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meiphones_brill
01-06-2008, 04:24 PM
The official name for a small iceberg less than 4m high is a "Bergy bit"

http://amsglossary.allenpress.com/glossary/search?id=bergy-bit1

How do we live without facts like these?

KNK
01-06-2008, 04:26 PM
The official name for a small iceberg less than 4m high is a "Bergy bit"

http://amsglossary.allenpress.com/glossary/search?id=bergy-bit1

How do we live without facts like these?


First of all, that is a great find there.

2nd is, you have too much time on your hands.

iamtko
01-06-2008, 06:55 PM
that is uh-mazin

Lincoln
01-06-2008, 07:20 PM
A Bergy Bit. Who would have thought it.

- John

GailLA
01-06-2008, 07:21 PM
And here I've been calling them ice cubes all this time ;-)

scandalex
01-06-2008, 07:36 PM
And here I've been calling them ice cubes all this time ;-)


LMAO!! :tounge: :tounge:

meiphones_brill
01-07-2008, 02:27 AM
And here I've been calling them ice cubes all this time ;-)

Technically - Ice cubes, unless they're 1m tall, are called "Growlers".

KNK
01-07-2008, 05:58 PM
Technically - Ice cubes, unless they're 1m tall, are called "Growlers".


What about the 50cm tall ones. What are they called.

I know when I have a Jack Daniels Black label I have it "On The Rocks"
mmm is it noon yet?:tounge:

GailLA
01-07-2008, 07:16 PM
What about the 50cm tall ones. What are they called.

I know when I have a Jack Daniels Black label I have it "On The Rocks"
mmm is it noon yet?:tounge:

Dunno about noon, but I can assure you, it's 5 o'clock somewhere. Check the world clock in your iPhone to find out where :tounge: