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Offline German_EETopic starter

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Is Dave Superstitious?
« on: September 27, 2014, 08:17:38 am »
Post number 665 was the Polar heartbeat sensor, post number 667 is the power supply upgrade. Between them is the post about YouTube but for some reason it hasn't been labelled #666 ;D

In the UK car number plates with 666 on them are not issued but here in Germany I have seen a few of them. Opinions about this issue seem to vary.
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Re: Is Dave Superstitious?
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2014, 08:23:55 am »
There is a 666 house up the road, but the new owners used the alternate lot number of 664 when they moved in. One street above was the same, but they used 660, as it is a large enough plot that it could be subdivided into 4 plots. Street above that is a school, so they occupy from 550 to 700. Number plates with 666 are seen, but a more popular number is 786.
 

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Re: Is Dave Superstitious?
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2014, 08:29:47 am »
It came up briefly on TAH. #666 is not quite ready yet apparently.
 

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Re: Is Dave Superstitious?
« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2014, 08:40:03 am »
No, not the least bit superstitious.
If you followed me on twitter or The Amp Hour you'd know.
And if you are a supporter, you'd know what #666 was supposed to be.
 

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Re: Is Dave Superstitious?
« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2014, 12:55:46 pm »
Maybe Dave is going to dabble in the black art of RF design?



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Whoa! How the hell did Dave know that Bob is my uncle? Amazing!
 

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Re: Is Dave Superstitious?
« Reply #5 on: September 27, 2014, 01:34:32 pm »
And I thought someone was going to talk about New Zealander's dirty minds....
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Re: Is Dave Superstitious?
« Reply #6 on: September 27, 2014, 04:15:17 pm »
In the UK car number plates with 666 on them are not issued

Hmm.  Now you come to mention it, I've only ever seen one - M666SAS, on an imposing-looking black BMW (this was a few years back, as I think R was the then-current prefix - and of course we haven't used that format since 2001).  Obviously not a luck-of-the-draw plate, so perhaps they held the 666s back but would release them for sufficient £££.

Superstition-wise, the developers who built my house appear to always label the 13th plot on their site plans '12A'…
 

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Re: Is Dave Superstitious?
« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2014, 09:42:21 pm »
Quite a few years ago we did a service call to a pool table hall.  The tables were numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 14.

They left out 7 because everyone wanted to play that one and 13 because nobody would play it!

I think the numbers were assigned to the tables in a random manner so that you couldn't tell which ones would have been 7 and 13.   :-DD
 

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Re: Is Dave Superstitious?
« Reply #8 on: September 28, 2014, 01:42:00 am »
Dave is not superstitious, he naively believes that 666 was delayed by his own free will but of course we know better.
 

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Re: Is Dave Superstitious?
« Reply #9 on: September 28, 2014, 02:42:50 am »
 :)

That's a good way to inflate the video count as well.
 

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Re: Is Dave Superstitious?
« Reply #10 on: September 28, 2014, 06:27:25 am »
Superstition Bah!

So what if Armstrong (The so called FM inventor) departed from the 13th floor ..

Everything is all just a "Coincidence" < how's that for Murphy's Law Ha Ha ..

edit added> My memory's gone today , Superheterodyne inventor .
« Last Edit: September 28, 2014, 06:29:55 am by GEuser »
Soon
 

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Re: Is Dave Superstitious?
« Reply #11 on: October 27, 2014, 11:42:25 pm »
My OCD senses are tingling. I certainly hope you didn't forget about this one. ::)
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Re: Is Dave Superstitious?
« Reply #12 on: October 28, 2014, 06:46:06 pm »
I note that video number 666 has yet to appear despite earlier promises.

Maybe it will be released on Friday  8)
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Re: Is Dave Superstitious?
« Reply #13 on: October 31, 2014, 04:46:42 pm »
Just a number, don't be scared of it!
 

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Re: Is Dave Superstitious?
« Reply #14 on: November 03, 2014, 11:28:33 am »
Hello.

Just a number, don't be scared of it!

Nope, it´s a very special number.
Add the ASCII-Codes of the word "Computer" together and you get: 666
I´m pretty sure: My computer lives.
And damn sure: He is evil!
(using Windows...)

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Re: Is Dave Superstitious?
« Reply #15 on: November 03, 2014, 12:01:11 pm »
I note that video number 666 has yet to appear despite earlier promises.

I didn't promise it, I said I was trying to make it happen. But it requires other people and some red tape to make it happen, so is not fully in my control.
Might still happen one day...
 


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