The Last Post Game!!!!

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

Let's make gold out of iron and in that way be able to pay for a yacht.



Last _{and buy a few football clubs as well} Post

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

Hopefully it'll also pay for protective gear and medical treatment, since I'm fairly certain that iron-derived gold would be radioactive.

Last _{and around here we use clubs for golf, not football}  Post

[Swatopluk]

The traditional metals to make gold out of are Hg and Pb. Iron is far too light and fusion above iron needs energy (below it yields). With mercury and lead it can be done with induced beta decay and indeed yield radioactive gold. But that would keep it in circulation because everyone would try to get rid of it before suffering radiation or it returned to its former state (gold today, lead to-morrow).

Last _{the Journal of Irreproducible Results proposed plutonium/uranium money for the same reason} Post

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

I haven't understood a word of your post.

But that isn't important, I'll just nod and smile...


Last _{I'm ignorant} Post

[Swatopluk]

Hm, applied alchemy (is that Al Chemy in any way connected to al Qaeda?)

I repeat my still unanswered question from above:
Can the idiom "to stir up the brew" be translated (depending on context) as "causing trouble"?

Last _{who needs that much gold anyway} Post

[Aggie]

Depends what you stir into the brew....


I don't think it's an overly clear substitute, but with care for the context it might work.


Last _{heck with gold, let's make rhodium} Post

[Swatopluk]

There is an Uncle Scrooge story about rhodium fever (he wants to outdo Rockerduck on that).

Last _{The GDR had Rhenium instead of Gold reserves} Post

[Griffin NoName]

I should be doing my essay. Again.

Last _{repetitive essay strain - REST} Post

[Aggie]

There is an Uncle Scrooge story about rhodium fever (he wants to outdo Rockerduck on that).

Last _{The GDR had Rhenium instead of Gold reserves} Post

If only one had bought a few tonnes of rhodium in December 1996.... 



Last _{I'm still keeping my eye on Pd} Post

[Swatopluk]

I remember when the PD price went through the ceiling for a short time, when the alleged cold fusion was all the rage.

Last _{btw, is Bush already selling war bonds for Iraq/n?} Post

[beagle]

I repeat my still unanswered question from above:
Can the idiom "to stir up the brew" be translated (depending on context) as "causing trouble"?

It's not exact IMHO,  as Agujjim said.  It's more "try to make something happen", though if we're being pessimistic perhaps that is the same thing.

Reword it as:

"Double, double, toyle and trouble,
Fire burne, and Cauldron bubble"

and your motives become clearer.


Last _{Open Lockes, who euer knockes} Post

P.S. Whatever happened to cold fusion and the famous moving neutron peak graph? 

[Swatopluk]

Unfortunately neither Macbeth or trouble rhyme with Cthulhu.
Currently retexting Robin Hood (riding through the glen) in Lovecraft fashion (see Choral Squids). Chew would do but I already used chomp in another stanza.

Last _{unashamed raper* of classics} Post

*yes, I know that it is normally rapist

[Aggie]

What about 'Turn the screw(s)'?  Definitely conjures up more of a torture image, but can be used in the context of applying pressure - dunno if it'll meet your needs.

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[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

I should be doing my essay. Again.

Last _{repetitive essay strain - REST} Post

I know the feeling, I always leave the things I have to do to be done at the latest possible moment (my essays are mostly done two or three hours before I should present them)...

Good luck with it.


Last _{but first have a rest, you work way too hard} Post

[Griffin NoName]

But that would keep it in circulation because everyone would try to get rid of it before suffering radiation or it returned to its former state

For a moment there I thought you were talking about polonium.

I should be doing my essay. Again.

I know the feeling, I always leave the things I have to do to be done at the latest possible moment (my essays are mostly done two or three hours before I should present them)...
Good luck with it.

I actually have another three weeks on this one. Technicallly. As I got an extension. But. Not finishing it would mean an even longer extension on the next one. The lure of eventual freedom from essays sooner spurs me on.

I finished it now. 3,300 glorious words. Except for desecrating it with anotations of all the targest each sentence meets and smartening up the bibliography.

Last _{targets are the dumbest dumbing down ever invented whatever happened to paying examiners to read essays?} Post