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#0, What's a Nocket?
Posted by Pasha on Nov-01-16 at 05:20 PM
Such that a Millinocket is 1/1000th of one?

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#1, RE: What's a Nocket?
Posted by Gryphon on Nov-01-16 at 06:02 PM
In response to message #0
>Such that a Millinocket is 1/1000th of one?
>
>--
>-Pasha (who's positive he's not the first person to make that joke)

... today.

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#2, RE: What's a Nocket?
Posted by The Traitor on Nov-03-16 at 00:56 AM
In response to message #0
Given what Gryphon's said about it over the years, do you really want that question answered?

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this from the woman whose hometown's only claim to fame is staging the most pisspoor attempt at an invasion of France in human history


#3, RE: What's a Nocket?
Posted by Pasha on Nov-03-16 at 01:57 PM
In response to message #2
>Given what Gryphon's said about it over the years, do you
>really want that question answered?

I mean, it was sort of a joke, but now that you mention it in THIS context...kinda yeah?


>this from the woman whose hometown's only claim to fame is
>staging the most pisspoor attempt at an invasion of France in human
>history

Oh this I need to read more about.

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-Pasha
"Don't change the subject"
"Too slow, already did."


#4, RE: What's a Nocket?
Posted by cyberpagan on Nov-03-16 at 04:18 PM
In response to message #3
Could have been worse, you could have been asking about smoots.

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#5, RE: What's a Nocket?
Posted by jonathanlennox on Nov-03-16 at 04:47 PM
In response to message #2
>this from the woman whose hometown's only claim to fame is
>staging the most pisspoor attempt at an invasion of France in human
>history

Newhaven, Sussex?


#6, RE: What's a Nocket?
Posted by The Traitor on Nov-03-16 at 05:38 PM
In response to message #5
Ramsgate, Kent. From whence Royal Harbour left King Louis XVIII to invade and reconquer his kingdom from the Corsican... aboard a single paddle steamer with the aid of a few dozen waiters.

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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.


#7, RE: What's a Nocket?
Posted by Kendra Kirai on Nov-04-16 at 02:41 AM
In response to message #6
But *what if it worked*?

#8, RE: What's a Nocket?
Posted by Peter Eng on Nov-04-16 at 05:43 PM
In response to message #7
>But *what if it worked*?

In that case, somebody would have a website detailing the histories of the Most Badass Waiters and Maidservants of History.

Peter Eng
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("Now, you might think a waiter in a Turkish restaurant would not have much chance against a master knife fighter. Nope. He took one of the roasting forks and turned that guy into shishkebob.")


#9, RE: What's a Nocket?
Posted by Bushido on Nov-25-16 at 09:38 PM
In response to message #8
Well, the fictional version of that exists at least http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BattleButler and http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NinjaMaid

#10, RE: What's a Nocket?
Posted by Gryphon on Nov-25-16 at 09:57 PM
In response to message #8
>>But *what if it worked*?
>
>In that case, somebody would have a website detailing the histories of
>the Most Badass Waiters and Maidservants of History.

--G.
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
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#11, RE: What's a Nocket?
Posted by ebony14 on Nov-28-16 at 04:08 PM
In response to message #10
"Now sir, any gentleman's gentleman knows that the small, concealable weapons go to the far left of the place setting."

Ebony the Black Dragon

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