If bad luck comes in threes...

I was just out for a long stay and a weight, I'm enjoying the long
stay so I'll worry about the weight later.

 

In collision with HMS Habbakuk. Or was that his brother?

 

His laboratory door closed on 19 October 1992.

He had a wicked sense of humour. When some low-life anti-scientist
was pedalling clorophyll tablets to reduce B.O, Pyke wrote:
The goat that reeks on yonder hill
Has browsed all day on chlorophyll.

He was a government nutritionist during the second world war and was
also rumoured to have been on a working party trying to find a way to
cut the murderous consumption of fuel by the RAF. His solution was to
suggest we arrange that the Luftwaffe bomb Hamburg, while the RAF took
on Portsmouth, a remark that I think shows remarkable clarity of
vision. You have to try to solve the real problem, not the one that
comes most readily to hand.

Pyke once steamed a trout in a dishwasher, and

 

and what? Tell me, tell me, tell me!

--
Kind Regards,
Nikitta
"If Elves are plural of Elvis the plot of eg. Lord of the Rings changes
quite drastically. Perhaps I should try to read it again with these new
glasses... " Rasmus Bøg Hansen, AFDA

 

Prof Magnus Milo Minderbinder Pyke?

That's some catch...

Anthony

 

ooh. googlefarrt.

I can't remember what I said last time, but it was watching him
explode eggs in a michealwave oven that inspired the great Stamford
Shakespeare Company scotch egg atrocity of 1974. They really don't
like being zapped. we put 24 of them in an industiral device in one
go. Ha ha ha ha ha

He built a solar reflector that could cook an egg suspended in it.
Maybe that was it.

He also explained superheating by tinywobblering a cup of full fat
milk for about 6 minuetes, and then dropping a spoon in with a long
pair of tongs. All the milk urgently left the cup in what could have
been a narsty accident.

There were once a poster of him in our works canteen, with his famous
slogan "A sandwich is not a meal. Add an apple, and it is".

 

funortunately I've heard the same remark attributed to Barnes Wallis,
Guy Gibson, & some other bloke whose name I've forgot, but he designed
gnus. Of the set, my money is on Pyke, he was a notable iconoclast.

 

Wikip suggests he had the idea for using up surplus stock from
blood-banks by turning it into black pudding ...

 

Bear in mind that hit ng (I'm talking about ukrm here) conducted a
scientific experryment that proved you can michaelwave petrol, in
perfect safety.

I *think* Lozzo was involved.

Anyway, the oven actually self-destructed, IIRC, after about 15 minutes
of heating while the petrol only got tepid.

 

Nah, you don't want an aircraft carrier in the middle of the ocean, you
want a seaplane carrier in the middle of the dessert, they won't be
expecting that ...

Cousin.

 

<Joins in>

 

In a gold rimmed mug with a teaspoon in it.

On the sidelines.

Point of order, I torched the fucking thing because I was bored waiting.

Nearly torched Molly's gixer in the process too

I think I have it on video somewhere.

 

I don't get involved in dangerous or juvenile acts.

--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Tourer, CBR600F-W racebike in the making, TS250C, RD400F
(somewhere)
BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite
they churn out)

 

Just tea?

 

Sorry, don't know what happened there. It was supposed to read "You've
taken a vow of Just-a-tea?"

 

Oh dear. Oh deary dear.

With bad puns like that, Number One Mistah, you just for-coffee.

 

<Philips mode ON>
RaTHHHEr.

 

Were you able to keep a straight face as you typed that?

 

Haha ... no.

--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Tourer, CBR600F-W racebike in the making, TS250C, RD400F
(somewhere)
BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite
they churn out)