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bobbyburns
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what year did the aztecs defeat the japanese at the battle of the kool mo dee concert?
RainbowGurl
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He said yes! Hehe!phil_t said:I think Martin's girlfriend might have something to say about that!!
Phil
Ohh, 8pm? We can be out most of the night, then go to yours for a surprise sweetheart
third man girl
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Whoa! Cue for a book. John Fowles - The Collector.
Good book, but be careful about reading reviews. I did, and some idiot gave away the ending
Third Man Girl
RaVeN
New Member
I think it's time we consider bringing in a guest host. It's been something like 4 days now since Martin's replied. He's obviously under the impression that it's okay to have a life while others wait patiently at their screen for his response.
Maybe we should give someone like warm enema their moment in the spotlight.
What the f*$! was I thinking?
I'm going to go lie down now and pray that Martin didn't get in another wreck
RaVeN
Maybe we should give someone like warm enema their moment in the spotlight.
What the f*$! was I thinking?
I'm going to go lie down now and pray that Martin didn't get in another wreck
RaVeN
Martin
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I'm back!
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Warm Enema:
How many light bulbs does it take to screw in a person?
A few.
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kskyhappy:
How do you make the hot sauce that goes with the popular tapas dish "patatas bravas"?
For the record, "Patatas Bravas" is hot sauce, with crispy potatoes.
Ingredients:
Heat the oven to gas mark eight, 200 c / 400 f. Put half the olive oil on a roasting pan and place in the oven to let the oil heat through
Peel the potatoes and chop into large chunks, about one inch square. When the oven is hot, remove the baking tray and add the potatoes (be careful for oil spitting). Cover with the remaining oil and return the potatoes to the oven.
Roast the potatoes until they are soft in the middle and slightly crispy on the outside. This takes between 30 and 45 minutes. You should turn the potatoes every ten minutes or so to make sure that they cook evenly.
Meanwhile, make the bravas salsa: Chop the onion finely and cook gently in the oil. Add the garlic. Once the onion is soft (ten minutes), chop both peppers and add to the onion. (leave the chilli pepper seeds out if you don't want the sauce to be too spicy).
Add the spices to the onion and pepper, and let the whole lot cook very gently until the pepper is softened. Wash your hands, chopping board and knife to make sure the pepper juice doesn't go astray.
If you feel energetic, you can skin the tomatoes by plunging them into a pan of boiling water, waiting until the skin splits, then skewer them on a fork while you peel off the skin.
Chop the tomatoes, removing and hard green bits by the stalk, and add to the onions with the wine. Cook for another fifteen minutes until the sauce has reduced. Season with the sugar and salt and pepper.
To serve, drain the oil off the potatoes, and place on a plate. Mound the sauce over the middle of the potatoes (so that some of the potatoes are not covered in sauce and some are.
Et voila, Patatas Bravas!
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Bobbyburns:
what year did the aztecs defeat the japanese at the battle of the kool mo dee concert?
What?!
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RainbowGurl:
Ohh, 8pm? We can be out most of the night, then go to yours for a surprise sweetheart!
Hello!! I'm in trouble!
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Halo:
Why is the word "lieutenant" pronounced "lef-tenant" in English?
The etymological origins are from the Latin: loco tenens (place holder),
thence to the French, lieu (place) tenente, thence to the combination,
lieu-tenant. "One who holds the position of..." In other words, a kind
of deputy or substitute, a "junior officer" subordinate to a higher.
The word lieutenant came into Middle English from Middle French, sometime
between 1325 and 1375, as a noun use of the adjective phrase lieu tenant
'place-holding'. The ultimate source of the British pronunciation
"lef-TEN-ant," while not completely shrouded in mystery, remains uncertain.
There are, however, a few clues.
In the time of Chaucer (1340-1400), the distinction between the letters u
and v did not yet exist in writing. Once they separated, people remained
uncertain as to which sound each of these letters represented. As late as
the 18th century, the use of the sound "v" for the letter "w" (and vice
versa) was being roundly criticized by grammarians. Another theory focuses
on auditory rather than visual confusion. According to some scholars, the
gliding sound "w" at the end of French lieu, a sound made with the lips,
was heard by speakers of English as either of two other sounds involving
the lips: "f" and "v." This theory has some merit if we consider that the
"w" may well have been accompanied by some degree of audible friction, a
kind of blowing sound. I believe it's called a "fricative".
In any case, the pronunciations with "f" and "v" are reflected in various
14th-century English spellings of lieutenant, which included leef-, leve-,
lyff- and later lief-, live-, liev-, and luff-. Other early forms reflected
a "w" pronunciation, among them lu-, lieu-, lyue-, and lew-.
