Recycled Nuclear Banjos

Subject: Recycled Nuclear Banjos
From: Jack Campin
Date: 02 Jun 12 - 05:19 AM

using wood from a decommissioned reactor

Subject: RE: Recycled Nuclear Banjos
From: Zen
Date: 02 Jun 12 - 06:03 AM

Should work well for blue grass!

Subject: RE: Recycled Nuclear Banjos
From: David C. Carter
Date: 02 Jun 12 - 06:12 AM

We should hover over Iran and give them a burst on the banjo.

That should sort out Aminmedinnerjacket,I think that's his name.

Subject: RE: Recycled Nuclear Banjos
From: Les from Hull
Date: 02 Jun 12 - 09:17 AM

I'm sure you could play a blistering solo on one!

Subject: RE: Recycled Nuclear Banjos
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 02 Jun 12 - 09:42 AM

Silly boys! The wood comes from the porch of the education building, not from the reactor. I would have liked to hear him play one.

I liked this part:

"Spanners used in the demolition of a nuclear power plant are now helping to refurbish a steam engine.

Made to imperial measurements, the tools loosened nuts and bolts at Dounreay which modern metric equipment could not."

Modern metric - it just doesn't have the magic.

Subject: RE: Recycled Nuclear Banjos
From: Jack Campin
Date: 02 Jun 12 - 11:25 AM

The scary thing about that last bit is that there may be some bit of nuclear machinery they've forgotten about which will need a discontinued size of spanner to fix when it goes explosively wrong a few decades down the line. And they'll have to put out a desperate call for help to vintage banjo owners to sacrifice their tuners.

Subject: RE: Recycled Nuclear Banjos
From: Charley Noble
Date: 02 Jun 12 - 03:01 PM

I'd like to put in an order for a set of banjo strings made out of depleted uranium.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Recycled Nuclear Banjos
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Jun 12 - 03:17 PM

" a desperate call for help to vintage banjo owners to sacrifice their tuners."


Jack, that is elitist and very, very naughty. I loved it.

Subject: RE: Recycled Nuclear Banjos
From: GUEST,John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Jun 12 - 04:50 PM

Met the man and the banjo today. Both very nice. Banjo does not glow in the dark!

Subject: RE: Recycled Nuclear Banjos
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 02 Jun 12 - 08:26 PM

What a coincidence, John. I'm glad to hear you are pro banjo, because I like banjos.

Subject: RE: Recycled Nuclear Banjos
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 02 Jun 12 - 08:37 PM

To the best of my knowledge "imperial" measurements are still alive and well in the USA, and there are no signs whatsoever that they will be switching to "modern metric measurements".

Subject: RE: Recycled Nuclear Banjos
From: frogprince
Date: 02 Jun 12 - 10:18 PM

Our manufacturing is divided up between metric and decimal inch measurements now. Outside of factories, us Christian Americans stick to inches (in fractions) and feet, yards, and cubits and furlongs, just like God gave them to us.

Subject: RE: Recycled Nuclear Banjos
From: Will Fly
Date: 03 Jun 12 - 06:07 AM

I thought God gave us cubits...

Subject: RE: Recycled Nuclear Banjos
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 03 Jun 12 - 06:12 AM

Q Tips too