BS: idle thoughts

Subject: idle thoughts without answers
From: Ed T
Date: 02 Feb 09 - 07:11 PM

Have any idle thoughts....something that has crossed your mind, made you briefly wonder...but you never sought an answer (maybe you didn't get around to it, forgot to ask, or was fearful to look stupid in doing so)? Mine is: do totally blind people see black (absence of light, when you close your eyes) or nothing, like you see with your hand?

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: Janie
Date: 02 Feb 09 - 08:29 PM

Why do people like horror/scary movies and books?

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: Peace
Date: 02 Feb 09 - 08:54 PM

Why does a butterfly flap its wings in New York to cause a monsoon in the Pacific?

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: Amos
Date: 02 Feb 09 - 09:02 PM

I don't think butterflies know the chaos theory stuff, there, Bruiser...they just flap for mating privileges like any other bird...



A

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 02 Feb 09 - 10:58 PM

Already asked this one on another thread, but so shat?

Why are the people who are most likely to have five vicious guard dogs in their yards also the people who are least likely to have anything worth stealing?

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: gnu
Date: 03 Feb 09 - 06:52 AM

So you won't go looking fer yer stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 03 Feb 09 - 06:59 AM

When I watch these wildlife programmes and people say something like "this elephant is thinking .........", I often wonder how they know that.

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: RangerSteve
Date: 03 Feb 09 - 07:14 AM

The reason that the earth is depicted in maps with the north pole on the top is because when maps were first produced, most of the world known to the map makers was north of the equator. My question is: since we don't know where the top of the universe is, how do we know that globes and maps don't depict Earth upside down? Is it possible that the south pole is really at the top? Or maybe the poles should be pointing east and west, with the earth revolving around the sun like a car wheel, on it's side.

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: gnomad
Date: 03 Feb 09 - 08:24 AM

If you put the map on the wall, RS, then that's how you can have it, if you want to, and of course not all early maps have north as up, Mappa Mundi has the top to the east and they do the same in middle earth.

I reckon Gnu nailed that other one pretty well.

What is the purpose of laughter?

Why is navel-fluff blue?

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Feb 09 - 08:42 AM

If Google Earth succeeds in mapping the entire earth including under water, does that mean that they will locate ALL wrecks and have rights to the goods on board?

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: GUEST,Big Norman Voice
Date: 03 Feb 09 - 09:01 AM

Idle thoughts?

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 03 Feb 09 - 11:18 AM

The head of the Great Sphinx seems too small for its body. (How come nobody but me seems to notice this? I have seen several TV documentaries about the Great Sphinx, where they explore various theories about its origin, and they never mention the problem of proportion.) This makes me think the head must have been re-carved after the body was made. What did it originally look like?

After writing the above paragraph, I did a bit more research, and found that I'm not the only one to think of this. See http://www.sphinxmystery.info/, and especially notice the profile shown below the words "Sanctuary of Anubis."

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Eanjay: "How do they know that?" is a good question to ask in many circumstances. I can't read a newspaper or listen to a news report without having that same thought.

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Feb 09 - 11:38 AM

Why do things get buried so deep under sediment over time (keeping Archaeologists busy). Does this mean the world is getting bigger,in circumference, because of it?

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Feb 09 - 12:04 PM

A friend told me that he farted in his shed in the cold winter, it froze, and smelled that same fart in the spring, when it thawed out. Wow, isn't nature wonderful?

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: bobad
Date: 03 Feb 09 - 01:04 PM

When something is set to level does that mean it is perpendicular to a line drawn through the center of the earth?

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Feb 09 - 01:34 PM

Have any idle thoughts....something that has crossed your mind, made you briefly wonder...but you never sought an answer...

Yes, but they pay me the big bucks for mine so I usually write them down and then, later, speak them (or from them) as questions for people to ponder as they become relevant in various settings.

So, too numerous and profitable to mention.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: frogprince
Date: 03 Feb 09 - 01:53 PM

The idle on my old Ford Contour is getting kinda rough...

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 03 Feb 09 - 02:21 PM

Why is is called the funny bone. Not a damn thing humourous or humerus about it. It is the ulnar nerve not the humerus. I just don't get it.

