And lo on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:24:51 -0000, Bill Pragnell  
<bil### [at] hotmailcom> did spake, saying:

> Phil Cook wrote:
>>>>>>  [Makes note who to IM in case of velociraptor attack]
>>>>>
>>>>> I wouldn't depend on it, I never found out if my strategy was  
>>>>> effective!
>>>>  I don't know, I'm sure our government would make you Consultant in  
>>>> Charge of Dinosaur Attacks given that level of experience.
>>>
>>> Wouldn't help you much, although I expect you'd get a generous  
>>> no-win-no-fee payout. "Have you been mauled by a ravening dinosaur, at  
>>> home or at work? Was it somebody else's fault? Maybe you qualify... "
>>  Oo I could feature as one of the 'victims' - 'I slipped on the floor  
>> at work and got a big fat payout leaving my company bankrupt and my  
>> colleagues unemployed'
>
> You mean you slipped whilst attempting to roundhouse the aforementioned  
> slavering sauropod?

Yeah my company failed to buy any of Stephen's dinosaur repellent powder  
to match that tiger repelling stone that sits in the front office.

> Or just generally? What the hell, you ain't gotta work for six months  
> either way - moneymoneymoneymoney

You've got to know what's most important in life.

-- 
Phil Cook

--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com

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Stephen wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:56:04 +0000, Bill Pragnell <bil### [at] hotmailcom>
> wrote:
> 
>> Phil Cook wrote:
> 
>>> I don't know, I'm sure our government would make you Consultant in 
>>> Charge of Dinosaur Attacks given that level of experience.
>> Wouldn't help you much, although I expect you'd get a generous 
>> no-win-no-fee payout. "Have you been mauled by a ravening dinosaur, at 
>> home or at work? Was it somebody else's fault? Maybe you qualify... "
> 
> You both might wish to purchase some of my live dinosaur repellent powder. I can
> almost guarantee that it works.
> I have been running a trial in Piccadilly Circus for the last five years and
> there has been no reports of live dinosaurs recently.

Hey, no fair! That's just my basilisk repellent powder, painted blue, in 
   a tin marked 'dinosaur repellent'!

damn you

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"Phil Cook" <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote in message 
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> And lo on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:21:13 -0000, St. <dot### [at] dotcom> did spake, 
> saying:

>>     Some places are saying that it was 10 seconds long, but for me it was
>> nowhere near that, (and I felt it from begining to end).
>
> People saying it lasted "minutes", people further away from the epicentre 
> then I talking about how it shook everything... as I've said elsewhere - 
> house went up, house came down.

   Yeah, I read that, nice humorous little read and description as always 
with you Phil.


>
> Really though it was all the news stories that were amusing me. CCTV 
> footage of the event "the camera shakes violently" um take a camera in 
> your hand now gently oscillate it up and down and side-to side; ooh yeah 
> violent.

     Heh, yeah, I noticed that. GMTV were *pleading* with anyone that might 
have good footage of anything that happened around them. Erm, yeah, I'll 
just whip out the video camera, wipe the sleep from my eyes, and shoot a 
house falling down in the street at 1am - all in 10 seconds.  ;)

    What I'm wondering though, is quite a few reports mentioned differing 
effects and noises with the quake, so I'm wondering if quite a few faults 
were involved with this one, or would it have been a much bigger quake if 
that was the case? Hmm...

     ~Steve~



>
> -- 
> Phil Cook
>
> --
> I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
> http://flipc.blogspot.com

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St. wrote:
>     What I'm wondering though, is quite a few reports mentioned differing 
> effects and noises with the quake, so I'm wondering if quite a few faults 
> were involved with this one, or would it have been a much bigger quake if 
> that was the case? Hmm...

I'm only guessing, but I expect the local noise and effects depend 
entirely on what sort of ground you have under you, what sort of 
buildings you have around you and so on.

To put it another way, dropping the brass section and the percussion 
section off a cliff would make very different noises! :)

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On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:03:49 +0000, Bill Pragnell <bil### [at] hotmailcom>
wrote:

>
>Hey, no fair! That's just my basilisk repellent powder, painted blue, in 
>   a tin marked 'dinosaur repellent'!

*Your* basilisk repellent powder? Well I'll have you know I stole it from Tommy
Cooper twenty years ago delving deep on a BBS. He proved to me his shark
repellent worked wonders in central London. 
On a tangent, my claim to fame is that we shared the same doctor. I only got the
left foot though :)

>damn you

Too late. Why this is Hell nor am I out of it.
(Second time this month :)
 

Regards
	Stephen

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Bill Pragnell wrote:
>
> 
> To put it another way, dropping the brass section and the percussion
> section off a cliff would make very different noises! :)

I was wondering what to do this weekend. Thanks for the suggestion :-)

John

-- 
I will be brief but not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the
world's shortest speech. He said, "I will be so brief I am already
finished," then he sat down.

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Tim Attwood wrote:
>>> Heh, I was wondering how things were over there. "An earthquake near 
>>> London" was not something I expected to hear. Glad you're OK, though.
>> Well, apparently it's "the biggest earthquake in almost 25 years" (so 
>> that's, what, 24 years then?)
>>
>> And I guess Lincolnshire is near to London for suitable definition of 
>> "near"... ;-)
> 
> I was at the epicenter of the Nisqually earthquake in 2001 (6.8),
> had a hutch tip over and break the glassware and doors.
> It sounded like a train went through the house.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisqually_Earthquake
> I was taking a bath at the time, and ended up standing there
> dripping wet in just my undies =) 
> 
I was in queenstown during the 7.1 earthquake of August 22nd 2003. About 
100 km from the epicenter. It was IIRC just after midnight, lying in 
bed. I first felt something like a truck passing by. Could not be 
because we were in a dead end street. It gradually built up until we 
were shaking 20-30 cm in every direction in our bed. It felt like being 
in a bus with bad suspension on a very bad road driving much to fast, 
only in bed. Because it was so gradually, when we decided that this was 
too much and that we should go outside, the floor was shaking so much 
that that was not an option. Next day when I got outside, I looked 
around at the mountains and realized that they too had been shaking the 
same amount in every direction. I knew that earthquakes often happen 
miles below ground and that they must move a bit of rock, but standing 
there suddenly made me realize what that really meant.

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"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message 
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> St. wrote:
>>     What I'm wondering though, is quite a few reports mentioned differing 
>> effects and noises with the quake, so I'm wondering if quite a few faults 
>> were involved with this one, or would it have been a much bigger quake if 
>> that was the case? Hmm...
>
> I'm only guessing, but I expect the local noise and effects depend 
> entirely on what sort of ground you have under you, what sort of buildings 
> you have around you and so on.


   That makes sense to me.



>
> To put it another way, dropping the brass section and the percussion 
> section off a cliff would make very different noises! :)

     Heh, yes, true. :)


     ~Steve~

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On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:18:49 +0000, Invisible wrote:

>> Maybe it's just that you don't remember the trials.  :-)
>> 
>>> Well, there was one that involved me and four women, looking for some
>>> privacy, but I woke up before we found any...
> 
> ...no, I think he remembers the trails!

But not the 'trials'. :-)

Jim

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On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:24:19 +0000, Bill Pragnell wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> I read an article a few weeks ago that suggested that dreams are the
>> place where your mind prepares you to deal with emergency/crisis
>> situations.
> 
> Excellent. I once woke myself up whilst trying to fend off an enraged
> velociraptor when my knee connected with the wall. Good to know my
> subconscious has all bases covered...

I've had that thought as well, after all, I'm set to fight off stuffed 
alligators.

Jim

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