Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Milk Bottle News

As a man mildly obsessed with cow's milk (in an entirely healthy way), I must bring this heroic character to your attention - and his excellent publication. Come on bloggers - get hitting - let's see if we can get his figures up to record levels (80) again...
(As for milk bottles, why is it - as I may have asked before - that these triumphs of modern design are incapable of pouring without collateral spillage in all directions? The old long-necked, small-mouthed glass bottle has never been improved on.)

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  1. Milk 'bottles'? Bottles? Dear God do they still make them? A bull in a china shop springs to mind.

    Ps: I haven't commented on here for I don't know how long. For that, I feel deeply ashamed and disgusted with myself. I just don't know how you busy people get the time for all this blogging? I know I don't. What with hectic life-styles, twelve hours sleep every ni.... ah I see where i've gone wrong.

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  2. He looks fairly normal but erm somehow you just know he isn't.

    I love the pic on his newsletter site suggesting that in Victorian times(?) milk was delivered by dog cart. Alas, this excellent and very eco-friendly service was soon curtailed.

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  3. Best of all was when the dairy took the cow round the streets and milked it there and then, straight into the jug. I have a photo of this happening at the end of my road, c. 1905. No I didn't take it myself.
    PS: Good to have you back, Lee. Remember - there's always time to blog.

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  4. it is, according to my old physics O-level textbook, to do with surface tension. you can relieve this somewhat by gentle massage of the neck and shoulders while pouring.

    I remember for a few coppers you could own a plastic bottle cap with a retractable spout. All long gone now....

    this man - as with the others - hunter-gatherer instincts gone awry. obsessive. resistance is futile.

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  5. Ah the retractable spout yes - bet the collector bloke's got one of those... I seem to remember some strange device designed to separate the cream from the milk too. We took our milk seriously back then. A mistake, I think, by and large.

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  6. and we should take it seriously again as it's now the main cause of climate change. :o0

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  7. The weirdest thing about that bottle-collector story is the ad flashing above it: An incredibly jolly looking man saying "Prostate cancer kills one man every hour in the UK!" Why is he smiling? More women left for him?

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  8. It's the Koanda effect - fluids love to follow a curve unless disrupted. Lack of appreciation of this causes all sorts of problems. It can be used to drive a hovercraft though contra-intuitively by blowing upwards. Koanda studied with Eiffel and was the first man to fly across the walls of Paris in a heavier-than-air craft.

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  9. What a man! And he seems to have looked like the young Donald Sutherland. 'As a child he was fascinated by the miracle of wind...' Weren't we all?

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  10. Ian - it has nothing to do with surface tension. I like your idea of massaging the upper abdomen while poring though. The wife has done nothing else all evening but I've spilt all over nevertheless.

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