Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: Martin (Admin) on February 03, 2015, 08:18:50 pm
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Did you know...
A violin's bow 'strings' are made from the hair from a horse's tail, but only male horse hair!
Due to the "anatomical design" of the male horse, males don't.... pee ... on its tail hair, the ammonia of which spoils the hair!
What do YOU know?
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You may Have lost the plot :} %) %)
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Never eat yellow snow
Stav
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I am so glad that the forum is back up and running, otherwise we'd never had known that, or its possible implications in building model boats. %%
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OK... <*<
Starboard
Man sailing a corbita (a small coastal vessel with two masts). Marble relief, ca. 256 AD, probably made in Africa Proconsularis (Tunisia). Found at Carthage.
The origin of the term starboard comes from early boating practices. Before ships had rudders on their centrelines, they were steered by use of a specialized steering oar, which was held by an oarsman located in the stern of the ship and, due to the prevalence of right-handed sailors, on the right-hand side of it. The word starboard comes from Old English steorbord, literally meaning the side on which the ship is steered, cognate with the Old Norse words stýri meaning "rudder" (from the verb stýra, "to steer" or "to govern") and borđ meaning etymologically "board", then the "side of a ship".
Port
An early version of "port" is larboard, which itself derives from Middle-English ladebord. In Old English the word was bćcbord, of which cognates are used in other European languages, for example as the German Backbord and the French term bâbord (derived from Middle Dutch). The origin of lade has not been determined but some would connect it with the verb lade (to load), referring to the side on which cargo was loaded.[1] The term larboard, when shouted in the wind, was presumably too easy to confuse with starboard[2] and so the word port came to replace it. Port is derived from the practice of sailors mooring ships on the left side at ports in order to prevent the steering oar from being crushed.
Larboard continued to be used well into the 1850s by whalers, despite being long superseded by "port" in the merchant vessel service at the time. "Port" was not officially adopted by the Royal Navy until 1844 (Ray Parkin, H. M. Bark Endeavour). Robert FitzRoy, captain of Darwin's HMS Beagle, is said to have taught his crew to use the term port instead of larboard, thus propelling the use of the word into the Naval Services vocabulary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_and_starboard
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Feeling bored, Martin?
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I was only kidding {-)
Just so pleased to have Mayhem to read again, in between bouts of deck plank laying.
Many thanks to Martin and his Team :-))
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This is why I worry about you, Martin...
Rich
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Too much time on your hands Martin? {-) Nevertheless, very interesting facts which I'll file away in my memory banks - where they'll be lost among all the other trivia :o :}
Peter.
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O0...jus a little more of the story..... whist waiting for our WEB site to awaken {-)........Derek
"Many years ago British and European ships had side rudders ( like Viking ships) not rudders hung on the stern like today the rudder was hung on the right hand quarter and this was known as the steer board side of the ship over the centuries it got corrupted to starboard side ... because seaman did not wish to damage the rudder they used to tie up in harbour and lay along side on the opposite side and this was called the layaboard side --- It became corrupted to larboard side and some time in the 16th /17th century it became the port side (the side to be to the port or harbour) as a point of interest most modern single screw ships still prefer to go port side too as the transverse thrust of the propeller aids them to do it"
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Martin if you/ve drifted of on this muse you must have run out of boats to build Bill.......
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How about there are more canals in Birmingham than in Venice.
Shame there are no gondolas to go with them.
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How about there are more canals in Birmingham than in Venice.
Shame there are no gondolas to go with them.
but Birmingham has cornettos whereas Venice doesn't
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Hmm..
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A violin's bow 'strings' are made from the hair from a horse's tail, but only male horse hair!
Due to the "anatomical design" of the male horse, males don't.... pee ... on its tail hair, the ammonia of which spoils the hair!
Is that anything to do with the musical 'Piddler on the Hoof'?
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Groans loudly...
Rich
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Groans loudly...
Rich
Just like violins {-) %%
Ned
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Are you off work again Martin? O0 O0 O0 O0 O0
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Something that I should know is Douglas Adams' theory of the 3 ages of technology -
1 Anything that is in the world when you are born is normal
2 Anything invented between your being 15 and 35 is new and exciting and you can get a job on the strength of it
3 Anything invented after you pass 35 is against the natural order of things.
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WALES are going to BEAT England on friday
Dave
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No wonder the site keeps breaking down, it becomes a nervous wreck not knowing what is going to be posted next,and just cannot handle all this wonderful information!
Mick F
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Anyone count the total number of words on the Forum ?
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WALES are going to BEAT England on friday
Dave
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Anyone count the total number of words on the Forum ?
Ill start counting in the morning just for YOU Ken
Dave
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Are you off work again Martin? O0 O0 O0 O0 O0
Naaa, just letting 'off-shore' to do some software stuff on a server I'm working on..... and waiting for them to come back and ask how it's done..... !
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I don't know a lot but am begining to suspect a bit :} :}
However I do know that a nautical mile is 1,852 mtrs.... (Further than I can run! {-) )
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WALES are going to BEAT England on friday
Dave
I know that is not true.
Try again later in the year
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WALES are going to BEAT England on friday
Dave
Eeeem. Sorry, it did not happen.
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OH dear me Wales lost good on England dammed good season opener
Dave
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If I wasn't English, I'd feel sorry for Wales.... But Im feeling a bit smug {-) {-) {-) (the two Welsh lads at work are going to be a bit char grinned on Monday!)
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Football?
Rich
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Football?
Rich
:o :o :o Ouch! Egg chasing, my friend!
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Oops...well, it's all the same to me.
Rich
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That's a bit like comparing shirts to blouses.... No self respecting man would be caught flouncing after a round ball...... {-) {-) {-) O0
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I don't do balls of any shape or size...to me, serious fun comes in straight lines.
Rich
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:-))
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www.shedevilracing.co.uk (http://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/www.shedevilracing.co.uk)
Rich
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Wow! That is a serious bit of kit!
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That link is 'corrupted'. It puts MBM in front ... weird. This works better:
http://www.shedevilracing.co.uk (http://www.shedevilracing.co.uk)
That is just over twice as quick as mine, ET and speed :embarrassed:
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They are based just up the road from me, a real low budget team, they have been going for years now. The car was built by Dave (Stephie's hubby) in their garage, no fancy workshop, no expensive machinery at all.
Stephie is my heroine, the fastest woman top methanol funny car driver in Europe...she made me a cuppa tea once 8)
Rich
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WALES are going to BEAT England on friday
Dave
Yeah Right!!*
* Possibly the only instance where a double positive becomes a negative ...... :-))
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Did you know that Coca-Cola originally contained cocaine %%
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Did you know that Coca-Cola originally contained cocaine %%
(http://www.humansarenotbroken.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/start-cola-early.jpg)
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They got the bit about the active lifestyle right.... {-)
Colin
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In the interests of balance :police:
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In the interests of balance :police:
I wonder why Disney didn't use 7-UP as a bit of product placement when they did Snow White.
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I wonder why Disney didn't use 7-UP as a bit of product placement when they did Snow White.
Grumpy probably...
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goog afternoon