Sale of Incandescent Bulbs to End on Tuesday?

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-- Richard

Quite so. Which meant that nobody had to run around making extensive changes.

Just noticed this report on BBC

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In the very first TV21 comic IIRC

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Oh, I don't know. In an 1840s home part of the art of getting the right ambiance involves sympathetic styles for furnishings and lighting. In this case the rooms were designed to be lit from low levels by lamps. Our lighting levels are certainly higher than theirs were, but the angles from which the light comes are probably similar and the ambiance much more pleasant than a central light source can provide.

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and yet more enormous padded underwires

What was that fictional substance Issac Asimov described in a short story that was so soluable it started to dissolve before water was added?

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It was published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1948 with the title "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline"

That reminds me of some anti-gravity paint used on a space-ship, old film with I think Lionel Jefferies. They had shutters over the paint so they could negate the anti-grav. What the devil was that film?

In message , at 21:25:26 on Tue, 1 Sep 2009, brass monkey wibbled

Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon.

First Men In The Moon!

And "DeadMangledPigeon" was like:

I don't remember too good, but I think John Wayne was in it.

We've just had our kitchen floor done with that.

-- Richard

As much of our legislation is the result of commercial (and lunatic fringe) lobbying I quite believe your statement but do you have any actual references?

Roger R

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Yep, so would I, but I think that's Grand Fenwick (The Mouse on the Moon)

More like (with apologies to the movie) Dim, and Dimmer.

It was quite extensively reported in lighting trade magazines a few years ago and coincided with the development of the "halogen in a bulb" lamp. Unfortunately my copies of the magazines are about at the Paleolithic strata of the various magazines stacked in the attic awaiting time to be read so may be difficult to find. Siemens/Osram "contributed" extensively to the Ecodesign Directive (2005/32/EC).

You could tell her the world's going to end:

Teenagers 'filmed sex act fearing Large Hadron Collider doomsday'