Deeply Philosophical Questions 8

[hjgoldstein]

There were also reports of hailstones the size of golf balls falling in the East Midlands

How were hailstones measured before the invention of golf balls?

It is time for pacifists to stand up and fight for their beliefs.

 

[rexxhead]

That's what the French keep asking: qu'est-ce que c'est? ("What is it that it is?)

Frank Clarke
--America's source for adverse opinions since 1943.

 

[hjgoldstein]

->qu'est-ce que c'est? ("What is it that it is?)

I would have said "What is this which this is.

[/pedantry]

Aspiring to mediocrity since 1957

 

[rexxhead]

That's always been the problem with pedantry: you wind up with forms that don't flow nearly as well as the antipedantic. ;-)

Frank Clarke
--America's source for adverse opinions since 1943.

 

[flyboytim]

if black is the absence of light, then explain why you get black when one mixes blue, red and yellow food coloring?

Each of the food colourings is a mixture of pigments which absorb light. The Blue colouring absorbs most of the wavelengths except the prominently blue light. Red absorbs much of the rest of the spectrum, including blue, except for a fraction that we perceive as magenta. That remaining light is effectively absorbed by the yellow pigment - thus no light returns from the mixture and it appears black.

 

[denimined]

If 'No good deed goes unpunished.', then does that mean that a good samaritan is actually a masochist?

 

[r3db3ard]

thread revival!!!

Has anyone ever measured the depth of the hole in the eye?
If pigs could fly, where would they go?
With all of the zombie movies out there, why has no one made 'A Zombie Christmas Story'?
- he'll shoot they're eyes out!
Can you (using your fist) punch yourself in the face hard enough to knock yourself out?
If you swallowed enough change would it come out in stacks?

 

[SamBones]

Suburban Zombie Christmas is close.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1330537/

SUBURBAN ZOMBIE CHRISTMAS is a horror-satire that takes place over the 12 hellacious days of Christmas in Bedford, Nova Scotia. When celeb grocery guru Pete Potter praises an exotic new spice for Christmas pies and puddings, Suburbanites line up in droves for it. Unfortunately, this trendy spice is a secret soul-destroying herb from the isle of Haiti, the ancestral home of zombie-ism. Uh-oh! When undergrads Bailey, Harry, and Zuzu return home from college for Christmas break, they discover that their affluent parents have developed certain new 'tastes'. Instead of keeping up with the Joneses, they're now eating them. And the kids are next! Irreverent madness ensues, roasting Christmas conventions over an open fire. Preppy Bedford soon becomes a bloody battleground, as our young heroes fight to find the lost soul of Christmas in the blundering cannibalistic beast that the holiday has become!

 

[hjgoldstein]

==>If pigs could fly, where would they go?

If pigs could fly would bacon go up? ]

Aspiring to mediocrity since 1957

 

[flyboytim]

If a demijohn holds a gallon, how much can a john hold? Also, is it possible to get a bubble trap to fit the john, so that the home brewer can make wine in it?

 

[traceyr]

For those interested in our perception of colour, I suggest reading "Through the Language Glass - Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages" by Guy Deutscher. Brilliant and entertaining.