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Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
A. They do, but nobody has survived to talk about it.

Q. Is it true that guinea pigs will evolve to rule the world in the year 2763? (It's in the Vedas or something).
A. No women will become dominant and rule the world - (see Tesla)
Q. Why within quantum field theory does the theory of special relativity contain an intrinsic preferred direction.

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Originally posted by robbie carrobie
A. No women will become dominant and rule the world - (see Tesla)
Q. Why within quantum field theory does the theory of special relativity contain an intrinsic preferred direction.
A. Come on dude, that's just motion at uniform speed in a straight line.

Q. Is Robbie's knowledge of Einstein paper thin?


Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
A. Come on dude, that's just motion at uniform speed in a straight line.

Q. Is Robbie's knowledge of Einstein paper thin?
A. No its like the London telephone directory, detailed, exhaustive and highly accurate.
Q. Could one take the train from Glasgow to Islamabad?

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Originally posted by robbie carrobie
A. No its like the London telephone directory, detailed, exhaustive and highly accurate.
Q. Could one take the train from Glasgow to Islamabad?
A. Yes. You would have to dismantle it and pay FedEx a huge amount though.

Q. Has anyone ever done anything useful with the "extra hour" when clocks
fall back in autumn? (We have just come off Daylight Saving Time in NZ)

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Originally posted by wolfgang59
A. Yes. You would have to dismantle it and pay FedEx a huge amount though.

Q. Has anyone ever done anything useful with the "extra hour" when clocks
fall back in autumn? (We have just come off Daylight Saving Time in NZ)
A: I heard tale of lots of cakes WAY overbaked at that time.
Q: Would square wheels on cars make it easier to stop?

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Originally posted by sonhouse
A: I heard tale of lots of cakes WAY overbaked at that time.
Q: Would square wheels on cars make it easier to stop?
A. Not on ice!

Q. All things being equal - what's best?


Originally posted by wolfgang59
Q. All things being equal - what's best?
A: A level playing field.

Q: In the 1960s and 1970s in the UK, why did parents often cite the plight of starving children in Africa when they were trying to make their children eat their peas or runner beans?


Originally posted by FMF
Q: In the 1960s and 1970s in the UK, why did parents often cite the plight of starving children in Africa when they were trying to make their children eat their peas or runner beans?
A. To remind UK children how fortunate they were.

Q. Why would a benign creator allow such a large gap to develop between the "haves" and the "have-nots"?


Originally posted by HandyAndy
A. To remind UK children how fortunate they were.

Q. Why would a benign creator allow such a large gap to develop between the "haves" and the "have-nots"?
A. To persuade smart people that he doesn't exist.

Q. When will they invent a camera with a phone attached?

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Originally posted by wolfgang59
Q. When will they invent a camera with a phone attached?
A: More to the point, when will they invent a way for me to arrange for someone else to take the huge number of pointless pictures for me using it, and then someone to look at them all instead of me having to.

Q: What currently perfectly legal thing would you most like to make illegal?

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Originally posted by HandyAndy
A. To remind UK children how fortunate they were.

Q. Why would a benign creator allow such a large gap to develop between the "haves" and the "have-nots"?
A: So as the meek gain a lot when they inherit the Earth.

Q: Why is the sky blue?


Originally posted by KestrelChess
A: So as the meek gain a lot when they inherit the Earth.

Q: Why is the sky blue?
A: So that the duck egg blue paint on the bottom of Spitfires and Hurricanes render them stealthy when people look up and try to see them as they protect England form the European Union.

Q: Why did the British Prime Minister take a holiday in Lanzarote not longer after urging British people to take their holidays in Britain?

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Originally posted by FMF
A: So that the duck egg blue paint on the bottom of Spitfires and Hurricanes render them stealthy when people look up and try to see them as they protect England form the European Union.

Q: Why did the British Prime Minister take a holiday in Lanzarote not longer after urging British people to take their holidays in Britain?
A: he got a great deal at travelocity, including 30,000 travel points on El Al.

Q: Why is wool so itchy?

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Originally posted by sonhouse
A: he got a great deal at travelocity, including 30,000 travel points on El Al.

Q: Why is wool so itchy?
A. Because it's wearing woollen clothes.

Q. Wut?


Originally posted by NoEarthlyReason
A. Because it's wearing woollen clothes.

Q. Wut?
A. An albatross sir, ridding a bicycle.

Q. Could you ride a unicycle if you were given 2 weeks to learn and incentivized with a cheque for 12 hundred pounds?

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