Random Question Thread

Started by Last Hussar, 22 May 2016, 12:35:15 PM

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Westmarcher

Who?

(just a random question)
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Leman

i think he invented a type of bicycle gearing system.
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Orcs

The cynics are right nine times out of ten. -Mencken, H. L.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Leman

Oh dear, someone's bound to be offended.   FK!
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d_Guy

Quote from: ianrs54 on 25 May 2016, 05:37:06 AM
Not 42?

:) The procedure for arriving at 27 was much simpler then for 42.
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Leman

Has d_Guy heard of Arthur Dent?
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Lord Kermit of Birkenhead

I think not, nor Ford Prefect.

IanS
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Leman

Not to mention Arty Blartfast.
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Ithoriel

There are 100 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who can work from incomplete data

Orcs

Can someone tell me where I have put my glasses please.
The cynics are right nine times out of ten. -Mencken, H. L.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Lord Kermit of Birkenhead

On top of your head....

IanS
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Leman

Anyone spot that I'm not really a Hitchhiker afficcianado. (probably spelt that bugger wrong as well.
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FierceKitty

I don't drink coffee to wake up. I wake up to drink coffee.

Ithoriel

Quote from: Leman on 26 May 2016, 12:49:14 PM
Anyone spot that I'm not really a Hitchhiker afficcianado. (probably spelt that bugger wrong as well.

Surely you mean H2G2 :)
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d_Guy

Quote from: Leman on 26 May 2016, 07:10:27 AM
Has d_Guy heard of Arthur Dent?


Quote from: ianrs54 on 26 May 2016, 07:12:27 AM
I think not, nor Ford Prefect.

IanS

No - neither one - and I can't find my towel either.
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GrumpyOldMan

Hello all

I'm glad I've got your attention because I've got some Vogon poetry that I think should be recited at this point.....



Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
    Thy micturations are to me,
    As plurdled gabbleblotchits,
    On a lurgid bee,
    That mordiously hath blurted out,
    Its earted jurtles,
    Into a rancid festering confectious organ squealer. [drowned out by moaning and screaming]
    Now the jurpling slayjid agrocrustles,
    Are slurping hagrilly up the axlegrurts,
    And living glupules frart and slipulate,
    Like jowling meated liverslime,
    Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turling dromes,
    And hooptiously drangle me,
    With crinkly bindlewurdles,
    Or else I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
    See if I don't.

Next we have something from Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Sussex...........

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

fsn

"Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now."
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fsn

I've just been looking up Miss Shilling's Orifice.

Very interesting.
Lord Oik of Runcorn (You may refer to me as Milord Oik)

Oik of the Year 2013, 2014; Prize for originality and 'having a go, bless him', 2015
3 votes in the 2016 Painting Competition!; 2017-2019 The Wilderness years
Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
11 votes in the 2022 Painting Competition (Double figures!)
2023 - the year of Gerald:
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d_Guy

Quote from: fsn on 26 May 2016, 07:41:51 PM
I've just been looking up Miss Shilling's Orifice.

Very interesting.

You were using the Whitepages, correct?
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d_Guy

A small factoid* - Lewis Carol practiced the Vogon style and is thought by many to be its ultimate practitioner. Or was it James Joyce? Now I'm confused.

* A very small fact which has a large probability of not being
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