[Bell Historians] Re: Re; St Patrick's, Melbourne

[Richard Offen]

--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "Bickerton, Roderic K (SELEX) 
(UK)" <roderic.bickerton at ...> wrote:
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> Why? the whole point of a wool sally is to give a smooth soft thing to
> grip and pull. if you could feel which way it was wound it would not 
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> doing that.
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Honestly!   I do worry about you lot at times!   It was a joke!   

Ropes are twisted exactly the same way in the Southern Hemisphere as 
they are in the Northern.   However water definitely DOES go down the 
plughole the opposite way - that's a fact of physics, not a joke!

Richard