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Posted

:D

 

Between Pharisee and MrE, we have an answer (near enough)...

 

TFW Tropical Fresh Water

F Fresh water

T Tropical seawater

S Summer seawater

W Winter seawater

WNA Winter North America

 

So who gets the ding? and sets the next question? :D

 

Fight it out between yourselves, lads :D Whoever's got their question ready first...

 

MrsB

 

 

..................give it to John, he did 99% of the work and triggered my memory :D:D

Posted (edited)

:D

 

Between Pharisee and MrE, we have an answer (near enough)...

 

TFW Tropical Fresh Water

F Fresh water

T Tropical seawater

S Summer seawater

W Winter seawater

WNA Winter North America

 

So who gets the ding? and sets the next question? :D

 

Fight it out between yourselves, lads :D Whoever's got their question ready first...

 

MrsB

 

 

..................give it to John, he did 99% of the work and triggered my memory :D:D

 

 

Ahh... 'tis a Gentleman y'are Mr Eckington, Sir

 

 

Who was it that sailed the first, single handed, circumnavigation of the globe?

Edited by Pharisee
Posted

:blink:

 

Between Pharisee and MrE, we have an answer (near enough)...

 

TFW Tropical Fresh Water

F Fresh water

T Tropical seawater

S Summer seawater

W Winter seawater

WNA Winter North America

That's Winter North Atlantic then...

 

Good question, Bloranges.

Posted

Miss Kiyoko Matsumoto surely?

OK, I'll allow a Google!

 

I've googled - they can't touch you for it!!!

 

In 1933, the aforementioned lady, committed suicide by jumping into a volcano. This started a craze and over 900 people, that year, repeated the act. (that's not 900 people doing it twice!).

Posted

Miss Kiyoko Matsumoto surely?

OK, I'll allow a Google!

 

I've googled - they can't touch you for it!!!

 

In 1933, the aforementioned lady, committed suicide by jumping into a volcano. This started a craze and over 900 people, that year, repeated the act. (that's not 900 people doing it twice!).

Ding Ouch!

Posted

Thanks for that hollow victory - Googling is alright but not as good as the real thing :o

 

A guess from Scanker for the last question mentioned base jumping. What is base in this context?

 

 

 

Building, antenna, structure..............and...................can't for the life of me remember the "e" :oB)

Posted

Thanks for that hollow victory - Googling is alright but not as good as the real thing :o

 

A guess from Scanker for the last question mentioned base jumping. What is base in this context?

 

 

 

Building, antenna, structure..............and...................can't for the life of me remember the "e" :oB)

 

TWO correct!

Posted

A guess from Scanker for the last question mentioned base jumping. What is base in this context?

Base jumping is jumping (with parachute) from any object permanently fixed to the ground e.g. a building or some other structure. Skyscrapers feature heavily but, when you think about it, it's the little buildings that are the toughest.

Visualises base jumper splatting into ground then the parachute opens around him/her. :o

Posted

Building, antenna, structure..............and...................can't for the life of me remember the "e" :oB)

Ah yes, it's an acronym. :o I'll get me coat...

Bgr A*se S!*t Eck!

Posted

A guess from Scanker for the last question mentioned base jumping. What is base in this context?

Base jumping is jumping (with parachute) from any object permanently fixed to the ground e.g. a building or some other structure. Skyscrapers feature heavily but, when you think about it, it's the little buildings that are the toughest.

Visualises base jumper splatting into ground then the parachute opens around him/her. :o

 

Eckington was on the right lines. BASE is an acronym, but for what?

Posted

Having had my sister in law over here for lunch, I asked her as she is in the medical profession, and she thinks they are rat snakes.

Almost there; it's a certain type of rat snake. In the same way that there are different pythons (Royal, Carpet, Reticulated, Burmese etc) there are several varieties of rat snake. I know of more than thirty but we're on the home straight. Starts with "a".

Posted

Having had my sister in law over here for lunch, I asked her as she is in the medical profession, and she thinks they are rat snakes.

Almost there; it's a certain type of rat snake. In the same way that there are different pythons (Royal, Carpet, Reticulated, Burmese etc) there are several varieties of rat snake. I know of more than thirty but we're on the home straight. Starts with "a".

"a rat snake" - ya herpetologist ya! :)
Posted (edited)

"a rat snake" - ya herpetologist ya! :)

:D

 

Edited to say DING because that’s a better answer that the proper one (Aesculapian snake :) ), which probably no-one would get ‘cos it’s a stupid thing to want to know. It seems, incredibly, that no-one cheats here either so well done to everyone. :D

 

Over to you... :D

Edited by jerryo
Posted

Oops! :) I didn't expect a Ding!

 

OK -

 

Why are the ISO paper sizes A0, A1.. A4... A7 exactly the sizes they are?

They aren't an arbitrary size.

 

Bonus points - why are the A0-A7 and (B0-B7) paper sizes inherently more manageable than US sizes such as Letter and Legal?

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