Missing snake found (From The Oxford Times)
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Missing snake found
10:17am Monday 10th September 2012 in News
By Tom Jennings, covering Witney and West Oxfordshire. Call me on 01865 425403
AN 8.5-foot snake which went missing last week has been found safe and well.
Beau, a four-year-old boa constrictor, went missing on Tuesday from owner Rob Davies' Church Road flat.
She was found wrapped tightly around a bush in Mr Davies' next door neighbour's garden on Friday. She was safely recovered by RSPCA officers.
Comments(16)
SamSpinx
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11:56am Mon 10 Sep 12
bart-on simpson wrote:2.59 Meters is the Correct answer.
The key words are 'flat', 'tight' 'and safe and well'.
8.5 feet? So that 8 feet and 6 inches - why can't the OM join everyone on the metric system?
Laughable!
I prefer to count my distances with a consistent number base.
King Joke
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1:09pm Mon 10 Sep 12
SamSpinx wrote:2.59 'Meters' (sic)? Why would a snake need to measure gas or electricity consumption, and why would the meters be a proper noun?
bart-on simpson wrote: The key words are 'flat', 'tight' 'and safe and well'. 8.5 feet? So that 8 feet and 6 inches - why can't the OM join everyone on the metric system? Laughable!2.59 Meters is the Correct answer. I prefer to count my distances with a consistent number base.
By coincidence 8'6'' is 2.59 metres.
SamSpinx
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3:11pm Mon 10 Sep 12
King Joke wrote:Yeah fair enough... I was trying to make an actual point, not be a smart **** by correcting an error though, if I'm honest. Inches and feet are relics from history and should stay there.
SamSpinx wrote:2.59 'Meters' (sic)? Why would a snake need to measure gas or electricity consumption, and why would the meters be a proper noun?
bart-on simpson wrote: The key words are 'flat', 'tight' 'and safe and well'. 8.5 feet? So that 8 feet and 6 inches - why can't the OM join everyone on the metric system? Laughable!2.59 Meters is the Correct answer. I prefer to count my distances with a consistent number base.
By coincidence 8'6'' is 2.59 metres.
If we are being grammar Nazis though, you have close the quotation marks that you used to symbolise inches. You fool.
King Joke
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3:19pm Mon 10 Sep 12
It is this notation that the OM should have used instead of '8.5-foot' which just looks clumsy.
Actually I also agree that we should confine feet and inches to history, but those that want to keep them are so emotively attached, as fanatically as if it were a religion, I suspect we'll keep them for a while longer.
Mick E
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3:41pm Mon 10 Sep 12
SamSpinx wrote:You sad, sad, sad people. I pity you all.
King Joke wrote:Yeah fair enough... I was trying to make an actual point, not be a smart **** by correcting an error though, if I'm honest. Inches and feet are relics from history and should stay there. If we are being grammar Nazis though, you have close the quotation marks that you used to symbolise inches. You fool.SamSpinx wrote:2.59 'Meters' (sic)? Why would a snake need to measure gas or electricity consumption, and why would the meters be a proper noun? By coincidence 8'6'' is 2.59 metres.bart-on simpson wrote: The key words are 'flat', 'tight' 'and safe and well'. 8.5 feet? So that 8 feet and 6 inches - why can't the OM join everyone on the metric system? Laughable!2.59 Meters is the Correct answer. I prefer to count my distances with a consistent number base.
King Joke
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4:27pm Mon 10 Sep 12
ger elttil OX2 0EJ
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4:39pm Mon 10 Sep 12
bart-on simpson wrote:Because Bart we still have the imperial system, and at least the OM (unlike you) seem to respect it (sometimes). I suppose you want the Euro, beer sold in 40cl glasses, all road signs in KM and us driving on the right as well.
The key words are 'flat', 'tight' 'and safe and well'.
8.5 feet? So that 8 feet and 6 inches - why can't the OM join everyone on the metric system?
Laughable!
King Joke
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4:46pm Mon 10 Sep 12
Switching to the metric system didn't make the Australians any less Australian, and I can't think of a nation with national pride more ingrained than the Irish. The Canadians managed to sustain their identity when they switched to right-hand running on their roads in 1926.
Our tolerance, sense of fair play and a healthy disrespect for authority would survive metrication. Any profession where measurement is and distance is important, like science, engineering and the military switched over to metric years ago.
King Joke
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6:26pm Mon 10 Sep 12
Dope-smoking cafes: better than having distribution in the hands of psycho dealers.
Brothels: better than having the girls out on the street in far more danger.
24-hour bars: better than chucking everyone out at 0200 so they can have a fight in the taxi queue.
Eating houses? Surely they're allowed to open 24 hours already?
We already ignore working time rules and we'll throw the human rights charter out soon enough, so we pick and choose as well.
King Joke
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6:57pm Mon 10 Sep 12
ger elttil OX2 0EJ
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7:02pm Mon 10 Sep 12
King Joke wrote:My point exactly. Our councillors keep telling us about this world class city we live in, but where exactly is it, except in the halls of power and the banquets in the University that they get invited to partake in to make sure that the status quo carries on.
THat isn't EU or UK law, just petty short sighted Ox City Councillors.
Darkforbid
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7:56pm Mon 10 Sep 12
abingdonguy
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9:38pm Mon 10 Sep 12
King Joke
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8:28am Tue 11 Sep 12
It is a bit of a non-story though, which is probably why we shot off on a tangent.
bart-on simpson
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5:14pm Tue 11 Sep 12
bart-on simpson says...
11:11am Mon 10 Sep 12
8.5 feet? So that 8 feet and 6 inches - why can't the OM join everyone on the metric system?
Laughable!