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Lost Special Brew

nicemark
I see Special Brew has disappeared from the External Influences in Appendix 5

I had always assumed, perhaps wrongly, that Special Brew, was the famous super strength beer; much like the requirement for a Teddy Bear in the technical specification/requirements guide for UK Locomotives. In the vast tome of a document the Bear was described in a bit more detail in a tucked away subsection. I might add it was a very poor text only spec for a teddy bear, but a decent one would have been too large and attracted attention. (don't ask me to find it, I last worked in that industry 30 years ago).

Once these little details are removed I can't ever see equivalents going back in. 

So I am idly wondering, are British Engineers having their traditional sense of professional humour removed by a new European work style which sees humour and work as incompatible? Or am I just a bit childish and out of date? Do you know of any other odd stuff?


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    Lol......
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    What's all this about?
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    Hi Rob.    For many years now, Special Brew was listed at the end of the external influences Appendix 5. Not that I monitor such things but I see it has now gone from the edition I currently have. It was in the 17th and I believe it made it into early editions of the 18th. I had always thought it was a little bit of professional humour. You used to see such things in other fields of work too, but it seems they have become extinct.
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    I imagine it has now been tested and found not to be as dangerous as originally assumed, much as the cable ratings creep a bit when retested as opposed to copied from pre-metric editions.?

    In the same vein manuals from Tektronks test gear used to hide little comedy moments in the circuit diagrams.
    example


    Mike


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    nicemark:

    Hi Rob.    For many years now, Special Brew was listed at the end of the external influences Appendix 5. Not that I monitor such things but I see it has now gone from the edition I currently have. It was in the 17th and I believe it made it into early editions of the 18th. I had always thought it was a little bit of professional humour. You used to see such things in other fields of work too, but it seems they have become extinct.


    I have just measured my right leg and appears to be a couple of mm longer than the left one.

    " I imagine it has now been tested and found not to be as dangerous as originally assumed, "

    As far as special brew goes, there is a concoction leathal to some when mixed with diamond white and given a pernod depth charge

    Legh


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