Update June 2012 The site has been sorely neglected these past few years. Hopefully, as I fight my way out of depression, I can begin to rectify that and catch up, updating all areas gradually. ~ Paul
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These are the words we found in the blocks, if you found any new, I’m impressed, do let us know. deer / dree / reed eras / rase / sera erne / neer /reen ores / rose / sore bird /drib aril / lira lame / male mase / mesa / same nose / ones
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Spoiler alert! These are the answers to the Nexus puzzles nxa001: They can all be preceded by SUN, or by MOON nxa002b: They are all anagrams of boys names: Sean, Karl, Stan and Eric nxa003: The can all have LIGHT as a suffix nxa004: The can all be preceded by SUN or end with LIGHT
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Photography word puzzles: Answers Hint: this was first written back in the 80’s – a bygone era with no PC’s as such, no Internet and no photo printers – when film cameras ruled the world and photographers used dark rooms to process pictures. Fill in the word / letters which best completes the first word
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TWENTY FOUR PHOTOGRAPHY QUESTIONS: Answers These are the answers to the following quiz: 24 photography questions to test you: 1) Around 400 BC by Aristotle 2) Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Willard Van Dyke and/or Imogen Cunningham 3) Increase the development time by 183%. Ideal development would be 16 minutes at 20 degrees Celsius in Micropen
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DRIVEN TO DISTRACTION An analysis of Jasper Carrott’s stage routine over time, as compared to his written material, using his ‘Mother-in-law’ sketch. As well as being shown on TV, recorded live at Palladium (with London Weekend TV, if I recall), and since, it features on his album ‘Beat the Carrott’, and in one of his
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INTRODUCTION The purpose of this project is to study and compare written and live sketches by comedian Jasper Carrott to find the relationship between the two and how, grammatically, the delivery develops over time. Specifically to find what effect, if any, constant repetition of an act has on the structure of its sentences. There is
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Contextual information Gesticulation is the grammatical equivalent of contextual narrative and so finds a place in this project. I am covering this first as physical actions play an important part in any comedians’ routine, but are not readily apparent on the taped version*. Generally speaking, it can be found in three ways. Firstly, by actually
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