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RE: OT Things to ponder - 3/30/2017 4:49:46 AM   
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FySi6xXkNqo

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 3/30/2017 4:51:03 AM   
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No peeking now. From the picture below, name the two sisters that served in one of the navies in WWII



warspite1

I'll leave this overnight before posting a clue (in the unlikely event that that proves necessary).

warspite1

Well the clue was a little obscure, but then name this ship or aircraft is normally answered within minutes on this forum. Pleasing to see I have stumped the brain-boxes here

So a little help as the picture of this strait doesn't help - although this clue is pretty obscure too

Clue: 2 The answer may lie within one of these tracks...




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RE: OT Things to ponder - 3/30/2017 5:06:32 AM   
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Status: offline 		I was merely quoting. My relationship with anything mathematic is a long-standing aversion dating back to school days, and I am convinced the aversion is mutual. Maths has always been too abstract and aloof for me. Why bother with formulae when the important question is the size of Henry VIII's hands? That man has been married six times and had an uncountable number of mistresses, so he is an authority on the subject. Like witpqs, I prefer an empirical approach.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 3/30/2017 5:18:05 AM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 3/30/2017 5:21:30 AM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 3/30/2017 7:05:49 AM   
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ORIGINAL: warspite1

No peeking now. From the picture below, name the two sisters that served in one of the navies in WWII



warspite1

I'll leave this overnight before posting a clue (in the unlikely event that that proves necessary).

warspite1

Well the clue was a little obscure, but then name this ship or aircraft is normally answered within minutes on this forum. Pleasing to see I have stumped the brain-boxes here

So a little help as the picture of this strait doesn't help - although this clue is pretty obscure too

Clue: 2 The answer may lie within one of these tracks...






Scylla and Charybdis - Royal Navy Dido class cruisers.

Scylla and Charybdis were mythical sea monsters noted by Homer; Greek mythology sited them on opposite sides of the Strait of Messina between Sicily and the Italian mainland.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 3/30/2017 7:25:21 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: warspite1

No peeking now. From the picture below, name the two sisters that served in one of the navies in WWII



warspite1

I'll leave this overnight before posting a clue (in the unlikely event that that proves necessary).

warspite1

Well the clue was a little obscure, but then name this ship or aircraft is normally answered within minutes on this forum. Pleasing to see I have stumped the brain-boxes here

So a little help as the picture of this strait doesn't help - although this clue is pretty obscure too

Clue: 2 The answer may lie within one of these tracks...






Scylla and Charybdis - Royal Navy Dido class cruisers.

Scylla and Charybdis were mythical sea monsters noted by Homer; Greek mythology sited them on opposite sides of the Strait of Messina between Sicily and the Italian mainland.
warspite1

...is the correct answer


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RE: OT Things to ponder - 3/30/2017 10:10:17 PM   
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Status: offline 		Both WWII Scylla and Charybdis had interesting careers.

Scylla, launched in 1940, served in Arctic convoys and on patrols in the Bay of Biscay. She was badly damaged by a mine in June 1944 and never repaired.

Charybdis was launched in 1941 and was an escort on several Malta convoys. She was sunk in the Channel in October 1943 by 2 torpedoes, with heavy loss of life in a night action.

They were intended to have a uniform armament of 5.25" guns, but wartime priorities gave them a mix of 4", 4.5", and 5.25" guns. They were considered good AA platforms.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 3/30/2017 10:42:02 PM   
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I'd like to address a misconception about woodpeckers. The myth is, and it is a myth, that when woodpeckers make that tapping sound on trees that echoes for hundreds of yards that they are hunting for grubs hiding in the bark of trees. This is entirely incorrect. Woodpeckers make that sound as a territorial call and they are certainly not hunting when they make it. I have heard and many others as well that they sometimes find some tin or other metal, flanges or actual roofing material and bang on that. It's not that they are stupid and thinking the tin might hold some hiding beetle larvae, but rather they know this metal and the sounds that can be produced with it will penetrate greater distances than the rapping on wood that is typical for woodpeckers. Do not underestimate them, if you hear one rapping on tin you should know that you are experiencing a particularly clever woodpecker.


Yeah, right. That particular 'clever bird' damn near got his beak shot off. Right outside my window waking me up is a sure fire method to seeking ones' own self destruction. I did give him enough chance before hand and he finally must have gotten tired of me shooing him off.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 3/30/2017 10:43:52 PM   
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Sister battleships Littorio & Vittorio Veneto





Nice lines.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 3/30/2017 11:19:33 PM   
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Sister battleships Littorio & Vittorio Veneto





Nice lines.

Especially the bulbous bow, which reduces water resistance and makes her glide through the water.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 3/30/2017 11:35:03 PM   
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Sister battleships Littorio & Vittorio Veneto





Nice lines.

