Happy Spring 2016-03-21

[Dave]

Only 5 meters? I think you're off by at least one decimal place.

So, we're not talking about groundhog here, but atomizedhog, right?

[GlytchMeister]

Only 5 meters? I think you're off by at least one decimal place.

So, we're not talking about groundhog here, but atomizedhog, right?

Or maybe fissionedhog.

[Sgt. Howard]

I not only have the weapons and training to counter the little bastard, I have recipies for the carcass...

By the time you get done with it there Butch there won't BE a carcass....or anything else left for a 5-meter radius.

7.65x54R to the head- leaves a stump where it sat before, the hydrostatic shock clears out the large intestine, and the thrust from that action boosts him out of the hole... of course, there's a clean hole in the direction of the shot for two and a half miles, but the odds are favorable that nothing important will get hit if I line it up correctly...
... now, I could line the area with Tannerite and make soup in one shot... and delivers it within a forty meter radius...

[FreeFlier]

My grandfather once orbited a mole colony with a bit of gasoline . . . He'd expected noxious fumes, but it exploded instead.

--FreeFlier

[Just Old Al]

My grandfather once orbited a mole colony with a bit of gasoline . . . He'd expected noxious fumes, but it exploded instead.

--FreeFlier

Cracked the concrete of a tennis court that way once...it's a long story and it wasn't my idea...the stochiometric ratio was juuuuust right.

[GlytchMeister]

I hated stoichiometry in school.

I love stoichiometry in real life.

[FreeFlier]

When grandpa did it, he learned that the tunnels extended under the house . . .

The last I knew, there were devices that used propane or acetylene to do the same thing deliberately . . . search YouTube, I've seen videos there.

--FreeFlier

[Typeminer]

I hated stoichiometry in school.

I love stoichiometry in real life.

I did not learn just a hell of a lot in college. But I did learn how to decant pressurized liquids into open containers, wrap finely divided materials in small pieces of paper, and count the atoms on either side of a reaction diagram.

Skills that proved to be quite useful, overall.

[jwhouk]

Spoke too soon. We just got dumped on with snow (after being basically green for the last week or so).

[Sgt. Howard]

I hated stoichiometry in school.

I love stoichiometry in real life.

I did not learn just a hell of a lot in college. But I did learn how to decant pressurized liquids into open containers, wrap finely divided materials in small pieces of paper, and count the atoms on either side of a reaction diagram.

Skills that proved to be quite useful, overall.

I was banned from chemistry...

[GlytchMeister]

I was banned from chemistry...

And lo, the people of the world did breathe a collective sigh of relief

[Catawampus]

My grandfather once orbited a mole colony with a bit of gasoline . . . He'd expected noxious fumes, but it exploded instead.

--FreeFlier

Cracked the concrete of a tennis court that way once...it's a long story and it wasn't my idea...the stochiometric ratio was juuuuust right.

I saw somebody try to get rid of fire ants (poetic justice, he thought) that way. The firemen were able to save most of his house. . .

Then there was the time I was pointed to a depot of old unusable oil and petrol and other assorted chemicals and was asked to use however much of it I needed to help simulate a nuclear attack as part of a training exercise, and might have gotten slightly carried away. Afterward, I suggested that there might have been an unmarked stash of old ordnance buried just under where I set things off, and the higher-ups decided to just go with that in the official reports. In my defence, while it did create something of an international incident, it did do a thorough job of testing the alert systems of several countries. And it did get rid of all the old barrels of oil. And a big chunk of the ground.

[Sgt. Howard]

I was banned from chemistry...

And lo, the people of the world did breathe a collective sigh of relief

... they were able to repair the damage... (sulks in corner)

[Catawampus]

... they were able to repair the damage...

Including the psychological?

[Just Old Al]

I was banned from chemistry...

And lo, the people of the world did breathe a collective sigh of relief

... they were able to repair the damage... (sulks in corner)

If they were ale to find bits to glue back together you didn't use enough.

[AnotherFairportfan]

I feel as if this is a good time to again mention Cally Soukop's list of Nicoll Events.

Two of James Nicoll's best lines:

The inside of a fireball is a pretty pretty place but that was a sort of fuel-air thingie, not a real explosive.

and

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary

{Yes, he is, in fact, the author of that line. I Was There.}

[Sgt. Howard]

... they were able to repair the damage...

Including the psychological?

THAT DOESN'T COUNT!!!

[Sgt. Howard]

... they were able to repair the damage... (sulks in corner)

If they were ale to find bits to glue back together you didn't use enough.[/quote]

I really wasn't trying to blow up the science building... it just sorta... happened... that way

[lake_wrangler]

Spoke too soon. We just got dumped on with snow (after being basically green for the last week or so).

Same here. We had a tiny bit of snow two days ago, then we got close to two inches today. Wet snow. Sticky snow. Snow mixed with rain, which made a mess of the wipers on the bus. Had to get out every five minutes or so to shake the accumulating snow from the wipers, otherwise the windshield just became blurry with unwiped water...

Meanwhile, parked cars had to have ice scraped off all windows before anyone could drive away...