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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Started conversation Jun 6, 2010
What connects:
a) A police patrol car
b) The Apollo Lunar Module
c) A solar-powered subway car. (Think about it!)
and
d) a functioning flush lavatory.
There are klaxons, naturally so beware.
But at all times strive to be bold, preferably Interesting but never obvious.
Good Luck!
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jun 6, 2010
P.S Googling and Wikipedia are forbidden. Forgot to add that.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jun 6, 2010
No nibbles to save me from having to do my Coursework?
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Mu Beta Posted Jun 6, 2010
I'm pretty sure I know this one. I'll keep my mitts off it for now.
B
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jun 6, 2010
Cheers MB. 
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Jun 6, 2010
Point b) Clive...
Do we need to know the codename for the Service Module or the actual Moon Lander module??
GT
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jun 6, 2010
The first one.
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Jun 6, 2010
...as in Apollo 11 theservice module being 'Columbia'?
GT
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jun 6, 2010
Yes but specifically the lander part - the eagle.
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Jun 6, 2010
So I can forget about Yankee Clipper/Flying Dutchman, Charlie Brown/Snoopy et.al?
GT
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Geggs Posted Jun 6, 2010
Which, if the title is any guide, suggests that they are all related to flight in some way, since ad hoc always sounds to me like sometime done 'on the fly'.
Geggs
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jun 6, 2010
Actually not - Two of them arguable had moving parts but 3 out of 4 of them were stationary.
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Jun 6, 2010
OED geggs
Ad Hoc. Done for a particular purpose only!
GT
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Jun 6, 2010
Ouch!!!
Waits for bob getting a klaxon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GT
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toybox Posted Jun 6, 2010
You know what this thread makes me feel like?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b5aW08ivHU
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- 1: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Jun 6, 2010)
- 2: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Jun 6, 2010)
- 3: toybox (Jun 6, 2010)
- 4: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Jun 6, 2010)
- 5: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Jun 6, 2010)
- 6: Mu Beta (Jun 6, 2010)
- 7: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Jun 6, 2010)
- 8: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Jun 6, 2010)
- 9: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Jun 6, 2010)
- 10: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Jun 6, 2010)
- 11: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Jun 6, 2010)
- 12: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Jun 6, 2010)
- 13: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Jun 6, 2010)
- 14: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Jun 6, 2010)
- 15: Geggs (Jun 6, 2010)
- 16: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Jun 6, 2010)
- 17: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Jun 6, 2010)
- 18: bobstafford (Jun 6, 2010)
- 19: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Jun 6, 2010)
- 20: toybox (Jun 6, 2010)
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