Especially the bulbous bow, which reduces water resistance and makes her glide through the water.


I thought those were the torpedo blisters?


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RE: OT Things to ponder - 3/31/2017 3:56:57 AM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 3/31/2017 7:37:00 AM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 3/31/2017 8:00:53 AM   
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Both WWII Scylla and Charybdis had interesting careers.

Scylla, launched in 1940, served in Arctic convoys and on patrols in the Bay of Biscay. She was badly damaged by a mine in June 1944 and never repaired.

Charybdis was launched in 1941 and was an escort on several Malta convoys. She was sunk in the Channel in October 1943 by 2 torpedoes, with heavy loss of life in a night action.

They were intended to have a uniform armament of 5.25" guns, but wartime priorities gave them a mix of 4", 4.5", and 5.25" guns. They were considered good AA platforms.


The lighter-than-intended but still quite effective AA armament earned them the somewhat oxymoron nickname of "toothless terrors".

I was surprised to learn that Charybdis was sunk quite close to the French coast of Northern Brittany. Many corpses were washed up on Brittany and channel island beaches and the Germans buried them with full military honors. Two graveyards are at St. Brieuc and Dinard - I have family and friends nearby, next time I visit I may try to locate the sites.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 4/1/2017 2:07:26 AM   
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That looks like a BSH.

Could you enlighten me? Is she a British Super Hottie?

Sincerely,

Clueless in the USA


The British Standard Handful, or BSH, is a measurement of breast size. It is a pure measure of volume; issues of shape and form must be considered separately.

One BSH is defined as the amount of breast that could be held by Henry VIII's right hand. In the same way that the average foot is less than a foot in length, the 'British Standard' handful is noticeably larger than the standard British hand. This is not necessarily a bad thing — after all, being short changed is more disappointing than receiving slightly more than anticipated.

The BSH is a far more convenient unit for real world use than its metric equivalent, the cubic metre. Just as it is far easier to ask for a pint of beer than 0.568 litres, one BSH is a much more manageable quantity than 3.1*10-4m3 or 310cm3. This is one of the reasons that the imperial system remains more popular for measuring breasts (the other being that physicists have little to no use for this unit).

In its pure form, the BSH refers to the size of an unrestrained, unsupported breast in its natural state. However, with the appropriate qualifiers it can also be used in refer to apparent size after enhancements (for example, via a padded bra).

In the United States, the Britney is the more popular unit. Unfortunately, the value of the Britney fluctuates depending upon season and outfit. Nor is there a standard Britney locked in a hermetically sealed vault in Paris — this is very much a unit which can be adapted to suit the occasion rather than an objective measure.

Source : https://everything2.com/title/British+Standard+Handful


I always said to mind your units ...... Never knew just how right I would be ;>

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 4/1/2017 8:20:01 AM   
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That looks like a BSH.

Could you enlighten me? Is she a British Super Hottie?

Sincerely,

Clueless in the USA


The British Standard Handful, or BSH, is a measurement of breast size. It is a pure measure of volume; issues of shape and form must be considered separately.

One BSH is defined as the amount of breast that could be held by Henry VIII's right hand. In the same way that the average foot is less than a foot in length, the 'British Standard' handful is noticeably larger than the standard British hand. This is not necessarily a bad thing — after all, being short changed is more disappointing than receiving slightly more than anticipated.

The BSH is a far more convenient unit for real world use than its metric equivalent, the cubic metre. Just as it is far easier to ask for a pint of beer than 0.568 litres, one BSH is a much more manageable quantity than 3.1*10-4m3 or 310cm3. This is one of the reasons that the imperial system remains more popular for measuring breasts (the other being that physicists have little to no use for this unit).

In its pure form, the BSH refers to the size of an unrestrained, unsupported breast in its natural state. However, with the appropriate qualifiers it can also be used in refer to apparent size after enhancements (for example, via a padded bra).

In the United States, the Britney is the more popular unit. Unfortunately, the value of the Britney fluctuates depending upon season and outfit. Nor is there a standard Britney locked in a hermetically sealed vault in Paris — this is very much a unit which can be adapted to suit the occasion rather than an objective measure.

Source : https://everything2.com/title/British+Standard+Handful


I always said to mind your units ...... Never knew just how right I would be ;>


Interesting. Now what is a British rod, and how does it differ from King's Scepter?

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 4/2/2017 2:21:37 PM   
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Interesting. ......does it differ from King's Scepter?



Never heard it pronounced like that... but....... the King's Sphincter is a measurement of radii.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 4/5/2017 10:59:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		I’ve been studying mimicry in butterflies. Concerning the Viceroy butterfly vis á vis Monarch butterflies, for a long time Viceroys were considered to be what is called a Batesian mimic of the Monarch, which is to say the Viceroy pretends to be a Monarch (which is toxic to eat) to fend off predators. However, recent experimentation suggests that Viceroys are every bit as toxic as Monarchs and are thus considered Mülerian co-mimics.

