Re: Re: Can I do 5.1 with ceiling speakers ?

["Wayne" <wayne@xxxxxxx>]

Jees - do you have a 48hr day??? or way to much time :)

(interesting tho ! :)

Wayne.

----- Original Message -----
From: "mark_harrison_uk2" <mph@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 10:18 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Can I do 5.1 with ceiling speakers ?


> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Paul Gordon"
<paul_gordon@h...> wrote:
> > >>surface speaker hanging on my faux Chimney breast, and
like wise
> I don't
> >
> > GRRRRRRRR....... !!!! been watching too much "changing
rooms" have
> you eh
> > Dean?... :-)
> >
> > it's FAKE not FAUX!! :-)   We have waiters not garcons, pints not
> litres,
> > and we drive on the left...
>
> Ah yes, the good old English words "waiter" and
"pint"...
>
> The word "waiter" is 14th Century in the sense of
"atetndant or
> watchman". The first recorded usage in its modern sense of
"sevants
> who waits at tables dates" was in 1483. It derives, obviously,
from
> the word "wait". The word "wait" is 12th Century
from the Old Norman
> French "waiter" - meaning "to watch".
>
> The word "pint"'s first recorded usage was in 1354, this
time from
> the Old French "pinte." It is probably derived from the
> Latin "pincta" meaning "painted" and refers to the
notion of a
> painted mark on the vessel, indicating the quantity.
>
> Good news on the driving, however. The word "drive" iteslf
is from
> the Old English "drifan". And the word "left" is a
Kentish form of
> the Old English "lyft".
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
>
>
>
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