http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38780 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Tue, 21 May 2013 13:21:01 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38780#post-109987 Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:07:55 +0000 Haywood Manley 109987@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>"Cup a Soups" or "Cups a Soup"? As in "attorneys general". Sorry, turned into Lynne Truss there for a second. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38780#post-109985 Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:27:56 +0000 Username 109985@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Missed reading this story the first time because the headline/concept was so good. Nicely paced and good rhythm. Glad it made the FP. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38780#post-109975 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:30:51 +0000 Quaz 109975@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Israel already has it's own kettle, though it never admitted it and imprisoned the man who told on them. If Iran really go for theirs then we're all in hot water. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38780#post-109961 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:46:43 +0000 RickH 109961@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Take the credit where you can get it these days, there's little enough about.</p> <p>I like the "out of context" bit a lot.</p> <p>Also proves engineers do have a sense of humour, at least amongst themselves. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38780#post-109942 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:52:09 +0000 hughesroland 109942@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>This was entirely unintentional, although since I may seem more smart as a result, perhaps I shouldn't feign ignorance. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38780#post-109940 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:49:30 +0000 RickH 109940@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>it's also true - my nuclear engineering friends (submarines) refer to the reactor as the 'kettle' since all it does is boil water.</p> <p>.. though possibly not for pea &amp; ham cup-a-soups in Iran. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38780#post-109908 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:43:34 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 109908@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I like this a lot. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38780#post-109900 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:52:41 +0000 HenryMJUK 109900@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Let’s hope a full range of consumer products are rushed into production …..</p> <p>…. nuclear powered …. shavers, hair dryers, curling tongs, mobile phones, music players …. pressure cookers, microwaves, blenders …. mopeds, 2CV6’s ….</p> <p>….. i.e. all the things which we love, but for no apparent reason, break easily and have to be replaced </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=38780#post-109859 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:13:03 +0000 hughesroland 109859@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>In an attempt to allay Western fears it is on the verge of producing a nuclear weapon, Iran says it is merely aiming to produce the world's most powerful kettle, heated by nuclear power.</p> <p>On Thursday, the Iranian Ministry of Nuclear Deception released sketches of what it called a 'mega-kettle', 400 metres tall and 100 metres wide, and buried a mile underground near mountains close to Tehran.</p> <p>'This machine - the world's greatest and largest heater of water - is so large it can be powered only by nuclear rods, which are coincidentally also able to fit into weapons that would destroy the Israeli infidels,' said the Minister of Deception, Ali al Missavaei. He said the giant nuclear kettle would be capable of producing enough boiling water every hour to supply 170,000 Cup a Soups.</p> <p>Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said: 'All along, we have only been producing this kettle, and not splendid, shiny bombs that could wipe our eternal enemy Israel off the planet at the touch of a button. Our intentions have always been innocent, and any claims I may have made that I would not sleep until the blood of every Israeli man, woman and child ran into the soil were taken out of context. Anyone fancy a cuppa?'</p> <p>A spokesman for the Israeli Ministry of Disinformation said Israel would soon be seeking to build a nuclear kettle of its own. 'If our enemy is able to fill the hot water bottles of all its people through the glory of nuclear power, and make Ovaltine for every citizen at night, then we too should have that same right.' </p>