My Monkey is a shy creature, not fit for the likes of common people. Besides, it’s been smashed…
I have a machette though, and a couple of katanas, a bastard sword, an epee, a shinai, a war hammer and a bardiche, and I imagine I have some other sharp pointy stuff laying around somewhere plus a couple of bullwhips, a crossbow and the like, dunno what happened to my morningstar though, shame, that was my favorite. So, um, take yer pick!
Ianzin I dreamt you were a cardinal… gonna wear your robes to the pub?
Aw, you’ve got to come! You’re the only person in this thread I know! I’ll buy you a beer, and you can laugh at me trying to figure out the foreign currency! Last time I was in London, I accidentally gave a panhandler six pounds in loose change!* And that was when I was sober!
*[sub]Stupid one pound coins. I’m not used to jingly currency that’s worth more’n twenty-five cents.[/sub]
But that would involve walking, and gasp the possibility of me getting completely lost.
ianzin, at the Mini-LonDope, I seem to recall you doing a trick involving a Fresnel lens. Could you possibly please tell me where can I get hold of a few? I’ve volunteered to lead a residential school in December (hence the reason I’m going slightly mad!), and thought it might be a good icebreaker to get the students into optics.
If they’re sufficiently powerful. All a laser is is a (spatially and temporally) coherent (hah! best not bring one to the DopeFest then!) source of light radiation. So, a sufficiently powerful one may have effects similar to mild sunburn. However, even a weak laser will damage your eyesight, and a more powerful one will blind you.
there was an advert in last months Viz for laser eye surgery. but rather than correcting your eyesight, it turned your eyes into lasers. along the lines of:
see your loved ones in a whole new way as they burst into flames before your very eyes!
play CDs just by looking at them!
etc.
i’ll see if its on the website. it was too funny
Shoots daggers at ianzin You’re in trouble now mate, fellow Lancastrian or not.
Thanks. I shall have a look and see if its within my budget. Mind you, that said, the place I’m working for have said that they will pay all expenses, so maybe I could class it as an expense. Plus they’re paying me really well as well.
And here’s the thread , where I tell people exactly what I’ll be doing for this residential school. If anyone’s got any more ideas, feel free to add them in.
Traditional sign in optoelectronics lab: “Do not look into laser with remaining good eye”.
(Rumour at the polytechnic I went to had it that some twit once did look down the business end of one of their lasers … rumour further had it that the beam burned out the centre of his retina, leaving him with only peripheral vision in that eye. Weird. Absolutely do NOT try this at home.)
Gosh, I’m a-quakin’ in my boots! A threat from the venomous Fred Dibnah-rette knee-biting Hobbit from Planet Flashknickers! Oh, lordy, how ever will I survive?!
