BS: Odd ideas

Subject: RE: BS: Odd ideas
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 21 Feb 14 - 02:51 PM

DMcG

One of your problems seems to be a dictionary with some pages missing. I'm sure that with a little searching, you can find an applicable definition of tanks.

I think the "trees causing wind" thing is a trick that bored legislators play on reporters to trick them into staying awake during speeches.

Subject: RE: BS: Odd ideas
From: DMcG
Date: 21 Feb 14 - 02:32 PM

Really? The pier was built on tanks as in large cylindrical air filled 'barrels', not military equipment.

Subject: RE: BS: Odd ideas
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 21 Feb 14 - 02:18 PM

c) Gnu, I didn't see anything wrong with this one either.

Subject: RE: BS: Odd ideas
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 21 Feb 14 - 02:15 PM

North is up, south is down. Hence failing is going south, being killed is gone south, etc.

That stock is going south. Bail out quick.
That stock is going north. Get in on the ground floor.

Subject: RE: BS: Odd ideas
From: gnu
Date: 21 Feb 14 - 02:15 PM

c)... what?

They floated them on tanks didn't they?

Subject: BS: Odd ideas
From: DMcG
Date: 21 Feb 14 - 01:51 PM

Over in the Darwin's Witnesses thread I mentioned we sometimes come across ideas given in all seriousness that don't bear much scrutiny. I don't mean things where significant numbers of people hold differing views, but one's which appear entirely self generated ... somehow. And I'd like to concentrate on things adults say.

Here are three of the kind of things I mean.

a) Wind is caused by tree branches waving

b) 'North' is just another word for 'the direction I am facing'; 'South' just means 'behind me'

c) A certain pier was built on floating tanks. The question was how they got these things with gun barrels and caterpillar tracks to float.

Please add other examples that made you say 'Whaaaat???'