The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

Presumably, then, he has no great expectations?

That remark gave me the pip.










:rotfl:

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

That remark gave me the pip.

That's what a payphone did to me last time I used one :rotfl:

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

Tap tap , tippetty tap, shuffle hop step shuffle, tap heel tap heel, dig tap heel shuffle, cramp roll, shuffle hop step shuffle ball change........

Wossat? The ASDIC to go with PN's periscope?

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

Wossat? The ASDIC to go with PN's periscope?

It's what I was doing at lunchtime!

The Children in Need Tapathon!

Ginger Rogers..... eat your heart out! :rotfl:





What's an ASDIC?

(Actually, my mind is now boggling overtime! :eek:)

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

It's what I was doing at lunchtime!
The Children in Need Tapathon!
Ginger Rogers..... eat your heart out! :rotfl:

Ah.

What's an ASDIC?

It was the forerunner to SONAR - the submarine detection system.

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

Ah.



It was the forerunner to SONAR - the submarine detection system.

That's a relief.

I was thinking it was someone who hadn't been bobbitted.









ok, I is goin' now...........

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

That's a relief.

I was thinking it was someone who hadn't been bobbitted.

ROTFLMAO :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
:T:T:T:T

ok, I is goin' now...........

I think you'd better before this thread deteriorates any further towards the gutter

chris_m

The name ASDIC didn't really mean anything but was used to avoid giving anything away to an enemy;

In 1916, under the British Board of Invention and Research, Canadian physicist Robert William Boyle took on the active sound detection project with A. B. Wood, producing a prototype for testing in mid-1917. This work, for the Anti-Submarine Division of the British Naval Staff, was undertaken in utmost secrecy, and used quartz piezoelectric crystals to produce the world's first practical underwater active sound detection apparatus. To maintain secrecy, no mention of sound experimentation or quartz was made – the word used to describe the early work ("supersonics") was changed to "ASD"ics, and the quartz material to "ASD"ivite: "ASD" for "Anti-Submarine Division", hence the British acronym ASDIC. In 1939, in response to a question from the Oxford English Dictionary, the Admiralty made up the story that it stood for "Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee", and this is still widely believed, though no committee bearing this name has been found in the Admiralty archives.

It's similar to the one about carrots helping you see in the dark, also a counter-espionage story.
To avoid the Germans learning about our RADAR being better than theirs, the RAF put out the story that the top British night fighter ace ate a lot of carrots and that was why he was shooting down so many German planes at night.

zagubov

I remember somebody suggested we'd have been smarter to say we were feeding the pilots undercooked chicken.

GDB2222

Talking of pilots, the US Navy seem to have at least one ten year old flying jets.