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Yes, I am bored.

The world speed record for a paper machine is 2010 m/min over a 24 hour period. That is a sheet of newsprint 10m wide and 1799 miles long.

That, my friends, is a fact.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 1:42 pm
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75 mph... that is fast!


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 1:43 pm
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your average pipe lagging has a thermal conductivity of around 0.03 watts per meter per kelivin at room temperature falling to around 0.02 at -165 celcius. yawn!


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 1:52 pm
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The pencil was invented by a swiss man, Albert Pencil, in 1835.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 1:52 pm
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75 mph... that is fast!
It is. But it is not very interesting.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 1:56 pm
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[Edit] Actually that first try was verging on mildly diverting (outer reaches of slightly intersting).

I'll try again: one worrying potential side effect of the group of medicines known as phenothiazines is the prolongation of the Q-T interval.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 1:58 pm
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The inventory tag number of my laptop is 011324.

Compared to trying to order email address for 1600 staff, the K-Hole sounds like a hoot..


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 2:00 pm
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I deliver to 608 address points and 26 of them have their mail redirected.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 2:04 pm
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This is currently on our corporate home page

"England substitute fielder Gary Pratt, who controversially ran out Australian skipper Ricky Ponting during the 2005 Ashes, landed a £3,400 windfall for a pal who had placed £100 at 33/1 that Pratt would one day play for England."


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 2:04 pm
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horses dont like bananas (or at least the twenty or so I have tried to feed them to)


 
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75 mph... that is fast!

It is. But it is not very interesting.

i thought it was. 🙂


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 2:06 pm
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The town where I work is near a big motorway services which goes near the south coast so we receive an abnormal amount of asylum seekers


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 2:07 pm
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The KPI's for heavily trafficed roads around birmingham is 15 minutes 😯


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 2:08 pm
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The Cherhill housetype has a 4th bedroom 2726mm x 3290mm.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 2:09 pm
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I have just read postierich name correctly for the first time and realised he is a postie

I have always read it as 'Posterior Itch' but slightly mistyped


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 2:10 pm
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The new Wilkinson catalogue will feature 13 different sheds.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 2:11 pm
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The new Wilkinson catalogue will feature 13 different sheds.

Now that is interesting.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 2:14 pm
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The crystal oscillator in a digital walkie-talkie is accurate to 0.0002 percent.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 2:16 pm
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Prime retail rents in Leeds are between £250 and £300 ITZA (In Terms of Zone A.)

....and falling... 🙂


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 2:18 pm
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I have just read postierich name correctly for the first time and realised he is a postie

I have always read it as 'Posterior Itch' but slightly mistyped

Strange, I always thought it was 'postreich' 😉


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 2:22 pm
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The black toner catridge is a bit low.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 2:24 pm
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Older versions of photoshop are limited to a document size of less than 30000 pixels across.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 2:25 pm
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Our internet facing infrastructure is attacked (where attack is a term used to describe traffic that is most likely malicious) on average, 50,000 times a day. Which is quite a lot.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 2:32 pm
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50 000 middle-aged men aged between 35-55 in Spain claim to read Men's Health every month


 
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Vodafone's RBS2106 Cabinet has dimensions of 926mm x 1300mmx 1923mm making a total of 2.31m³.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 2:40 pm
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When I ping our satellite it takes 260ms before I get the result back


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 2:44 pm
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A child has to be a minimum age of 10 years, within the current term time, to receive on-road cycle training.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 2:49 pm
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earlier it was warm and sunny now its cloudy.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 2:51 pm
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Healthcare costs in the US are 3.007 times more expensive than costs in Europe


 
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Custard creams, donuts and 20 cups of tea a day, is not a balanced diet for a keen cyclist..


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 2:52 pm
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I've just heard through the grapevine that release 12.1 of the system I work with will be out on Monday - probably meant to be a secret.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 2:54 pm
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Cbeebies repeats the mornings' programmes straight after lunch.


 
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It is a criminal offence to impede a salmon.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 2:55 pm
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I've just found out that the kids have access to a grey crayon in the lounge, to judge from the artwork just appeared on the walls. Not looking forward to appraisal time..


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 3:00 pm
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Our current stock of stamped euro pallets is very low (but we have way too many short boarded standards).


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 3:02 pm
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Call rate is currently 33.67 calls/hour, appointment to call rate is hovering around 75...some-one is slacking. Oh, that would be me...


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 3:03 pm
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It is also an offence to possess part of a badger.

And under the Vagrancy Act 1824 a person apprehended as an idle and disorderly person shall be deemed a rogue and vagabond and can be committed by a magistrate to a house of correction for up to 3 months.


 
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Touching something energised at 630V DC is really bad. Mains is AC - alternating current - and tends to throw you clear if you happen to touch it. DC - Direct current - only flows one way so you stick and have been dragged/prised off. Nasty.

TM


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 3:07 pm
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The new blood glucose monitors are ****ing huge!


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 3:08 pm
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Some bugger's finished the milk again


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 3:11 pm
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Of course I can do that over a WebEx, no need for me to fly out and meet with you for that one.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 3:15 pm
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the update of the available data time range is taking 0.429579310512971 seconds on average


 
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The tea from the blue tea pot this afternoon is nasty


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 3:16 pm
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this financial year, the personal allownace for a person in a care home in Scotland is £21.90. Don't spend it all at once!


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 3:16 pm
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My internal phone number is 824790 or 571701


 
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