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98 is a good age, just a shame he didn't make the 100.
There are not many people who can claim to have invented a new type of telescope, but he is one of them.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
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I'm beginning to have a funny image of DD hovering over the obit's column, waiting to report to CP.
(Either that or its something more sinister, relating to his predeliction for extermination)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I love obits.
Everyday one of the first things I do is to see who has left the party.
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Dalek Dave wrote: There are not many people who can claim to have invented a new type of...
My horological hero is George Daniels who died a couple of years ago. His co-axial escapement was the first real innovation in watchmaking since the time of John Harrison, that is, in over 250 years. Yet, his death was mostly unreported in the media. If you buy any modern Omega watch, Daniels' co-axial is what drives the gearing with unparalleled precision and timing. I had the privilege of meeting him once and he was a big fan of BMW bikes.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Perhaps there's something in it that will make the mooted publication in Private Eye.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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"Occasionally appertaining to XX?"(10)
Now I think THIS one is hard.
Let's see.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
modified 16-Jan-14 4:23am.
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Dalek Dave wrote: XX
Dalek Dave wrote: THIS on[sic] is hard
Shirley it needs a third X then?
speramus in juniperus
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When was the last time you had to change a fuse? Last night a bulb blew in one of my lamps, on replacing the lamp didn't work. This morning I changed the fuse, none in the house, and when I thought about it I could not think the last time I had to replace a fuse.
Yes, I checked the old bulb in a different lamp and it [0] didn't work and [1] rattled when shook.
speramus in juniperus
modified 16-Jan-14 4:01am.
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Couple o' months ago - it's an old house, and the fuse box is mostly just that: real wire fuses. One of the halogen spots went, and took the fuse with it. Now all my spots have been changed to LEDs and I don't have that problem any more.
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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We have switch fuses in our box, so you never have to change a wire - or very, very rarely.
About five-six years ago, we had a problem with the fuse box in Budapest, but that was fuped wiring and needed an electrician - it was 50:50 which side of the fuse box needed work and if it should be the electricity company or me to do the work, so I let him make the call rather then me go boom.
speramus in juniperus
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The sparky fitted a switch fuse as a plug-in replacement for one circuit when we had the bathroom converted (since it was a new shower installation it had to be done to building regs) but the others are the old bakelite two-prongs-and-a-bit-of-wire jobbies. I'm kinda scared to think about upgrading the whole fuse box as that would involve modern building regs as well, and that would probably mean a complete overhaul of the house electrics. They aren't broken, so I ain't fixing them... 
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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Check with a sparky, but to the best of my knowledge he can replace the whole fuse box independently. As long as the wiring is sound, it does not need to be brought up to current standards. Similarly if you want to put in a new loop or sub-loop - as with your bathroom - only that part needs to be up to date.
speramus in juniperus
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We have an early-80s fuse box; not quite bakelite but neither those new-fangled ultra-thin fuses either. I got mates rates from a sparky when we put in new wiring in the kitchen. I did most of the wiring and he gave it the all-clear eyeball. He did some leak tests in the fuse box and was not impressed with the sparky who fitted it before we bought the house (in short, nuttin' to do wiv me guv, 'onest). I remember him saying if you don't look too closely it'll be okay. He's since moved to Vancouver Island, possibly to put distance between him and any detonation.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: rattled when shook.
Ah-ha! .... ask yourself this, did it rattle before you shook it? 
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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You mean like a tube of Smarties in the old days.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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My tubes of Smarties never rattle ... 
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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That's because it's just a tube...
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 True ....
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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but if we shake you?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Bergholt Stuttley Johnson wrote: but if we shake you?
Weeeellll that depends ....
If I'm in a good mood, it could be fun ....
But if I'm in a bad mood ... you will get a smack round the chops! 
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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Unless you count a few strings of christmas lights that continued not to work after I tried a fuse swap I don't think I ever have. I had a breaker trip for semi-unexplained reasons a few years ago; but that was a one off. (Only semi-unexplained because while the circuit is running near capacity I've no idea what might've pushed it over then.) Before that I'd need to go back to the first few years after my parents first got a microwave when it and the coffee pot were sharing a breaker that couldn't run power at the same time.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Ahhh, point 6 always makes me laugh. They have missed out the sub-heading "But we can be reaaaaaally flexible about what's evil".
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