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On 20/03/2019 14:51, Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Robin
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On 20/03/2019 13:32, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 20/03/2019 09:55, charles wrote:


you'vew forgotten the small measurement "a gnat's whisker"

Gnat's cock.

Gnat's dont have whiskers

if you look very, very closely:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnat#/...Hooke-gnat.jpg

[from Robert Hooke's Micrographia, 1665]

https://goo.gl/images/21VtfM

[from scanning electron microscope]


SWMBO says that, because I have whiskers, I must be a gnat.

better ask why she keeps shaving the whiskers off her fanny then


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