Unobtainium

[PR19_Kit]

Kit and Zenrat: have you realised yet that if you were both to tunnel through the middle of this node, leaving a solid wall around you, you could make a tunnel right through the planet? (screw the temperature, your tunnel is made of Unobtainium, right? ) That should reduce the postage costs to New Zealand....

Thing is, they'll both be running right smack into the drilling operations of the Tsingtao Republic.

We Drillers of the World should work together Komrade. 

[Librarian]

PDRV scientists are currently experimenting with coating drill bits with the hardest substance known to man - Weetbix, milk & sugar left to set in the bottom of a bowl on the kitchen bench.

My aunt is reputed to make mince pies that have found military applications as everything from battleship anchors to armour-piercing shot before now. I could get her to send you some, although you'd be wise to check the maximum load capacity of your local dockyard cranes to avoid a failed delivery. You should also be careful to organise your operation in such a way that you dispose of the last pie before taking delivery of the next one, since when two or more are located within a few hundred yards of each other, they tend to start orbiting their common centre of gravity, which can be disruptive and inconvenient.

Getting frighteningly close to the science of Dwarf Bread.

I've seen humans so huge in girth I've often imagined long dead and mummified flies in orbit around them.

[Go4fun]

PDRV scientists are currently experimenting with coating drill bits with the hardest substance known to man - Weetbix, milk & sugar left to set in the bottom of a bowl on the kitchen bench.

My aunt is reputed to make mince pies that have found military applications as everything from battleship anchors to armour-piercing shot before now. I could get her to send you some, although you'd be wise to check the maximum load capacity of your local dockyard cranes to avoid a failed delivery. You should also be careful to organise your operation in such a way that you dispose of the last pie before taking delivery of the next one, since when two or more are located within a few hundred yards of each other, they tend to start orbiting their common centre of gravity, which can be disruptive and inconvenient.

Sounds quite like a Holiday Fruit Cake that made the rounds of our family for a few years. Has anyone ever actually tried to eat part of one?

[Joe C-P]

PDRV scientists are currently experimenting with coating drill bits with the hardest substance known to man - Weetbix, milk & sugar left to set in the bottom of a bowl on the kitchen bench.

My aunt is reputed to make mince pies that have found military applications as everything from battleship anchors to armour-piercing shot before now. I could get her to send you some, although you'd be wise to check the maximum load capacity of your local dockyard cranes to avoid a failed delivery. You should also be careful to organise your operation in such a way that you dispose of the last pie before taking delivery of the next one, since when two or more are located within a few hundred yards of each other, they tend to start orbiting their common centre of gravity, which can be disruptive and inconvenient.

Sounds quite like a Holiday Fruit Cake that made the rounds of our family for a few years. Has anyone ever actually tried to eat part of one?

Anyone that has would either be dead or in hospital. If anyone answers in the positive then we know that aliens exist!

[Weaver]

PDRV scientists are currently experimenting with coating drill bits with the hardest substance known to man - Weetbix, milk & sugar left to set in the bottom of a bowl on the kitchen bench.

My aunt is reputed to make mince pies that have found military applications as everything from battleship anchors to armour-piercing shot before now. I could get her to send you some, although you'd be wise to check the maximum load capacity of your local dockyard cranes to avoid a failed delivery. You should also be careful to organise your operation in such a way that you dispose of the last pie before taking delivery of the next one, since when two or more are located within a few hundred yards of each other, they tend to start orbiting their common centre of gravity, which can be disruptive and inconvenient.

Sounds quite like a Holiday Fruit Cake that made the rounds of our family for a few years. Has anyone ever actually tried to eat part of one?

Anyone that has would either be dead or in hospital. If anyone answers in the positive then we know that aliens exist!

Indeed: reputedly the only person to try was great uncle Fred who made the mistake of eating one for a dare,  shortly before his attempt to swim the Channel for the Silver Jubilee in 1977. Poor Fred: they eventually found him last year whilst testing a new kind of ROV to investigate a mysterious hole in the sea floor. On the upside, he was remarkably well preserved, and with almost no degradation due to marine organisms, funnily  enough.

[rickshaw]

PDRV scientists are currently experimenting with coating drill bits with the hardest substance known to man - Weetbix, milk & sugar left to set in the bottom of a bowl on the kitchen bench.

My aunt is reputed to make mince pies that have found military applications as everything from battleship anchors to armour-piercing shot before now. I could get her to send you some, although you'd be wise to check the maximum load capacity of your local dockyard cranes to avoid a failed delivery. You should also be careful to organise your operation in such a way that you dispose of the last pie before taking delivery of the next one, since when two or more are located within a few hundred yards of each other, they tend to start orbiting their common centre of gravity, which can be disruptive and inconvenient.

Sounds quite like a Holiday Fruit Cake that made the rounds of our family for a few years. Has anyone ever actually tried to eat part of one?

Depends on how much Alcohol has been poured into it.  Then I just usually suck the fruit and get quite a happy grin on my face.   If it's been made by tee-totaler I'd use it for building repairs.

[Howard of Effingham]

It will not surprise you all to discover that the Peoples Democratic Republic of Victoria has exclusive access to large deposits of Unobtanium (from a secret mine hidden under the Bass Strait).  When combined in a secret alloying process with Imaginatium and as much Beerium as you like the resulting material is called Whifftainium and has materials properties you would't believe...

like what?! do tell there are thousands wanting to know..... 

[zenrat]

I could tell you but you wouldn't believe me...

[Howard of Effingham]

really?

having seen the subjects entry on wikkipedia, I am beginning to realise the unobtainium entry needs rapid updating and extension.

never mind the periodic table of elements needing substantial and urgent revision.

aw well must dash!!!