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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 10/7/2010 4:05:44 PM   
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Back at work after going with my wife to buy our second Porsche over lunch - Tithe. 

2009 Cayenne with only 8100 miles on it.  Perfect hockey trip transportation. 



A porsche for hockey?


You've never heard of "street hockey?"


How big is the puck?


A kid on a Vespa or a Mo-ped.



Spoken like a true American SUV driver. And that coming from a triathlete as well...



Nice try, I've never driven a SUV in my life (nor would I!). I drive, and have always driven, a sub compact. Nor am I or have I ever been a triathlete. But a hater of Vespa's or Mopeds that race between cars in traffic in reckless and break neck fashion in heavy congestion, putting everyone at risk to gain two feet of pavement? Guilty as charged!

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Growing up (and learning to drive) in the urban sprawl of Los Angeles, we developed a name for those people. We called them 'kidney donors'.


Sorry Andre, but I've driven in LA. After 8 years of Boston driving, 9+ DC, driving on GUAM! (MY GOD THE WORSE) PR,Europe,London,Japan and many USA cities, I'd say that your "Kidney donors", like the rest of LA's drivers, would be "milk cows" to the "fighting bulls" of those other places. Sorry to "harsh your mellow" (as I belive you put it.) but LA's traffic is slow,ponderous and soporific. Like a glaicier on qualudes.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 10/7/2010 4:06:47 PM   
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This was my wife's first attempt at home made sponge cake for our son's birthday today. Apparently it's Delia's fault.

PS. It's not a brownie.








Looks like a French loaf (I can't spell baguette?).

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 10/7/2010 4:07:33 PM   
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We had one of those at school. The alpha particles (which are just corrupt helium atoms) leave a vapour trail as they're ejected.


I went to school after they decided letting young uns play with radioactivity was not a good thing I guess it was all different in your day? Atomic vacuum cleaners were just around the corner and maybe there were aliens on the moon?


And personal jetpacks and flying cars too!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 10/7/2010 4:09:14 PM   
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I went to school after they decided letting young uns play with radioactivity was not a good thing


No wonder you're all so soft. And when I grew up they let me play with atomic weapons too!



Me too! (At least till we dropped one! No, not in anger, we were part of a "load team". I mean we litterally dropped it. On the floor! ).

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 10/7/2010 4:10:29 PM   
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Nice try, I've never driven a SUV in my life (nor would I!). I drive, and have always driven, a sub compact. Nor am I or have I ever been a triathlete. But a hater of Vespa's or Mopeds that race between cars in traffic in reckless and break neck fashion in heavy congestion, putting everyone at risk to gain two feet of pavement? Guilty as charged!

They only risk their only live, not yours. So isn't this their personal right to risk it?

Sure. Provided that they decline any sort of public assistance for disability, medical coverage or physical therapy. Seems as though most want their 'choice', yet want to have the public assume their personal risks.



I'd rather just give them a pistol , one bullet and lock them in a room. Have fun dude!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 10/7/2010 4:11:03 PM   
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And good morning......

Good morning, dude.



No, it wasn't. At least not at 2am.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 10/7/2010 4:12:22 PM   
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Guards Red.


I thought it was called scarlet



Not British guards. Red Guards. Like as in Russian.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 10/7/2010 4:17:02 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 10/7/2010 4:31:56 PM   
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Guards Red.


I thought it was called scarlet



Not British guards. Red Guards. Like as in Russian.


Wouldn't that be Red Gurads Red then?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 10/7/2010 4:36:58 PM   
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Where can I get one of those? Or has Iran (allegedly) bought them all?


It is a cloud chamber. You can make one with a clear plastic (or glass) box, some dry ice (frozen CO2), some isopropyl alcohol and a cloth. If you set it up right you can see cosmic ray trails that are in the air around you.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 10/7/2010 4:40:32 PM   
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We had one of those at school. The alpha particles (which are just corrupt helium atoms) leave a vapour trail as they're ejected.

Was that a 'cloud chamber'? If so, we had one.


Yes that is a cloud chamber says the physics major.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 10/7/2010 4:41:53 PM   
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We had one of those at school. The alpha particles (which are just corrupt helium atoms) leave a vapour trail as they're ejected.

Was that a 'cloud chamber'? If so, we had one.


Yes that is a cloud chamber says the physics major.


The one we got for Christmas in the late 60's came with an alpha emitter.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 10/7/2010 4:52:02 PM   
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We had one of those at school. The alpha particles (which are just corrupt helium atoms) leave a vapour trail as they're ejected.

Was that a 'cloud chamber'? If so, we had one.


Hotboxing your Gremlin doesn't count.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 10/7/2010 4:53:25 PM   
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Here are the instructions to make one, if you don't want to buy a kit.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 10/7/2010 4:53:41 PM   
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It is a cloud chamber. You can make one with a clear plastic (or glass) box, some dry ice (frozen CO2), some isopropyl alcohol and a cloth. If you set it up right you can see cosmic ray trails that are in the air around you.


The problem there is that as an RAF technician I am duty bound to use dry ice only to make a dry-ice bomb.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 10/7/2010 4:55:44 PM   
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http://www.scienceinschool.org/2010/issue14/cloud

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 10/7/2010 5:00:57 PM   
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It is a cloud chamber. You can make one with a clear plastic (or glass) box, some dry ice (frozen CO2), some isopropyl alcohol and a cloth. If you set it up right you can see cosmic ray trails that are in the air around you.


The problem there is that as an RAF technician I am duty bound to use dry ice only to make a dry-ice bomb.


