Not to say that he wasn’t misguided but a stopped watch is still right twice a day. Cutting edge optical computer research is showing signs of computers that are mind-bogglingly fast over electronic ones. It might take 20 years but they will probably impact consumer electronics at some point and may be a total revolution. Maybe he thought that current computers operate by sound because some give a test beep when they boot up to show everything is Ok.
What species are you? Do you know what a trimester is? 8 trimesters = 24 months!
I know this thread isn’t about this but this is showing some misguided ideas about the U.S. We have strong protection of freedom of assembly and freedom of speech. That means that no one can stop the KKK from dressing up and marching in demonstration, starting a magazine, or giving speeches. There are even some liberal type organizations that will pay their legal bills if some government entity tries to stop them from any of this. We take that stuff absolutely seriously for all people and organizations. There is even a well-founded popular blurb that freedom of speech doesn’t mean anything if we only protect speech that most people find agreeable.
Still, the KKK is not popular at all although some other white supremists groups have taken up some of the slack. As others said, the KKK isn’t really a Southern organization anymore. I have been told that it is most popular in the Midwestern state of Indiana and even has some moderately strong chapters in far-flung states like Connecticut. It is usually just some old men marching in a small circle while people yell at them.
Just wanna say… My ignorance has been fought on the whole pregnancy thing.
(I’ve honestly never heard 10 months before… Guess I should be conversing more with pregnant women.)
yrs ago, really… ancient history but… the shining brilliance of stupidity was so profound…
High school biology class, a question from a person who got good marks, but was totally christian… “If evolution is true, why didn’t the monkeys drown before they crawled out of the ocean and became human?”
Most of class sat in stunned silence. Teacher looked at student and said " You just got a C"
FML
Hahahaha, too perfect! 
Thanks for making my day with that!
Stopped at a gas station to ask for directions and this is how it went…
ME: How do I get to Point Fermen?
IDIOT: Point Fermen? I don’t know! Where is that?
:rolleyes:
I have given birth to four children, each one was well into my tenth month before delivery, two were induced as they were becoming rather large and the doctor knew I wasn’t happy with the idea of a C-Section.
ylla The Salvation Army is a church, I am a member. We are also active in running a thrift store, food bank, emergency food/clothing when the need arises, Thanksgiving and Christmas baskets (the Christmas baskets also include gifts for families with children), and recently we built a housing unit for people coming out of rehab in order to assist in staying clean and sober while giving them time to find employment and obtaining their own residence. We do not dress like Santa while bell ringing during Christmas, that would be the Volunteers of America.
This is in Japan, right? I’ve never heard of this and I have to say, it seems kinda crazy. After all, you don’t HAVE periods while you’re pregnant!
Hmmm… 23 day cycle, two babies overdue (11 days + and 6 days) … I think your doctor was making up stuff to justify their bizarre month-counting methods.
Now for my contribution to this thread. It was from a taxi-driver in Milwaukee when I was over there on a business trip. After learning that I and my workmate were Australian, he said something like (my brain has, in self-defence blocked out the exact wording)
“Oh, Aaaahstralia! That’s where they have those pygmies, isn’t it? I saw a program on the Discovery Channel about them living by the Amazon”
head explodes
That’s three continents’-worth of ignorance! Beat that!
Which one is the jaw-droppingly stupid part, the bolded or the underlined? A C? Average? Passing? For that intellectual jem?
Yup- normal gestation is 38-40 weeks which works out to be between 9-10 months depending.
ETA: OOps- late to the party. Answered already…
Gem.
:eek: Oh, yeah? Well maybe I *meant *an '80’s cartoon rock star secret agent!
OK, no, I didn’t. Not sure how that happened. Do I still get a C?
No. That would be truly outrageous.
Color me confused, but I don’t see where we disagree. And it’s the same in the Netherlands, with our own home-grown variety of neo-nazi’s.
“Is Minneapolis a state?”
Two Masonic friends of mine have been saying things like “We really should get you in soon”. They’re members of differant lodges and each wants new members. One gave me some fact books about the Masons to encourage me to join.
Maybe they’re breaking the rules, I shall ask them. Or maybe it’s differant in the UK.
Classic stumper: “What’s the capital of Omaha?”
(Well, “Omaha” just sounds like a state’s name, doesn’t it? Unlike “Minneapolis.”)
“Omaha is the city? Not Nebraska? I thought Nebraska was the city…”
Said to me by a gal I met at Drum Major camp in high school.
BTW, she was from West Virginia (“Ya know where the hump is? We’re from right there!”) who didn’t understand why we had to practice conducting The Star Spangled Banner so much.
“We don’t play the Star Spangled Banner at mah skewl. We start the games with ‘Dixie’.”
Go on.
No band-camp story is complete without a little . . . you know . . . 
In West Virginia?! The substate that counterseceded from the Confederacy to join the Union?!