Ejected Electrons: Newsletter Challenge (11/06/07)

Now you've put me off the idea completely.

Fyz doesn't like to share!

ROFL

How uncharitable. Crooning is enough to put any self-respecting man off his food - it's even worse when executed in a raspy voice. So far as I'm concerned, if it resembles any kit-kat I've ever seen, you're welcome to the whole thing. How's that for generosity?

Well that's no fun ! ( I'm exempt, being obliged to the Tufty Club)

I feel sorry for you now, over here we have normal Kit Kat in 2 or 4 sticks, orange, mint, white or dark chocolate, chunky Kit Kat & chunky peanut butter Kit Kat.

Excuse me for ignoring the delights of PAYDAY, but do you guys real get Twix ? Wow - have some Kudos, how mad is that > 'Snickers' used to be our 'Marathon.' You Americanised us !'

Cadbury vs Hershey ? what'dya say ? The Quakers will get mad........

You Americanised us !'

Heck, we have been doing that for a long, long, time! Are you enjoying your McDonald's and Wendy's Hamburgers? I had a Wimpies (not an American chain) when I was in England and thought it was horrible! Of course, I am not a big fan of McDonald's either!

One of my favorite old movies is "The Americanization of Emily" , filmed in 1964, but the setting was 1944, which teamed James Garner and Julie Andrews, with on-screen chemistry that would not be re-captured until years later when "Victor/Victoria" reunited the two. James Garner even called this his favorite of all of his movies.

Cadbury vs Hershey ? what'dya say ? The Quakers will get mad........

Who, these guys? They've "gone Hollywood"!

Seriously though (if that's possible, given the subject of this sub-thread), the Quaker Oats people do quite well with their line of Chewy Granola Bars, several of which are chocolate covered or contain chocolate chips/bits.

They told you those little brown bits were some sort of confectionery ? Sort of small, brownish and round ? Ever seen a squirrel hopping around the garden ?

Wimpy is a complete and utter 'yuck'. I like some of the brand rivals (on occasion) but have to admit that we Brits couldn't' assemble a burger any more than we could a B2. Anything reassembling fresh salad would be banned, and tomato sauce would be compulsory. Mustard etc ? Not a chance. Meat in the 'burger' ? - you've got to be joking. There's more meat in a 'Donner kebab' ( ref to Brit high streets, approx 11 pm).

On a historical note, the incidence of quaker belief and enterprise is quite fascinating. Many of the major brands are so linked. I've no idea or concern whether that carries meaning, but it is curiously interesting.

One of my fave film lines ( Empire of the Sun) : " Hey kid, would you like a Hershey Bar ?..". So would I kid, have you got one ?" It tags in nice with "B52 Cadillac of The Sky". All-American .

You should try one of Ahmed's Greedy Burgers from our local mobile take away, 2 burgers, with cheese fried egg & mushrooms. Don't ask for extras unless you have a very large mouth.

That almost sounds good ! I once did 3 stotties (the full breakfast variety), though my stomach didn't half ache afterwards. It was one of those things that happens after a seriously heavy night out. At some point the next day nausea go's and hunger re-appears.

3 full 8" stotties each filled with the standard 2-rashers of bacon, an egg and a full-fat Tyneside sausage?

Didn't half ache? Would that be a full-on triple-strength knobs-on tummy ache?

It was fair-bad. My Geordie mate even looked on with pure horror on his face. Up there it's something of a delicacy, to be savoured with a glass of 'broon'. Even the woman in the shop said to me ' Are you sure?'. All I can say is that I'd just got over a seriously bad hangover, and felt hungry.

The only time I've ever felt that hungry was after a 1960's anaesthetic had worn off. The nursing staff said it was far too soon to eat, but one of the doctors looked at my vital signs (whatever those might be) and said I could be allowed a half-pound steak with a few boiled potatoes (undercooked as it turned out) and steamed veg. (That would have been barely about enough for a light lunch at that stage).

Fyz

That is indeed interesting to hear. Be pleased that you got some meat. 1960's ,post car crash- I got none of that. A few bruises etc is nothing compared to the rest. Seat belts are a good idea.

That was corrective surgery for a childhood injury - so they already knew me. I doubt that there would have been that much flexibility in the trauma departments.

Fyz

Ta for the link to h2g2 - I listen to BBCR4 most of the time (at least it's on in the backgound while I'm working), but I missed out on this.

There's more meat in a 'Donner kebab' ( ref to Brit high streets, approx 11 pm).

I sure am glad you added the parenthetical reference! The only "Donner" reference I was aware of was the story of "The Donner Party" disaster, which involved a wagon train heading west to California in 1846, trying to get through the Sierra Nevada mountains via the now infamous "Donner Gap" (named for them). It seems the party got snowed in, ran out of food, and it being winter in the mountains, no wild game was available either. They ended up starving (38 of 87 died) and there were reports of cannibalism (of the already dead only), hence a "Donner kebab" would have a whole different meaning in that context!

I am now feeling distinctly queazy !

(No, 'distinctly queazy' in not a chum, just a sort of bilious thing)

I liked his speech about being a coward.

Until you've watched Jack Nicholson in "A Few Good Men", you're just letting the best in life pass you by.

chunky Kit Kat & chunky peanut butter Kit Kat

Good grief you need help ! Even with my proclivities I feel sick. Seek a therapist. Urgently ! My god, you'll be asking for jam on it next. Next you'll be telling me you don't enjoy playing with the foil bit of the wrapper. Flicking it at work colleagues or cats. Oh, you poor degenerate sod. The humanity........

