Stupid Question

[mac]

Why don't you see white dog poo any more? (Not that I miss it tho'!!)

[mudzs]

Because dogs years ago were fed a diet of meat on the bone from the local butchers and spent ages eating the bone as well which turned there poo white ,nowdays they are fed canned meat hence no more white poo

[mac]

Nice one Centurian !! :)

[GreyBeard]

Why don't you see white dog poo any more? (Not that I miss it tho'!!)

it'll still be there when the snow clears!

[Fever]

Ok...will there ever be a boy born......who can swim faster than a shark??

[GreyBeard]

when the bloke discovered that some people muddled up their letters when they read something, he called them DYSLEXICS. why?

[Bazza]

when the bloke discovered that some people muddled up their letters when they read something, he called them DYSLEXICS. why?

to stop self diagnosis

[bondms]

nah mate - you and everyone else is just saying that a telly is square or squarish because of the way it works - my question is why is it that shape in the first place

It is easier to make a TV with a rectangular picture than (say) a round picture because of the way it works. For a rectangular picture, the horizonal and vertical sync. signals will be at regular intervals (hence easier to produce). Also, the beam will be reset to the same starting point for each new line (again easier to do than starting each line at a different position).

Also, rectangluar is more natural than round. Consider what shape canvas most artists use for paintings :D

[greve]

If you're in a car travelling at the speed of light (!) what happens if you switch on the headlights? (think "Einstein out of the box" and come up with some interesting answers to this one...)

[GreyBeard]

the light wouldn't leave the fitting, and as radar is slower than light, you'd hit the first unlit object that got in your way, and the answer wouldn't matter to you any more! not sure where the heat would go tho.

[Lexus Jim]

ok, here's one I remember from school

what happens if your travelling at the speed of light and turn the headlights on?

[tdiplc]

Why is the ninth month called "September", when the prexix "Sept" is associated with 7 in many languages?

Why is the tenth month called "October", when "oct" in associated with 8 in many languages?

Why is the twelth month called "December", when "Dec" is associated with 10 in many languages?

Whats all that about

[Brettster]

If a fly was hovering in a parked bus and the bus set off what would happen to the fly?

would it stay in the same spot until the back window of the bus hit it, or would it stay in the same spot as the bus moves

[phunt]

Depends if the fly had noticed the bus had set off hehe

[GreyBeard]

Why is the ninth month called "September", when the prexix "Sept" is associated with 7 in many languages?

Why is the tenth month called "October", when "oct" in associated with 8 in many languages?

Why is the twelth month called "December", when "Dec" is associated with 10 in many languages?

Whats all that about

if memory serves me correctly, two extra months were inserted, i think june and july, or poss july and august, which pushed the later ones back by two.

[GreyBeard]

why is there only one word for THESAURUS?

[GreyBeard]

If a fly was hovering in a parked bus and the bus set off what would happen to the fly?

would it stay in the same spot until the back window of the bus hit it, or would it stay in the same spot as the bus moves

if you're travelling in a bus which is doing 35mph and you jump up in the air, you don't hurtle backwards down the bus at 35mph, so i guess the fly maintains its position in the bus.

[Fidgits]

If a fly was hovering in a parked bus and the bus set off what would happen to the fly?

would it stay in the same spot until the back window of the bus hit it, or would it stay in the same spot as the bus moves    

if you're travelling in a bus which is doing 35mph and you jump up in the air, you don't hurtle backwards down the bus at 35mph, so i guess the fly maintains its position in the bus.

Ahhh, but you dont fly backwards because you are already in contact with the bus when its moving..

The fly question can also bring up... if you leap into the air the instant before the bus sets off, will you land further back than you began?

[GreyBeard]

why is ABBREVIATED such a long word?

[GreyBeard]

and why has LISP got an 'S' in it?

[Fidgits]

Why are illiterate and illegitimate so similar?

Why is it called an endowment policy?

[Brettster]

If a fly was hovering in a parked bus and the bus set off what would happen to the fly?

would it stay in the same spot until the back window of the bus hit it, or would it stay in the same spot as the bus moves    

if you're travelling in a bus which is doing 35mph and you jump up in the air, you don't hurtle backwards down the bus at 35mph, so i guess the fly maintains its position in the bus.

Ahhh, but you dont fly backwards because you are already in contact with the bus when its moving..

The fly question can also bring up... if you leap into the air the instant before the bus sets off, will you land further back than you began?

i think someone is going to have to try it out

[shotwood]

Why is the ninth month called "September", when the prexix "Sept" is associated with 7 in many languages?

Why is the tenth month called "October", when "oct" in associated with 8 in many languages?

Why is the twelth month called "December", when "Dec" is associated with 10 in many languages?

Whats all that about 

if memory serves me correctly, two extra months were inserted, i think june and july, or poss july and august, which pushed the later ones back by two.

Digging far far back to my school days... I think the Romans added July & August as a tribute to the emperors' Julius Caesar and Augustus. They didn't want them associated with the winter months, so they were added during the summer.

[bondms]

If a fly was hovering in a parked bus and the bus set off what would happen to the fly?

would it stay in the same spot until the back window of the bus hit it, or would it stay in the same spot as the bus moves    

if you're travelling in a bus which is doing 35mph and you jump up in the air, you don't hurtle backwards down the bus at 35mph, so i guess the fly maintains its position in the bus.

Ahhh, but you dont fly backwards because you are already in contact with the bus when its moving..

The fly question can also bring up... if you leap into the air the instant before the bus sets off, will you land further back than you began?

i think someone is going to have to try it out

I recon the answer is different for the person than for the fly.

The fly will move with the bus because it has very little inertia so, as the air in the bus moves forward, it will push the fly with it.

If a person jumps just as the bus sets off, the person will land further back in the bus because he/she has a large momentum keeping him/her stationary.

[bondms]

and why has LISP got an 'S' in it?

Because it stands for LISt Programming?

Oh, you didn't mean that sort of LISP