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Post by Dave on Jun 21, 2008 5:57:41 GMT
You would have great difficulty smelting iron ore if you chucked coal into the melt instead of the desired coke. And light steel is made using Diet Coke.
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Post by Twoddle on Jun 21, 2008 10:18:44 GMT
While most of us would recognise coke as black, gritty stuff, are there not one or two members who might remember it as being a white powder?
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Post by Tone on Jun 21, 2008 20:52:04 GMT
> are there not one or two members who might remember it as being a white powder?<Whatever turns you on, snowbird. But I is surprised muchly by your predilection. And nice one, Dave! Tone
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Post by Verbivore on Jun 22, 2008 3:43:05 GMT
While most of us would recognise coke as black, gritty stuff, are there not one or two members who might remember it as being a white powder? Indeed: like the "powders" of the movie "My Beautiful Landrette" (and those certainly weren't detergents).
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Post by ianm on Jun 22, 2008 3:57:02 GMT
Ianm,
Pardon me for asking, but are you the same Ianm who used to post to the APS forum? If so, weren't you posting from New Zealand then (or is my dotage showing)?
Ah, Twoddle, your dotage is well-hidden. Although Kiwi born and bred, I'm living in Oman but was recently in Scotland where I was a frequent visitor to the Barrhead Tesco.
I think, Ianm, that 'home-cooked' simply refers to meals cooked in ...
Indeed yes, but to me "-coked" implies carbon and hence the possibilty of overcooking that so often occurs on barbecues.
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Post by Barry on Jun 23, 2008 9:27:34 GMT
Blimey, who'd have thought it - Peruvian Marching Powder mentioned in the hallowed preincts of the Not-the-APS Message Board! Somebody will mention jazz cigarettes next ...
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Post by Alan Palmer on Jun 23, 2008 14:10:40 GMT
If it was good enough for Sherlock Holmes ...
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Post by Pete on Jun 23, 2008 15:03:07 GMT
Blimey, who'd have thought it - Peruvian Marching Powder mentioned in the hallowed preincts of the Not-the-APS Message Board! Somebody will mention jazz cigarettes next ... I thought it was Colombian.
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Post by Vadim on Jun 23, 2008 15:06:27 GMT
Blimey, who'd have thought it - Peruvian Marching Powder mentioned in the hallowed preincts of the Not-the-APS Message Board! Somebody will mention jazz cigarettes next ... I thought it was Colombian. I thought coffee was brown in colour?
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Post by Pete on Jun 23, 2008 18:00:56 GMT
I remember a tea and coffee shop in Exeter, which had price labels on all the jars. Obviously the one marked "Colombian, £2.50 for 100g" caused some amusement.
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Post by Barry on Jun 25, 2008 15:31:49 GMT
Well, yes. But, for some odd reason, the euphemism tends to refer to it as Peruvian; possibly to put people off the scent, as it were. I'm sure they grow it in Peru, too.
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