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  1. Here is a message for the person who believes that lightly-knobbly sheet
    steel is a good material to use as a riding surface on the National Cycle
    Network Route 1:

    You are wrong. And mad.

    I now have:

    o a hole in my longs, and
    o two holes in my knee, and
    o a mountain bike with a buckled front wheel, and
    o one Astrale fewer than this time yesterday

    The latter is now sleeping with the fishes under Lea Bridge. A pox on
    British Waterways and all their white mice.

    --
    Dave Larrington - <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/>
    Mushroom! Mushroom!

  2. On 17/5/05 11:04 am, in article [email hidden], "Dave

    Larrington said:

    Here is a message for the person who believes that lightly-knobbly sheet
    steel is a good material to use as a riding surface on the National Cycle
    Network Route 1:

    You are wrong. And mad.

    I now have:

    o a hole in my longs, and
    o two holes in my knee, and
    o a mountain bike with a buckled front wheel, and
    o one Astrale fewer than this time yesterday

    The latter is now sleeping with the fishes under Lea Bridge. A pox on
    British Waterways and all their white mice.

    Time for a letter pointing out their negligence in selecting slippery
    surfaces for such a route?

    ...d

  3. Dave Larrington said:

    Here is a message for the person who believes that lightly-knobbly sheet
    steel is a good material to use as a riding surface on the National Cycle
    Network Route 1:

    You are wrong. And mad.

    I presume you'll be taking the matter up with someone a little more
    directly than the above? Best of luck, if so...

    Pete.
    --
    Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
    Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
    Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
    net [email hidden] http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/

  4. Dave Larrington said:

    Here is a message for the person who believes that lightly-knobbly sheet
    steel is a good material to use as a riding surface on the National Cycle
    Network Route 1:

    I suggest that we shoot them and burn the bodies.

    Guy
    --
    May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting.
    http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

    88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at CHS, Puget Sound

  5. Guy said:

    I suggest that we shoot them and burn the bodies.

    Not before we cut off their goolies with a lump of knobbly sheet steel.

    d.

  6. "Dave Larrington" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:


    I now have:

    o a hole in my longs, and
    o two holes in my knee, and
    o a mountain bike with a buckled front wheel, and
    o one Astrale fewer than this time yesterday

    Ouchie, indeed. Hope the holes in the person heal soon.

    Cheers, helen s

  7. Just zis Guy said:


    I suggest that we shoot them and burn the bodies.

    Guy

    To be environmentally responsible and not waste electrons can we give
    this phrase a number that we quote whenever the reply is warranted?

    --
    Tony

    "A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought" Lord
    Peter Wimsey (Dorothy L. Sayers)

  8. you know? said:
    Dave Larrington said:

    Here is a message for the person who believes that lightly-knobbly sheet
    steel is a good material to use as a riding surface on the National Cycle
    Network Route 1:

    I suggest that we shoot them and burn the bodies.

    Guy

    I thought you'd be telling them that they are bad men and they run a
    bad railway.


  9. Quoted message said:

    To be environmentally responsible and not waste electrons (*) can we
    give this phrase a number that we quote whenever the reply is warranted?


    STABB ?

    (*) How so?
    How many electrons are used by a house using a 1KW electric fire for a
    month on a 250V AC (hint here) circuit.

  10. Dave Larrington said:

    Here is a message for the person who believes that lightly-knobbly sheet
    steel is a good material to use as a riding surface on the National
    Cycle Network Route 1:

    You are wrong. And mad.

    I now have:

    o a hole in my longs, and
    o two holes in my knee, and
    o a mountain bike with a buckled front wheel, and
    o one Astrale fewer than this time yesterday

    The latter is now sleeping with the fishes under Lea Bridge. A pox on
    British Waterways and all their white mice.

    Sorry to hear about that. What happened? I used to live half a mile from
    that bridge, and cycle to work under it. It's a manky old corner, what
    with the bridge, mud, random concrete and cobbled ramp into the park, but
    i never really had a problem with it.

    tom

    --
    roger and kay payne, symmetry, piercing, archaeology, position, in ,,

  11. On Tue, 17 May 2005 21:00:31 +0100, John Hearns <[email hidden]>

    Quoted message said:

    How many electrons are used by a house using a 1KW electric fire for a
    month on a 250V AC (hint here) circuit.

    Define 'used'.

  12. In article <[email hidden]>,

    davek said:
    Quoted message said:

    I suggest that we shoot them and burn the bodies.

    Quoted message said:

    Not before we cut off their goolies with a lump of knobbly sheet
    steel.

    I do dislike people who are kind to others. The goolies should only
    be cut off with the leftover end of a rusty corrugated iron shed.

