Merry Chistmas to all

['The Gaffer']

Hope everyone has a great Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Here's to great BKCC 2013

All the best from The Gaffer.

[dave_bence]

Thanks Gaffer

A very merry Christmas and a happy new year to all from me too

[fullpint]

  Same goes here. Cant wait to see the grandchildren open up there presents. My annual homemade stuffing which has been made as far back a my grandparents.
Only thing i dont like is the time off!!!!! I need to keep busy so I can see me spending a lot of time with the Mk Indy haha
Merry X-Mas and hope to get to more meets in 2013..

[YellaBelly]

Let's just hope we all survive the end of civilisation!

Merry Xmas to all, and  Happy New Year.

Roll on the weather 

And finally....a BIG thanks to Phil and the rest of 'The Management' for keeping the club rolling, well done guys 

John

[Grin-a-lot]

Merry Christmas everyone, hope you have a great Christmas and some time to work on your cars!  Special thanks to the management and all those who organise and attend meets to make this club as sociable and community-like as it is.

The email below did the rounds at work but don't worry kids, it's just adults being silly...

There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist (except maybe in Japan) religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the population reference bureau).

At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming there is at least one good child in each. Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the  rotation of the earth, assuming east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 967.7 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stocking, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him to get back up the chimney, into the sleigh and get onto the next house.

Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false, but will accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops or breaks.

This means Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second or 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man made vehicle, a space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles per hour.

The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized LEGO set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousand tons, not counting Santa himself. On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that the "flying" reindeer can pull 10 times the normal amount, the job can't be done with eight or even nine of them – Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch).

A mass of nearly 600,000 tons travelling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached the fifth house on his trip. Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 m.p.s. in .001 seconds, would be subjected to acceleration forces of 17,000 g's. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrous considering all the high calorie snacks he must have consumed over the years) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015
pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of pink goo.

Therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

[Hairy Santa]

Merry Christmas to one and all

Dont have a lot of time to write on here with all these bloody parcels to deliver, and the left runner on the sleigh is wobbly 

hope you all have a great time and a brill new year

great to still have a club, thanks for all the effort

Hairy Santa

[Moleman]

Happy christmas everyone. Lets hope for much better weather for 2013 & alot more meets. 
I too would like to thank everyone who helps keep this club going. It is very much appreciated. 

['Mendip Wurzel']

Happy Christmas to all and hoping for lots of nice weather next year..... a great club

Thanks

[Sumov8]

Ladies and Gents

Have a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Here's looking forward to seeing you all in the New Year on a sunny warm evening!!

Cheers  Sumov8   

[YZFMINI]

Happy Christmas and New Year all.
lets hope next year is not so wet...

[Lucky Ed]

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ONE AND ALL

Well done Santa - I thought you'd been a bit quiet of late, keep up the good work!!

I've solved the problem of all those Xmas cards piling up on the mat every morning - I've screwed a shredder to back of the front door - job done...... BAH HUMBUG

[Almondsburyhills]

Merry Christmas and a happy new year to all

Lets have a sunny 2013!

[Hairy Santa]

[fullpint]

[evolution]

Merry Christmas to one and all

Dont have a lot of time to write on here with all these bloody parcels to deliver, and the left runner on the sleigh is wobbly 

Hairy Santa

Does that have anything to do with you removing bolts to lighten the load 

Merry Xmas everybody and a happy new year

Steve