Random stuff you've learned.

[vernon]

You're trying to make us believe that you've never chalked the chicken.

It remains on my bucket list.

 

[SD1]

Plum is old English for dried fruit.....bet you didn't know that?
Forrest is old English for royal hunting ground...I bet you didn't know that?....or give a sh1te!

 

[vernon]

[QUOTE 3968477, member: 45"]Earthworms are marsupials.[/QUOTE]

All marsupials are mammals. Earthworms are not mammals so cannot be marsupials.

 

[slowmotion]

Chickens cant look up , they have to tilt their head to the side .

Are you sure about that? Penguins are supposed to fall over backwards if they try and look up at a plane flying overhead, Did chickens come to a "work around" before them?

[geek ON] Anyway, here's a wondrous geek factoid. Find a room with some bare floorboards, and take a stick that is several floorboard widths long with you. Spin the stick randomly and drop it on the floor. Make a note of how many board joints it crosses.....and repeat lots of times. With that information, you can deduce the value of Pi. (steady on @vernon).
[geek OFF]

 

[vernon]

[geek ON] Anyway, here's a wondrous geek factoid. Find a room with some bare floorboards, and take a stick that is several floorboard widths long with you. Spin the stick randomly and drop it on the floor. Make a note of how many board joints it crosses.....and repeat lots of times. With that information, you can deduce the value of Pi. (steady on @vernon).
[geek OFF]

I've done the equivalent in mathematical modelling.

As an undergraduate I used the Monte Carlo method to deduce the value of Pi in computational mathematics as a primer to deducing the emissivity of a black body. I even wrote a program in BASIC to do the donkey work on a computer that was the size of a double wardrobe most of the space was taken up with magnetic core memory banks. It took ages to execute and the result was as expected and totally underwhelming.

 

[vernon]

Are you sure about that? Penguins are supposed to fall over backwards if they try and look up at a plane flying overhead

Vernons fall off cottage roofs when looking up at planes doing aerobatics directly overhead. I was so glad that it was a bungalow and that I'd dug over the surrounding ground the week before and I had a soft landing.

 

[slowmotion]

I've done the equivalent in mathematical modelling.

As an undergraduate I used the Monte Carlo method to deduce the value of Pi in computational mathematics as a primer to deducing the emissivity of a black body. I even wrote a program in BASIC to do the donkey work on a computer that was the size of a double wardrobe most of the space was taken up with magnetic core memory banks. It took ages to execute and the result was as expected and totally underwhelming.

After these stupendous feats of intellectual prowess, when did you make the quantum leap and introduce pastry to your Pi investigations?

 

[Surlydave]

The reinforcing on the end of a shoe
lace is called an aglet.

 

[vernon]

Tie a hankie or similar garment loosely round a cat's "waist" and it will fall over.

Cellotape allegedly does a similar job.

 

[vernon]

After these stupendous feats of intellectual prowess, when did you make the quantum leap and introduce pastry to your Pi investigations?

At that period in my life I was a dab hand at converting flour, lard, butter and appropriate additional ingredients into fruit cakes and flaky pastry pasties using an ancient Be-Ro cookbook whose oven temperatures were given as cool, moderate, medium and hot. The occasional shortcrust pastry plate pie would make an appearance but I preferred to display my baking prowess with the flaky pastry.

 

[Beebo]

There are an estimated 170,000,000,000 galaxies in the universe, but only 4 are visible with the naked eye.
That is a mind boggling fact which shows how insignificant we are.

 

[jonny jeez]

The reinforcing on the end of a shoe
lace is called an aglet.

I still call it a flooglebinder

 

[vernon]

That is a mind boggling fact which shows how insignificant we are.

Try telling Fenton that he's insignificant and your life expectancy will be shorter than the time span between Big Bang and the unification of the fundamental forces.

 

[machew]

Spiders make much more interesting webs when given Class A drugs

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Internet searches for "random facts" deliver random facts. Some weird ones, here:
http://www.thefactsite.com/2011/07/top-100-random-funny-facts.html

One of my favourites is the Pinocchio paradox.