Ask a Stupid Quetion Get a Stupid Answer

[Math Is Hard]

Would the following statement be true based on that assumption? "Electrons have feelings too" if the opposite charge dumps an election?

Absolutely. Electrons certainly have feelings. So does friction.

Many elementary physics textbooks will preface a problem by stating "Ignore friction."
How long do you think friction will continue to take being ignored by thousands upon thousands of students before it finally snaps, and what will be the consequences?

 

[jimmy p]

Absolutely. Electrons certainly have feelings. So does friction.

Many elementary physics textbooks will preface a problem by stating "Ignore friction."
How long do you think friction will continue to take being ignored by thousands upon thousands of students before it finally snaps, and what will be the consequences?

I think that friction will tired of being constantly ignored and within the next year or two will snap and give people horrible rashes and burns.

Speaking of ignored science with feelings, how bad do you think air resistance feels when textbooks tell you that it is negligable?

 

[Kacper]

Absolutely. Electrons certainly have feelings. So does friction.

Many elementary physics textbooks will preface a problem by stating "Ignore friction."
How long do you think friction will continue to take being ignored by thousands upon thousands of students before it finally snaps, and what will be the consequences?

I think friction doesn't mind being ignored because it understands the twist that is put onto the problem when it is applied so there will be no consequences.

But for a stupid question what's more annoying? A big huge fly buzzing around your head or a bunch of gnats flying around?

 

[Gokul43201]

Not very bad at all. You see air resistance is a poor learner (what with all the resistance... ) and never got the hang of big words. It still enjoys strutting about in a transparent negligee.

If there's ever a revolution going to happen among the ill-appreciated physical quantities, it will likely be led by the growingly disgruntled gang of commonplace objects' velocities. They've had a decent time until Alfred Einstein came along and questioned their manhood.

How do you think they feel about being continually (over the last century) referred to as 'small compared to the speed of light' ?

EDIT : IGNORE THIS. I type too slowly...beaten by multiple posts.

 

[Math Is Hard]

I am going to defer to your quetion, Gokul. I have deleted my prev post. Your quetion stands as the quetion to be answered.

 

[zoobyshoe]

If there's ever a revolution going to happen among the ill-appreciated physical quantities, it will likely be led by the growingly disgruntled gang of commonplace objects' velocities. They've had a decent time until Alfred Einstein came along and questioned their manhood.

How do you think they feel about being continually (over the last century) referred to as 'small compared to the speed of light' ?

Trick quetion. Alfred© Einstein, of course, had nothing to say about the speed of light. Alfred's concerns were gelatinous and purple. As for speed, he had to rely on a stipulation of the speed of a nocturnally roving herd of weird, purple jellyfish in a vacuum for his calculations, since a real herd in those circumstances would simply explode into a lavender mess.


Since the great bulk of Alfred's ideas came from "thought experiments" (sittengedankenthinkin versuchungen) do you suppose that all the weird, purple jellyfish he experimented upon were experimenting back upon him with sittengedankenthinkin experiments of their own?

 

[Gokul43201]

Trick quetion. Alfred© Einstein, of course, had nothing to say about the speed of light. Alfred's concerns were gelatinous and purple. As for speed, he had to rely on a stipulation of the speed of a nocturnally roving herd of weird, purple jellyfish in a vacuum for his calculations, since a real herd in those circumstances would simply explode into a lavender mess.


Since the great bulk of Alfred's ideas came from "thought experiments" (sittengedankenthinkin versuchungen) do you suppose that all the weird, purple jellyfish he experimented upon were experimenting back upon him with sittengedankenthinkin experiments of their own?

I don't suppose it; I know it. And the result was disastrous. Let me explain...

You see Einstein (borrowing from Finny Descartilage) eventually announced : "I think, therefore you (the weird, purple jellyfish) are." And the weird, purple jellyfish decided (all together, since they're bassons - refer Dr. S. N. Bass) to see what would happen if they performed a Fluvier transform on those words. So they performed it and arrived at : "We are integral, therefore you are imaginary."

And Einstein disappeared in a puff of purple smoke.

Since that day, Einstein can be found only in the sittingedankenthinkin experiments of the weird, purple jellyfish.

Isn't it a gigantic pity that this was the end of one of the greatest thinkers to ever be?

 

[jimmy p]

Isn't it a gigantic pity that this was the end of one of the greatest thinkers to ever be?

