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Just had an email that my two devices will be despatched on 10 Dec. They must have been working hard to get the production run under way.

Guess who's going to play in the pool with 1 kg weights as soon as they arrive /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
yes but in the cause of Forum Science, there's a need to prove a point anent a certain Mr Archimedes.
 
It should work in a pool thats where they tested them .. What you should do of course is attatch your new hand held and a bunch of keys then go out sailing .. Loose them over the side then try to get them back .. If it passes that then I will order one .. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
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Just had an email that my two devices will be despatched on 10 Dec. They must have been working hard to get the production run under way.

Guess who's going to play in the pool with 1 kg weights as soon as they arrive /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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Is the pool fresh or salt water???? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
 
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Would anyone like to take a bet that Mr. Gludy is left-handed?

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And what pray tell is wrong with being left handed?
Are we still in the dark ages?
 
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And what pray tell is wrong with being left handed?
Are we still in the dark ages?

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Nothing at all. I think it's a fair bet and will have to ask him.
 
Oh Lordy, Waterbuoygate......Shhhh.
Whatever you do, don't test said device with either a tin of the sacred bean, nor the mushy pea.
 
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And what pray tell is wrong with being left handed?
Are we still in the dark ages?

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Nothing at all. I think it's a fair bet and will have to ask him.

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But why suggest that he is left handed?
I cant see the logic if you did not feel that being left handed is an issue or has some stigma attached?

That would be like me saying I bet he is Cornish!
 
Ah but being called Cornish could be considered a compliment for the Cornish are descended from those industrious and placid British inhabitants of these Isles who retreated to that part of the world from the murderous barbarian hoards of Saxons (et al), named after the Seax, their favourite weapon.

Still in the dark ages - well aggressive and drunk hoodied yobs plague the streets of our inner cities, our young people can't afford to buy a roof over their head and we are led by a corrupt inept and incompetent government who sell rewards for money and believe that everything is theirs; where education is c**p (it was Alfred the Great who said "The saddest thing about any man, is that he be ignorant and the most exciting thing is that he knows") where medical care is the worse in Europe and where people blow up other people as a way of solving problems. I'd say that looks like the dark ages to me.

The logic for left hand is that these are the people who are routinely thoughtful. I should know, my brother's left handed.
 
Very wise words Tiller,

As soon as I mentioned the dark ages the words Can, Worms, Open, Everywhere came to my thoughts

So me being a left handed Arthritic Diabetic Man of Kent, what does that make me? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
You can tell its getting near the end of the week, that its rained every day so far, probably most of us haven't done our Xmas shopping and the weekend is looming and SWIMBO has had that look for the last 3 days. Roll on January /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
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But why suggest that he is left handed?
I cant see the logic if you did not feel that being left handed is an issue or has some stigma attached?


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Wish I'd never said anything: Gludy is not left handed. I asked because I was in partnership with a LH person for a few years, and thought that Gludy's outlook and style are very similar, that's all, nothing more.
 
Upright (well stiff) Sweet and Wealthy!

In 449AD, you paid for your crimes according to the Wergild - the exact value of a man - so murder was so many shillings according to the status of the deceased. A shilling was the price of a cow in Kent but everywhere else it represented the cost of a sheep so presumably you are descended from wealthy Jutes - bit simplistic but hey, its Thursday!

Definition of name: Derivation of "brook," or a small stream. Also a name given to those who came from Brooksbank, the name of several places in England derived from Middle English "brokes" for brook and "bank" for bank. Just about as many origins as there are streams.

variant of Brook
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a brook or stream, from Old English broc brook or, by extension, water meadow. Water meadow or marsh is the regular meaning of the Low German cognate brook (Dutch broek; German Bruch, Old High German bruoh). The English spelling Brooke preserves a trace of the Old English dative singular case, originally used after a preposition (e.g. at the brook), and forms in -(e)s preserve a genitive (i.e. of the brook). Both nominative and dative singular forms are widely distributed throughout England, but especially common in West and South Yorkshire; the genitive variant Brooks, Brookes, on the other hand, has a much more even distribution. Brooks is also borne by Ashkenazic Jews, presumably as an anglicization of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.

Variants: Brock, Broke, Brooke, Brookes, Brooks, Bruck; Brockman, Brookman; Brooker, Brucker; Brooking (Devon).

Cognates: Dutch, Flemish: Broek, Broekman, Ten Broek, Ten Broeke, Van den Broek, Van den Broeke. Frisian: Broekema, Broekstra, Brookstra. German: Bruch, Bruckmann; Brücher. Low German: Brock, Brook, Brookmann.

Some modern bearers of this name, who preserve the spelling Broke, are descended from Sir Richard Broke (died 1529) of Broke Hall in Suffolk, who was Chief Baron of the Exchequer to Henry VIII in 1526.

English bearers of the name Brockman can trace their ancestry to a certain John Brockman who was granted lands in Kent by Richard II.
 
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