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I'm trying to find a map of all the places bombs fell on London in the two world wars, I know the thing exists as I've seen bits of it on TV and the information must be out there somewhere. If anyone could find it that would be fantastic. Also post here the things you're looking for but are having trouble with.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

chris the maps you want are on a "the the" fan website!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

What is wrong with Thom Yorke's eye?

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

(And don't tell me Google says it's 'googly'.)

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I poked it with a pencil, for crimes against humanity

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

hi my name is gygax!

wwii
http://www.museumofworldwarii.com/images/TourPictures/04_German%20Map_lge.jpg

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

What is wrong with Thom Yorke's eye?
-- Momus (nic...), November 18th, 2003.

Odd. I was going to say that I often spend time trying to find out what's up with Roy Orbison's eyes. Is there any truth to the rumor that he has freakishly sized eyes?

Personally, I think he's just sad.

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

tho that is more of a plan of attack rather than tyrone slothrop's sinneslustdiagramm

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

roy orbison is very, very sad.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

so sad that light hurts him.

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

it's good, but it's not quite right. The one I've seen has individual boroughs and the location of each bomb dropped. The reason for this is that you can tell around London where bombs fell as there are gaps in the old houses filled with much newer ones, but at the end of our road there is a huge great area around there all with new houses and I want to find out what happened there.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

his beady little eyes.

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

plaguepit collapse

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

it seems like the London Metropolitan archives may be a winner.

you may be right MarkS. It's right next to William Morris' old house too, on Forest road.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

that beardy old git is unavoidable

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

you heart him and you know you do

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

his friends called him topsy

sometimes he got so excited abt art or poetry he wd punch himself in the face!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

and once when burne-jones and others were teasing him he got so angry he bit a fork hard enuff for the prongs to go skew-wiff

(does this make him the barry lasagna of the Arts-and-Crafts movement?)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I was trying to figure out who the hell "Ozone" was that Strong Bad dressed up as this year. Do you know how impossible it is to search for someone named "Ozone"?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it does, yes

Billy Hotchepotte.

We're going to finally go round the museum on Saturday, I'll give him your regards

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

What Google told me: "Thom E. York was born for 28 years ago with one eye closed. Since then he has operated the eyelid five times. It's still paralysed and that's why it hangs halfway open."

I'm not vouching for its accuracy though.

― Blind Joe Lieberman (Barss), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

"When I was born my left eye was completely paralysed. My eyelid was permanently shut and they thought it would be like that for the rest of my life. Then some specialist bloke realised he could graft a muscle in, like a bionic eye. So I had 5 major operations between the age of nought to 6. They fucked up the last one and I went half blind. I can kind of see. I can judge when I hit something but that's about it. They made me wear this eye patch on my eye for a year, saying, 'Oh, well, it's just got lazy through all the operations', which was crap because they damaged it. The first operation I had, I was just learning to speak, and apparently I said, 'what do I got?' I didn't know. I woke up and I had this huge thing on my eye, and according to my parents I just doubled and started crying."

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 09:25 (twenty-one years ago)

1) Chris, can you link to that bombsite map? Cause I'm really curious about some areas I've lived in!

2) So Thom and Momus could have swapped pirate fashion tips on eyepatches. What a lost collaboration the world mourns!

― Citizen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Thomus.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

bloody hell, another thread i was gonna start yesterday

an image search for 'pussy wagon' yielded nothing :(

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 10:29 (twenty-one years ago)

did you have safe search turned on?

http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~alexward/pussy.jpg

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 10:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris, try the Vestry Museum in Walthamstow Village. They have all the parish records. If they don't have books on this then I've probably bought them and they're on the local history section on the bookshelf in my lounge.

My guess for the end of your road is a sacrificial site for West Indian penis thieves. Best check, though.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I was yesterday unable to find any confirmation via Google that Ray Davies wrote Waterloo Sunset while laid up in St Thomas's looking out from his ward's window. Maybe I dreamed this story.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Momus, did you want to start a club with Thom?

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

uh, why is there a school bus with it's door open right beside the p.w.?
(though i guess the cops are there, so it's okay)

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Is anyone else getting the Server Error page on Google? I've never, ever had this before. Help!

