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Graham 1948

Holy moly... I go away for a few hours and...

AHB wrote:My guess - acid to top up an old lead-acid battery.

AHB is close enough to take it; it was acid for a new, but supplied dry, empty battery - a replacement motorbike battery for an old 125cc I have just taken out of storage for a friend.
AHB's question.

LGTrotter wrote:Phil; because you finally through with one of your relatives. And this is all part of an elabourate alibi.

No, no deaths nor crime of any kind are currently or planned to be involved!

New question: Why did I buy acid this morning?

jdaw1 wrote:

jdaw1 wrote:If there is a guess in PhilW's most recent reply, it isn't sufficiently explicit.

Phil has a record of being better at musing than guessing.

Is it shipping forecast times?

So the sequence is to do with weather, the numbers being minutes is not far wrong and the eighth number in the sequence is predictable. So, chaps, what is constant about the weather? It could be something constant with that sequence (e.g. shipping forecast timing), or also not constant and these ar...

[alert]Calling all statisticians with initials AHB... the year has ended... [/alert]

Also saw this very recently at an Indian restaurant! Though I wasn't in a position to try it at the time, I noted the very high ABV even for a cask-strength and thought "probably gimmick", but the reviews on masterofmalt.com seem pretty positive; I may have to try just to see.

â–º Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors, Wine Committee, meeting 4 November 1880, discussed ‟2 Pipe of Port (1878) Croft, Dowes, Clode & Baker, Sandeman, Martinez”, ‟Write G Claridge Harp Lane for Samples”; [••LMA291••] and on 4 January 1881 noted ‟Ordered 5/1/81 Mr George Claridge Harp La...

Currently on offer in Waitrose at around £27 instead of £37.

Morning all, and happy new year
Seen in with a bottle of Calem '85 and Laphroaig quarter cask, amongst other things.

A rat got into your cellar and ate away some of the wine racking supports?

Not quite Nigella?

AW77 wrote:Phil, thanks for yor advice. I decided on 6 hours, which were just right. The TN will follow soon.
What would you recommend for a '01 Vargellas or a '99 Malvedos? I thought of 4 to 5 hours.

I'd expect 3-4 to be sufficient, though longer 5-8 would do no harm either.

There are three obvious ways of arranging a row of stars. 1. Alternating orientations, as already shown. http://www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20131224_stars_a.gif 2. Facing sideways. http://www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20131224_stars_b.gif 3. And on their feet. http://www.jdawiseman.com/2013/20131224_stars_c....

jdaw1 wrote:1000000000000066600000000000001?

Also known as Belphegor's prime.
Belphegor is a prince of hell, and the number contains 666, has thirteen zeroes on each side, and if you want to stretch things a little then you can note that it has 31 digits, which backwards is also 13!
JDAW's turn.

jdaw1 wrote:Is it semi-prime?

No, but it is a prime.

7779311? (Thus endorsing previous reasoning.) no, although the number is odd. Good clue. Half the numbers eliminated at a stroke! 11? I know, too generous, reducing the valid set of possibilities from infinity, halving them to... Infinity. Any prince in particular? yes, though more guesses and ques...

jdaw1 wrote:7779311? (Thus endorsing previous reasoning.)

no, although the number is odd.

White Jazz, obviously. Err, what is the question? The question is "Err, what is the question". Ok, now that should cover me either way, thank you :wink: Subject to confirmation, new question is as follows: What number am I thinking of? Initial clues: it has several interesting properties,...

Ok, American author, two books have been into movies, one with Kim Basinger and one with Scarlett Johansson. These are not what im currently reading. In the one im reading, Hoover and Hughes feature frequently but peripheriferally to the main characters. Sent from my GT-I9195 using Tapatalk 2 James...

The crime that was committed was that a self-confessed, well educated pedant incorrectly naming one of the most famous books in the history of the English language. That was the crime. Defendent highlighted the aforementioned issue, and admitted guilt to such, however the Plaintiff made no such acc...

DRT wrote:Perhaps harsh, but the subject is plural rather than singular so I think there is a case to be answered!

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7822]Here[/url] PhilW wrote:Darwin was writing his Origin of the species

Not sure on the proposed singular/plural crime, though I did misquote the title which should have been (On the) Origin of Species.

We seem certain to get some snow in Northern Ireland. But for a white Christmas it has to be falling somewhere at 12 noon. We'll see. Officially I seem to remember it's something like "a single snowflake falling on broadcasting house at any time during Dec 25th" - they probably need a for...