BS: 111

Subject: 111
From: Jeep man
Date: 23 Sep 02 - 10:32 PM

Subject: RE: 111
From: Bobert
Date: 23 Sep 02 - 10:43 PM

Okay, three?

Bobert

Subject: RE: 111
From: reggie miles
Date: 23 Sep 02 - 10:46 PM

Who won?

Subject: RE: 111
From: artbrooks
Date: 23 Sep 02 - 10:59 PM

Aye I..I..I,
in China they never eat chili
So sing me another verse
Much worse than the other verse
And waltz me around again, Willie.

Subject: RE: 111
From: paddymac
Date: 23 Sep 02 - 11:09 PM

Looks like the prize goes to Art, so far.

Subject: RE: 111
From: John Hardly
Date: 23 Sep 02 - 11:16 PM

you need to simultaneously hit the "shift" key to get...

!!!

Subject: RE: 111
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Sep 02 - 11:20 PM

Aye, Aye, Aye,
I work for Freddie for little or less........

Whatever did you mean, Jim? Is this like 666 or 911?

Subject: RE: 111
From: Mr Happy
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 02:40 AM

famous anecdote from les dawson, 'let's all send our best wishes to a lady in the audience.its her birthday and she's 111'

'sorry,i'll read that again- she's ill!'

Subject: RE: 111
From: songs2play
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 02:49 AM

I I I, I,I I like you veeery much.

7 - in Binary, I Think ????

First three notes, in tab, for Beethoven's Fifth.

Give us a clue J.M.

Subject: RE: 111
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 03:12 AM

205

Subject: RE: 111
From: jonm
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 03:23 AM

7 base 2 13 base 3 21 base 4 31 base 5 43 base 6 57 base 7 73 base 8 101 base 9

133 base 11 157 base 12 183 base 13 211 base 14 241 base 15 273 base 16

Subject: RE: 111
From: MudGuard
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 03:33 AM

3 * 37 !

Subject: RE: 111
From: Teribus
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 04:30 AM

Ardvark.

Subject: RE: 111
From: songs2play
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 05:19 AM

111 - Uuu - Unununium - (272)

Periodically, so to speak

Subject: RE: 111
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 05:27 AM

Mudguard: 111 is not 3*37!
Factorial 37 (i.e. 37!) is (approx.)1.37637 * 10^43)
So 3*37! is (approx.) 4.129*10^43

Nigel

Subject: RE: 111
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 05:29 AM

For darts players left with 111 to score, and also for some cricket commentaters seeing a score reach 111, the number is referred to as 'Nelson'. i.e. 1 arm, 1 eye, 1....

Nigel

Subject: RE: 111
From: MudGuard
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 06:04 AM

Ok, I knew this would come...
But I intended the ! to be an exclamation mark at the end of my statement, not as a mathematical operator...

And if you are pedantic, be pedantic all throu! ;-)

37! = 13 763 753 089 226 345 036 315 979 581 580 902 400 000 000
so 3 * 37! = 41 291 259 267 679 035 108 947 938 744 742 707 200 000 000

;-)

Subject: RE: 111
From: Bert
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 06:06 AM

A hundred and eleven! You beat me by three!

Subject: RE: 111
From: jonm
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 07:04 AM

...Or is this just upmarket selfishness (me, me, me...)...

Subject: RE: 111
From: Wincing Devil
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 07:23 AM

42

Subject: RE: 111
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 07:24 AM

Mornington Crescent! I win

Subject: RE: 111
From: vectis
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 07:47 AM

Under the Nuneaton rules you are in Victoria Central, level 2. Not at Mornington Crescent.

Subject: RE: 111
From: GUEST,Crazy Eddie
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 09:03 AM

The correct number is of course "Eleventy-One" the age Bilbo Baggins was when he left the Shire, passing a certain item of jewellery, which i won't name, to his young cousin Frodo.

Subject: RE: 111
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 09:15 AM

I think the heading on this thread may be upside down and back to front. That explains the confusion.

Subject: RE: 111
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 09:37 AM

A neutered (no third) D# chord on a six-string bouzouki tuned DAD.

Subject: RE: 111
From: songs2play
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 10:11 AM

111 AD.

First Gibson Guitar Made in Wigan, Lancashire. Initially used for straining cabbage, until it was found to rust the strings.

Don't thank me for solving the thread.

Subject: RE: 111
From: Jeep man
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 10:38 AM

I confess. It was an error and I didn/t know how to correct it. Jim

Subject: RE: 111
From: MudGuard
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 10:42 AM

So it is Error 111?