I wouldn't call Alfred Einstein one of the greatest thinkers of all time, if he can be out-smarted by weird purple jellyfish.

Which other great scientists have been out-smarted by weird purple jellyfish and how?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Which other great scientists have been out-smarted by weird purple jellyfish and how?

Well, of course there was Aristotle, who completely misunderstood the cause and nature of the weird, purple jellyfish' weirdness, but he was outsmarted by the entire physical world, so that's no surprise. Strangely, though, even Galileo fell down on this quetion because, when trying to devise some sort of scale of weirdness against which to measure any given weird, purple jellyfish, the jellies kept messin' with his head by adopting a level of weirdness equal to wherever they were placed on the scale.


As mentioned earlier in the thread, it wasn't till Isaac Newty, using a prism and rotten apple setup, discovered that every weird, purple jellyfish is composed of a spectrum of weirdness, that galileo's mystification was cleared up. Who, then, though discovered that the presence of a weird, purple jellyfish can induce weirdness in certain, select other things in Nature, and how does that work?

 

[Math Is Hard]

That would have been astronomer Tai-bo Brahe who carefully observed jellyfish outside his window while doing his vigorous morning exercises. Brahe discovered first-hand the insane weirdness of purple jellyfish when he challenged one to a duel (over a minor mathematical discrepancy) and it promptly cut off his nose.

Without a nose, how did Brahe smell?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Without a nose, how did Brahe smell?

Oh, you think you can tempt me with that easy bait?


Why is it, do you think, that weird, purple jellyfish get so insanely weird when their notions on science are challenged?

 

[Math Is Hard]

ha! if I wanted to tempt a Zooby I would simply capture a chicken and teach it to say "koo koo roo, koo roo, I'm a little fat, delicious, lost chicken with a broken leg and can't run very fast, koo koo roo" and then chain it to the fence down at the Peterson farm about 2 km from your brush shelter.

Jellyfish get insanely weird when their science theories are challenged not unlike their human counterparts posting to the Theory Development area of this website. The reason is that they do not have the basic scientific training to back up their wild speculations. This often leads to hostility (read: stings).

How many posters to the Theory Development thread of this website, do you opine, are actually WPJ passing themselves off as human?

 

[zoobyshoe]

How many posters to the Theory Development thread of this website, do you opine, are actually WPJ passing themselves off as human?

Hmmmm. The quetion got me thinking and a quick check of a babelfish informed me that "Michio" is a regional, informal word for "jellyfish" in one coastal village on the island of Hokaido, and "Kaku" the name of a berry that grows in the south of Japan, which berry is purple in hue!

Speaking of astronomy, the great telescope at Palomar Mt. here in Ca. gave the world its first glimpse of the amazing jellyfish nebula (located in the constellation Aquarius of course, so it doesn't dry out). The Hubble telescope has afforded even better views of it, and astro-physicists now believe they know what makes up the nebula's amazing tentacles. What is it they think they are made of?

 

[Kacper]

Wait quick break. How long is this thread going to last?

Also don't forget to answer the question above though I am supposed to.

 

[Gokul43201]

Hmmmm. The quetion got me thinking and a quick check of a babelfish informed me that "Michio" is a regional, informal word for "jellyfish" in one coastal village on the island of Hokaido, and "Kaku" the name of a berry that grows in the south of Japan, which berry is purple in hue!

Speaking of astronomy, the great telescope at Palomar Mt. here in Ca. gave the world its first glimpse of the amazing jellyfish nebula (located in the constellation Aquarius of course, so it doesn't dry out). The Hubble telescope has afforded even better views of it, and astro-physicists now believe they know what makes up the nebula's amazing tentacles. What is it they think they are made of?

Mass-spectrometry shows very convincingly that the tentacles are made of ... sugar ! Well, not exactly sugar...more like a . . . umm, well... a jelly sandwich.

The folks at the Atkins Institute have already released travel advisories for people planning to visit the jellyfish nebula. In fact, they go so far as suggesting that looking in that general direction is the equivalent of licking cake frosting off your fingers after you've washed your hands - an act considered perfectly harmless by the ignorentsia.

Don't you think the low carb revolution is like Armageddon, and we will eventually vanquish all that is evil, simply by shunning the cursed carbs ?

