Chris Plumb

Yup Chris

Click on 'my profile' (under post new topic at top of page)... Chris

Garry Mills - Former manager with Youngs is your man for a restoration job - see here As for oil - after cleaning I give my reels a quick squirt of teflon spray (GT85)and a drop (literally) of sewing machine oil. Chris

Just spotted this; don't suppose you could put up a piccie or two for the likes of me and Spindle to drool over??!! Price is a bit rich for me - lovely merchandise however...... Chris

Some of you will know that I work in HR and that I do quite a bit of out-placement work - helping folks with their CV's etc so I was particularly amused when this landed in my in-box this morning... Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf PROFILE Public Relations and Corporate Communications professional with experience in both government and commercial sectors. A proven and skilled communicator with responsibility for managing all media relations in what are often turbulent environments. Tangible successes in presenting realistic and credible reports to both the business community and the general public in the face of an ever increasingly cynical media. CAREER BA’ATH PARTY AND IRAQ GOVERNMENT 2001-2003 Minister of Information Overall responsibility for communication to Iraqi people and world at large of:  Just how terribly evil those horrid western loutish colonial cowboys, whose moustaches (had they been able to grow them) would have been cursed for ten hundred thousand years, really are.  Accurate and up to date information of how those silly American and British infidels and their pathetic flying toys and laser things have been slaughtered and humiliated in their millions by brave loyal Iraqi farmers (who weren’t even trying that hard anyway).  Just how absolutely lovely and brave our beloved and most respected leader is, and more importantly how much we respect and love his blessed and incredibly fashionable moustache which is far better than any western moustache including Tom Selleck, Charles Bronson and Mark Lawrenson all put together.  Weather and traffic reports. Reason for leaving: er…… I haven’t… I’m still here, surrounded by jubilant Iraqis hitting pictures of George Bush with their flip-flops. LABOUR PARTY - Millbank 3-month secondment in 2002 to study latest techniques in media management. It allowed for an open forum in which to discuss and share different methods on how to ensure accuracy and integrity when communicating to loyal voters. ANDERSEN 1998-2001 Head of Corporate Communications: Responsible for all internal and external communications in what was a challenging time for the partnership. Particular responsibilities included:  Ensuring that it was made clear that we had absolutely no idea whatsoever that Enron was in any trouble at all and that shareholders should be in no doubt that their investments sound.  Communicating to the Enron shareholder, Congress Committees and the SEC how much we didn’t help Enron set up off-shore investment vehicles designed to help disguise some of the largest losses ever seen in corporate history.  Sellotaping together long thin strands of paper so they could be read again. Reason for leaving: er… they took over Deloitte & Touche so I left. Media Consultant to Jeffrey Archer 1993-1998 Responsible for providing a clear and honest message to those members of the infamous UK ‘gutter-press’ who wished to taint my client and portray him as a mendacious and disreputable man. They even went as far as to claim that Mr. Archer had exaggerated some of his earlier outstanding achievements in the field of academia, sports and politics. BAGHDAD INFORMER 1985-1993 Journalist Investigative journalist reporting on all major events at the time. ALI & BARBAR LAW FIRM 1978- 1985 Publicity Assistant WATERSTONES - Tikrit 1977-1978 Retail Assistant Responsible for till operation including calculation of change. BASRA FRIED CHICKEN 1976-1977 Staff Member Involved in all aspects of frying and customer care EDUCATION University of Baghdad BA Honours Degree in Philosophy Tikrit High School 3 A levels (English, Film Studies, Art); 10 O levels PERSONAL DETAILS Date of birth: 23/3/1951 Married (3 wives, 17 children) Interests Spaghetti Western’s, re-runs of “Some Mother’s do Have Them”, figure skating and torture. I also like to collect Elvis memorabilia. Chris

Nice timing scoobs!! Chris

Beat me to it Steve! Just coming on here to put this up as well! Anyone wishing to put a 'concise' point of view are invited to email mailto:countryfile@bbc.co.ukcountryfile@bbc.co.uk so get composing! Chris

Well it HAS happened before... Fisherman cuts off own arm to survive. Chris

Phil - I indoctrinated Glenn into the IAC a month or so back. He's even getting a 15 foot Harrison so that he can call himself a 'full' member Chris

