A nouncement.
Jo Kerr
"Giles Todd" <g...@at-dot.org> wrote in message
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> Kaitlin Cassandra, born 22:48 on 7/4/2001. 4kg 50 grams.
>
> Chuffed to bits, I am.
>
Congratulations!
Jo
[~\ mike /~]
<g...@at-dot.org> writes
>Kaitlin Cassandra, born 22:48 on 7/4/2001. 4kg 50 grams.
>
>Chuffed to bits, I am.
>
How long before she's posting up here then?
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Rhys
<mi...@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Congrats, dude!
>How long before she's posting up here then?
>-- Blimey Charlie!!
A nuvva UKLSW peep in de shed. Ow u doin Butt. I dunt fink ur a twat.
Dey giv u 2 much ard time I reckon.
Rhys
:-))
John Whitham
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> On Sun, 8 Apr 2001 00:46:39 +0200, Giles Todd <g...@at-dot.org> wrote:
>
> >Kaitlin Cassandra, born 22:48 on 7/4/2001.
>
>
> >4kg 50 grams.
>
> I had to do some complicated shuffling of bags of sugar in my mind there
> to work that out.
>
Not just me then. I convert weight in: envelopes, bags of sugar and (1/2
cwt) sacks of coal, spatial measures are a piece of ipss, it's lbooyd
temperature conversions I can't get me 'ead around. Suggestions?
Alex Buell
> Kaitlin Cassandra, born 22:48 on 7/4/2001. 4kg 50 grams.
Congrts. Mow th|e 18 year nightmare begins.
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Keith Willoughby
> Kaitlin Cassandra, born 22:48 on 7/4/2001. 4kg 50 grams.
>
> Chuffed to bits, I am.
Nice one, Dad.
How much is 4kg 50 grams?
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Alex Buell
> How much is 4kg 50 grams?
A few hundred of euros, I imagine.
Peaks
"Giles Todd" <g...@at-dot.org> wrote ....
> Kaitlin Cassandra, born 22:48 on 7/4/2001. 4kg 50 grams.
>
> Chuffed to bits, I am.
Congratulations! That is a big baby!.....
-=-
Peaks
"Alex Buell" <alex....@tahallah.clara.co.uk> wrote .....
> Congrts. Mow th|e 18 year nightmare begins.
Did you have a good night out, Alex ? :-)
Jo Kerr
"John Whitham" <jwhi...@clara.net> wrote in message
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> it's lbooyd [WTF? Ed] temperature conversions I can't get me 'ead around.
Suggestions?
Temperature?
If you're a bloke, and your balls have fallen off, it's cold.
But if they're knocking on your knees, it's hot.
It probably works for women and tits (though you'd probably need binoculars
to see the balls on tits!)
HTH!:0)
Keith Willoughby
> In article <m28zlce...@cowtown.demon.co.uk>, Keith Willoughby <ke...@flat222.org> writes:
> >Giles Todd <g...@at-dot.org> writes:
> >
> >> Kaitlin Cassandra, born 22:48 on 7/4/2001. 4kg 50 grams.
> >>
> >> Chuffed to bits, I am.
> >
> >Nice one, Dad.
> >
> >How much is 4kg 50 grams?
>
> Lots.
>
> Just under 10lbs.
Good grief. My respect to Kaitlin's mother.
Can anyone here beat that? I was 7 pounds something, not much of a
pointer to how things would turn out later in life.
Alex Buell
> > Congrts. Mow th|e 18 year nightmare begins.
>
> Did you have a good night out, Alex ? :-)
By golly, yes, it was a good night. I haven't even been to bed yet, spent
the early hours of the morning installing sources and tweaking the Sparc.
Mike Jones
"Rhys" <rhy...@shedsRs.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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HONO! is noware saif? ees a agiementataive soandso.
Guy King
from Giles Todd <g...@at-dot.org> contains these words:
> Kaitlin Cassandra, born 22:48 on 7/4/2001. 4kg 50 grams.
Well done that sheddi pair.
Wots that in English money?
--
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Purser to URS Skip of Fools.
Cerumen
Congratulations anyway.
--
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West Cork
ICQ 50427129
Guy King
from Keith Willoughby <ke...@flat222.org> contains these words:
> Good grief. My respect to Kaitlin's mother.
> Can anyone here beat that? I was 7 pounds something, not much of a
> pointer to how things would turn out later in life.
I was 10:2½, though how they can measure ½oz on a wrigglysprog I can't imagine.
Carl .LHS. Williams
<xenop...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>On Sun, 8 Apr 2001 00:46:39 +0200, Giles Todd <g...@at-dot.org>,
>absently arranged the Scrabble tiles to spell out -
>>
>
>
>We'll overlook the breach of etiquette, occasioned by the undue
>excitement.
Wot she sed.
>Now for the sleepess nights, and the endless demands on yer wallit.
>
>Hah! And a spensive weddin' at the end of it all, TAAW
Giles mite be marrid already, though, shirley?
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Giles Todd <g...@at-dot.org> wrote:
>Kaitlin Cassandra, born 22:48 on 7/4/2001. 4kg 50 grams.
