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Originally posted by bnb:
Originally posted by rpaske:
Remember those good ole days?Some of us are still in those old days. My connection at home varies between 19 to 44K. If I want to download something I have to keep reconnecting until I get something “decent” in the 40K range. I hate high-bandwidth required websites.
I’m still in the Good Ol’ Days too… 42k is a good way for me to realize to SLOW DOWN (grins).. so I save my 100’s of emails etc for over my morning coffee.. downloads?? (it takes me hours to download pictures that others send me.. but I love it!!)
~The Lil Otter
Welcome back Otter!
{Now I have the Welcome back Cotter song going off in my head!}
My people have finally arrived!!!
Now you’ll all have to mind your P’s and Q’s! Geez, bout time they got here, only been 500 centuries. Getting full of cheese.quote:
Originally posted by Stump Jumpers:
your P’s and Q’s!Challenge of the today … be the first person to accurately indicate where the statement “watch your P’s and Q’s” comes from. I know the answer … but can you find it first!
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Originally posted by EnergySaver:
Challenge of the today … be the first person to accurately indicate where the statement “watch your P’s and Q’s” comes from. I know the answer … but can you find it first!There seems to be no distinct answer but:
One theory is that the phrase comes from the practice in certain British pubs of tallying a customer’s purchases on a blackboard behind the bar, with the notation “P” standing for “pints” and “Q” for quarts. If a customer failed to pay close attention and “mind his P’s and Q’s,” he might well find by evening’s end that the barkeep had padded his tab.
Bob’s Your Uncle!
Mr. WISearcher
[This message has been edited by WISearchers (edited 05-16-2005).]
Source: [Mark Israel, ‘Phrase Origins: “mind your p’s and q’s”‘, The alt.usage.english FAQ file,(line 5082), (29 Sept 1997)]
This expression, meaning “be very careful to behave correctly”,
has been in use from the 17th century on. Theories include: an
admonishment to children learning to write; an admonishment to
typesetters (who had to look at the letters reversed); an
admonishment to seamen not to soil their navy pea-jackets with
their tarred “queues” (pigtails); “mind your pints and quarts”;
“mind your prices and quality”; “mind your pieds and queues”
(either feet and pigtails, or two dancing figures that had to be
accurately performed); the substitution of /p/ for “qu” /kw/ in the
speech of uneducated ancient Romans; or the confusion by students
learning both Latin and Ancient Greek of such cognates as _pente_
and _quintus_. And yes, we’ve heard the joke about the instruction
to new sextons: “Mind your keys and pews.”The most plausible explanation is the one given in the latest
edition of Collins English Dictionary: an alteration of “Mind
your ‘please’s and ‘thank you’s”.Completely off-topic…But, what was the topic anyway?
When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per yearquote:
Originally posted by rpaske:
Completely off-topic…But, what was the topic anyway?
When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per yearTo put that in useful units:
8 furlongs per fortnight.but, how many cubits is that?
That’s what i use to dimension all my drawings at work
I think Q-Bert jumped 25 pixels per hop. How fast he moved would therefore depend on the size of your T.V.
http://users.aol.com/JPMLee/qbert.htmquote:
Originally posted by river_rat:
but, how many cubits is that?That’s what i use to dimension all my drawings at work
That would be over 3,373.10421 cubits per fortnight…
Which, by the way, is also 1.30388105 × 10-10 Parsecs per century!
[This message has been edited by Cheesehead Dave (edited 05-17-2005).]
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Originally posted by Cheesehead Dave:
That would be over 3,373.10421 cubits per fortnight…Which, by the way, is also 1.30388105 × 10-10 Parsecs per century!
[This message has been edited by Cheesehead Dave (edited 05-17-2005).]
How many clicks? (not mouse clicks)
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Originally posted by rpaske:
Completely off-topic…But, what was the topic anyway?
When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per yearquote:
Originally posted by rpaske:
Completely off-topic…But, what was the topic anyway?
When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per yearCorrection…
When ketchup leaves the bottle, the rate of flow would be measured as a volume flow, not linear flow. Thus it would be leaving the bottle at a rate of 1.474 cubic cubits per month or 5.837 bushels per fortnite. This is assuming the temperature of the ketchup is maintained at a constant 307°K and the bottle remains inclined at precisely 45°.
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