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I swear and declare, I was concentrating on the programme. Having accidentally heard (in the background) what I believed to be "It's on B2 now", I did NOT suddenly think about coding BBC1 and ITV at the time. Nor did I think about coding the three channels of the time at home after school that Friday. It never occurred to me that one day I'd decide to devise a coding system for all available channels, and add to it during the course of my lifetime as new channels launched.
As I've said before, it was about five and a half years after the said event: autumn term 1986, by which time I was in the fourth year (year 10 in today's jargon), that I started my coding system on the basis of what I'd inadvertently heard whilst watching The Wooden Horse on 6 March 1981. After all that time, I still remembered what was said (
(sad), and thought that if B2 was supposed to mean BBC2, it seemed like a good idea at the time to code the other channels (by then there were four channels). As I've said before, I came up with ...
B1=BBC1
B2=BBC2
I1=ITV (regardless of region - Anglia, London, TVS, TSW, HTV etc.)
I2=Channel 4
... and another boy in my year didn't seem to like it very much. When I said "B1", he said "B[b]BC 1". He was particularly confused by me using "I2" for Channel 4 at the time . Of course, I've since coded Channel 4 "C4" and most recently "4C", and use "I2" for the real ITV2 when it launched late 1998.
I can muliply by four, thanks very much. What made you doubt that? Is it just because Merry Go Round was covering the 4 x table in the first bit of that programme? Just for the record, I'd learned multiplication before seeing that series of Merry Go Round.
We sat on chairs.
Yes because they are known as BBC1 & Channel 4 not B1 & I2
Tumble Tower posted:
davidlees posted:
I have another question. In 1981, when you were at school watching Merry-Go-Round: The Wooden Horse on BBC2 were you concentrating on the programme (this episode covered the 4 times table, the story of Odysseus conquering Troy etc.) or was your young mind already devising your channel code system?
I swear and declare, I was concentrating on the programme. Having accidentally heard (in the background) what I believed to be "It's on B2 now", I did NOT suddenly think about coding BBC1 and ITV at the time. Nor did I think about coding the three channels of the time at home after school that Friday. It never occurred to me that one day I'd decide to devise a coding system for all available channels, and add to it during the course of my lifetime as new channels launched.
As I've said before, it was about five and a half years after the said event: autumn term 1986, by which time I was in the fourth year (year 10 in today's jargon), that I started my coding system on the basis of what I'd inadvertently heard whilst watching The Wooden Horse on 6 March 1981. After all that time, I still remembered what was said (
(sad), and thought that if B2 was supposed to mean BBC2, it seemed like a good idea at the time to code the other channels (by then there were four channels). As I've said before, I came up with ...
B1=BBC1
B2=BBC2
I1=ITV (regardless of region - Anglia, London, TVS, TSW, HTV etc.)
I2=Channel 4
... and another boy in my year didn't seem to like it very much. When I said "B1", he said "B[b]BC 1". He was particularly confused by me using "I2" for Channel 4 at the time . Of course, I've since coded Channel 4 "C4" and most recently "4C", and use "I2" for the real ITV2 when it launched late 1998.
davidlees posted:
Its clear that the events of 26 years ago have had some affect on your life, I mean you must spend quite a bit of time explaining your code system to friends and family, but I was just wondering if its had a greater affect than that, for example do you have problems with multiplying things by 4?
I can muliply by four, thanks very much. What made you doubt that? Is it just because Merry Go Round was covering the 4 x table in the first bit of that programme? Just for the record, I'd learned multiplication before seeing that series of Merry Go Round.
davidlees posted:
Finally, when you watched TV at school, did you sit on chairs or the floor?
We sat on chairs.
Yes because they are known as BBC1 & Channel 4 not B1 & I2