Reply With QuoteFrom the first line of A Rush and a Push and the Land is Ours by The Smiths.
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It was the nickname my sister had for me when she was very young. To a three year old, “Alexander the flying banana” is literally rolling on the floor gasping for air and crying with laughter funny. 😁
From the first line of A Rush and a Push and the Land is Ours by The Smiths.
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Always wondered about TFB :) a charming reason.
Mine is dull, simply my initials. I always feel I have one too many, although there was a guy at school who had four first names; JTDRG. That's mad.
When years ago I was looking to register a domain using them, I was peeved to see the dot com was already registered to a no doubt charming group of people, the Danish Porn Webmasters.
I've just checked, the domain is for sale, it could be mine for the modest sum of $50,000. Yea right!
David
Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations
Are you the real Mrs. Curta and does this imply that Matthew doesn't do the dusting.Originally Posted by Mrs Curta
David
Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations
If I ever start recording House music, I'm totally stealing that as a band name
It was a throwaway piss-take from a coworker many moons ago after I polished three desserts that were going begging, whilst others were more concerned with getting cocktails down them at a works night out. More of a beer or whisky drinker myself.
Still, I’ve always really liked my puddings and 3 scoops is my default order when getting ice cream, so I’ve used it online for years.
Green Lane Primary School, Worcester Park, Surrey where in the late 1950s, Mr Smith taught his pupils the basics of climatology / meteorology / timekeeping – we thus used: Max-Min thermometers, rain gauges, wind-sock and a sundial
We were also taught Egyptology and learnt how the ancient Egyptians used cubits, spans and fingers for measuring – and we built model ships using balsa wood.
Mr Smith always pronounced Tutankhamun as "Two-tank –– are-moon" ... which was probably the recognised pronunciation at that time.
Great school with great teachers.
BW, dunk
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"Well they would say that ... wouldn't they!"
Self explanatory for me, I ride a Harley Davidson
"Hairs are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight."
And pretty much the same character, but from Wayne's World...
"...but the shopkeeper and his son... that's a different story altogether. I had to beat them to death with their own shoes..."
Superb actor.
I love anything technical from that era, holds merit every day.
Interesting fact; this is from Genesis 6, instructions for the ratios of the Ark...
"This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark 300 hundred cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits. You shall make a window for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from the top..."
This is a modern replica of the Ark built to those ratios:
Modern container ships use those same ratios as it's been shown to be the most stable ratio set for maximum stability:
I hope you make it big, as that's an expensive domain name
David
Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations
I love anything technical from that era, holds merit every day.
Interesting fact; this is from Genesis 6, instructions for the ratios of the Ark...
"This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark 300 hundred cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits. You shall make a window for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from the top..."
This is a modern replica of the Ark built to those ratios:
Modern container ships use those same ratios as it's been shown to be the most stable ratio set for maximum stability:
Thank you. The way our climate is changing and polar ice caps melting, we might need more than a few Arcs in future.
BW, dunk
"Well they would say that ... wouldn't they!"
Petrol has been my lifelong hobby, and I have collected a lot of stuff in the garage for the bikes and cars over the years.
Amazing. My late dad was a career container shipping executive, and he came to have a strong Christian faith in his retirement until his passing. He would have loved this fact, not sure if he ever knew it.I love anything technical from that era, holds merit every day.
Interesting fact; this is from Genesis 6, instructions for the ratios of the Ark...
"This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark 300 hundred cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits. You shall make a window for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from the top..."
This is a modern replica of the Ark built to those ratios:
Modern container ships use those same ratios as it's been shown to be the most stable ratio set for maximum stability:
Yes. I'm going to make a start on one this year I think.
Modern container ships can use those ratios because they're made from steel.I love anything technical from that era, holds merit every day.
Interesting fact; this is from Genesis 6, instructions for the ratios of the Ark...
"This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark 300 hundred cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits. You shall make a window for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from the top..."
This is a modern replica of the Ark built to those ratios:
The longest wooden vessel ever built was the schooner 'Wyoming'. She was 110m in deck length vs. ~130m for the 'Ark', and relied on cast-iron cross-braces to hold her together. Despite them, she was notoriously over-flexible and unseaworthy, needing constant pumping as her flexing would open-up her planks and let-in seawater. Luckily she had a steam engine to power pumps &c... She still foundered after just 15 years of use.
The thing that really gets my goat is the insane amount of money the Ark Experience spent (somewhere north of US$100 million + state tax incentives) to try to brainwash children with creationist fairy stories. Whatever your belief system, that's the kind of money that could make really big changes to the lives of the poor and deprived, the sick and the needy - which I thought was what that Jesus chap was supposed to be all-about?
Apols for the O/T...
No worse than Musk and Bezos wasting billions on pointless rockets for the super rich to have a day out it.
Wasting money is a human trait.
It seems the Ark Experience seems to attract around 7k visitors per day, and no doubt many of them go to be inspired or perhaps come away inspired and perhaps with a renewed sense of hope for whatever battles they are facing. It seems to build and edify people, else it wouldn't be so successful. So perhaps you wind your neck in and give a little respect to other peoples' beliefs that, whilst may not be your own, seem to inspire them - just as their faith intended?
I still think Noah got it wrong by including two woodworm.
LOL! Yeah, I'd have probably left those behind myself.
Far have I travelled,
Many games have I seen.
Inspired by their strategy to bend the truth to a "biblical worldview"?
What's next: alternative facts regarding the 2020 presidential election?
Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
Mine refers not just to my features, but also my habitual location, being a climber.
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Raffe,
Despite your acclaimed skills at trying to prove/disprove various things, Christianity was here before you were born and it will be around long after you're dead.
What's that got to do with the price of fish?
American evangelicalism is waging a thinly disguised war against science. You fine with that?
Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
Respect? An organised form of superstition that demonstrates profound systemic hypocrisy perpetually in contradiction of its own prophet's teachings? A money-and-power obsessed establishment that has successfully overcome the constitutional separation of church and state?
A sinister organisation manipulating legislative processes in order to indoctrinate children into its cult? A cult which has successfully hidden appalling abuses within its own hierarchy? A powerful cabal who believes inconvenient facts, truth and evidence are all things to be manipulated and suppressed? An immensely profitable tax-avoiding $Billion-business that works tirelessly to drag humanity back to the Bronze-age? Freedom of belief means you can believe whatever nonsense you like, but does not grant you the right to demand those delusions be respected!
With respect, maybe this should adjourn for the Bear Pit?
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Yes. ’Tis The G&D.
O.K. I lied. My name is Alec.
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