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For tax purposes, when left in open air a biscuit goes soft and a cake goes hard.Haha, sorry guys, a bikkie is a biscuit, normally consumed with a cup of tea. View attachment 633157
Telling which goes on top, jam or cream betrays your cultural roots. Jam on top is from Devon, cream on top is from Cornwall. It is a bitter rivalry.Ah no actually that's a scone, best served with jam and clotted cream.
Can I just have the bacon?For us American types, a "biscuit" is normally a fluffy, flaky warm thick bread-like item, often cooked in a dutch oven over an open camp fire and smothered in sausage gravy on the plate. With crumbled bacon on top sometimes. Because everything is better with bacon.
Great. Now I am hungry!
Sure, why not?Can I just have the bacon?
No it's an enigine threadIsn't this an engine thread
Rather have a beer.
Did RR ever give up the secret of incantations performed by Druid priestesses? That might explain the early failures Packard had.
My Dad accidentally forgot to hand in some of the Packard tool kit when he left the RAF. I still have themI got told a humorous anecdote by a member of the Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust once, he said that when Packard sent Merlins over to the UK from the US, they each came with tool kits. He then said that Rolls-Royce never supplied tool kits with their Merlins because they didn't need them...
Yes hillarious. Now, going back to your previous work of unscalable witticism It's called that for three reasons, firstly half the original documents actually have "secret" written on them, secondly much of the book concerns technical intelligence work (which is secret), and thirdly most of the documents on British technical intelligence on it were still classified until 1974, actually quite a while AFTER many books on WW2 aviation were written, in fact some i used were maked closed until 1994, and, memoirs like Kollmanns have never been seen by anyone, at all.Damn good thing the Germans didn't catch wind of this thing called "horsepower", they might have tried it too...
The Air-40 series for example, is material from British Air Intelligence, so there are just mandatory "closed for XX years" orders applied to it. It was all opened in the mid 1970s. The stuff closed until the 1990s was likely just because it had once been classified, and it was so obscure nobody bothered un-classifying it until some researchers actually lodged a request. The ministry of defence certainly shredded vast amounts before releasing the files too, what we have is merely the rough outline in many cases. Also, a lot of these files were worked on by military intelligence people, with names and sometimes phone numbers. These same people would often have gone on to work right into the cold war doing the same on russian tech. So you can imagine why files on seemingly irrelevant technology were kept secret longer than "apparently" necessary.Nobody accuses you of anything but writing a good researched and succesfull book. Fact.
About the secret bit. Why did they keep it secret for so long? With the age of jets it seems a bit long.
These same people would often have gone on to work right into the cold war doing the same on russian tech. So you can imagine why files on seemingly irrelevant technology were kept secret longer than "apparently" necessary.