h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Aye. Hence the old saying "as reliable as victorian plumbing"

Oh - THAT kind of flush. I thought you were trying to flush the whole Pacific through it. Big job.

A victorian flush is a royal flush surely

In a Victorian Royal Flush is the 'King of Hearts' replaced by 'Prince Consort of Hearts'?

Just asking

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I'm pretty happy to have cleaned the old gunk off the grinding inserts. Grandma would be proud. But I'm afraid using baking soda did some damage to the cream coloured enamel on the casing. The green seems fine. Any tips on how to get the shine back on enamel? I like me a shiny machine me.

Wood ash and water is meant to polish enamel up well. Apply with an old pair of grandma's undies for best results

How does one convert film to Imperial measures?

It is uncanny that the US is really the only nation
who still refuse to adopt the metric system and yet
they are completely dependent on 16 and 35mm film
for their entire culture. Ironic? How'd that happen?

~jwf~

These days most films come as portable external hard drives, which raises another question: How can we polish our shoes when we don't have any bad celluloid films to recycle into shoe polish

Baking soda? Wood ash and water?

So, I better go burn some wood. One of these days.

Choose your wood carefully, I find the best ash for this purpose comes from the apple tree, Malus domestica. But take care not to incorporate any stray spirtles, as this always leads to a denatured end product.

oh and well water from a chalk aquifer will balance the mix.

The perils of having two h2g2 windows open at once...

I'd asked elsewhere for advice on getting a better job, but I got that helpful response mixed up with loonycat's advice in the thread above:

"Apply with an old pair of grandma's undies for best results"


Well, it came back to haunt me at the interview...

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It is interesting that most of our soft drinks are sold in 2 Litre bottles (of course we spell it liter).

I have always heard that the main reason for our hanging on to Imperial Measure is because of the huge cost of retooling the gages and dials on our machines. Many of our drawings (especially government projects) are required to be dimensioned in both units. As they are made using Imperial the numbers add up while the metric ones do not.

A while back I was doing a few projects in the Caribbean Islands. The customer was supposed to take all the actual measurements of the finished building, He insisted as sending all of them in decimals of a foot (we use feet, inches and sixteenths) When I told him I would rather have cm or mm as I had to convert them anyway, he was shocked that we understood what they were.

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Reminds me of that thingamabob worth several million dollars we sent to and lost completely because, as it turned out later, one team of engineers had used imperials while the other team used metrics

Must have cost a few rounds of screw up that

My wifi printer won't work. It seems to have a spooler error, so I turned it upside down but cannot find a spool.

Also, please tell me where to find its obsolescence chip, because it is not very old, but I think it believes it is.

You'll probably need a frier down from the monastery kitchen.
Just ask for the chip monk

Back to grinding inserts - anyone knows if the 12" oval ones are still available? Preferably not from Austria...

I believe you can still get them in B*lg**m. But only those made of copper

Ooh - copper. That conducts electricity though, doesn't it? Might not be suitable for granny's undies.

It will be fine if given a coat of Hammenheimer's balm. (But could cause some skin discolouration and a vague tingling sensation).

PP.

Ooh, Hammenheimer's... Is that the one you should never mix with linseed oil?