On 01/01/2015 01:00, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Dec 2014 18:19:46 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>
>>>> That's one way of breaking the fire triangle. Burn off all the oxygen.
>>>> It's a bit extreme but interesting to see from a distance.
>>>
>>> It works more effectively with explosives, so I hear.  That's how they
>>> put out some of the big oil fires in Kuwait after the first gulf war,
>>> IIRC.
>>>
>>>
>> IIRC the shock wave has more to do with it than the depletion of oxygen.
>> When using explosives. Might be wrong, though.
>
> I seem to recall that the purpose was to evacuate the oxygen - so it's a
> combination of the shockwave pushing oxygen out and oxygen being used up,
> probably. :)
>

Looks spectacular, doesn't it?

Bye the bye, have you heard of Craig Brown? A British satirist.
About 4 or 5 minutes into this is his methodology for dealing with 
fires. John Humphrys (RL bad ass Radio and TV journalist) interviewing 
Hamlet prince of Denmark, is cleverly done.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00b7qs7




>> I Don't know about that being much better. If you believe Margaret
>> Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.
>
> I've been to Vancouver, and it did have a different feel in that regard.
> Probably headed back up there in January for a few days, too.
>

You're on the French side, are you not?
Bring back some funny stories about their Language Police.


>> You would say that wouldn't you? :-P
>
> But of course. :)
>
>> RIP Mandy Rice-Davies. :-(
>
> I'm not sure I follow that connection.
>

It is a phrase that has past into the language. Mandy Rice-Davies, who 
just died recently, said it in political sex scandal from the early 1960s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandy_Rice-Davies#.22He_would.2C_wouldn.27t_he.3F.22

Her name also lives on in Hamish Imlach's song to the tune of tupenny rice.

Half a pound for Mandy Rice
Half a pound for Keeler
That the way the money goes,
Ten bob to…


>> It is funny how we can do things correctly the first time but take years
>> to get it right the second time. :-)
>
> Ain't that the truth. :)
>

I am afraid it is.

-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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