(EDIT : Quote : "How long is this thread going to last ?" There is a theory suggesting the self-annihilation of this thread by the proposal of a non-stupid quetion, but so far, no-one has been able to replicate that condition...or the theory is incorrect - guess we'll never know which it is !)

 

[selfAdjoint]

Hmmmm. The quetion got me thinking and a quick check of a babelfish informed me that "Michio" is a regional, informal word for "jellyfish" in one coastal village on the island of Hokaido, and "Kaku" the name of a berry that grows in the south of Japan, which berry is purple in hue!

Speaking of astronomy, the great telescope at Palomar Mt. here in Ca. gave the world its first glimpse of the amazing jellyfish nebula (located in the constellation Aquarius of course, so it doesn't dry out). The Hubble telescope has afforded even better views of it, and astro-physicists now believe they know what makes up the nebula's amazing tentacles. What is it they think they are made of?

Purple energy - it makes up 17.4% of dark energy, the rest is blue green energy, as seen in the blue green alga nebula.

So what ancient astronomer do you think went around naming celestial bodies after jellyfish?

 

[Math Is Hard]

Answers: 1) Kacper: a fly buzzing around 2) Gokul: yes. carbs kill. even 2nd hand carbs kill 3) SA: That was Jellileo Jellili.

Quetion: When I arrive at work, the clock downstairs says 8:45. When I take the elevator up to my floor, the clock on my floor says 8:30. Does this have anything to do with relativity?

 

[Gokul43201]

Answers: 1) Kacper: a fly buzzing around 2) Gokul: yes. carbs kill. even 2nd hand carbs kill 3) SA: That was Jellileo Jellili.

Quetion: When I arrive at work, the clock downstairs says 8:45. When I take the elevator up to my floor, the clock on my floor says 8:30. Does this have anything to do with relativity?

No, it just shows how far you'll go to convince yourself that you're not getting to work 15 minutes late. If you want to call that re-late-ivity, be my guest, but I'm sure Alfred is squirming in his sittingedankenthinkin grave...

...which makes me wonder : can thoughts die ?

 

[zoobyshoe]

...which makes me wonder : can thoughts die ?

I believe that's a jellysophical quetion which no one here is qualified to tackle. You want to post that in the jellisophy (accent on second syllable) forum.

People who are feeling jellysophical may be on the verge of religious conversion. Check out this site and see if it moves you:
Our Blasted Lady of the Jellyfish
Address:http://www.cyberpsychos.netonecom.net/cnidaria/




Since purple energy makes up 17.4% of dark energy, what percentage of jelly energy have they determined to be made up of weird energy?

FYI: Striped Weird Purple Jellyfish Purple_jellyfish.jpg
Address:http://www.montereyexpress.com/images/Gallery/MikeMillet/Purple_jellyfish.jpg

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Since purple energy makes up 17.4% of dark energy, what percentage of jelly energy have they determined to be made up of weird energy?

Known euphemistically as "Weird" energy, Dark-Purple Energy DPE is the essence of not-mass and is believed to comprise not-1 or not-2% of all dark energy [ie not-light energy]. When you have some not-mass, if you add some you have less. Now I always get confused here, if more not is not more, then is less not more not?

 

[zoobyshoe]

When you have some not-mass, if you add some you have less. Now I always get confused here, if more not is not more, then is less not more not?

A knotty quetion. But not a naughty one. Less not is not more not. In other words, more not is less more: more naught. Which I still insist is not naughty. Unless you forgot a comma somewhere. I could go on, but sometimes more is less.


Native Americans taught the early settlers that burying a weird, purple jellyfish with each corn seed planted would provide the seed with a water supply that would see it through any dry spells. Likewise they taught that a weird, purple jellyfish worn as a sock inside the mocasin would prevent blisters on long hikes.

Can you think of any other weird, purple jellyfish survival tips we learned from the Native Americans?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

We have the purplejellypositories for those rough nights after a long ride on the Pinto.

Purplejellybellies make a great emergency snack food on long hunts.

Does anyone know the PJF-Cowboy connection?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Does anyone know the PJF-Cowboy connection?

There's not much to tell, really. Buffalo Bill Cody tried to round up a herd of nocturnally roving weird, purple jellyfish which he planned to train to perform in an act in his Wild West Show, but the wranglers he sent out failed to find a technique for turning the herd, and ended up just squashing a bunch of them when their horses slipped on the squishy critters and fell over. Alot of cowboys got stung that outing.


