On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 20:41 +0100, Satyam wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Satyam" <Satyam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > The Wikipedia article of the day provides some interesting facts about > > when if became naughty: > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_erotic_depictions > > > > -- > > May I add something that came to my mind related to this. As the Wikipedia > article says, the idea of pornography was developed mostly in the Victorian > era. It is fitting to mention that at the same time, those we would now > call scientists (the term wasn't popular then) devoted much of their time to > screwing. Pretty much as anybody else, you would say. Not quite, the term > meant something else then. > > The Industrial Revolution was facing a big problem , the lack of standards. > Each and every machine was unique, when something broke, a replacement had > to be crafted, just like the original piece had been. One of the most > important pieces, due to the quantity used in each and every machine, were > screws, bolts and nuts. Thus, it was important to develop standards for > screws, length, diameter, threads per inch, depth and profile of the thread > and so on, so they could be manufactured in quantities. > > This subject was referred to as 'screwing' and I am sure Queen Victoria > would have wholehartedly aproved of it. That's really screwed up! :B Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
