pmccarthy

How about Nahpoo? Or napoo. As ‘applied universally to anybody or anything’, deriving from il n’y a plus [or il n’y en a plus]

Said Hanrahan was written by Father Hartigan, an RC priest at Narrandera, whose pen name was John O'Brien. It has always amused me that the names he used in the poem are family names from the Narrandera - Lockhart district.

A slang term that I like is toodleoo. It is a mis-hearing of the French À tout à l'heure ! meaning "see you soon". I can't think where to use it in a website though.

Onetrack got it right first time. The answer is: c. The speed of the water depends on the pressure head, or depth below the free surface. The pressure heads for both outlets are the same, so water speeds are the same. Or we can look at the problem this way: Move the spout around and attach it to the hole. If the water comes out of the downspout fastest it would overwhelm the current from the hole and force its way back into the bucket at B, so you would have a perpetual motion machine with water running from T to B. If the water comes out of the bottom hole fastest you also have perpetual motion with water flowing the other way. To avoid perpetual motion (and conserve energy), the water flowing out of both the hole and the downspout must have equal speeds.

I have sat in her chair, as have thousands of others. No mention of lantana..

On a horse, topless.

This was a favourite question of the noted hydrologist, George J. Pissing, and is still often asked of graduate students during oral exams. Consider a bucket of water with two holes through which water is discharged. Water can be discharged from a hole “B” at the bottom of a bucket which is some distance “d” below the water surface, or it can be discharged from a downspout which starts at the top “T” and has its opening at the same distance “d” below the water surface. If we neglect any friction effects the water coming out of hole “B” has a) more speed than the water coming out of the down spout b) less speed than the water coming out of the downspout c) the same speed as the water coming out of the downspout.

He had a form of blood cancer. Died with Covid.

Paddy took 2 stuffed dogs to the Antiques Roadshow. The presenter said, "This is a very rare set, produced by the celebrated Johns Brothers taxidermists who operated in London at the turn of the last century. Do you have any idea what they would fetch if they were in good condition?" "Sticks!" Paddy replied

Octave I am very sorry to hear it. You have been a voice of reason and rationality.

They are mass debaters.

What a wedgie!

When I studied engineering there was a formula for super elevation of the outside rail. I thought it was done for all railway tracks on curves. As you say, there has to be an assumed speed but even goods trains would need it.

Yes, I am regularly shouted to from the other end of the house and don’t understand a word. I don’t do that, why do they?

Climate refugees? So has there been a measurable change in climate? Tassie has always had a better climate than the mainlanders gave it credit for.

A dinar was a shilling. It was a coin from the Middle East of about the same size that the troops were familiar with.

Ask your mother for sixpence to see the tall giraffe. Pimples on its back and pimples on its Ask your mother ......etc

My ceramic ducks are hanging in the shed. I made a duck hunting scene out of them with the remains of an old shotgun.

Back to filling my day in lockdown. The weather here in Victoria is really getting us down. I don't know if it is the longest, coldest, wettest winter ever, but it feels like it. I guess partly because we usually get away for at least a couple of weeks in the middle, but being resticted to country Victoria there is little point. Just a couple of years ago we had a heatwave in September, nothing like that now. So I think many people are now quite depressed and have lost interest in life. I have lots of projects waiting in the shed but i stay inside by the wood fire until 10am, reading or watching stupid Youtube videos. Then maybe try to achieve something but am easily put off. I dismantled something yesterday and ordered a part on line and now will have to wait a week or two before I can put it back together. I can hardly face the shed and don't want to start another job. The wind is howling, nothing can be done in the yard. On line connections have become important. If I send an email and don't get a reply, it upsets me as there is no other contact with people. I am going through old work diaries, typing out summaries so I can throw the old diaries out without losing too much history. I am finding dates of family events that I can now tie back to old photographs. But this upsets me too, as it tells of a time that life was so different.

There were flu epidemics in the 1880s and 1890s that ripped through Australia killing people too.

We have a saltwater pool, maintenance is not to bad, and the grandkids love it. They used to come around a lot in summer when it was legal to do so. our most useless household object is a butchers block in the kitchen. It came out of a butchery, I restored it, and it has never been used. The kitchen was designed around it.

Way back when, we used to justify buying FlameThrowers to mount on the roo bar so we wouldnt be "driving into our headlights" when the roo appeared.

Is she one of those leggy blondes who ride their bicycles bolt upright across the Vasabrond? Give her your money.

Loved our Beagle and never thought I could subsequently love a dog with stick up ears, but our Bull Terrier has won our hearts in the last eight years.