Posted on 11/26/2024 11:19:27 AM PST by Red Badger
No matter what students bring to future "show and tells" at Orchard Junior School in the Southampton area of England, they will never be able to top this year's spectacle that shut down and evacuated the school.
One bonkers little tyke brought in a bit of vintage "unexploded ordinance" to show his mates.
The school quickly evacuated all the students, called the police, and texted the parents:
Schools are being closed & evacuated - please collect your child from Noadswood field ASAP.
Imagine getting that little note in the middle of the school day.
Laura Holloway, a mother of one of the students was at work at the time. She said,
It was so worrying. Another parent had called saying there were police everywhere. I knew my youngest would have been so scared.
But, she added:
Both schools seemed to deal with it all very well and had the kids lined up and checked off - it must have been very upsetting for everyone involved.
Once the students were out, the police showed up and sent in the bomb squad.
The police's full statement said: ‘We were called at about 1.30pm to a report that a child had brought what may have been a potentially unexploded ordnance to Orchard Junior School.
‘The school was calmly evacuated and a disposal team attended to take the item away to be destroyed as a precaution.'
Not an easy task by any means.
The real question everyone wants to know is "What kind of ‘historic incendiary device' are we talking about here?"
This is England after all. They've been blowing stuff up and getting blown up for centuries.
It could've been anything from a 16th-century mortar to a WWII hand grenade to that morning's beans on toast.
I still haven’t gotten there. I need to find 2 letters to put in place and I’m stumped. I’ll get there.
So, I got an x/6 after finding a bunch of words that I didn’t know existed.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Strepsirrhini
....
Or is that too much of a hint?
I am stumped as well...
I have letters 1, 3, and 4 green, and thought for sure that I had a good guess on rows 3 and 4... but no...
I will resist looking up that clue until later in the evening....
Interesting.
I mean — your insulation is keeping heat in when it’s cool outside, but when it’s really cold outside it’s not.
There’s something funny going on...
On the one hand, your house is stuffy, but it’s also drafty in winter, like some weird thermally-actuated one-way valve effect.
So... insulation has an inside and an outside. Your comments leave me inclined to wonder whether your insulation isn’t installed inside out.
More likely, we should look to psychology; that whole “perception is not always reality” thing. As Tommy Shaw sang, “Welcome To The Grand Illusion...”
Probably is. But since I already bombed I got the word.
So, you’re saying it’s the same horrible universal thing that makes 60 degrees require a jacket in the fall but 60 degrees is t-shirt weather in the spring?
Foggy morning over The Bay with sun expected to burn through by afternoon. Probably indicative of a warming cycle over the next few days.
Friday-ish things are afoot, and the weekend bodes a dashing of to’s and fro’s in pursuit of attending various calendared events.
Today’s puzzle took some noodling.
Wordle 1,489 5/6
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟨🟨⬛🟨⬛
🟨🟩⬛🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
“Then the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the roads and country lanes and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full. I tell you, not one of those who were invited will get a taste of my banquet.’”
That’s my gut, yeah.
In October, 60 with a breeze sends you for a windbreaker.
In late March, 60 with a breeze has you at the park throwing a Frisbee in shorts.
HK & DC amazingly got it in 5... if I didn’t use DC’s clue, there is no way I would have got to that before midnight... never heard of such a thing!
Wordle 1,490 5/6*
⬛🟨🟨⬛🟨
⬛🟨🟨⬛🟨
🟩⬛🟩🟩⬛
🟩⬛🟩🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I always find that phenomenon interesting...
I’ve seen them before... I would not have gotten it if not for the word before... Left me no other choice.
Highly irregular...
Wordle have the rest of you #1490 but had me solving #1489.
Yet we were all on it within the same calendar day.
I shall be more mindful of the puzzle number henceforth, I assure you.
My wife had heard of them as well...
That happens to Mrs. zz sometimes as well, if she is playing on multiple devices...
We are not the same.
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