That reminds me of a strange incident. Once, when I was sitting at an outdoor cafe in Taos, New Mexico, USA, a family approached me timidly, and asked if I would take a picture of them standing in front of the café. It was not a famous café, nor was it particularly intersting. I couldn't understand why they wanted to be photographed in front of it. When I asked, they laughed and said, it wasn't that they wanted to be photographed in front of the café, it was that they wanted to be photographed by me.

When I asked why, they laughed and said, it wasn't that they really wanted to be photographed by me, it was that they wanted me to get off the chair I was sitting on. When I asked why, they laughed and said, it wasn't that they really wanted me to get off the chair, it was that they wanted to see if I had any lint sticking to the back of my shirt.

Why is it a guy can never find a water canon when he needs one?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Zooby, this all goes back to your insults made to the citizens of Taos. When I linked to some discussion of the Taos Hum, you chose to make light of things by referencing a hypothetical Beach Boys song called the Kokomo Hum. To those of us in the know, your experience in Taos was all about payback; they were giving you what's known as a Taos hummer.

What was the final result of a Zooby getting a Taos hummer?

 

[Math Is Hard]

Net result was a limerick.

The hummer that Zoob got in Taos,
Turned his whole world quite into chaos,
This is worse, he did complain,
than the hummer I got in Spain,
Worse still than the one I got in Laos.

There's no particular tune for this rhyme. If I hum a few bars, can you fake it?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Then poor Zooby got fleas
“Would you pick these off of me please?
I’m itching and scratching
Those darned eggs are hatching
And flea powder is making me sneeze!"

Next verse?

 

[Math Is Hard]

That Zooby got rid of his fleas, sir,
With a magnifying glass and some tweezers.
Like a Saint from the Bible,
He tolerates this libel,
You know he's quite an agreeable geezer.



Do you think insecure, small-footed Sasquatches fall for SPAM emails that offer to "Improve Your Shoe Size Overnight!" ?

 

[BoulderHead]

Do you think insecure, small-footed Sasquatches fall for SPAM emails that offer to "Improve Your Shoe Size Overnight!" ?

Yes, they have been fleeced so thoroughly as to become indistinguishable from all other computer users.


What is the principal difference between a Gnome and a Hobbit ?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Gnome • noun: a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the Earth and guards buried treasure

Hobbit: • noun: an imaginary being similar to a person but smaller and with hairy feet; invented by J.R.R. Tolkien

Gnomes have buried treasure and hobbits have hairy feet.
Also, Leonard Nimoy never sang a song about Gnomes.

Why do those disgusting gnomes have so many dirty hobbits?

 

[Tom McCurdy]

Because the hairy feet protect their treasure.

Why do people like moving gifs so much?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Why do people like moving gifs so much?

I'm not sure your premise is correct. Most people I know do not like moving anything. I have never enjoyed moving anything, really. Sometimes I have to move brush around here, at the zoobie brush shelter, but I don't particularly enjoy having to do it.


I am visited by critters, sometimes, here at the zoobie brush shelter. Racoons, skunks, possums, lizards, stray kitties. Loose dogs skulk by, sometimes. Once a stray republican skulked by.

What interesting wildlife pops up in your back yard?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Heck, wildlife? We call that dinner! Stay away from wild Republicans though - too stringy.

Which brings to mind a point of taste for an upcoming dinner party: Which goes better with skunk; red wine or white?

 

[selfAdjoint]

Heck, wildlife? We call that dinner! Stay away from wild Republicans though - too stringy.

Which brings to mind a point of taste for an upcoming dinner party: Which goes better with skunk; red wine or white?

Nehi.

How do you filet a skunk?

 

[zoobyshoe]

How do you filet a skunk?

However you do it, don't neglect to notice the recipe mentions the terms "out of doors" and "HAZMAT suit".


That reminds me of a strange story. Once, when I was sitting at an outdoor café in the city of San Francisco, Ca. USA, an aurally impaired person approached me, and handed me a small card on which was printed the alphabet with each letter's sign language equivalent next to it, and on the reverse side of the card it said:

"I am not deaf. This is a stickup. Give me all the money in your wallet or I will begin to grunt and cry very loudly and point at you. This is a crowded public area. Do yourself a favor, and avoid embarrassment."

