Recent content by Tabster

The substance is just clay, it act like a thermal barrier and cause the blade edge where the clay is thinner to act like its quenched rapidly, where it's thicker the metal cools slower and is tempered. So you have a hard brittle cutting edge and a springy main part of the blade. The wavey...

hearty congratulations

I almost spoilt my ballot paper in principle, but in the end I voted No, if I thought that the noes were going to win by too big a margin I would have voted yes. I'm basically in favour of PR so having a referendum on which kind of first past the post system we use is a question of no...

I was at school when they first allowed calculators in maths class (not in exams, just during lessons) and we had to have lessons in using them because of this kind of ambiguity. We were taught to work out everything to the right of division sign first and store that in memory then work out...

The 5 top types of clock escapements and an example of each - 5 - Verge escapements - the Mudge remontoire escapement, an early attempt at winning the famous navigation prize eventually won by Harrison 4 - Recoil escapements- the French drum, unusually both pallets work on the same tooth of...

I don't like 'em, can't even remember why, but I know I don't like them.

Happy Birthday Downtown, best wishes for the future.

But why would anyone want a cow with sharks teeth, it wouldn't be able to eat grass, likewise a cow lacking in sweat glands because its skin is the same as a snakes, wouldn't be able to regulate its temperature. No one is going to try to produce cows like this, why would they? Not...

No one is trying to produce poison cows, but that's not the same as it being 'physically impossible with current science' to produce them. You can find the poison producing sequence anywhere, it doesn't have to be from another herbivore. That the thing with DNA, its basically the same...

Wow, starting to sound like a real spooky mystery!... hold on , what about the next closest ? Or you could ask the Mormons

Perhaps you could just phone the closest cemetery to you and ask to them to check the details against their records and see if they come up with a match.

Isn't there anything else written on it other than 1908?

Sheep farmers in the north of england had thier own base 10/base 5 hybrid counting system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Tan_Tethera This is where hickory, dickory, doc came from in the rhyme "The mouse ran up the clock".

Sorry to ask again, but I think my post may have got lost in the scuffle. :)

I take it you haven't attended a kebab shop, which is perhaps why you think putting lemon juice on a kebab is a "derogatory image"