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Posted by Ed Mullen on 02/17/07 01:01
dorayme wrote:
> In article
> <tomstiller-B1D366.16213816022007@comcast.dca.giganews.com>,
> Tom Stiller <tomstiller@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> No gravity == no problem.
>>> The equation is not good. If the ink is in the middle of the
>>> plastic sleeve then there is no easy way to get it to to flow to
>>> the ball.
>> Shake it -- the way one does automatically when a ball-point won't write.
>
> You shake it and it goes to the wrong end from the ball, what
> then? You shake it some more? You shake it in a direction? Be
> careful, you might go the other way.
>
> You need to write some dying words, your strength is almost gone,
> no note to leave your money to whoever, that awful relative gets
> it... No gravity=no problem eh? Sure!
>
> Look, the fact is that the equation is no good. That pencil with
> the "risk" to the eye (I mean, really!) is looking good all
> around...
>
You take the "thing" that has fluid in it and you shake it in one
direction: In this case, toward the opening from which you want the
fluid to flow. you do NOT shake it back and forth, that is pointless.
Kinda like ketchup. Ketchup (or Catsup) is so viscous as to defy
gravity (almost). So, in most instances, we humans take the bottle and
shake it in one direction (toward the bottle's opening). The makers of
Ketchup have figured this out (hell, it only took about 6 decades) and
have begun selling Ketchup bottles with big mouths, big enough to act as
bottoms. So, the normal course is for all the Ketchup to now sit at the
bottom (err, well, it always did that) of the bottle which is, um, err,
the "top" - or - bottom. Or, err, well, shit, I dunno except that my
wife no longer has to resort to the old "lemme shove a knife in there"
routine to put Ketchup on her fries (or "chips" as you Euro guys say).
No, we just open the flip lid and squeeze.
By the way, I am truly troubled by the fact that I could write this
extensively about this topic. I think I need to go have another drink.
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Ed Mullen
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