>
>Chuffed to bits, I am.
Put ointment on it and GWS...
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John Whitham <jwhi...@clara.net> wrote:
>"Iain Rowan" <e...@reynir.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> On Sun, 8 Apr 2001 00:46:39 +0200, Giles Todd <g...@at-dot.org> wrote:
>>
>> >Kaitlin Cassandra, born 22:48 on 7/4/2001.
>>
>> Many congratulations!
>>
>> >4kg 50 grams.
>>
>> I had to do some complicated shuffling of bags of sugar in my mind there
>> to work that out.
>>
>
>Not just me then. I convert weight in: envelopes, bags of sugar and (1/2
>cwt) sacks of coal, spatial measures are a piece of ipss,
Wot, a frozen piece? Wot?
>it's lbooyd
>temperature conversions I can't get me 'ead around. Suggestions?
Someone had a really easy formulululula a while back but I'v forgot it.
But adding and subtracting forty came into it, and the ratio is 5:9, if
that helps. You can prolly guess the rest with a few known pairs of
temp ritchers, like 37degC is 98.4 degF, and that. I fimk you add 40 to
yer DegC and then multiply by 5/9 and then take the 40 away again. Or
summat.
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LNR
>
>Just under 10lbs.
Hang on, 1 kg is about 2.1 lbs. So 4 kg is about 8.4 lbs, and 50g is
about another ounce, so that's just over 8.5 lbs, nowhere near 10.
Though still nothing to be sniffed at.
Congrats!
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Jo Kerr
"LNR" <l...@lspace.org> wrote in message
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> >>How much is 4kg 50 grams?
> >
The conversiopn factor is 2.2046 (lbs/kg)
so it's a smidgen under 8lbs 15oz, innit?
Ron Clark
<e2l*ew...@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>, LNR wrote this, or at least
some of this :-
>hu...@nospam.huge.org.uk wrote:
>>Keith Willoughby <ke...@flat222.org> writes:
>>>How much is 4kg 50 grams?
>>
>>Lots.
>>
>>Just under 10lbs.
>
>Hang on, 1 kg is about 2.1 lbs. So 4 kg is about 8.4 lbs, and 50g is
>about another ounce, so that's just over 8.5 lbs, nowhere near 10.
>Though still nothing to be sniffed at.
Yebut, yehbut, if they'd caught one a bit smaller they'd have to put
it back, innit.
Gid Holyoake
decided to share with us..
All snipped..
Whoa.. LNR.. welcome to the shed!.. are you gonna hang around fer a
bit?.. I reckon you might fit in here..
Gid
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Jon Gurr
>
> Kaitlin Cassandra, born 22:48 on 7/4/2001. 4kg 50 grams.
>
> Chuffed to bits, I am.
>
As well you should be. Dancing Rodents and all that, I shall raise a
Toddy to the three of yer later on.
This yer first?
--
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O.D'd on Life Itself
Roger
many days in the wilderness before opining:
>Kaitlin Cassandra, born 22:48 on 7/4/2001. 4kg 50 grams.
>
>Chuffed to bits, I am.
>
>Giles.
Well molished that Sheddi - though 'spose the part played by Erin
Dawes may also be recognised, somewhat, what ?
--
' Don't wait for your boat to come in - row out to meet it!'
Oiorpata
>Kaitlin Cassandra, born 22:48 on 7/4/2001. 4kg 50 grams.
>
>Chuffed to bits, I am.
>
>Giles.
Congratifications and BA to all!
Kran
"what's that?" quoth a voice from behind me in the public bar, "an en-
suite in Brynamman?.. what on earth is the world coming to?.. we made do
with a bucket at the end of the bed!"..
Oiorpata
Williams) wrote:
>In article <FyOz6.6313$IP5.1...@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com>,
>John Whitham <jwhi...@clara.net> wrote:
>>it's lbooyd
>>temperature conversions I can't get me 'ead around. Suggestions?
>
>Someone had a really easy formulululula a while back but I'v forgot it.
>But adding and subtracting forty came into it, and the ratio is 5:9, if
>that helps. You can prolly guess the rest with a few known pairs of
>temp ritchers, like 37degC is 98.4 degF, and that. I fimk you add 40 to
>yer DegC and then multiply by 5/9 and then take the 40 away again. Or
>summat.
C=F-32/1,8
or xºF = (x-32)/1,8ºC
I printed out a copy of the piccy towards the bottom of the page at
http://www.algonet.se/~davies/ so's I can suss out how hot it really
is in Texas, or how cold Alaska was last week.
Tim Emanuel
>Kaitlin Cassandra, born 22:48 on 7/4/2001. 4kg 50 grams.
Sheesh. Wot's that in old money?
>Chuffed to bits, I am.
Congrats.
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I'll be happy if mine doesn't read like a joke
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John of Aix
"Giles Todd" <g...@at-dot.org> a écrit dans le message news:
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> Kaitlin Cassandra, born 22:48 on 7/4/2001. 4kg 50 grams.
May her days be filled with sunshine.
> Chuffed to bits, I am.
I'll bet. Not sure I agree with another Aries in the world though.
