Some things just crack me up yet annoy me, too even...maybe especially...when they really don't matter.
Recently saw mention of a crazy rollercoaster drop. It literally defies space and geometry! 120degrees!
Really? Cuz 90 degrees is straight down...you can't get steeper than that.
Sure, you can measure the other direction and CALL it 120, that's like calling the 3degrees grade on a road a 177degrees climb [or drop]...OOOOHHH! scary!
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Dumb Funny "Facts" in Articles
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the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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Maybe the incline is at 30 degrees, then the drop is straight down, which would make it a 120 degree angle.
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Heh...what's the rest of that...trucks haul freight, Freight trains shipment, Ships CARgo?danlo wrote:" "Hey, what do you expect from a culture that drives on parkways and parks on driveways?"
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the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
Why is there braille on the drive up ATM?
Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?
Why are there locks on the doors of the 24 hour convenience store?
As for the angle... perhaps the drop was inverted?
Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?
Why are there locks on the doors of the 24 hour convenience store?
As for the angle... perhaps the drop was inverted?
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This article from the local paper last month made me laugh.
A 5-year-old girl was swimming in the four-foot section of the pool while eating grapes. She had a squirt gun and was playing with it by spraying an adult. The adult turned his head to avoid being sprayed. When the adult turned back, the child was at the bottom of the pool.
She was pulled out of the pool and resituated.
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I know it's okay to do so but I personally hate it when they say "people got evacuated". To me it either sounds like giving them enemas or - even worse - disembowl them. (in this sense you may well evacuate a zombie in a splatter movie). Call me old fashiened, but to me buildings and areas get evacuated and not peoploe.
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me too most of the time, and now. i had no idea what the map meant. the article i got it from did not make it clear wht they had the map. so it stumped me as to what it meant.Murrin wrote:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroe_Islands
Faroe, not Faeroe. But obviously that's not what you posted the image for - I'm stumped.
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Let me try and explain this one.danlo wrote:" "Hey, what do you expect from a culture that drives on parkways and parks on driveways?"
A drive way is the way to where you drive, AKA a ROUTE TO DRIVING, a parkway is a way to where you park, AKA A ROUTE TO PARKING.
Not so backwards as you might think, we Americans are.
A better place, obviously. Copy editor heaven.aliantha wrote:Where have all the copy editors gone?
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How will dog owners the world over cope? We NEED the New York Times desperately.sgt.null wrote:soon newspapers will be dead anyway...
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