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733 posts
Location: Bewildered state of nothingness, United Kingdom
What ever happened to
White dog poo????
Pages of porn mags in the local park?????
Used condoms in public places?????
Bill Oddy?????
Rip Raps????
The Mac lads????
Caramac???
Shoes wrapped around telephone wires????
What else has vanished without trace????
LOL
Taking it easy
Trippy
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Last night i met some pixies and we danced around a stone.
High Class Hippy No:1
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"I Got Soul"
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Trippie Hippie- Monty Dons secret love child
Fly like a mouse, run like a pillow, be the small book case.
"Last night i met some pixies and we danced around a stone".
Because dressing up is fun.
279 posts
Location: Bath, UK
I dunno about you, but I've noticed there are some words that have been forever erased from the Matrix.
There was a word meaning arrow-slits, like you see in Castles. It was in a book when I was 5 and we used it to describe the pointless narrow windows in the new building at college. But it's gone. Many people can remember that there was a word, and it's always on the tip of their tongue, but no-one can remember it.
The other word meant 'Exploratory Surgery'. People would say, they don't know what's wrong with me so I'm going in for an XXXXXXX. But again, not even the finest minds of the medical profession can remember this word.
It's strange, SOMEONE has removed these words from the collective vocabulary. I view this as proof of the non-existence of God.
Magnus... pay it forward
old hand
733 posts
Location: Bewildered state of nothingness, United Kingdom
ARGH!!!! Your right!!!! What were they called???? ARGH!!!!
LOL
Taking it easy
Trippy
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Last night i met some pixies and we danced around a stone.
High Class Hippy No:1
N.E.W.B. Agent #012
"I Got Soul"
Non-Https Image Link
Trippie Hippie- Monty Dons secret love child
Fly like a mouse, run like a pillow, be the small book case.
"Last night i met some pixies and we danced around a stone".
Because dressing up is fun.
216 posts
Location: Chester, Cheshire.
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom
and i thought they were just called arrow slits...
i'll agree that white dog poo is well rare nowdays though.
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
216 posts
Location: Chester, Cheshire.
Embrasure: (arrow ports, loops) A narrow vertical slit built into a wall or merlon used to fire bolts, arrows or other projectiles at an attacking enemy; the space between merlons on a battlemented fortification; cf.: bolt-loops, crenelles, parapet.
3,149 posts
Location: London
Maybe they stopped making white dog food?
Bill Oddie's still around though. He's doing a program about birdwatching.
"Switching between different kinds of chuu chuu sometimes gives this "urgh wtf?" effect because it's giving people the phi phenomenon."
the henna lady
6,193 posts
Location: WNY, USA
White dog poo...or petrified dog poo is rare because people pick up the poo instead of letting it sit around and get all ick like that.
And the term is Embrasures
: A hole in a thick wall for a door or window with the sides angled so that the inside is larger than the outside. A slanted hole made for a gun or projectile weapon in a wall or parapet.
Technically Embrasures weren't used on a Merlon, because the merlons were used on the battlement as the hiding position. It would take two men behind a merlon actually to cover the sides, back to back behind it, each firing downward. These were created in towers specifically for the use of Long Bows, and to hide from Crossbow Quarrels, which were, during the Feudal era, concidered the most dastardly of hand-held weapon, to the point where they were outlawed for a period. The doors were created this way with two entrances, and arrow slits (different from Embrasures as arrow slits go horizontally) were put in the inside door.
(That's what years of playing D&D and working at Ren Faires will do for you! )
Now, where is Mike Ginny..er...Lightning (can't get used to that) for that pesky med term question!?
Pele
Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir
"Oooh look! A pub!" -exclaimed after recovering from a stupid fall
"And for the decadence of art, nothing beats a roaring fire." -TMK
85 posts
Location: Cheshire
Caramac have moved...to winsford! They decided to pack up their wrappers and move to a vending machine in the baths! I have to fill it up everyday...who would have thought it would be so popular!
Chili pepper
And for the rest of the stuff... i dont know!
High Class Hippy #5'One day i WILL own a VW Campervan''i'll sell a liver, u can live with just one, cant u?'Jebus...Jebus
85 posts
Location: Cheshire
Thank you as always pele.
The information in my post came from a 'History of British castles' website. They should have consulted you before uploading such drivel eh?
Embrasure instead of Embrasures. Just goes to show you, never trust what you read on the internet.
Jim on Chilis etc etc etc
High Class Hippy #5'One day i WILL own a VW Campervan''i'll sell a liver, u can live with just one, cant u?'Jebus...Jebus
279 posts
Location: Bath, UK
hmm... I'm sure there was another word!
Magnus... pay it forward
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
These days, exploratory surgery is usually done by laparoscopy. Is that the word you needed? There are two types of exploratory surgery: laparoscopy (which is done with a laparoscope, a fiber-optic probe thingie) and dissection, which is open surgery.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
the henna lady
6,193 posts
Location: WNY, USA
Jim, Ren-Dark Ages-Medieval history are a love of mine, and I really enjoy the castle infrastructure. An Embrasure is the singular form of it, so you were completely correct. I was typing mine when you put yours up...just an overlap in timing!
Pele
Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir
"Oooh look! A pub!" -exclaimed after recovering from a stupid fall
"And for the decadence of art, nothing beats a roaring fire." -TMK
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