Fascinating. This led me to wonder about mimicry in other species and I devised an experiment with my cohorts at Cornell wherein we rounded up some owls and exposed them to films about WWI. We then released them to the wild and observed their behavior. Here is the result:

http://viva-cesar-chavez-park.org/burrowing-owl-video-from-cornell-labs/

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 4/6/2017 9:15:25 PM   
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to their single trench and where are their machine guns?

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 4/6/2017 10:55:53 PM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 4/6/2017 11:14:40 PM   
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At the Chastity Locke Boarding School for Girls they subjected owls to countless hours of History Channel WW2 documentaries .....





Well, it looks like its got the goose-step down pat.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 4/6/2017 11:56:19 PM   
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Well, it looks like its got the goose-step down pat.


Dude...obviously that's an owl-step.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 4/7/2017 12:08:33 AM   
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Well, it looks like its got the goose-step down pat.


Dude...obviously that's an owl-step.


Of course, what was I thinking.


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RE: OT Things to ponder - 4/8/2017 1:53:18 AM   
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Status: offline 		OK. A diary of my expedition into the dusky dusk of the misty mist of the jungle I call home. I had hoped to spend time in the garden today but was confronted with more serious problems. I have a side yard abutting the street that's about 200' long by 12' wide. It is my responsibility to maintain it but it is not contiguous with my other yards, most of it being about 8' below my back yard with a retaining wall separating them. I had some weed and feed left over from treating my front yard so I went out to apply that. In the course of the application I discovered numerous dandelion plants, some already having dispensed their seeds Now the Weed 'n Feed might suppress some of that but the devils were already well developed. So I had to come back out with some Weed be Gone which targets dandelions and a secret weapon to deal with them. Now I have a tool made by Fiskars which is beautiful for ripping dandelions out of the ground tap root and all, but nearly all of the ones I would have to deal with were right up against the concrete curb and the tool I referred to doesn't always function well with any obstructions like that or rocky soil for that matter. So step one was approach the dandelion beast with caution, bend over and grab the flower heads in whatever state of development they were in, pop them off and throw them in the street. Then spray the leaves with the Weed b Gone. However, in the cases where the seeds were fully developed and I was presented with a lion's mane of them ready to take to the sky and parachute down everywhere, I had my secret weapon. I used to hold a cigarette lighter under them to burn them up. If you tried to manhandle them the seeds came off and floated everywhere. Well the vagaries of the wind frequently defeated the cigarette lighter trick and often as not I would burn myself. So I got my secret weapon. I got a creme brulee torch. It looks like a gun and projects a flame straight out about 4 inches. Now I have never supped on creme brulee and don't expect ever to. I also have a plumber's torch or two and propane tanks and mapp gas tanks to fuel them. A mapp gas torch can melt copper and I have done that by accident. But that apparatus is bulky and inconvenient. A creme brulee torch can be mostly deposited in your pants pocket and is fueled with butane. I defeated swiftly and without mercy all those lion's manes of dandelion seeds today. Yay, me!

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 4/8/2017 2:07:23 AM   
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I do hope you did not drop that crème brulê torch in your pants pocket immediately after using ....

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 4/8/2017 2:10:49 AM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 4/8/2017 2:29:35 AM   
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Status: offline 		What is it the stupid marketers nowadays use? Here's a weird trick or hack to solve whatever trivial problem you have? My creme brûlée torch can also be used to fight off spiders in the rafters of my basement. My place was built in the '30s and the basement is unfinished. I'm not sure if I like spiders or not, but my creme brûlée torch cannot be set on "stun".

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 4/8/2017 3:21:27 AM   
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What is it the stupid marketers nowadays use? Here's a weird trick or hack to solve whatever trivial problem you have? My creme brûlée torch can also be used to fight off spiders in the rafters of my basement. My place was built in the '30s and the basement is unfinished. I'm not sure if I like spiders or not, but my creme brûlée torch cannot be set on "stun".

Suggest you set your creme brulee torch on 'Destroy US Carriers'.
It can't hurt.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 4/8/2017 4:59:54 AM   
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What is it the stupid marketers nowadays use? Here's a weird trick or hack to solve whatever trivial problem you have? My creme brûlée torch can also be used to fight off spiders in the rafters of my basement. My place was built in the '30s and the basement is unfinished. I'm not sure if I like spiders or not, but my creme brûlée torch cannot be set on "stun".

Hmmmm - wood framed basement, lots of dust and cobwebs, very hot torch .... how's your insurance policy?

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