Pajaholic Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 Thanks, both to CnJnA and to Simply Paul. To be honest, the answer came as a bit of a surprise as, to an engineer, a blueprint is something very different to an initial sketch! Strictly, a blueprint is a copy of a technical drawing or other document made by overlaying the original drawing, which is drawn on transparency or tracing paper, onto a medium (paper, vellum, linen, etc.) that is coated with a light-sensitive compound that turns blue when exposed to light. Light (sometimes visible, sometimes UV) is shone through the original, and then the copy is washed to remove all the compound that hasn't turned blue. The result is a negative image of the original drawing (i.e. white lines on a blue background). Sometimes, the term "blueprint" is used to refer to the formal specification of an engineering product or construction project, which comes from the copies that left the drawing office originally being made by the blueprint process. That said, for the ding, what (as applied to automotive engineering) is meant by the term "blueprinting"? Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 That said, for the ding, what (as applied to automotive engineering) is meant by the term "blueprinting"? I believe it's when an assembly, (usually the engine), is stripped to it's component parts and re-assembled making certain that all components are machined to exactly the correct size and that all clearances are exactly to specification. i.e.... that everythig is exactly as per the 'blueprint'. Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 Close enough for the DING! Every dimension is given a nominal size together with a tolerance. For example, if the nominal size is 12.50 mm and the tolerance is 0.05 mm, then the finished size is deemed acceptable if it's in the range of 12.45 mm to 12.55 mm. Blueprinting is usually achieved by selecting components that are the closest available to the nominal size, and so implicitly dimensionally as close to optimal as possible. Over to Parisee... Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 Thanks... Who was Ira Hayes and what was he famous for? Quote Link to comment
+Clue-72 Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 I believe Ira Hayes was a native American who joined the marines and fought in the Pacific during WW2 (possibly at Iwo Jima) and did something heroic. Then he drank himself to death if I remember the song correctly. Quote Link to comment
+drdick&vick Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 In addition to the above I seem to remember that he was one of the six flag holders at Iwo Jima in the photo that was well publicised. Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 That's pretty much correct and I'll give the 'DING' to Clue-72. Ira Hayes was was a native American, belonging to the Pima tribe of Arizona. He was in the U.S. Marine Corps and was one of the six men to raise the American flag on Iwo Jima. After the war he became an alcoholic and died of cold and alcohol poisoning after an all night binge in 1955. He was buried, with full military honours, in Arlington National Cemetery. Some would say that his true claim to fame was the fact that Johnny Cash sung a song about him! Quote Link to comment
+Clue-72 Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 Thanks... right, next question. Which British actor had a rose specially cultivated in memory of his late wife? Quote Link to comment
+Clue-72 Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 No, not John Mills. Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 Peter Cushing Quote Link to comment
+Clue-72 Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 DING! It was indeed Peter Cushing and the rose was the Helen Cushing Rose. Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted September 15, 2013 Author Share Posted September 15, 2013 By the rules of this thread - some of which I did make up - I'm applying the Seven Day Clause to jump in and offer up a fresh question on behalf of Marty Bartfast. Sticking with Peter Cushing, he played Air Commodore Colonel William Raymond in which 1986 film? Quote Link to comment
BOBBLES WORLD TOUR Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 Is it Ghostbusters 2? Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted September 15, 2013 Author Share Posted September 15, 2013 Is it Ghostbusters 2?It is not. (1989) Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 (edited) Platoon? (Very random guess!!) Edited September 16, 2013 by Beach_hut Quote Link to comment
+Clue-72 Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 "Biggles, An Adventure In Time" I think. Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted September 17, 2013 Author Share Posted September 17, 2013 "Biggles: Adventures In Time" I think.A rip-snorting chocks-away of a Ding for a film containing such tally-ho and pip-pip dialogue as: [Debbie and Chuck enter Jim's hotel room to find Jim dressed as a nun, and with a gun on the chair] Chuck: Religious Transvestite Bank robber. That one's not even in the book. And: Biggles: Quick! Untie us before they realise you're not a God, you're just an American. To say nothing of: [Having travelled to 1986, Biggles has climbed behind the controls of a police helicopter] Jim Ferguson: You can't fly this. You don't know how. Biggles: If you can fly a Sopwith Camel, you can fly anything. Over to you! Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 Turns out my guess was far less random than the real answer Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted September 17, 2013 Author Share Posted September 17, 2013 Turns out my guess was far less random than the real answer I'll have you know Biggles is famous for being Peter Cushing's last film in a long and (mostly) distinguished career! Quote Link to comment
+Clue-72 Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 Thanks for the ding, now for the next question... Who were Billy Gilbert, Pinto Colvig, Otis Harlan, Roy Atwell, Scotty Mattraw and Eddie Collins? Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted September 18, 2013 Author Share Posted September 18, 2013 One of them was the second known voice of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, but that hasn't helped me much. Quote Link to comment
+Clue-72 Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 One of them was the second known voice of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, but that hasn't helped me much. It might have helped more than you realise! Quote Link to comment