John
John of Aix
"Keith Willoughby" <ke...@flat222.org> a écrit dans le
message news:
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> Giles Todd <g...@at-dot.org> writes:
>
> > Kaitlin Cassandra, born 22:48 on 7/4/2001. 4kg 50
grams.
> >
> > Chuffed to bits, I am.
>
> Nice one, Dad.
>
> How much is 4kg 50 grams?
Oh if you want 4K I could probably get it for you for, let's
say £1.50 a gram. I'll throw in the fifty grams. Top quality
stuff.
John
John of Aix
"John Whitham" <jwhi...@clara.net> a écrit dans le message
news:
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wrote:
> >
> > >Kaitlin Cassandra, born 22:48 on 7/4/2001.
> >
> >
> > >4kg 50 grams.
> >
> > I had to do some complicated shuffling of bags of sugar
in my mind
there
> > to work that out.
> >
>
> Not just me then. I convert weight in: envelopes, bags of
sugar and
(1/2
> cwt) sacks of coal, spatial measures are a piece of ipss,
lbooyd
> temperature conversions I can't get me 'ead around.
Suggestions?
Yep. Dont convert. It's cold, must be about freezing, could
be 0°C could be 32°F. Don't care, it's freezing. It's hot.
Still don't care if it's in the upper seventies F or 25°C
it's just hot. If
the man on TV says that is 25°C or 6,745 zargon degrees what
do I care. It's hot, that's all.
But if you insist: double the figure and add 32 for C to F.
Subtract 32 and halve for F to C. That isn't precise but
it's near enough for
most usage.
So, 1°C=(1x2) +32=34°F. 16°C=(16x2)+32=64°F. It's 61 and a
bit really but we're not far off.
In the other direction you've got 68°F=(68-32)/2=
18°C which is close enough to tell you to take your jumper
off.
John
Henry Crun
>
> Chuffed to bits, I am.
>
Many congratulations. Nice name too.
Whitedog
>Kaitlin Cassandra, born 22:48 on 7/4/2001. 4kg 50 grams.
>
>Chuffed to bits, I am.
>
>Giles.
Kong rat ulationses! How much is that in Rhebf then?
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**there, bet you are humming that later**
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Keith Willoughby
> "Keith Willoughby" <ke...@flat222.org> a écrit dans le
> message news:
> >
> > How much is 4kg 50 grams?
>
> Oh if you want 4K I could probably get it for you for, let's
> say £1.50 a gram. I'll throw in the fifty grams. Top quality
> stuff.
I don't know what you're talking, I'm sure. Sounds illegal.
(£1.30/g and it's a deal)
Shereen
> Kaitlin Cassandra, born 22:48 on 7/4/2001. 4kg 50 grams.
Welcome Kaitlin Cassandra. I;m sure it won;t be long until your
first post.
> Chuffed to bits, I am.
Congratulations to both parents.
Shereen
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> In article <FyOz6.6313$IP5.1...@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com>,
> John Whitham <jwhi...@clara.net> wrote:
> >"Iain Rowan" <e...@reynir.co.uk> wrote in message
> >news:dibvctg7o6km9puko...@4ax.com...
> >> On Sun, 8 Apr 2001 00:46:39 +0200, Giles Todd <g...@at-dot.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> >Kaitlin Cassandra, born 22:48 on 7/4/2001.
> >>
> >> Many congratulations!
> >>
> >> >4kg 50 grams.
> >>
> >> I had to do some complicated shuffling of bags of sugar in my mind
there
> >> to work that out.
> >>
> >
> >Not just me then. I convert weight in: envelopes, bags of sugar and (1/2
> >cwt) sacks of coal, spatial measures are a piece of ipss,
>
> Wot, a frozen piece? Wot?
>
OK, so it's not currently viable in temperate zones, and there are issues
regards packaging, market resistance and public health to overcome, but if
we can only get away get away from being bogged down in such minutiae, step
back and take a unemotional overview of the bigger picture for a
moment.......bugs ironed out......whole arj ballgame.....focused hfr of
resources.....arj paradigm.....Value Added Reseller
initiatives......erm........errr............Oh, BUM.
Bed Manacled Pigiron
Marvellous!!
Congrats, etc.
Jeannie
> wrote:
> > This yer first?
>
> Second. First was a long time ago, mind. Surprising how much you
> forget.
Giles...congratulations! I had no idea...? Lovely name, Kaitlin, and nice,
healthy birth weight.
Enjoy and God bless.
~~
Jeannie
DinkiPixie
>Kaitlin Cassandra, born 22:48 on 7/4/2001. 4kg 50 grams.
>
Coo, ain't she pyrire? Knoes metrick already.
--
Angela Touchstone
Iain Bowen
A big baby.
>Chuffed to bits, I am.
Congratulations.
Iain
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LNR
>In article <e2l*ew...@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>, LNR generously
>decided to share with us..
>
>All snipped..
>
>Whoa.. LNR.. welcome to the shed!.. are you gonna hang around fer a
>bit?.. I reckon you might fit in here..