And nervous, edgy, sick in the stomach, expectant, hopeful...you name it! The reason - nowt to do with fishin. No today is the first leg of the Div 1 Play-offs and the Royals are off to Wolves. No one gives us a prayer and the Wolves Chairman has even predicted that they'll stick six past us. I bet THAT quote is one our dressing room wall this evening!!! Here's hoping we can upset a few reputations (though the only reputation Wolves have earnt over the last few years is for bottling it!!!) Chris

Trevor - suggest you search the boards with "Centre Pin" you'll see it's a regular theme and that AN has it's fair share of 'pin addicts' - of which I'm one. I've got a number of them - the latest addition being a Witcher and they are simply the perfect tool for trotting. I use mine for close in work on still waters as well - and hope to christen my latest acquistition with a nice Crucian come the 16th June. Chris

Umm No. 17 is a bit contentious - didn't think there was a 'recognised' weight for this - bit like asking when does a Jack becomes a Pike.. Anyways here's my answers.. 1 - B 2 - B 3 - B 4 - A 5 - B 6 - A 7 - A 8 - B 9 - B 10 - C 11 - A 12 - A 13 - C 14 - A 15 - C 16 - A 17 - B 18 - B 19 - A 20 - B 21 - C Chris

Well spotted Wag. I paricularly liked this bit... "These so-called scientists took 20 trout and did horrible things to them. "Skin and bone were removed above the brain and then the olfactory and optic lobes and cerebellum were removed... to prevent muscular twitching, a neuromuscular blocker was injected... bone was removed to expose the trigeminal ganglion, the ganglion desheathed and covered in paraffin." Then they heated them up to 58C, and injected them with bee venom and vinegar. Guess what? The fish didn't feel like feeding for a while! There's a surprise!" Ok so maybe 'liked' is not quite the word I was searching for. Chris

Well I had a similar experience on Sunday with a somewhat more satisfactory result. I spotted someone fishing the Kennet and nipped home to ring the Head Bailiff. Said Bailiff has the home number of the EA man and they were 'on site' within half an hour - and nabbed them!! Mobile number of Bailiff is now in MY mobile address book. My moral - carry a mobile! Chris

Try this...(Tis the Excel 97 one you were thinking of) F5 X97:L97 (reference) OK Tab (once) Ctrl+Shift+click on bar chart icon and there you are! Ctrl+Shift+Esc to clear Chris [ 06. May 2003, 08:36 AM: Message edited by: Chris Plumb ]

I dunno - sorry. :confused: Chris

Just a reminder that this site is worth book-marking!! Chris

Put these words into a well known phrase; 'hatched' 'chickens' 'counting' Chris

Have you seen this thread ? Chris

How about the previous 'weeks' winner thinks up a compy for the following week? (I'd happily come up with something if you think it's a good idea) Chris

Ahh yes - but they are mainly urban legends. For example see here and here The real Darwin Awards - which are usually meticulously researched for authenticity can be viewed here 2002 Darwin Awards (Truth is stranger than fiction!) The Darwin Awards - so named because it 'celebrates' people dieing in particularly stupid ways - hence removing themselves from the Gene Pool is an internet legend in its self. Next years sees it's 10th anniversary making it something of a grand mother of internet sites!!! (Tis also one of my personal favs - must make me something of a sickie!!!) Chris

Nice one Nick (I was just about to do a C&P job of your posting to the IAC!!!) Chris

Yup - I know of half a dozen folks that have replied to this (me included) none have appeared... Chris

