Charlie

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  1. The "official" Festuival Time with words is by Laura Lee, and is called "To win your heart" obviously on Motown.

    And yes, the Detroit/Motown Spinners are one of the same, using the prefix to avoid confusion with the Liverpool band. The American band obviously couldnt keep the Motown prefix when they left the label.

    See - when you're around it all makes sense - Get your PC fixed!

  2. I don't know which database engine is being used, but most databases do require some attention from time-to-time. I know that most SQL types do not recover the space when an item is deleted or eliminated, so over time the database grows - and may eventually lock up if it reaches a "maximum" size limitation.

    The answer to this is to periodically compact, or re-generate, the database which then recovers the "deleted" space. This could be the reason the database appears to have reduced in size without loss of data!

    Slightly Quirky Lingo?

  3. We were down for 24 hours with a database error.

    IPB support said it was our host.

    I got no reply from their support, and managed to repair the DB this morning,

    having been up since 4am.

    Sorry for any inconvenience.

    Mick - I did a google on the error message and it seems to be related to sloppy server upgrades! Thanks for all the effort - I missed the site ENORMOUSLY

  4. what about NAUGHTY IN NOTTINGHAM, starring the hippo crew, the arriba lot ( a job there for beefy) and anyone who knew stu morris ? !laughing!

    Whaddya mean knew? - he's still alive and kicking - anything that moves mostly!

    Tell you what - he'd make a belting Friar Tuck - Sort of Kung Fu meets Father Ted..................

    (Sorry Stu - just a joke...............)

  5. Just been doing a little bit of research on Gibson and found out the poor bu99er wasn't even shot down but simply 'ran out of fuel'

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Gibson

    My uncle was a bomber pilot - flew Wellingtons. He was shot down and kept going while his crew bailed out and he flew clear of a dutch village, then he jumped too - The Gremans, according to his cre, were not best pleased and used him for target practice as he hung from his 'chute. I have an old 78rpm, made by the BBC, of him talking about life as a pilot - very quiet and matter-of-fact about some incredibly brave stuff that he did. It always makes me think of the phrase 'not worthy to lick his boots'.

    And now here we are, uled by the Germans and the French out of Brussels and our judges telling us we have to take up Sharia law, to be 'fair' to muslims............while at the same time they are letting all the prisoners out of jail!

    Sorry, rant over.

  6. Well, what with all this talk about 'uncontrolable kids with knives, I like hte idea of litter bins that just hoover them right up.

    To stop litter , anywhere, they should

    1. Reduce the amount of unwanted packaging ie, one bag ,one box, one cup, one straw,one serviette, for one bloody burger.

    2. Make picking up litter interesting and exciting for kids. Like there used to be at "Butlins" Skeggy all those years ago, there were rubbish bins in the shape of frogs, cats , dogs etc with a vacuum motor inside that used to suck the litter from your hands (Then again health and safety would probably have a fit!!!) But there was not a bit of litter to be found any where, kids would ask adults (Strangers) for there chewing gum wrappers, fag buts , etc just to put them in the bins!!.