<grin> Well, the only shed round here belongs to the Landlord and is
locked, and the workshop so buried in stuff it's scary is my housemate's
and I avoid it in fear, but I like beer, will that do?
Nice to see you :-) But really I'm just a miscreant.
SomeBlokeCalledRapunzelSyndrome
>
> Kaitlin Cassandra, born 22:48 on 7/4/2001. 4kg 50 grams.
4k50, wossat in real money.... quite big. sympathy to yer wifey.
--
Why oh why didn't I back it each way?
SomeBlokeCalledRapunzelSyndrome
> But if you insist: double the figure and add 32 for C to F.
> Subtract 32 and halve for F to C. That isn't precise but
> it's near enough for
> most usage.
For the most useful temp range, ie "Do I need a jumper?", this
over-estimates by about
4defF, so a better rule of thumb is double and add 25.
SomeBlokeCalledRapunzelSyndrome
>
> hu...@nospam.huge.org.uk wrote:
> >Keith Willoughby <ke...@flat222.org> writes:
> >>How much is 4kg 50 grams?
> >
> >Lots.
> >
> >Just under 10lbs.
>
> Hang on, 1 kg is about 2.1 lbs.
2.2
Which makes it easy, as 2.2 is 2 * 11 * 1/10th
And we all know you mult by 11 by adding the outside digits and putting
the answer in between them. (36*11->3+6 is 9, answer 396: etc)
So you do an easy mult by 11, double that (piece of piss) and whack the
point over a slot.
Sam Nelson
SomeBlokeCalledRapunzelSyndrome <daveD...@man.ac.uk> writes:
> Giles Todd wrote:
> >
> > Kaitlin Cassandra, born 22:48 on 7/4/2001. 4kg 50 grams.
>
> 4k50, wossat in real money....
It's only 8lbs 15oz, nothing particularly specially large, as babies go.
> Why oh why didn't I back it each way?
Why oh why would anyone put a bet to _win_ on anything in the Grand National?
--
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SomeBlokeCalledRapunzelSyndrome
>
> SomeBlokeCalledRapunzelSyndrome <daveD...@man.ac.uk> writes:
>
> > 2.2
> > Which makes it easy, as 2.2 is 2 * 11 * 1/10th
> > And we all know you mult by 11 by adding the outside digits and putting
> > the answer in between them. (36*11->3+6 is 9, answer 396: etc)
> > So you do an easy mult by 11, double that (piece of piss) and whack the
> > point over a slot.
>
bloody kids
Thomas Rushton
>LNR wrote:
>>
>> hu...@nospam.huge.org.uk wrote:
>> >Keith Willoughby <ke...@flat222.org> writes:
>> >>How much is 4kg 50 grams?
>> >
>> >Lots.
>> >
>> >Just under 10lbs.
>>
>> Hang on, 1 kg is about 2.1 lbs.
>
>2.2
>Which makes it easy, as 2.2 is 2 * 11 * 1/10th
>And we all know you mult by 11 by adding the outside digits and
>putting the answer in between them. (36*11->3+6 is 9, answer 396:
lessee... 37*11->3+7=10 anser: 3107. Nope. don't jbex fer me.
>etc) So you do an easy mult by 11, double that (piece of piss) and
>whack the point over a slot.
--
Thomas Rushton
At jbex somewhere in Bradford...
SomeBlokeCalledRapunzelSyndrome
>
> SomeBlokeCalledRapunzelSyndrome <daveD...@man.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> >LNR wrote:
> >>
> >> hu...@nospam.huge.org.uk wrote:
> >> >Keith Willoughby <ke...@flat222.org> writes:
> >> >>How much is 4kg 50 grams?
> >> >
> >> >Lots.
> >> >
> >> >Just under 10lbs.
> >>
> >> Hang on, 1 kg is about 2.1 lbs.
> >
> >2.2
> >Which makes it easy, as 2.2 is 2 * 11 * 1/10th
> >And we all know you mult by 11 by adding the outside digits and
> >putting the answer in between them. (36*11->3+6 is 9, answer 396:
>
> lessee... 37*11->3+7=10 anser: 3107. Nope. don't jbex fer me.
picky picky, if the middle bit is bigger than 9 you have to twiddle a
bit innit.
37*11 3+7=10 the 0 goes in the miggle and the 1 gets added to the 3
407
AS YOU KNEW FULL WELL
SomeBlokeCalledRapunzelSyndrome
> As a quick method C - F: Double it and add 32. See, it's
> C*9/5+32=F, but as 9/5=1.8 or summat, you can get a rough conversion
> by just doubling it and adding 32. It only goes really off the scale
> at high temps.
1.8 is like 2-0.2, yeh?
So you can be EXACT by doubling, knocking off 10%, then adding 32.
eg 18C (my office now) -> 36 -> 32.4 -> 64.4 ie COLD
but i still maintain a good rule of thumb for english summers is double
and add something between 25 and 30 that gives you a nice round number
to finish on. I count things ending in 3 as round numbers tho!
18->36->65ish less a bit, ie COLD
Thomas Rushton
Sorry, Mr SomeRapunzelBlokeSir... won't happen again.
