I'm fairly sure that's Victorian for 'pr0n'
That before ladybirds were called ladybirds, they were called ladycows. And that the 'lady' comes from a connection between the seven spots and the Seven Pains of Our Lady. In some languages they have names like 'Mary's beetle'. I suppose this means that just as they are not birds or cows (nor true bugs, it turns out) the ones with different numbers of spots aren't really ladies!
If you spread a pancake half with Nutella and half with peanut butter, and then fold it along the line between the two, roll it up and eat it, it's tastes like what I imagine being in heaven feels like.I love my job.
Quote from: Katie on 05 November, 2015, 04:27:08 pmIf you spread a pancake half with Nutella and half with peanut butter, and then fold it along the line between the two, roll it up and eat it, it's tastes like what I imagine being in heaven feels like.I love my job.Oh yum, that sounds almost as good as the chocolate and chestnut puree pancake I buy in Val d'Isere
Gotham, the village in Notts, is directly linked to Gotham City, of Batman fame. This is due to it's reputation, in the Middle Ages, of being a village of lunatics.
Kim, you are very bad!
I was on a personal safety course yesterday, and the facilitator guy told us that the thing about knowledge is, if you're in the know, you've got the edge.
Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 November, 2015, 09:55:41 pmI was on a personal safety course yesterday, and the facilitator guy told us that the thing about knowledge is, if you're in the know, you've got the edge.Was he from Unthinkable Solutions? Or maybe he was played by Ricky Gervais. Either way, did you manage not to laugh?
Dorothy Hodgkin, Chancellor of the University of Bristol (1971 to 1988), was the first British woman to win the Nobel Prize for science. She remains the only woman to have received this award.
Quote from: Tim Hall on 11 November, 2015, 10:25:27 pmQuote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 November, 2015, 09:55:41 pmI was on a personal safety course yesterday, and the facilitator guy told us that the thing about knowledge is, if you're in the know, you've got the edge.Was he from Unthinkable Solutions? Or maybe he was played by Ricky Gervais. Either way, did you manage not to laugh?Please tell me that someone managed to respond with a straight face and tell him they'd always thought that if they were in the know, they were on a ledge.
Andrij. I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT
That if you divide a mass of Ura stuff into spheres of diameter 'x', or cubes of side 'x', the pile of stuff you have has the same total surface area.