Any Londoners about

Might be the house on the corner.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, platypus

You're round the bend.

<thinks>

How did you do that?

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Kitchen extension works as a sidecar. I drifted it.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, platypus

That's bloody clever. How do you stop the drawers all coming open and
spilling knives on the floor?

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Magnets and hairy string.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, platypus

Oh.

<crestfallen>

I was thinking something involving the Coriolis force, gaffa rape[1],
and something quantum.

Hang on, you can't fool me that easily! Everyone knows magnets don't
work on a shaftie.


[1] Typo, but definitely worthy of preservation.

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OK, thanks, you guys do it differently over there then.

<boggle> !!!

JL

 

It's all that, and more. You really need to get up to speed on hairy-string
theory.

They do if they're contra-rotating magnetic monopoles.

The Gaffia will put a contract out on you.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, platypus

Clearly. I shall consult Google at once. If not sooner.

<Googles>

Blimey. There's a lot of dimensions here. Hang on...

<Makes odd gestures with right hand>

No, no. Don't get it at all.

<Tries again with left hand>

I'm clearly missing something here.

<Tries once more with both hands and first three toes of right foot>

Bloody hell! Who'da' thunk it, eh?

Does Ivan know he's out of a job yet?

Oooooooh! So close, you nearly had me there. Fortunately, I've been
around Usenet long enough to know that any sentence involving the phrase
"contra-rotating" is always bollocks[1].

[1] Unless it also has "tassles", obviously.

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The thing is, string theory has it over particle theory because particle
theory only works if gravity doesn't exist. This is because particle
interactions can occur at zero distance. String interactions don't occur at
a point. Particles in string theory occur as excitations of the string, and
one possible particle has zero mass and two units of spin - I'm sure you can
see where this is leading. If there was such a thing as a graviton, this
would be it. Hairy string theory, OTOH, predicts a particle with
appropriate mass and two units of countersteer, informally referred to as a
coriolon.

I think he's fed up with all that hadron bollocks anyway.

Whatever. The magnetic monopoles are mounted to the shaft in such a way
that they maintain a constant orientation despite the rotation of the shaft.
This means that a unified coriolon field can be maintained without worrying
about flux interactions from the transmission. When a countersteering force
is applied to this field, it in effect locally distorts the background
graviton field, creating a centrifugal anomaly with quite sharply defined
boundaries, known as a bubble. The principal characteristic of a bubble is
that the graviton field in it is uniformly at an angle to the field outside
the bubble, and the angle is proportional to the angle of the
countersteering force but 90 deg out of phase. The effect is that, as far
as the house is concerned, the local gravity banks over to allow it to
negotiate the corner safely. The effect isn't absolute - there's some
leakage, hence the drift - but the drawers are self-closing, and the knives
are on a magnetic knife rack...

**** off, this is serious. I've spent years researching this.

 

My mate Dave *swapped* houses (with cash on top) a couple of years
ago. The bloke who he was swapping with took not only the
light-bulbs, but the things you screw them into (pendants?).

What was the point in that? He wasn't going to need them, because
Dave hadn't taken his...

 

Ben Blaney says...

When I moved into my first place in 1981 I found the house still full
of furniture and lots of other stuff. All personal possessions like
clothes, ornaments, pictures and the usual stuff you find in cupboards
and drawers was gone. I called the estate agents who said they phone me
back when they'd spoken to the vendors. The reply came from the parents
[1] of the couple who'd owned the house prior to me. They said I could
keep anything I wanted and to dispose of the rest, a sort of starting
help to a young first time buyer. They'd left all the white goods,
dining table, 3-piece suite, carpets, TV, decent stereo, beds,
wardrobes etc.

It was quite a well looked after house and most of it was to my own
tastes, so all I did was redecorate and buy new matresses.

[1] The early 30s couple who'd owned the house were killed in a car
crash in France. The house was sold by the parents of the bloke, his
wife had no immediate family.

 

The little old lady I bought my house of did that. She was moving
into a retirement home so didn't need anything so she thought she'd
leave it to help out a young couple.

As it was, I'd only been to view the house with a female friend to get
her opinion on it.

Most of the stuff got sold but I've still got the three piece suit.

 

Not again!? I still haven't quite got over the project I worked
on at UCL being cancelled before I even started, but the Yanks forgot to
tell us...

^^^^^^

You mis-splet ... Oh, never mind.

AOL

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Double breasted?

 

No but a nice pair of curtains.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, platypus

I'm not surprised. You just get one wound up nicely, and going along at
a fair old clip, then some **** SMIDSYs it. Takes *ages* to figure out
whose fault it was, apparently. They're even using computers to do it
now.

"Centripetal", Shirley? And who brought the Greeks into this? I thought
we'd gone way beyond Euclid.

It shows. It really, really does.

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Definitely Cathotholic view... ;-)