BS: Silly questions

Subject: BS: Silly questions
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Sep 20 - 06:36 AM

What do Alaska, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Maryland, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, and West Virginia borders have in common?

Subject: RE: BS: Silly answers
From: Mr Red
Date: 16 Sep 20 - 07:00 AM

neighbours?

A chump for a president?

Subject: RE: BS: Silly questions
From: Mrrzy
Date: 16 Sep 20 - 08:28 AM

Collies?

Subject: RE: BS: Silly questions
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Sep 20 - 10:14 AM

Why are (almost) all plants green?
Why does all life on Earth have only right handed spiraling DNA?
Why are men on average taller than women?
What Is an Anyon?

Subject: RE: BS: Silly questions
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Sep 20 - 02:00 PM

Clorophyll is green.

Why do animals not exhibit distinctive characteristics that denote their origin?

"...an anyon is a type of quasiparticle that occurs only in two-dimensional systems, with properties much less restricted than fermions and bosons..." Makes sense to me.

"What do Alaska, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Maryland, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, and West Virginia borders have in common?" Don't thump at the door and run away.

Subject: RE: BS: Silly questions
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Sep 20 - 02:49 PM

Didja get anyon ya? I think they are a bit of the left over debris from matter antimatter annilihation and invisible being niether a partical or a force. Much like axions in 3 dimensions.

Plants have chosen stability over the large quantity of variable green light of our sun which is why they reflect green.

Tall guys-estrogen would have made them smaller.

Ebbie your answer is best but those states have a 'pan handle'

DNA - Who the fuck knows

Subject: RE: BS: Silly questions
From: Mrrzy
Date: 16 Sep 20 - 03:30 PM

One of its legs is both the same.

No soap, radio!

Oops, sorry, those were silly *answers* [and the question on states "borders" was misleading].

Subject: RE: BS: Silly questions
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Sep 20 - 03:30 PM

Our sun traces a spiral/helix in its orbit around the galaxy therfore so do the planets as seen here
Perhaps a spiral is the most efficient shape that projects time or some such nonsense.

Subject: RE: BS: Silly questions
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Sep 20 - 03:48 PM

Chlorophyll is green because it does not absorb most of the green part of the sun's visible spectrum, instead absorbing mostly light from the red and blue ends of the spectrum. As for the height of the sexes, it's most likely that a number of factors are involved, including natural selection (taller men more successful in combat in them good ol' caveman days, to put it ludicrously simply, and/or women tending to select taller men for their sexual partners), genetics, the different phases within growth spurts during and after puberty, and, quite likely, extra testosterone for blokes. Then we can talk about dietary considerations, and why the average height of all humans has increased over the centuries. Looking things up increases the chances of avoiding silly answers.

Subject: RE: BS: Silly questions
From: Mrrzy
Date: 16 Sep 20 - 06:01 PM

Yeah but where's the fun in that!

Who remembers No Soap, Radio?

Subject: RE: BS: Silly questions
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Sep 20 - 06:06 PM

There's plenty of fun in tracking down real explanations for things. Richard Dawkins called it the magic of reality. I've always found reality to be far more fun than half-baked received wisdom or than non-explanations for stuff (aka religion).

Subject: RE: BS: Silly questions
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Sep 20 - 09:28 PM

Ain't you through in there yet?? I gotta go!

Who didn't replace the roll of toilet paper??

Why didn't you stop me??

Subject: RE: BS: Silly questions
From: Mr Red
Date: 17 Sep 20 - 02:26 AM

There's plenty of fun in tracking down real explanations for things.

and plenty of pitfalls on the internet. Fakebook ain't the only place for idiots to believe other peoples' agendas. The problem is some of it is cloaked in truths for a reason..............

And we all come to the table with biases we can't see in ourselves.

Subject: RE: BS: Silly questions
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 17 Sep 20 - 02:36 AM

What is the difference between a duck ?

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Silly questions
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Sep 20 - 06:19 AM

What have Jimmy Edwards and Lulu got in common?



They both have moustaches except Lulu.



And I didn't say anything about relying on the internet. Even less, Facebook, which I have never used. To get to the real crux of the matter usually involves delving into multiple sources. It's hard work but it's still fun.

Subject: RE: BS: Silly questions
From: Mrrzy
Date: 17 Sep 20 - 08:50 AM

Right on that, Dave H.

Imma guess nobody remembers what No Soap, Radio is the answer to.

