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Jackie Susann

06:06 / 03.03.05

Does anyone know if there is a standard spelling of the sound of that drum flourish they used in vaudeville to make sure the audience 'got' that there'd just been a punchline? (I think they still use it on some late night tv in the States, too.) If not, do you think 'Bah-dum tish' renders it adequately?

Benny the Ball

07:14 / 03.03.05

Bah-dum, tish (or tsh) is perfect, as far as I know. It's the standard way that I have always seen it written.

Jub

07:43 / 03.03.05

What's money do they use in Hungary? Are they on Euros yet?

wembley can change in 28 days

09:22 / 03.03.05

Last time I checked, Hungary were still with the Forint (HUF).

grant

15:06 / 09.03.05

I've seen that drum flourish called a "rimshot" officially, and spelled out badum-tish or ba-dum-tish (without the "h" after "ba").

Smoothly

15:28 / 09.03.05

Can anyone of our transatlantic Barbeloids explain what juniors, freshmen, sophmores, seniors, etc are? When are you what? Are 'freshmen' students in their first year of particular stages in schooling (High School? University? Both? Neither? etc)? I hear these terms all the time, but I haven't got a scooby what they indicate.

Benny the Ball

15:32 / 09.03.05

The little I know of the subject - mainly used in University/Colleges.

Freshmen are first year students
Sophmor second year (from the greek for two or something?)

I forgot the others.

Byeeee

B+ for effort.

(Says me)

Is there an average age for these things? Like a High School Sophomore would be, what 16, 18? And a University Freshman - 18?

Benny the Ball

17:08 / 09.03.05

Sophmor - wise fool. God, I remember being told that in a Classic's lecture about, oohhh, eight years ago.

Thanks for appreciating the effort - I had every intention of writing something helpful, but have been writing all day, and started, but just dried up, on the spot, under the pressure, as it were.

I should just turn my computer off now, shouldn't I?

grant

21:57 / 09.03.05

underclassmen
9th grade = Freshman (high school) - 14 yrs old
10th grade = Sophomore - 15 yrs old

upperclassmen
11th grade = Junior - 16 yrs old
12th grade = Senior - 17 yrs old

underclassmen
First year (college) = Freshman - 18 yrs old

and so on.

Vexing the terms slightly is the rise of "middle schools" as a replacement for "junior high schools" -- jr. high was 7th & 8th grade, but some middle schools are 6th-8th, while others are 7th-9th.

In conversation, you'll generally hear it specified, like "high school senior" or whatever.

In my strange little undergraduate institution, there were so many transfers and so many fifth & sixth year students, we didn't use the terms at all, and just used "first year," "second year," and so on. As a result, I think the terms are more used in high school than college, but am not really the person who'd know that for sure.

The Puck

22:10 / 09.03.05

How would i go about collecting statistics about suicide? im looking for ages, methods, reasons that sort of thing (pie charts and ven diagrams would be awsome, thinking about it ven diagrams are always awesome, but i digress). is there a stat agency or something, i know nothing of research. i asked at the libary and all i got was a shrug of the shoulder.

Olulabelle

22:42 / 09.03.05

I've just done a quick search on the National statistics site for suicide, and the first thing that comes up is a PDF download of an article called Geographical Variations in Suicide Mortality.

The abstract says: This article is the second part of a paper which updates previous analyses of suicide published in Popultation Trends. Suicide trends are analysed by age and sex for the constituent countries of the United Kingdom. Data for England and Wales are presented by region and by local authority. The analyses show substantial variations in suicide rates both across the United Kingdom and within England and Wales.

It might even have Venn diagrams!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:50 / 09.03.05

Venn diagrams rule. If I was feeling suicidal, I reckon it'd be Venn diagrams that'd pull me back from the brink.

grant

02:44 / 10.03.05

Hee!

I remember a roommate of mine did a sociology project on death & dying, and one of the resources he used was a text on suicide that had a chapter compiling various actual suicide notes. They were hysterical -- far from the kind of dismal "woe-is-me" you might expect, some cracked jokes, some apologized to police for the mess, and an awful lot were vengeful, mean and just plain passive-aggressive. "Well, I guess you found me by now. I always told you you were a deathly nag, but did you listen? Goodbye, and I hope you're happy!"

That kind of thing.

So, sociology texts on death & dying might be another place to look.

The Puck

11:07 / 10.03.05

Cheers guys youve made a lazy man very happy

unheimlich manoeuvre

14:07 / 10.03.05

The main textbook on suicide is by Durkheim, well for anthropology anyway.

