On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:50:51 +0100, Sacha  wrote:

>On 2009-09-22 18:39:39 +0100, Martin <me@address.invalid> said:
>
>> On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:29:36 +0100, Sacha  wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2009-09-22 17:49:50 +0100, Martin <me@address.invalid> said:
>>> 
>>>> On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:41:37 +0100, Sacha  wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 2009-09-22 17:35:47 +0100, Martin <me@address.invalid> said:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:16:36 +0100, "Ophelia"  wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> "Martin" <me@address.invalid> wrote in message
>>>>>>> news:j3thb5t3aj0o98g2cvfcm55rq0esgvqudk@4ax.com...
>>>>>>>> On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:56:25 +0100, "Ophelia" 
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> "Martin" <me@address.invalid> wrote in message
>>>>>>>>> news:bsnhb51s3r6pu0opo07crq2725d0lkamg1@4ax.com...
>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:24:30 +0100, "Ophelia" 
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> "Martin" <me@address.invalid> wrote in message
>>>>>>>>>>> news:ql8hb55r61uv9otdqsa5h3p3hvnsm244l2@4ax.com...
>>>>>>>>>>>> Next time you have water in your fuel, just give the tank a drink of
>>>>>>>>>>>> Stroh
>>>>>>>>>>>> rum.
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Martin's answer for all ills:))
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Hic!
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Defrosts car locks and windscreens too (but leaves a sticky mess)
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Cor!! Really an answer for ALL ills:))))
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> and you can use it as fondue stove fuel and to light Primus stoves. :o)
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> and if you get your lips frozen to the car lock guess what? Stroh Rum!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I expect that would be reeeeeely useful, Martin.. but I must ask... why
>>>>>>> would your lip be frozen to a car lock??  eh?? Hmmmm?  Why?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> See the answer elsewhere.
>>>>>> It could be cosmic cold power being radiated from a black sky.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I can't believe the quantity of crap science I have seen posted recently.
>>>>> 
>>>>> So let's see if I can get an answer to this one - I have some very
>>>>> narrow-necked, flute shaped vases.  When filled with water and many
>>>>> flowers, the water evaporates in them faster than any of my wide-necked
>>>>> vases.  I would have thought the narowness of the neck and the stems
>>>>> 'plugging' it would have prevented this.  I don't think it's that the
>>>>> flowers are taking up water any faster because their stems are dangling
>>>>> in a wider part of the flute with less crowding than at the neck.
>>>> 
>>>> I think it is.
>>>> 
>>>>> The
>>>>> biggest of these flutes is about the size of a yard of ale.
>>>> 
>>>> My wife says she used to know how to calculate the cosmic capillary forces
>>>> involved. :)
>>> 
>>> And in laywoman's terms, that would be...........?  ;-)
>> 
>> Her memory isn't what it used to be?
>
>Well, mine never was, obviously!

Nor mine.
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Martin