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What do you get when you sit on a razor blade?
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Another example of British vs American English humor. How about some unique Aussie English humor. (or should that be humour?).
I'm not sure that pun really fits as British vs American. I was trying to think of other elemental puns, but most elemental names are pretty lame. After all, coming up with a pun using Rutherfordium or Vanadium is pretty difficult.
1603, of course, is the year that Queen Elizabeth died (Elizabeth I that is).
Also, 1603 is a well known Windows installation error code when using the Installer Service - meaning that a fatal error occurred but I'm not telling you what!
That's about the most perfect Post Race post yet. It's informative, not related to any other topic...ever, and came totally out of nowhere.
1603 is, of course, the current page number in Post Race. :duck:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Ah.... I was wondering what prompted the post as well. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by 2kaud
1603 is also roughly the number of pennies you'd need if you wanted to fill a thin bag plastic bag so it weighed roughly 8.8 pounds.
I disagree. There are on average 181 pennies (1982 to present stampings) per pound. So for 8.8 pounds it would be 1,592 pennies.Quote:
Originally Posted by brad jones
1592 is "roughly" 1603.... ;)
And 1592 isn't as special as 2kaud presented. It's not a Windows error number of significant value, although the year 1592 did contain the ultimate Pi Day....
George Villiers was born that year!Quote:
And 1592 isn't as special as 2kaud presented.
Its 100 years after Columbus discovered America. So its very special. Plus that day is coming up in 3 more days :DQuote:
Originally Posted by brad jones
In for a penny, in for a pound, I suppose.Quote:
Originally Posted by RobDog888
Seeing how a pound of pennies from 1982+ has virtually very little copper, Im sure the metals are not worth its weight
Did you test their mettle? Their metal mettle matters mightily, maybe.
Maybe
or maybe not........Quote:
Originally Posted by RobDog888
PossiblyQuote:
Originally Posted by brad jones
1603 is not my PIN.
That leaves 9998 other possibilities.
Is it 7345?Quote:
Originally Posted by FunkyDexter
Pins are 6 digits at most banks. So 999,999 other possibilitiesQuote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
I don't use a pin. I use a thumb tack.
The banks kind of hate it, since it messes up the ATM keyboard, but it's safer...cause it doesn't access anything.
I use facial recognition. I look at the ATM and it welcomes me by name. Then I give it a look signifying no cash on me and broke. So it gives me money based upon how broke I look :lol:
That's explains it.
I went to the ATM just yesterday. It said, "Hello, RobDogg. Here's $300."
Thanks, by the way.
Nice! Glad that came out of someone elses account as you added an extra "g" and missed the triple 8'sQuote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
A cousin, perhaps?
This post is not worth reading.
True, but by then we've all read it. :spam:
So we get $1 for our time in reading it? I dont accept personal checks, IOU's or EBT. Cash or PayPal friends and family onlyQuote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Next time I'm at the ATM I'll only take $399 from your account with that voice recognition thing.
My daily limit is $0.99Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
So, it's a cold and blustery day out here, perfect for trimming the hedges. The reason I wait for a cold day in fall (blustery is not a requirement) is that there are a LOT of wasps that build small nests in the hedges. These are not particularly aggressive wasps. I've run the hedge trimmer through an active nest without being stung. I think they realized it was just an accident. Still, they DO sting. Fortunately, by this temperature, they should all be tucked away for the winter in whatever place they choose. One time, they chose a work glove, and were sorely annoyed when my hand joined them. I was kind of sore after that, too.
Anyways, I trimmed the hedges and found numerous, abandoned, nests, as I expected. After that, I started raking things up. Along the way, I got the distinct feeling that something was in my pant leg. More alarming, it appeared to be moving upwards. At first I thought it was just a branch, but when attempting to shake it out, caused it to rise higher up my leg, which made me change my assumption. After all, whatever it was seemed fairly large, and was headed towards warmer, and more sensitive, areas.
At that point, all thoughts of raking left. I wasn't willing to drop trou' in my suburban driveway, though I was tempted. Instead, I headed with all due decorum towards the garage (it took me some time to find one of my gloves, afterwards, which was due to the decorum of my departure). I hit the button to close the garage door, but was unwilling to wait that eternity, so I entered the house and whipped my pants down...and it was a branch from the hedge. The exact physics of this motion is something I can only speculate about. During my minute of panic, the fairly small branch had managed to work its way from my ankle up to mid-thigh, simply by some kind of ratcheting action against cloth and skin.