< If Rowntree would like to pay me enourmous ammounts of money for this promotion, then do so via CR4. They will tell you to ****- off as money grubbing ******, but a % would still be nice)

I thought the Brits always had a fried egg topping their Kit-Kat bars?

You're getting it all wrong, there. We batter'm and deep-fry 'em.

Any self -respecting Brit cafe employs a special person. Their only job is to lovingly place a hair across your fried egg. If visiting here, don't be surprised by this, and never complain unless it is short & curly or does not match the hair of the waitresses. The hair will usually be found draped across the yolk, although some establishments do try to place it beneath the egg.

Kris warns: "Otherwise some Sud will bury you (and I don't mean Darth Vader !)."

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Holy Naked Neutrinos, Batman! It's the (heavy-water PMT support core of the) Sud-bury (Ontario, Canada) Neutrino Observatory!

Oh the shame, the pity....

My god man, it's Canadian ! Now I'm coCERNed about our well-being.

ROFLMAO !

( Unless you were a scrptwriter for Southpark, you couldn't make this stuff up !)

Holy Hoppin' Hadrons! Now, Squire, mightn't you be thinking about the dark predictions of tiny black hole, strangelet and monopole production at the LHC?

Not Canadian. No worries.

If they smash their little balls, will it happen in Switzerland or France ? I'm worried man ! The picture was Canadian so that doesn't matter. OMG the duality of it all !!

ROFLMAO ???

OK so I'm an ignorant old bugger, but how can I be expected to intuit (or even remember) all these daft acronyms?

Yea, so Google told me, but can someone in CR4-Land dream up a system so that:

1) Anyone using such a device can add it to a database, and

2) Right-clicking (or as you will) on the character sequence will bring up a definition?

Just ask John. No big deal - simply ask.

But why should I have to ask?

OK, if I'm reading something special (e.g. A Clockwork Orange, or a technical paper), I agree it's fair enough to have to flick back to the glossary every now'n again, but in general conversation using the (apparently) accepted language of the site (English?), I reckon this kind of thing doesn't help folk to follow what's going on (certainly doesn't help my tired old brain). It's like scattering "in" jokes all over the place (which is OK if you've been following the discussion and can get some kind of handle on what's going on, and the jokes are either explained within the thread, or it can be assumed that the majority of the readers will cotton on), but encrypting them in an "in" code. Multiple obfuscation.

More !

ACRONYM = Alphabetic Co-location for Reducing Or Numbing Your Memory.

When I was a Manufacturing Engineer in the Automotive Controls industry, we often had machine malfunctions that would stop the assembly of our products. We would often refer to this unexpected machine stoppage as a "crash". Our boss did not like the term "crash" because that implied that there might be some serious damage to machine or operator, as in a motor vehicle "crash". Therefore he outlawed the use of the term "crash" in production status reports.

In our next meeting I reported that one production line had been down because one of the machines had executed a C.R.A.S.H., or "Completely Random Accidental System Halt".

Yes!

"Often had machine malfunctions" - and your manager was worrying because you called it a crash! Did that part of the company survive?

SFIK the company is prospering and doing quite well. The same may not be said for said manager!

ROFL

He probably moved on to a senior job in another company which was in the process of being taken over, and received a fat redundancy cheque for expediting the negotiations. After that, he was headhunted by a VC company and has recently taken very early retirement. He is now rubbing along on a fat pension and the proceeds from half a dozen non-executive directorships.

Fyz

You windin me up pal? Wanna come outside n say that?

Apologies, you're quite right, it's a picture of Sudbury. But what I've in seen before looks much more polished - it must be the lighting or something.

It must be the mirror that confuses.

Are you referring to the pictures of the PM tubes reflected in the acrylic. If so, I've seen those too, but they are not what I was referring to. I suspect different lighting or pale-coloured surround to keep off dust during works, but I wouldn't swear to anything

.......****-that. It sounds teknikal. I would.

I'm going to snitch you two up to jorrie soon ! You're making it jolly dashed hard for idiots like me. In my mind ,momentum and stuff is what happens on the end of a sledge hammer. Now I'm all confused. Do it in layman's terms please.

< I always think that if you can't explain something, it's because you don't fully understand yourself>

_{<< slinks away laughing madly. Billiard ball analogies will do.>>}

Ultra-miniature sledge-hammers, but moving very fast. (But bar billiards really is a closer analogy.)

Is that the one with the 'mushrooms' on the table ? Nah, pool is a better comparison. The mushrooms fall in very hard to predict ways. I used to play ' Cherries or Bananas'. Sometimes I do snooker - once I saw a ball cannon into a pocket, roll along and fall down the pocket at the other edge ! Honest -it only happened once, but it was way cool. Nobody ever believed me and my mate who played the shot.

His wife wasn't happy when I took his jacket home one day. Don't know why. I just said I found it at the bottom of a mine shaft. Telling her he was in it didn't seem to alleviate her upset.

And your momma !!

I keep coming back here, so the momentum definitely exists.

That was more than a few momentums (momenta?)

'momenti ? I ain't a physicist, but I've seen that gif before.

The plural of momentum (Latin neuter) should be momenta. I think that momenti would exist in Italian (as the genitive), but that's outside my linguistic sphere...

So who has erred ? Probably nobody but a lonely sheep farmer in Wales.

<Cetacia, just shut up.>

Sheep farming?? Yee-ouch

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