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The first scene of Truffaut's La nuit am?ricaine (Day for Night), celebrating the communal art(ifice) of film-making. The scene also gets my nomination for one of the best legitimate uses of music in film.

> Also, according to Digiguide, 24/12 22:30 and 25/12 03:00. You're not getting repeat fees, are you? ;) Now, Friday's BBC Four Transatlantic Session was really good.

height of sobriety

The council presumably have front door keys?

Luisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 37 is really dodgy for timetables, or was - a few > weeks ago I was travelling on it a lot and was > waiting for about 25min and 3 would turn up > consecutively. Seemed very strange and thought the > drivers were up to something as was happening all > the time....not sure what though! You've heard the anecdote, now read the book! http://www.robeastaway.com/book_buses.html

Get your kicks on Club 55. http://www.scotrail.co.uk/content/club-55-terms-and-conditions.html

I use my own version of Joule's apparatus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_equivalent_of_heat using high gearing and a large crank. It's good aerobic exercise and very green.

The Sixteen + director Harry Christophers = 17 http://www.the-sixteen.org.uk/about_us/images/TheSixteen-Whitegroupphoto.JPG

I suppose you could arrange a fresh rating. These technical assessments do tend to be expensive though.

I'm afraid I can't accept anything that might be regarded as an inducement. I can however say that I've carefully checked the list of G-rated old boilers (those deemed the most extremely decrepit and wasteful) and am pleased to confirm that dulwichmum's name is not currently in that list.

According to a document I've downloaded from OFGEM, "we have determined the average remaining lifetime of G-rated boilers to be 6 years. While it is possible some of these boilers will operate for longer than this, some will operate for a shorter time." It may seem tough, but it's all in the interests of efficiency: a big jump from 65% to 88%.

That's no excuse. With a PE crossword, you should automatically be tuning your mind in to sex/toilet/scurrilousness associations. Do you get your PE by mail, btw?

The DIR command requires use of a /A flag to list hidden files. Type HELP DIR for more details. The Windows search also requires specification that hidden files/folders are also to be searched. It's set in the More Advanced options (in XP, at least). I'd recommend using the Windows search program, using a minimal filename specification -- just a few adjoining letters of the expected filename, and not assuming any particular extension; eg searching for pref will find adobepref9.psp. And make sure your search path isn't unduly restricted. If that fails, Hal's suggestion is good. My bet would be on somewhere within the Documents and Settings hierarchy as the likely home for the file, quite probably under a folder called something like Adobe. jaybee82, I'm not convinced that the Windows search options mirror the Explorer folder display ones.

Reggie, have you actually read the Stephenson submission http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmcumeds/memo/press/ucm14302.htm that's referred to?

I'm still mystified by this use of pop-up. I don't know if I'm the only one, but I'm hoping for some illumination from Newsnight on BBC2 tonight. Their e-mail flyer for today has: "On tonight's show - how much would you pay for a postcard of Jeremy Paxman or Kirsty Wark? That's what Steve Smith is attempting to find out on his pop up stall in Carnaby Street. He's reporting on the whole pop up phenomenon - from shops to restaurants to Nissan cars."

Thanks VikkiM.

I'm not sure sheepish is the right word. But it is almost a mini-masterpiece in its way. Apart from the elephant's ears and trunks, the emergent part of the bodice seems to me to vary between a somonolent hippo and a meditating duck. And I first thought the superstructure around the bust was a reference to a turban-like hat. But now it seems more like a bra-like structure designed to hold the breasts and stop them from floating upward.

The Roayl mail area service information updates "Mail collection, distribution, processing and deliveries are taking place as usual across all parts of London today" http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/content1?catId=99700760&mediaId=111200765 aren't all that explicit. Has anyone recently been told, by any Royal Mail source, one way or the other, whether they are still dealing with mail delays caused by by the strike (or any other cause), or not?

Southwark's response is at http://www.southwark.gov.uk/Public/NewsArticle.aspx?articleId=40076.

Is the spot you're talking about in Lewisham? I'm still looking for a borough boundary map, but according to http://www.londontown.com/LondonStreets/Boro/Lewisham?search=N, Netherby Road is.

An AA view: http://www.theaa.com/motoring_advice/news/frosting-and-car-jacking.html

Coukld it do with an inverted triangle Give Way sign, to supplement the double dashed road marking?

SimonM Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's a very "clever" clue but I'm not sure I would > ever be able to solve it with 13 blanks. > > Well I solved it, but admittedly not with 13 > blanks. I had a couple of the letters. How did you do it?

Speaking of Private Eye, did any other subscriber receive (or not) No. 1249, the one before the current one, that should have been delivered about 11 November? Mines not arrived yet. I actually won the PE crossword prize a century or so ago. I wonder what the odds are.