Monty by Jim Meddick for June 20, 2022

So, not off with Robotman then.

Magna summa uninforma

Certain countries are going to need their version of a Magna Carta.

I recently heard a Ukrainian philosopher saying that the roots of Magna Carta are in the Norsemen’s style of negotiating agreements with the Scandinavian kings, a method of government transplanted to England by the Norsemen’s Norman descendents. He was comparing this to the similar style of rule of the various Cossack hordes that once roamed and helped define the Ukraine. This was in contrast to how Russia’s style of rule was of an absolute autocrat constantly conquering new territories. The idea of limiting the power of a Russian government is as alien to them as it would have been to Louis XIV.

Professor Xemit! I was afraid he’d gone the way of so many other characters around here! J.M does have the habit of letting characters just disappear (Dave/Mr.Pi ; chimpy ; Gretchen…)

For someone who went through the American education system, Monty made a reasonable guess.

I learnt about it on an episode of Time Tunnel when I was a kid.

The Magna-Carta is a new shopping trolley. When you take your groceries out to the car, a powerful magnet sweeps the lot for nails and screws. Thus, helping to reduce punctures.

Ever wonder why, every magnet is listed as ’’powerful’’ ?

I dated a Megan Carter in high school, I thought she looked older?

Does the Doc ever draw strange glances, showing up in the past in that outfit?

Monty would never admit that he doesn’t have a clue.

I wonder how he understood a word being said? Maybe he has some kind of Star Trek universal translator. Time travel stories always hand wave the language issue. We wouldn’t be able to understand or be understood in 13th century English. The usual sample is the beginning of Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales”. You can catch a few words when reading it, but imagine if it were spoken, and you couldn’t see the text. You’d be going “Huh?”https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43926/the-canterbury-tales-general-prologue

That’s right Monty. The Magna Carta is 3M’s 6 TB data cartridge.

I remember a sentence or two about in school. Never read much about it until I saw it. That seems to stimulate interest more.

“…magnetic cart?”

No. Just a very big one. And it was reinvented at Cartagena.

600 B.C

The history of magnets goes back to 600 B.C. but it was only in the 20th century that scientists began to understand it and the discovery of magnets applications began. Magnetism was most likely first discovered in a type of magnetite called lodestone, which is made up of iron oxide, a chemical compound made up of iron and oxygen.Discovery of Magnets – Origin, Founders, and FAQs – VEDANTU

www.vedantu.com/physics/discovery-of-magnets

Monty is the living definition of “blissful ignorance,” which is typically not so blissful upon scrutiny….