10-04-2002 22:36									#1
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Submit your trivial questions, and hopefully someone will know the answer. Here is my starter:

If the cream that keeps dentures in is so good, how do people take out their false teeth at the end of the day?

	10-04-2002 22:39									#2
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Why is whiskey and cocal cola combined suppose to give you a bigger buzz?

	10-04-2002 22:42									#3
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SD- To prevent gum disorders.

paiktis- The bubbles blast it into your bloodstream quicker through a number of different absorption methods.

	10-04-2002 22:43									#4
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Here's mine. The English language has a number of opposites that have no matches. As an example, the opposite of "displeased" is "pleased"- but what about "disappointed" or "disgruntled"? What the hell's going on there?

	10-04-2002 22:46									#5
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Bugs, I mean how, not why. Presumably their teeth are stuck down pretty good. Do that just give them a good yank?

	10-04-2002 22:47									#6
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Oooh. Good question. Solvents or crowbars, I presume.

	10-04-2002 22:54									#7
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quote: Originally posted by Bugs ****ing Bunny SD- To prevent gum disorders. paiktis- The bubbles blast it into your bloodstream quicker through a number of different absorption methods.

AHA! Like Champagne. They "open up" the colon intenstine wider and thus the alcohol enters faster in the blood.

Why didn;t I think of that...
Thanks Bugs

	10-04-2002 22:56									#8
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quote: Originally posted by Bugs ****ing Bunny Here's mine. The English language has a number of opposites that have no matches. As an example, the opposite of "displeased" is "pleased"- but what about "disappointed" or "disgruntled"? What the hell's going on there?

english is a languge that has generally evolved over many centuries from a wide variety of cultures.

sometimes, however, people just make words up.

if i were you i would start using words such as "gruntled" in everyday conversation. get all your friends to do it too. this time next year it'lll be in the dictionary.

	10-04-2002 23:01									#9
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What was communism's/Christianity's/capitalism's greatest crime?

Oh. Wait. You're being serious?

	10-04-2002 23:01									#10
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quote: but what about "disappointed" or "disgruntled"? What the hell's going on there?

Could be that disappointed transformed from originally meaning "unappointed" (hmmm.. is that even a word ), but if one is "unappointed" from a position, someone is probably displeased or "disappointed" in that person, hence our common usage.

And "gruntled" likely used to be an English word, but has not been used for centuries.

	10-04-2002 23:14									#11
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Personally, I've always loved.........

You park on a driveway, and
drive on a parkway.

RAH

	10-04-2002 23:53									#12
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If you could apply an anti-gravity field to an object, what would happen to it ?

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While we are talking about strange things in the English language, how did "before" and "without" get their current meanings? Earlier (in Shakespearean times, at least) they had their logical meaning, being the opposites of "behind" and "within", and you would use the lovely "ere" and, um, whatever you would use for "without" instead. So what happened?

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quote: Originally posted by Richelieu If you could apply an anti-gravity field to an object, what would happen to it ?

Fall upwards.

	11-04-2002 03:17									#15
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(I'm not sure if people in UK call their mail "post" but if so, here goes)

Why is it that the US Postal Service delivers the "mail" but the Royal Mail delivers the "post"?

	11-04-2002 03:19									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Tau Ceti While we are talking about strange things in the English language, how did "before" and "without" get their current meanings? Earlier (in Shakespearean times, at least) they had their logical meaning, being the opposites of "behind" and "within", and you would use the lovely "ere" and, um, whatever you would use for "without" instead. So what happened?

they evolve and get distorted the same way as 'terrible' (full of terror??), ruthless ( no compassion?) etc

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quote: Why is it that the US Postal Service delivers the "mail" but the Royal Mail delivers the "post"?

Why is it that Canada Post can't be arsed to do either?

	11-04-2002 03:19									#18
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quote: Originally posted by rah Personally, I've always loved......... You park on a driveway, and drive on a parkway. RAH

Actually, a driveway is named because you drive on it to, normally, get to your carport/garage. A parkway was named because these "roads" normally ran through a park or wooded area, hence "parkway" or a way through the park.

	11-04-2002 03:20									#19
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I've heard it called either to be honest with you

	11-04-2002 03:23									#20
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the earth rotates on its axis (no not of evil) every 23 hours 56 mins, where to the other 4 mins get to?

	11-04-2002 03:27									#21
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I presume they are accounted for by the rotation of the earth around the sun which adds, effectively, another rotation every year, hence the other 4 minutes a day And they do add the odd 'leap second' here and there too to account for any other discrepencies...

	11-04-2002 03:30									#22
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now i Am confused

	11-04-2002 03:32									#23
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Bah, because I don't know how to explain it

Look, imagine the earth didn't rotate at all. However the rotation of the earth around the sun would still mean that the part of the earth exposed to the sun would change during the year due to the movement. And it is this effective rotation that accounts for the extra 4 minutes...

Did that help?

Probably not. Can someone else explain?

	11-04-2002 03:32									#24
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Why, oh why, do people where I am from use the non-words irregardless and unthaw??????!!!!!!!!

	11-04-2002 03:32									#25
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quote: Originally posted by reds4ever the earth rotates on its axis (no not of evil) every 23 hours 56 mins, where to the other 4 mins get to?

Difference between a sidereal day (measured wrt the stars, which are a basically fixed reference frame) and a solar day (measured wrt the sun). In one year, the Earth rotates 366.2422 times wrt to the stars, but only sees 365.2422 solar days.

365.2422/366.2422 * 24 hrs = 23 hrs 56 min

	11-04-2002 03:36									#26
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Yes, that is what I am trying to say, although I don't think that explanation really helps the layman either

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Thanx, Provost, i think iv'e got it! but don't you think it's a coincidence that the time it takes the earth to revolve is so near a day? thats not the case for the other planets?

	11-04-2002 03:39									#28
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I could just tell him to apply the transformation matrix to go between the two frames of reference.

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quote: Originally posted by reds4ever Thanx, Provost, i think iv'e got it! but don't you think it's a coincidence that the time it takes the earth to revolve is so near a day? thats not the case for the other planets?

I think it is because of how long a rotation of the earth is that a day is such a length. And no, not all days are the same length. I think the day of Jupiter is about 10 hours, and Mercury's about 88 days IIRC.

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quote: Originally posted by reds4ever Thanx, Provost, i think iv'e got it! but don't you think it's a coincidence that the time it takes the earth to revolve is so near a day? thats not the case for the other planets?

1 solar day = 1 day because that's how it's defined.