gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Bonneville)
[personal profile] gridlore
I already know what my license plate is going to be.

UK FE C

20 geek points to the first person to decipher it, and get both meanings.

I see

Date: 14 Oct 2006 17:10 (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
United Kingdom, Iron, Carbon. "Both meanings" loses me.

Date: 14 Oct 2006 17:40 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] delta-november.livejournal.com
Something about "British Iron", but the 'C' has me stumped unless you're simply trying for "ironic".

Date: 14 Oct 2006 17:40 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeffreycornish.livejournal.com
British Iron Carbon?

*unlurk*

Date: 14 Oct 2006 18:01 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dalen-talas.livejournal.com
British Steel - steel being iron (Fe) with high carbon (C) content. Also an album by Manowar.

*lurk*

Correction

Date: 14 Oct 2006 18:06 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dalen-talas.livejournal.com
"British Steel" was by Judas Priest. Manowar had "Hail to England".

Oops.

Re: Correction

Date: 14 Oct 2006 18:18 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gridlore.livejournal.com
Bingo! Your twenty geek points will be delivered by a team of crack Rob Halford impersonators within the next millennium!

Re: Correction

Date: 14 Oct 2006 18:25 (UTC)

Re: Correction

Date: 15 Oct 2006 04:40 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_duncan/
20 points? And here I was thinking FE C came to 254 10 or UK 15 14 "see", whatever that means. The latter sounds more like a reference to shoe sizes, hardly geek material. 2's compliment? -127 10. Also nonsence.

Re: Correction

Date: 15 Oct 2006 04:47 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gridlore.livejournal.com
Ten points each for Heavy Metal and Science geekery.

Tesla, AC/DC, Electric Light Orchestra

Date: 19 Oct 2006 21:40 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_duncan/
Heavy Metal and Science geekery

Yeah, in my household [livejournal.com profile] sailingguy was the metals geek and my heavy metal background is a bit like that of the unadultered sponge referenced in your icon.

(But less absorbantly so.)

Iron Spongebob Maiden. Nice.

Date: 14 Oct 2006 20:32 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lysana.livejournal.com
It also works out rather nicely as a slightly tweaked "Feck You." Or maybe that's an indication of my mood/blood sugar levels.

Date: 14 Oct 2006 22:42 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] delta-november.livejournal.com
So I guess my Land Rover plate should read UK AL MG? The old ones have aluminium-magnesium alloy bodies.

Re: Correction

Date: 15 Oct 2006 06:14 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lostwanderfound.livejournal.com
There may be a third meaning you don't want: UK FE C could be read as "UK Fee See" which brings to mind "British lump of shit", if taken from the POV of a suitably xenophobic Harley fanatic.

(not that I'd agree with 'em, mind you; I ride a battered old Eurobike myself...)

Incidentally, if you wander over to here (http://www.archive.org/details/mammals2005-03-11.flac16) there's a great Bluegrass-influenced version of Richard Thompson's 1952 Vincent Black Lightning.

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