Why did they change the term from Personnel to Human Resources? Aren't resources something you use up and discard after no longer effective or productive?   

oh!

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 03 Feb 09 - 03:15 PM

What does an occasional table do when it isn't?
When someone was inventing the 'drawing board' and got it wrong... what did they go back to?
Why is there only one 'monopolies' commission?
Why do so few people know how to spell 'dyslexia'?
Why does someone always answer the phone when you have a wrong number?
If cabbage is good for you, why to Cabbage white butterflies only live for one day?

That's enough idle thoughts to be going on with!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Feb 09 - 07:23 PM

24 hours in a day...24 beers in a case: Coincidence?

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: Art Thieme
Date: 03 Feb 09 - 07:29 PM

The only idol thought I can muster up is of the proverbial and biblical Golden Calf.

Sincerely,

Art

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Feb 09 - 07:37 PM

If a hen-and-a-half can 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?

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: gnomad
Date: 03 Feb 09 - 08:01 PM

Come to that, specially for Bill D

If a centipede a bucketful, how much would a precipice?

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: Clifton53
Date: 03 Feb 09 - 08:45 PM

Can one have subterfuge with persiflage??

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 03 Feb 09 - 09:10 PM

Yes, one can have subterfuge with persiflage, but most people prefer a nice raspberry vinagrette.

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Feb 09 - 09:16 PM

Raspberry beret, And if it was warm she wouldn't wear much more, Raspberry beret.

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 04 Feb 09 - 02:37 AM

Groundhog day. WHY????

Because some sciurid sees his umbral spectre and oooooohhhh noooo, we all collapse into fits of SADS.

Why bother to find out how long our depresssion is going to last.

Take two Bill Murray films and call me in the spring.

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Feb 09 - 03:25 AM

Here's an idle fort...

Going there this summer... another of my 'bucket list' entries.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: Wolfhound person
Date: 04 Feb 09 - 04:36 AM

Go on a weekday, Liz, there'll be more tourists than sheep else.
Plenty of places with no people if you're prepared to walk a bit.

Paws

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Feb 09 - 12:51 PM

Idle Idle

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 04 Feb 09 - 02:16 PM

Almost everyone knows that "Idlewild" was the original name of John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. But did you know that the airport's name was changed twice between those two names? It was renamed "Major General Alexander E. Anderson Airport" soon after its construction and renamed again to "New York International Airport" in 1948. The public gleefully ignored both of those names and continued calling the place "Idlewild" until it was changed to JFK in 1963.

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Feb 09 - 06:29 PM

Not surprised... Major General Alexander E Anderson Airport doesn't really roll off the tongue like JFK, Stanstead or Luton does...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: Mickey191
Date: 04 Feb 09 - 11:55 PM

Many thoughts on one subject: Aretha's Hat.

Who said it looked great?

Who sold it to her?

Doesn't she own a mirror?

Where is it now?

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: Ed T
Date: 05 Feb 09 - 10:56 AM

Aretha hat stuff:

http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?2,652269,655084

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Feb 09 - 11:46 AM

After hearing the news this morning, I had "Ding Dong, the Nazi's dead" going through my head ala Wizard of Oz. But then I read THIS:-<

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: Art Thieme
Date: 05 Feb 09 - 03:56 PM

A great urologist I know also sings the blues.





Urethra Franklin!!!!!

Art

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: Skivee
Date: 05 Feb 09 - 04:15 PM

Is a subterfuge a device that makes you less trustworthy as you spin faster?

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Feb 09 - 06:05 PM

Why does Idaho State University's Linear Accelerator Laboratory have thirty (30) linear accelerators still in the shipping boxes?? Aren't the five the have enough? Or do they need replacements, like light bulbs?

Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 05 Feb 09 - 07:16 PM

Waht's a linear accelerator? Something to make lines move faster?

Speaking of something to make lines move faster, imagine this scenario:

You arrive at the drive-up teller at your bank. There are four lanes, and each lane has exactly one car in it. Ideally, instead of pulling into a lane you'd wait a bit and see which car pulls out first and take their place, but you can't do that because there's another car behind you. So, you have to take your chances and pick a lane. Why doesn't the bank have some sort of signaling device to let you know which one of the four customers' transactions is being worked on so you can pull into that lane?