TTWOT - Is it me?

"Adrian" wrote in message
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Woody wrote:

Ah, but what do you main by minimal? I saw Kit-Kats the other
day at 57p - that's 11/8d in old money when they used to cost
6d. Now I know there has been inflation over 40 years but
surely not that much - when Morrisons can sell PL bulbs for a
shilling?


You miscalculated 57p is 11/5d or if you want to be precise,
11/4.8d

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Adrian



OK, OK, so I was having a Mathematical Senior Moment. It is
allowed you know even if Bill never makes a mistake! (Probably
why he's a secret millionaire.)



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Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com

We were about to embark at Dover, when 78
(Paul Ratcliffe) came up to me and whispered:


God is it really over 40 years since D-day?

Must be, it was the same day my parents got married.

--
Paul Cummins - Always a NetHead
Wasting Bandwidth since 1981

---- If it's below this line, I didn't write it ----

Who are you calling a ttwot?

On Monday, September 26th, 2011 at 18:12:15 +0000, Paul Ratcliffe wrote:

On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:38:15 +0100, charles
wrote:

At least we can still spend a penny, rather than euronate.

It costs 40p to 'spend a penny' at Waterloo Railway Station.

That's taking the ****. It's symptomatic of some of the many things
wrong with so-called public transport in this festering country.

Do not Ryan Air want to introduce a charge of GBP 1.00 for using
the washroom on their planes?

On 26/09/2011 19:24, Paul Ratcliffe wrote:
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:42 +0100 (BST), Paul Cummins
wrote:

I saw Kit-Kats the other day
at 57p - that's 11/8d

11/6 surely?

No, that would be 57.5p

God is it really over 40 years since D-day?

A lot more.

Tonight's news: A ship carrying silver bullion was located off Ireland.
It went down with £400,000 worth in 1941. It'll come up with
£150,000,000...

Q: how many EU finance ministers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: There's nothing wrong with it.

Andy

Paul Ratcliffe wrote:
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:42 +0100 (BST), Paul Cummins
wrote:

I saw Kit-Kats the other day
at 57p - that's 11/8d
11/6 surely?

No, that would be 57.5p

God is it really over 40 years since D-day?

Yes, that's the best part of my life wasted fixing TV aerials. It was
just after D Day that I went full time.

Bill

Woody wrote:

OK, OK, so I was having a Mathematical Senior Moment.
It is reaching the time when the automatic conversion to and from New
Money is beginning to fade.

It is
allowed you know even if Bill never makes a mistake! (Probably
why he's a secret millionaire.)
If I'm a millionaire it's so secret even I don't know about it.

Incidentally being a millionaire is nothing these days.

Bill

On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:45:21 +0100, Bob wrote:

Who are you calling a ttwot?

Himself, maybe (look at the subject line).

I think it's a version of a common subject prefix "ToT" indicating that
it's a Totally off Topic subject as opposed to the milder OT prefix simply
indicating that the subject is Off Topic. In this case, the best
translation of this variation I can come up with is "Totally, Totally Way
Off Topic". Of course, I could be wrong.


--
Regards JB Good

On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:06:04 +0100, Peter Duncanson
wrote:

On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:54:18 +0100, "Johny B Good"
wrote:

On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:55:47 +0100, Doctor D
wrote:




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I agree with Dave Farrance. Where CFLs are not suitable, the "new"
halogen lamps are very good, a huge improvement of the light of an
incandescent.

Halogen lamps _are_ incandescent lamps.

Indeed. As described he
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halogen_lamp

The halogen gas allows the lamp to operate at a higher temperature and
thus with higher efficiency.

The main benefit isn't simply allowing a higher filament temperature to
be achieved, it's mainly to prevent the tungsten vapour from being
deposited on the envelope by keeping the 'glass' above the 250 deg C mark
and recycling the tungsten vapour back onto the filament.

Unfortunately, the recycled tungsten preferentially migrates to the
cooler parts of the filament which accelerates the erosion of the hottest
thinnest parts of the filament.

High voltage (longer) filaments are more prone to this defect. If you're
thinking of installing halogen lamps, avoid the mains voltage ones in
preference to the 12 or 24v lamps which require a "Transformer" which,
these days, is usually a compact smpsu rather than an actual 50/60Hz
stepdown transformer.

A side benefit of the electronic 'transformer' is the current limiting
characteristic which considerably reduces the switch on surge which
extends the life of the lamp to somewhere closer to its continuous hours
runtime rating in spite of the on off cycling typical of normal domestic
use.

The typical 1000 hours lifetime rating applied to GLS lamps allows for on
off cycling in every day use. Such lamps, when left to burn continuously,
can achieve lifetime figures of 3000 hours or more.

--
Regards JB Good

In article ,
Bob Latham wrote:
In article ,
Doctor D wrote:

I have 60 and 100 watt lamps hanging about because I bought lots years
ago and haven't used one for about 5 years! I can't find anyone who
wants the blessed things now that CFLs and halogens are so good, and
the cheap shops around here are still selling 4 x 60w for a pound. My
father in law for instance is partially blind. For him it means we can
use a 25 watt CFL in a shade rated for 60 watts of incandescent lamp. A
huge increase in illumination for him, without scorching the shades
which is what used to happen.

I would dearly love to find a CFL that was anywhere near acceptable. I see
posts like yours and I do ask myself, what are these bulbs and where do
they get them from. Every CFL I've ever seen has given off a disgusting
greeny/yellow light with poor intensity nowhere near as bright as a 60W
they are supposed to replace.

CFLs come in various wattages, from the 7 watt 'golfball' up to 23w. I
certainly find the Megaman golfballs and R50 (spots) as good as their
tungsten equivalent. What are you using to replace a 60w incandescent? If
an 11w CFL isn't bright enough, try a 15w one. The colour temperature has
got much better over the last few years, too.

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