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small flat metal pyramids
Jim Pooley Started conversation Oct 20, 2003
about 3 inches square they appear in pairs about 2 inches apart in our roads often near junctions (maybe a coincidence).
What are they/What are they for?
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Oct 21, 2003
Lady in a tree, can I ask a question. Why do you post a book smiley to the thread? Is it to tell us that you are keeping an eye on the thread? When I am interested in a conversation I come across, I just subscribe to it, without posting.
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Cheerful Dragon Posted Oct 21, 2003
In long threads that you don't visit regularly and that grow quickly (like Tell Us a Joke), it can be useful to mark the place you read up to. I don't do it myself, but I can understand people who do.
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Oct 21, 2003
Ah I see. I think the new 'x new posts' link is supposed to do something similar, but it isn't working yet.
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Whisky Posted Oct 21, 2003
It works pretty well for me ... as long as you remember to refresh your MP page every time you visit it... - there seem to be a few snags with very long threads but I find it's a godsend.
I suspect the things you're on about are used as fixed points by the guys with the theodolites when they're out surveying the roads etc...
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IctoanAWEWawi Posted Oct 21, 2003
"guys with the theodolites"
I thought the theodolites were extinct now and had been for millenia?
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Whisky Posted Oct 21, 2003
Naw! Not extinct... having said that, nowadays you can get a vaccine to treat it quite effectively 
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Oct 21, 2003
No, it was the thesauruses that became extinct. The theodolites survived in a little island in south-east Asia and are being actively re-introduced into the wild.
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Whisky Posted Oct 21, 2003
Ahh, I'm afraid you're not completely right there Gnomon, whilst there is a breeding plan underway and plans afoot to re-introduce the lesser-spotted Thesaurus and its less well-known cousin the Antarctic Thesaurus into the wild, these particular thesauri (note the spelling please) were not the rarest sup-species... That particular honour goes to the Greater Thesaurus, which has yet to be successfully mated in captivity 
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Jimbob - Got a Favourite Band? Tell Us All About It at A2464355 Posted Oct 21, 2003
Sounds like my last girlfriend....
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IctoanAWEWawi Posted Oct 21, 2003
That theodolite line works on well at all levels.
Theodolites being introduced to the wild.
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Whisky Posted Oct 21, 2003
**reads backlog**
Yikes, looks like I got my theodolites mixed up with my thesauri somewhere in there
Painful!!!
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Jim Pooley Posted Oct 21, 2003
I thought the Theodolites were a religious group who thought it was ok to marry 1 3 5 or 7 wives.... so the Thesauri ate them.
Thank you guys for a feasible sounding answer as the saying goes...
Amidst the nonsense....
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- 1: Jim Pooley (Oct 20, 2003)
- 2: Lady in a tree (Oct 21, 2003)
- 3: Gnomon - time to move on (Oct 21, 2003)
- 4: Cheerful Dragon (Oct 21, 2003)
- 5: Gnomon - time to move on (Oct 21, 2003)
- 6: Whisky (Oct 21, 2003)
- 7: IctoanAWEWawi (Oct 21, 2003)
- 8: Whisky (Oct 21, 2003)
- 9: Gnomon - time to move on (Oct 21, 2003)
- 10: Whisky (Oct 21, 2003)
- 11: Jimbob - Got a Favourite Band? Tell Us All About It at A2464355 (Oct 21, 2003)
- 12: IctoanAWEWawi (Oct 21, 2003)
- 13: Whisky (Oct 21, 2003)
- 14: Jim Pooley (Oct 21, 2003)
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