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[Ibix]

After reading a 500+ post thread on another site on why people who put the cereal on the bowl before the milk are idiots, with insults galore, even a few death threats, I feel greateful again for PF!

What were you reading? The Facebook local page for Lilliput?

 

[WWGD]

What were you reading? The Facebook local page for Lilliput?

I lost track of it. Let me look it up.

 

[WWGD]

Pretty cool map:

 

[WWGD]

What were you reading? The Facebook local page for Lilliput?

All I know is the name Laputa ( La puta) did not do well in Spanish-speaking countries.

 

[fresh_42]

Pretty cool map:
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This is only the stereographic projection. The map should be clued to a sphere, as you can see on combinatorics and probability. And algebraic geometers did their best to combine abstract algebra with calculus, and algebraic topologist to do the same with topology. Mathematics is path connected but not simple connected. Mathematicians keep an eye on it, so that it won't become 0-homotope.

 

[WWGD]

A way of throwing off a conversation: " What do you think about eating disorders?"
A: " I have trouble seeing how you can eat something abstract like a disorder"But I am not hungry anyway.

 

[Tom.G]

" What do you think about eating disorders?"

A: "I have no trouble consuming disorders. Do you?"

 

[Ibix]

What do you think about eating disorders?

Waiter, I didn't order dis, I ordered dat.

 

[DrGreg]

" What do you think about eating disorders?"

I suppose that's the opposite of eating orders after you've read them?

 

[Keith_McClary]

eating orders after you've read them?

 

[WWGD]

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Wow, is that a cake of some sort? Let them eat cake then!

 

[WWGD]

Along the lines of these word games, I remember when I was in a drugstore and someone asked a staff member for batteries. Staff asked D's ( D batteries) and customer replied : "No, dose", you know, deese and dose.

 

[DrGreg]

Along the lines of these word games, I remember when I was in a drugstore and someone asked a staff member for batteries. Staff asked D's ( D batteries) and customer replied : "No, dose", you know, deese and dose.

If you're not British, you may not have heard of a very famous British comedy sketch in which a man apparently asks a storekeeper for "four candles", when he actually wants "fork handles". The sketch continues with many more misunderstandings. The sketch is famous enough to have its own Wikipedia article: Four Candles.

 

[fresh_42]

Pic of the day!

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[etotheipi]

Pic of the day!

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1,2-dimethylcyclopropene?

 

[fresh_42]

1,2-dimethylcyclopropene?

I had so successfully forgotten that horrible test in organic chemistry with its maze of 1,5,3,9,2-dihexanyloctanlbenzo... then you came along.

 

[WWGD]

If you're not British, you may not have heard of a very famous British comedy sketch in which a man apparently asks a storekeeper for "four candles", when he actually wants "fork handles". The sketch continues with many more misunderstandings. The sketch is famous enough to have its own Wikipedia article: Four Candles.

I was an adjunct and at one point I had 3 students who went by : Billy, Bill Lee and Bill E. " No, I am not Billy, I am Bill E...". Fun semester.

 

[WWGD]

Pic of the day!

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Rohrsach. I flunked my Rohrsach test.

 

[fresh_42]

Cyclopropenylidene.

 

[WWGD]

I actually slapped a fly. It had been buzzing, came my way, I tried to make it go away and I hit it and it flew away. Wonder what it felt comparatively, i.e., what the analogue would be for a human: being led away by a hurricane?

 

[fresh_42]

Do vegans get flu shots?

 

[WWGD]

Do vegans get flu shots?

Closest I know, Markle got one. But she's a megan, but maybe not a vegan.

 

[WWGD]

Hot dogs are called frankfurters because they originated in Frankfurt. Hamburgers because they originated in Hamburg.

Cheeseburgers originated in...Cheeseburg?

 

[fresh_42]

Hot dogs are called frankfurters because they originated in Frankfurt. Hamburgers because they originated in Hamburg.

Cheeseburgers originated in...Cheeseburg?

You have forgotten Wieners. And it was the ship which originated in Hamburg, not the then dried beef. Btw., do you know where they fish those square fish the use for Fishburgers?

 

[WWGD]

You have forgotten Wieners. And it was the ship which originated in Hamburg, not the then dried beef. Btw., do you know where they fish those square fish the use for Fishburgers?

Squarefishburg?

 

[Ibix]

Btw., do you know where they fish those square fish the use for Fishburgers?

Right-angelfish, you mean? Dunno, but maybe BillTre does.

 

[WWGD]

Right-angelfish, you mean? Dunno, but maybe BillTre does.

