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If I put the cat in the microwave, Herself will ensure I leave the house. 
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Oh, c'mon...think of it as a little house for the cat. On a rotating platform, so he doesn't get bored of always getting the same view. And all the heating he can handle.
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I'll let you present that to Herself. Wear a cup!
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I'd be more inclined for the boxing gloves.
Your foota toucha my balls, back of your heada toucha the floor.
Hers wouldn't be an act of self defence. Why bother starting now?
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Eh, with comments like that, I recommend you go back to lurking...
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Hmmm. With comments like your previous one in this thread and this one, thanks, but I'll not be troubling you for advice.
One bad joke(yours) turned into another(mine) before someone (you, of all people) suggested I cease to contribute.
At least you ended with joke. 
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I think it's fairly clear, even without the joke icon, what my intent was when I responded to Griff.
The problem with your joke, is that there's plenty of people who would actually mean the sort of thing you wrote, and I took it as being kinda crass and offensive. And I don't recall you posting too much, so I'm not familiar with which type you may be. So there, you can use that as the benefit of doubt.
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It's days later and then it came to me that you were a bit vague on this point:OriginalGriff wrote: If I put the cat in the microwave,
Please clarify if she will be angry if you put the cat in the microwave or only angry if you put the cat in the microwave and actually run it for a while.
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The physical proximity will suffice.
No electrical connection need be established.
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Might I suggest you either have a crack in the mug, or the glaze has, well, de-glazed and the mug become porous? (from the outside). I've a couple of mugs that when new were fine in the microwave, with age (and a visible hairline crack in one) now get hotter than a very hot thing if inadvertently used in the microwave.
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It's more by mugs withing a certain set (and other dishes) - some heat up - some do not.
The crack idea is not without merit but suggest that if the cup were used following a washing, especially a prolonged one as in a dishwasher, that it would cleave at the crack from stress. Only hypothetical.
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Metal content of the ceramic or glaze?
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Metallic content in the ceramic glaze can be a fact it's more content of the ceramic, itself. Most "metallic content" is inert to the microwaves (transparent). After all, the ceramics, themselves, are primarily aluminum (tri)oxide and silicon dioxide. In an oxidized form, most metallic elements lose their metallic properties (rust is typically diamagnetic vs. iron, which is ferromagnetic). Not quite a guarantee. Magnetite is an iron oxide that is ferromagnetic - and is the original way that humans discovered magnetism.
The primary absorbers of the microwave radiation in your oven are -OH bonds (a rotational resonance). The resonance means they absorb the radiation and try to rotate - which, banging around against other molecules, ends up as transnational and finally thermal energy. Besides water, other (particularly organic) molecules contain these bonds and bonds with (very) near resonant frequencies. Fats and oils (cooking, not motor), for example.
Now in the raw, many metal oxides are, in fact, hydrated to varying degrees (as are a lot of compounds: e.g., copper sulfate is white but the most common form of it, the hydrate, is quite bright blue). During the scintering process, the water is driven off. Also, hydroxy bonds are dehydrated as the matrix of molten oxides is formed. Ceramic are, at least internally, anhydrous and amorphous metal oxide hunks. Transparent to microwaves.
Metals, themselves, can act as an antenna, absorbing the microwaves and once absorbed, get really hot really fast. If they have a point, which is a place that would cause a local higher potential: sparks ! Smooth rounded things can act as shields (like aluminum foil to prevent local overheating - but I've never risked it). Thing metallic decorations put on a one-time beautiful display as they burn up (and become transparent to microwaves as oxides).
Now I cannot dismiss 100% that a metallic coating is at fault but realizing it is competing with a massive (by comparison) sink of water (used to spread the delight of coffee into a greater portion of the universe) lead me to think it's intrinsic to the selection of materials in the starting clay (whether deliberate or as impurities).
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Nightwish - Ghost Love Score[^]
A friend of mine sent me the Millenium list of Heavy Metals (De Millenniumlijst van Zware Metalen[^]), which I've been listening to for the past few weeks.
It has some old favorites in it, some albums I never liked and some albums I didn't know yet.
One such old favorite is Nightwish's Century Child on #37.
However, my favorite Nightwish album is Once, the follow-up to Century Child, which got very good reviews at the time, but somehow isn't on this list.
After Century Child I put on Once and I've been listening to it ever since.
Once is the last album with singer Tarja, which is still my favorite Nightwish singer to date.
Her successor, Anette Olzon, was a pop singer who didn't even come close to the operatic soprano of Tarja, so I stopped following Nightwish after that.
The current (Dutch!) singer Floor Jansen is awesome though and their new album is pretty great!
Anyway, an old favorite this week, the epic Ghost Love Score 
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Nice. I quite like the next song that came up too "Over The Hills And Far Away".
They are going on my late night mellow playlist.
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I love that one!
The original is by Gary Moore by the way.
For another cool version look for Thyrfing.
And look for Patty Gurdy if you wonder how it would sound on a hurdy gurdy
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Probably didn't do it justice last night (I did enjoy but was quite tired), I played it again and was blown away by it. Thoroughly enjoyed it tonight, I think it's one of those songs that get better with each play.
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I still love it after 16 years
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The French driver’s speed in submission (9)
[HINT] What French drivers can you think of?
The French driver = PROST
speed = RATE
in submission = PROSTRATE Alain Prost[^] was the greatest French Formula 1 racing driver, winning four world championship titles (only Fangio, Schumacher and Hamilton have won more). Some commentators rank him as possibly the greatest driver of all time.
"The French" was both a mis-direction (not la or le as usual) but also a hint that we are talking about a very specific French driver.
modified 27-Nov-20 8:29am.
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Speed in French: "vitesse"
unassertiveness
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bit long for 9 letters... 
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I actually meant this:
unassertiveness
tive => vite
ess => sse
=> vitesse
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ah ok, but still no (bit short this time!)
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PROSTRATE
French driver - PROST
Speed - RATE
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Blimey - you left that late! Well done though. I'd already posted the explanation before I saw your solution, though you just beat me to it.
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