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The tallest load bearing brick skyscraper is the Monadnock Building in
Chicago at 215ft with 17 floors.
Built in 1891-3 the ground floor walls are 6 foot thick and the top floor 18 inches thick.
it's generally considered this is the height limit
of a masonry building, both economically and technically.
Chicago at 215ft with 17 floors.
Built in 1891-3 the ground floor walls are 6 foot thick and the top floor 18 inches thick.
it's generally considered this is the height limit
of a masonry building, both economically and technically.
Certainly facts that were useful in their day, these military acronyms were distorted for
laughs....
LDV. Local Defence Volunteers, (became the Home Guard): Look, Duck and Vanish.
REME. Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers: Ruins Everything Mostly Engines.
RASC. Royal Artillery Signals Corp: Run Away Someone's Coming.
ENSA. Entertainments National Service Association, the outfit that sparked concert parties and the like: Every Night Something Awful.
laughs....
LDV. Local Defence Volunteers, (became the Home Guard): Look, Duck and Vanish.
REME. Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers: Ruins Everything Mostly Engines.
RASC. Royal Artillery Signals Corp: Run Away Someone's Coming.
ENSA. Entertainments National Service Association, the outfit that sparked concert parties and the like: Every Night Something Awful.
Jonquil said:
Certainly facts that were useful in their day, these military acronyms were distorted for
laughs....
LDV. Local Defence Volunteers, (became the Home Guard): Look, Duck and Vanish.
REME. Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers: Ruins Everything Mostly Engines.
RASC. Royal Artillery Signals Corp: Run Away Someone's Coming.
ENSA. Entertainments National Service Association, the outfit that sparked concert parties and the like: Every Night Something Awful.
Not an acronym but I saw somewhere that in North Africa the Royal Military Police were known as the Short Range Desert Group from their habit of swanning about the encampments in jeeps.laughs....
LDV. Local Defence Volunteers, (became the Home Guard): Look, Duck and Vanish.
REME. Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers: Ruins Everything Mostly Engines.
RASC. Royal Artillery Signals Corp: Run Away Someone's Coming.
ENSA. Entertainments National Service Association, the outfit that sparked concert parties and the like: Every Night Something Awful.
kall interest.lord trumpton said:
Niponeoff said:
CLUB Sandwich
Chicken, Lettuce Under Bacon (apparently)
I think there's tomato in there too.
Brilliant never knew thatChicken, Lettuce Under Bacon (apparently)
I think there's tomato in there too.
Far too many “facts” these days come from stupid viral videos around the theme of “I was this years old when I discovered that…:”
craigjm said:
I’m not convinced that’s true and is again one of those viral video “did you know” things that are made up. The club sandwich started in US clubs so it’s far more like they were on the menu as “Union club sandwich” etc and that it just got shortened to Club sandwich.
Far too many “facts” these days come from stupid viral videos around the theme of “I was this years old when I discovered that…:”
It is a valid point, so the post is one which would need further scrutiny, and even then you may not be able to establish a definitive answer. In a similar vain, I was told many years ago the word chav comes from Council House And Vulgar. It fits well, but is it true? Who knows.Far too many “facts” these days come from stupid viral videos around the theme of “I was this years old when I discovered that…:”
Jonquil said:
Certainly facts that were useful in their day, these military acronyms were distorted for
laughs....
LDV. Local Defence Volunteers, (became the Home Guard): Look, Duck and Vanish.
REME. Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers: Ruins Everything Mostly Engines.
RASC. Royal Artillery Signals Corp: Run Away Someone's Coming.
ENSA. Entertainments National Service Association, the outfit that sparked concert parties and the like: Every Night Something Awful.
RASC was Royal Army Service Corpslaughs....
LDV. Local Defence Volunteers, (became the Home Guard): Look, Duck and Vanish.
REME. Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers: Ruins Everything Mostly Engines.
RASC. Royal Artillery Signals Corp: Run Away Someone's Coming.
ENSA. Entertainments National Service Association, the outfit that sparked concert parties and the like: Every Night Something Awful.
lord trumpton said:
Niponeoff said:
CLUB Sandwich
Chicken, Lettuce Under Bacon (apparently)
I think there's tomato in there too.
Brilliant never knew thatChicken, Lettuce Under Bacon (apparently)
I think there's tomato in there too.
That's why I've never been tempted to try one.
Fish finger and salad cream sandwiches for me.
The Mad Monk said:
It's amazing the number of people that film themselves or their friends on that crossing - during normal daylight hours that is.
https://www.earthcam.com/world/england/london/abbe...
I drove over it last week, following a Tomom and I hadn't realised that I was on Abbey Road until I was almost on top of the crossing. There was no one there! No one stood waiting for a gap in the traffic (which there had been until I drove over it) and no one milling around trying to direct a group photograph.https://www.earthcam.com/world/england/london/abbe...
Possibly the only time I will ever see this.
Road2Ruin said:
Because it's not true...a bit like POSH being commonly referred to as Port Out Starboard Home. It just happens to fit.
It does, same as Pilot[man] in railway terminology, I was told the acronym Pilot allegedly was Person In Lieu Of Token.
I'm thinking the word Pilot is the same in railway terms as in marine , a
Pilot guides the train or ship in times of reduced or degraded working.
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