Even after the spelling of lieutenant settled, the "f" and "v"
pronunciations remained, and variations of "lef-TEN- ant" are the usual
British pronunciations today. In 1721, Dr. Isaac Watts, in his The Art of
Reading and Writing English, complained that such terms are "pronounced in
a very different Manner from what they are written, according to the
Dialect or corrupt Speech that obtains in the several counties of England."
He added that such pronunciations occur "especially among the Vulgar." John
Walker, in the 1836 edition of his A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and
Expositor of the English Language, agreed, writing optimistically "the
regular sound, as if written Lewtenant, seems not so remote from the
corruption as to make us lose all hope that it will in time be the actual
pronunciation."
This did not happen in England, but it did happen here, largely because of
the influence of Noah Webster--not only through his dictionaries but
through his widely distributed American Spelling Book (1788), which sold
more than 60 million copies. A passionate supporter of American linguistic
independence, Webster almost single-handedly promulgated American
pronunciations as well as American spellings.
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RaVeN:
I'm going to go lie down now and pray that Martin didn't get in another wreck.
Just saw that; I'm touched, you big moose you. Come here and give me a hug!
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That'll be all, for today!
NEXT!
Cheers, Martin
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Warm Enema:
How many light bulbs does it take to screw in a person?
A few.
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kskyhappy:
How do you make the hot sauce that goes with the popular tapas dish "patatas bravas"?
For the record, "Patatas Bravas" is hot sauce, with crispy potatoes.
Ingredients:
- Two large baking potatoes
- 6 tablespoons Oil for roasting (olive oil if you can)
- small onion
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- one clove garlic
- one small red (bell) pepper
- 1kg tomatoes
- one red chilli pepper
- glass of red or white wine
- 2 tbsp sugar
- half teaspoon cayenne pepper
- half teaspoon ground paprika
- salt and pepper
Heat the oven to gas mark eight, 200 c / 400 f. Put half the olive oil on a roasting pan and place in the oven to let the oil heat through
Peel the potatoes and chop into large chunks, about one inch square. When the oven is hot, remove the baking tray and add the potatoes (be careful for oil spitting). Cover with the remaining oil and return the potatoes to the oven.
Roast the potatoes until they are soft in the middle and slightly crispy on the outside. This takes between 30 and 45 minutes. You should turn the potatoes every ten minutes or so to make sure that they cook evenly.
Meanwhile, make the bravas salsa: Chop the onion finely and cook gently in the oil. Add the garlic. Once the onion is soft (ten minutes), chop both peppers and add to the onion. (leave the chilli pepper seeds out if you don't want the sauce to be too spicy).
Add the spices to the onion and pepper, and let the whole lot cook very gently until the pepper is softened. Wash your hands, chopping board and knife to make sure the pepper juice doesn't go astray.
If you feel energetic, you can skin the tomatoes by plunging them into a pan of boiling water, waiting until the skin splits, then skewer them on a fork while you peel off the skin.
Chop the tomatoes, removing and hard green bits by the stalk, and add to the onions with the wine. Cook for another fifteen minutes until the sauce has reduced. Season with the sugar and salt and pepper.
To serve, drain the oil off the potatoes, and place on a plate. Mound the sauce over the middle of the potatoes (so that some of the potatoes are not covered in sauce and some are.
Et voila, Patatas Bravas!
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Bobbyburns:
what year did the aztecs defeat the japanese at the battle of the kool mo dee concert?
What?!
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RainbowGurl:
Ohh, 8pm? We can be out most of the night, then go to yours for a surprise sweetheart!
Hello!! I'm in trouble!
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Halo:
Why is the word "lieutenant" pronounced "lef-tenant" in English?
The etymological origins are from the Latin: loco tenens (place holder),
thence to the French, lieu (place) tenente, thence to the combination,
lieu-tenant. "One who holds the position of..." In other words, a kind
of deputy or substitute, a "junior officer" subordinate to a higher.
The word lieutenant came into Middle English from Middle French, sometime
between 1325 and 1375, as a noun use of the adjective phrase lieu tenant
'place-holding'. The ultimate source of the British pronunciation
"lef-TEN-ant," while not completely shrouded in mystery, remains uncertain.
There are, however, a few clues.
In the time of Chaucer (1340-1400), the distinction between the letters u
and v did not yet exist in writing. Once they separated, people remained
uncertain as to which sound each of these letters represented. As late as
the 18th century, the use of the sound "v" for the letter "w" (and vice
versa) was being roundly criticized by grammarians. Another theory focuses
on auditory rather than visual confusion. According to some scholars, the
gliding sound "w" at the end of French lieu, a sound made with the lips,
was heard by speakers of English as either of two other sounds involving
the lips: "f" and "v." This theory has some merit if we consider that the
"w" may well have been accompanied by some degree of audible friction, a
kind of blowing sound. I believe it's called a "fricative".
