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10 Apr 2007, 4:43 am
10 Apr 2007, 4:46 am
Can we answer these questions?
I can answer the singing one.
10 Apr 2007, 5:03 am
Brundisium wrote:
Can we answer these questions?
I can answer the singing one.
I can answer the singing one.
I did say that....
Quatermass wrote:
These thoughts may be answered, depending on whether the thoughts are rhetorical questions or not, etc.
Happy?
Oh, and another few musings...
In a mob of people, why does its overall IQ drop to room temperature? Is it possible to have a negative IQ, and have people in mobs that actually have negative intelligence?
Oh, and how many people here have felt this way?
Wikipedia article on Knurd wrote:
Knurdness is the opposite of being drunk; not sober, but as far from sober as drunkenness, except in the opposite direction. It strips away all the illusion, all the comforting pink fog in which people normally spend their lives, and lets them see and think clearly for the first time ever. This, needless to say, is a very traumatic experience though it sometimes leads to important discoveries. Those seeking to treat drunkenness by having the sufferer drink Klatchian coffee should take care, lest they send him too far the other way - through sobriety and out the other side.
Also, Samuel Vimes, one of the Discworld's most notable characters, is sometimes referred to as being constantly knurd and two drinks short of actual sobriety, which at least partially accounts for his depressive nature and tendency towards alcoholism—he started out looking for a cure to knurdness. It is also noted in the instance where Vimes gets knurd, that most people who ever get knurd make sure never to get knurd again.
Knurd written in reverse also spells "drunk".
Also, Samuel Vimes, one of the Discworld's most notable characters, is sometimes referred to as being constantly knurd and two drinks short of actual sobriety, which at least partially accounts for his depressive nature and tendency towards alcoholism—he started out looking for a cure to knurdness. It is also noted in the instance where Vimes gets knurd, that most people who ever get knurd make sure never to get knurd again.
Knurd written in reverse also spells "drunk".
10 Apr 2007, 5:10 am
12 Apr 2007, 6:46 pm
BUMPED.
After reading the Terry Pratchett novel Jingo, I found out that it was based on a real life incident, to a degree:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinandea
Makes you wonder what'd happen if a new island suddenly sprouted from the ocean in this day and age.... 
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12 Apr 2007, 8:24 pm
if a new island sprouted up from the ocean the usa would fight everyone for it 
