How It's Made - the Canadian TV show

You can try contacting the discovery channel:

http://science.discovery.com/fansites/howitsmade/howitsmade.html

"...enjoy it like an infantile in a candy shop..."

Just trying to be helpful: the English idiom is "like a kid in a candy store" (actually, suggesting someone who is surrounded by temptation & can't keep his hands off the tempting stuff). And using infantile as a noun doesn't work. The word "infantile" isn't a noun (person/place/thing), it's an adjective you use to describe a noun. So if you wish to suggest a person acts like an infant, you'd say they were infantile or acted in an infantile manner.

Re. your search for the musical score: learn to use Google (www.google.com) or some other search engine. The first link provided by a quick Google search of the show's name takes you to the web site, http://www.commentcestfait.com/html/anglais/index2.html where you can email the show's producers using the "comments" link, and ask them where you might find a recording of the theme, if it wasn't specifically commissioned for the show.

This kind of query reduces the value of a bulletin board that was a good idea.

CR4 is a great place to ask technical questions of technical peers. Why is it that it regularly attracts people who wish to ask inane questions about other stuff - TV trivia, in this case - with the most superficial or tenuous links to engineering? And why is it so many questions are asked by people who obviously can't be bothered to try a search engine before they ask other people to think for them?

More to the point, does this bulletin board not have any human moderator who could screen out such stuff, or is it entirely automated?

Your last point is answered in various places , check out the "glossary" link .

As you are a Guest how can you criticize a "Power User" who had made significant contributions to this forum? Please click on his username and view the posts he has submitted. It seem's you are the self appointed Guest moderator for this forum.

Sometimes a little light heartedness is welcome in a very serious world. If you are a member at least sign in so we know who you are.

I am getting tired off Guests and active users who insist that this remain a forum for pompous "I am smarter than you so don't dare crack a joke, ask for clarification or spoil my already rotten day" users. I know of nobody who has paycheck from CR4, so this is usually an escape to a FRIENDLY place where we can discuss common ideas, discuss differing opinions and occasionally bring up items that interest most of us. The jokes make all that more fun.

The best forum I subscribed to was the Toys that made you and Engineer.

Sorry for the rant

Dear Guest,

Thanks. I'm fully aware that my kind of English is... How should I call it? "My kind of English". My natural environments is Hebrew.

On this site, I can only hope, it wouldn't get me into too much trouble, in the sense that my "own" grammar would turn my phrasing into other than what I meant. I can only try to do my best, and hope that somehow, I'm understood.

I do use Google (ever since 2001 or so), but regarding this, I couldn't get any useful links. Your second link looks promising, and I hope it would yield some practical result. Yuval

"infantile" is an adjective that denotes childish behaviour.

What kid in a candy shop doesn't become infantile in his/her behaviour? (oops, is that a substantive adjectival (noun) usage of the word just there...?)

Mark

Oops right!

Now, that was way beyond my grammatical grasp...

Here in Israel, most of us learned our English watching subtitled American TV

Later at school, we only tried to apply that whatchamacallit

Mr. Guest,

While I agree with your corrections on the usage of "infantile" for Yuvalmate, I cannot agree with your opinion on how the members (which you are not) can use the forum.

Though some people here have differences of opinion which develop into arguments at times, I believe most of the members consider everyone here as their friend. That being the case, Yuvalmate would be justified in asking for help on something as "un-engineering" as finding a song. I find it more preferable than someone asking for help with his perpetual motion or over-unity machine.

I also tried looking for that song but was unsuccessful. What you suggested was what I was going to give for an answer (ask the show's producers for a copy, if they can do that). The second alternative is to get a recording device like an mp3 player/recorder and hold it close to the TVs speaker when the show comes on. The problem with that is, of course, when the narration starts and the song isn't finished yet.

For another idea: If you know the lyrics or the title, you can google for that. You just might get lucky.

TOLERANCE IS DIVINE

I am disturbed by the 'noise' generated by a totally unnecessary slam of a contributor's less than perfect choice of a word. I found the meaning very clear--an THAT is the essence of communication. However, I failed completely in trying to find 'a message' in the personal 'slam' by 'GUEST.' For such a minor imperfection in word choice (note-not inadequate or unsatisfactory, just not perfect) to elicit 'Guest' to lash out in that manner begs the question:

GUEST What is the real issue ?

Respectfully

I was pondering what I thought of this - maybe there is an adaption of an un-accredited saying that is apt ; "love you enemy , it'll drive him nuts"

1-2 years ago I caught the tail end of a TV news prog. The essence of the story was that somebody had developed software that enabled you to hold a mobile to the sound source and it would be able to identify the track.Sounds impossible (how many tracks can the have on a database/background noise)- but it wasn't April 1st and it was a major news channel.

Isn't there a soft-link called CDDA to identify label-missing-CDA's on the web?

Try a guitar tab site(if that is what you play)

good luck

Thanks, and I'll do my best short of PtP

No, but I feel the same way about this show, it's like crack. Here's a great one on how tin foil is made.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/243702/how_to_make_foil/

I could watch it over and over. Something about watching the ingots go back and forth over the roller...