On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Leon Brooks uttered these words of wisdom: >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
hehe... thanks for the laugh! (and the explaination!) Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrake.com ============================================================< "AOL for Dummies" is kind of redundant, don't you think?