<snigger>
Rhys
Ennywun still uzin old yoonits shood prolly be culled I reckun. Them
yoonits mean nuffin to me, it's just cunfoozin. Long live the metwic
cistern!!
Rhys (@jbex)
SomeBlokeCalledRapunzelSyndrome
> Ennywun still uzin old yoonits shood prolly be culled I reckun. Them
> yoonits mean nuffin to me, it's just cunfoozin. Long live the metwic
> cistern!!
>
> Rhys (@jbex)
careful, young man, you're still on probation here and that just set
your promotion back a month.
Thomas Rushton
>Rhys wrote:
>
>> Ennywun still uzin old yoonits shood prolly be culled I reckun. Them
>> yoonits mean nuffin to me, it's just cunfoozin. Long live the metwic
>> cistern!!
>>
>> Rhys (@jbex)
>
>careful, young man, you're still on probation here and that just set
>your promotion back a month.
Oi loikes the oidea of a FFF system -- furlong, firkin, fortnight.
Richard Robinson
>Kaitlin Cassandra, born 22:48 on 7/4/2001. 4kg 50 grams.
>
Hurrrah !
--
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"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem
Cerumen
August West <aug...@kororaa.com> wrote in message
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> SomeBlokeCalledRapunzelSyndrome <daveD...@man.ac.uk> writes:
>
> > August West wrote:
> >
> > > I find it rather simpler just to understand what wieghts in Kg mean...
> >
> > bloody kids
>
> dear old dad, now long retired, used g, ml, etc, when he was a chemist
> with the NCB back in the 50s.. Of Course, he still measured the seam
> depths in fathoms...
We built Concorde in feet and inches and the merkins managed to get to the
moon on them as well, the Ruskies use an imperial system, also, well not fer
guvmint certainly it's only the bloody serapu and other greasy continentals
who are too fick to work on imperial.......huffffffff
--
Chris
West Cork
ICQ 50427129
Linz
> Kaitlin Cassandra, born 22:48 on 7/4/2001. 4kg 50 grams.
>
> Chuffed to bits, I am.
I bet. Congrats to you and yours, and here's to a happy, healthy
child.
Bob Goddard
loudly, then mumbled...
Is this a knitting pattern or summat?
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Rhys
<daveD...@man.ac.uk> wrote:
>careful, young man, you're still on probation here and that just set
>your promotion back a month.
Noted. I'll try to behave meeself in footure. What do I get when I'm
out of probation? Summit like a Bloo Peater badge for gettin' me into
alton Towersfor free wood be kool?
Rhys
:~))
Linz
wrote:
> LNR wrote:
> > Hang on, 1 kg is about 2.1 lbs.
>
> 2.2
> Which makes it easy, as 2.2 is 2 * 11 * 1/10th
> And we all know you mult by 11 by adding the outside digits and putting
> the answer in between them. (36*11->3+6 is 9, answer 396: etc)
> So you do an easy mult by 11, double that (piece of piss) and whack the
> point over a slot.
Could someone a) tell me whether this makes sense and if so b) explain
it in English?
Linz
> It's only 8lbs 15oz, nothing particularly specially large, as babies go.
My minister's kids were all delivered at home. First child born,
midwife stuck him on the scales. Which consisted of a hook you
attached to the nappy, itself attached to a spring on the scales which
pulled down to indicate the weight.
Weight of this particular newborn pulled the indicator down to the
very bottom of the scale. "We'll just write down fourteen pounds,
then"...
Julie Miles
says...
Wouldn't it be easier to just multiply by 10 and add a bit on for the
extra?
Julie (mathematically challenged)
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Ron Clark
<JioA6.7178$_W2....@news.indigo.ie>, Cerumen wrote this, or at least
some of this :-
Concorde went to the moon? I didn't know that!
John Whitham
news:3AD17D73...@man.ac.uk...
> John of Aix wrote:
>
> > But if you insist: double the figure and add 32 for C to F.
> > Subtract 32 and halve for F to C. That isn't precise but
> > it's near enough for
> > most usage.
>
> For the most useful temp range, ie "Do I need a jumper?", this
Sorry not to completely agree with you here old chasp, but I reckon it's
always best to *assume* the need for a jumper, after all if the worst comes
to the worst you can always take it off and knot the sleeves round your
waist [0]. The more extreme "anorak or shorts 'n' t-shirt' scenario is of
more interest to me. I miscalculated badly last time I flew somewhere and
have no wish to repeat the experience.
> over-estimates by about
> 4defF, so a better rule of thumb is double and add 25.
>
That I like, a sum I can do in me head, and a number I can remember. Ta.
[0] Or slightly above it if the waist circumference/sleeve length ratio so
dictates.
Andy Spragg
(Thomas Rushton) wrote:
^ SomeBlokeCalledRapunzelSyndrome <daveD...@man.ac.uk> wrote:
^ >Thomas Rushton wrote:
^ >> SomeBlokeCalledRapunzelSyndrome <daveD...@man.ac.uk> wrote:
^ >> >Which makes it easy, as 2.2 is 2 * 11 * 1/10th
^ >> >And we all know you mult by 11 by adding the outside digits and
^ >> >putting the answer in between them. (36*11->3+6 is 9, answer
^ >> >396:
^ >> lessee... 37*11->3+7=10 anser: 3107. Nope. don't jbex fer me.