In any case, the pronunciations with "f" and "v" are reflected in various
14th-century English spellings of lieutenant, which included leef-, leve-,
lyff- and later lief-, live-, liev-, and luff-. Other early forms reflected
a "w" pronunciation, among them lu-, lieu-, lyue-, and lew-.
Even after the spelling of lieutenant settled, the "f" and "v"
pronunciations remained, and variations of "lef-TEN- ant" are the usual
British pronunciations today. In 1721, Dr. Isaac Watts, in his The Art of
Reading and Writing English, complained that such terms are "pronounced in
a very different Manner from what they are written, according to the
Dialect or corrupt Speech that obtains in the several counties of England."
He added that such pronunciations occur "especially among the Vulgar." John
Walker, in the 1836 edition of his A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and
Expositor of the English Language, agreed, writing optimistically "the
regular sound, as if written Lewtenant, seems not so remote from the
corruption as to make us lose all hope that it will in time be the actual
pronunciation."
This did not happen in England, but it did happen here, largely because of
the influence of Noah Webster--not only through his dictionaries but
through his widely distributed American Spelling Book (1788), which sold
more than 60 million copies. A passionate supporter of American linguistic
independence, Webster almost single-handedly promulgated American
pronunciations as well as American spellings.
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RaVeN:
I'm going to go lie down now and pray that Martin didn't get in another wreck.
Just saw that; I'm touched, you big moose you. Come here and give me a hug!
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That'll be all, for today!
NEXT!
Cheers, Martin
kskyhappy said:wow thanks for the recipe martin, cool bananas however i think you'll find patatas bravas translates into "wild potatoes" so i believe i was right to request the sauce that goes with it
lol
question for today? you can have the day off
cheers - ksky
Actually I think it should be brave potatos as bravas means brave.
Regards
SillyWabbit
Martin
Active Member
Wabbit:
Is there life on Mars?
The Viking landers (see picture) found conditions on the surface of Mars unlikely to support life as we know it.
The mass spectrometer found too little carbon, which is the basis for organic molecules. The chemistry is apparently highly oxidizing as well. Some optimists have nevertheless argued that there still might be life on Mars, either below the surface or in surface regions not sampled by the landers, but most scientists consider life on Mars quite unlikely. Evidence of surface
water suggests, however, that Mars had a wetter and possibly warmer
climate in the past, and life might have existed then. If so, there might still be remnants (either living or fossil) today, but close examination will be necessary to find out.
However, In August of 1996, a group of NASA scientists announced that a meteorite that they had been studying showed evidence of Martian fossils. They believe they have discovered chemical signs of ancient life that arose on Mars at about the same time as life began on Earth. They even found microscopic structures that resembled fossils of earthly bacteria in shape, but were much smaller.
To sum up, there is no real evidence to suggest life exists or has ever existed on Mars despite the fact that there was a time in Mars’s history when the planet was warm and wet enough for very simple life to have been formed. However, when the planet cooled down this life would have died out. It will never be known if life started on Mars until we spend enough time on the planet to look for fossils.
Is the face on Mars a real face?
One of the most widely recognized features on a world other than our own, is a mesa of resistant rock located in the Cydonia region of Mars. It has a strikingly resemblance to a human face, especially in older images taken by the Viking Orbiters. The Cydonia region is located along an escarpment that separates the relatively crater-free planes to the north from the heavily cratered terrain to the south. JPL scientists made the discovery of the "Face on Mars" in July of 1976 while searching for a landing site for the Viking 2 Lander. Wanting to give the public a familiar looking feature, JPL released the image below:
Based upon the low resolution Viking images (which was the best the Viking spacecraft could do), several people claimed that the "Face" was artificial and not a natural geological structure. They also put forth the proposition that other features in the area proved that an intelligent civilization once lived on Mars and created the formations. This became fuel for a small number of conspiracy theorists that asserted that NASA was trying to cover up evidence of ancient intelligent life on other worlds. This argument is preposterous, especially when one considers that NASA has always been faced with budget cuts. The best thing that could happen to NASA would be the discovery of ancient life or technology on another world.
Fortunately, on April 6th, 1998 NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft imaged the Face from a distance of 444 kilometers (276 miles). The image had a resolution of 4.3 meters (15 feet) per pixel, which is ten times sharper than the best Viking image of the region. The face is about a mile across and a few hundred feet high. What some imagined to be eyes, a nose, and lips, now appear to be nothing more than peaks and ridges. See picture for a comparison of the two images:
Why is Mars red?
