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From: greg@sj.ate.slb.com (Greg Wageman)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Television detection.
Message-ID: <1990Feb7.005102.17522@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 7 Feb 90 00:51:02 GMT
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Reply-To: greg@sj.ate.slb.com (Greg Wageman)
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In article <1990Jan31.182757.6731@axion.bt.co.uk> BCOLLINS@.axion.bt.co.uk writes:
>
>In the UK, everyone who uses a TV (B&W or Colour) needs a licence.
>[Note: this causes some anomalies, such as the use of a TV as a monitor
>for a computer, which is deemed as being a TV even if you never use it
>as such]
>
>The detectors are in fact vans equipped with radio receivers and directional
>aerials, which are driven past peoples houses; although I believe that
>hand-held receivers and aerials are now used for checking awkward places
>(eg. blocks of flats) on foot.

Which Monty Python satirized wonderfully in their "Fish License"
sketch.  You know, the one that starts out with John Cleese saying

"I would like a license for my pet fish, Eric."
.
.
.

"The man from the cat detector van."

"What cat detector van?"

"From the Ministry of 'ousinge."

"'ousinge?"

"It was spelled that way on the van.  I'm very observant.  He said
their equipment could pinpoint a purr at 50 yards, and Eric being such
a happy cat, was a piece of cake."

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