Interesting afternoon of activity.
You're lucky. Here it's either raining or drizzling or drizzling or raining. Everywhere and everything is wet. Never mind hedge trimming, can't even get up the leaves they're so wet. Blowing doesn't move them and sucking just clogs up the works! Ahhhhhhh.Quote:
So, it's a cold and blustery day out here, perfect for trimming the hedges.
I live in a desert. Yesterday had a forecast that said a 100% chance of rain. In many places, that would mean that it was going to rain all, or most of, the day. Out here, though, that meant that the ground was going to get wet at some point. As it turned out, it really DID get wet. Some areas got considerable amounts of rain...but by evening, it was partly sunny and things had dried out.
When we get a rainy day, here, I like to sit in my living room and watch it rain. I've been out in it so much that being able to be warm and dry while it rains is wonderful, but in this area, it's so doggone rare that whenever it happens, you have to pay attention quick, cause it won't last.
and then there's all the sudden bangs as the tree nuts get blown onto the house glass windows and trying to walk outside without stepping on piles of nuts and ...
I have 4 Beech trees, a Lime and a Sycamore
I'm writing a little article on creating memes.... yeah, pretty basic. Here is an example meme.... I'm only posting because it included the bbcode link :)....
https://i.imgflip.com/3dxyj7.jpgvia Imgflip Meme Generator
Not just basic, it's visual, too.
Always comes back to VB!Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
That's the basic truth.
Come on people, I need more posts to read with my morning coffee. Shirley Shaggy has a fun pun to share.
I met Bruce Lee’s vegetarian brother today.
His name is Brocko Lee.
I don't make puns.
And don't call me surely.
It makes him surly.:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
He has his head in the clouds, azuredly.
I most azuredly do not. My cumulous knowledge of cloud computing is cirrus-ly limited.
Sounds like you're related to "Slip" Mahoney. Must be a west coast cousin.
Can't say I get that reference.
Yeah, I figured the leader of "The Bowery Boys" series from the 50's would be a bit obscure (although perhaps age appropriate).
His character was known for his malapropism, which the phrase "cumulous knowledge" certainly sounds like something he would say and "cirrus-ly" might be considered an example of a malaprop, although that could be a stretch.
I wasn't around in the 50's, and I didn't have a TV until...well, I still don't have one, so we'll see.
Well, if you were really curious, I'm sure episodes could be found on-line, but I don't know that it would be worth the effort.
For some reason, I figured you were a bit older than I, but then I wasn't around for most of the 50's either.
In my case, I've really only seen them because of the TCM (Turner Classic Movies) channel. I donate platelets every couple of weeks which means sitting / lying on a recliner type chair at the local redcross donation center for a bit more than two hours every other Saturday. I don't like commercials, so I put up with watching old movies on TCM during that time that I'm immobilized.
As an alternative, the redcross have a bunch of movies on DVDs that I could choose from, but that just seems like too much work, so I settle for watching the "classics". They did start going through a long series of Tarzan movies, and after a number of weeks of that, it was too much and so I moved on to another network for awhile, but the Tarzan period is over, so I'm back.
Wouldn't have seen them otherwise, as I don't care to watch TV at home, and didn't have one in the house myself, until I got married.
Though the thought of not ever watching TV seems strange to me, I've heard it enough times that it doesn't surprise me. To each his own. But what I find bizarre is people that watch TV/Movies on their phones/Tablets/Laptops. To my grandkids this is just normal. I'm old school, 65", surround sound, recliner and beverage.
April 2 1604 was the date of the initial precedent put into practice by Parliament during the speakership of Sir Edward Phelips (and which is now part of Erskine May [the UK parliamentary rule book]) which the then Speaker Bercow cited during 2019 for refusing to allow more than one vote on essentially the same Brexit motion in the same parliamentary session.
That's a good point. Everybody should know that.
as useless information for quizzes :cool:
4 out of 5 dentists know thatQuote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
That fifth dentist...is a total idiot.
Think he's my Dentist. Told me to brush side to side, not up and down?????
Speaking of dentists....
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NOT the 5th dentist
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