On Top of the World

[Hightower]

Originally Posted by The Jackeens

Andy! Step away from the Guinness...

(You nearly changed a lightbulb with your head the other night! )

Kathleen & Paul

Step toward the Black stuff more like.....So what are black holes

[The Jackeens]

Originally Posted by Hightower

So what are black holes

Spaces that hoover up addresses, car keys, spare fivers etc. as you're rushing out the door to work

Wasn't there a bit of debate about the existence of black holes after all?

[IBWET]

Originally Posted by Hightower

Q: How many philosophers does it take to change a lightbulb ?
A: Hmmm... well there's an interesting question isn't it ?

Q: How many philosophers does it take to change a lightbulb ?
A: Three. One to change it and two to stand around arguing over whether or not the lightbulb exists.

Q: How many philosophers does it take to change a lightbulb ?
A: Define "lightbulb".

Q: How many philosophers does it take to change a lightbulb ?
A: Two. One to change it and one to think deeply and come up with a real gem, such as "Well there you are, standing on a chair, changing a lightbulb. Here we see the difference between a cat and a dog. If you have a cat, it looks up at you, thinks 'What are you doing ?', and walks off. But if you have a dog, it's looking up at you and thinking 'Well, I dunno what you're doing, but I love you anyway.'

Everyone's forgot about the I***hman .....

1 to hold the lightbulb.and 6 to turn the ladders.

[Milan]

Are but those questions are really irrelevant the real question that’s much more important would be is wrestling really fixed

[jyasaki]

Originally Posted by Milan

Are but those questions are really irrelevant the real question that’s much more important would be is wrestling really fixed

And the followup: Shouldn't there be some regulation to get wrestlers fixed? There eventually wouldn't be so many of them. (almost the old "If there were more people like you, there'd be less people like you" thing.)

jky

[Aidan]

You are all worng. I have it on good authority that Galway is the top of the world. Everywhere else is "down there"

"Stealth aircraft do not crash, I repeat..." quote : Donald RumsBums. Is he gone yet? Gone where, now that is the question! OOPS Now I am gone.
Look there things we know we know and things we know we dont know you know Ask Donny about the meaning of life... I am still trying to figure out what he meant.

Whats outside this universe? Ask Donny, he put it there.
What about the "weapons of mass destruction" ? ask Donny, he had the receipts!

Black holes! dont get me started...

Humpty Dumpty was "taken out" ask Donny

5 more pints of guinness please... The Jackeens are right.

One cannot start discussing this without at least 5 pints of black soup.
A black hole as everyone knows is when you come to the end of the pint of guinness.

By the way, do any of you people not think it strange that after the years of war in Iraq, the only thing that has actually happened (outside those poor unfortunate people who returned in body bags which is deplorable) is that the price of Oil doubled. Now remind me again of Mr. Bush`s interests.
Let me see, you start a war and your assets double?????

Sad but true!

[Aidan]

I hasten to add, all the poor unfortunate people who have been killed.
All for what..

[Hightower]

Originally Posted by IBWET

Everyone's forgot about the I***hman .....

1 to hold the lightbulb.and 6 to turn the ladders.

How about one to hold the Lightbulb in the fitting and wait till the World revolves around it

[Hightower]

Originally Posted by Nos4r2

If a stealth bomber crashes in a forest, will it make a sound?

How do you know if a Stealth bomber has crashed .

And where would you start looking for it?

[Poly]

Originally Posted by Aidan

A black hole as everyone knows is when you come to the end of the pint of guinness.

I thought it was what you got the morning after 10 pints of guiness?

[The Garfish]

wy iz ther ownly wan monopopolies comishun an wy doo liffts smel diffrent too mijjits

gArf

[Poly]

Originally Posted by codprawn

Remember also which way a compass points which was prob the first reason of all they decided which way was up!!!

But compass needles don't point North - they align with the earth's magnetic field. So effectively they are aligned between the magnetic north and south poles but which direction the needle is pointing (N or S) is impossible to tell unless you have labelled the needle in some way. So had things had happened differently it is possible we would all talk about compasses pointing "South".

Further investigation reveals that:

• Ptolemy is widely attributed as being the first person to "popularise" maps with North up, the second century AD. It is not clear why - but certainly the world as he knew it was in the northern hemisphere.
• Many maps used to be aligned East-up which is where the phrase to Orient the map, is believed to originate from.
• Until about 1600 AD maps were all oriented according to local need/custom/practice. (it was around this time that compass use started to happen too).
• Globes became popular during the Rennaisance. It was also at this time that it became normal practice to align all maps North-up.
• There is a suggested link in that, at that time, all the important countries in the world were in the northern hemisphere - and it would have been difficult to see them if they were on the underside of the globe.
• There appears to be no "physical" reason why North (as opposed to south) should be the top of our maps.

[The Jackeens]

Originally Posted by Polwart

There is a suggested link in that, at that time, all the important countries in the world were in the northern hemisphere - and it would have been difficult to see them if they were on the underside of the globe.

• There appears to be no "physical" reason why North (as opposed to south) should be the top of our maps.

Hahahaha

Got it in one Polwart! Our Antipodean friends won't put up with that feeble political trick for long!

gArf

Andy apparently there's water on Mars. Next they'll find guinness on Uranus and you'll all be happy. (Bar Customs of course )

Guinness. The cause of many a black hole. Witness this phenomenon at The Folly on December 16th

K & P

[Milan]

Okay here's one for you can someone tell me why they call it Chili

When the next morning you think you've eaten broken glass