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On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:04:39 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
>>> You can't cut paper with a knife, man!!
>>
>> Three things.
>> 1. If you can't cut paper with a knife, then your knife is not sharp
>> enough. I test my knife by shaving the edge off a cigarette paper.
>
>Right. And after you've used the knife trice, it'll be blunt. :-P
>
Not if it's good steel. You can always sharpen it again too :P
>> 2. Swiss army knifes generally have a pair of scissors.
>
>Now that's more like it...
>
>> 3. The best way to cut paper with scissors is not to use a cutting motion
>> but to start the cut then glide the scissors through the paper.
>
>Yes - but only if they're sharp.
The best type.
Blunt knifes and scissors cause more accidents than sharp ones.
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Stephen
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On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:03:42 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>Stephen wrote:
>
>> http://www.girlguiding.org.uk/brownies/
>
>"This area is for cool, highly intelligent and fantastically fantastic
>brownies!"
>
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>
>How intelligent do you need to be to use a phrase like "fantastically
>fantastic"? :-P
Between 7 and 10 years old ;)
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Stephen
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>> Right. And after you've used the knife trice, it'll be blunt. :-P
> Not if it's good steel. You can always sharpen it again too :P
Right. And how exactly do you sharpen a knife? :-P
> Blunt knifes and scissors cause more accidents than sharp ones.
Probably.
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>> How intelligent do you need to be to use a phrase like "fantastically
>> fantastic"? :-P
>
> Between 7 and 10 years old ;)
Isn't that kind of patronising to young girls who geniunely *are* highly
intelligent?
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And lo On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:34:04 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did
spake thusly:
>>> You'll notice I purchased it from John Lewis. In other words, if there
>>> *is* a problem, I'll actually _get_ some ****ing _SERVICE_. ;-)
>> Indeed certain stores of a certain group don't have the best in
>> after-care service. It may cost a little more now, but it can often
>> make the difference.
>
> Indeed. I bought a large LCD computer monitor from John Lewis. After
> about 8 months, the backlight quit working. IIRC, it took something like
> a week for them to deliver a brand new replacement monitor and take the
> old one away. Which isn't bad really, eh?
Not bad.
> Also nice is the fact that their staff generally *have* a clue...
> although there's not what I'd call "experts", they at least have some
> idea what they're talking about.
>
> The only problem is that they don't sell a huge range of stuff. (Or at
> least, stuff I'd want to buy.) Having just said that, last week they
> sold me a Tilby and some rather fetching gloves...
Tilby? Hmm I'm trying to picture you in a trilby.
>> Obviously on commission :-P
>
> Clearly. ;-)
>
> On the other hand... don't you just hate it when you go somewhere and
> you're all like "yes, I'd like to buy this £2,000 item here please" and
> they're all like "meh, I can't be bothered, go away". (!!)
Nah never had that... oh wait ;-)
>>> And it only cost, like, £2 for the gift wrap. (YOU try wrapping
>>> something this big! It's not easy... They did a far better job than I
>>> ever could. Even if the wrapping paper *was* lame.)
>> Actually I'm not bad at wrapping various shapes up having had large
>> amounts of practice when young, sometimes it can be fun as in when I
>> wrapped up a round tin in two sheets of paper (simple silver foil and a
>> translucent gold) to make it look like a giant toffee.
>
> See, now I *suck* at wrapping things. I seem to have scisors that are
> too blunt to cut the paper,
And lo On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:07:40 -0000, Stephen <mcavoysAT@aoldotcom>
did spake thusly:
> Ha! You need a Swiss Army Knife for Christmas ;)
Leatherman; let the fight begin :-)
> and a reel of tape that's wider in the center than at the edges, so the
> tape always curls when you pull it off.
Que?
> Plus the scisors won't get the tape either.
Wow how blunt are these scissors? Sounds like you need a whetstone.
> One thing I *have* discovered though... paper weights aren't just pretty
> to look at. Those buggers are USEFUL too!! ;-)
Mugs are also useful... especially if you can get them to just put their
finger there for just a moment.
