http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a93kg9vdI5Q


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Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

The Medway Handyman wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a93kg9vdI5Q

Since when has anything 'Just For Laughs' done ever been funny?

On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 20:19:41 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:

The Medway Handyman wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a93kg9vdI5Q

Since when has anything 'Just For Laughs' done ever been funny?

It would be a great improvement if people posting links to external, non-
text content - esp. when the targets of which are substantial - would
mention it in the subject line (as OT topics are.) Otherwise it takes all
****ing day just to get through one download.

"Cursitor Doom" wrote in message
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On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 20:19:41 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:

The Medway Handyman wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a93kg9vdI5Q

Since when has anything 'Just For Laughs' done ever been funny?

It would be a great improvement if people posting links to external, non-
text content - esp. when the targets of which are substantial - would
mention it in the subject line (as OT topics are.) Otherwise it takes all
****ing day just to get through one download.

Don't be such a miserable git.
It was funny.

On 15/02/2014 20:15, The Medway Handyman wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a93kg9vdI5Q


Excellent!

Many years ago, in the days when presentations were made with a slide
projector, often with quite a large (3 inch?) glass slide. Denys
Wilkinson from Oxford had a variety of "special" slides to wind up both
the audience and the unfortunate slide projector operator. One of these
consisted of two duplicate slides of a graph held in register with a
little wax. After a short interval in the projector the wax would melt
and one of them would slide out of register, prompting the operator to
attempt to re-focus the image. While totally failing to find focus, the
Prof would helpfully say things like "focus it up and down, not from
side to side".

Another dynamic slide showed a graph where the data points didn't fit
the curve. But once the wax holding the points melted, they slid down
and were stopped by the curve, which was in fact a ledge. He talked
through this by saying how the data didn't fit the theory, until he
corrected errors in the data.

He also had slides with confusing labelling on the axis, one set being a
mirror image so whichever orientation the operator tried (including
front to back reversal) there was always something wrong with the labels.

And he would switch to a series of slides with Cyrillic labels. After a
while someone in the audience would say "Look Professor we don't all
speak Russian" to which his response was "Not Russian, my dear chap,
Bulgarian".