[Edinburgh-pm] Happy Birthday Television

Daniel Powell divot.powell at googlemail.com
Fri Jan 21 08:01:32 PST 2011


Shall be there too...

Dan

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Murray <perl at minty.org> wrote:

> My sources [1] tell me that on 27th Jan 1926, "John Baird, a Scottish
> inventor,
> demonstrated a pictorial transmission machine called television".
>
> This would seem like an auspicious reason, where one needed, to celebrate
> and
> consume beverage.  As it happens, 27th Jan (next thursday) is also the 4th
> thursday of the month, meaning edinburgh.pm.
>
> I've been rather lax in my attendance of late, but nothing a new years
> resolution can't fix.  More edinburgh.pm beer!
>
> So does anyone else want to just switch off your television set and go out
> and
> do something less boring instead? [2]
>
> [1] http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/jan27.htm
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Don%27t_You%3F
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The University of Edinburgh
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