Subject: RE: 111
From: Sorcha
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 10:48 AM

LOL! Really had us going there, Jim. Ain't it amazing what nonsense we can generate?

Subject: RE: 111
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 10:51 AM

Jeep, when you make a Mudcat Booboo, you just go to the Help Forum and tell them what you did, and give the thread name, and say what you'd like done to fix it. Then a Mudcat volunteer (AKA Mudelf or JoeClone) comes along when they get a chance, and fix it. Unless it's a problem you can correct yourself, like a booboo in a post which you can correct by just posting again with the correction, or unless fixing it would be against some Mudcat policy, they are usually happy to do it.

~S~

Subject: RE: 111
From: songs2play
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 11:00 AM

I thought it was quite an interesting thread.

Subject: RE: 111
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 11:27 AM

It was even fairly music-related.

Subject: RE: 111
From: Kim C
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 12:55 PM

Crazy Eddie, you beat me to it.

In Howard Bahr's excellent novel "The Year of Jubilo" one of the characters is an old albino man called Old-Hundred-and-Eleven because of the tobacco stains on his chin - one from each corner of his mouth, and one smack in the middle. :-)

Subject: RE: 111
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 01:49 PM

Jeep man - Did the source of the error that generated this cryptic message have anything to do with SEX? Did somebody sit in the keyboard? Or did the cat just run across it like mine always does? God! I hope the cat didn't have anything to do with the sex part!

Subject: RE: BS: 111
From: Mr Red
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 01:59 PM

Nigel Parsons & Vectis
Have you visited the www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy page? (www makes a difference)
try the Mornington Crescent message board. I think you will find current thinking is that the Victoria line is everso infra-difg old boy. (Spot Mr Red's contributions).

FWIW 111 is the emergency number in NZ. It all started when they imported button A & button B (remember them?) but had all the phone dials backwards, but not the exchange equipment - so 111 it had to be - now which emergency service did you want? Fire, Police, Ambulance, Coast Gaurd or....... Relate? (UK marriage guidance consellors)

Subject: RE: BS: 111
From: Noreen
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 05:19 PM

...had all the phone dials backwards...

err...why? Because everything is reversed in the Southern hemisphere? You having us on again M. le Rouge?

Subject: RE: BS: 111
From: Crane Driver
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 05:50 PM

Coriolis effect

Subject: RE: BS: 111
From: Noreen
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 06:17 PM

Concertinas played the other way round down there too?

Subject: RE: BS: 111
From: Mr Red
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 08:07 PM

Concertinas - Yea when they get round to it. Hurdy Gurdies not.
Bathwater definitely goes round the other way.
Bro-in-law reckons that the effect is not strictly the coriolis effect but one with another obscure name - he did explain but is is a marine geologist with the NZ Oceonagraphic Institute so he should know. Lets just say the water goes in a straight line and aims for the plughole and by the time it gets there the inconsiderate earth has rotated a little to the left - just enough to create a vortex. I will be asking questions later!
No I am not having you all on, the phone dials went tother way round. AND no they didn't ask for reverse charges either - they called it "collect" - US style.

Subject: RE: BS: 111
From: Bert
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 10:34 PM

Of course it has to do with sex. Didn't you read my punchline?

Subject: RE: BS: 111
From: rangeroger
Date: 24 Sep 02 - 11:14 PM

If you go to the link on the Stephan Stills thread,you'll find that 111 is the serial number of the Gibson J-200 that someone stole from him.

rr

Subject: RE: BS: 111
From: Hrothgar
Date: 26 Sep 02 - 06:38 AM

Unlucky for Pommy cricketers?

Subject: RE: BS: 111
From: Mr Red
Date: 26 Sep 02 - 07:23 AM

POME cricketers putting the wrong spin on it? Ngarhhhh - only in the clubhouse.
I will consult google(y)

Subject: RE: BS: 111
From: Bagpuss
Date: 26 Sep 02 - 09:39 AM

The idea that wayer goes round a plughole in the opposite direction in the 2 hemispheres is a myth. There is a coriolis effect, but it is too weak to have that effect. The direction of draining water is more governed by agitation in the water, often related to the way the basin is filled.

The myth is perpetuated by eterprising people at the equator who "demonstrate" the effect either side of the equator, but who in fact contrive the effect by the way they fill the bowls. Because it has become "common knowledge" and because it is supposedly related to a real effect, science teachers have continued to perpetuate the myth.

This site:

http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/BadCoriolis.html

Explains it better than I can and shows how to fake the effect.

Bagpuss