^ >picky picky, if the middle bit is bigger than 9 you have to twiddle
^ >a bit innit.
^ >37*11 3+7=10 the 0 goes in the miggle and the 1 gets added to the
^ >3 407
^ >AS YOU KNEW FULL WELL
^ Sorry, Mr SomeRapunzelBlokeSir... won't happen again.
^
^ <snigger>
Ooooh, Miss, that Rapunzel is molishing it up as he goes along, Miss.
Andy
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Mvh. Nikitta, AFDA exile
Thomas Rushton
Thomas Rushton
>In article <MPG.1539b73bb...@lart.bofh.org>, Giles Todd
>wrote:
>>Kaitlin Cassandra, born 22:48 on 7/4/2001. 4kg 50 grams.
>>
>>Chuffed to bits, I am.
>
>Hurrrah !
Now pull yer trowsis back up...
Thomas Rushton
SomeBlokeCalledRapunzelSyndrome
bah.
it was a trick i was taught for multiplying 2 digit numbers by 11, when
i were a nipper.
it's a simple consequence of noting that *11 is the same as *(10+1)
so, given, say, 34*11, you notice this is the same as adding 340 to 34,
and you further notice that when neatly laid out, that's the same as
putting the original 10s digit in the 100s column, the original 1s digit
in the 1s column, and the sum of the 2 original digits in the middle:
340
34
---
374
ok, if the bit in the middle is >9 you have to mod the procedure
slightly, but hey.
SO, mult by 11 is piss easy, then a mult by 2 is piss easy, then the div
by 10 is just a shift of the decimal point, piss easy, so kg->lb is piss
easy.
For 2digit values of Kg.
To sum up:
Kg->Lb = *2.2 = *(10+1) *2 /10
SomeBlokeCalledRapunzelSyndrome
>
> On Mon, 09 Apr 2001 14:10:20 +0100, SomeBlokeCalledRapunzelSyndrome
> <daveD...@man.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> >careful, young man, you're still on probation here and that just set
> >your promotion back a month.
>
> Noted. I'll try to behave meeself in footure. What do I get when I'm
> out of probation?
A warm glow inside, but not due to the whisk[e]y this time.
Tell you what: try for JBC and/or OETKBC membership.
JBC: Junior Bloody Club: You have to have done something that produced
expressions of alarm among the grownups due to the amount of BLUD.
Visits to Casualty earn extra points.
OETKBC: Old Enough To Know Better Club: Similar, but for older peeps who
really should have known better than to do X.
Victoria
> Why oh why didn't I back it each way?
Same reason I forgot to go to the bookies - life is a bastard.
Jenny Cockshull
"Rhys" <rhy...@DrinkDuff.hotmail.com> wrote
> Ennywun still uzin old yoonits shood prolly be culled I reckun. Them
> yoonits mean nuffin to me, it's just cunfoozin. Long live the metwic
> cistern!!
>
Jenny
Linz
> Nice to see you :-) But really I'm just a miscreant.
Hardly "just" a miscreant!
--
Would you like to see some more?
I can show you if you want to
Linz
> SomeBlokeCalledRapunzelSyndrome <daveD...@man.ac.uk> writes:
>
> > August West wrote:
> >
> > > I find it rather simpler just to understand what wieghts in Kg mean...
> >
> > bloody kids
>
> Scientist, grand dad. We've been using SI units for decades.
You were in geography. Does that count as science, now?
Steve Walker
<aug...@kororaa.com> writes
>SomeBlokeCalledRapunzelSyndrome <daveD...@man.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> August West wrote:
>>
>> > I find it rather simpler just to understand what wieghts in Kg mean...
>>
>> bloody kids
>
>dear old dad, now long retired, used g, ml, etc, when he was a chemist
>with the NCB back in the 50s.. Of Course, he still measured the seam
>depths in fathoms...
Exactly. Sweets, beer, heights and fish [1] are imperial. Everything
else is metric.
[1] which may seem odd, given that the science I did largely involved
fish, but before I was a scientist I was an angler, and they used
imperial. I could estimate the weight of a fish pretty accurately in
metric, but I'd have to guess in imperial and convert...
--
time is linear
memory's a stranger
history's for fools
steve at otolith dot demon dot co dot uk
Steve Walker
<kathry...@ucl.ac.uk> writes
>g...@at-dot.org (Giles Todd) wrote in
><MPG.1539b73bb...@lart.bofh.org>:
>
>>Kaitlin Cassandra, born 22:48 on 7/4/2001. 4kg 50 grams.
>
Wot she said. There seems to be a lot of it about at work; was there
something important nine moths ago, or was it just a bad night on the
telly?
Martin Dixon
Well, carn't be beaten by a Lancaster Bomber innit.
--
Martin Dixon, Leicester, England. JBC and Bar.
Martin Dixon
John Whitham <URL:mailto:jwhi...@clara.net> wrote:
> "SomeBlokeCalledRapunzelSyndrome" <daveD...@man.ac.uk> wrote in message
> news:3AD17D73...@man.ac.uk...