Whisky Priestess

21:32 / 10.03.05

Al Alvarez's The Savage God is an interesting study of the motivations for and experience of suicide, attempted and otherwise (and not, as some fuckwitted Guardian hack described it recently, a biography of Sylvia sodding Plath).

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

03:18 / 11.03.05

How's this for timing- from today's Daily Telegraph...

Suicide rates in Britain are at their lowest level for 30 years despite the soaring divorce rate, but a high proportion of them take place in seaside towns.

There were 5,755 adult suicides in Britain in 2003, said the Office for National Statistics - the lowest total since 1973.

Experts say this is not because people are happier, but because it is more difficult to take ones own life.

Suicide rates from overdoses of paracetamol or aspirin dropped by nearly a quarter in the three years after a ban on selling such drugs in large numbers was brought in.

Seconding the Alvarez recommendation, by the way.

Mistoffelees

19:46 / 11.03.05

What is this new music genre called, where they take two songs from very different styles and mix them together?

On new year´s eve, for example, I heard a song, where they mixed Kate Bush with Eminem. It sounded very interesting.

I remember having read an article about that new genre in the rolling stone about a year ago. But they said, that this stuff is mostly illegal, because the "mixers" don´t have the permission to use the music. So you cannot buy these songs/mixes. Or can you?

Yes: Where can I buy it? Are there samplers out yet? Is there any good/recommendable music?

No: Are there sites, where it can be downloaded?

Spatula Clarke

20:20 / 11.03.05

Bootlegs. Not really new - it's something that's been covered in a number of Music threads here in the past. Here's one. Thre are more.

Mistoffelees

20:25 / 11.03.05

Ah, thank you.

I was pretty sure, that such a thread in music existed, but for obvious reasons I could not search for it.

Ariadne

07:28 / 25.03.05

Why, when I go past graveyards, are so many of the stones lying flat rather than standing up?
It doesn't appear to be vandalism - often the majority of them will be lying down, in neat rows, so it looks as though someone has done it on purpose.

Ariadne

21:07 / 07.04.05

My question has been answered by Loomis, who found
this today. Council workers have been going round flattening any stone they felt was unsafe.
I have to agree with the people who describe it as unsightly.

ibis the being

21:12 / 07.04.05

What is this new music genre called, where they take two songs from very different styles and mix them together?

Actually it's mash-ups you're talking about. A bootleg is any unofficial or illegal copy of a live or recorded music performance.

Jub

10:54 / 11.04.05

Who decided whcih countries got which international dialling codes and on what basis?
US = 1
Russia = 7
UK = 44
France = 33
etc

Bear

11:18 / 11.04.05

Actually it's mash-ups you're talking about. A bootleg is any unofficial or illegal copy of a live or recorded music performance.

It's a little confusing for some reason people do also call them bootlegs, although that seems to have made way for mash-up which is much more common these days but when it really took off a few years ago bootlegs seemed to be the preferred name for em.

Spaniel

11:22 / 11.04.05

Seconded, Bear.

Really not a new form.

iconoplast

11:45 / 11.04.05

CCITT -Abbreviation of Comité Consultatif International Téléphonique et Télégraphique, an organization that sets international communications standards.

Now known as ITU

History:
The 1960 CCITT Red Book featured a list of country codes for Europe that was the precursor for the modern international telephone country code system. Whether this was ever available for subscriber use is unknown; this could have been intended for operator dialling rather than customer dialling.

The 1964 CCITT Blue Book listed the initial country codes list for international dialling, arranging the codes according to their world zones. These corresponded to the initial digit of the one- to three-digit country codes; Europe got two zones (3 & 4) due to a high number of countries requiring two-digit country codes. The initial listing was referred to as Recommendation E.29.

Jub

12:10 / 11.04.05

Now I know! - Thanks iconoplast.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

20:53 / 11.04.05

Any sane, reasonable, non-Bambi-eating person would agree that I should be the next Pope, right?

Whisky Priestess

21:04 / 11.04.05

I challenge you to find one on this board ...

Has anyone got any first-hand experience of being in the army (any country's) or more specifically, being in a war? (Von Kobra, perhaps?)

It's for research for a play I'm thinking about writing - I could always write to lonely soldiers I suppose, but I'm not sure lit. crit. would necessarily be at the forefront of their minds.

Alex's Grandma

21:14 / 11.04.05

I did 'a bit of work' in the Falklands.

Civvy life afterwards has seemed like such a drag.

Oh well.

ONLY NICE THINGS

07:39 / 12.04.05

Hunt them. But not with dogs.

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