Here's the full article... "May 01, 2003 Assault on angling will catch others in the net By Brian Clarke, Fishing Correspondent YESTERDAY’S news reports about fish allegedly feeling pain and the shock-horror headlines that accompanied them will have made uncomfortable reading for anyone picking over a breakfast kipper and — given the selective slant put on it by some — for anglers, especially. Scientists from the Roslin Institute and Edinburgh University said that fish had nerve-endings that enabled them to respond to unpleasant stimuli. When these “nociceptors” were stimulated, the fish reacted as other creatures would to pain. Therefore, the gist was that fish feel pain. This is a great simplification of what the research paper said, but it gives the sense. The press then went into overdrive. The focus was on angling and whether it should be banned. So many animal rights lobbyists climbed aboard the bandwagon that it was dragged down to its axles. Let me say straight away that I accept that fish have these nerve receptors and I accept, as well, that the fish reacted to stimulation of them, as the report described. What I do not accept is the subjective stuff packaged around the facts and the wild and emotional claims of the animal rights extremists: the suggestion that because fish react in a specific way, then that reaction is prompted by pain and this is pain as we understand it from our own, human experience. To make this apparent leap is to anthropomorphise the argument, to turn fish first into more humanly accessible creatures like rabbits and kittens — and then, by extension, into human beings. This is the ploy all animal rights groups use to reach the soft underbelly of human emotion — and thence public opinion. It is the Beatrix Potter syndrome, writ large. You hook a fish, you hook a dog. You hook a dog, you hook a child. Never mind the facts, listen to the interpretation. Isn’t it terrible? Qualified people, people with no connection, so far as I know, with angling, take the same view — as this newspaper acknowledged yesterday. The distinguished American zoologist, Professor James Rose, of Wyoming University, has been researching the responses of animals to what humans would consider unpleasant experiences, for 15 years. In February, in the American journal, Reviews of Fisheries Science, Rose flatly contradicted just the kinds of claims on which yesterday’s stories were based. He said that awareness of pain depended on functions of a specific brain part that fish simply do not have. Many studies confused nociception — which he characterised as a response to threatening stimuli — with feeling pain. “But pain is predicated on awareness,” he said. “The key issue is distinction between nociception and pain.” He gave as an example a headless chicken running around. The body was obviously running around because of what had happened to it — but equally obviously, without an attached brain, it could not be feeling pain. Yesterday, Rose was reported as saying “the new study in no way justifies” the claims made for it. The interpretation was “anthropomorphic speculation”. While few anglers can argue their case from a scientific point of view, all can form a view based on repeated experiences at the riverbank. And that tells millions that fish cannot possibly feel pain as humans do — or anything remotely like it, regardless of what scientists tell them. I have personally caught many trout with their stomachs slashed open by cormorants’ beaks and, once, I landed a fish that had a section of its gut physically hanging through a hole made by a pike’s teeth. What is significant is not that these fish were caught or even that they were feeding in such a state — it is that they fought like furies. If fish feel pain as we understand and feel it, how could they have done anything other than simply roll over and be reeled in? And how vigorously would we be able to contest a tug-of-war — even a tug-of-war on which our very lives might depend — with such desperate wounds. There is another aspect of this report worth comment. One does not have to be seeking Reds under the bed to find the way it was announced intriguing. There was no mention in the research of angling. But the press release accompanying the report highlighted angling to the exclusion of all else when a whole range of animal welfare and food issues seemed suddenly in the frame. The headline “Trout trauma puts anglers on the hook?” had a certain catchy ring about it. It certainly ensured the column inches that an otherwise obscure piece of research would never have received. But the speculative comments of those involved — and one researcher’s clear antipathy to sport fishing, against which she “drew the line” — may cause some to wonder at the wider agenda. I am not claiming that being landed on a rod and line is a life-enhancing experience for a fish: the point is that I do not know — and nor does anyone else. But of one thing I am certain. If something like angling — an activity of choice which millions enjoy and which has huge environmental and social benefits — were to be abolished as some want, an awful lot of other human activities would go down the same tube. Eating meat, for instance. It is an activity of choice which millions enjoy and it certainly is not necessary for survival. Milk-drinking, ditto. We wear leather shoes and, if we can afford it, we sit on leather furniture. We eat fish by the thousands of tonnes. Every one of these activities requires, sanitised and out of sight, the horrors of the abattoir, the factory farm and the industrial trawler and by claiming our freedom to enjoy the former, we will the latter. Yet more will feel the pain: blind people with their guide dogs, shepherds with their sheep dogs and old ladies with their budgerigars. All pets — and more — are on some extremists’ hitlists, which remain unpublicised for obvious reasons. In the protection of individual rights, lines have to be drawn carefully. To suggest that we end angling on the basis of anthropomorphism and speculation — more to the point, that we stop doing anything we want because someone else demands we do what they want — is no sensible place to begin." Chris

Yeah - stunning aint it?? A real WOW picture..... Chris