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Post by StephiB on Dec 31, 2005 13:59:22 GMT
Except SPAM.
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Post by CRG on Dec 31, 2005 16:24:25 GMT
Yeah. That's pretty much the case.
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Post by midgetmogget on Jan 10, 2006 14:10:37 GMT
I have to agree with CRG.
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escapedlunatic
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Cheese, then.
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Post by escapedlunatic on Jan 22, 2006 0:18:54 GMT
Hmm... having myself a passing interest in the subject, I've registered for the Introduction to Astronomy module in the second half of this term. How far that may take us I have no idea.
Speed is by far the best topic. Especially 85mph on the M11, in the process annoying a guy in an Aston Martin so much that he pulled out right in front of me because he couldn't stand the thought of being overtaken by a Peugeot.
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Post by midgetmogget on Jan 23, 2006 12:25:16 GMT
Peugeots are nothing. Dad got some serious stares going up the outside lane in a Fiat Uno.
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escapedlunatic
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Post by escapedlunatic on Jan 25, 2006 0:15:59 GMT
I've never tried one of them - probably wouldn't fit. The Peugeot wasn't exactly spacious.
A few years ago two guys made the front page of the Sun when they bought an old Robin Reliant, did it up and got booked for doing 100mph. Which reminds me of this wonderful joke...
A man was flagged down by the pollice for speeding. One policeman came over to the car to ask him a few questions. Firstly he asked to see the man's driving licence. The man said "Sorry, I haven't got a licence - I've been banned for ten years for dangerous driving." Then the policeman asked if he had his tax disc, MoT and insurance certificates; the man replied "No, I've just held up a bank and I stole this as the getaway car - there's a gun in the glove compartment and a body in the boot." The policeman withdraws hastily and calls for reinforcements. This time an armed policeman comes over and, just to corroborate the man's story, asks him the same questions. The man shows him his licence, tax disc, insurance and MoT certificates and they're all completely in order; then the policeman asks to see inside the boot and glove compartment, and there's nothing out of the ordinary in either. The second policeman says "I don't understand - my colleague told me you hadn't got any documentation, you had a gun in the glove compartment and a body in the boot." The driver replies "And I suppose he told you I'd been speeding too!".
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Post by midgetmogget on Jan 25, 2006 11:43:18 GMT
Great! Reminds me of a joke too.
A man is pulled over after doing 100mph down the middle of the road. The policeman asks to see his identification, but her refuses, saying "It's only what it says on my licence". Eventually the policeman is given the licence, and the driver points out: Tear Along Dotted Line.
Of course, that doesn't work with photocard licences...
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escapedlunatic
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Post by escapedlunatic on Jan 25, 2006 14:52:50 GMT
OK, here's one which combines speeding and physics...
Werner Heisenberg was driving down the autobahn when a policeman signalled to him to pull over. "Excuse me, sir", said the policeman, "Do you know how fast you were going just then?". "No", replied Heisenberg, "But I know exactly where I am.".
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Post by bubble on Jan 25, 2006 19:52:54 GMT
The first ones quite funny. That one swasn't. I didn't get it. But they also had nothing to do with science- did they? That's the reason that I don't have many posts on these boards, because I try to keep them relevant. But I'm not going to delete those posts because they're amsusing. And MOQ, you thought a fiat uno was bad??? My mum drives a Skoda fabia, and tends to overtake the fancy drivers. (this could turn into a discussion like that cardboard box sketch that was dopne by someone, I can't remember who it was, the yorkshire men or something??? But anyway, this copuld turn into that couldn;t it. You have seen that sketch haven't you?
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Post by midgetmogget on Jan 26, 2006 9:51:28 GMT
The four yorkshiremen sketch, you mean?
And may I suggest that the reason you didn't get Michael's most recent was because it was science-based.
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escapedlunatic
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Post by escapedlunatic on Jan 27, 2006 0:02:15 GMT
And the reason I put in a science-based joke was that I was attempting to drag the thread back onto topic...
Werner Heisenberg formulated the Uncertainty Principle, which states that the more accurately you can determine a particle's location, the less accurately you can determine its velocity and vice versa (more precisely, it states that the product of the percentage errors in the two must always exceed a certain constant, and calculates the value of that constant). Taken to its limits, this means that if you know the precise velocity of a particle, it could, as far as you know, be anywhere in the universe, and if you know precisely where it is, you can have no idea how fast or in which direction it is travelling. Hence, in the joke, he says that he knows precisely where he is but not how fast he was going.
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Post by bubble on Jan 27, 2006 8:42:30 GMT
Thanks. I didn't understand that, but have sme karma anyway, because ot sounded impressive.
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Post by midgetmogget on Jan 27, 2006 11:31:22 GMT
I can't think of anything to add to that...
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Post by escapedlunatic on Jan 31, 2006 16:58:16 GMT
Thank you.
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Post by midgetmogget on Feb 1, 2006 10:17:01 GMT
Hmmm...
Quantum Physics: The dreams stuff are made of...
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