Ammo for Col!

[No1_Moose]

He says we have run out of gas/forums/images/icons/smile.gif

He also says this is safe!
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[hagrid]

for a mobo very white almost ghostly white legs? please ask your dad to cover up next time the whiteness caused blindness

Hag

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[powerskipper]

Is it his trousers he is burning???

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Julie

 

[jon_bailey]

Ross

Just tell him to start using those disposal ones.

Come to think of it, is that Nick2's petrol?

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[longjohnsilver]

I hope he's wearing underpants! Those puny flames won't keep him warm for long, he'd be far better putting his trousers back on. I expect you'll soon be looking to transfer to a new moose herd.

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[Moose]

That is not fair!!! and that is perfectly safe, much better than all the explosive gas.

Revenge,Revenge,Revenge,,,,any thoughts anybody?


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[BrendanS]

Re: Revenge

Quite right, nothing wrong there at all, other than those legs! <g>

Well, seeing as he's boaty mad, just bar him from boat for next days/ weeks/ months / summer season. Or no helming?

<hr width=100% size=1>Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabris, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.

 

[Nick2]

I do hope that petrol is less than 12 weeks old.....otherwise there will be a huge problem in getting rid of the stuff !



Nick

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[Alistairr]

I'm not sure what would be worse, Seeing you topless, or seeing you bottomless!!!!/forums/images/icons/shocked.gif/forums/images/icons/wink.gif



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[PIGLETSDREAM]

Bashfull Naturism and Moose, That's cool

<hr width=100% size=1>Must go, Matron is coming

 

[PIGLETSDREAM]

Bashfull Naturism and Moose, that's cool.

<hr width=100% size=1>Must go, Matron is coming

 

[milltech]

Bare legs and socks! He's only missing the knotted hanky.

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[Nick_Pam]

Engineering the Nucelar Barbecue...

This is true.....I was there.......I saw it

GOT A LIGHT? ENGINEERING A NUCLEAR COOK-OUT
By Dave Barry

Today's culinary topic is: How to Light a Charcoal Fire.

Everybody loves a backyard barbecue. For some reason, food just seems to taste better when it has been cooked outdoors, where flies can lay eggs on it.

But there's nothing worse -- and I include the Great Depression in that statement --than trying to set fire to a pile of balky charcoal.

(For those of you who actually went through the Great Depression and are offended by the previous sentence, let me state, in all sincerity, that "Balky Charcoal" would be a good name for a rock band.)

The average backyard chef, wishing to cook hamburgers, tries to ignite the charcoal via the Squirt, Light and Wait method, wherein you squirt lighter fluid on a pile of briquettes, light the pile, then wait until they have turned a uniform grey colour. When I say "they have turned a uniform grey colour," I am referring to the
hamburgers. The briquettes will remain as cold and lifeless as Leonard Nimoy. The backyard chef will keep this up -- squirting, lighting, waiting; squirting, lighting, waiting -- until the bacterial level in the side dishes has reached the point where
the potato salad rises up from its bowl, Blob-like, and attempts to mate with the corn. This is the signal that it's time to order Chinese food.

The problem is that modern charcoal, manufactured under strict consumer-safety guidelines, is one of the least-flammable substances on Earth. On more than one occasion, quick-thinking individuals have extinguished a raging house fire by throwing charcoal on it. Your backyard chef would be just as successful
trying to ignite a pile of rocks.

Is there a solution? Yes. There happens to be a technique that is guaranteed to get your charcoal burning very, very quickly, although you should not attempt this technique unless you meet all of the following criteria:
1. You are a complete idiot.

I found out about this technique from alert reader George Rasko, who sent me a letter describing something he came across on the World Wide Web, an exciting new computer network that you should definitely learn more about, because as you read these words your 11-year-old is downloading pornography from it.

By hooking into the World Wide Web, you can look at a wide variety of electronic "pages," consisting of documents, pictures and video created by people all over the world. One of these is a guy named George Goble, a computer person in the Purdue University engineering department. Each year, Goble and a bunch of other engineers hold a picnic in West Lafayette, Indiana, at which they cook hamburgers on a big grill. Being engineers, they began looking for practical ways to speed up the charcoal-lighting process.

