Sounds fun hey?
Click anywhere on this post for a picture show extraordinaire, can you tell it's one of mine?
Music by The Christians - Ideal World!!
Sunday, June 07, 2009
In the land below the Motorway
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Sunday, March 22, 2009
UK MOTHER'S DAY MARCH 22 2009
TO MY UK MUM'S WHEREVER THEY MAY BE, HAVE THE MOST SMASHING DAY!!
AS I SAY EVERY YEAR OTHER MUM'S DON'T GO IN TO A FLAT SPIN, REMEMBER THE UK HAVE A DIFFERENT DATE SET ASIDE FOR THEIR MUM'S!!!!
Friday, March 20, 2009
THE LAW OF SOD!!!
12 LAWS OF INACCURATE PERCEPTION
SOD'S LAW, ALSO KNOWN AS MURPHY'S LAW. If anything can go wrong, it will.
O'TOOLE'S COMMENTARY ON MURPHY'S LAW. Murphy was an optimist.
THE FIRST COROLLARY TO SOD'S LAW. Anything that is to go wrong will do so at the worst possible moment.
THE UNSPEAKABLE LAW. As soon as you mention something, if it's good, it goes away; if it's bad, it happens.
NON-RECIPROCAL LAWS OF EXPECTATIONS. Negative expectations yield negative results. Positive expectations yield negative results.
HOWE'S LAW. Every man has a scheme which will not work.
ZYMURGY'S FIRST LAW OF EVOLVING SYSTEM DYNAMICS. Once you open a can of worms, the only way to re-can them is to use a larger can.
SKINNER'S CONSTANT. The quantity which must be multiplied by, divided by, added to or subtracted from the answer you get to give the answer you should have got.
LAW OF SELECTIVE GRAVITY. An object will fall so as to do the most damage.
JENNING'S COROLLARY. The chance of the bread falling with the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.
BARTH'S DISTINCTION. There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types and those who do not.
NINETY-NINETY RULE OF PROJECT SCHEDULES. The first 90% of the job takes 90% of the time, the last 10% takes the other 90%.
FARBER'S RULE. Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Meet GUS from the Daily Puppy!!!
I'M NOT A GREAT LOVER OF DASCHUNDS AS A BREED AND I CERTAINLY WOULD NEVER HAVE ONE BUT ONLY BECAUSE THEY ARE SMALL. I LOVE ALL DOGS BUT PREFER THEM TO BE LIKE 'DOGS' BUT.....
I HAVE TO ADMIT TO FALLING IN LOVE WITH THIS LITTLE CHAP, GUS, FROM THE DAILY PUPPY, ESPECIALLY THE FIRST PICTURE BECAUSE HE DOESN'T LOOK LIKE A LITTLE DOG!! 
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Monday, February 09, 2009
Monday, February 02, 2009
FEBRUARY 2ND : GROUNDHOG DAY!!
Saturday, January 31, 2009
CHEMICAL WARFARE IS NOT A NEW THING!!
A cramped tunnel beneath a Middle Eastern fort might have produced the oldest evidence of chemical warfare, according to a CSI-style review of archival records.
Presented at the recent meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, the review focused on the dramatic remains of 20 Roman soldiers unearthed in the 1930s in the city of Dura-Europos, Syria.
Sitting on a cliff overlooking the Euphrates River, the Roman fort at Dura was the site of a violent siege by the powerful Persian Empire around 256 A.D.
No historical record of the battle exists, but archaeological remains have helped piece together the action.
Presented at the recent meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, the review focused on the dramatic remains of 20 Roman soldiers unearthed in the 1930s in the city of Dura-Europos, Syria.
Sitting on a cliff overlooking the Euphrates River, the Roman fort at Dura was the site of a violent siege by the powerful Persian Empire around 256 A.D.
No historical record of the battle exists, but archaeological remains have helped piece together the action.
The Persians used a range of siege techniques to enter the city. These included laying mines in tunnels underneath the walls to breach them. Intending to hold their ground at all costs, Roman defenders responded with counter-mines.
In the 1930s, archaeologists unearthed dramatic evidence of the fight: In one of the tunnels, a pile of bodies, still completely fitted with their weapons and armor, testified the horrors of the battle.
At the time, the researchers believed that the trapped Roman soldiers had died after the tunnel collapsed.
The reality was more gruesome, according to Simon James of the University of Leicester in England.
Mixing archival records and extensive fieldwork at the site, James was able to reconstruct the coldest of cold-case crime scenes, and came to the conclusion that the Roman soldiers had been deliberately stacked atop one another at the mouth of the countermine by the Persians.
"They used their victims to create a wall of bodies and shields, keeping Roman counterattack at bay while they set fire to the countermine, collapsing it," James said.
A question, however, remained: How did the Roman soldiers die? Killing almost two dozen fully armed men in a space less than 6 feet high and 36 feet long would have required "superhuman combat powers, or something more insidious," James concluded.
He noticed that previous reports described telltale mineral residues and yellow sulfur crystals in the tunnel.
"These provided the vital clue. When ignited, such materials give off dense clouds of choking gases," James said.
According to James, the Persians, who had heard the Romans tunneling, "prepared a nasty surprise." They placed fire pits strategically throughout the tunnel, and when the Romans broke through, the Persians gassed them by adding sulfur crystals and bitumen to the fire. This filled the tunnel with toxic sulfur dioxide gas.
James' "crime scene" also included the skeleton of a Persian soldier, lying alone.
"Probably, he is the man who set the fire. He lingered too long to ensure it was alight, and was himself overcome by fumes from the bitumen and sulfur he used to start the blaze," James told Discovery News.
According to Adrienne Mayor, a visiting scholar at Stanford University's Department of Classics and History of Science, most of the reconstruction of the underground battle mentioned in James' study "were already revealed by major excavations in 1920 to 1937 by teams from France and Yale University, and after 1986 by French-Syrian teams."
Mayor described the skirmish in the tunnel and the presence of burnt residue in her 2003 book "Greek Fire, Poison, Arrows and Scorpion Bombs."
"But James adds vivid new details, based on his careful analysis of the evidence. His real breakthrough is the remarkable fact that the Persian deliberately created a chemical weapon," Mayor told Discovery News.
The Persians failed to bring the walls down but somehow broke into the city. It was the end for Dura: Defenders and inhabitants were slaughtered or deported to Persia.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
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