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I'm suspecting a meaning of "marked by uncontrolled excitement". Given deliberate language of the article otherwise. Suggesting freshly-brewed, not-yet settled nitroglycerine.
It is "when made" in the original: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015030656139&vi...
Milking stools[1] (especially the strap-on variety) can also be one legged. > "[He'd] give a warning shout and run. So would everybody, you included." reminded me of MAXIM 3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23503989 [1] another reason for single-legged stools: less likely to trip you up if you need to jump quickly away from a kicking cow. I wouldn't be surprised if nitro factory staff prized that reason, but tol…
The maxims are The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries ¹, the third of which is originally from the Schlock Mercenary webcomic strip of November 1, 2009². 1. https://www.ovalkwiki.com/index.php/The_Seventy_Maxims_of_Ma... 2. https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2009-11-01
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I'm suspecting a meaning of "marked by uncontrolled excitement". Given deliberate language of the article otherwise. Suggesting freshly-brewed, not-yet settled nitroglycerine.
I think that “when made ” would make more sense in context.
Milking stools[1] (especially the strap-on variety) can also be one legged. > "[He'd] give a warning shout and run. So would everybody, you included." reminded me of MAXIM 3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23503989 [1] another reason for single-legged stools: less likely to trip you up if you need to jump quickly away from a kicking cow. I wouldn't be surprised if nitro factory staff prized that reason, but tol…
I liked this typo: “ A sample is taken of each lot of nitroglycerin when mad. ”
I assumed the "mad" part was just some archaic term. Curious whether it does actually mean something or if it is just a typo.
I liked this typo: “ A sample is taken of each lot of nitroglycerin when mad. ”
Maybe that’s where the erroneous “e” in “Ayreshire” was meant to be (note: should be Ayrshire)
I liked this typo: “ A sample is taken of each lot of nitroglycerin when mad. ”
I assumed the "mad" part was just some archaic term. Curious whether it does actually mean something or if it is just a typo.
This isn't a safety story, it's the least cost barely safe story.
While of no relevance to this article or these comments... my memories of my Grandfather are all of a kind, mostly self-educated man, who was denied accepting a full university scholarship - despite pleading from the local Headmaster to his own father - due to his alcoholic father requiring him to go to work and earn money to be able to sustain his 8 younger siblings. He loved his Wife and Daughter, reading Omar Khayyam, watching horse-racing, had a legendary reluctance to accept gifts from anyone lest it put them at a financial disadvantage for having thus done so, and as my Mother told me - always took 2 sandwiches to work with him for over 30 years for his nightly "lunch"; one with cheese, and one with jam.
I mention about him in such manner, as there will likely never be another time that I will find reason to immortalize him online in some small measure of remembrance. And... it made me miss him.
The one legged stool was A COST SAVING DEVICE - a better fix was to have three people on shift at a given point in time, all with different shift starts. This isn't a safety story, it's the least cost barely safe story.