"Cwatters" wrote in message
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"Androcles" wrote in message
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"Roger Coppock" wrote in message
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Please see:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...use-gases.html


We Brits think of the Irish the way Americans think of Polacks, as in
"How many Irishmen does it take to change a light bulb?"


or more recently "How many MP's expense claims does changing a light bulb
generate?"

One for the Irishman standing on the step ladder holding the bulb,
six for the Polacks turning the step ladder, one for the step ladder
and of course one for the bulb. That's err... twelve.
Check: 1+6+1+1 = 12... err... thousand.
I apologise unreservedly for my unforgivable accounting, but it is
within the rules that I and my conspiratorial accomplic.... err...
colleagues... wrote and that makes it ok.

"Irish physicist John Tyndall proved that some gases have a remarkable
capacity to hang onto heat, so demonstrating the physical basis of the
greenhouse effect. "

What Irish physicist John Tyndall failed to discover was the glass
that is the physical basis of greenhouses and light bulbs.
Glass has a remarkable capacity to hang onto heat, as anyone
changing a light bulb in a greenhouse would know.

People that live in stone houses shouldn't throw glasses.