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29th March 2013, 10:57 PM #1
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What is a Tompion ?
What is a Tompion ?
(not related to artillery ordnance)
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29th March 2013, 11:02 PM #2
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29th March 2013, 11:24 PM #3
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29th March 2013, 11:36 PM #4
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Haahaa ... Thats a google.
But 'what is' not 'who is' ...
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29th March 2013, 11:42 PM #5
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what did you expect a conversation about tampons? ( tompion French)
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29th March 2013, 11:44 PM #6
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I think we called the ink pad in our hand proof printing part of our graphic arts house a Tampion or Tampon.
A Tampon is the Spanish word for an ink pad, which is what they are called in the rubber stamp industry, which is another life I had.
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29th March 2013, 11:50 PM #7
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a clock
a watch
a barometer
also a pellet which a bear would use to plug itself up before hibernation ( stops the ants apparently)
do i win an internet?
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30th March 2013, 02:02 AM #8
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Originally Posted by Pac man
You certainly do !!! You are the most knowledgeble person on the Tompion that I have ever heard of. Either that or google is .... So funny.
yes ... The grizzly bear makes a plug of mud and saliva which he inserts in his anus to keep the ants out during his hibernation.
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30th March 2013, 05:44 PM #9
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I'm sure my wife wishes I did that when I slept. Originally Posted by Mutawintji
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30th March 2013, 06:51 PM #10
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Now you know why they bare called "grizzly", you would be too if you did that Originally Posted by Pac man
The person who never made a mistake never made anything
Cheers
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30th March 2013, 06:56 PM #11
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You know I looked it up in my Encyclopadiae. Originally Posted by Mutawintji
plus how did you know? Bored and looking thru google I bet for lols
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31st March 2013, 02:55 PM #12
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No ... No google ... I like this forum cuz it has so many other interesting subforums for when you are tired of talking wood .. Photograph forum, shed forum, etc. Originally Posted by Pac man
The 'tompion' came from a Roald Dahl story I read as a kid ... Haahaa
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31st March 2013, 04:20 PM #13
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Thats no way to treat the BFG Originally Posted by Mutawintji
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