On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 20:50, Michael Holt wrote: > On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Guy.Bormann uttered these words of wisdom: >>> battery chickens ran on size D drycells (I kid you not!).
> Ok, I give up - what are battery chickens?? A battery of anything is a long row of them. So a D cell (or for that matter A, AA, AAA and C as well) is not actually a battery, but the little square 9V models and the ones in cars are. A battery mill is a bank of cam-driven hammers for crushing rock. A gun battery is several cannon all lined up next to each other (in concept, if not in practice). A Mandrake distro image could be called an RPM battery. Battery farming is the practice of lining lots of animals up together (typically chickens in cages) to achieve very high farming densities. It also makes it easier to replace their betteries... (-: Cheers; Leon
