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OK Jim, fess up! That last one you created....right?
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No, someone else did for a straight-to-DVD flop called Flood.
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Jim's wonderful illustrations remind us that cold and wet is much more unpleasant (and cold-feeling) than cold and dry.
And his last image made me just realise that the London Eye was obviously designed to be used as a water-wheel generating power when rising sea-waters and floods render all our other power generating facilities useless :wink:
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Took me a few seconds to remember there was no flooding of westminster...but convincing!! :lol:
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Wow!
Thanks for all the info guys. I feel quite battered into submission in a very pleasant 'comfortably numb' sort of way! I'm going to need to spend the next nthousand hours absorbing all this embarassment of riches!
I still can't quite believe that there could be as good a web community as this one anywhere else in the stratosphere! What a find!
Thanks again.
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Quote:And his last image made me just realise that the London Eye was obviously designed to be used as a water-wheel generating power when rising sea-waters and floods render all our other power generating facilities useless :wink:
You should send that idea to Baroness Young. I'm sure it'd fulfill targets somewhere.
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i will get my wellies
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by the Shamrock on their caps,
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And all his big battalions, Prussian Guards and grenadiers,
Fear to face the flashing bayonets of the Munster Fusiliers."
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Thanks for posting the link to my article Peronis.
I would like to point out though that I was writing about the first century AD, whereas I think the original question here was to do with later period clothing.
Unless I am very wrong, soldiers in the later empire already wore long sleeved tunics and trousers, as well as enclosed shoes, cloaks and fur hats. That would probably be enough to start with on a chilly day I would have thought.
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Quote:It's like Gormorrah and that other place.............?
I was waiting for your punchline there Jim!! :wink:
Interesting that in your top picture the women on the right is wearing a thick coat with a fur lined hood, while the woman on the left has a vest with bare arms! So I guess the weather then was ...... wet?
I can imagine that if the bottom picture were true the environment minister would be saying in parliament that 'the flood defences had still worked and that there would be no need to spend anymore money on them in the immediate future'!
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