I saw a pic of Bill once here and he didn't look like a fish to me.
Now let's figure out where the boneless chicken patties come from. I mean, how can a chicken without bones even move?

 

[fresh_42]

Now let's figure out where the boneless chicken patties come from. I mean, how can a chicken without bones even move?

Well, my patties actually did not move.

 

[fresh_42]

Reminds me of an old joke.

McDonalds had been sued for fish poisoning.
McDonalds won.
They could prove beyond any doubts and seamlessly that their product never contained any fish.

 

[WWGD]

Well, my patties actually did not move.

I've been trying to remove that image from my mind for the last few hours ;).

 

[WWGD]

I wonder how to deal with "Studies Bias" where people in different sides of an issue quote studies to support their respective points. It has ended throughout in rabbit holes and deadlock. Like someone described it " Too many priests and too few heathens".

 

[WWGD]

Wonder how many ways you can spell a sentence using the terms " Khaddafi" and " Beijing". I've seen each spelled in like 10 different ways: Khadaffi, Gadafi, Ghadaffi ; Peking, Beijing, Peiping,.. N

 

[fresh_42]

Wonder how many ways you can spell a sentence using the terms " Khaddafi" and " Beijing". I've seen each spelled in like 10 different ways: Khadaffi, Gadafi, Ghadaffi ; Peking, Beijing, Peiping,.. N

There is a thread titled "High-field Hall effect" and I read "High-heel fall effect".

 

[WWGD]

There is a thread titled "High-field Hall effect" and I read "High-heel fall effect".

Ghaddafi/Kaddafi wrote it in Peiping/Beijing.

 

[WWGD]

There is a thread titled "High-field Hall effect" and I read "High-heel fall effect".

I used to think " Hahn Decomposition" was " Hanhdy" composition. Parsing is hard often.

 

[WWGD]

And then the mandatory: " I want Lamb o ver Rice". Over rice or over ice?

 

[Keith_McClary]

Over rice or over ice?

That's why the expression "on the rocks" was invented.

 

[WWGD]

Does a Physicist describe their day as in:
" I left the house at 8 a.m., with an initial velocity of 15 m/h"?

 

[WWGD]

That's why the expression "on the rocks" was invented.

Lamb on the rocks it is!

 

[fresh_42]

That's why the expression "on the rocks" was invented.

Nope. On the rocks wys originally meant literally. Kids were sent to fetch cool rocks from the nearby creek to cool the Whiskey at times when ice wasn't available. But don't do this with a Scotch!

 

[etotheipi]

Does a Physicist describe their day as in:
" I left the house at 8 a.m., with an initial velocity of 15 m/h"?

Of course not, because you didn't multiply the speed by the unit tangent vector

 

[fresh_42]

Does a Physicist describe their day as in:
" I left the house at 8 a.m., with an initial velocity of 15 m/h"?

15 m/h? What are you? A snail?

 

[WWGD]

Of course not, because you didn't multiply the speed by the unit tangent vector

?? Sorry, quality of my Physics knowledge is poor.

 

[WWGD]

Nope. On the rocks wys originally meant literally. Kids were sent to fetch cool rocks from the nearby creek to cool the Whiskey at times when ice wasn't available. But don't do this with a Scotch!

Or do it in Pakistan, which is between Irak and a hard place ( Afghanistan).

 

[Evo]

It's a beautiful day! The sun has come out, my flowers are blooming, despite a bad frost and snow and terrible weather.

 

[Tom.G]

Where are you? The temperature here dropped 30 degrees, and rain.
Winter seems to have arrived. Ahh well, this too shall pass.

 

[Evo]

Where are you? The temperature here dropped 30 degrees, and rain.
Winter seems to have arrived. Ahh well, this too shall pass.

I'm in Kansas and today I am wearing shorts, a tank top and flip flops, it's 76F and SUNNY. I have the fan on inside because I don't want to run the air conditioner, but I might have to tonight, the low is only going to be in the mid 60's, and after a very warm day, it just won't get cool enough inside for me to sleep.

 

[fresh_42]

I saw for the first time a Rolls Royce today, not in an exhibition, a tv show or an auto saloon. It was a regular car on the streets.

 

[WWGD]

I saw for the first time a Rolls Royce today, not in an exhibition, a tv show or an auto saloon. It was a regular car on the streets.

You mean first time in your life?

 

[Ibix]

I saw for the first time a Rolls Royce today, not in an exhibition, a tv show or an auto saloon. It was a regular car on the streets.

You've obviously never lived near Kensington...