Ernie – Wasn’t he the one that drove the fastest milk-cart in the West?

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Wonderful stuff! Benny Hill, gone, but certainly not forgotten.

You could hear the hoof beats pound as they raced across the ground,
And the clatter of the wheels as they spun ’round and ’round.
And he galloped into market street, his badge upon his chest,
His name was Ernie, and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west.

Now Ernie loved a widow, a lady known as Sue,
She lived all alone in Liddley Lane at number 22.
They said she was too good for him, she was haughty, proud and chic,
But Ernie got his cocoa there three times every week.

They called him Ernie, (Ernieeeeeeeeeee)
And he drove the fastest milk cart in the west.

She said she’d like to bathe in milk, he said “All right, sweetheart”,
And when he’d finished work one night he loaded up his cart.
He said, “D’you want it pasturize? ‘Cos pasturize is best”,
She says, “Ernie, I’ll be happy if it comes up to me chest.”

That tickled old Ernie, (Ernieeeeeeeeeee)
And he drove the fastest milk cart in the west.

Now Ernie had a rival, an evil-looking man,
Called Two-Ton Ted from Teddington and he drove the baker’s van.
He tempted her with his treacle tarts and his tasty wholemeal bread,
And when she seen the size of his hot meat pies it very near turned her head.

She nearly swooned at his macaroon and he said, “If you treat me right,
You’ll have hot rolls every morning, and crumpets every night.”
He knew once she sampled his layer cake he’d have his wicked way,
And all Ernie had to offer was a pint of milk a day.

Poor Ernie, (Ernieeeeeeeeeee)
And he drove the fastest milk cart in the west.

One lunch time Ted saw Ernie’s horse and cart outside her door,
It drove him mad to find it was still there at half past four.
And as he leapt down from his van hot blood through his veins did course,
And he went across to Ernie’s cart and didn’t half kick his ‘orse.

Whose name was Trigger, (Triggerrrrrrrr)
And he pulled the fastest milk cart in the west.

Now Ernie rushed out into the street, his gold top in his hand,
He said, “If you wanna marry Susie you’ll fight for her like a man.”
“Oh why don’t we play cards for her?” he sneeringly replied,
“And just to make it interesting, we’ll have a shilling on the side.”

Now Ernie dragged him from his van and beneath the blazing sun,
They stood there face to face, and Ted went for his bun.
But Ernie was too quick, things didn’t go the way Ted planned,
And a strawberry-flavoured yogurt sent it spinning from his hand.

Now Susie ran between them and tried to keep them apart,
And Ernie, he pushed her aside and a rock cake caught him underneath his heart.
And he looked up in pained surprise and the concrete hardened crust,
Of a stale pork pie, caught him in the eye, and Ernie bit the dust.

Poor Ernie, (Ernieeeeeeeeeee)
And he drove the fastest milk cart in the west.

Ernie was only 52, he didn’t wanna die,
And now he’s gone to make deliveries in that milk round in the sky.
Where the customers are angels, and ferocious dogs are banned,
And the milkman’s life is full of fun in that fairy, dairy land.

But a woman’s needs are manifold and soon she married Ted,
But strange things happened on their wedding night as they lay in their bed.
Was that the trees a-rustling? Or the hinges of the gate?
Or Ernie’s ghastly gold tops a-rattling in their crate?

They won’t forget Ernie, (Ernieeeeeeeeee)
And he drove the fastest milk cart in the west.

Song written by Benny Hill

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What is Intelligence?

Merriam-Webster Dictionary has the following:

a
(1)
: the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations : REASON
also : the skilled use of reason
(2)
: the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one’s environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (such as tests)
b
: mental acuteness : SHREWDNESS


These are outlines only. the word ‘how’ apparently is missing in paragraph 1 between ‘or’ and ‘to’.
Interesting. I have a few questions:
1. Where does this ‘ability’ come from? How do you know how to confront a ‘new’ problem and solve it?
2. Can a ‘machine’, for example, a so-called ‘AI’ system react and resolve a new problem?

In us, as humans, there is a payback, or deficit, from making a decision, about a given scenario.
These ‘results’ positive, or negative are remembered, and become part of us.
No, not in your ‘gut’, but I do admit to having that sensation, which is common to all os, but the scenario, and it’s outcome, good, bad, or indifferent is held in the subconscious.

In so-called AI, ‘LLM’ ‘Large Language Models’ are used to compare patterns, whether they be of text, or images. No ‘meta’ information regarding how the machine feels about either the images or text is held, unless ‘feeling’ is coded alongside it regarding the HUMAN reaction to it – this is added as ‘slop’ from reports, if any, regarding the informational content.
So the AI system is a huge library of mostly dross, scraped from the web, adorned with the aggregated comments of those ‘good’ folks that reacted to it in the first place.

