Ahem.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggghh. – Nermal

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4409935.stm

Where are the people who complane about links being posted without explanation? – Nermal

Never thought of those classics 😀

Whats wrong with 2CV’s (CND staff cars!!)

A225HVY

Anderson shelters on casters? – Nermal

Isn’t there a IIIF in Portugal?

Cees

I believe so, and hasn’t the FAA Museum got bits too? – Nermal

Nermal: You’ve spooked me! Are you a mind reader?

This is question number three!

Question 2 would have been:

How is the number 4 depicted on 99% of Roman-numeralled clocks and watches? Lets skip that one now and go straight to my (and Soc’s) question.

I should warn you, I have asked many many shop assistants in jewellers. The dear chap who always mans the Breitling stand at airshows even rung the head office in Switzerland to ask.

There have been a few poor guesses, but nothing that is really satisfactory.
Nermal – do you know?

Several years ago a school asked a similar question and I was subsequently tasked with mocking up a picture as both sides debated the pros and cons of the received answers from readers.
The answer I haven’t seen here yet is the shepherds method: one, two, three, four bars and then a strike across to denote five, so that you just needed to count each batch of five to arrive at your total. Obviously you couldn’t do that on a clockface, but its as workable up to four as any other answer already given.
Mind reader? I wish! – Nermal

Sorry – cheapshot coming up…

I was trying to defend the honor of the RAF and allied service members lost in Iraq over the last decade.

This could be taken as an admission of gungho-ism.;) – Nermal

Was meths on a special offer again? – Nermal

Although,

Sometimes its represented as IIII… – Nermal