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In article , "Mary Fisher" writes: | | I am getting too old. My memory of "where" is not what it was. | If I recall, it was in some 19th century childrens' books and others | that had references to empty houses. | | I doubt that wax would have been left in empty houses. Yes, it was. The aristocracy often lived in different houses during different times of year, and such durable consumables were not moved with the inhabitants. The same would have happened with the people (e.g. some shepherds) who had fixed accomodation but lived away from it for extended periods. | Beeswax was the standard hard | wax in the UK before the industrial revolution. | | You think I don't know that? :-) Of course you do - others may not. | I have seen that - but am not prepared to swear that the mice regarded | them as MUCH more edible than PVC. The damage was the amount that is | typical for potatoes or PVC. | | So that - and your C19th children's books, are your evidence? Sigh. It is not all. As I said, I have had several people tell me the same, and I have seen references in other books, too. | I asked for evidence. I doubt that you'd accept that :-) I would accept it as evidence. If you can provide evidence that you know the difference between mouse damage and other damage, I would regard it as proof that mice sometimes eat such candles. I did NOT claim that beeswax was a significant item of a mouses diet, or that they favoured it as food. Please do distinguish (a) evidence from proof and (b) evidence of occurrence from evidence of prevalence. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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On Oct 10, 10:37 am, "Mary Fisher" wrote:
"Cat(h)" wrote in message ... On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:57:27 -0700, Des Higgins wrote: On Oct 9, 10:35 am, "Mary Fisher" wrote: "Des Higgins" wrote in message groups.com... On Oct 8, 6:28 pm, (Nick Maclaren) wrote: In article , David in Normandy writes: | In article .com, Des | Higgins says... | ahhhhhhhhh when computers were easy to use and were proper big things | and made noises and had flashing lights. | | And carrying a backup disk to the fire safe made your arms ache! Ah, you youngsters! Mountable disks are a recent development, and traditional backups were on tape. Tape?? Tape?? Luxury; in my day we had to take the hot valves from the glass blowing department and design our own circuits and invent computers and keep the operating system in our heads (backwards because that was how you loaded it). We had to wait 40 years before tape was invented. We had wax tablets and small boys as back up. I MAKE wax tablets - and the styli. A couple of years ago we made some for a top computer 'expert' who later attended a US computer convention and caused astonishment and more interest than the speaker when everyone else in the audience opened their lap tops and he pulled out his codex of tabulae :-) Mary gasp :-) do you have to keep them in the fridge on a hot day or keep them away from mice? If they melt, you can make them into very good earplugs, How can you make tabulae into earplugs? And at body temperature beeswax is too hard for earplugs - I've tried it. and when you're finished with them a few drops of mint oil and they make spiffing chewing gum - Why bother adding flavour? Beeswax tastes delicious as it is/ which can be composted in the end. Why compost? Why not swallow it? But the wastrel that you are would now know anything about that... Cat(h) (I think Desmond is taking the Michael. He only does it very very rarely and you have to be really careful to notice.) He doesn't do it very well. Hmmm. Cat(h) |
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"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message ... | | I doubt that wax would have been left in empty houses. Yes, it was. The aristocracy often lived in different houses during different times of year, and such durable consumables were not moved with the inhabitants. The same would have happened with the people (e.g. some shepherds) who had fixed accomodation but lived away from it for extended periods. Shepherds would not have used beeswax candles. I think I know more about this subject than you do. I'm sure there are many things you know more about than I do :-) Mary |
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In article , "Mary Fisher" writes: | | | I doubt that wax would have been left in empty houses. | | Yes, it was. The aristocracy often lived in different houses during | different times of year, and such durable consumables were not moved | with the inhabitants. The same would have happened with the people | (e.g. some shepherds) who had fixed accomodation but lived away from | it for extended periods. | | Shepherds would not have used beeswax candles. Sigh. Votive candles were beeswax. I was given one as part of my confirmation, as a symbol, to keep. Roman catholics also burnt candles in front of images of the BVM, if they could afford them. A shepherd would clearly not have used beeswax candles for light, but might well have had one or two, small, votive candles. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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On Oct 8, 6:50 pm, David in Normandy wrote:
In article . com, Des Higgins says... Tape?? Tape?? Luxury; in my day we had to take the hot valves from the glass blowing department and design our own circuits and invent computers and keep the operating system in our heads (backwards because that was how you loaded it). We had to wait 40 years before tape was invented. We had wax tablets and small boys as back up. :-) I've still got backups of some Fortran software I wrote on punched paper rolls. There is probably no equipment left on the planet to load the software now (unless it is in a museum). More recently I've got stacks of backups on 5.25" disks but no hardware to read them any more. My archive on 3.5" disks are also heading the same way with only one computer left in my possession capable of reading them. Makes you wonder just how recoverable various important National archives are? We take it for granted that various paper based records can go back several hundred years, but what of digitally stored records? Rough rule of thumb for determining storage media: Data to be kept for one year: magnetic/electronic Data to be kept for ten years: Optical Data to be kept for one century: ordinary ink on paper Data to be kept for one millenium: Papyrus, Vellum, or similar If you want longer than that, you are probably going to need baked clay tablets (or arrange for regular transcription). |
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"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message ... In article , "Mary Fisher" writes: | | | I doubt that wax would have been left in empty houses. | | Yes, it was. The aristocracy often lived in different houses during | different times of year, and such durable consumables were not moved | with the inhabitants. The same would have happened with the people | (e.g. some shepherds) who had fixed accomodation but lived away from | it for extended periods. | | Shepherds would not have used beeswax candles. Sigh. Votive candles were beeswax. I was given one as part of my confirmation, as a symbol, to keep. Roman catholics also burnt candles in front of images of the BVM, if they could afford them. A shepherd would clearly not have used beeswax candles for light, but might well have had one or two, small, votive candles. Very big sigh Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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In article , Mary Fisher
says... Very big sigh Even bigger sigh! While you can both wax lyrical on the subject I'm tempted to knock your heads together. The snarling is getting on my wick :-) Snuff it! -- David in Normandy. (The free MicroPlanet Gravity newsreader is great for eliminating rubbish and cross-posts) |
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"David in Normandy" wrote in message ... In article , Mary Fisher says... Very big sigh Even bigger sigh! While you can both wax lyrical on the subject I'm tempted to knock your heads together. The snarling is getting on my wick :-) Snuff it! :-) If a candle is snuffed it burns more brightly ... My big sigh was the last of my contributions but, although I'm flattered, you didn't have to read it :-) Mary |
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On 10 Oct, 12:11, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:
Sigh. Votive candles were beeswax. I was given one as part of my confirmation, as a symbol, to keep. Roman catholics also burnt candles in front of images of the BVM, if they could afford them. A shepherd would clearly not have used beeswax candles for light, but might well have had one or two, small, votive candles. Read that as : Catholics burnt candles in front of images of the BMW if they could afford them. Now, VM stands for Virgin Mary. Does the B stands for Blue? |
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wrote in message ups.com... On 10 Oct, 12:11, (Nick Maclaren) wrote: Sigh. Votive candles were beeswax. I was given one as part of my confirmation, as a symbol, to keep. Roman catholics also burnt candles in front of images of the BVM, if they could afford them. A shepherd would clearly not have used beeswax candles for light, but might well have had one or two, small, votive candles. Read that as : Catholics burnt candles in front of images of the BMW if they could afford them. Now, VM stands for Virgin Mary. Does the B stands for Blue? No. BMW stands for Berlin Motor Works :-)) Kindest regards Mike -- www.rneba.org.uk for the latest pictures of the very first reunion and Inaugural General Meeting. Nothing less than a fantastic success. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association. 'THE' Association if you served in the Electrical Branch of the Royal Navy www.rneba.org.uk to find your ex-Greenie mess mates www.iowtours.com for all ex-Service Reunions. More being added regularly "Navy Days" Portsmouth 25th - 27th July 2008. RN Shipmates will have a Stand |
