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November 6th, 2007, 04:30 PM
#1
Intel Mod
Holiday time!
At last I've managed to get a fortnight off, see ya in a couple of weeks!
(I may have some opportunity to peek in the door... )
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November 7th, 2007, 11:27 PM
#2
Have a great time.
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November 8th, 2007, 06:55 AM
#3
Registered User
" I don't like the idea of getting shot in the hand" -Blackie in "Rustlers Rhapsody"
" It is a proud and lonely thing, to be a Stainless Steel Rat." - Slippery Jim DiGriz
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November 8th, 2007, 07:28 AM
#4
Driver Terrier
two weeks. (fortnight >> fourteen nights)
Never, ever approach a computer saying or even thinking "I will just do this quickly."
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November 8th, 2007, 12:45 PM
#5
Registered User
Thanks, Noo! ( Those crazy foreign types with their metric system and Dr. Who and what all... ) <--- said in an old lady voice while shaking her fist at those whippersnappers.
" I don't like the idea of getting shot in the hand" -Blackie in "Rustlers Rhapsody"
" It is a proud and lonely thing, to be a Stainless Steel Rat." - Slippery Jim DiGriz
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November 8th, 2007, 02:07 PM
#6
Driver Terrier
hmmmph, I am a crazy foreign type with Dr Who... fortnight is a very old word!
Never, ever approach a computer saying or even thinking "I will just do this quickly."
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November 8th, 2007, 02:27 PM
#7
But we have that word in the US as well, it's just not in vogue these days.
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November 8th, 2007, 10:29 PM
#8
Registered User
For an official noprize, if the great race horse Secretariat could run 1.5 miles in 2 minutes and 24 seconds, how many furlongs per fortnight could he run?
Actual figure for Secretariat, BTW.
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November 24th, 2007, 05:45 AM
#9
Intel Mod
Originally Posted by slgrieb
how many furlongs per fortnight could he run?
Ha! A trick question - a horse can't run for a fortnight...
Drove back from Sydney on Wednesday, then two full-on days back at work. Now with the weekend I can start to get back to the usual routine.
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November 24th, 2007, 06:08 AM
#10
Registered User
Hadrian's Wall, built to guard the Romans northern England border against the marauding Scots, had forts situated at regular intervals along its length. Every two weeks the soldiers got to sleep inside them and this is where the term for two weeks, 'Fortnight' comes from.
Now you know how old our Platy is.............
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Little Yellow Lumbermen To The Forum King.
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November 24th, 2007, 07:11 AM
#11
Registered User
we always called the forts milecastles . So shoud it be a milecastlenight?
The lunatics are running the Country
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November 25th, 2007, 06:20 AM
#12
Intel Mod
Makes sense to me. But then I'm old...
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November 25th, 2007, 03:06 PM
#13
Registered User
Milecastles. Sheesh! Next someone's gonna drag out the old chestnut about the gauge of the original railroads being based on the width of "Roman war chariots".
Easy math. a furlong = one eighth of a mile. 1.5 miles = 12 furlongs. 2 minutes and 24 seconds = 2.4 minutes. A fortnight = 14 days = 336 hours = 20160 minutes. 20160/2.4 = 8400. 8400 x 12 = 100800, Secretariat's speed measured in furlongs per fortnight. Or 37.5 mph.
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November 25th, 2007, 03:27 PM
#14
Driver Terrier
Can I have that again, but in unix timestamp?
Never, ever approach a computer saying or even thinking "I will just do this quickly."
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November 26th, 2007, 11:33 AM
#15
Registered User
Originally Posted by slgrieb
Milecastles. Sheesh! Next someone's gonna drag out the old chestnut about the gauge of the original railroads being based on the width of "Roman war chariots".
Easy math. a furlong = one eighth of a mile. 1.5 miles = 12 furlongs. 2 minutes and 24 seconds = 2.4 minutes. A fortnight = 14 days = 336 hours = 20160 minutes. 20160/2.4 = 8400. 8400 x 12 = 100800, Secretariat's speed measured in furlongs per fortnight. Or 37.5 mph.
Naah
This is another local history issue for me
When George Stephenson was building the Stockton & Darlington Railway he decided the rail gauge should be just over 4 ft 8 ins (1.44m). The reason for this was that was the width of the wagonway at Killingworth Colliery. However, after Stephenson had made this decision, other railway chief engineers followed his example and used the same rail gauge.
Except of course IK Brunel who used his Broad Gauge on the Great Western Railway.
The lunatics are running the Country
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