So buy enough for both. Dry ice is cheap. I can get it in my local supermarket.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 10/7/2010 5:03:32 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 10/7/2010 5:04:27 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 10/7/2010 5:09:22 PM   
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It is a cloud chamber. You can make one with a clear plastic (or glass) box, some dry ice (frozen CO2), some isopropyl alcohol and a cloth. If you set it up right you can see cosmic ray trails that are in the air around you.


The problem there is that as an RAF technician I am duty bound to use dry ice only to make a dry-ice bomb.


So buy enough for both. Dry ice is cheap. I can get it in my local supermarket.


I think you've missed how this works. If I bought more I'd have to make more bombs.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 10/7/2010 5:10:26 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 10/7/2010 5:14:40 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 10/7/2010 5:26:37 PM   
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RAF personnel must create weapons grade toys . . . new austerity plan?


No, we just can't help ourselves We could make weapons out of the stuff we have lying around. All we'd need is a spray bottle and some hydraulic fluid, that stuff is evil...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 10/7/2010 6:17:54 PM   
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Back at work after going with my wife to buy our second Porsche over lunch - Tithe. 

2009 Cayenne with only 8100 miles on it.  Perfect hockey trip transportation. 



A porsche for hockey?


You've never heard of "street hockey?"


How big is the puck?


A kid on a Vespa or a Mo-ped.



Spoken like a true American SUV driver. And that coming from a triathlete as well...



Nice try, I've never driven a SUV in my life (nor would I!). I drive, and have always driven, a sub compact. Nor am I or have I ever been a triathlete. But a hater of Vespa's or Mopeds that race between cars in traffic in reckless and break neck fashion in heavy congestion, putting everyone at risk to gain two feet of pavement? Guilty as charged!

Steve-

Growing up (and learning to drive) in the urban sprawl of Los Angeles, we developed a name for those people. We called them 'kidney donors'.


Sorry Andre, but I've driven in LA. After 8 years of Boston driving, 9+ DC, driving on GUAM! (MY GOD THE WORSE) PR,Europe,London,Japan and many USA cities, I'd say that your "Kidney donors", like the rest of LA's drivers, would be "milk cows" to the "fighting bulls" of those other places. Sorry to "harsh your mellow" (as I belive you put it.) but LA's traffic is slow,ponderous and soporific. Like a glaicier on qualudes.

Oh, I've seen worse traffic elsewhere, dude. Trust me. But I didn't grow up driving in it. Did you cut your driver's ed teeth in Nigerian traffic? I didn't either, but I'm lead to believe that that's the world's worst.

LA-drivers traffic is slow, you're right about that, but consider the multitasking needed to master driving: It takes significant upper body strength to restrain our Rottweilers so that they don't spill cocaine on our machine guns. Plus, reloading during the summer drive-by / driving / shooting season (particularly with a manual transmission) is another learned skill.



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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 10/7/2010 6:19:01 PM   
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Guards Red.


I thought it was called scarlet



Not British guards. Red Guards. Like as in Russian.


Wouldn't that be Red Gurads Red then?

Isn't that redundant?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 10/7/2010 6:20:32 PM   
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Where can I get one of those? Or has Iran (allegedly) bought them all?


It is a cloud chamber. You can make one with a clear plastic (or glass) box, some dry ice (frozen CO2), some isopropyl alcohol and a cloth. If you set it up right you can see cosmic ray trails that are in the air around you.

Dude, I can see cosmic rays with much less setup, dude [trails fingers in front of face....] Dude.....Whoa....

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 10/7/2010 6:21:39 PM   
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We had one of those at school. The alpha particles (which are just corrupt helium atoms) leave a vapour trail as they're ejected.

Was that a 'cloud chamber'? If so, we had one.


Hotboxing your Gremlin doesn't count.

Hey now, let's keep this a family forum, shall we? Where you choose to put your Gremlin is a matter that doesn't concern us.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 10/7/2010 6:22:15 PM   
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Off to see a Blue Man Group show. Laters.

Ooh. Excellent group. Have fun!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 10/7/2010 6:32:32 PM   
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It is a cloud chamber. You can make one with a clear plastic (or glass) box, some dry ice (frozen CO2), some isopropyl alcohol and a cloth. If you set it up right you can see cosmic ray trails that are in the air around you.


The problem there is that as an RAF technician I am duty bound to use dry ice only to make a dry-ice bomb.

Your devotion to your duty is touching, Dixie.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 10/7/2010 7:05:39 PM   
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The Bright Blue Death by Nicholas Brown, published in US in 1967 and and UK in 1967
They call themselves the Teutonic Knights, they are led by a half-mad genius with dreams of ruling the world. The first step has already been taken, Selected victims are being murdered by a hideous disease. Our heroes job is to destroy their plan with the help of two women, one a headstrong Swede and a treacherous American.

Macao by Manning Lee Stokes, published in US in 1968 and UK in 1968
Princess Morgan de Gama is an addict, a whore, and a deadbeat. As the story begins, a film of her sexual exploits is being auctioned off to three international buyers. The Portuguese government would like her locked in an asylum. Meanwhile, an Angolan rebel needs her to keep an old French general in his service, and has told the Red Chinese that acquiring her is a part of any deal they may want to make with the rebellion. David Hawk, head of AXE, has a plan to use her to eliminate the head of Chinese counterintelligence. He sends Nick Carter with her to Hong Kong, and from there to Macao, knowing that Colonel Chun Li would have a trap ready for them. The two do end up in the trap, and face a sticky end chained up in a dungeon with mutant killer rats. However, in the end, Colonel Li is killed, the Angolan rebel leads his forces to the rescue, and the Princess ends up marrying the head rebel, Prince Askari.







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