OneGuyFromBarlick

"All politics is local"
Tip O'Neill in 1982.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency,the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity,both bring a permanent ruin, but both are the refuge of political and economical opportunists.
Ernest Hemingway. Sept 1932.

Plain speaking from Yorkshire.

A BARRY man has criticised the placement of a bollard in Morrisons car park that led to £600 worth of damage to his car. He damaged the two driver-side doors of his car when he was driving into the petrol station last week.

A Morrisons spokesman said'. "The bollard is painted yellow and we strongly recommend that drivers look carefully where they are going."

"Of all Villainy there is none more base than that of the hypocrite, who, at the moment he is most false, takes care to appear most virtuous"
Cicero. De Offificis, Book 1, Ch 13, Section 41.

you can take my word for it,or we can argue till you find out i'm right
Quote from an author on a Motorcycle web site.

hartley353 wrote:you can take my word for it,or we can argue till you find out i'm right

Sounds as if Meatloaf should be singing it...

Another version of "Be reasonable, do it my way!"

Meatloaf... Jim Steiner wrote many of the lyrics, some good lines....

I knew it had attracted my attention for a reason, Wendy's response caused me to go through my meatloaf CD's,now I have them on my hard drive,good has come out of it. Mike.

Dalton Phillips CEO of Morrisons

“The genius of the supermarket today is that customers help keep costs down because they drive in their car, in their time, with their insurance, to your store. They pick up the groceries, they put them in the basket, you scan them out, and then they drive it home. “When the retailer does all that work for the customer, and essentially doesn’t charge a premium for that, you can end up subsidising your online customer by charging your core customer more."

My response to self-checkouts was that the logical outcome was that customers would be allowed in the back to unload the wagons and re-stock the shelves..... Same thing happened with the introduction of VAT and the main feature of the 'improvements' that HMRC is making to the PAYE system at the moment relies on small businesses reporting employer wage details weekly instead of once a year. It's outsourcing under another name.

"Bernard of Chartres used to say that we are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness on sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size."
- John of Salisbury, Metalogicon, 1159

I came across the reference to Bernard of Chartres on p. 279 of 'Testament' by John Romer and it intrigued me because I had always thought that it was original to Isaac Newton. Evidently he was well read and had picked it up from John of Salisbury's book. Bernard was using the phrase in reference to interpretation of the Bible and ancient Hebrew texts.

Stanley wrote:"Bernard of Chartres used to say that we are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness on sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size."
- John of Salisbury, Metalogicon, 1159

I came across the reference to Bernard of Chartres on p. 279 of 'Testament' by John Romer and it intrigued me because I had always thought that it was original to Isaac Newton. Evidently he was well read and had picked it up from John of Salisbury's book. Bernard was using the phrase in reference to interpretation of the Bible and ancient Hebrew texts.

Good find Stanley. Isaac being a bit sneaky pinching this without attribution, we even used this on our coinage with his name mentioned.

One of Isaac Newton's great rivals, certainly at the Royal Society, was Robert Hooke (he of Hooke's Law). Hooke was a rather short figure, indeed very short. Some suggest Newton's 'shoulder of giants' is a sly reference to and dig at Hooke who was in no way a giant in size. If I recall correctly, I think this is mentioned in Lisa Jardine's biography of Hooke - well worth a read - but it might be a Newton biog a read yonks ago (can't recall the author - came out in about '98)

Richard Broughton

The quote from the CEO of Morrison's above reminds me of the words of Sir Ken Morrison:

'Cheap food is necessary. The poor can't pay more and the rich won't.''

Memories triggered - again
Hookes Law - Ut tensio sic vis

He invented the Hooke Joint as well, the basis of all universal joints in power transmission. (Always keep the input and output shafts parallel!)
Did Mr Cardan invent the Cardan shaft?

Tripps wrote:Memories triggered - again
Hookes Law - Ut tensio sic vis

Hookes Law - "The extension of a spring is directly proportional to the applied weight". Not sure if that's what is meant by the latin above not being a Grammar school boy!

You didn't miss much Pans. I think it literally means 'as the tension so the force', but since Latin is such a puzzling language, it could equally mean 'as the force so the tension'. There's a nice story that Hooke found it, but did not want to publish, so he made an anagram of the above and kept it so that if anyone else claimed the work he could reconstitute the anagram, as proof that he was there first. Is it true? I don't know.

"In the primitive church, the chalices were of wood , the prelates of gold; in these days the Church has Chalices of gold and prelates of wood" Savonarola

Wiki - the first person known to have suggested its use {( universal joint used in gimbals since ancient Greece ) } for transmitting motive power was Gerolamo Cardano, an Italian mathematician, in 1545. ( Comment has no substantive reference to the source on this , so anyone have an independent source on this ? )

The easiest way to teach your children about money is for you to not have any.
Katharine Whitehorn.

"The postillion has been struck by lightning"
See this LINK for possible attributions.

Pope Francis, when offered the red cloak by his new assistant:
"No, you wear it. The carnival is over."
(I hope he really means it.)

Talking of Newton, I enjoyed Lisa Jardine's `Point of View' (Radio 4) about him stealing results from the first Astronomer Royal, John Flamsteed, in connection with comets.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21802843

When asked why he robbed banks, the famous bank robber Willie Sutton replied, "Because that's where the money is."