I am reminded of my dad yelling Who didn't feed the dog? And Mom, I and all my sisters raising our hand...

Subject: RE: BS: Silly questions
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Sep 20 - 09:46 AM

I like the fact that Steve is an expert botanist. He should go to Mars and turn the planet green, oh its been done aleady?

never mind.

Should everyone purchase Lexus Nexus and a Congressional Library of Congress lifetime pass and footnote every post profusely?

Come to think of it a geologist like Iains should go to Mars first and see if he can get Mt. Olympus to erupt again and increase air pressure for blue green algae to take hold. DMcG might help steer a water comet to Mars?

if he has time.

Subject: RE: BS: Silly questions
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Sep 20 - 04:59 PM

Dave can cook a Duck and a duck can't.

Subject: RE: BS: Silly questions
From: Mo the caller
Date: 18 Sep 20 - 04:03 AM

Why do cafes close at teatime?

Subject: RE: BS: Silly questions
From: Jos
Date: 18 Sep 20 - 04:12 AM

Mo, that's not a silly question, it's one I've been asking for years.

Subject: RE: BS: Silly questions
From: Mo the caller
Date: 18 Sep 20 - 04:23 AM

Have you got any news of the iceberg?

Subject: RE: BS: Silly questions
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Sep 20 - 07:01 AM

How'd ya come ta break yer laig?

Subject: RE: BS: Silly questions
From: BobL
Date: 19 Sep 20 - 02:43 AM

Why does everybody else have to be different?

Subject: RE: BS: Silly questions
From: Mrrzy
Date: 19 Sep 20 - 08:05 AM

Ha ha lexus nexus! Where all luxury cars meet!

Subject: RE: BS: Silly questions
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 19 Sep 20 - 09:47 AM

From the South Wales valleys:

"Whose coat is that jacket?"

"Are you reading that paper you're sitting on?"

Subject: RE: BS: Silly questions
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Sep 20 - 03:48 PM

"Whose coat is that jacket?" was one of my dad's stock "witty" remarks, Nigel (I must have heard him saying it five hundred times...), and he was a dyed-in-the-wool Lancashire lad.

It was Christmas Day in the workhouse
The snow was raining fast
A barefooted girl with shoes on
Stood sitting on the grass

(Another of his favourites...)

Subject: RE: BS: Silly questions
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Sep 20 - 12:59 PM

"Who remembers No Soap, Radio? "
First part..."Did you hear about the Polar Bear who cam up out of a hole in the ice and said "radio"?

Second part, after blank stares: "A polar bear was taking a shower, and called to his wife: "Hey,honey.. hand me be the soap." "No soap, honey...radio."
Then... A polar bear was driving along in his sports car when he was pulled over by police. The cop comes over and says "Let's see your license.... "No license, officer...just a radio."

Then you walk away muttering about how dense people are who don't get jokes.

Subject: RE: BS: Silly questions
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Sep 20 - 01:02 PM

"If a hen and a half could lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, how long would it take a cross-eyed grasshopper with a wooden leg to kick the seeds out of a dill pickle?"

(from my father)

There's a whole class of those...

Subject: RE: BS: Silly questions
From: Senoufou
Date: 20 Sep 20 - 01:38 PM

"Ha yer father got a dickey bor?" (Norfolk people often use this question to poke fun at you.)
The correct answer is, "Yiss. And he want a fule ter roid him. Will yew come?"
(A 'dickey' is the Norfolk word for a donkey)

Subject: RE: BS: Silly questions
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Sep 20 - 06:20 PM

Sailing into night or day ?

Subject: RE: BS: Silly questions
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 23 Sep 20 - 03:21 AM

My Suffolk grandmother used to ask, ‘Where are you going, all alone together?’.

Subject: RE: BS: Silly questions
From: Senoufou
Date: 23 Sep 20 - 03:31 AM

Haha, yes Rusty, Norfolk people also use 'tergither' all the time, even when you're on your own.
To explain the 'dickey' teasing question a little more, if they ask, "Do yer father ha' a dickey bor?" and one doesn't get the suggested answer above in fast, they add, "Dew, he hint got wun roit now!" which translated means, "If so, he hasn't at the moment, because his 'donkey' is standing here with me!"

Subject: RE: BS: Silly questions
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Sep 20 - 07:20 AM

If we can't see dark matter, can dark matter people see us?

Subject: RE: BS: Silly questions
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Sep 20 - 10:31 AM

the left hand of rock?