Is that on QWERTY, Dvorak, or while the right hand is doing <ahem> something else?
Not to mention Oblige.
(And Door Hinge don’t count as a rhyme with Orange)
Heh! Amateurs…
(From one of my favorite books ever: a parody of “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” that is no longer in print.)
Reading the column, the answer has to be not much.
Furthermore his response was given almost 25 years ago. One imagines that porcine sexual techniques have become more sophisticated over the years. Anyone wishing a cite for this assertion can just piss off.
The show Qi on UK tv mentions that hirple and curple are valid (though very obscure) words rhyming with purple.
and from the same source, chilver rhymes with silver.
:eek:
Now now, don’t put words in Cecil’s mouth. He said that sows don’t have orgasms, and therefore can’t have any that last six minutes, but he didn’t address the length of the boar’s orgasm at all.
Now excuse me, I’ve got to go do some research.
I almost wonder if Freddy will insist on ‘Boar’s Head’ ham, but truthfully, I really don’t want to know. :eek:
Probably because you and I bought the only two copies sold.
*While most countries have a national flag and anthem, only four retain a national hat size.
Rufus W. Ortfundler developed paper bags which opened at the opposing end, and thus were deemed useless.
Possibly the worst snackfood idea ever was for a product called “RAT LUNGS.”
In an old custom of the Solomon Islands, visitors’ shoes are filled with broken Artie Shaw records.
The Rosetta Stone was discovered in 1267, 1482, 1593, and 1617, but they kept throwing it back.*
I think I heard this on mythbusters:
If you were to imagine a column that exactly surrounds the Eiffel Tower and is exactly as tall, the air in the column will weigh more than the Eiffel Tower itself.
If this is true (and I may have heard wrong) I find it fascinating.
Not quite, according to this (Google cached–the original seems to have vanished) page:
Very close, though.
Curse you, Q.E.D! I was going to challenge myself to post that I was going to find the answer, then look on Wikipedia to find the dimensions and weight of the tower, do the calculation, still have time to edit my post with the answer and correct this run on sentence, but now I can’t, because I refreshed before I started, you ruined my life.
couple of points, QED.
First of all, “column” implies a circular structure to me. I’m not if that’s a part of the official definition, but maybe the column of air should be a circle wide enough to surround the four legs, rather than a square.
Second, the tower is 324 metres high, assuming you include the radio mast at the top.
In that case, the mass of the air column works out to 6.52 million kg, or 89%. Not that much off and still less.
I’ll take your word for it, since you’re better at maths than I am.
The B-52 is the U.S.'s primary long-range strategic bomber including nuclear capability. It has flown straight from the U.S. mainland to Iraq and back delivering bombs several times without stopping. It was initially designed in the late 1940’s, refined in the 1950’s, and the current stock was built in the early 1960’s. The military has wanted to replace it several times and each time the plans fall short of what the current B-52 already is.
Finally they gave up. The B-52 is not currently being slated to be retired until at least 2040 when the basic design is over 90 years old and the current planes are almost 80. The B-52 is a design that no one could beat and defined U.S. air superiority to this day.
Shagnasty Mind explaining what is useless about your facts.
Freddy If anyone can enlighten us as to a pigs big O then surely you can
How’s this for a useless fact?
Radioactivity is the spontaneous, uncontrollable disintegration of the nucleus of an atom with the emission of particles and rays.
I know this because it was the only question I missed on a high school science test in 9th or 10 grade (28 years ago, and it’s still burned in my memory)
Peter Morris
Guess I’ll “weigh in” on the Eiffel Tower question.
(Very bad pun - this is about mass not weight)
Well, I have a graphic located here:
Basically it shows a circle described around the base of the Eiffel Tower.
If the dimensions of the base are 125m x 125m then the diameter of that circle would be 176.78 meters.
A column of air completely surrounding the Eiffel Tower and going 90 degrees vertically to the top would have a volume of 7,950,000 cubic meters. Using a value for the density of air as 1.293 kg per cubic meter then the mass of the air in that column would be 10,279 metric tons.
I’ve found a value of 7,300 metric tons for the mass of the Eiffel Tower but there is a lot of variation for this value.
Anyway, I’d like to think that the Mythbusters got this entirely wrong but it seems they might be correct. 
And far be it from me to question the work of Q.E.D. whose answers are usually dead-on accurate but it seems he was working from a source that calculated the volume based on a right rectangular prism whose base is 125m x 125m and a height of 324 meters. That being the case then the volume is 5,062,500 cubic meters and the mass of air would be 6,546 metric tons which agrees fairly closely with Q.E.D.'s second answer.