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Why is it possible to tie a tie properly at the first attempt only when you are not in any hurry?
Why is it possible to crack an egg without breaking the yolk only when you are going to beat it? Why don't you get stones in your shoes as often as you used to?
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« Reply #31 on: 13:02:21, 28-01-2008 » |
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Tell me why the stars do shine,
Tell me why the ivy twines,
Tell me why are skies so blue,
Tell me why do I love you?
Nuclear fusion makes stars to shine,
Tropisms make the ivy twine,
Rayleigh scattering makes skies blue,
and testicular/ovarian (delete as necessary) hormones are why I love you
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Click me -> About meor me -> my handmade storeNo, I'm not a complete idiot. I'm only a halfwit. In fact I'm actually a catfish. |
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« Reply #32 on: 16:19:12, 01-02-2008 » |
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Ah, I've remembered a German one I'd forgotten last time.
Why is it kurzfristiger and langfristiger, and not kürzerfristig and längerfristig?
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« Reply #33 on: 17:14:25, 01-02-2008 » |
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Why is it so apt that Mugabe is a palindrome of "E-ba-gum!"?
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« Reply #34 on: 17:17:14, 01-02-2008 » |
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Why is it so apt that Mugabe is a palindrome of "E-ba-gum!"?
Why do you think it's apt? |
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George Garnett
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« Reply #35 on: 13:00:50, 04-02-2008 » |
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Why do I always think of one of these whenever someone here says 'valorise'?  |
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« Reply #36 on: 15:02:34, 04-02-2008 » |
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Who has said valorise? What is it?
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« Reply #37 on: 22:13:26, 04-02-2008 » |
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Ah, I've remembered a German one I'd forgotten last time.
Why is it kurzfristiger and langfristiger, and not kürzerfristig and längerfristig?
Well, you don't say längerweilig either. Just b/c it's a compound word makes it no less an adjective. Do you know any other compound adjectives that behave as strangely as you suggest they oughta? |
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« Reply #38 on: 22:14:58, 04-02-2008 » |
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Well, you don't say längerweilig either. Just b/c it's a compound word makes it no less an adjective. Do you know any other compound adjectives that behave as strangely as you suggest they oughta?
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #39 on: 11:30:07, 22-05-2008 » |
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Why, whenever you look at your "Total time logged in", it ends more often in 0 minutes than in something else minutes?
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« Reply #40 on: 11:33:28, 22-05-2008 » |
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(13 minutes here) (...oops, 14 now. After the 50 days, 8 hours  ) |
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« Reply #41 on: 11:35:33, 22-05-2008 » |
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(13 minutes here) (...oops, 14 now. After the 50 days, 8 hours ) 3 minutes here |
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« Reply #42 on: 11:36:24, 22-05-2008 » |
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37 here. It's obviously just you, George.  |
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« Reply #43 on: 11:46:27, 22-05-2008 » |
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Yes but, yes but, yes but ... those are all occasions when you are deliberately looking for it. I'm talking about when you're not doing that but it just happens to catch your eye.
[Note: All future sightings of '0 minutes' will be taken as forceful evidence in favour of my hypothesis. All other sightings will be discounted as almost certainly failing the 'not looking for it but it just happens to catch your eye' criterion. I think you will find that, looked at in that way, my hypothesis has far more merit than you doubters are suggesting. They laughed at Galileo, they laughed at Newton ... ]
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« Reply #44 on: 12:07:20, 22-05-2008 » |
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Now what does catch my eye is, er, are, the moments when the hours are at zero. They're not then displayed and the disturbance in the pattern is just the kind of thing that my subconscious likes to alert my conscious about.
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