IOW A Bag of Shit.

What is a ‘comment’?

Well, I found one complete answer that coincides exactly with my understanding of the word What is a comment?

Now it is rare that I make comments on any of my Blog posts, but yes there are ‘odd’ cases. Recently on this Blog I attempted to make a ‘comment’. What I was confronted with when I first clicked on the ‘comment’ box at the bottom of the post was indeed a surprise, some mindless waffle regarding typing ‘/’ to choose a ‘block’.
This is what you get when you attempt to ‘leave a reply’..

So wordpress apparently expect readers of my posts to understand this rubbish?
The so-called ‘Gutenburg’ block editor is defaulted throughout the editing interface of wordpress.
There have been suggestions online regarding the ‘editor’, none fulfil the task required – removal of this all-pervading nonsense from a ‘normal’ editing environment.
My intention is to ‘use up’ my current subscription, and then cancel wordpress.
Get this LOUD and CLEAR wordpress. I’ve written in HTML for many years, I’m NOT REMOTELY INTERESTED IN USING THE ABOMINATION ‘Gutenbug’ editor. NOR, foist this on commenters to my posts.

Beautiful Stranger

There are encounters in our lives, that will stay with us, so it seems, forever.
By far the most impressionable of these for myself have been those in my ‘early’ years. Some, of course, would be best ‘forgotten’, but I realized some time ago, that they provided a timely and useful message. Others, at times proved both beautiful and fulfilling – up to a point – the point at which I wished they would continue, but didn’t. Such is life.

A habit of mine, for as long as I can remember, was to search for answers, an unending journey. When I couldn’t ferret out reasons why, I made up my own. I never was a diarist, but always have been a prolific ‘scribbler’, writing down what I thought had happened. Later, when I had felt traumatised, I wrote about it, then read, and re-read it, in effect ‘externalizing’ it.
Some events, it would seem, refuse to ‘lie down peacefully’, and return, sometimes to taunt, sometimes to haunt, in many cases relentlessly. The emotions are invoked again, whether they be regret, pain, or loss.

This account was first written in 2009. It reflects an incident many years before, She has never been forgotten, and nor has what I felt about her. Her plea has been answered.

Download or read in browser: BeautifulStranger

Gone, But Not Forgotten

When I wrote the recent blog ‘Will no one rid me of this LibreOffice Writer ‘suggestion’ rubbish?’, a thought had floated through my mind that I had deliberately ‘abused’ Henry II’s (attributed) question once before. Knowing that this famous line has been deliberately misquoted already by many others, I dismissed the thought. However, tonight, whilst trolling through some ‘old’ stuff on my local copy of a one-time blog of mine ‘joebrown.org.uk’ I came across it:

Goodbye, Blue Sky Thinking – Hello, Cloud Computing?


Who will rid me of this turbulent technobabble?
With apologies to Henry II)

My observation went on to say: ‘I tease, of course. There are now so many levels of abstraction between the software developer and the actual hardware, that it makes sense for sales buffs and techno-ignorant managers to use terminology they feel comfortable with. However, I feel that in the case of ‘Cloud Computing’, the term only serves to obfuscate, rather than enlighten. Remember – issues get ‘clouded’, there are ‘clouds of anger’, etc., etc.

So the tools we will use will be located on a server on the Internet – there now, that wasn’t too hard was it? (Yeah – but it ain’t a sexy soundbite I hear you say.)

The article (published in 2010) went on to demonstrate an example thus: ‘mbed is down for scheduled maintenance’
Things didn’t get much better in the UK, but were worse, much worse on my move to Portugal in 2012. It is only NOW in 2024, that I have access to ‘fibre’ broadband, having put up with ADSL, satellite, et al – mostly useless for too damn long.
By the way, both connectable.org.uk and joebrown.org.uk are (mostly) on the ‘wayback‘ machine. I say ‘mostly’ because there are sections and pictures missing in several places – don’t blame wayback, blame one.com for the ‘cavalier’ attitude they had to folks data.

Should anyone want ‘clarity’ or info on articles, then contact me via a ‘comment’ form.
I have ‘local’ copies of both websites running on one of my own servers.
Please be aware that these comprise a huge amount of work, at the time both websites were very popular.