"We started by blowing the charcoal with a hair dryer," Goble told me in a telephone interview. "Then we figured out that it would light faster if we used a vacuum cleaner."

If you know anything about (1) engineers, and (2) guys in general, you know what happened: The purpose of the charcoal-lighting shifted from cooking hamburgers to seeing how fast they could light the charcoal.

From the vacuum cleaner, they escalated to using a propane torch, then an acetylene torch. Then Goble started using compressed pure oxygen, which caused the charcoal to burn much faster, because as you recall from chemistry class, fire is essentially the rapid combination of oxygen with the cosine to form the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (or something along those lines).

By this point Goble was getting pretty good times. But in the world of competitive charcoal-lighting, "pretty good" does not cut the mustard. Thus Goble hit upon the idea of using (get ready) liquid oxygen. This is the form of oxygen used in rocket engines; it's 295 degrees below zero and 600 times as dense as regular
oxygen. In terms of releasing energy, pouring liquid oxygen on charcoal is the equivalent of throwing a live squirrel into a room containing 50 million Labrador retrievers.

On Goble's World Wide Web page (the address is http://ghg.ecn.purdue.edu/) you can see actual photographs and a video of Goble using a bucket attached to a 3m-long wooden handle to dump three gallons of liquid oxygen (Not Sold In Stores)
onto a grill containing 60 pounds of charcoal and a lit cigarette for ignition. What follows is the most impressive charcoal-lighting I have ever seen, featuring a large fireball that, according to Goble, reached 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The charcoal was ready for cooking in (this has to be a world record) three seconds.

There's also a photo of what happened when Goble used the same technique on a flimsy little $2.88 discount-store grill. All that's left is a circle of charcoal with a few shreds of metal in it.

"Basically, the grill vaporised," said Goble. "We were thinking of returning it to the store for a refund."

Looking at Goble's video and photos, I became, as an American, all choked up with gratitude at the fact that I do not live anywhere near the engineers' picnic site. But also I was proud of my country, for producing guys who can be ready to barbecue in less time than it takes for guys in less-advanced nations, such as
France, to spit.

Will the three-second barrier ever be broken? Will engineers come up with a new, more-powerful charcoal-lighting technology? It's something for all of us to ponder this summer as we sit outside, chewing our hamburgers, every now and then glancing in the direction of West Lafayette, Indiana, looking for a mushroom cloud.



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[jon_bailey]

Re: Engineering the Nucelar Barbecue...

Unfortunately the link has been removed - I wonder why?

Now this is a real challenge for Studland - Could be a Le Mans style start from the boats, tender to shore, light bbq, then first to cook AND eat Captain Birdseye 'real steak' burger will be winner. Having to eat own burger should avoid any issues over whether burger is cooked or overcooked.

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[rickp]

Re: Engineering the Nucelar Barbecue...

Dunno why its gone, but the waybackmachine <A target="_blank" HREF=http://web.archive.org/web/20021201034510/http://ghg.ecn.purdue.edu/~ghg/>has it still </A>.

Rick

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[BrendanS]

Re: Engineering the Nucelar Barbecue...

The powers that be made him remove it. You can still see some of the still pictures here<A target="_blank" HREF=http://ep.llnl.gov/msds/Chem120/lox-oxidation.html>http://ep.llnl.gov/msds/Chem120/lox-oxidation.html</A>, but it's a shame that you can't see the videos anymore (I'll have a hunt on the net and see if they have been mirrored anywhere)


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[Nick_Pam]

Re: Engineering the Nucelar Barbecue...

Ohhh cheers Rick!!!!!
Thanks for finding that - I had the link mapped for ages, but lost it.
I was working at Harvard in 1996 when all this took place and it took me a week to stop laughing!!!
Nick

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[Col]

Someone has nicked the fishing rod from that garden gnome /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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[Col]

It's always better to let someone else do it

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