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Re: Trivia Question of the Day

#2041 Post by ian16th » Tue Jul 27, 2021 1:36 pm

OK lets try an odd one!

In the days when Ground Combat Training became Ground Defence Training and we started playing with Geiger Counters and Dosimeters, we measured radiation in Roentgens (sp)

Nowadays, if the radiation comes from a Linear Accelerator, what are the units of radiation that are used?
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#2042 Post by tango15 » Tue Jul 27, 2021 5:44 pm

Deep in some corner of my mind (let's not go there though!) the word sievert (sp) is jumping out at me, but I have no idea why!

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Re: Trivia Question of the Day

#2043 Post by ian16th » Tue Jul 27, 2021 5:45 pm

tango15 wrote:
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Deep in some corner of my mind (let's not go there though!) the word sievert (sp) is jumping out at me, but I have no idea why!
Close, very close, but no!
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#2044 Post by Rwy in Sight » Tue Jul 27, 2021 6:43 pm

Honouring the principle of not googling and asking I would say beckerel - I didn't even spell it correctly!

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#2045 Post by PHXPhlyer » Tue Jul 27, 2021 7:15 pm

Fermi's?

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#2046 Post by ian16th » Tue Jul 27, 2021 7:19 pm

Rwy in Sight wrote:
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Honouring the principle of not googling and asking I would say beckerel - I didn't even spell it correctly!
No.
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#2047 Post by ian16th » Tue Jul 27, 2021 7:21 pm

PHXPhlyer wrote:
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Fermi's?

PP
Another no.

Tango 15 was ever so close.
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#2048 Post by tango15 » Tue Jul 27, 2021 7:26 pm

ian16th wrote:
Tue Jul 27, 2021 7:21 pm
PHXPhlyer wrote:
Tue Jul 27, 2021 7:15 pm
Fermi's?

PP
Another no.

Tango 15 was ever so close.
Could it be microsieverts then? I seem to remember them in connection with the Fukushima nuclear accident.

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#2049 Post by Opsboi » Tue Jul 27, 2021 9:00 pm

Sieffert?

There was an old GP driver, Jo Sieffert whose father was a scientist

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#2050 Post by Wodrick » Tue Jul 27, 2021 9:53 pm

His name was Jo Siffert

Joseph Siffert was a Swiss racing driver. Affectionately known as "Seppi" to his family and friends, Siffert was born in Fribourg, Switzerland, the son of a dairy owner. Wikipedia
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#2051 Post by Opsboi » Tue Jul 27, 2021 10:28 pm

Wodrick wrote:
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His name was Jo Siffert

Joseph Siffert was a Swiss racing driver. Affectionately known as "Seppi" to his family and friends, Siffert was born in Fribourg, Switzerland, the son of a dairy owner. Wikipedia
Great

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#2052 Post by Wodrick » Wed Jul 28, 2021 12:04 am

No sure it helps
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#2053 Post by ian16th » Wed Jul 28, 2021 8:39 am

I'll put y'all out of your suspenders.

It is a Gray

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Re: Trivia Question of the Day

#2054 Post by Ex-Ascot » Wed Jul 28, 2021 3:42 pm

The most widely recognised Cockney rhyming slang terms for money include ‘pony’ which is £25, a ‘ton’ is £100 and a ‘monkey’, which equals £500.

Why is £500 a 'Monkey' ?

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#2055 Post by Opsboi » Wed Jul 28, 2021 6:40 pm

Great Q

Wrestling with this one as I can't think of even a 3-steps removed rhyme

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#2056 Post by Ex-Ascot » Thu Jul 29, 2021 7:07 am

Opsboi wrote:
Wed Jul 28, 2021 6:40 pm
Great Q

Wrestling with this one as I can't think of even a 3-steps removed rhyme
Stop wrestling. Even though it is part of the lingo, it doesn't rhyme, it is for a different reason.
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#2057 Post by Opsboi » Thu Jul 29, 2021 10:53 pm

Hmmm

Even the paper you lifted it from says it's only speculation

Oh, well

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Re: Trivia Question of the Day

#2058 Post by Ex-Ascot » Fri Jul 30, 2021 5:24 am

Opsboi wrote:
Thu Jul 29, 2021 10:53 pm
Hmmm

Even the paper you lifted it from says it's only speculation

Oh, well
It seems to be well documented.
London slang for £500. Derived from the 500 Rupee banknote, which featured a monkey. ... Referring to £500, this term is derived from the Indian 500 Rupee note of that era, which featured a monkey on one side.
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#2059 Post by Wodrick » Fri Jul 30, 2021 7:19 am

Depends where you look and your search term innit.
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Slang can infiltrate almost any element of daily life. For instance, London slang about money is believed to have been imported from India by returning servicemen during the nineteenth century. The terms monkey, meaning £500, and pony, meaning £25, are believed by some[who?] to have come from old Indian rupee banknotes, which it is asserted[by whom?] used to feature images of those animals, but this is untrue as no Indian banknotes have featured these animals. Confusion possibly arose from the image of an orangutan on the Indonesian 500 rupee banknote. Banknotes with such denominations were issued by Bank of Bengal, Bank of Bombay and Bank of Madras and some other private banks between 1810 and 1860[citation needed].

It is more likely that the term Pony originates from the Latin "Legem Pone" from Psalm 119, which was always sung at Matins on the 25th of the month. 25 March was also the date on which debts were traditionally settled, on which date one would have to "pony up" or "pony out". It is easy to see how slang for a payment on the 25th could develop into a payment of 25 pounds[1]

The term "monkey" originally meant a mortgage in working class slang across large parts of the UK. A "monkey on the house" or simply a "monkey" was a mortgage.[2]

At that time 500 pounds was a huge sum of money to the poor people who predominantly used such slang and the only way to raise that amount of money would have been to mortgage the house. 500 pounds would have been about the average value of a London house at the time the term originated in the early 20th century[3] according to the CPBS mortgage registers 1919–1922.
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#2060 Post by Wodrick » Sun Aug 29, 2021 6:23 pm

Forum must not die.

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