My little stick of Blackpool Rock

Admission. It was after reading the ineffable rubbish regarding Fatima, that I was reminded of other samples of the boundless crap touted by so-called ‘charities’, particularly those of a religious bent. Some considerable time ago, I read of the Church of America ‘curing’ gay men of their ‘pernicious behaviour’ and apparently making them straight. I presented my problem by email, and was a little surprised at the very negative response, I can’t think why.
So from back in 2009, first published on ‘Serial Failures’ is my account:

I’ve just come back after a visit to Blackpool and my partner was very angry with me when I presented her with a stick of Whitley Bay Rock. Let me explain, I promised her I’d bring her back a stick of Blackpool Rock and I forgot. Rather than ‘fess up, I called in to ‘The Candyman’ sweet shop on the way home and bought a stick of local rock (which has ‘Whitley Bay’ written all the way through it) thinking she wouldn’t notice, but of course she did. She stormed off in one of her tempers and her last words were – ‘keep your promise, and get me a stick of Blackpool Rock, or I’ll never speak to you again!’

I hunted around on the Internet and came across a Church in America that says that anything is possible if you try hard enough, so I emailed them regarding changing the lettering in the middle of my rock.

I was surprised and a little hurt when the Pastor replied to my email reprimanding me for my frivolous and disrespectful request.

Now I would have thought that if this Church can convert Gay men into Heterosexuals, it should be a cinch to sort out my Rock problem.

Whaddya Fink?

Fatima, Wherefore Art Thou?

Fátima, porque estás?

Tradução para Português
Proudly announced on the website of ‘The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila’ on Nov. 10th 2024.

As the worldwide Catholic Church prepares for the 100th anniversary celebration of the apparition to Our Lady of Fatima to The Venerable Sr. Lucia dos Santos in Pontevedra, Spain next year, the World Apostolate of Fatima (WAF) Philippines invites the faithful to take part on the National Fatima Convention on the Centenary of the Five First Saturday Devotion of December 10th 2024.’

Hmmm! Now I always thought, and was taught, that ‘Our Lady of Fatima’ referred to the ‘manifestation’ of the Virgin Mary to three girls in Fatima, Portugal. There is not one mention of that in this article.
‘Smacks’ to me like another copycat ‘apparition’ used to boost tourist income.

Wickipaedia has this: ‘Fátima is a Portuguese city located in Serra de Aire , headquarters of the Parish of Fátima of the Municipality of Ourém , in the former province of Beira Litoral , and in the current region Oeste e Vale do Tejo and NUT3 of Médio Tejo , a parish with 71.29 km² of area [ 1 ] and 13,212 inhabitants ( 2021 census ) [ 2 ] , therefore having a population density of 185.3 inhab./km².

Its worldwide fame is due to the phenomenon of the apparitions of the Virgin Mary reported by three shepherd children from May 13 to October 13 , 1917.

I also have another issue with the article, I quote ‘worldwide Catholic Church prepares for the 100th anniversary celebration of the apparition to Our Lady of Fatima to The Venerable Sr. Lucia dos Santos in Pontevedra, Spain’

Who wrote this rubbish?

For more ‘icing on the cake’, and slapping it on thick, read this: Apparitions at Pontevedra

Português
Orgulhosamente anunciado no site da ‘Arquidiocese Católica Romana de Manila’ a 10 de novembro de 2024

‘Enquanto a Igreja Católica mundial se prepara para a celebração do 100º aniversário da aparição de Nossa Senhora de Fátima à Venerável Irmã Lúcia dos Santos em Pontevedra, Espanha, no próximo ano, o Apostolado Mundial de Fátima (WAF) Filipinas convida os fiéis a participar sobre a Convenção Nacional de Fátima no Centenário dos Cinco Primeiros Sábados Devocionais de 10 de Dezembro de 2024.’

Hmmm! Ora sempre pensei, e ensinaram-me, que “Nossa Senhora de Fátima” se referia à “manifestação” da Virgem Maria a três meninas em Fátima, Portugal. Não há uma menção a isso neste artigo.
‘Parece-me’ como outra ‘aparição’ imitadora usada para aumentar o rendimento turístico.

A Wickipedia tem isto: ‘Fátima é uma cidade portuguesa situada na Serra de Aire, sede da Freguesia de Fátima do Concelho de Ourém, na antiga província da Beira Litoral, e na actual região Oeste e Vale do Tejo e NUT3 do Médio Tejo, freguesia com 71,29 km² de área[1] e 13.212 habitantes (censos 2021)[2], tendo portanto uma densidade populacional de 185,3 hab./km².

A sua fama mundial deve-se ao fenómeno das aparições da Virgem Maria relatadas por três pastorinhos de 13 de Maio a 13 de Outubro de 1917. ‘

Tenho também outro problema com o artigo, cito ‘A Igreja Católica mundial prepara-se para a celebração do 100º aniversário da aparição de Nossa Senhora de Fátima à Venerável Irmã Lúcia dos Santos em Pontevedra, Espanha’

Quem escreveu este lixo?

Para mais ‘cereja no topo do bolo’, e para dar um tapa na espessura, leia isto:Aparições em Pontevedra

National Fatima Convention to be held in Quezon City

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