In message , Tim Roll-Pickering
writes

Jonathan Morton wrote:

The one about the May Day demonstration is permissible. After
all, so-called "May Day" isn't usually on the first of the month -
and at the Universities May Week is in June.

Is it? I've never noticed a "May Week" at any of the universities
I've been at.

AFAIR, only Cambridge has a "May Week" - originally in May, before
the exams, but now in June after exams. Even there, some colleges
prefer "June event" to the more traditional "May ball". The Oxford
equivalent is the Commem. ball.

May week can sometimes start in May, if Easter is early enough. It can
also get perilously close to June.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

"Colin Rosenstiel" wrote in message
...
In article ,
(Paul Terry) wrote:

In message , Tim Roll-Pickering
writes

Jonathan Morton wrote:

The one about the May Day demonstration is permissible. After
all, so-called "May Day" isn't usually on the first of the month -
and at the Universities May Week is in June.

Is it? I've never noticed a "May Week" at any of the universities
I've been at.

AFAIR, only Cambridge has a "May Week" - originally in May, before
the exams, but now in June after exams. Even there, some colleges
prefer "June event" to the more traditional "May ball". The Oxford
equivalent is the Commem. ball.

May week can sometimes start in May, if Easter is early enough. It can
also get perilously close to June.

Could you give us an example of a year when May Week begins in May, please,
Colin? In the table at http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/so/so_ch02.pdf, the
earliest date for the Friday at the end of Full Term (the Friday of the May
Races) is June 10th.

You talk of Easter being "early enough". The earliest date on which Easter
can fall is March 22nd, but that doesn't occur within the period of my
current list (between 1875 and 2124). A March 23rd Easter will occur in
2008, and Full Term that year will end on Friday 13th June.

Looking back I see that the Wednesday at the start of the May Races in 1958,
1969, 1975, and in 1980 was 4th June. If we go back to 1953, the Wednesday
was 3rd June (the day after the Coronation), and the 1952 May Races are also
recorded as starting on 3rd June (which would have been the Tuesday). 1951
was another relatively early Easter (March 25th) and the Mays started on
June 7th.

To add additional confusion, May Week lasts a fortnight, with the first week
being the week including the May Races (and the end of Full Term), and the
following week with the May Balls.
--
David Biddulph

"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote in message
...
Jonathan Morton wrote:

The one about the May Day demonstration is permissible. After all,
so-called "May Day" isn't usually on the first of the month - and at the
Universities May Week is in June.

Is it? I've never noticed a "May Week" at any of the universities I've
been at. Also most have been rearranging their term structures so there's
very little term time in June now.

Judging by my cousins timetable they have very little termtime in ANY month!

Nick



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On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:02:09 +0000, Jonathan Morton
wrote:

Mark Goodge wrote:
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 13:41:02 -0000, Brimstone put finger to keyboard
and typed:

The Jinx wrote:
JNugent wrote:

Mike Cawood, HND BIT wrote:

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...559786,00.html
Some people should have been strangled at birth.
Mike.
Some of the "daft" questions are not so daft.
No just bloody stupid.
Only if you know the answer.


The only one in that list that isn't really daft, IMO, is "Do you have
any information on Samantha Fox?". That's a perfectly valid question,
the only thing that's slightly daft is that maybe a tourist
information centre probably isn't the best place to ask it.

The one about the May Day demonstration is permissible. After all,
so-called "May Day" isn't usually on the first of the month - and at the
Universities May Week is in June.

When in many places the May blossom will have just come out.

"Mark Goodge" wrote in message
house.net...
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 13:41:02 -0000, Brimstone put finger to keyboard
and typed:

The Jinx wrote:
JNugent wrote:

Mike Cawood, HND BIT wrote:

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...559786,00.html
Some people should have been strangled at birth.
Mike.

Some of the "daft" questions are not so daft.

No just bloody stupid.

Only if you know the answer.

Well, many of the questions are daft, not because they have an obvious
answer but because they are based on faulty premises. For example, "Is
the British Museum closed during the winter?" would be a valid
question even though nearly everyone knows that the answer is "no".
But "Is Wales closed during the winter?" can only be asked by someone
who doesn't know what Wales is, and that's what makes it daft - it's
not daft because they don't know the answer, it's daft because they
don't know the meaning of the question.

The only one in that list that isn't really daft, IMO, is "Do you have
any information on Samantha Fox?". That's a perfectly valid question,
the only thing that's slightly daft is that maybe a tourist
information centre probably isn't the best place to ask it.

Unless you'd consider her assets to be national treasures...


Mark
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