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On Oct 10, 4:50 pm, wrote:
On 10 Oct, 12:11, (Nick Maclaren) wrote: Sigh. Votive candles were beeswax. I was given one as part of my confirmation, as a symbol, to keep. Roman catholics also burnt candles in front of images of the BVM, if they could afford them. A shepherd would clearly not have used beeswax candles for light, but might well have had one or two, small, votive candles. Read that as : Catholics burnt candles in front of images of the BMW if they could afford them. Now, VM stands for Virgin Mary. Does the B stands for Blue? Blessed. Cat(h) |
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In article . com,
says... On 10 Oct, 12:11, (Nick Maclaren) wrote: Sigh. Votive candles were beeswax. I was given one as part of my confirmation, as a symbol, to keep. Roman catholics also burnt candles in front of images of the BVM, if they could afford them. A shepherd would clearly not have used beeswax candles for light, but might well have had one or two, small, votive candles. Read that as : Catholics burnt candles in front of images of the BMW if they could afford them. Now, VM stands for Virgin Mary. Does the B stands for Blue? Blessed I think? -- David in Normandy. (The free MicroPlanet Gravity newsreader is great for eliminating rubbish and cross-posts) |
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In article , David in Normandy writes: | In article . com, | says... | | Sigh. Votive candles were beeswax. I was given one as part of my | confirmation, as a symbol, to keep. Roman catholics also burnt candles | in front of images of the BVM, if they could afford them. A shepherd | would clearly not have used beeswax candles for light, but might well | have had one or two, small, votive candles. | | Read that as : Catholics burnt candles in front of images of the BMW | if they could afford them. Now, VM stands for Virgin Mary. Does the B | stands for Blue? | | Blessed I think? It's definitely Blessed, but I still don't understand the posting. It's a little clearer since I noticed the BMW - which I had, of course, read as the BVM I was expecting .... Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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In article , Mary Fisher
says... My big sigh was the last of my contributions but, although I'm flattered, you didn't have to read it :-) Mary I have a passing interest in candles, so followed the debate. I make my own occasionally from left over wax of commercial candles. The likes of Ikea sell church candles with a too-small wick, so they burn and leave wide walls of wax which have to be cut off periodically. So rather than wasting the wax I make new ones, moulding them with kitchen foil cardboard inners with a piece of string fixed between both ends. Works well, provided the hot wax doesn't melt the selotape holding the ends in and leak. -- David in Normandy. (The free MicroPlanet Gravity newsreader is great for eliminating rubbish and cross-posts) |
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On Oct 10, 5:22 pm, "'Mike'" wrote:
wrote in message ups.com... On 10 Oct, 12:11, (Nick Maclaren) wrote: Sigh. Votive candles were beeswax. I was given one as part of my confirmation, as a symbol, to keep. Roman catholics also burnt candles in front of images of the BVM, if they could afford them. A shepherd would clearly not have used beeswax candles for light, but might well have had one or two, small, votive candles. Read that as : Catholics burnt candles in front of images of the BMW if they could afford them. Now, VM stands for Virgin Mary. Does the B stands for Blue? No. BMW stands for Berlin Motor Works :-)) This is completetley tangential and not relevant to anything important but it is Bayerische Motoren Werke which is German for Bavarian Motor Works. Des Kindest regards Mike --www.rneba.org.ukfor the latest pictures of the very first reunion and Inaugural General Meeting. Nothing less than a fantastic success. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association. 'THE' Association if you served in the Electrical Branch of the Royal Navywww.rneba.org.ukto find your ex-Greenie mess mateswww.iowtours.comfor all ex-Service Reunions. More being added regularly "Navy Days" Portsmouth 25th - 27th July 2008. RN Shipmates will have a Stand |
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On Oct 10, 11:47 am, "Cat(h)" wrote:
