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RipSlider

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Re: Questions that keep you up at night
« Reply #25 on: December 06, 2007, 02:16:14 pm »

I have a question:

When does a "boat" turn into a "Ship". Also, when does a "Dhingy" turn into a "Yacht"

And.

What do the brit's and americans call ships "She", the russians and baltic nations call them "He" and the Indian's and most asian countries say "It"


(sorry for asking two questions)
Steve
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Re: Questions that keep you up at night
« Reply #26 on: December 06, 2007, 02:23:32 pm »

Quote
    question.........why is it that when you phone a wrong number its never engaged  ?

                        why is it that anything precisely machined to plus or minus one thousandth of an inch won't fit !!!!( sods law
Beacause they only tell you its a wrong number when they answer

Because the bit that you are trying to fit it into was machined to a different plus or minus one thousandth of an inch.

When you buy a 50 yard bobbin of elastic......... :)
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Re: Questions that keep you up at night
« Reply #27 on: December 06, 2007, 05:17:07 pm »



                         Why can't I get to sleep??
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Re: Questions that keep you up at night
« Reply #28 on: December 06, 2007, 07:09:01 pm »

The thing that has kept my few remaining brain cells busy for a number of years now is the price of cane sugar......
After all the processes that the molasses goes through the very end of it all is white crystalline sugar. So why  is brown sugar more expensive?

Yours baffled
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Re: Questions that keep you up at night
« Reply #29 on: December 06, 2007, 08:59:38 pm »

If tin whistles are made out of tin, what do they make foghorns out of?
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Re: Questions that keep you up at night
« Reply #30 on: December 06, 2007, 09:14:06 pm »

If the God (no names no pack drill) I was taught about as a youngster is supposed to be the all seeing, all powerful master and creator of all, he/she/it must therefore have known exactly what he/she/it was doing... and known the final outcome! Does this make us some kind of experiment, presumably not as he/she/it,  already knew the final outcome before he/she/it  started.... or are we and this universe just a plaything? I have to ask the question which everyone has been asking since the dawn of time.... WHY did he/she/ it bother doing it at all.
Only rational people need reply as I have had all the 'good book responses' since I was a kid and will reject them all out of hand.
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Re: Questions that keep you up at night
« Reply #31 on: December 06, 2007, 09:36:20 pm »

Sheerline
If all the various relegions think that they will go to heaven and unbelievers will go to hell, then no-one can go to heaven!

If a large proportion of my body is water, and when I stop swimming and breathe out, I sink - then the bits of me that are not water are heavier than water.
Why doesn't the water rise to the top inside me......

and fill my.......

brain......


oh !!!
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Re: Questions that keep you up at night
« Reply #32 on: December 06, 2007, 09:45:32 pm »

We have had active volcanoes on planet earth for squillions of years erupting the inner contents of the earth on the outside.

   
Some volcanoes are even to this day still doing their thing .

      My question is , if all the contents of the inside have been spewed all over the outside for squillions of years , why isn't the inside empty , and why doesn't the earth collapse , now its empty ?????


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Re: Questions that keep you up at night
« Reply #33 on: December 06, 2007, 09:52:34 pm »

We have had active volcanoes on planet earth for squillions of years erupting the inner contents of the earth on the outside.

   
Some volcanoes are even to this day still doing their thing .

      My question is , if all the contents of the inside have been spewed all over the outside for squillions of years , why isn't the inside empty , and why doesn't the earth collapse , now its empty ?????


       :D :D :D
Because the old stuff is subsumed back into the mantle \ core to be spewed out again as new lava. That's why there are no rocks older than about 3 billion years old on the planet except for one tiny patch in Iceland I think!

My question is, is there anyone 'out there'? The galaxy is so big but experts reckon even with our technology, if a race set out a couple of billion years ago, they would have spread from one side of the galaxy to the other. But as of yet, there's no sign of any other intelligent life  :embarrassed:

Some experts suggests we could be the most advanced race in the galaxy because a, there's no sign of anyone else and b, civilisations may only last a few thousand years before some natural disaster wipes them from the face of (their) planet.

Anyone doing SETI?
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Re: Questions that keep you up at night
« Reply #34 on: December 06, 2007, 10:09:28 pm »

Oh No what have I started.


Here is one for the medical inclined. If the human bodies temperature is 36.5 deg C and the human skin temp is approx 32 deg C. Why when the outside temp reaches say 27-30 Deg C do we feel very uncomfortable and hot. Should it not be that we should feel OK at 36 deg C and then above it we should feel hot.


