Spy fiction writer John Le Carre is a pseudonym for author David John Moore Cornwell.
Spy fiction writer John Le Carre is a pseudonym for author David John Moore Cornwell.
Intelligence has its limits, but stupidity knows no bounds.
Duct tape was invented in 1930. It was originally called Dryback.
Intelligence has its limits, but stupidity knows no bounds.
Any relation to Patricia Cornwell, I wonder?Sean said:
Spy fiction writer John Le Carre is a pseudonym for author David John Moore Cornwell.
If you haven't discovered her books, you are in for a treat!
get rid of the spectacle nuisance
sEE aTTACHMENT aND yOU wILL fIND oUT
JennyP said:
Any relation to Patricia Cornwell, I wonder?
If you haven't discovered her books, you are in for a treat!
Jenny,
She (Patricia Cornwell) lives here in Richmond and is quite the colorful character. Did you see the Primetime Special where she is trying to identify Jack the Ripper? She has sunk a good bit of her money into the investigation.
~Cindy
"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." -Catherine Aird-
The town of Centralia,Pennsylvania, has been burning since 1961.Underground coal mines caught fire and can't be extinguished.
Intelligence has its limits, but stupidity knows no bounds.
Actress Anne Baxter is the grand daughter of architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
Intelligence has its limits, but stupidity knows no bounds.
American auto racers used to avoid green cars, thinking the color unlucky.
Intelligence has its limits, but stupidity knows no bounds.
Sean: They also avoid peanuts in the pits, the race car and people near the racing envionment. Both the green color and peanuts were associated with disapportante amount of fatal wrecks.
Chip
Another Frank Lloyd Wright trivia thing:Sean said:
Actress Anne Baxter is the grand daughter of architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
He invented Lincoln Logs for his son who wanted to play with building blocks when he visited his dad's design area. (I hope I have this story right! It was told on a show about the top 100 toys of the last century... which included slinkys and Etch -a-Sketch, 2 of my favorites!)
The only unmarried U.S. President was James Buchanan,the 15th President,whose term ran from 1857 to 1861.
Intelligence has its limits, but stupidity knows no bounds.
Golfer Sam Snead won 81 PGA tournaments,but he never managed to win the US open.
Intelligence has its limits, but stupidity knows no bounds.
Swanson Foods introduced the worlds first frozen TV dinner (it was a turkey meal), in 1954.:idea:
Intelligence has its limits, but stupidity knows no bounds.
In the 1949 first season of NASCAR auto racing, Sara Christian finished 13th in points. No woman has finished higher since.chip anderson said:
Sean: They also avoid peanuts in the pits, the race car and people near the racing envionment. Both the green color and peanuts were associated with disapportante amount of fatal wrecks.
Chip
Intelligence has its limits, but stupidity knows no bounds.
Water boils at 212 degrees F at sea level. For every 540 feet of altitude, that number decreases by about 1 degree.
Intelligence has its limits, but stupidity knows no bounds.
Sean said:
Water boils at 212 degrees F at sea level. For every 540 feet of altitude, that number decreases by about 1 degree.
Giving it to us in metric.............?
Water boils at 100 degrees celsius. For every 164.592 meters of altitude that number decreases by about -17.22 degrees celsius.Chris Ryser said:
Giving it to us in metric.............?
Intelligence has its limits, but stupidity knows no bounds.
That would mean that at an altitude of 1316 meters water would boil at -37.76 ???Sean said:
Water boils at 100 degrees celsius. For every 164.592 meters of altitude that number decreases by about -17.22 degrees celsius.
A typo on my part ....should not have put - in front of the 17.22 centigrade.Chris Ryser said:
That would mean that at an altitude of 1316 meters water would boil at -37.76 ???
Intelligence has its limits, but stupidity knows no bounds.
Thank you..........................Sean said:
A typo on my part ....should not have put - in front of the 17.22 centigrade.
At least I can now have a warm coffee when going up the hills.
That will teach me to use a pencil and a piece of paper instead of the good o'l noggin when trying to convert Fahrenheit to Celsius.Good thing i didn't have to try to change the numbers into Kelvin or Rankine....................Chris Ryser said:
Thank you..........................
At least I can now have a warm coffee when going up the hills.
Intelligence has its limits, but stupidity knows no bounds.
Fahrenheit, Celsius and the old Rheomur temperature calculations and conversions were part of the courses we had to take back in Switzerland during the opticians apprentiship.Sean said:
That will teach me to use a pencil and a piece of paper instead of the good o'l noggin when trying to convert Fahrenheit to Celsius.Good thing i didn't have to try to change the numbers into Kelvin or Rankine....................
Also had to learn to adjust barometers for different altitudes, depending where the buyers lived, big difference when somebody lived on the hill or down in the valley or in between.
I wonder if anybody cares about that these days ?
:hammer:
This is all that i remember............Rankine is a temperature scale that,like Kelvin,set's zero at absolute zero,but uses Fahrenheit degrees. And in order to convert Fahrenheit to Rankine you need to add 459............point somethin somethin. Does that sound right? Or am i way off base?
Intelligence has its limits, but stupidity knows no bounds.
Sean said:
This is all that i remember............Rankine is a temperature scale that,like Kelvin,set's zero at absolute zero,but uses Fahrenheit degrees. And in order to convert Fahrenheit to Rankine you need to add 459............point somethin somethin. Does that sound right? Or am i way off base?
Actually.......................I dont remember.......thats bad because it is long term memory.
Would have to look it up, but what the heck, Napoleon introduced the metric system which is the easiest of all of them
Chris,
Just a word of thank's for helping me remember things that i thought i forgot...........or forgot that i thought for that matter.Now on with the show.
:cheers: :cheers: :cheers:
Intelligence has its limits, but stupidity knows no bounds.
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