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From: Jim on 5 Jul 2010 05:22 On 2010-07-05, zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: >> >>> In his `Skylark' series, `Doc' Smith blows up an entire galaxy using >> > a >>> method that's more credible than the one I've just described. >> >> Which book? If it was the last (Skylark DuQuesne) then that's one I've >> always had a problem reading. Everything else he wrote - fine. That >> one >> - problem. Not sure why. > > I'm glad I'm not the only one who accidentally presses return when they > mean to hit space - I seem to do that all the time. iPhone or iPad? Mac. I think that one was just a random formatting oddity. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you." Terry Pratchett
From: zoara on 5 Jul 2010 08:40 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > On 2010-07-05, zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: >>> >>>> In his `Skylark' series, `Doc' Smith blows up an entire galaxy > > > > using >>>> a >>>> method that's more credible than the one I've just described. >>> >>> Which book? If it was the last (Skylark DuQuesne) then that's one > > > I've >>> always had a problem reading. Everything else he wrote - fine. That >>> one >>> - problem. Not sure why. >> >> I'm glad I'm not the only one who accidentally presses return when > > they >> mean to hit space - I seem to do that all the time. iPhone or iPad? > > Mac. I think that one was just a random formatting oddity. Ah, so maybe I Am the only one. -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: Pd on 5 Jul 2010 10:54 zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > Ah, so maybe I > Am the only one. Oh Grasshopper, You are a One. -- Pd
From: Duncan Kennedy on 5 Jul 2010 13:35 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > Ever met a Velocette LE? 250cc side valve flat twin. I heard one once > at a music festival, parked up near a Vincent 1000cc twin of some sort. > The LE was nearly silent. The Vincent wasn't. > > The Post Office used to use Velocette LEs for telegram delivery. Lovely > things - if they'd been cheaper, they'd've been serious competition for > the Honda Cub series. The Met police were using them into the 1980s for > training. > I would hsve said 200cc - water cooled - that's was why they were so quiet, they said. Known as "whispering death " in my biking days because people didn't hearw them coming. My '29 350 overhead cam TS Velo that somebody had tried to make look like a TT was rather more to the other extreme. -- duncank
From: Rowland McDonnell on 5 Jul 2010 15:41
Duncan Kennedy <nospam(a)nospamottersonbg.couk> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > Ever met a Velocette LE? 250cc side valve flat twin. I heard one once > > at a music festival, parked up near a Vincent 1000cc twin of some sort. > > The LE was nearly silent. The Vincent wasn't. > > > > The Post Office used to use Velocette LEs for telegram delivery. Lovely > > things - if they'd been cheaper, they'd've been serious competition for > > the Honda Cub series. The Met police were using them into the 1980s for > > training. > > I would hsve said 200cc - water cooled - that's was why they were so > quiet, they said. Oh yes - could be right, I was working from memory. Water cooling helped, so did partial engine enclosure, and so did the *very* effective silencer. Just a very very quiet pop-pop-pop,: I stood right next to it, and it was barely audible over the sounds of a festival field full of happy campers. (Cropredy, this was - the /civilised/ music festival, with proper loos and showers and so on) > Known as "whispering death " in my biking days > because people didn't hearw them coming. <grin> MAG did once have a bunch of nutters attached who were campaigning against further noise reductions for motorcycles with the slogan `Loud pipes save lives!' It didn't really get anywhere... > My '29 350 overhead cam TS > Velo What, *really* 1929? What are the brakes like? > that somebody had tried to make look like a TT was rather more to > the other extreme. Yers... I expect so... Anyone's ears end up bleeding? Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking |