airspeed velocity of an unladen European Swallow is roughly 11 meters per second, or 24 miles an hour.
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Brian
I don’t know that!AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!
There is an answer to this question. In the cover version that is on Eric Clapton’s Crossroads set he sings, after asking the musical question, “Marley did.” Of course, if you chose to doubt God’s answer, then the question remains unanswered. You, of course, doubt God at your own risk. :eek:
I don’t know what state the Simpsons are in, but in the episode where Lisa went to visit her sponsored child in Brazil, he told her that the reason he hadn’t written was that he didn’t know what state she lived in. She responded coyly that it’s a little tough to figure out, but that you could if you looked at the clues. Misdirection from the writers? […shrug…]
Definitely misdirection. Too many of the clues conflict for there to be any possible answer. Other clues are simply impossible. For example, West Springfield is three times the size of Texas.
Well, to be fair, while the laws of physics that operate in cartoon-world seem to bear no relation to the laws of physics in our world, they do seem to be internally consistent. So the answer as to why gravity doesn’t work when you’re concentrating on something else is just “Because it doesn’t.” Just as the answer in our world is “gravity works because it does.” We don’t know. (Yet.)
I saw the new King Kong today:
When they’re luring Kong to the boat to take him away, he just busts right through the wall. Seems like a pretty serious design problem, when a wall that is designed for only one purpose fails that purpose.
It’s never stated. I always assumed gambling debts.
He doesn’t need a million. Remember, he’s using half the ransom to pay the kidnappers, so he only needed $500,000 or so.
I think that, if Wade gave him the money to invest in the parking lots, he would have come up with some reason that the investment failed, and Wade may not have expected the money back from a failed investment (see “The Producers”).
Jerry would have used $300,000 from the ransom to pay back the GMAC people (less of a crime, I’m sure he thought, to rip off a family member as opposed to a corporation. Family members would probably be more…agreeable…to working out some sort of payment plan if it came to that, but I don’t think that Jerry planned on that), then the other $200,000 for some other purpose. Maybe his debts were more than he thought. Maybe he was planning on running away afterwards.
Maybe Jerry himself hadn’t thought that far in advance.
Well, since the gas tank is where you put the fuel in, I’d say that was more like oral sex. Anal would be screwing the exhaust pipe.
Several years ago, I actually emailed someone at Disney this exact question, which I am sure they must get several times a day. The response, that is archived somewhere in my house, was that Pluto was always envisioned as a pet character, and Goofy was always envisioned as a non-pet character, hence his ability to talk and wear clothes.
This basically agrees with Cecil’s column. And it’s the only time I’ve ever been able to admit sending the email in the first place, without (too much) fear of ridicule.
What exactly happened to Samson Posey in The Dirty Dozen? He doesn’t make it back to England, but you never see him killed. The others assume he’s dead, but it was unlikely that they would have known for sure.
Also…
Why did Uncle Tupelo split up?
and
Where have all the flowers gone?
Uh…no. At the beginning of the movie, he tells the kidnappers the ransom is only going to be $80,000 and agrees to pay them $40,000. So with the $320,000 he owes to GMAC, that’s going to leave him with $640,000 for some unknown purpose. He’s pulling a fast one on the kidnappers as well as his father-in-law.
Gambling debts sounds plausable though. I can’t think of any other trouble that would be that expensive.
I always thought that same thing, particularly after eating pecan pies or seeing '64 Chevy Malibus…
But after careful and reasoned consideration (sleep deprivation and a bucket of beer), I’ve decided it’s a hyperspace drive. This would explain the radioactivity, the government involvement, the fact that Mr Purcell was obsessed with radioactivity, Miller’s Plate of Shrimp theory, and the final 2001ish seconds of the film.
The “bunch of sausages” are really the containment unit, which obviously must be organic in shape, since aliens would TOTARRY understand to be the best design format.
Well, they stopped his train in Trenton, NJ. IIRC, he was some white guy, 25 - 38, with a decent amount of computer knowledge.
Three guys pissed off at Bartlett about the assassination of the Qumarie Minister of Defense. There was an anonymous tip to the FBI.
Re Fargo: So what happened to the money? Steve Buscemi buried it next to the fence, marked it with his ice scraper (!), and unfortunately was unable to return…you think we should go look for it?
Nah, the alien corpses are simply radioactive on their own. The government is involved as part of their continual cover up of damn near everything. The end of the film is explained by Miller’s strange mind being able to tap into the powers of the aliens (who may be communicating with him from beyond the grave, or who may be hibernating rather than dead, etc) and use them for his own ends. The government wants to cover the whole thing up. The activists want to reveal the truth to the public. Miller doesn’t have any plans and isn’t trying to use the aliens for anything. Naturally, he’s the one who succeeds in learning all their secrets.
Number Two works for Dr. Evil, of course!
[sub]You tell that turd who’s boss![/sub]
Won’t somebody tell me what “diddy wah diddy” means?
Well, here’s some insight into at least one side of the story.
I’m in trouble.
My unfounded guess was that Sheriff Brown killed the deputy to frame the narrator.