Significance of a horse's ass...
19 September 2006, 03:22 PM
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Significance of a horse's ***...
The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number.
Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates built the US Railroads.
Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.
Why did "they" use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.
Okay! Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing?
Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England, because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts.
So who built those old rutted roads? Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (and England) for their legions. The roads have been used ever since.
So the next time you are handed a specification and wonder what horse's *** came up with it, you may be exactly right, because the Imperial Roman war chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the back ends of two war horses.
Now the twist to the story... When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory at Utah.
The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains. The SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the
railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.
So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ***...
..................and you thought being a HORSE'S *** wasn't important!
Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates built the US Railroads.
Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.
Why did "they" use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.
Okay! Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing?
Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England, because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts.
So who built those old rutted roads? Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (and England) for their legions. The roads have been used ever since.
So the next time you are handed a specification and wonder what horse's *** came up with it, you may be exactly right, because the Imperial Roman war chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the back ends of two war horses.
Now the twist to the story... When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory at Utah.
The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains. The SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the
railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.
So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ***...
..................and you thought being a HORSE'S *** wasn't important!
19 September 2006, 03:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Einstein RA
Sheesh! My reputation is becoming increasingly tarnished
19 September 2006, 07:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Einstein RA
Sheesh! My reputation is becoming increasingly tarnished
19 September 2006, 07:14 PM
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Oh? What reputation would that be Einstein Retard? Your reputation for talking gibberish? Relying on spell check (despite the fact that the post of spelling pedant is already oversubscribed)? Having the most inappropriate username? Stating the obvious/inability to interpret sarcasm?.... or your split 'brother' personality?
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Originally Posted by Einstein RA
Sarcasm? As in the lowest form of wit?
I put it to you that if you were to have a reputation it would already be 'tarnished' or, as I prefer to say, sh1ttier than a spacker's outhouse.
19 September 2006, 07:29 PM
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Originally Posted by sociopath
Oh? What reputation would that be Einstein Retard? Your reputation for talking gibberish? Relying on spell check (despite the fact that the post of spelling pedant is already oversubscribed)? Having the most inappropriate username? Stating the obvious/inability to interpret sarcasm?.... or your split 'brother' personality?
why in the F**K have you go to be so god damn nasty? y dont u take ur head out from up ur *** and have a laugh u jumped up ****! the web address on ur location is appropriate to you as you are a flaming moron!
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Originally Posted by WR1Nikki
why in the F**K have you go to be so god damn nasty? y dony u take ur head out from up ur *** and have a laugh u jumped up ****! the web address on ur location is appropriate to you as you are a flaming moron!
19 September 2006, 07:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Einstein Retard
Aw showing your softer side
Originally Posted by WR1Nikki
why in the F**K have you go to be so god damn nasty? y dont u take ur head out from up ur *** and have a laugh u jumped up ****! the web address on ur location is appropriate to you as you are a flaming moron!
1) State what business it is of yours that I find him to be a substandard individual.
2) My location is a parody of another user's lame commercial website. He was enraged when I grassed him for advertising it on SN.
3) Your anger is a source of intense satisfaction for me.
19 September 2006, 07:51 PM
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Failure to interpret sarcasm. Just for that she's going to get the nasty side too...
If I understand your infantile 'L33t text sp33k' correctly you are vilifying me for taking a pop at Retard, yes?
1) State what business it is of yours that I find him to be a substandard individual.
2) My location is a parody of another user's lame commercial website. He was enraged when I grassed him for advertising it on SN.
3) Your anger is a source of intense satisfaction for me.
If I understand your infantile 'L33t text sp33k' correctly you are vilifying me for taking a pop at Retard, yes?
1) State what business it is of yours that I find him to be a substandard individual.
2) My location is a parody of another user's lame commercial website. He was enraged when I grassed him for advertising it on SN.
3) Your anger is a source of intense satisfaction for me.
Let it be.
19 September 2006, 07:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Einstein RA
But this thread is about the equine rear!
19 September 2006, 08:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Einstein RA
But this thread is about the equine rear!
, so i have very little shame about the fact i know nothing about a horses rear end other than if you stand there you get crapped on or kicked by a hoof neither of which i particulary would like to subscribe to
19 September 2006, 08:02 PM
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Originally Posted by alloy
To be honest i dont see this thread getting back on topic since the initial post , so i have very little shame about the fact i know nothing about a horses rear end other than if you stand there you get crapped on or kicked by a hoof neither of which i particulary would like to subscribe to
, so i have very little shame about the fact i know nothing about a horses rear end other than if you stand there you get crapped on or kicked by a hoof neither of which i particulary would like to subscribe to , did my horse kisck you or crap on you??
19 September 2006, 08:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Einstein RA
I am Einstein after all! Albeit retard according to Mr.Sociopath.
Sociogaff is a she not a he
19 September 2006, 08:04 PM
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Originally Posted by WR1Nikki
u dont get kicked or crapped on as you put it u silly sod , did my horse kisck you or crap on you??
, did my horse kisck you or crap on you??
19 September 2006, 08:07 PM
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Originally Posted by alloy
not that i recall, i kept you and 5meters between me and it though for health and safety reasons
in the whole time ive been around horses which has been for 17 years ive been kicked once and never been crapped on theyre not that dangerous
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Originally Posted by WR1Nikki
you make me laugh! in the whole time ive been around horses which has been for 17 years ive been kicked once and never been crapped on theyre not that dangerous
in the whole time ive been around horses which has been for 17 years ive been kicked once and never been crapped on theyre not that dangerousTell me, do you have 'child bearing' hips? Do they make you look somewhat pear shaped in your jodhpurs?