Board index › Off Topic Discussion › Random Discussion

Make up a really dumb quote/question

Page 36 of 97 [ 1543 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1 ... 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 ... 97  Next

Previous topic | Next topic

NewTime
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 14 Apr 2015
Posts: 1,981

11 Dec 2017, 6:26 pm

What kind of vacuum is space? Is it a Dyson? Is it a Hoover?



auntblabby
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 12 Feb 2010
Gender: Male
Posts: 113,740
Location: the island of defective toy santas

11 Dec 2017, 6:37 pm

why don't UFOs have those letters printed on the sides of them? :alien:



Esmerelda Weatherwax
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 30 Sep 2017
Age: 69
Gender: Female
Posts: 2,749

11 Dec 2017, 6:44 pm

Syd wrote:
In the 1970s, before inventing the internet, former vice president Al Gore developed a mathematical formula that helped him learn dance moves. He called it an algorithm.
Oh gaaah
Image
5 out of 5 stars

I have found my people


_________________
"I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are the good people and the bad people," said the man. "You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides."
-- Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!


auntblabby
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 12 Feb 2010
Gender: Male
Posts: 113,740
Location: the island of defective toy santas

11 Dec 2017, 6:46 pm

why aren't buttocks shaped like a W or a Z?



kraftiekortie
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 4 Feb 2014
Gender: Male
Posts: 87,510
Location: Queens, NYC

11 Dec 2017, 8:02 pm

Buttocks are sort of shaped like two "u's"---the "true double-U!"



NewTime
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 14 Apr 2015
Posts: 1,981

11 Dec 2017, 8:28 pm

Why do people call "w" a double u? It's a double v.



kraftiekortie
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 4 Feb 2014
Gender: Male
Posts: 87,510
Location: Queens, NYC

11 Dec 2017, 8:30 pm

Because "v" used to be "u" in English writing until the 1600s, and maybe even the 1700's sometimes.



Esmerelda Weatherwax
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 30 Sep 2017
Age: 69
Gender: Female
Posts: 2,749

11 Dec 2017, 8:35 pm

W.

Ze French, zey call it double-v. Dooobluh-vay. Ze Germans, zey call it "fau", like fowl without the L. A WV is a fau-vay.

Two "u"s, in French, would be ooh ooh. Sounds about right for this discussion. (Toddles off, giggling)


_________________
"I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are the good people and the bad people," said the man. "You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides."
-- Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!


auntblabby
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 12 Feb 2010
Gender: Male
Posts: 113,740
Location: the island of defective toy santas

11 Dec 2017, 8:38 pm

why don't the French eat French fries and French toast?



kraftiekortie
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 4 Feb 2014
Gender: Male
Posts: 87,510
Location: Queens, NYC

11 Dec 2017, 8:52 pm

They eat "steak and frites."

I don't know about French Toast.

A considerable amount of "Chinese food" is actually an Americanized version of it.



auntblabby
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 12 Feb 2010
Gender: Male
Posts: 113,740
Location: the island of defective toy santas

11 Dec 2017, 8:56 pm

not such a dumb question but I wonder how the early explorers turned "Nippon" into "the japans"?



naturalplastic
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 26 Aug 2010
Age: 69
Gender: Male
Posts: 34,147
Location: temperate zone

11 Dec 2017, 9:08 pm

auntblabby wrote:
not such a dumb question but I wonder how the early explorers turned "Nippon" into "the japans"?


Marco Polo knew the place by the name of "Zipangu".



b9
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 14 Aug 2008
Age: 52
Gender: Male
Posts: 12,003
Location: australia

11 Dec 2017, 9:49 pm

good luck trying to panel beat this aircraft to put back in service.
"a bit of bog here and there and she's gonna be a beauty".

Image



ScarletIbis
Velociraptor
Velociraptor

Joined: 10 Aug 2017
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Posts: 457
Location: Between Two Speakers

11 Dec 2017, 9:54 pm

“I am going to risk years in prison to save a few hundred dollars on Christmas gifts. Yay, mailbox shopping” -the thoughts of some crazy. (Crazy being a noun here) :wink:


_________________
Diagnosed: High Functioning ASD 2013
Misdiagnosed (extremely likely): Bipolar II 2012

Feel free to message me if you want

Please understand that everything I write should be read with a grain of salt because I frequently adjust my views based on new information (just read a description of INTP that should explain better than I)


kraftiekortie
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 4 Feb 2014
Gender: Male
Posts: 87,510
Location: Queens, NYC

14 Dec 2017, 11:01 am

You'd be surprised what people can do with seeming junk heaps that that plane.........



lostonearth35
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 5 Jan 2010
Age: 50
Gender: Female
Posts: 11,898
Location: Lost on Earth, waddya think?

15 Dec 2017, 3:10 pm

Why do we always use a heart as a symbol for love? What's wrong with a kidney or even a spleen? :heart: