Are you smarter than Elroy?

[gReves]

I dont get it.... Elroy, why do you always refer to yourself in 3rd person?

 

[Charles (in GA)]

I understood marine law to be that anyone who found anything on the ocean floor and brought it up had "salvage rights" to the items, period. But recent discoveries of gold and silver have been challenged by Spain, who claims sovereign rights to the booty, even though it is in international waters...and even though the Spaniards murdered, raped, and destroyed the native Americans they stole it from!

This is because of changes in international treaties and agreements that do not allow salvage rights to individuals for Naval/Military/Government vessels.

Charles

 

[JC23]

Muffler for Area 51 aircraft???

 

[Lump]

This is because of changes in international treaties and agreements that do not allow salvage rights to individuals for Naval/Military/Government vessels.

Charles

Thanks, Charles. That is really fascinating information. Yet if those treasure hunters lose their property rights...the people of central America ought to sue Spain for theft, murder, etc. Don't you think...?

 

[ngk22r]

Smart enough to know that normal people don't write in 3rd person.

True

I'm smart enough to know that this isn't a tool and would have posted it in the free parking area.

This is the winning post. So far toolfreak is smarter than Elroy.

 

[klhitman]

I dont get it.... Elroy, why do you always refer to yourself in 3rd person?

i have talked to elroy and if you have ever talked to him the posting in third person is a lot better then a conversation with him in person. trust me

 

[Elroy]

Thanks alot

Must be that bubbly personality

 

[Wrenches of Death]

Are you smarter than Elroy?

Then tell Elroy "what is it"

Or if you like tell Elroy where to go.

It looks like a single giant kernel or grain of 'Improved Military Rifle' type smokeless powder.

If it is, as I suspect, the holes are there so that the burn rate is almost constant as it's consumed from start to finish.

It sure ain't IMR-4895.

WoD

 

[Wrenches of Death]

AH! Then it's way overpriced!

Maybe so originally, but after WWII, surplus powder was sold for next to nothing well up into the 1970's.

I'm still using what's left of a fifty bound keg of WWII surplus 4831. I just transferred what was left in it to two fifty caliber ammunition cans last year. I'd guess that there about sixteen pounds left.

If it would have had a faster burn rate, say about like 3031 or 4895, I'd have finished using it up decades ago. As it is, it's too slow for the M1's and M14's.

These grains are much smaller than Elroy's but should have the same energy density.

WoD

 

[Trucky]

Trucky thinks this is an interesting topic...

Ugh! I just can't do that 3rd person thing.

Nice question though. I'd have never gotten it.

 

[Omphaloskeptic]

Aw shucks - I was going to guess it was an 'AnalLytic Converter'!

 

[egdede]

Originally Posted by toolfreak
I'm smart enough to know that this isn't a tool and would have posted it in the free parking area.

This is the winning post. So far toolfreak is smarter than Elroy.

I think an argument can be made that this is a consumable, and thus can be in this section (think Ramset).

 

[91bronc300]

Aw shucks - I was going to guess it was an 'AnalLytic Converter'!

 

[Frank The Plumber]

The plumber thinks this is an interesting thread, ah, what does he know , the jackass.

 

[wrenchr]

It is a 1 million $$$ paper weight made for the gubment.

 

[HookWorse]

I dont get it.... Elroy, why do you always refer to yourself in 3rd person?

It's what makes Elroy....well, ELROY!!

 

[otis66]

looks like the inside of a muffler.

 

[Rickster]

The Rickster prefers not to venture a guess.