Goofy Question.
If you take enough Nitro and fall on yer face...would yer face blow up? ;-]

Only if it is in your shirt pocket.

Thanks for that one...I needed a giggle.

Or in your pants pocket and have the chain on your bicycle fall off.

I read about an early practice for blasters on RR tunnels. The labor force would bring the nitro from the manufacturing shack in open buckets. Only if you were extremely careful did you get your first paycheck...

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BOINC WIKI

Only nitro I've played with was from an old stick of dynamite. When it gets old and hot it sweats nitro. scrape it off with a stick and you can sling it off. It goes off like a firecracker. Just make sure you sling it in the opposite direction of the dynamite.

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PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC

Goofy Question.
If you take enough Nitro and fall on yer face...would yer face blow up? ;-]

Only if it is in your shirt pocket.

Thanks for that one...I needed a giggle.

Or in your pants pocket and have the chain on your bicycle fall off.

I read about an early practice for blasters on RR tunnels. The labor force would bring the nitro from the manufacturing shack in open buckets. Only if you were extremely careful did you get your first paycheck...

Another story is they were working on a mountain rail road tunnel and were hauling a load of Nitro in by sled when the sled turned over, The Nitro didn't go off because it was froze solid. From then on they moved as much as they could while it was cold.

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What do you do when the women that fancy you are not good enough to stay friends with you...


What do you do when the women you fancy are not good enough to stay friends with other people...

What do you do when the women that fancy you are not good enough to stay friends with you...


What do you do when the women you fancy are not good enough to stay friends with other people...

Simple, introduce them to your not so best friends.

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Old James

The Canadians pronounce tomato "Tom-ay-toe", so why is Clamato pronounced "Clam-ah-toe" instead of "Clam-ay-toe"?

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Reality Internet Personality

The Canadians pronounce tomato "Tom-ay-toe", so why is Clamato pronounced "Clam-ah-toe" instead of "Clam-ay-toe"?

Because the Canadians pronounce it wrong.

Next goofy question please!

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The Canadians pronounce tomato "Tom-ay-toe", so why is Clamato pronounced "Clam-ah-toe" instead of "Clam-ay-toe"?

The true Canadian pronunciation is tom-eh?-to. You left coast people get mixed up sometimes, eh. Must be something aboot the weather. Have a good day, eh.

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Well, a couple of votes more and you'd all speak some horrible variation of german :P

We at least write stuff like we pronounce it (for the most part that is) and vice versa...

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Carola
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I'm multilingual - I can misunderstand people in several languages!

Well, a couple of votes more and you'd all speak some horrible variation of german :P

We at least write stuff like we pronounce it (for the most part that is) and vice versa...

Welcome to the Culture Wars Miep.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

no, not me :) I'm in for culture shock going back 'home' to Germany.

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Carola
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I'm multilingual - I can misunderstand people in several languages!

We at least write stuff like we pronounce it (for the most part that is)

Yeah but you pronounce things funny! :-)

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PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC

I am Italian but I speak mostly English to my computer because, like Latin, it has no diacritical marks and can be typed on any keyboard. Emperor Carlos V of Spain used to speak German to his horse and dog, Italian to ladies, French to ambassadors and Spanish to God. Today he would speak English to his computer (computadora in Spanish, ordinateur in French, calcolatore in Italian. I don't know the German term, sorry).
Tullio

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Spanish uses both 'computador(a)' and 'ordenador', German uses both native 'Rechner' and 'Computer'

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Carola
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I'm multilingual - I can misunderstand people in several languages!

You left coast people

Hmmm, that's a new take ... So what happens if you are in the north looking down south???

Doesn't matter, just look at your map.

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germans talk of left and right of the Rhine. thats looking from the spring.
For the Danube it's the other way round...

Teacher, pointing kid to world map: 'please name the major oceans'

'pacifisic ocean, atlantic ocean, indian ocean pacifisc ocean...' kid stops, frowns, starts again: 'pacificic, atlantic, indian, pacificis...'
kid turns to teacher: 'That map is broken!'

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Carola
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I'm multilingual - I can misunderstand people in several languages!

germans talk of left and right of the Rhine. thats looking from the spring.
For the Danube it's the other way round...

Teacher, pointing kid to world map: 'please name the major oceans'

'pacifisic ocean, atlantic ocean, indian ocean pacifisc ocean...' kid stops, frowns, starts again: 'pacificic, atlantic, indian, pacificis...'
kid turns to teacher: 'That map is broken!'

Doesn't matter, just look at your map.

Which way up would you hold it ?

That depends on whether you want to actually read the text, or just look at the pretty colours...

I am, of course, falling into the typical European culture based conceit that everybody in the world does (or at least should) do everything the way we do.

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Spanish uses both 'computador(a)' and 'ordenador', German uses both native 'Rechner' and 'Computer'

The term "Computador-a" is more extended in Latin America. It is a word that admits both genders: masculine computador and the feminine computadora.
To be more precise, the complete name would be "ordenador personal" when a PC is meant, but people use the short way and just say "ordenador".
Some people make fun and say/use the word ordeñador, which comes from the verb "ordeñar"---> to milk.
They just change the letter n to a ñ.

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And how do you translate "microprocessor"? In Italy we say "microprocessore" although the verb "processare" means to try someone in a judicial court.
Tullio

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