    --
    A T (Sandy) Morton
    on the Bicycle Island
    In the Global Village
    http://www.millport.net

  13. John Hearns said:
    Quoted message said:

    To be environmentally responsible and not waste electrons (*) can we
    give this phrase a number that we quote whenever the reply is
    warranted? STABB ?

    (*) How so?
    How many electrons are used by a house using a 1KW electric fire for a
    month on a 250V AC (hint here) circuit.

    2.46 * 10^27 ?

    If anyone can explain to me why energy [joules] = mass [kg] * (c [ms^-1])^2
    works without a conversion of units, when the units involve such arbitrary
    elements as the density of water and the length of a second, I'd be very
    grateful. But it seems to be what everything says.

    A

  14. Ambrose Nankivell said:


    If anyone can explain to me why energy [joules] = mass [kg] * (c
    [ms^-1])^2 works without a conversion of units, when the units
    involve such arbitrary elements as the density of water and the
    length of a second, I'd be very grateful. But it seems to be what
    everything says.
    A

    energy is force * distance :

    force = mass * acceleration, units are kg * m/s^2

    So one newton = 1 kgm/s^2

    1 Joule = 1 kgm/s^2 * 1 m = 1kg(m/s)^2

    --
    Andy Morris

    AndyAtJinkasDotFreeserve.Co.UK

    Love this:
    Put an end to Outlook Express's messy quotes
    http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/

  15. Andy Morris said:
    Ambrose Nankivell said:


    If anyone can explain to me why energy [joules] = mass [kg] * (c
    [ms^-1])^2 works without a conversion of units, when the units
    involve such arbitrary elements as the density of water and the
    length of a second, I'd be very grateful. But it seems to be what
    everything says.
    A

    energy is force * distance :

    force = mass * acceleration, units are kg * m/s^2

    So one newton = 1 kgm/s^2

    1 Joule = 1 kgm/s^2 * 1 m = 1kg(m/s)^2

    Excellent. Thanks.

    A

  16. In message <[email hidden]>, Dave Larrington
    <[email hidden]> writes

    Quoted message said:

    Here is a message for the person who believes that lightly-knobbly sheet
    steel is a good material to use as a riding surface on the National Cycle
    Network Route 1:

    Ouch I know exactly what you mean, I have to negotiate two cattle grids
    on our road. On the way home from the pub on wet nights they are deadly
    and I have had a ground level view of the metal bars on several
    occasions.

    All down to the wet metal of course, nothing to do with the beer.

    --
    Alan

  17. John Hearns <[email hidden]> wrote in
    news:[email hidden]:

    Quoted message said:

    How many electrons are used by a house using a 1KW electric fire for a
    month on a 250V AC (hint here) circuit.

    I didn't think they were "used", more kind of "borrowed".

  18. On 17/5/05 9:00 pm, in article [email hidden],

    John Hearns said:


    Quoted message said:

    To be environmentally responsible and not waste electrons (*) can we
    give this phrase a number that we quote whenever the reply is warranted?


    STABB ?

    (*) How so?
    How many electrons are used by a house using a 1KW electric fire for a
    month on a 250V AC (hint here) circuit.

    How many would flow through the system in 1/50 second given a peak voltage
    of 440 (RMS 250) and a sinusoidal distribution for potential (assuming flow
    is proportional to potential..)

    ...d

  19. Al C-F said:
    you know? said:
    Dave Larrington said:

    Here is a message for the person who believes that lightly-knobbly sheet
    steel is a good material to use as a riding surface on the National Cycle
    Network Route 1:

    I suggest that we shoot them and burn the bodies.

    Guy

    I thought you'd be telling them that they are bad men and they run a
    bad railway.

    A railway so bad that the track bed is completely flooded all the
    time.

    Tim

  20. in message <[email hidden]>, Ambrose

    Nankivell (') said:
    John Hearns said:
    Quoted message said:

    To be environmentally responsible and not waste electrons (*) can we
    give this phrase a number that we quote whenever the reply is
    warranted? STABB ?

    (*) How so?
    How many electrons are used by a house using a 1KW electric fire for
    a month on a 250V AC (hint here) circuit.

    2.46 * 10^27 ?

    Trick question. AC, so the net movement of electrons is effectively nil;
    they just shake back and forth a bit. However there is a difference
    between a net movement and 'use'.

    --
    [email hidden] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

    ;; MS Windows: A thirty-two bit extension ... to a sixteen bit
    ;; patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a
    ;; four bit microprocessor and sold by a two-bit company that
    ;; can't stand one bit of competition -- anonymous

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