> > John of Aix wrote:
> >
> > > But if you insist: double the figure and add 32 for C to F.
> > > Subtract 32 and halve for F to C. That isn't precise but
> > > it's near enough for
> > > most usage.
> >
> > For the most useful temp range, ie "Do I need a jumper?", this
>
> Sorry not to completely agree with you here old chasp, but I reckon it's
> always best to *assume* the need for a jumper, after all if the worst comes
> to the worst you can always take it off and knot the sleeves round your
> waist [0]. The more extreme "anorak or shorts 'n' t-shirt' scenario is of
> more interest to me. I miscalculated badly last time I flew somewhere and
> have no wish to repeat the experience.
Is this the sort of experience that ends up in the middle of a very muddy
pond?
Guy King
from Thomas.Rush...@hammondsdirect.com (Thomas Rushton)
contains these words:
> Nah. That was a Lancaster Bomber.
40,000 rivets flying in close formation...or was that the Wellington?
--
Skipweasel...
Purser to URS Skip of Fools.
Whitedog
wrote:
>We built Concorde in feet and inches and the merkins managed to get to the
>moon on them as well, the Ruskies use an imperial system, also, well not fer
>guvmint certainly it's only the bloody serapu and other greasy continentals
>who are too fick to work on imperial.......huffffffff
>--
Arbut din't the Merkins also blow up summink very rkcrafvir cos they
confused inches and centipedes or something?
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always vulgar and often convincing"
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Baz
whit...@NOFRITTERSuk-rec-sheds.org.uk (Whitedog) wrote:
>On Mon, 9 Apr 2001 11:28:32 +0100, "Cerumen" <spam...@spamsucks.net>
>wrote:
>
>
>>We built Concorde in feet and inches and the merkins managed to get to the
>>moon on them as well, the Ruskies use an imperial system, also, well not fer
>>guvmint certainly it's only the bloody serapu and other greasy continentals
>>who are too fick to work on imperial.......huffffffff
>>--
>Arbut din't the Merkins also blow up summink very rkcrafvir cos they
>confused inches and centipedes or something?
A Mars thingy?
--
Baz
Carl .LHS. Williams
SomeBlokeCalledRapunzelSyndrome <daveD...@man.ac.uk> wrote:
>Rhys wrote:
>
>> Ennywun still uzin old yoonits shood prolly be culled I reckun. Them
>> yoonits mean nuffin to me, it's just cunfoozin. Long live the metwic
>> cistern!!
>>
>
>careful, young man, you're still on probation here and that just set
>your promotion back a month.
Tut, Dave, that was *irony*. You humorless brits, tch!
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Lizz Holmans
>Kaitlin Cassandra, born 22:48 on 7/4/2001. 4kg 50 grams.
>
I hope everyone is healthy and happy. 8 lb. 14 oz (sorta) is a good
sized one. I think thee should keep her.
Cheers
LizzH.
--
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Linz
> In article <9v84dt0cr31ibakt7...@4ax.com>,
> li...@REMOVETHISlindsayendell.co.uk wrote:
>
> > Weight of this particular newborn pulled the indicator down to the
> > very bottom of the scale. "We'll just write down fourteen pounds,
> > then"...
>
> Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow...
>
> Poor woman.
She recovered enough to have two more...
Linz
wrote:
> Thomas Rushton wrote:
> >
> > SomeBlokeCalledRapunzelSyndrome <daveD...@man.ac.uk> wrote:
> > >2.2
> > >Which makes it easy, as 2.2 is 2 * 11 * 1/10th
> > >And we all know you mult by 11 by adding the outside digits and
> > >putting the answer in between them. (36*11->3+6 is 9, answer 396:
> >
> > lessee... 37*11->3+7=10 anser: 3107. Nope. don't jbex fer me.
>
> picky picky, if the middle bit is bigger than 9 you have to twiddle a
> bit innit.
> 37*11 3+7=10 the 0 goes in the miggle and the 1 gets added to the 3
> 407
> AS YOU KNEW FULL WELL
Well, /I/ didn't, so I've yrneag something tonight.
I'll have forgotten it by the morning, of course.
Linz
> In article <MPG.1539b73bb...@lart.bofh.org>, Giles Todd
> <g...@at-dot.org> writes
> >Kaitlin Cassandra, born 22:48 on 7/4/2001. 4kg 50 grams.
> >
> >Chuffed to bits, I am.
>
> I hope everyone is healthy and happy. 8 lb. 14 oz (sorta) is a good
> sized one. I think thee should keep her.
They better had. They can't really push her back in when they've had
enough...
John Whitham
news:ant102042345hB%w...@martin.dixon.diamond.co.uk...
Sewed all the feathers on meself, by hand, buggrit.
Chris Brown
<guy....@zetnet.co.uk> writes
>The message <Xns907F5A4FEB2...@130.133.1.4>
> from Thomas.Rush...@hammondsdirect.com (Thomas Rushton)
>contains these words:
>
>
>> Nah. That was a Lancaster Bomber.
