Scottish Nitroglycerin and One Legged Stools (2014)

Re:Scottish Nitroglycerin and One Legged Stools (2014) by teddyh on Saturday October 03, 2020 @11:13AM (#24672541)

I liked this typo: “A sample is taken of each lot of nitroglycerin when mad.”

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Re:Scottish Nitroglycerin and One Legged Stools (2014) by smcl on Saturday October 03, 2020 @01:22PM (#24673412)

Maybe that’s where the erroneous “e” in “Ayreshire” was meant to be (note: should be Ayrshire)

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Re:Scottish Nitroglycerin and One Legged Stools (2014) by war1025 on Saturday October 03, 2020 @05:25PM (#24674780)

A bit random, my Grandma went to school in Ayrshire, Iowa [1], which I have to imagine was named after Ayrshire, Scotland.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayrshire,_Iowa

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Re:Scottish Nitroglycerin and One Legged Stools (2014) by smcl on Sunday October 04, 2020 @06:18PM (#24682705)

I imagine it was!

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Re:Scottish Nitroglycerin and One Legged Stools (2014) by war1025 on Saturday October 03, 2020 @11:27AM (#24672633)

I assumed the "mad" part was just some archaic term.

Curious whether it does actually mean something or if it is just a typo.

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Re:Scottish Nitroglycerin and One Legged Stools (2014) by jccooper on Saturday October 03, 2020 @05:32PM (#24674820)

It's just a typo. The original has "made". I was expecting the text to be a bit more corrupt, but it looks clean and is probably not an OCR type, but a normal human one.

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Re:Scottish Nitroglycerin and One Legged Stools (2014) by dan-robertson on Saturday October 03, 2020 @05:18PM (#24674743)

It’s listed as a form of made in the OED but without any examples close to the 19th century. Webster has this spelling.

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Re:Scottish Nitroglycerin and One Legged Stools (2014) by dredmorbius on Saturday October 03, 2020 @01:04PM (#24673296)

I'm suspecting a meaning of "marked by uncontrolled excitement". Given deliberate language of the article otherwise.

Suggesting freshly-brewed, not-yet settled nitroglycerine.

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Re:Scottish Nitroglycerin and One Legged Stools (2014) by philipkglass on Saturday October 03, 2020 @02:53PM (#24673928)

It is "when made" in the original: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015030656139&vi...

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Re:Scottish Nitroglycerin and One Legged Stools (2014) by dredmorbius on Saturday October 03, 2020 @03:11PM (#24674030)

Thanks. That settles it.

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Re:Scottish Nitroglycerin and One Legged Stools (2014) by teddyh on Saturday October 03, 2020 @02:02PM (#24673632)

I think that “when made” would make more sense in context.

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Re:Scottish Nitroglycerin and One Legged Stools (2014) by dredmorbius on Saturday October 03, 2020 @04:02PM (#24674321)

Apparently yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24673928

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