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Or snot struck.AngelAlice said:escargot1 said:Reminds me of the time when I was driving a carful of kids and sneezed, just as a huge bird-poo hit the windscreen. Lovely.
I bet the kids were awestruck
Or snot struck.AngelAlice said:escargot1 said:Reminds me of the time when I was driving a carful of kids and sneezed, just as a huge bird-poo hit the windscreen. Lovely.
I bet the kids were awestruck
ginoide said:i LOVED the tv story. thank you!
Violets said:It was definitely a Black and White TV! It was just used for watching the security tapes and was very old, probably even made before colour TVs were available, lol. It was baffling!
uair01 said:No clue what this is either:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thescreamingneedle/6277335050/
Cochise said:There was an experiment on the BBC, about 1968, where they broadcast a colour picture (not a very good one) that could be seen on BW TV's. On Tomorrow's World, I think. Done with diffraction patterns or something.
jeff544 said:My Grandad used to adamantly maintain that their black and white television used to randomly show colour. This would have been in the mid 1970's. I never saw it do it, and my dad used to explain why it could never happen. Don't rememeber what Nan had to say about it though.
Might have been a wind-up for us kids.
LaurenChurchill said:There are hoodies that zip all the way up to the top of the hood. A lot of the time they have designs like a skull across that section, or a superhero mask.
Maybe he/she was wearing one of those.
Hmm, were you typing with both hands at the time?rynner2 said:This eveing I was trying to post something, but my screen image was jiggling up and down. And then a paragraph I'd just typed disappeared!
rynner2 said:This eveing I was trying to post something, but my screen image was jiggling up and down. And then a paragraph I'd just typed disappeared!
I decided to reboot, and now everything seems OK, except that I get the impression that stuff is now appearing in a smaller font.
Anyone else had board trouble tonight?
Nope.Mythopoeika said:Laptop?
Running from battery?
Idunno!It's probably switched to a lower powered graphic processor. If you're running Vista or Win 7, this switching process can turn off Aero (and it might change the font settings too).
Or am I guessing wrong?