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Mu Beta Posted Oct 14, 2003
Fitting glass puts a lot of stress on whichever bit of the window is fitted first - usually the bottom. Glass, being particularly brittle, does not react well to any torque stresses, and the extra thickness is a safeguard against this.
B
Thread about things that are WRONG
DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me! Posted Oct 14, 2003
I am quite 
about the glass thing, it's the one I always liked to believe, but whatever... It's better to know the truth!
OETZI HONEY
DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me! Posted Oct 14, 2003
I am 26 kg. Is that okay?
OETZI HONEY
Apparition™ (Mourning Empty the best uncle anyone could wish for) Posted Oct 14, 2003
c'mon della. Thats lass than one of my legs
OETZI, admit to being a yank in disguise :-þ
OETZI HONEY
dasilva Posted Oct 14, 2003
Cheers B 
Is it a sad statement about our education system that even in degree level physics they perpetuate that myth? 
daS - not far off 100kg and his consultant doesn't actually mind, even if his GP does 
OETZI HONEY
Apparition™ (Mourning Empty the best uncle anyone could wish for) Posted Oct 14, 2003
My GP doesn't seem to care that I'm 114KG
are you short?
OETZI HONEY
dasilva Posted Oct 14, 2003
Decidedly average 5'10" - but my GP's the spitting image and character of the EMH from Voyager 
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Apparition™ (Mourning Empty the best uncle anyone could wish for) Posted Oct 15, 2003
"I'm a doctor, not a door stop" EMH from star trek: Fisrt Contact 
I asked you height becaused I've been confused of late by peoples weight on TV. Eg someone who looks big and buffed on TV and the american vioce over says 180lbs and it turns out these TV americans are buffed hobbits 
DELLA SWEETHEART
OETZI Posted Oct 15, 2003
You're cute, celebrate it!
For the record I am an indoeuropean K9 hybrid who is leader of a small pack in the North Pennines of the UK.
Della knows the score, please refer to her if you reqire further details. She keeps files you know!
DELLA SWEETHEART
dasilva Posted Oct 15, 2003
*bursts into the Perry Mason Theme*
Sorry, couldn't resist
DELLA SWEETHEART
Apparition™ (Mourning Empty the best uncle anyone could wish for) Posted Oct 15, 2003
wasn't that in post one?
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26199 Posted Oct 15, 2003
Alright, here's a few...
The direction water swirls doesn't depend on what hemisphere you're in.
The whole 'wait half an hour after eating before you swim' thing is untrue.
The study that brought 'subliminal advertising' to mainstream attention was flawed/faked -- I forget which. Subliminal messages don't work.
The claim that "more than 100 pennies isn't legal tender" is untrue; it usually continues "so shops don't have to accept them" -- shops don't have to accept anything, period.
Virtually everything you read in a chain email is untrue, inaccurate, or plain impossible.
Hmm. Hopefully I managed to get something everyone's believed at one time or another 
... certainly I've been taken in by some of the above.
Oh -- and a duck's quack *does* echo. This has been scientifically verified... (seriously).
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Apparition™ (Mourning Empty the best uncle anyone could wish for) Posted Oct 15, 2003
" Subliminal messages don't work"
um, wrong
That's how propper spead reading works. Same principle
OETZI HONEY
DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me! Posted Oct 15, 2003
No, I'm not 26 kg, but I made you , didn't I? (I didn't want to put the real number, but Oetzi told me to lighten up... 
OETZI HONEY
DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me! Posted Oct 15, 2003
>>but my GP's the spitting image and character of the EMH from Voyager <<
Does he have the same bedside manner? 
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- 42: DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me! (Oct 14, 2003)
- 43: OETZI (Oct 14, 2003)
- 44: DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me! (Oct 14, 2003)
- 45: Parker (Oct 14, 2003)
- 46: Apparition™ (Mourning Empty the best uncle anyone could wish for) (Oct 14, 2003)
- 47: dasilva (Oct 14, 2003)
- 48: Apparition™ (Mourning Empty the best uncle anyone could wish for) (Oct 14, 2003)
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- 55: Apparition™ (Mourning Empty the best uncle anyone could wish for) (Oct 15, 2003)
- 56: 26199 (Oct 15, 2003)
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