Whereupon, I looked up at the man in astonishment, studying his face. "Shooby?" I said. His jaw dropped. "Zooby?" he querried.

It was my old friend, Shooby Zoo, former partner in crime. We had pulled this same stunt a million times together back in the day.

What is the best way for old friends to celebrate such a surprise reunion?


edit: The spoonerism "Shooby Zoo"© is the creation of PF Member and weird, purple jellyfish, Math Is Hard.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

First I would expect a lot of chest beating and hooting. Then, go out for a few bananas at the swingers bars. Next, harass the stupid apes at the zoo. Finally, hang out at the museum of natural history and pose as a stuffed zooby and a stuffed shooby and scare the heck out of the visitors. End the day by picking up some Zooby babes.

What exactly makes a female Zooby a babe?

 

[zoobyshoe]

What exactly makes a female Zooby a babe?

If a zoobie looks at her and goes "YOWIE!", she's a babe.


Hey, it just occurred to me that if Ivan ever found anything he'd have to change his name. What do you suppose he'd change it to?

 

[Tsu]

Ivan FinallyFoundIt! :surprise:

What did Ivan find?

 

[wasteofo2]

Ivan FinallyFoundIt! :surprise:

What did Ivan find?

The key to intelectual fattening of the pancreatic knowledge of course.

How did Robert Johnson really die?

 

[jimmy p]

How did Robert Johnson really die?

He insulted a Zooby's girlfriend and the rest is history... just like him..


What would Ivan change his name to if he had Zooby fleas on him after he had petted a Zooby and a Shooby at the natural history museum?

 

[Math Is Hard]

Ivan Scratching.

Why is it that peppermint tastes good mixed with chocolate and chocolate tastes good mixed with peanut butter - but peppermint doesn't taste good mixed with peanut butter?

 

[Gokul43201]

For the same reason that I can happily walk barefoot over a giant, robotic platform made of tungsten, and the giant , robotic platform can happily walk barefoot over a bed of hot coals, but ... you know !

"tastes good with" and "walk barefoot over" can be treated as mathematical structures known as relations. In particular, "tastes good with" is called a symmetric relation since ' ice-cream tastes good with chicken curry' (what ? you should try it...) implies that 'chicken curry tastes good with ice-cream'. However, it is not a transitive relation, causing the choco-peanut-mint logic to fail.

Do you think Hindu Yogis are mathematical wizards since they can force the "walk barefoot over" relation to be transitive ?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Do you think Hindu Yogis are mathematical wizards since they can force the "walk barefoot over" relation to be transitive ?

No, because they can't: the peculiar truth is, they become disoriented and fearful when faced with the challenge of transversing tungsten robot platforms.


Recently I encountered a gentlman who asked if I would save all the hair that collected in my hairbrush for him. When I asked why, he replied that he planned to build a boat out of old hairbrush hair. When I asked why, he responded that he wanted to prove that, with enough ingenuity, you could build a boat out of anything. He said he had already built practical boats from old v-belts, pencil shavings, audio speakers, old camera lenses, and chicken feet. So I said that I thought once he had succeeded with the chicken feet he must have proved his point beyond any doubt, and ought probably to move on to he next project. He considered that, and said he thought I was probably right. He asked me to save the hair anyway, since he was also thinking about opening a Starbucks.

Anyone have a clue what that meant?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Washable coffee filters.

There is another possiblity. I have noticed that if you grind up your hair in the coffee grinder it looks a lot like coffee. It looked so much like coffee that I tried making some coffee with it. I had to use a little extra sugar but otherwise it was quite tasty. Then I tried adding some hair conditioner, just for kicks. Boy, Tsu thought that was really funny.

Has anyone else tried this?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Has anyone else tried this?

No. I think you stand alone in that particular school of creativity.


In a book I have entitled Inexplicably Mysterious Enigmas of the Unknown a report from 1930 tells of a sighting of two large dark clouds near lake Loch Lochy in Scotland. The report ends there. I reread it several times failing to see the point.

Seeking expert advice, I called Art Bell, who snapped at me "Maybe we're all living in a post-nuclear burned out world, and everything you think you see is an hallucination!"I apologized for interrupting his drinking binge, and hung up.
Baffled, I thought I'd get my mind off it. I pulled the kitchen garbage bag out of its container and proceeded out to the dumpster. Suddenly, there in the sky, I noticed two dark clouds.

