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Trout Montague Posted Nov 13, 2011
Has the solution got anything to do with rotation?
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McKay The Disorganised Posted Nov 13, 2011
That wa cushion the verb - not cushion the noun. You already gave a siren for that earlier.
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McKay The Disorganised Posted Nov 13, 2011
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"A featherbed to break the fall." -5
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shagbark Posted Nov 15, 2011
so a parachute is close but not it
The thing was invented just PRIOR to the Egyptian Campaign (abour two years), the individual in Napoleon's army who get's the credit for it then left for the Egyptian campaign AFTERWARDS.It involves a a feather and a string. I give up.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 15, 2011
Well the invented 'thing' goes back a wee bit further that the late 1700s but arrives in it's recognisably 'modern' form then - the invention for which the Napoleonic officer was credited.
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Baron Grim Posted Nov 18, 2011
Clive... You got the Quote of the Day for this and we are all still floundering.
I'll guess.... Egyptian cotton sheets stretched over the roof entrance to a Hopi adobe home. Hopi adobe houses had roof top entrances, with ladders leading down into them. No feather beds need be involved. Hopi Kachina dancers could be nearby with chicken feathers in their outfits.... 
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That's not it either.... feck.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 18, 2011
haha - fame at long last!
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 18, 2011
Nah, the only thing missing is what did this member of Napoleon's armies (all together: "up his sleevies!") get the credit for inventing, which is the missing element from the stop the drop trick with the vase, the feather and the piece of string. 
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thranjax Posted Nov 22, 2011
Wasn't Napoleon's army the first to use tins to store food? Was it a tin can?
If so, a string, feather? Lost there.
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shagbark Posted Nov 22, 2011
He's liable to have some more 
handy...I think I will let someone else solve this one.
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shagbark Posted Nov 25, 2011
Did that Napoleonic scientist create french cuffs (the ones that use cufflinks)?
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 25, 2011
Hi guys, sorry been off hootoo for a few days will try to catch up tonight.
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fluffykerfuffle Posted Nov 25, 2011
you mean the guy with a feather on a long string tied to the back of his britches...
running away from a full regiment of napoleonic soldiers in geek glasses?
dunno
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MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. Posted Nov 25, 2011
I think he was sweeping up all the vases that failed 'not' to miss the ground.
MMF
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Nov 26, 2011
It was not a theodilite, but you might also have one of these if you use one of those.
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- 141: Trout Montague (Nov 13, 2011)
- 142: McKay The Disorganised (Nov 13, 2011)
- 143: McKay The Disorganised (Nov 13, 2011)
- 144: shagbark (Nov 15, 2011)
- 145: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Nov 15, 2011)
- 146: Baron Grim (Nov 18, 2011)
- 147: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Nov 18, 2011)
- 148: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Nov 18, 2011)
- 149: McKay The Disorganised (Nov 18, 2011)
- 150: thranjax (Nov 22, 2011)
- 151: Mu Beta (Nov 22, 2011)
- 152: shagbark (Nov 22, 2011)
- 153: Geggs (Nov 22, 2011)
- 154: shagbark (Nov 25, 2011)
- 155: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Nov 25, 2011)
- 156: Rod (Nov 25, 2011)
- 157: fluffykerfuffle (Nov 25, 2011)
- 158: Rod (Nov 25, 2011)
- 159: MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. (Nov 25, 2011)
- 160: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Nov 26, 2011)
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