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The Phantom


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A murder of crows

A parliament of owls

A flock of sheep

A herd of cows

A pod of whales

A conspiracy of ravens

A ....... of engineers. Can anyone enlighten me what the dots represent?

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Do you want the proper terms, or would you like me to break down to smaller words?

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G'day Phantom. A sprocket of engineers
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A 'Jungle Jim' of Engineers.

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Last wick I cudn't spell injuneer now I are one.

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The Phantom wrote:

A murder of crows

A parliament of owls

A flock of sheep

A herd of cows

A pod of whales

A conspiracy of ravens

A ....... of engineers. Can anyone enlighten me what the dots represent?

The Phantom

A dot (also known as a "period") is an ASCII character having a hexadecimal value of 0x2E. It is most often used to terminate a sentence, but may sometimes be used as a placeholder ("ellipsis") for an unknown quantity.

-Dorian Gray, BE (Elec)



-- Edited by dorian on Thursday 7th of April 2016 06:37:04 AM

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or decimal 46, octal 056, and binary 00101110 biggrin



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How about a "batchelor" of engineers.



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An awkward of engineers....................

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An Argument of engineers - have you ever dealt with the many different fields and tried to get a uniform answer

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What about a Stuff Up of Engineers  or is that the end result of their collective efforts



-- Edited by Wombat 280 on Thursday 7th of April 2016 11:36:07 AM

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A dilbert of engineers?

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Keep them coming, folks. Tonight I will reveal what noun one of my engineer friends has used. It is a clinker.

 

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Hmmm ...

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/clinker

clinker
n.

5. Slang

    a. A sour note in a musical performance: hit a clinker.
    b. A mistake; a blunder.
    c. Something of inferior quality; a conspicuous failure: a clinker of a show.

6. Chiefly British Something admirable or first-rate.



BTW, my Canadian trained colleagues all graduated with an Iron Ring. They both believed that the rings were made from the steel of a beam from a collapsed bridge, but Wikipedia puts this down to legend rather than fact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring



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Maybe, a precision of engineers ?

Perhaps it's just me, but does the pontification of that bloke, David, on Letters and Numbers on the ABC annoy anyone else ? hmm     Oops, a little "OFF TOPIC".

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G'day. Off topic or not. Letters and numbers is back on? What time and channel? Not in Darwin that I can find. I absolutely love that programme. Yes, before anyone else suggests it, I am easily amused. Cheers.

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A thicket. My friend suggests a group of engineers be called a thicket of engineers. Somehow I find it rather apt.

 

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Would have to be an assembly of Engineers me thinks.
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Letters and numbers is back on? What time and channel?

http://www.yourtv.com.au/program/letters-and-numbers/256173/

5.30pm-6pm Mon-Fri  SBS HD (30) and SBS (3)  

 

You can play the numbers game online:

http://mathsstarters.net/numbersgame



-- Edited by dorian on Friday 8th of April 2016 06:31:41 AM

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ballast2 wrote:

Letters and numbers is back on? What time and channel?

http://www.yourtv.com.au/program/letters-and-numbers/256173/

5.30pm-6pm Mon-Fri  SBS HD (30) and SBS (3)  

 

You can play the numbers game online:

http://mathsstarters.net/numbersgame



-- Edited by dorian on Friday 8th of April 2016 06:31:41 AM

 Thank you. Cheers.



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Having worked as a Structural/Civil Design Draftsman most of my working life I know what I'd like to call a few of them! Architects (arty farty dreamers) were far worse though.

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Whilst doing Land Divisions I met a number of highly Civil Engineers, and a few UnCivil Engineers as well.....whilst it is said a 'Consultant' knows a hundred ways of making love, but is still a virgin......Hoo Roo

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Sorry Jack - Re Letters & Numbers.
I am in Tassie and they are running replays of the old episodes of L & N from years ago. That's one benefit of getting forgetfull as you get old - when they air the replays it's just like watching it for the first time.

..... Val  confuse biggrin



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Sheffield-er wrote:

Sorry Jack - Re Letters & Numbers.
I am in Tassie and they are running replays of the old episodes of L & N from years ago. That's one benefit of getting forgetfull as you get old - when they air the replays it's just like watching it for the first time.

..... Val  confuse biggrin

G'day. No probs. Thanks Mate.

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