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Posted by ellice on July 1, 2009, 5:54 pm
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> Bruce Fletcher (remove dentures to reply) wrote:
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>>> And what is a "near miss"??? Shouldn't that be "near hit"????
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>> A bit like the "glass half full" as opposed to the "glass half empty"
>> view of life...
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> But if you ask an engineer -- s/he'll tell you the glass is too big
> for the liquid :-) -- (r,d,h).
Hmmm, I don't know about that. Maybe the specs don't match :^) Or, who
couldn't read the fabrication drawing details? Or which draftsperson missed
a dimension.
ellice
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Posted by Bruce Fletcher (remove denture on July 1, 2009, 7:02 pm
ellice wrote:
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>> Bruce Fletcher (remove dentures to reply) wrote:
>>>> And what is a "near miss"??? Shouldn't that be "near hit"????
>>> A bit like the "glass half full" as opposed to the "glass half empty"
>>> view of life...
>> But if you ask an engineer -- s/he'll tell you the glass is too big
>> for the liquid :-) -- (r,d,h).
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> Hmmm, I don't know about that. Maybe the specs don't match :^) Or, who
> couldn't read the fabrication drawing details? Or which draftsperson missed
> a dimension.
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> ellice
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Or metric versus Imperial
--
Bruce Fletcher
Stronsay, Orkney UK
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Posted by on July 1, 2009, 8:13 am
On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:35:12 +0100, "Bruce Fletcher (remove dentures
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>> And what is a "near miss"??? Shouldn't that be "near hit"????
>A bit like the "glass half full" as opposed to the "glass half empty"
>view of life...
Joking aside, have you noticed how you can categorize people as full
or empty people ?
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Posted by Dawne Peterson on July 1, 2009, 12:48 pm
<lucretiaborgia wrote
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> On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:35:12 +0100, "Bruce Fletcher (remove dentures
>>> And what is a "near miss"??? Shouldn't that be "near hit"????
>>A bit like the "glass half full" as opposed to the "glass half empty"
>>view of life...
> Joking aside, have you noticed how you can categorize people as full
> or empty people ?
My kids decided their late Grannie, my mum, was a "the glass is half empty
and its leaving a ring on my nice coffee table" person.
They were right.
Dawne
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Posted by ellice on July 1, 2009, 5:49 pm
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>> And what is a "near miss"??? Shouldn't that be "near hit"????
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> Maybe that depends on your perspective??? LOL
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> Joan
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> Like, if you get scared half to death twice are you dead??
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> Fred
> http://www.stitchaway.com
> If nothing changes, nothing changes.
> Don't back stitch to email, just stitchit.
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No, discrete events with no memory. It's a Bernoulli thing.
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>>> And what is a "near miss"??? Shouldn't that be "near hit"????
>>
>>
>> A bit like the "glass half full" as opposed to the "glass half empty"
>> view of life...
>
> But if you ask an engineer -- s/he'll tell you the glass is too big
> for the liquid :-) -- (r,d,h).