Comments? Explanations? Donations?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Comments? Explanations? Donations?

In a thread entitled Ask a Stupid Quetion Get a Stupid Answer a post from Zoobyshoe tells of a sighting of two large dark clouds near lake Loch Lochy in Scotland. The report ends there. I reread it several times failing to see the point. Suddenly, there in the sky, I noticed two dark clouds.

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[zoobyshoe]

In a thread entitled Ask a Stupid Quetion Get a Stupid Answer a post from Zoobyshoe tells of a sighting of two large dark clouds near lake Loch Lochy in Scotland. The report ends there. I reread it several times failing to see the point. Suddenly, there in the sky, I noticed two dark clouds.

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Perhaps the most incoherent post since the Mr. Robin Parsons/Firefly war of incoherence.


In a book I have entitled Unexplainable and Enigmatic Tales of the Unknown and Mysterious there is a report from 1930 concerning twin brothers separated at the age of 40 who were miraculously reunited by sheer coincidence at age 41 only to discover that they had no interests whatever in common anymore.

In a similar story from 1988, identical twin sisters were separated by circumstances beyond their control at age 37 and spent the rest of their lives in the vain hope that one day they might completely forget about the existence of the other.

A third tale tells of twin chickens, Martha and Mary McClucky, born from a double yolked egg, who were separated at age one year and six months and formed the main dish of two separate, tasty meals.

What is it about twins and coincidences?

 

[Tsu]

Well, I had a set of fraternal twins for friends when I was a kid and before they moved to my town, they lived in SAUDI! :surprise:

How't THAT for a coincidence?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Well, I had a set of fraternal twins for friends when I was a kid and before they moved to my town, they lived in SAUDI! :surprise:

How't THAT for a coincidence?

A real show stopper.



In a book I have, entitled Unknown Mysterious Weirdly Enigmatic Non-Explainable Tales of the Strange there is a report from 1954 concerning a man who ingested a special mixture of Island herbs and fish glands and proceeded to systematically hynotize himself to obey his every order. This story, you may know, was the basis for the 1965 hit film I Am My Own Zombie directed by Roger Corman, and staring Jack Nicholson, in one of his early roles, miscast as the miscast Shakespearian actor, Rupert C. Ptolomy, who was cast as Hamlet when he should have been playing Polonius. Since Nicholson would be unsuitable for both Hamlet and Polonius, he was miscast as the miscast actor, and the viewing audience never feels much sympathy when the auto-zombie stalks him. Regardless, Corman, due to budget restraints, was forced to ignore some of the most fascinating aspects of the historical truth from which he borrowed his plot. Name and describe at least one incident he was unable to include in his film.

 

[Gokul43201]

He found it hard to show - in the film - that a self hypnotized being is neither awake nor asleep, but in a superposition of these 2 states. Eventually, an external perturbation, such as a falling bucket of water or a falling bucket of bricks causes the being to collapse into one of the states.

How is a zombie-state different from an Eigenstate ?

 

[zoobyshoe]

How is a zombie-state different from an Eigenstate ?

Eigenstates are discrete. In a zombie-state, however, a person might shoot their mouth off at the drop of a hat without thinking about it.


I a book I have, entitled Uncanny Tales of the Unconventional, Remarkable, and Peculiar, there is a report from 1887 in which it is told that a crowd of people waiting for a train in Hogsbutt, Arkansas, USA all witnessed one of their number begin to dance around the train platform in an unconventional, remarkable, and peculiar manner, for no apparent reason and with no music being heard in the vicinity. The gentleman was, at first, suspected of being intoxicated or insane, but after about 5 minutes of this behaviour he was heard to utter: "I'm Johnycake Johny! That's What I am! I'm Johnycake Johny!", whereupon he leaped up into the air, and kept going until he was no longer visible.

Later in the book, in another chapter, the story is told of a man sitting at a table outside a Café in 1972, in the city of Paris, France, who, about to take a sip of his expresso, was started out of his wits by the sight of a man descending from the sky without the benefit of vehicle or parachutte, dressed in 1880's clothing, and who, upon reaching the street, turned and walked calmly away, betraying no hint he was aware that he'd just accomplished anything special.

I was bothered by the fact the editors of the book had not noticed the obvious connection between the two tales, and had placed them in separate categories of unconventional, remarkable, peculiarity. Why aren't these people paying attention?