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02 Feb 09 - 07:11 PM (#2555693) Subject: idle thoughts without answers From: Ed T 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? |
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02 Feb 09 - 08:29 PM (#2555743) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: Janie Why do people like horror/scary movies and books? |
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02 Feb 09 - 08:54 PM (#2555757) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: Peace Why does a butterfly flap its wings in New York to cause a monsoon in the Pacific? |
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02 Feb 09 - 09:02 PM (#2555762) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: Amos I don't think butterflies know the chaos theory stuff, there, Bruiser...they just flap for mating privileges like any other bird... A |
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02 Feb 09 - 10:58 PM (#2555824) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: Bee-dubya-ell 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? |
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03 Feb 09 - 06:52 AM (#2555993) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: gnu So you won't go looking fer yer stuff. |
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03 Feb 09 - 06:59 AM (#2555996) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: Jean(eanjay) When I watch these wildlife programmes and people say something like "this elephant is thinking .........", I often wonder how they know that. |
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03 Feb 09 - 07:14 AM (#2556004) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: RangerSteve 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. |
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03 Feb 09 - 08:24 AM (#2556060) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: gnomad 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? |
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03 Feb 09 - 08:42 AM (#2556077) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: SINSULL 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? |
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03 Feb 09 - 09:01 AM (#2556090) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: GUEST,Big Norman Voice Idle thoughts? |
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03 Feb 09 - 11:18 AM (#2556196) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: Jim Dixon 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." * 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. |
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03 Feb 09 - 11:38 AM (#2556219) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: Ed T 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? |
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03 Feb 09 - 12:04 PM (#2556242) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: Ed T 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? |
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03 Feb 09 - 01:04 PM (#2556301) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: bobad When something is set to level does that mean it is perpendicular to a line drawn through the center of the earth? |
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03 Feb 09 - 01:34 PM (#2556329) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: wysiwyg 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 |
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03 Feb 09 - 01:53 PM (#2556349) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: frogprince The idle on my old Ford Contour is getting kinda rough... |
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03 Feb 09 - 02:21 PM (#2556362) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: VirginiaTam 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! |
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03 Feb 09 - 03:15 PM (#2556414) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: Georgiansilver 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!!!! |
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03 Feb 09 - 07:23 PM (#2556602) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: Ed T 24 hours in a day...24 beers in a case: Coincidence? |
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03 Feb 09 - 07:29 PM (#2556609) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: Art Thieme The only idol thought I can muster up is of the proverbial and biblical Golden Calf. Sincerely, Art |
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03 Feb 09 - 07:37 PM (#2556618) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: Bill D 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? |
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03 Feb 09 - 08:01 PM (#2556633) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: gnomad Come to that, specially for Bill D If a centipede a bucketful, how much would a precipice? |
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03 Feb 09 - 08:45 PM (#2556651) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: Clifton53 Can one have subterfuge with persiflage?? |
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03 Feb 09 - 09:10 PM (#2556665) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: Bee-dubya-ell Yes, one can have subterfuge with persiflage, but most people prefer a nice raspberry vinagrette. |
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03 Feb 09 - 09:16 PM (#2556667) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: Ed T Raspberry beret, And if it was warm she wouldn't wear much more, Raspberry beret. |
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04 Feb 09 - 02:37 AM (#2556774) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: VirginiaTam 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. |
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04 Feb 09 - 03:25 AM (#2556790) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: Liz the Squeak Here's an idle fort... Going there this summer... another of my 'bucket list' entries. LTS |
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04 Feb 09 - 04:36 AM (#2556827) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: Wolfhound person 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 |
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04 Feb 09 - 12:51 PM (#2557167) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: Bill D Idle Idle |
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04 Feb 09 - 02:16 PM (#2557229) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: Bee-dubya-ell 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. |
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04 Feb 09 - 06:29 PM (#2557410) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: Liz the Squeak Not surprised... Major General Alexander E Anderson Airport doesn't really roll off the tongue like JFK, Stanstead or Luton does... LTS |
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04 Feb 09 - 11:55 PM (#2557645) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: Mickey191 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? |
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05 Feb 09 - 10:56 AM (#2558012) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: Ed T Aretha hat stuff: http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?2,652269,655084 |
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05 Feb 09 - 11:46 AM (#2558049) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: katlaughing 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:-< |
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05 Feb 09 - 03:56 PM (#2558290) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: Art Thieme A great urologist I know also sings the blues. Urethra Franklin!!!!! Art |
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05 Feb 09 - 04:15 PM (#2558314) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: Skivee Is a subterfuge a device that makes you less trustworthy as you spin faster? |
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05 Feb 09 - 06:05 PM (#2558423) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: Rapparee 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? |
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05 Feb 09 - 07:16 PM (#2558478) Subject: RE: BS: idle thoughts From: Bee-dubya-ell 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? |
