Rules or Rulers

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Very significant if you happen to be interested in Euclidean geometrical construction; where no markings are permitted on the ruler.

MichaelG.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 27/03/2014 22:59:06

NOBBY As I understand A rule is steel a ruler is wooden a tape is a measure and a joiner uses a twofoot

Roy

So it should be - ending a sentence with a preposition is a grammatical error up with which I will not put.

Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the blind obedience of fools

Such as Rulers?

I'm with Winnie the Poo, the well known authority on such things.

A couple of days ago I found my slide RULE which hasn't been used for 40 odd (some of them very odd) years.

Its now in the bin.

cheers

Bill

Hi, this difference of opinion was also disccused in this thread **LINK**

Regards Nick.

Edited By Nicholas Farr on 28/03/2014 07:18:51

G'day.

I still remember the playground song we used to sing in East London playgrounds.

"Glory, Glory, Halleujah, Teacher Hit Me with The Ruler"

Rule would not rhyme.

Pedants may rule but most rulers are a little more flexible.

* Danny M *

Topics for the day - meauring with a 'vernier'.

And how does micrometer become 'Mike'.

At school sandpaper was stored at the bottom of the parrot's cage.

Regards

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Simple phœnetics

look & listen, here

MichaelG.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 28/03/2014 10:13:12

Another pointless thread!

Just buy a good one, whatever is called, and get on and use it.

Eric

Hi Lambton.

i see you have the Penshaw Monument as an Avatar

I seem to remember my Grandfather speaking a rhyme about a giant worm connected to it as well.

Edited By V8Eng on 28/03/2014 11:54:57

That would be Lord Lampton, who , all good people know, caught the worm and then howed it down the well because he could not be bothered to carry it home.

I wondered if a slide rule was a measure of how far standards are allowed to slip

V8Eng and Gordon,

Aye Lord Lambton was the man "brave Sir John" no less. The worm grew so big that it "lapped he's tail seven times round Pensher Hill" ..........

As a lad my Grandmother used to tell me the story.

In the days of the Gresley pacifics on the East Coast main line I used to watch out for the Penshaw monument on the right hand side when returning to Newcastle as it meant I was nearly home. Happy days indeed.

Eric

You would not think so from the photo, but Penshaw Monument is so big that one pillar is hollow and has a spiral staircase inside. The public can now ascend and walk around the top on conducted tours. From the top, you can see half of Tyneside, the Wear valley including Lord Lambtons huge estate and all the local sites of interest relating to the early steam age, which abound in the area. At the site of the old Lambton colliery, an original early wooden railway was recently uncovered. All the Locomotion locos (there were several) were built at the engine house beside Hetton Lyons Colliery which was recently demolished - a crying shame.

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Edited By Neil Wyatt on 28/03/2014 20:16:47

Thomas - are there two of you or is this an echo?

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I think it's Thomas and anti-Thomas, both contributing

... Check the first few words of each post

MichaelG.