Is it a gem or a pig in a polk?

[webenda]

"ampacity". Another good one! I never heard that word before. Did you just coin that one here? Cool if you did.

Murph, ampacity is a portmanteau for ampere capacity. It was first used by the National Fire Protection Association in NFPA 70 National Electrical Code® for 1965.

If you want to enquire who coined the word, see the NFPA 70 writing committee.

NFPA 70 is written by a committee of members who have interest in the National Electrical Code, such as:
Kenneth P. Boyce (UL LLC)
Michael A. Anthony (University of Michigan, Facilities Planning & Design Department)
Louis A. Barrios (Shell Global Solutions)
Roland E. Deike, Jr. (CenterPoint Energy, Inc.)
Palmer L. Hickman (Electrical Training Alliance, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers)
Ernest J. Gallo (Telcordia Technologies (Ericsson) Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions)
etc,
etc,
etc.
Reference: http://www.nfpa.org/codes-and-standards ... =committee

[Roy]

What I want to know, is who is responsible for concocting this horseshit:



It just makes me so maleful!

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Huh? Ah, Purina is responsible?

"Maleful" ?

[chuck]

maleful as in "bad full" as opposed to "bene ful", alegedly "good full"

think latin

benedictus (I speak well of .....)

maledictus (I speak poorly of ...) Which usually means cursed/slandered

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Nice li'l lesson, there, Chuck! loved it. Never saw maleful before and hadn't found it in a dict. though.

[Roy]

Never saw maleful before and hadn't found it in a dict. though.

You won't. Coined on the spot, for your numismatic pleasure. Why would anyone chop "beneficial" into "beneful"?

[rogruth]

Never saw maleful before and hadn't found it in a dict. though.

You won't. Coined on the spot, for your numismatic pleasure. Why would anyone chop "beneficial" into "beneful"?

Ask the makers of the dog food. It does exist.

[Roy]

Why would anyone chop "beneficial" into "beneful"?

Ask the makers of the dog food. It does exist.

Apparently, Beneful is more beneful than Purina Dog Chow.

[chuck]

It's way more expensive. The company was gobbled up by Nestle about 15 years ago. Before that they marketed dog, cat, rat, pig, horse, and monkey chow. I often wondered why they never tried to call the breakfast cereals "people chow".

I think General Mills acquired the human line before the Nestle buy out. It was kind of fun to drive though Battle Creek (Cereal City) 35 years ago and see the Kellogg, Post and Ralston sings all of the pace.

[robert.]

The whole thing started as a pre hippie hippie commune. I have a customer that lives in the old Ralston castle. One day after a visit to his house i looked the place up online. It sits in Hopewell NJ. Around the turn of the century Edgerly wanted organic foods. Later on Purina bought the name. here is some history on Ralstonism. Tread drift.

http://www.app.com/story/news/local/new ... /71776628/

[chuck]

Tread drift

Trust the drift!

[jlong]

Threadpacity. The amount of drift a thread can handle before overheating and being deleted. I coined that one. LOL.

[Tom Dempsey]

Well, in an effort to yank this thread back on subject, Robert, I hook up a 2R power pack to the motor leads and the locomotive moves backward and forward. My grandson and I got the thing freed up by hand playing with it and it runs on a reasonable amount of current for the design in both directions. However, it has a definite hitch in it's get-along so there's at least one split gear in there. Means I get to disassemble it all the way later this week!! Yippee!!!

[Roy]

http://www.app.com/story/news/local/new-jersey/weird-nj/2015/09/05/weird-nj-scientifically-proven-garden-eden/71776628/

The T in the RALSTON acronym stands for "temperation". Google zilch.

[Roy]

...there's at least one split gear in there.

Does NWSL have a gear upgrade kit for this engine?