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22 May 2012, 10:11 PM
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Lads will be lads. Sorry about that!
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22 May 2012, 11:57 PM
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I am hoping that all of our offspring will be spending wads of money on Fathers day.
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23 May 2012, 05:50 AM
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The "e" in e-mail
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I don't want to WADE into the discussion on how somebody else's money should be spent.
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23 May 2012, 11:05 AM
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I hope that my friends here all have a good WAGE and aren't dependent on the charity of others.
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23 May 2012, 11:14 AM
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Indeed: we will all (hopefully) never have to borrow a straight (or bent) penny for ages.
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23 May 2012, 11:37 AM
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We always get SAGE advice in this forum!
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23 May 2012, 11:49 PM
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The SAME goes for this gem of hot news: Beijing sets 'two flies only' public toilet guidelines .
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24 May 2012, 12:41 PM
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Before I read that news report, I thought 'flies' referred to the number of persons allowed inside wearing trousers, but now see that it's the NAME of an insect.
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24 May 2012, 01:29 PM
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In order to comply (with the name of the game) they will hire an attendant, to swat any more than a duo of flies, methinks.
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25 May 2012, 04:08 PM
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News from the other end of the digestive tract....
The European Court of Justice, having considered carefully the shape of the rabbit, the foil and pleated red ribbon, GAVE its verdict: " No trademark for chocolate rabbit" |
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26 May 2012, 10:25 AM
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Be sure to LAVE your hands in the public washroom before eating any chocolate animals!
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26 May 2012, 04:14 PM
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Merriam Webster seems to RAVE about the word "lave"
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26 May 2012, 11:29 PM
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In that case, I rate the word 'lave', at least one hundred percent!
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27 May 2012, 06:17 AM
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Can I SATE you with 230% "efficiency"?
Thermoelectrically Pumped Light-Emitting Diodes Operating above Unity Efficiency The "efficiency" here is electrical input to optical output. It acts as a heat pump so the laws of thermodynamics are not violated. And the light output must be very small. In the experiment it is only 69 picowatts, so 15 billion (US, 15,000,000,000) would be required to add up to one watt! |
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28 May 2012, 03:23 AM
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I didn't know about the phys.org SITE before.
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