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  1. Dec 19th, 2000, 02:56 PM #1
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    This question is almost always good for a beer:

    In the King James version of the Bible, Who cut Sampson's
    hair?

    Answer to follow
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  2. Dec 19th, 2000, 03:25 PM #2
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    Okay. So if it wasn't Delilah - who was it?
    I refuse to tie my hands behind my back and hear somebody say "Bend Over, Boy, Because You Have It Coming To You".
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    Delilah's sister?

    or Sampson himself...
    Gentile or Jew,
    O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
    Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you...
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    A good one I used to use up until last year was

    "Which planet is furthest away from the sun?"

    Everyone used to answer Pluto as that seems the obvious answer, but from about 1979 to 1999 it was Neptune due to its funny shaped (technical term) orbit.

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    Time for my best Michael Caine impression

    "And not a lot of people know that...."
    Gentile or Jew,
    O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
    Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you...
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  6. Dec 19th, 2000, 03:39 PM #5
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    "...and she called a SERVING MAN to come and cut..."

    I believe that is an exact quote, but I could be wrong. I
    KNOW that is the intent of the verse. Note: I can only
    guarrantee the King James version of the story.
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  7. Dec 20th, 2000, 05:16 AM #6
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    Actually it is Pluto that has the eccentric orbit. The strangeness of the orbits of Pluto and Neptune has led to the hunt for Planet X (Unknown or Ten, as you will). Neptune's orbit is obviously affected by a large gravitational source and it is not Pluto (it just is not large enough). Interesting, huh?

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    Haven't been around much so be gentle...
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  8. Dec 21st, 2000, 08:41 PM #7
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    Damn Paul l was going to mention that

    American theorists claim there must be a tenth planet due to forsaid Pluto + Neptune orbits. Apparently there is a high mathmatical probability of this.



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