Leon, You're battering my brain with all this....
Bob On Tuesday 24 September 2002 07:02 am, Leon Brooks wrote: > On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 20:50, Michael Holt wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Guy.Bormann uttered these words of wisdom: > >>> battery chickens ran on size D drycells (I kid you not!). > > > > Ok, I give up - what are battery chickens?? > > A battery of anything is a long row of them. So a D cell (or for that > matter A, AA, AAA and C as well) is not actually a battery, but the little > square 9V models and the ones in cars are. A battery mill is a bank of > cam-driven hammers for crushing rock. A gun battery is several cannon all > lined up next to each other (in concept, if not in practice). A Mandrake > distro image could be called an RPM battery. > > Battery farming is the practice of lining lots of animals up together > (typically chickens in cages) to achieve very high farming densities. > > It also makes it easier to replace their betteries... (-: > > Cheers; Leon
