Invisible wrote:
>> My favorites were the extreme close-up of the little red triangle at 
>> the top of the dial on a master lock (like you looked at every day of 
>> school and still didn't recognise)
> 
> ...???

In the USA, kids get lockers to store their books and such in between 
classes. They locked with a Master lock.

Oh wow.

http://www.masterlock.com/school/

An entire page just about locks for school lockers.

> I'd probably get that one.

It's surprisingly difficult to look at it. You *know* you've seen it, and 
you have to think "where is that *from*."

> Would you recognise the *sound* those spokes make when plucked? 

No.

> course, today I understand that the sniffness of the rods causes them to 
> resist being bend, which adds a 2nd-order dx/dt term to the transfer 
> function of the system, which introduces dispersion, which changes the 
> resonant frequencies of the system such that they are no longer 
> harmonically related... but when I was 9, I just used to like twanging 
> the spokes.

And what makes you think you're stupid again?

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".

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