On Oct 10, 10:37 am, "Mary Fisher" wrote: "Cat(h)" wrote in message .. . On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:57:27 -0700, Des Higgins wrote: On Oct 9, 10:35 am, "Mary Fisher" wrote: "Des Higgins" wrote in message groups.com... On Oct 8, 6:28 pm, (Nick Maclaren) wrote: In article , David in Normandy writes: | In article .com, Des | Higgins says... | ahhhhhhhhh when computers were easy to use and were proper big things | and made noises and had flashing lights. | | And carrying a backup disk to the fire safe made your arms ache! Ah, you youngsters! Mountable disks are a recent development, and traditional backups were on tape. Tape?? Tape?? Luxury; in my day we had to take the hot valves from the glass blowing department and design our own circuits and invent computers and keep the operating system in our heads (backwards because that was how you loaded it). We had to wait 40 years before tape was invented. We had wax tablets and small boys as back up. I MAKE wax tablets - and the styli. A couple of years ago we made some for a top computer 'expert' who later attended a US computer convention and caused astonishment and more interest than the speaker when everyone else in the audience opened their lap tops and he pulled out his codex of tabulae :-) Mary gasp :-) do you have to keep them in the fridge on a hot day or keep them away from mice? If they melt, you can make them into very good earplugs, How can you make tabulae into earplugs? And at body temperature beeswax is too hard for earplugs - I've tried it. and when you're finished with them a few drops of mint oil and they make spiffing chewing gum - Why bother adding flavour? Beeswax tastes delicious as it is/ which can be composted in the end. Why compost? Why not swallow it? But the wastrel that you are would now know anything about that... Cat(h) (I think Desmond is taking the Michael. He only does it very very rarely and you have to be really careful to notice.) He doesn't do it very well. Hmmm. Cat(h)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - How is yer heart rate after the weekend exertions? I presume you watched a certain rugby match on Saturday night. Have you calmed down yet. I saw Frederic Michalak and his thighs and I thought of you. Des |
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In reply to Nick Maclaren ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say : In article , David in Normandy writes: In article . com, says... Sigh. Votive candles were beeswax. I was given one as part of my confirmation, as a symbol, to keep. Roman catholics also burnt candles in front of images of the BVM, if they could afford them. A shepherd would clearly not have used beeswax candles for light, but might well have had one or two, small, votive candles. Read that as : Catholics burnt candles in front of images of the BMW if they could afford them. Now, VM stands for Virgin Mary. Does the B stands for Blue? Blessed I think? It's definitely Blessed, but I still don't understand the posting. It's a little clearer since I noticed the BMW - which I had, of course, read as the BVM I was expecting .... Me too. This is uber-OT, but does anyone know why there are so many BMWs with personalised plates reading BWV followed by the model number of the BMW? Has someone bought all the BMW plates as a job lot? When I had a BMW many years ago it was a "quality" car. Now it is the reps' favourite :-) |
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On 10 Oct, 17:40, "Cat(h)" wrote:
Read that as : Catholics burnt candles in front of images of the BMW if they could afford them. Now, VM stands for Virgin Mary. Does the B stands for Blue? Blessed. Off course! While you're there ... saturday greniad crossword, stuck on: across 1 Liniment - cabinet room (anag) (11) - I've already got 2 down for Cut Grass (3) which is Mow, 3 down Full (7) which is replete, giving me for 1 across -M-R-----O-. The O is from 6 down Banish from group (9) which I think is ostricise. I haven't found 5 down One of elder gods defeated by Zeus (5) which should be the 8th letter. Anyone? |
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On 11 Oct, 11:16, "Uncle Marvo"
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On 11 Oct, 11:16, "Uncle Marvo"
wrote: embrocation Err.. me again. If 5 down start with T, got One of elder gods defeated by Zeus (5) ... who is he? I've got T-R-S. |
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In reply to Nick Maclaren ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say : In article . com, writes: On 11 Oct, 11:16, "Uncle Marvo" wrote: embrocation Err.. me again. If 5 down start with T, got One of elder gods defeated by Zeus (5) ... who is he? I've got T-R-S. I think that you have it wrong. The only 5-letter ones I can find are Theia, Coeus, Crius and (possibly) Atlas. Clue: Search for "Titans". They weren't elder Gods, though. Not in the classical sense. He probably went postal and bashed up one of the Romans' ones by mistake :-) That's why I do the Times, not the Grauniad. You get sensible questions, sometimes. |