>
>40,000 rivets flying in close formation...or was that the Wellington?
Shackelton. Very shack-like in its later years, but it kept flying.
(Like the Canberra)
--
CB
Chris Brown
<whit...@NOFRITTERSuk-rec-sheds.org.uk> writes
>On Mon, 9 Apr 2001 11:28:32 +0100, "Cerumen" <spam...@spamsucks.net>
>wrote:
>
>
>>We built Concorde in feet and inches and the merkins managed to get to the
>>moon on them as well, the Ruskies use an imperial system, also, well not fer
>>guvmint certainly it's only the bloody serapu and other greasy continentals
>>who are too fick to work on imperial.......huffffffff
>>--
>Arbut din't the Merkins also blow up summink very rkcrafvir cos they
>confused inches and centipedes or something?
Ohvyg the probe in imperial, flew it in zrgevp. Made a difference in
orbital heights, or similar critical parameter. As generations of maths
and physics teachers have yelled: "Chg gur havgf ba!"
--
CB
Humbug
Fortchernitly it wasn't a Galaxy thingy
--
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Cerumen
Thomas Rushton <Thomas.Rush...@hammondsdirect.com> wrote in message
news:Xns907F5A4FEB2...@130.133.1.4...
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Guy King
from Baz <eas...@mus.ed> contains these words:
> >Arbut din't the Merkins also blow up summink very rkcrafvir cos they
> >confused inches and centipedes or something?
> A Mars thingy?
Iron-y?
Linz
wrote:
> it was a trick i was taught for multiplying 2 digit numbers by 11, when
> i were a nipper.
> it's a simple consequence of noting that *11 is the same as *(10+1)
> so, given, say, 34*11, you notice this is the same as adding 340 to 34,
> and you further notice that when neatly laid out, that's the same as
> putting the original 10s digit in the 100s column, the original 1s digit
> in the 1s column, and the sum of the 2 original digits in the middle:
Okay! See, do it slowly and I get the idea.
SomeBlokeCalledRapunzelSyndrome
>
> On 09 Apr 2001 10:49:58 +0100, August West wrote:
>
> > SomeBlokeCalledRapunzelSyndrome <daveD...@man.ac.uk> writes:
> >
> > > August West wrote:
> > >
> > > > I find it rather simpler just to understand what wieghts in Kg mean...
> > >
> > > bloody kids
> >
> > Scientist, grand dad. We've been using SI units for decades.
>
> You were in geography. Does that count as science, now?
Did it then?
--
SomeBlokeCalledRapunzelSyndrome
>
> In article <3AD1B4BC...@man.ac.uk>,
> SomeBlokeCalledRapunzelSyndrome <daveD...@man.ac.uk> wrote:
> >Rhys wrote:
> >
> >> Ennywun still uzin old yoonits shood prolly be culled I reckun. Them
> >> yoonits mean nuffin to me, it's just cunfoozin. Long live the metwic
> >> cistern!!
> >>
> >> Rhys (@jbex)
> >
> >careful, young man, you're still on probation here and that just set
> >your promotion back a month.
>
> Tut, Dave, that was *irony*. You humorless brits, tch!
Oh, I didn't know they had irony installed in Wales. Have they got
sarcasm yet?
--
Mike Jones
"SomeBlokeCalledRapunzelSyndrome" <daveD...@man.ac.uk> wrote in
message news:3AD42182...@man.ac.uk...
Weave a folly gvaxing sens of humour, it'sonly sheep jokes that are met
with an uncomprehending hostility
Cerumen
Whitedog <whit...@NOFRITTERSuk-rec-sheds.org.uk> wrote in message
news:3ad371ae...@news.virgin.net...
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2001 11:28:32 +0100, "Cerumen" <spam...@spamsucks.net>
> wrote:
>
>
> >We built Concorde in feet and inches and the merkins managed to get to
the
> >moon on them as well, the Ruskies use an imperial system, also, well not
fer
> >guvmint certainly it's only the bloody serapu and other greasy
continentals
> >who are too fick to work on imperial.......huffffffff
> >--
> Arbut din't the Merkins also blow up summink very rkcrafvir cos they
> confused inches and centipedes or something?
Thingy
SomeBlokeCalledRapunzelSyndrome
> it'sonly sheep jokes that are met
> with an uncomprehending hostility
yeh, i can't speak sheep either
Gid Holyoake
decided to share with us..
> The message <Xns907F5A4FEB2...@130.133.1.4>
> from Thomas.Rush...@hammondsdirect.com (Thomas Rushton)
> contains these words:
>
>
> > Nah. That was a Lancaster Bomber.
>
> 40,000 rivets flying in close formation...or was that the Wellington?
I think you'll find that was actually the Shackleton.. but all the
designs are near enough for Jazz, so who gives a damn..
Gid
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Gid Holyoake wrote in message ...
>I think you'll find that was actually the Shackleton.. but all the
>designs are near enough for Jazz, so who gives a damn..
I always thought that it was the Wellington as well. Or maybe the Hamden or
Halifax.
I'll check my 'The War In The Air' when I get home. :o)
YADJ