Ok forumites, what is "fenestration"?
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Ok forumites, what is "fenestration"?
In an architectural sense, 'fenestration' means windows, ie, the application of windows to an elevation.
De-fenestration means slinging people out of windows. :eek:
I'll ask a question seeing as Driver hasn't.
What proper word, (no names etc.,) in the English language has a 'Q' in it that is not immediately followed by a 'u'?
QINDARS QINTARS QIVIUTS QAIDS QANAT QOPHS QURSH and QWERTY if that is now a word and not an acronym.
QWERTY is the only one of those that I have ever heard of and that isn't really a word.
However, a google search validates your nominees.
No the last line was... go into dogie submission.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy Mac
This thread needs rules.....Gee I'm getting old.
And still being half asleep when I posted, it is not an acronym either, just a sequential event of characters as presented by Christopher Latham Sholes or William BUrt.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob Willson
Of course that gives me a stab at a question, who were these gentlemen?
From memory Scholes was involved in typewriters.
And William Burt was a surveyor from the states! I was going to be a surveyor till I grew up.
Pete
Yards chains links and miles???? how many of each in each???
When and where were these first implemented?
Pete
Mummy use to chain me in the yard and make me walk miles with the blasted things on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doughboy
When? When I was a mere child.
Where? Buck house.
Charles:(
Question:- what is a Warrington Hammer? AKA in "Woodwork in Theory and Practice"
Cheers:)
A Warrington hammer is a cross-pein hammer, specifically designed for woodwork. It has a head with a normal hammer shape on one side and a tapering narrow edge on the other side, designed for starting pins, brads, tacks and nails before they are hammered home.Quote:
Originally Posted by John Saxton
The other type of Warringtom hammer is a blow delivered by a Rugby League player, usually in blinding rain and ankle-deep mud. (North-West Pom joke! :D )
When a Scotsman refers to Cock-a-Leekie, to what is he alluding?
Chicken soup?Quote:
Originally Posted by Driver
Al :p
We-e-ell, there's a bit more to it than that, Al. If that was all it was, it would just be called Cock. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by ozwinner
Ok, its got leekes in it, but I thougth it may have been a Welsh dish seeing as how the Leeke is the Welsh emblem.
Al :p