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QI - "Perfection lay within, or I am already here?"
gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Feb 19, 2011
Clive
Don't w*rk too hard!
GT
QI - "Perfection lay within, or I am already here?"
pebblederook-The old guy wearing surfer beads- what does he think he looks like? Posted Feb 20, 2011
Congratulations Clive, that has to be as close to a perfect QI as makes no difference. You set the question, tell everybody the answer and we walk back and forth across it for 400 posts.
Brilliant.
QI - "Perfection lay within, or I am already here?"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Feb 20, 2011
Wow. Thanks Pebble!
QI - "Perfection lay within, or I am already here?"
shagbark Posted Feb 20, 2011
he sure had me fooled. and he keeps coming up with words like minium or noriam that I never heard before.
QI - "Perfection lay within, or I am already here?"
shagbark Posted Feb 20, 2011
make that Noria the m is only on oriam 
QI - "Perfection lay within, or I am already here?"
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Feb 20, 2011
>>Sure had me fooled [...] coming up with words like minium or noria that I never heard before<<
Not merely Quiet Interesting but also extra-curricula!
Now you can go engage family and co-workers with your knowledge of ancient Syrian waterwheels! 
QI - "Perfection lay within, or I am already here?"
shagbark Posted Feb 21, 2011
A little unfinished busiuness. I said the sound might be heard within five miles of Port Huron, MI
the response: Not even close.
I found this with bing:
On Jan. 11, 1805, the Michigan Territory was created. That same year, fire destroyed Detroit, which was rebuilt in part with pine milled on Bunce Creek and the Black River.
The early sawmills were primitive affairs. Small dams seldom provided enough water to run the mills for more than a few months a year. Axes were used to fell trees and cut them into lengths not exceeding 12 feet. The sides would be squared and the timbers hauled to the mill, where a waterwheel powered a single upright saw.
In 1967 I saw such a wheel still operating in Dexter Michigan (NW of Ann Arbor) but then it did not sound anything like the one in this QI.
QI - "Perfection lay within, or I am already here?"
shagbark Posted Feb 21, 2011
the one I saw in dexter was onlyabout thirty foot tall but looked just like this
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Al-naurah.jpg
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MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. Posted Feb 21, 2011
Now, this is a waterwheel!
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-1590213/stock-photo-laxey-water-wheel-in-the-isle-of-man.html
MMF
QI - "Perfection lay within, or I am already here?"
shagbark Posted Feb 21, 2011
So MMF have you been to that one?
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- 401: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Feb 19, 2011)
- 402: pebblederook-The old guy wearing surfer beads- what does he think he looks like? (Feb 20, 2011)
- 403: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Feb 20, 2011)
- 404: shagbark (Feb 20, 2011)
- 405: shagbark (Feb 20, 2011)
- 406: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Feb 20, 2011)
- 407: shagbark (Feb 21, 2011)
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- 409: MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. (Feb 21, 2011)
- 410: shagbark (Feb 21, 2011)
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