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 9 January 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

it's not just your work end playing up, we've been having JANet problems most of the day...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

So when did YOU get back online, Steve? :)

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

about 11.15.

email received earlier:

The JANET outage this morning that affected LMN was a suspected broken MCI fibre between ULCC and the MCI Euston point of presence. This problem has been temporarily overcome by patching the JANET development network at ULCC to restore service.

An email was sent by Logicalis earlier explaining the problem to the LMN community, as soon as it was identified. This email, due to the nature of the problem, would not have reached you.

do you see what they did there, they sent an email round to tell everyone the email was broken, d'oh...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

Try as I might, I cannot find the picture of Richey Manic standing next to a load of skulls at the catacombes in Paris.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 22 July 2004 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't even find the article.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 22 July 2004 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Comparative risks/odds of accidents for traveling by car, bus, motorcycle, pushbike, and on foot in London.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Thursday, 22 July 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Those kind of stats are always a bit tricky, though, because it depends on whether you measure it by mileage or no. of journeys. Also, the typical severity of the accident varies with each mode of transport.

Airlines go on about how flying is the safest method of travelling there is, and it is, in terms of accidents per mile travelled. But each journey is hundreds of miles on average, and if you do have an accident then your chances of surviving are relatively slim.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 22 July 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

The phone number of the St Martins Lane Hotel, London.

(I ended up ringing up Los Angeles to get it)

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 22 July 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Nicky Wire talks about that photo session here.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 22 July 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

020 7300 5500, right?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 22 July 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

HOW SHOT WEB

― I CAN LEAD YOU THROUGH THE ZONE (ex machina), Thursday, 22 July 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Right, Alba :) Thank you!

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 22 July 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Didn't know you were an Aldershot fan, Jon:
http://www.shotsweb.co.uk/

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 22 July 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

For Madchen:

ihttp://homepage.ntlworld.com/goto.manicx/next.htm

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 22 July 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Bugger. Follow the link, go to Photos, it's on page 2 of the Richey Edwards ones (funny, that)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 22 July 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

been trying to find a really simple C++ listing of a cut-down text adventure example, ie just moving from one location to another for now, but having not a jot of luck.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 22 July 2004 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

g00s3y?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 22 July 2004 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Lots of stills from the TV show Out of this World

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 22 July 2004 22:10 (twenty-one years ago)

This is about C, rather than C++, but it's the most basic discussion of room to room moving code that I can immediately see.

When the results of this 1-2K text adventure challenge are in, maybe some of the entries will be in C++. I used to have a text adventure on my unexpanded 1K Sinclair ZX81 and I never solved it!

There are plenty of C++ text adventures on the web with source code published, but I guess a full size thing isn't what you want.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 22 July 2004 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Hurrah! Ailsa, you are a doll.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 23 July 2004 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks Alba, yeah i saw that competition site too.

I think I may have found something now, a college professor's website consisting of a few assignments which all just happen to be, ta dah, creating a c++ text adventure game.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Hello. I'm after any kind of email or website address for anyone at Cruise-W4gner Productions (also known as C/W Productions, and googleproofed for obv reasons). Does anyone want to give it a go for me?

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Contactable through Par4mount?

Cru1se/W4gner Productions
C/o P4ramount P1ctures
5555 Melrose Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90038
323-956-5000

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Bugger, a mod should googleproof that if yr worried.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been curious about finding out what my old college boyfriend is up to. Not for any romantic reasons - I'm happily married, but because he was an awesome guitarist and I always figured his band would be good and maybe famous some day. His name is Jonathan David. No way to Google him. I did manage to find out that his dad is now a big shot producer working with Endemol productions, though.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

His name is Jonathan David. No way to Google him.

Unless you want to find a lot of Belle and Sebastian silliness.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Exactly!

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

did chris ever find the map? i'd like to see it.

― Dead Man, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

You could put "-belle" in your search to eliminate that, but you'll still get thousands of hits.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

"jonathan david" awesome guitarx0r god -sebastian

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"Emil A. Høyers"

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

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