--
Phil Cook
--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com
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>> Indeed. I bought a large LCD computer monitor from John Lewis. After
>> about 8 months, the backlight quit working. IIRC, it took something
>> like a week for them to deliver a brand new replacement monitor and
>> take the old one away. Which isn't bad really, eh?
>
> Not bad.
That's what I call service! ;-)
>> The only problem is that they don't sell a huge range of stuff. (Or at
>> least, stuff I'd want to buy.) Having just said that, last week they
>> sold me a Tilby and some rather fetching gloves...
>
> Tilby? Hmm I'm trying to picture you in a trilby.
OK, so I didn't press the key hard enough! :-P
If I get time I'll take a photograph... with the brown shirt, brown
pinstripe trousers and matching brown pinstripe Trilby, *I* think I look
rather dashing. ;-) Certainly it caused a stir at work yesterday...
>> On the other hand... don't you just hate it when you go somewhere and
>> you're all like "yes, I'd like to buy this £2,000 item here please"
>> and they're all like "meh, I can't be bothered, go away". (!!)
>
> Nah never had that... oh wait ;-)
YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE!!
>> and a reel of tape that's wider in the center than at the edges, so
>> the tape always curls when you pull it off.
>
> Que?
I mean the reel is spherical rather than cylindrical. :-P It's warped
slightly...
>> Plus the scisors won't get the tape either.
>
> Wow how blunt are these scissors? Sounds like you need a whetstone.
Well, technically they *cut* the tape... but the tape then sticks to
them. I'd assert that I need a tape dispenser! ;-)
> Mugs are also useful... especially if you can get them to just put their
> finger there for just a moment.
Phahahahaa!
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And lo On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:19:38 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did
spake thusly:
> Stephen wrote:
>
>> Have a brownie point.
>
> Question: How many brownie points do you need to earn before you can
> redeem them for an actual brownie?
Pfft I don't deal in mythological beings (triple meaning)
Harkens back to an age though Boy Scouts (traversing the unknown) versus
the Girl Guides (showing off the places the boys have found) and then the
Cubs and Brownies... hold on shouldn't that be the Cubs and the Cubs?
As an aside Bratus Major's in the Scouts and was made Pack Leader in
Feburary ish though his parents didn't find out about it until November;
and then from someone else. According to him his pack's name is "Dunno" or
"Don't remember" though after much brain-wracking it could be "Wolves";
seriously how do you forget a name like that?
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Phil Cook
--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com
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And lo On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:03:42 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did
spake thusly:
> Stephen wrote:
>
>> http://www.girlguiding.org.uk/brownies/
>
> "This area is for cool, highly intelligent and fantastically fantastic
> brownies!"
Our records show this IP address registered to a single male and as such
your visit here has been logged and may be used against you in a court of
law you pervert! Expect a knock on the door from the police within the
minute.
Worrying that I'm only semi-joking.
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Phil Cook
--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com
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Phil Cook v2 wrote:
> Our records show this IP address registered to a single male and as such
> your visit here has been logged and may be used against you in a court
> of law you pervert! Expect a knock on the door from the police within
> the minute.
>
>
> Worrying that I'm only semi-joking.
Yeah. Because no single male would be the father of a girl who happens
to be a brownie. No, sir! ;-)
(Mercifully, it's virtually impossible to determine who an IP address
belongs to...)
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On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:09:57 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> Right. And after you've used the knife trice, it'll be blunt. :-P
>
>> Not if it's good steel. You can always sharpen it again too :P
>
>Right. And how exactly do you sharpen a knife? :-P
>
There are several ways, the traditional method is with a whetstone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpening_stone
You can use a Sharpening Steel like chefs do, a grinder or one of the various
tools that are sold in hardware shops.
It does take a bit of practice.
>> Blunt knifes and scissors cause more accidents than sharp ones.
>
>Probably.
Without a doubt.
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Regards
Stephen
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