My brain hurts

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Re: Questions that keep you up at night
« Reply #35 on: December 06, 2007, 10:26:14 pm »

Its all down to the bodies core temperature , which is different to your skin temperature , er , i think.

   my brain hurts now ! :D :D
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Re: Questions that keep you up at night
« Reply #36 on: December 06, 2007, 10:43:05 pm »

Just a few to keep you up tonight -

1. If a person owns a piece of land do they own it all the way down to the core of the earth?

2. Why is it called Alcoholics Anonymous when the first thing you do is stand up and say, 'My name is Bob and I am an alcoholic'?

3. Why are they called stairs inside but steps outside?

4. Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?

5. Why does mineral water that 'has trickled through mountains for centuries' have a 'use by' date?

6. Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp no one would eat?

7. Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, 'I think I'll squeeze these dangly things here and drink whatever comes out'?

8. What do people in China call their good plates?

9. Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but don't point to their crotch when they ask where the toilet is?

10. If Wile E.Coyote had enough money to buy all that Acme crap, why couldn't he just buy dinner?

11. If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?

12. If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, then what is baby oil made from?

13. If a man is talking in the forest, and no woman is there to hear him, is he still wrong?

14. Why is it that when someone tells you that there are over a billion stars in the universe, you believe them, but if they tell you there is wet paint somewhere, you have to touch it to make sure?

Sleep well
Danny  :D :D :D :D

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Re: Questions that keep you up at night
« Reply #37 on: December 06, 2007, 10:49:43 pm »

Hi danny......i give up :- :-\...and im not as thunk as you drunk i am ( hic ) :D :D

                bob
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bigfella

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Re: Questions that keep you up at night
« Reply #38 on: December 06, 2007, 10:54:30 pm »

Danny

I can answer the first one. No because if you are sitting on top of a Gold deposit it belongs to the Government.

Lucky it is morning over here otherwise I would not get any sleep. {-) {-) {-) {-)

Regards David
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Re: Questions that keep you up at night
« Reply #39 on: December 06, 2007, 10:57:18 pm »

If hydrogen is an explosive and flammable gas and oygen supports combustion, why does water not catch fire??

Brian
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Re: Questions that keep you up at night
« Reply #40 on: December 06, 2007, 11:07:47 pm »

If hydrogen is an explosive and flammable gas and oygen supports combustion, why does water not catch fire??

Brian

Good point Brian. Ahhh the mystery's of the universe.
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Re: Questions that keep you up at night
« Reply #41 on: December 07, 2007, 09:25:01 am »

Is nostalgia a thing of the past ??
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Re: Questions that keep you up at night
« Reply #42 on: December 07, 2007, 09:30:40 am »

The future isn't what it used to be.
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Re: Questions that keep you up at night
« Reply #43 on: December 07, 2007, 03:56:19 pm »

Why is'dyslexia' er dislexia.. er dislecksiya... sod it... dikslegsia... grrr! Anyway, why is it such a difficult word to spell if you are diskle... er no... dislegs... er... sod it !!! :P
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Re: Questions that keep you up at night
« Reply #44 on: December 07, 2007, 04:25:43 pm »

If hydrogen is an explosive and flammable gas and oygen supports combustion, why does water not catch fire??

Brian
Because it already has - think of water as the "ash" following the complete combustion of O2 and H2.

Hey, that was an easy one!

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Re: Questions that keep you up at night
« Reply #45 on: December 07, 2007, 05:31:28 pm »

How long would it take to sandpaper an Elephant down to a Greyhound?
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Re: Questions that keep you up at night
« Reply #46 on: December 07, 2007, 06:20:00 pm »

Hey , iv'e got a great book called dyslexia for begonia's {-) {-)

  its all about a dyslexic pimp who bought a warehouse O0 :D :D
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Re: Questions that keep you up at night
« Reply #47 on: December 07, 2007, 07:05:26 pm »


.... and there's that banner which reads.. 'dyslexics of the world untie!'  ::)
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Re: Questions that keep you up at night
« Reply #48 on: December 07, 2007, 07:16:00 pm »



  And dislexics rule k.o :D :D
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Re: Questions that keep you up at night
« Reply #49 on: December 07, 2007, 08:04:51 pm »

Dyslexics of the world...UNTIE!
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