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RotJ writes "British scientists have developed technology that can grow structures up to 2 millimetres high and 0.2 millimetres in diameter on metal surfaces. Dubbed Surfi-Sculpt, it 'will act like ultra-strong Velcro to form much tougher joints between metals and lightweight composite materials'."
In fact I saw Tom Araya wearing velcro hi-tops the last time Slayer toured.
Dubbed Surfi-Sculpt
This is why British stuff doesn't do well in America. The name sounds too much like "Stiffy-Sculpt".
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us Brits have always been jealous of the Yanks for inventing the zip anyway
It could be worse, the French hate us Yanks for freeing them from the Nazis.
The kids on the playground are going to be sooo jealous of my new metal velcroe shoes. Just like they were with my pumps!
From World Wide Words:
[Q] From W S McCollom: "I was looking at a UK magazine and ran across gobsmack. What can you tell me about this term?"
[A] It's a fairly recent British slang term: the first recorded use is only in the eighties, though verbal use must surely go back further. The usual form is gobsmacked, though gobstruck is also found. It's a combination of gob, mouth, and smacked. It means "utterly astonished, astounded". It's much stronger than just being surprised; it's used for something that leaves you speechless, or otherwise stops you dead in your tracks. It suggests that something is as surprising as being suddenly hit in the face. It comes from northern dialect, most probably popularised through television programmes set in Liverpool, where it was common. It's an obvious derivation of an existing term, since gob, originally from Scotland and the north of England, has been a dialect and slang term for the mouth for four hundred years (often in insulting phrases like "shut your gob!" to tell somebody to be quiet). It possibly goes back to the Scottish Gaelic word meaning a beak or a mouth, which has also bequeathed us the verb to gob, meaning to spit. Another form of the word is gab, from which we get gift of the gab.
Actually, the British foreign intelligence service (James Bond, Q and Moneypenny) that you're referring to was MI-6. MI-5 are the ones who play peeping-Tom at all those closed-circuit cameras all over London for signs of terrorist activity. (At least, that's what the TV show says they do :)
No, we hate them for freeing us from the British. And now we have come full circle! Damn those British and their insidious velcromancy!
Athenée de Luxembourg, the most prestiguous high-school in all of Luxembourg (no, of all of Europe!) is celibrating its 400th anniversary. Come around and look!
were nnulified by bleak future. In log on Then the profits without
Or Jose, and Hose B in the Mexican Fire Dept.
My brother (Who's in the Navy) showed me one of his uniforms when we used the adopt-a-sailor program to see him this past Christmas. (He was still in basic training.)
;)
It had 13 buttons that had to be undone before you could use the bathroom. You can't tell me they don't learn how to plan ahead in the Navy.
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