+Team Noodles Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 One of them was the second known voice of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, but that hasn't helped me much. It might have helped more than you realise! This made me count, and although I am one short i'll take a shot. Voices of the 7 dwarfs? Quote Link to comment
+Clue-72 Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 That's a DING! for Team Noodles! Billy Gilbert - Sneezy Pinto Colvig - Sleepy and Grumpy Otis Harlan - Happy Roy Atwell - Doc Scotty Mattraw - Bashful Eddie Collins - Dopey Quote Link to comment
+Team Noodles Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 That's a DING! for Team Noodles! Billy Gilbert - Sneezy Pinto Colvig - Sleepy and Grumpy Otis Harlan - Happy Roy Atwell - Doc Scotty Mattraw - Bashful Eddie Collins - Dopey Sweet! Staying with the theme(ish): Which one of the dwarfs would UK cachers connect to a well known series of caches and lot of statistics? :D Quote Link to comment
+Clue-72 Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Would it be Doc - for drsolly's Chiltern Hundred series? Quote Link to comment
+Team Noodles Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Would it be Doc - for drsolly's Chiltern Hundred series? nope Quote Link to comment
+RJx2 Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 We thought drsolly and his Chiltern Hundred series was a good guess. If it's incorrect, then we know that there is a cacher called BaSHful, but we don't know how it fits with a cache series or the statistics. Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 We thought drsolly and his Chiltern Hundred series was a good guess. If it's incorrect, then we know that there is a cacher called BaSHful, but we don't know how it fits with a cache series or the statistics. Bashful does the techie stuff behind the stats page for the Church Micro series. Quote Link to comment
+Team Noodles Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 We thought drsolly and his Chiltern Hundred series was a good guess. If it's incorrect, then we know that there is a cacher called BaSHful, but we don't know how it fits with a cache series or the statistics. Bashful does the techie stuff behind the stats page for the Church Micro series. DING Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 What TV program used (maybe still does FAIK) Soul Limbo by Booker T & the MGs as it's theme tune. Quote Link to comment
+MTH Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 I'm not sure the BBC show much cricket these days, but it used to be the theme music to the Test Match coverage, Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 That's a quick DING. Quote Link to comment
+MTH Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 A youth spent watching cricket on TV when I wasn't outdoors playing cricket or watching other sport on TV. In a similar vein, and because it's one of the best theme tunes ever, Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks.is credited with which classic C4 theme tune from the 1980s. Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 A youth spent watching cricket on TV when I wasn't outdoors playing cricket or watching other sport on TV. In a similar vein, and because it's one of the best theme tunes ever, Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks.is credited with which classic C4 theme tune from the 1980s. Just a guess but "Countdown" Quote Link to comment
+MTH Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 I'm not sure Countdown would qualify as one of the best theme tunes There's a clue in my first sentence - it's more of a sporting theme. Quote Link to comment
+martin&lindabryn Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 I'm not sure Countdown would qualify as one of the best theme tunes There's a clue in my first sentence - it's more of a sporting theme. That will teach me to read the question properly Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted September 20, 2013 Author Share Posted September 20, 2013 Sport, Channel 4, 80s... All I can think of is Channel 4 Racing (horses), but I'm pretty sure that's wrong. Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 This is a bit scary as my first thought was Countdown, then C4 racing, maybe we're all being assimilated !!! Anyway I'll have a way out guess at "Gamesmaster", it's kind of sport related Quote Link to comment
+MTH Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 None of those. It's a sport C4 started covering in the 1980s, but is now on ITV4. To get a quick Ding, Great Britain has become rather good at this sport in the last few years! Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 The Tour de France coverage? Well, cycling generally! Quote Link to comment
+MTH Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 The Tour France gets the Ding. C4 started coverage in about 1985 or 86. Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen are still covering it now! over to beach_hut Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 The Tour France gets the Ding. C4 started coverage in about 1985 or 86. Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen are still covering it now! over to beach_hut Why thank you :-) On a related theme, Christa Luding-Rothenburger is the only person to have achieved what in the space of a year? Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 Bumping with a clue. The year was 1988. This particular achievement can't happen every year... Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted September 22, 2013 Author Share Posted September 22, 2013 Gave birth on two Friday 13ths in a year? Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 Gave birth on two Friday 13ths in a year? Good thought but nope. It's related thematically to the previous question. Quote Link to comment
+The Duckers Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 Did she win sporting medals for both former East Germany and Unified Germany in that year? Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted September 23, 2013 Author Share Posted September 23, 2013 Gave birth on two Friday 13ths in a year?Good thought but nope. It's related thematically to the previous question.Cycling can make your bits burt. Giving birth twice in a year hurts...? Ok, I missed there was a link. Since German reunification happened in 1990 (the wall 'fell' in November '89) I know the Duckers can't be right. '88 was an Olympic year though, so did she win every Olympic heat and race she entered that year? (Doesn't quite fit with the wording of the question though. Humm...) Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 (edited) Olympics is getting warm. It's nothing to do with nationality. It's just dawned on me that it's also something that can no longer be achieved. Edited September 23, 2013 by Beach_hut Quote Link to comment
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