|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#201
|
|||
|
|||
On Thu, 6 May 2004 12:29:24 -0400, "Scott Hedrick"
wrote: "Pat Flannery" wrote in message ... "Play ball with me, and I'll shove the bat up your ass..." Expect a call from the Maxsons. ....Yes, but will they be pitching or catching? OM -- "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 |
#203
|
|||
|
|||
Neil Gerace wrote: "Pat Flannery" wrote in message ... And my all-time favorite, from my late dad: "Play ball with me, and I'll shove the bat up your ass..." Was that a threat or a promise? Actually it was a reference to how a particular individual in our town did business. :-) Pat |
#204
|
|||
|
|||
OM wrote: ...That's because people in North Dakota have never been explained that you don't do those erotic Wesson Oil interludes in front of a raging fireplace. Actually, it's due to the fact that frying is an exotic form of cooking up here; we are about as far from the Deep South as it's possible to get, and are far more attuned to barbecuing steaks and making deer sausage than frying things. The Norse population of our state still associates the idea of "hot oil" with the defenses used against their ancestors when they were storming English castles, and therefore shy away from it whenever possible. Molten lead is also right out in regards to cooking. Pat |
#205
|
|||
|
|||
Dale wrote: Hmmm, I picked that one up on a hellish summer farm job almost 30 years ago. But come to think of it, there was a guy working there named Pat... That's why your name rang a bell! This is the ******* who killed my pet skunk- "Lil' Stinker"- just so he could have a novelty hat! Well, I hope you enjoyed that hat, mister....because your pet cats are going to make a dandy pair of bedroom slippers- I'll call 'em my "Puss 'n boots". Pat |
#206
|
|||
|
|||
In article ,
Pat Flannery wrote: The Norse population of our state still associates the idea of "hot oil" with the defenses used against their ancestors when they were storming English castles, . . . How did they fare against French knights? Their taunting can be vicious, I understand, and when they "fetchez les vaches", well, as King Arthur was once overheard to say, "JEEE-ZUSSS CHRIIIST!!!! RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!" -- Herb Schaltegger, B.S., J.D. Reformed Aerospace Engineer Columbia Loss FAQ: http://www.io.com/~o_m/columbia_loss_faq_x.html |
#207
|
|||
|
|||
On Thu, 06 May 2004 02:50:59 -0600, OM
om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote: On Tue, 04 May 2004 22:51:07 -0700, Mary Shafer wrote: Anyway, I have a helper coming over to unpack cartons all this week ...And if Mrs. Beady shows up with some really wild finds, we'll know who you hired :-) I've got enough dupes of some stuff, I'd never notice. Besides, I haven't come to terms with the idea of selling things the gov't gave me for free. Mary -- Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer |
#208
|
|||
|
|||
On Mon, 03 May 2004 11:55:18 -0600, Jay Windley wrote:
"Henry Spencer" wrote in message ... | | Hardly. He's criticizing SI because this particular relationship doesn't | work in practice, but SI has never claimed it did... That's true, Henry. I momentarily blurred the distinction between SI and "the metric system". Now what is THE metric system. I know that there used to be at least two in common usage: CGS and MKS. There are/were several metric systems. SI is A metric system n'est-ce pas? -- Rick Who really doesn't have a dog in this fight! |
#209
|
|||
|
|||
On Mon, 03 May 2004 11:22:40 -0600, Jay Windley wrote:
I'm reminded of a (probably apocryphal) story about MIT engineering students who were asked to design and construct a bridge using the unit of "smoot", Professor Smoot being their instructor. His linear, volumetric, and mass properties were the measurement units for the project. Steel had a density of so many smoots-mass per smoots-volume, for example. In doing that, you would gain a deeper appreciation for where these "accepted" values for everything actually come from, and greater insight into the arbitrary nature of practically any measurement system. An embellishment of the true story. Oliver Smoot was a member of the MIT class of '62 who as a pledge of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. They measured the length of the Harvard Bridge as 364.4 Smoots plus and ear. 1 Smoot = 5' 7" http://web.mit.edu/museum/fun/smoots.html has pictures of the process of measurement. |
#210
|
|||
|
|||
On Tue, 04 May 2004 01:17:21 +0800, Neil Gerace wrote:
"Herb Schaltegger" wrote in message ... In the context of the gas systems for Project Apollo, that question is silly. So is your non-issue about the litre and the kilogramme. Neither is defined in terms of the other, therefore there is no 'relationship'. Litre eh?! Must be a localized (Australian?) spelling of the SI unit which is spelled "cubic metre". http://www1.bipm.org/en/si/derived_units/2-2-1.html ou en française: mètre cube Note the e accent grave in mètre, It seems like it's not just we Americans who have localized (localised?) spellings. Do you really use kilogramme in Australia? According to the English pages of the BIPM (French) website, http://www1.bipm.org/en/si/base_units/ the English spellings of the SI Base units are, metre, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, mole and candela, whereas the French spellings a mètre, kilogramme, seconde, ampère, kelvin, mole and candela. http://www1.bipm.org/fr/si/base_units/ Il semble comme si le système international d'unités permet des épellations localisées! |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
The Apollo Hoax FAQ (is not spam) :-) | Nathan Jones | UK Astronomy | 8 | August 1st 04 09:08 PM |
The Apollo Hoax FAQ (is not spam) :-) | Nathan Jones | Astronomy Misc | 5 | July 29th 04 06:14 AM |
Apollo | Buzz alDredge | Astronomy Misc | 5 | July 28th 04 10:05 AM |
Apollo | Buzz alDredge | Misc | 5 | July 28th 04 10:05 AM |
The Apollo Hoax FAQ | darla | UK Astronomy | 11 | July 25th 04 02:57 PM |