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Nov 19, 2014 11:36AM
I like Twiglets (just sayin')
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I bet they go well with birch sap wine! Or fallachan
Here's one someone asked me the other night. I didn't get it until he gave me a clue. Which is the odd one out and why? doctor, nurse, cowboy, indian
nurse has 5 letters, the others have 6.indian has 3 vowels, the others have 2.
someone is born indian, but one has to become the others.
All accurate answers, BJ, but not the one I'm after. It has nothing to do with the number of vowels, letters, etc or qualifications
Mr Benn dressed up as them all, except the nurse?
they are all US Sports' team, the Cleveland Indians, The Dallas Cowboys, er the New York Nurses and the Dakota Doctors?
but seriously folks, when you buy them as dressing up kits for kids, three are male and the nurse is stereotypically female
Rosemary, love that answer. Wish it was right. (Any youngsters looking in are now wondering what the heck we're talking about.)Marc - if there's not a NY Nurses sport team, there should be.
Clue: we can add teacher, sergeant and constable to the list without it changing the odd one out.
they all appear in Shakespeare plays except cowboy?
That could be right, Marc, for all I know. Think films.
Carry On films, but god knows which one isn't real.
Carry On NurseCarry On Doctor
Carry On Cowboy
Indian isn't a Carry On film.
I preferred the concept of them being Shakespeare characters...
Tim wrote: "girders.Well, Irn Bru. But Irn Bru is made from girders..."
I always thought it tasted like 'American cream soda.'
(Didn't particularly like that either)
Yep - Carry On films. Da iawn! (Very good! :-)
Marc wrote: "I preferred the concept of them being Shakespeare characters..."Or the original, unsuccessful line-up of the Village People.
Richard wrote: "Marc wrote: "I preferred the concept of them being Shakespeare characters..."Or the original, unsuccessful line-up of the Village People."
I thought of the Village People as well
Maybe it should be a combination of Shakespeare and Village People (I defy anyone not to sing this):Young man, is it nobler in mind
To suffer, young man, slings and arrows unkind?
I said, young man, to die, to sleep is to find
The thousand shocks that flesh is heir to.
Young man, or should you take up arms
Against a, young man, sea of troubles and qualms?
And by opposing, put an end to their harms:
A consummation to be wish’d for.
To be or not to be IS THE QUESTION
To be or not to be IS THE QUESTION
So don’t let conscience make cowards of us all,
Shuffle off that ol’ mortal coil
To be or not to be IS THE QUESTION…
Hahahahahahahahaha, oh ROFL ROFL ROFL! Love it!
Oh dear, have I killed this thread? Here's another question for folks to not google, then:What comes next in this sequence: Jean Marie, Felicity, Sally Joy?
I have the advantage of being so old that I heard this live in the sixties.
B J wrote: "I have the advantage of being so old that I heard this live in the sixties."Don't tell me: the B in B J stands for Bill and you're a head case, right?
Richard wrote: "You missed out Larry and Curly."and Peter, Paul & Mary
I was one of about 10 people who heard them play that night. They should have been on stage at 9, but their van broke down. By 11 nearly all the crowd took a refund and cleared off, but a few stalwarts remained and at about 11.30 they finally arrived, performed in front of we select few, ritually smashed up some kit and cleared off too.
As no one else has had a go, I'll finish off the answer. Let me take you back to the auspicious surroundings of the Tower Ballroom on the shore of Edgbaston rezza in Birmingham. A very young-looking up-and-coming band called The Who play a set including 'I'm a Boy'.'One girl was called Jean Marie
Another little girl was Felicity
Another little girl was Sally Joy
The other was me, and I'm a boy
My name is Bill, and I'm a head case
They practise making up on my face
Yeah, I feel lucky if I get trousers to wear
Spend evenings taking hairpins from my hair
chorus:
I'm a boy, I'm a boy
But my ma won't admit it
I'm a boy, I'm a boy
But if I say I am, I get it'
Thanks for transporting me back, Richard.
If you put a piece of string around the equator, assuming the earth was perfectly round, how much extra string would you need if you wanted to lift it one inch from the surface all round?
And how many people would you need to hold it up?Did you know that if you got all the people to stand next to each other right the way round the equator... most of them would drown.
Did you know that if you put all the railway lines in England end to end the trains would run a lot better.
Those side to side railways get awfully bumpy...
A number of ships are in trouble in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans after their propellors became entangled in string. The authorities are looking for the terrorist responsible.
Simon (Highwayman) wrote: "If you put a piece of string around the equator, assuming the earth was perfectly round, how much extra string would you need if you wanted to lift it one inch from the surface all round?"I've come across this question every few years and every time I find the answer so obviously wrong that I doubt basic mathematical principles.
If you go through all the 2 pi r stuff, I think the answer comes out to about 16cm. But by the time you've got 40,000km of string, the sheer elasticity of it probably means you can stretch it as far as you can reach. Or does string contract when it gets wet? In that case you've probably just cut the earth in half.
Tim wrote: "If you go through all the 2 pi r stuff, I think the answer comes out to about 16cm. But by the time you've got 40,000km of string, the sheer elasticity of it probably means you can stretch it as f..."And when you've done all that and come up with an answer, you realise you forgot to take continental drift into account and have to start all over again.
The really bizarre thing is that the extra length needed is the same whatever the size of the sphere - so it needs the same amount of extra string for a tennis ball as for the Earth. I cannot get my head around that!
I didn't forget, I just have no numbers for it. And in any case no date was specified. Also, no account has been taken of tidal or seasonal factors.But as you say, the answer would be the same regardless.
It must have something to do with the rate of curvature. For a planet, it's very slight so hardly any additional string would be required to life it an inch. For a tennis ball, the curve is extreme, so more string is required to lift it at any given point. There's probably a scientific way of saying that...
Tim wrote: "It's ratios, innit. ;)"Sounds rational
How many ratios does it take to go all the way round the earth?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bang/handson/tea... I think explains it nicely. Apparently this maths problem was first asked in 1702 and has been scrambling peoples' brains ever since. I Love maths :)
Gingerlily - Elephant Philosopher wrote: "How many ratios does it take to go all the way round the earth?"Half.
What is the connection between Rupert Brooke and Jeffrey Archer?
It's strange how the words 'Jeffrey Archer' bring to mind criminality.
B J wrote: "It's strange how the words 'Jeffrey Archer' bring to mind criminality."well he got away for years with criminally written 'novels'
My wife did a charity event with him years ago and reported back what a lech he was.
ok, I take it my answer was wrong then? This is my next stab:
they both paid off prostitutes with a suitcase of cash?
I'm starting to regret introducing poor Rupert Brooke into this pairing.
