Getting back to the original post. Anyone know what FUR was supposed to be??????


Phil Smith

  On 4/1/2018 at 7:41 AM, Phil Z said:

Getting back to the original post. Anyone know what FUR was supposed to be??????

In the UK it means something is scaled up on the inside, for example, with limescale.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/fur-up

 

I was thinking it was rust, as it seems to be missing from the list.  Fer is short for Ferrous but sounds like Fur... yes an obtuse thought I know.

 

Could have been a warp drive joke too:

 

Edited April 1, 20187 yr by 240260280

Tribbles are green in the Pacific Northwest.

 

I learn something new almost every day, but then I forget also.....

verb (furs, furring, furred) [with object] 1 (as adjective, often in combination furred) covered with or made from a particular type of fur: silky-furred lemurs. 2 British coat or clog with a deposit: the stuff that furs up coronary arteries. 3 fix strips of wood to (floor joists, wall studs, etc.) in order to level them or increase their depth.

Brits wrote the fsms for German designed cars built in Japan.

  On 4/1/2018 at 11:37 AM, 240260280 said:

I was thinking it was rust, as it seems to be missing from the list.  Fer is short for Ferrous but sounds like Fur... yes an obtuse thought I know.
 
Could have been a warp drive joke too:
 

I think Star Trek may have led the way to the term “Jumping the shark” Fur sure.


Phil Smith

Fonzie was the coolest when I was a kid.

Aaaaaaaaay...

and wru wru wru wrong...

Tony Baretta was the coolest.

  On 4/1/2018 at 11:32 PM, grannyknot said:

Tony Baretta was the coolest.

I think the bird was the coolest!

 You're right, Fred was cool.

Maybe they meant burr.

  On 4/1/2018 at 7:41 AM, Phil Z said:

Getting back to the original post. Anyone know what FUR was supposed to be??????


Phil Smith