mickeyobe
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Post by mickeyobe on Mar 21, 2010 23:06:57 GMT -5
Peter, Thank you for your attempt to teach me some mathematics. i guess i am much too thick to truly appreciate the invaluable contributions i has made to humanity. Just take a look at my glazed over i's. i am devastated by my inability to find the volume of those Giza monuments or the trajectories of Mars and of NASA's vehicles or write computer programmes (Ha. i can't even read them.) or design a superior lens. As if the ancient Egyptians had nothing better to do than worry about the volume of a pyramid. Did they have to pay rent on the space it occupied above the ground? They would better have concerned themselves with trivialities such as plagues and parting waters and slave uprisings and Roman gigolos and Aswan dams and asps and mummies of mommies and the prices of garlic and olive oil. As for "advanced calculations" - aye yaye yaye! Those two words cause me to tremble and break out in a sweat. i must do my daily crossword or two or three but i have never encountered any reference to i or to square roots in one. i would probably give them up for the comic strips if i did. i am still all at sea when it comes to using something that doesn't exist. in deference to your love of √ and i, i have temporarily given up the use of the upper case i. i hope all this palaver has clarified MiK's concern about blooming lenses. MiCKEY
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Post by Andrew on Mar 22, 2010 7:02:37 GMT -5
Crikey, i keep on learning with you guys! a little bit of math and what aye aye means! i had no idea it had to do with 'homo' jokes ...it did remind me though, having just vististed our little local air show here the other day, where one fellow (named Roger) has a kit built Spitfire that he flew around. when i went and had a closer look i also noticed he wrote Roger as the registation number on the side with the roundel replacing the O in Roger...at the time i thought of the situation in the air where Roger the pilot would ask Jim to form up on his port wing and Jim would reply Roger Roger... hehe that would start to sound like some old british comedy TV series
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Post by olroy2044 on Mar 22, 2010 7:11:21 GMT -5
A-a-h-h Mickey! You made my day! ;D ;D
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Post by John Parry on Mar 22, 2010 16:27:35 GMT -5
Peter
Ha! Aye-aye Sir!
Last time I used it, it was j, (which incidentally is pronounced jai, rhymes with pie, in Scotland). Not even going to start on z... What I meant was that we dream the impossible dream!
Regards - John
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Post by PeterW on Mar 22, 2010 17:42:39 GMT -5
"Not even going to start on z... " Don't blame you, John, z can be very dangerous. Last time I used it the thing came straight out of the paper and hit me in the aye. This correspondence must now cease - Ed. PeterW
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Post by mickeyobe on Mar 22, 2010 18:58:23 GMT -5
"This correspondence must now cease - Ed." PeterW
Aye aye, sir.
Now i am going to grab some Zzzzzzzzzzzzz's And so to bed.
Mickey
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Post by John Parry on Mar 23, 2010 16:55:49 GMT -5
Ah Mickey,
But are they zeds or zees?
Regards - John
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Post by mickeyobe on Mar 24, 2010 0:12:25 GMT -5
John,
Zeds.
Zees are wet places in Holland.
When you were a sailor surely your ship didn't sail on a zed. Did it?
Mickey
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Post by seele on Apr 2, 2010 11:56:59 GMT -5
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