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From: Roger Merriman on 21 Aug 2006 12:13 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > Gareth Slee <gax.slee(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: > > > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > > > > > <http://www.ukspeedtraps.co.uk/weather/light0900.htm> > > > > > > Ah well :-( > > We had some activity a couple of days ago, but it was too weak and > erratic to be worth getting the camera out for. > > Jim had a good old thunder in the valley few days ago, though some ones security light was on at first.... shame is was at night but even so was qute a biggy, or at leasty noisy roger
From: Graham Lee on 21 Aug 2006 12:25 On 21/8/06 09:59, Alec McKenzie wrote: > Graham Lee <uk.ac.ox.physics.teaching(a)leeg.invalid> wrote: > >> actually, I had a very nice beer yesterday called Old Nick, brewed by >> the Youngs Ram Brewery. It's brewed from malted barley so you can >> imagine what it tastes like... > > My dictionary defines beer as "an alcoholic drink made by > fermentation, in which the yeast settles to the bottom, from > malted barley flavoured with hops." > > So I would imagine that the beer you mention tastes like . . . > beer. > Got it in one that man!
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 21 Aug 2006 13:45 On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:13:18 +0100, NEWS(a)wodger.demon.co.uk (Roger Merriman) wrote: >Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > >> We had some activity a couple of days ago, but it was too weak and >> erratic to be worth getting the camera out for. > >had a good old thunder in the valley few days ago, though some ones >security light was on at first.... > >shame is was at night but even so was qute a biggy, or at leasty noisy We had a bloody good one around 4am today, there's not much that wakes me up around that time of day but lightning within a quarter second of the house apparently does! Cheers - Jaimie -- It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca, 'Epistles'
From: Nigel Eastmond on 21 Aug 2006 16:02 In article <1hkfgbz.1dd2tfc1ewear0N%NEWS(a)wodger.demon.co.uk>, NEWS(a)wodger.demon.co.uk (Roger Merriman) wrote: > Gareth Slee <gax.slee(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: > > > I've always had Apple users down as intelligent and slightly eccentric. > > All my experiences here confirm those suspicions :-) > > > > Got me thinking about what the preferred tipple would be for a crowd > > like that? > > I'll start the ball rolling. > > > > Mine's Gin... > > gin's good sara likes one called hendrix that is very nice, they serve > it in the glifface hotel a few miles from crickhowel which is a nice > place to sip gin. "Hendricks". it;s made in Scotland. Nige. -- Nigel C Eastmond eastmond.news1(a)kidneys.mac.com http://web.mac.com/nigeleastmond/iWeb/ Remove the bodily organs from my email address to reply
From: Simon Dobbs on 21 Aug 2006 16:30
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:41:17 +0100, Martin S Taylor wrote (in article <0001HW.C10F30BB002D31F0F0284530(a)news.cable.ntlworld.com>): > Simon Dobbs wrote >> On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:44:46 +0100, {$DB$}@stop.me.uk wrote >> (in article <1156002286.297520.275060(a)m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>): >> >>> Di-hydrogen Oxide. >> >> the IUPAC-preferred systematic name for water is oxidane. >> > > And the SI preferred unit of time is the second. > > "How old are you?" > > "1.57 Gs" > > MST > but common usage is not dihydrogen monoxide, it's water. |