Arild, Love your messages, your experience is so deep, and your expression delightful.
Actually, I might have Norman blood as my mother's side of the family came from England. As for carpenters cutting off fingers, I saw a mesmerizing spot on the TV show "Time Warp" demonstrating a table saw that cannot cut your finger. If your finger touches the blade an electronic sensor jambs an aluminum wedge into the blade and stops it instantly (the blade and the wedge must then be replaced). It was demonstrated for the high-speed camera with a hot dog, then the inventor's finger. There was no visible damage to either. I don't astonish easily but that did it! Another great clip was on a MythBusters clone that made a trap using sand and compressed air delivered under the sand through pvc pipes to make a sort of quicksand vehicle trap. They set up a prop bank building that required the robbers to drive over the sand patch to escape. Normally vehicles could drive over the sand patch easily, but when the escape vehicle was on the sand the air was turned on and the vehicle (a van) instantly sank down to its floor pan. I am surprised the security industry has not picked up on that. I would really like some of whatever Yanni is marinated in... Norm S/V Bandersnatch Lying Julington Creek 30 07.695N 081 38.484W > [Original Message] > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 11/23/2008 5:25:17 PM > Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] K and milli > > > I don't think you understood what norm said.I am sure he will debate. > > On your last comment, you think Saxons had six fingers? 12 in both hands? > > or whoever came up with the divisions of an inch? or the whole imperial > > system of measurements? > > Yanni Marinated > > > Ah Yanni, you gotten da languages mixed uppen Ja? Da Saxons wuz from den > olden country across da channel. Dey was also da Normans and den dere was > da Anglo Saxons. Ne? Saxons have sex but they don't play de saxaphone. > Dat's for Jazz muzika. > > I never said Norm came from da Normans. <VBG> > It is da goot ting dat olden tyme carpenters wasn't mathematicians or we > might have ended up wid da base 4 or worse base 3 for counting. Dem > carpenters offen cut off da fingers. Ne? > > _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
