Amateurs, all of you. The solution is that the glass is 50% occupied by a liquid. Now then, the Middle East thingy. It’s about the Isrealites vs. the Babylonians, right? Lessee…
Oh yeah, Mangeorge, you’re two days early on the whole Epiphany thing, too.
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And can you see the problem with that?
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When it came up on QI, the consensus was that it would just rearrange the violence into love Marmite and hate it factions instead of those currently existing.
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Marmite. I can’t remember where this came from originally by it was part of a think tank to solve the Arab/Israeli dispute. Apparently a lack of zinc produces aggressive behaviour and since marmite is packed full of the stuff it would stop the conflict altogether. Genius.
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Sounds good to me. Last idea I heard was to squirt them all with lard.
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Amateurs, all of you. The solution is that the glass is 50% occupied by a liquid. Now then, the Middle East thingy. It’s about the Isrealites vs. the Babylonians, right? Lessee…
Oh yeah, Mangeorge, you’re two days early on the whole Epiphany thing, too.
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I spoke of little “e” epiphany. Those can be spontaneous, you see.
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I spoke of little “e” epiphany. Those can be spontaneous, you see.
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Yes, but if they’re premature, perhaps you should get that checked out.
I mean, um, don’t worry about it, it happens to every man sometimes. Really.
Actually, no part of the glass is empty, assuming the observation takes place in an atmosphere.
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Actually, no part of the glass is empty, assuming the observation takes place in an atmosphere.
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Actually, I once skimmed a paper about whether an empty vessel is actually empty. The author said no, but it’s okay to consider it so.
I wonder what Cecil thinks.
Optimist: “the glass is half-full.”
Pessimist: “the glass is half-empty.”
Papa Bear: “Someone’s been drinking out of my glass!”
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Amateurs, all of you. The solution is that the glass is 50% occupied by a liquid.
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Or perhaps 50% unoccupied. You do see the dilemma, don’t you?
We can’t be sure if the glass is half-empty or half-full until we determine whether the cat is dead. That’s Heisenberg. I think it is, anyway.
Just like mine, it appears Schrödinger’s Cat drank out of his glass.
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Scientist : After being heated to 10,000 degrees Kelvin and the resulting plasma spectroscopically analyzed, it appears that the glass was composed of elements in these concentrations . . .
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[really geeky nitpick]
It’s 10,000 Kelvins, not 10,000 degrees Kelvin. Kelvin is not the scale, but the unit itself.
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[QUOTE=Captain Carrot]
[really geeky nitpick]
It’s 10,000 Kelvins, not 10,000 degrees Kelvin. Kelvin is not the scale, but the unit itself.
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That just extends the joke :
Scientist 1 : “After being heated to 10,000 degrees Kelvin and the resulting plasma spectroscopically analyzed, it appears that the glass was composed of elements in these concentrations . . .”
Scientist 2 : " It’s ‘10,000 Kelvins’, not ‘10,000 degrees Kelvin’ ! "
Scientist 1 : “I’m the one that got the half million dollar grant to study half full glasses; I’ll call it what I damned well please.”
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Or perhaps 50% unoccupied. You do see the dilemma, don’t you?
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But…but…I…you… aaaaaaAAAAARRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!
Great. Now I’m going to be up all night trying to come up with a work-around.
[QUOTE=Der Trihs]
That just extends the joke :
Scientist 1 : “After being heated to 10,000 degrees Kelvin and the resulting plasma spectroscopically analyzed, it appears that the glass was composed of elements in these concentrations . . .”
Scientist 2 : " It’s ‘10,000 Kelvins’, not ‘10,000 degrees Kelvin’ ! "
Scientist 1 : “I’m the one that got the half million dollar grant to study half full glasses; I’ll call it what I damned well please.”
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Ah, but do you *have *a half million dollar grant, or are you *lacking *a full million dollar grant?
[QUOTE=Nametag]
Optimist: “the glass is half-full.”
Pessimist: “the glass is half-empty.”
Papa Bear: “Someone’s been drinking out of my glass!”
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Freud: It’s your mother’s fault.
Which half?
Lacking the full million of course. Gee don’t you know anything about goverment grants?
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Ah, but do you *have *a half million dollar grant, or are you *lacking *a full million dollar grant?
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I don’t know. I’ll need a grant to fund a study . . .
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… Cynic : Half empty, half full, it’s still bought with the blood of the innocent. …
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cite?