North Dakota Found To Be Harboring Nuclear Missiles

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 12:14:25 -0500, Kevin Willoughby
wrote:

Such absolute honesty in advertising is undoubtedly explains the success
of Moxie Tonic Nerve Food. That bottle in my office comes from a time
when Moxie outsold Coke. These days...

....There's a theory as to why things that are good for you are bitter
in taste: the bitter taste evolved as a protective measure - if it
tasted bad, you wouldn't eat it. With this in mind, the smartest thing
that genemodders could be doing right now is to alter the genes of
every single vegetable that's supposed to be good for you so it tastes
like Pez candies or Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Do that, and you'll
finally solve the problem of getting your kids to eat their Spinach.

Of course, this'll ruin the salad dressing industry, but them's the
breaks...

OM

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On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 16:02:36 -0000, Mark Bradford
wrote:

In article , OM wrote:
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 23:05:51 -0800, Mary Shafer
wrote:

Which reminds me of a joke involving Thor,
but I'm not going to tell it because it'll embarrass people.

...Yeah, best not to tell jokes out of school that you'll be Thorry
about later.

She might spill if you get her hammered, though.

....Yeah, but then I'll have to Sif through the mess to come up with
any usable data :-P

OM

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"No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m
his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 10:06:16 -0500, (Peter
Stickney) wrote:

It comes from having a 120 wpm mind and 60 wpm fingers.

....This must play havok with your self-gratification efforts :-P

OM

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"No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m
his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr

Mary Shafer wrote

Oh, and "Goold" is probably "Good" and the radioactivity comes from
the thorium in the mantle. Which reminds me of a joke involving Thor,
but I'm not going to tell it because it'll embarrass people.

http://www.nationallampoon.com/news/joke8_06_01.asp

[blush]

Mary Shafer wrote:

Vebtury tube equipped fireplace. All illumination is by Goold Old

Vebtury?

Some boring people spell it "Venturi", but I like Vebrury better.

Februry?

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bibatis. Ne ructetis. Ne inflationibus ventris alicui noceatis.
Ne consuetudinem vomitandi conservetis. Ne sitis satyri.

Peter Stickney wrote:

Mary wins the prize - Venturi Tube is indeed correct. The fireplace
has a set uf venturi-profiled U-shaped tubes that act as the fire
grate. When the upper quadrant of the tube set is heated by the fire,
it pulls cool air in through the bottom, heats it on the way up, and
ejects it into the room from the top. It slightly increases teh
efficiency of the fireplace, but the main advantage is more even
distribution of the fireplace's heat. Useful thrust measurements have
not been made.

I've stoked a fireplace with an electric fan powered grate:
very efficient indeed. It was in Normandy (France).

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Ne magna voce clametis ne canatis. Ne sine mediocritate edatis neve
bibatis. Ne ructetis. Ne inflationibus ventris alicui noceatis.
Ne consuetudinem vomitandi conservetis. Ne sitis satyri.

Mary Pegg wrote:
Peter Stickney wrote:


Mary wins the prize - Venturi Tube is indeed correct. The fireplace
has a set uf venturi-profiled U-shaped tubes that act as the fire
grate. When the upper quadrant of the tube set is heated by the fire,
it pulls cool air in through the bottom, heats it on the way up, and
ejects it into the room from the top. It slightly increases teh
efficiency of the fireplace, but the main advantage is more even
distribution of the fireplace's heat. Useful thrust measurements have
not been made.


I've stoked a fireplace with an electric fan powered grate:
very efficient indeed. It was in Normandy (France).


We used to have a fireplace with a "ash cleaning" hatch in the
bottom. Open it up, and you could brush the ashes into a shaft that went
into the basement. The nice, cold, unheated basement. Of course, if you
opened it while the fireplace was in use, you got a draft up the shaft,
that stoked the fire, that increased the draft, that stoked the fire
more, that increased the draft, etc. We melted the cast-iron grate, and
it sounded like a jet engine. Burned through a Yule Log in about half an
hour. And it didn't require an external power source.

Brett

In article ,
Mary Pegg writes:
Mary Shafer wrote:

Vebtury tube equipped fireplace. All illumination is by Goold Old

Vebtury?

Some boring people spell it "Venturi", but I like Vebrury better.

Februry?
Now just a durn minute there! _That_ one I got right. (Of course, I
had to go back and check)

--
Pete Stickney
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many
bad measures. -- Daniel Webster

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OM om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org writes:
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 10:06:16 -0500, (Peter
Stickney) wrote:

It comes from having a 120 wpm mind and 60 wpm fingers.

...This must play havok with your self-gratification efforts :-P

Well, they didn't call our Colonial Milita Minutemen for nawthin'!

--
Pete Stickney
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many
bad measures. -- Daniel Webster

In article , Julian Bordas wrote:

[disturbing fast-food establishments]

Nope, they are all over the place around here; mostly they've been in
mall food courts but in the last couple of years we've had 'em popping
up as stand-alone restaurants. Too bad they're owned by a bunch of
religious zealots who insist they remain closed on Sundays -

The real zealots insist that they are closed on Saturday, sunday, monday
.... you get the idea

That's not the zealots, that's Health & Safety...

--
-Andrew Gray