The simple explanation is that the planet's soil is rich in iron oxide, but there's much debate as to why the mineral is so ubiquitous in the Martian environment. The old theory is that the oxidization process began early in Mars' life cycle, when warm water flowed on the planet—water that may have carved out the long, now-barren channels that snake through portions of the planet. Rocks containing iron would have slowly been worn away by rivers and seas, and the oxygen in the water would have combined with the iron to create iron oxide—or, in lay terms, the iron would have rusted into red dust. Flecks of the reddish mineral would then have been dispersed all over the planet via raindrops. Scientists who believe that Mars was once flooded with water have pointed to the abundance of iron oxide as proof of their claims.
Are Phobos and Demios actual real moons or captured space rocks?
These Viking landers alluded to in the first question, above, also collected data which suggests that moons Phobos and Demios (the largar moon, Phobos ("fear"), and the smaller moon Demios ("terror"), named for attributes personified in Greek mythology as sons of Ares, the god of war) may have originally been asteroids captured by Mars' gravity. This has been the generally accepted theorie for some time now.
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NEXT!!
Cheers, Martin
Is there life on Mars?
The Viking landers (see picture) found conditions on the surface of Mars unlikely to support life as we know it.
The mass spectrometer found too little carbon, which is the basis for organic molecules. The chemistry is apparently highly oxidizing as well. Some optimists have nevertheless argued that there still might be life on Mars, either below the surface or in surface regions not sampled by the landers, but most scientists consider life on Mars quite unlikely. Evidence of surface
water suggests, however, that Mars had a wetter and possibly warmer
climate in the past, and life might have existed then. If so, there might still be remnants (either living or fossil) today, but close examination will be necessary to find out.
However, In August of 1996, a group of NASA scientists announced that a meteorite that they had been studying showed evidence of Martian fossils. They believe they have discovered chemical signs of ancient life that arose on Mars at about the same time as life began on Earth. They even found microscopic structures that resembled fossils of earthly bacteria in shape, but were much smaller.
To sum up, there is no real evidence to suggest life exists or has ever existed on Mars despite the fact that there was a time in Mars’s history when the planet was warm and wet enough for very simple life to have been formed. However, when the planet cooled down this life would have died out. It will never be known if life started on Mars until we spend enough time on the planet to look for fossils.
Is the face on Mars a real face?
One of the most widely recognized features on a world other than our own, is a mesa of resistant rock located in the Cydonia region of Mars. It has a strikingly resemblance to a human face, especially in older images taken by the Viking Orbiters. The Cydonia region is located along an escarpment that separates the relatively crater-free planes to the north from the heavily cratered terrain to the south. JPL scientists made the discovery of the "Face on Mars" in July of 1976 while searching for a landing site for the Viking 2 Lander. Wanting to give the public a familiar looking feature, JPL released the image below:
Based upon the low resolution Viking images (which was the best the Viking spacecraft could do), several people claimed that the "Face" was artificial and not a natural geological structure. They also put forth the proposition that other features in the area proved that an intelligent civilization once lived on Mars and created the formations. This became fuel for a small number of conspiracy theorists that asserted that NASA was trying to cover up evidence of ancient intelligent life on other worlds. This argument is preposterous, especially when one considers that NASA has always been faced with budget cuts. The best thing that could happen to NASA would be the discovery of ancient life or technology on another world.
Fortunately, on April 6th, 1998 NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft imaged the Face from a distance of 444 kilometers (276 miles). The image had a resolution of 4.3 meters (15 feet) per pixel, which is ten times sharper than the best Viking image of the region. The face is about a mile across and a few hundred feet high. What some imagined to be eyes, a nose, and lips, now appear to be nothing more than peaks and ridges. See picture for a comparison of the two images:
Why is Mars red?
The simple explanation is that the planet's soil is rich in iron oxide, but there's much debate as to why the mineral is so ubiquitous in the Martian environment. The old theory is that the oxidization process began early in Mars' life cycle, when warm water flowed on the planet—water that may have carved out the long, now-barren channels that snake through portions of the planet. Rocks containing iron would have slowly been worn away by rivers and seas, and the oxygen in the water would have combined with the iron to create iron oxide—or, in lay terms, the iron would have rusted into red dust. Flecks of the reddish mineral would then have been dispersed all over the planet via raindrops. Scientists who believe that Mars was once flooded with water have pointed to the abundance of iron oxide as proof of their claims.
Are Phobos and Demios actual real moons or captured space rocks?
These Viking landers alluded to in the first question, above, also collected data which suggests that moons Phobos and Demios (the largar moon, Phobos ("fear"), and the smaller moon Demios ("terror"), named for attributes personified in Greek mythology as sons of Ares, the god of war) may have originally been asteroids captured by Mars' gravity. This has been the generally accepted theorie for some time now.
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NEXT!!
Cheers, Martin
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