JS55, and I thought it was all down to scientific experiments and metallurgy and developments in steel making and the like.
I have always believed in this Scots' theory on how to make good quality steel products:
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg, and howlet’s wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Mind you it is a few years since I was at school in Dunsinane.
Tea leaf reading as you say maybe a more accurate option however I have my doubts. I was born in St. Andrews in Scotland and I remember when I was a kid my parents took me to Arbroath for the day. There was a fair on and as we wandered round we saw a tent with the sign "Madam Zsa Zsa tells the future. As we watched Madam Zsa Zsa came out the tent with a friend. I shouted to my mum "hey Madam Zsa Zsa is Mrs Cunningham who lives round the block from us in our home town. Madam Zsa Zsa, teller of the future, holds her hand out and says to her friend "I wonder if it will rain today!".
Maybe better to play safe and just throw the bones in the air (or have a look at API 579).
nantong,
That's good stuff.
We of lesser wisdom must make use of the stone tablets handed down to us from on high.
And lest there be pandemonium in the land of mortals, we shall continue on bended knee to show great deference.
Ah yes, tea leaves, the entrails of owls, and scratching thy regal azzes, the stuff of erudition.
I visited a fortune teller recently. She studied my palm for only a couple of seconds, then immediately said, "I can tell you're lonely, single and you have not had a partner for some time." Amazed by her answer, I asked if she could tell all that just by the life lines in my hands. "No," she said,"by the callouses and blisters.
JS 55, where does that come from? Brought a tear from my good eye!
nantong,
LOL!!!!
Just a little sarcasm fun.
We often treat the Codes as being stone tablets. And this is not without a modicum of good cause.
However, the extremely knowledgeable and concerned people who participate in writing these things are acutely aware of their own limitations.
Most of them.
The Codes we must treat as black and white. Though what goes into them can be disturbingly not.