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In article , "Uncle Marvo" writes: | | Clue: Search for "Titans". | | They weren't elder Gods, though. Not in the classical sense. The victor always defines the terminology! Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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On 11 Oct, 11:34, "Uncle Marvo"
wrote: In reply to ) who wrote this in Err.. me again. If 5 down start with T, got One of elder gods defeated by Zeus (5) ... who is he? I've got T-R-S. There were only 12 and none have 5 letters or begin with T! What have you got wrong? From Embrocation, 2 down Cut grass (3) Mow, 3 down Full (7) Replete, 4 down I don't know, Grapple - confirm (6) then 5 down One of elder gods defeated by Zeus (5) and that should start with the T from Embrocation. Innit. |
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In reply to ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say : On 11 Oct, 11:34, "Uncle Marvo" wrote: In reply to ) who wrote this in Err.. me again. If 5 down start with T, got One of elder gods defeated by Zeus (5) ... who is he? I've got T-R-S. There were only 12 and none have 5 letters or begin with T! What have you got wrong? From Embrocation, 2 down Cut grass (3) Mow, 3 down Full (7) Replete, 4 down I don't know, Grapple - confirm (6) then 5 down One of elder gods defeated by Zeus (5) and that should start with the T from Embrocation. Innit. I have mailed someone who will definitely know. That means that several people can now get on with some work :-) |
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"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message ... In article , "Uncle Marvo" writes: | | Clue: Search for "Titans". | | They weren't elder Gods, though. Not in the classical sense. The victor always defines the terminology! I'm nicking that for a sig line btw:o) -- There is no God but Eris, and Jay and Silent Bob are her Prophets. |
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On Oct 10, 8:35 pm, Des Higgins wrote:
On Oct 10, 11:47 am, "Cat(h)" wrote: On Oct 10, 10:37 am, "Mary Fisher" wrote: "Cat(h)" wrote in message .. . On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:57:27 -0700, Des Higgins wrote: On Oct 9, 10:35 am, "Mary Fisher" wrote: "Des Higgins" wrote in message groups.com... On Oct 8, 6:28 pm, (Nick Maclaren) wrote: In article , David in Normandy writes: | In article .com, Des | Higgins says... | ahhhhhhhhh when computers were easy to use and were proper big things | and made noises and had flashing lights. | | And carrying a backup disk to the fire safe made your arms ache! Ah, you youngsters! Mountable disks are a recent development, and traditional backups were on tape. Tape?? Tape?? Luxury; in my day we had to take the hot valves from the glass blowing department and design our own circuits and invent computers and keep the operating system in our heads (backwards because that was how you loaded it). We had to wait 40 years before tape was invented. We had wax tablets and small boys as back up. I MAKE wax tablets - and the styli. A couple of years ago we made some for a top computer 'expert' who later attended a US computer convention and caused astonishment and more interest than the speaker when everyone else in the audience opened their lap tops and he pulled out his codex of tabulae :-) Mary gasp :-) do you have to keep them in the fridge on a hot day or keep them away from mice? If they melt, you can make them into very good earplugs, How can you make tabulae into earplugs? And at body temperature beeswax is too hard for earplugs - I've tried it. and when you're finished with them a few drops of mint oil and they make spiffing chewing gum - Why bother adding flavour? Beeswax tastes delicious as it is/ which can be composted in the end. Why compost? Why not swallow it? But the wastrel that you are would now know anything about that... Cat(h) (I think Desmond is taking the Michael. He only does it very very rarely and you have to be really careful to notice.) He doesn't do it very well. Hmmm. Cat(h)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - How is yer heart rate after the weekend exertions? I presume you watched a certain rugby match on Saturday night. To my eternal shame, I missed it. I was waylaid, your Honor (and none of your filty mind, Mister!) Have you calmed down yet. Er. No. Not a hope tempting me from my telly on Sat night though. I saw Frederic Michalak and his thighs and I thought of you. I didn't think the similarities were *that* uncanny. Cat(h) (quickly checking out the oul' quads) |
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That's why I do the Times, not the Grauniad. You get sensible questions, sometimes. It'd be a lot more sense if you were to do the 'cryptic' and not the 'quick'. Then you'd get unambiguous clues. -- Kay |
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In reply to K ) who wrote this in , I, Marvo, say : Uncle Marvo writes That's why I do the Times, not the Grauniad. You get sensible questions, sometimes. It'd be a lot more sense if you were to do the 'cryptic' and not the 'quick'. Then you'd get unambiguous clues. I only do the cryptic. Once I've done the killer, fiendish and whatever other Su Doku they give you, the word puzzle and the Polygon. And been down the pub. I don't read the paper itself, someone else has that. I pay 10p for the Times 2 and the back page for the crossword. Bargain. What do you have against the grauniad cryptic? Apart from not seeing enough of Araucaria? And the fact that you have to pay an exorbitant amount to do the crossword on the web. -- Kay |
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On Oct 11, 1:48 pm, "Cat(h)" wrote:
On Oct 10, 8:35 pm, Des Higgins wrote: On Oct 10, 11:47 am, "Cat(h)" wrote: On Oct 10, 10:37 am, "Mary Fisher" wrote: "Cat(h)" wrote in message .. . On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:57:27 -0700, Des Higgins wrote: On Oct 9, 10:35 am, "Mary Fisher" wrote: "Des Higgins" wrote in message groups.com... On Oct 8, 6:28 pm, (Nick Maclaren) wrote: In article , David in Normandy writes: | In article .com, Des | Higgins says... | ahhhhhhhhh when computers were easy to use and were proper big things | and made noises and had flashing lights. | | And carrying a backup disk to the fire safe made your arms ache! Ah, you youngsters! Mountable disks are a recent development, and traditional backups were on tape. Tape?? Tape?? Luxury; in my day we had to take the hot valves from the glass blowing department and design our own circuits and invent computers and keep the operating system in our heads (backwards because that was how you loaded it). We had to wait 40 years before tape was invented. We had wax tablets and small boys as back up. I MAKE wax tablets - and the styli. A couple of years ago we made some for a top computer 'expert' who later attended a US computer convention and caused astonishment and more interest than the speaker when everyone else in the audience opened their lap tops and he pulled out his codex of tabulae :-) Mary gasp :-) do you have to keep them in the fridge on a hot day or keep them away from mice? If they melt, you can make them into very good earplugs, How can you make tabulae into earplugs? And at body temperature beeswax is too hard for earplugs - I've tried it. and when you're finished with them a few drops of mint oil and they make spiffing chewing gum - Why bother adding flavour? Beeswax tastes delicious as it is/ which can be composted in the end. Why compost? Why not swallow it? But the wastrel that you are would now know anything about that... Cat(h) (I think Desmond is taking the Michael. He only does it very very rarely and you have to be really careful to notice.) He doesn't do it very well. Hmmm. Cat(h)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - How is yer heart rate after the weekend exertions? I presume you watched a certain rugby match on Saturday night. To my eternal shame, I missed it. I was waylaid, your Honor (and none of your filty mind, Mister!) Gasp! Have you calmed down yet. Er. No. Not a hope tempting me from my telly on Sat night though. I saw Frederic Michalak and his thighs and I thought of you. I didn't think the similarities were *that* uncanny. No no; I have never seen yer legs close up. I meant your great passion for rugby players legs. His was the only name I could spell quickly so I named him. Anyway; good luck on Saturday. Des Cat(h) (quickly checking out the oul' quads)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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"Uncle Marvo" wrote When I had a BMW many years ago it was a "quality" car. Now it is the reps' favourite :-) Here in Holland they don't call them 'pimped' for nothing - most are indeed owned by such chaps and they usually have the largest speakers and sound systems available............ Jenny |
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"JennyC" wrote in message ... "Uncle Marvo" wrote When I had a BMW many years ago it was a "quality" car. Now it is the reps' favourite :-) Here in Holland they don't call them 'pimped' for nothing - most are indeed owned by such chaps and they usually have the largest speakers and sound systems available............ Jenny Here in Chapeltown they're known as Black Man's Wheels - not the same as the BMW childishly discussed on GQT this week. Mary |
Can I design something that will be useful while gardening?
