Cannon puzzle!
Dry Gulch Pete
Dry Gulch Pete
> On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:19:23 -0800 (PST), Dry Gulch Pete
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> <pacif...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
> >http://s13.zetaboards.com/In_The_Balcony/topic/374317/50/#new
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> >#736 ;-)
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> William Conrad was conceived on a billiard table
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LOL!
Halmyre
says...
> On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:19:23 -0800 (PST), Dry Gulch Pete
> <paci...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
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> >http://s13.zetaboards.com/In_The_Balcony/topic/374317/50/#new
> >
> >#736 ;-)
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> William Conrad was conceived on a billiard table
>
That's more likely than William Conrad trying to conceive on a billiard
table.
--
Halmyre
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Halmyre
@s15g2000yqs.googlegroups.com>, paci...@btopenworld.com says...
> http://s13.zetaboards.com/In_The_Balcony/topic/374317/50/#new
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> #736 ;-)
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I take it the answer to the quiz isn't actually in the title of the thread?
Jeff Lawrence
> In article <77196d11-9840-429b-a91b-c97e0fe24008
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> >http://s13.zetaboards.com/In_The_Balcony/topic/374317/50/#new
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> > #736 ;-)
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> I take it the answer to the quiz isn't actually in the title of the thread?
Of course not, that would just be rather silly and make it
ridiculously easy! It's obviously far more complex than any of us
think. Something to do with applying the behaviour of pool balls into
complex Newtonian physics I'm guessing. Did William Conrad ever play
Isaac Newton?
Cheers
Jeff
Halmyre
@m26g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, jeff.l...@orange.nl says...
Yes, but Newton easily beat him because Conrad couldn't get near the table.
Jeff Lawrence
> In article <b638a959-944b-4ced-86f4-e7f0d7cb47c2
> @m26g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, jeff.lawre...@orange.nl says...
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> > On 20 nov, 13:12, Halmyre <no.s...@this.address> wrote:
> > > In article <77196d11-9840-429b-a91b-c97e0fe24008
> > > @s15g2000yqs.googlegroups.com>, pacif...@btopenworld.com says...
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> > > >http://s13.zetaboards.com/In_The_Balcony/topic/374317/50/#new
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> > > > #736 ;-)
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> > > I take it the answer to the quiz isn't actually in the title of the thread?
>
> > Of course not, that would just be rather silly and make it
> > ridiculously easy! It's obviously far more complex than any of us
> > think. Something to do with applying the behaviour of pool balls into
> > complex Newtonian physics I'm guessing. Did William Conrad ever play
> > Isaac Newton?
> > Cheers
> > Jeff
>
> Yes, but Newton easily beat him because Conrad couldn't get near the table.
Conrad had the advantage of being alive though. So it could have been
closer than you think.
Cheers
Jeff
Dry Gulch Pete
> In article <77196d11-9840-429b-a91b-c97e0fe24008
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> >http://s13.zetaboards.com/In_The_Balcony/topic/374317/50/#new
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> > #736 ;-)
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> I take it the answer to the quiz isn't actually in the title of the thread?
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<g> Why?
Dry Gulch Pete
> On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:30:00 -0800 (PST), Dry Gulch Pete
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> <pacif...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
> >On Nov 20, 12:25 pm, Martin <m...@address.invalid> wrote:
> >> On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:19:23 -0800 (PST), Dry Gulch Pete
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> >> <pacif...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
> >> >http://s13.zetaboards.com/In_The_Balcony/topic/374317/50/#new
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> >> >#736 ;-)
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> >> William Conrad was conceived on a billiard table
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> >LOL!
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No, btw, RMartin, thanks for the lovely pic of your pretty niece,
Ashlynn! :-D
Dry Gulch Pete
> @s15g2000yqs.googlegroups.com>, pacif...@btopenworld.com says...
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> >http://s13.zetaboards.com/In_The_Balcony/topic/374317/50/#new
>
> > #736 ;-)
>
> I take it the answer to the quiz isn't actually in the title of the thread?
>
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Yep a cannon is a crafty feat in Billiards - Americans would not know
that!
John Dean
Pity you showed a pool table then.
And I wouldn't shout too loudly about the Yanks. 'cannon' in this sense is
almost certainly an ignorant corruption of the original term 'carom' which
the septics *do* use.
--
John Dean
Oxford
Dry Gulch Pete
Yup - shortened form of the French 'carambole' from the Spanish
'carambola' says my Concise OED!
By 'Yanks' you must mean our transatlantic cousins! :-D
Dry Gulch Pete
> > On Nov 20, 1:12 pm, Halmyre <no.s...@this.address> wrote:
> >> In article <77196d11-9840-429b-a91b-c97e0fe24008
> >> @s15g2000yqs.googlegroups.com>, pacif...@btopenworld.com says...
>
> >>>http://s13.zetaboards.com/In_The_Balcony/topic/374317/50/#new
>
> >>> #736 ;-)
>
> >> I take it the answer to the quiz isn't actually in the title of the
> >> thread?
>
> >> --
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> > Yep a cannon is a crafty feat in Billiards - Americans would not know
> > that!
>
> Pity you showed a pool table then.
> almost certainly an ignorant corruption of the original term 'carom' which
> the septics *do* use.
> --
Over the weekend, a TV programme told of a Royalist cannon protected
by a stone tower during the English Civil War; Cromwell's cannons
blasted the tower and the cannon came tumbling down; the cannon's
nickname was Humpty!
Notta lotta people know that as Maurice Micklewhite said on Peter
Seller's answerphone, sort of! :-D
John Dean
Some of the people who don't know it, don't know it because it's not true.
I admire your persistence with urban legends.
'humpty dumpty' was a term for a drink in the late 17th C and for a funny
looking person in the 18thC.
The nursery rhyme wasn't known until the 19thC.
But an Oxford academic wrote a spoof "recently discovered verse" in the
1950s:
In Sixteen Hundred and Forty-Eight
When England suffered the pains of state
The Roundheads lay siege to Colchester town
Where the king's men still fought for the crown
There One-Eyed Thompson stood on the wall
A gunner of deadliest aim of all
From St. Mary's Tower his cannon he fired
Humpty-Dumpty was its name
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall...
--
John Dean
Oxford
Dry Gulch Pete
Thanks, John - interesting.
Getting back to our transatlantic cousins and Snooker...
Snooker - Your Great Big Beautiful Pink Ball + Give Your Best = Yellow
Green Brown Blue Pink Black + Green Yellow B...?
Americans said,
'Gee - neat game, but we'll *simplify* it - we'll havva smaller table
with bigger holes and bigger balls and shorter fatter sticks to hit
'em with and have the scores written on the side of the balls to make
the game less cerebral'!
And we'll call the game...POOL! :D