14 Feb 16
Originally posted by NoEarthlyReasonA: I quite like the guttural sounds you hear in Arabic.
Q. Of the non-English sounds in world languages, which do you find most pleasing and why?
Q: How much is Thomas The Tank Engine responsible for the casual opprobrium heaped upon Dr Beeching even though the people who are heaping it are usually too young to know what he did and what things were like before he did what he did?
14 Feb 16
Originally posted by FMFA. Thomas always had it in for Beeching. Percy was his hatchet man.
A: I quite like the guttural sounds you hear in Arabic.
Q: How much is Thomas The Tank Engine responsible for the casual opprobrium heaped upon Dr Beeching even though the people who are heaping it are usually too young to know what he did and what things were like before he did what he did?
Q. What kind of a name is 'Ringo', anyway?
14 Feb 16
Originally posted by NoEarthlyReasonA: In the US: maybe for a guy with hair that looks like ringos. In the UK/Aus: maybe a bald headed guy.
Q. What kind of a name is 'Ringo', anyway?
Q: How much money could I have earned if I hadn't decide to spend the last several hours posting here?
14 Feb 16
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Originally posted by FMFA: John Kerry's arguments are perfectly valid, and he's a decent man to boot. I hope that most British people will see that we're better off as a member of the European Union and to leave would be a disaster for Britain.
A: Barack Obama, perhaps?
Q: Which way will the cookie of the US intervening in the UK referendum about the EU crumble?
Q. Which film starring Bill Murray is your favourite?
14 Feb 16
Originally posted by NoEarthlyReasonA: Lost In Translation.
A: John Kerry's arguments are perfectly valid, and he's a decent man to boot. I hope that most British people will see that we're better off as a member of the European Union and to leave would be a disaster for Britain.
Q. Which film starring Bill Murray is your favourite?
Q: Why did Coldplay's album sales surge after the Superbowl?
14 Feb 16
Originally posted by FMFA: Because, for unknown reasons, fewer people understood what a maudlin, emotionally incontinent frame of mind listening to that band produces.
A: Lost In Translation.
Q: Why did Coldplay's album sales surge after the Superbowl?
Q: Will the discovery of gravitational waves make you permanently more interested in following physics news stories?
14 Feb 16
Originally posted by NoEarthlyReasonA: Physics news stories have no gravitational waves that affect me.
A: Because, for unknown reasons, fewer people understood what a maudlin, emotionally incontinent frame of mind listening to that band produces.
Q: Will the discovery of gravitational waves make you permanently more interested in following physics news stories?
Q: Why was Life of Brian offensive to some Christians?
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14 Feb 16
Originally posted by FMFA: I loved/love it.
A: Physics news stories have no gravitational waves that affect me.
Q: Why was Life of Brian offensive to some Christians?
Q: Why do "grown men", oh let's say like some of the Republican leadership hopefuls at last nights debate, insist on a "Liar, liar, pants on fire" attitude towards each other?
14 Feb 16
Originally posted by Great Big SteesA. Because they're career politicians rather than leaders who are incapable of focusing objectively on national priorities.
A: I loved/love it.
Q: Why do "grown men", oh let's say like some of the Republican leadership hopefuls at last nights debate, insist on a "Liar, liar, pants on fire" attitude towards each other?
Q. When we say "they" who are "they"?
14 Feb 16
Originally posted by divegeesterA: As a rule of thumb, I'd say the ones who have virtually no chance of gaining power and even if they did they'd then be stymied by the powers that be.
Q) which of them observe and convey truth?
Q: What percentage of your motoring life have your driven a vehicle on the side of the road that is the opposite of the side of the road on which they drive in the country where you were born?
Originally posted by FMFA: zero per cent. That's what taxis are for.
A: As a rule of thumb, I'd say the ones who have virtually no chance of gaining power and even if they did they'd then be stymied by the powers that be.
Q: What percentage of your motoring life have your driven a vehicle on the side of the road that is the opposite of the side of the road on which they drive in the country where you were born?
Q: why do we have so many names for the numerical value of zero?