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I'm sure someone has done this idea before, but I
can't find it?
1) Get loads of teeny steel filings, mix in with
melted
cheese in ready meal tub.Quickly get a yuuge
magnet to
sort
them out N-S wise. Problem - bit crunchy if you
have to
eat it.
2) Melt half the cheese into empty
ready meal tub,
let
it set. Drop in a bar magnet, melt the other half of
the
cheese etc.
3) Go to Orienteering club meetings, until thrown
out.
( Wonders if there shouldn't it be called an
Occidenteering
club in the West?)
Moss growing on trees at the equator
http://scienceline....getkey.php?key=1053
A spot of light reading [not_morrison_rm, Nov 08 2018]
Cheese-effect nail polish.
https://www.ebay.co...p5713.c100041.m2061
Obvious when you think of it. [MaxwellBuchanan, Nov 12 2018]
Video - I got bored and made some
https://drive.googl...VAUR4oRAAqjGj9dicVg
[not_morrison_rm, Nov 18 2018]
[link]
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Iron filings don't acquire permanent magnetism when exposed to an external field; you need steel filings, where the domains become permanently aligned. |
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// crunchy if you have to eat it // |
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Indeed. If you eat iron filings, you end up needing amalgam fillings. |
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Thank goodness this has not provoked a round of cheese puns.
We must tread caerphilly. |
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//tread caerphilly// Edamn!! - I was going to do that one |
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^ Edit,the borg is correct, so steel filings it is. |
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This sounds a bit heavy on the gut. |
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// the borg is correct // |
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Sp., Gr. "The Borg are correct". |
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Oooh, you and your plural nouns. |
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Been thinking for applications, sneak one under the
bumper (fender) of a car, and the limburger scent
would be eminently trackable. |
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And for my next trick, the Captain Oates Exoskeletons
and the ...override function. |
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//We must tread caerphilly.// |
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Agreed, I camembert bad puns. |
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//We must tread caerphilly.// |
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Yes, it sounds like it curd be unpleasant, what ever whey you say it. |
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Could we not create a standardised list of cheese puns, in
order of escalation, for use here? Perhaps as part of the
"help" file? Obviously, "brie", "Caerphilly", "gouda" and "feta"
would be opening gambits, with the trickier ones like
"emmental" and "camembert" further down the list. |
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Akkwait like this tradition. |
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//Could we not create a standardized list of cheese puns, in order of escalation, for use here?// |
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That would be whey too hard. |
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<BZZZZZZZT> Challenge, Mr. chairman - repetition of "whey". |
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There are Stil-tons of cheese puns left to use. Hallaloumi!!! |
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I want to complain, the Akkawai cheese alluded to by
Voice, refers to the city of Acre. |
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I can only say that they are producing cheese under
false pretences. |
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The most cursory search shows that Acre is actually
about 5,559.871 acres in size now. |
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//<BZZZZZZZT> Challenge, Mr. chairman - repetition of "whey".// |
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Well that's just grate. Not much gets past yer eyes. |
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You all crack me up. Let's see you try Limburger. I mean as a
pun. Don't eat that stuff...it smells like dead rats. My
momma used to put that stuff on crackers and it stank the
whole house up. Bleh. |
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Oddly enough, Limburger is made by slim burghers -
while they eat a lot of fatty cheese, making cheese is
good exercise which means they don't put on much
weight. |
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A fat, juicy burger needs cheddar, or Swiss will do in a pinch. But there's only one kind of cheese for a slimburger. |
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If you're going to make a burger, make sure you use decent
beef. I don't mean a rump-, flank- or skirt - burger: it should
be a cut from one of the limbs. |
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// // the borg is correct // |
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Sp., Gr. "The Borg are correct".// |
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You're sure you want to go with "are" ? |
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Since it can be phrased "We are correct" or "They are correct" (third person plural) then yes, we'll stick with that. |
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"The Borg is correct" (third person singular) is inappropriate, since we represent all Borg, not just one unit. |
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Howabout "We are not amused"? Just asking. |
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(begins working on Camembert-based magnetic
cheese, for sabotage duties) |
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// for sabotage duties // |
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So, designed to clog things up then ? |
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Won't that give you wind ? |
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My fried wanted me to help him stock his new safari park and start by writing down all the requirements for animals. So, for the large African animals section I had to spec a rhino. |
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I was pondering magnetism/biology last night.. |
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1) How does moss know to grow on the north side of
trees, if it doesn't have a magnetic sense? |
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2) What does moss do in the event of a pole switch?
Does it migrate to the other side of the tree? |
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Still waiting for the Nobel prize, must have got lost
in the
post or summat. |
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Moss grows wherever it's damp enough, I think. |
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// How does moss know to grow on the north side of trees, if it doesn't have a magnetic sense?// |
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Moss doesn't like full-sun. It grows most thickly on the North side of trees because it is in constant shadow. |
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Hmm, according to some website "..in the southern
hemisphere, moss mostly grows on the south sides of
trees." |
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Extraordinary long article on moss growing on trees at
the
equator - link. |
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// it is in constant shadow. // |
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"If you only knew the power of the Dark Side !" |
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Apparently there are such things as food grade iron
filings. Might put a label stating "Gaussing the cheese
every [insert period of time] is recommend" etc. |
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// could you have food grade poison? // |
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Yes. Many common food constituents and additives are toxic if consumed in sufficiently large quantities; ethanol is an excellent example. Even more so for most medications, which are also effectively "food grade", in that they're intended to be ingested. |
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^^ ‘food grade’ in this context means the filings have
no sharp bits. |
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Over 30% of the small-molecule components of an organic
strawberry are either known or potential carcinogens. |
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Incidentally, it is apparently possible to buy "cheese effect"
nail polish. <link> |
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// components of ... strawberry are ... known ... carcinogens // |
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That's nothing. Oxygen is notorious for its propensity to produce highly reactive free-radical species, which are well known to be very damaging to organic systems. And your planet's atmosphere has a 21% concentration of the filthy stuff ... |
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And have you seen what plain water will do to iron and steel in just a few days ? |
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Be afraid ... be very afraid ... |
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