On Oct 11, 7:21 pm, Des Higgins wrote:
On Oct 11, 1:48 pm, "Cat(h)" wrote: On Oct 10, 8:35 pm, Des Higgins wrote: On Oct 10, 11:47 am, "Cat(h)" wrote: On Oct 10, 10:37 am, "Mary Fisher" wrote: "Cat(h)" wrote in message .. . On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:57:27 -0700, Des Higgins wrote: On Oct 9, 10:35 am, "Mary Fisher" wrote: "Des Higgins" wrote in message groups.com... On Oct 8, 6:28 pm, (Nick Maclaren) wrote: In article , David in Normandy writes: | In article .com, Des | Higgins says... | ahhhhhhhhh when computers were easy to use and were proper big things | and made noises and had flashing lights. | | And carrying a backup disk to the fire safe made your arms ache! Ah, you youngsters! Mountable disks are a recent development, and traditional backups were on tape. Tape?? Tape?? Luxury; in my day we had to take the hot valves from the glass blowing department and design our own circuits and invent computers and keep the operating system in our heads (backwards because that was how you loaded it). We had to wait 40 years before tape was invented. We had wax tablets and small boys as back up. I MAKE wax tablets - and the styli. A couple of years ago we made some for a top computer 'expert' who later attended a US computer convention and caused astonishment and more interest than the speaker when everyone else in the audience opened their lap tops and he pulled out his codex of tabulae :-) Mary gasp :-) do you have to keep them in the fridge on a hot day or keep them away from mice? If they melt, you can make them into very good earplugs, How can you make tabulae into earplugs? And at body temperature beeswax is too hard for earplugs - I've tried it. and when you're finished with them a few drops of mint oil and they make spiffing chewing gum - Why bother adding flavour? Beeswax tastes delicious as it is/ which can be composted in the end. Why compost? Why not swallow it? But the wastrel that you are would now know anything about that... Cat(h) (I think Desmond is taking the Michael. He only does it very very rarely and you have to be really careful to notice.) He doesn't do it very well. Hmmm. Cat(h)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - How is yer heart rate after the weekend exertions? I presume you watched a certain rugby match on Saturday night. To my eternal shame, I missed it. I was waylaid, your Honor (and none of your filty mind, Mister!) Gasp! Have you calmed down yet. Er. No. Not a hope tempting me from my telly on Sat night though. I saw Frederic Michalak and his thighs and I thought of you. I didn't think the similarities were *that* uncanny. No no; I have never seen yer legs close up. I meant your great passion for rugby players legs. Ahhh. Yes... I was watching TG4 the other evening, and they had a vintage (I think early 80's - Moss Keane was on the team) Ireland/ England game on. I was amazed at seeing how different the game was then - more fluid, less bone crushing, better technique... And very, very short shorts - practically hot pants. Phew! His was the only name I could spell quickly so I named him. Chabal's quads/glutes combo isn't bad either - and easy to spell. Anyway; good luck on Saturday. I know this is costing you... a lot :-) Anyway, I feel right now that I am walking way, way to the end of the slippery plank of off-topicness, so.... Dandelion! That ought to do it. Cat(h) Des |
Can I design something that will be useful while gardening?
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, I, Marvo, say : Uncle Marvo writes In reply to K ) who wrote this in , I, Marvo, say : Uncle Marvo writes That's why I do the Times, not the Grauniad. You get sensible questions, sometimes. It'd be a lot more sense if you were to do the 'cryptic' and not the 'quick'. Then you'd get unambiguous clues. I only do the cryptic. Once I've done the killer, fiendish and whatever other Su Doku they give you, the word puzzle and the Polygon. And been down the pub. I don't read the paper itself, someone else has that. I pay 10p for the Times 2 and the back page for the crossword. Bargain. What do you have against the grauniad cryptic? Apart from not seeing enough of Araucaria? And the fact that you have to pay an exorbitant amount to do the crossword on the web. And that's not enough? My mate who kbows everything can't do this God clue. Type which elder gods did zeus defeat? into Google, and feel lucky. And that chap didn't even get the same letters! |
Can I design something that will be useful while gardening?
On 12/10/07 11:37, in article , "Uncle
Marvo" wrote: In reply to K ) who wrote this in , I, Marvo, say : Uncle Marvo writes In reply to K ) who wrote this in , I, Marvo, say : Uncle Marvo writes That's why I do the Times, not the Grauniad. You get sensible questions, sometimes. It'd be a lot more sense if you were to do the 'cryptic' and not the 'quick'. Then you'd get unambiguous clues. I only do the cryptic. Once I've done the killer, fiendish and whatever other Su Doku they give you, the word puzzle and the Polygon. And been down the pub. I don't read the paper itself, someone else has that. I pay 10p for the Times 2 and the back page for the crossword. Bargain. What do you have against the grauniad cryptic? Apart from not seeing enough of Araucaria? And the fact that you have to pay an exorbitant amount to do the crossword on the web. And that's not enough? My mate who kbows everything can't do this God clue. Type which elder gods did zeus defeat? into Google, and feel lucky. And that chap didn't even get the same letters! Titan -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove weeds from address) 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
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