Posts by Steve Barnes
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Southerly: Things to be Grateful For: A…, in reply to Just thinking,
Log burners are the way to go.
Didn't the ChCh City Council make those illegal under the clean air rules or somesuch?
I noticed the other day on the "News" that some folks had their "Heat Pumps" cranked up to 11 crying "Oh Thermodynamics, why hast thou forsaken me?". Heat Pumps in sub zero conditions? whoever sold them that idea? -
Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to BenWilson,
I fully intend to use those ideas with my own children. They might involve something like navigating alone across the city, using public transport.
This kid could have used such skilz
When I were a kid this sort of thing only happened if you were drunk.
I once woke up in the Dartford Train yards at 4 in the morning after "drinks after work" aged 15.
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Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to Emma Hart,
Where is the Winkie of St Richie?
Swallowed by an angelic sea monster?
Oh!, the Huge Manatee... -
OnPoint: Easy as 1, 2, 22.8 billion, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
What, no Dunnekey…
That Keynesian Key should go the way of the Dinosaur after what he and his ilk have done to the Global Economy and that Perissodactyla Dunn, that Odd-toed ungulate, should be a little horse and gagging on all that Brontosaurial Bumfluff.
I suppose you could use Brontosaurial Bumfluff for Pallows©, great export opportunity there.overstuffed Cabbage Patch Kids©
Brownlee and Bennet?
Oops, now I will get a bollocking from those without...
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to Bart Janssen,
“Why didn’t he just go around the Englishmen?”
“Because he would have gone out”
“Out? Oh and why was he carrying that funny shaped ball anyway?….”"It's a Haggis, he was going to a barbie after"
"Does he know Ken?"
"Do ye nea ken?"
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Southerly: Things to be Grateful For: A…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Love the Giant Penguin attacking the Japanese Whaler.
It's like "Let's get physical.. Geophysical" -
Welcome to the Irony Bar...
The Mrs 'n' I were only this morning discussing the difference between an Ass and a Mule so I had to check. A Mule is the offspring of a Male Donkey, an Ass, and a female Horse and I wondered about the American term Ass with reference to the British Arse and a Jonkey.
It's getting late,
The bars are closed,
I'll get my pallow,
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OnPoint: Easy as 1, 2, 22.8 billion, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
by my sainted and stranded grandmother that’s floe…
Your Grandmother was called Floe? could have been a cool Chik?.
I’ll get my goat.
Wooo-oo-ooo, what a little typo can doo-oo-ooo
I remember an embarrassing moment with an obituary to a Beloved Aunt;-)
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OnPoint: Easy as 1, 2, 22.8 billion, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
...how many dudes d'ya know flow like that?
Well, there's ..... you
Although, today more like an Iceflow,
Don't cha know,
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Southerly: Things to be Grateful For: A…, in reply to Joe Wylie,
When it happened just that particular variety for miles around would bolt to seed and die.
Aparently they do that
In fact, many bamboos only flower at intervals as long as 65 or 120 years. These taxa exhibit mass flowering (or gregarious flowering), with all plants in the population flowering simultaneously. The longest mass flowering interval known is 130 years, and is found for all the species Phyllostachys bambusoides (Sieb. & Zucc.). In this species, all plants of the same stock flower at the same time, regardless of differences in geographic locations or climatic conditions, then the bamboo dies.
I was wondering if the rapid growth may be a precursor to such an event.