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23 Apr 2018, 5:17 pm

I don't know what happened next in the story because Bert doesn't finish reading it. He keeps getting interrupted by Ernie, who is trying to trick him with a disguise kit. But it's a "Boring Story" so I assume it was not anything most people would find fun or exciting. Maybe the prince was just not thirsty anymore, and that was it. The End.

But the scene itself where Ernie is attempting to fool Bert into thinking he's a pirate or Red Riding Hood *was* really funny and interesting, so I shouldn't say any more. It's just that when I saw "The Boring Company" that scene is what came to my mind.

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23 Apr 2018, 6:12 pm

A read somewhere that there was British aristocratic gentleman in the 1700's who ....would weigh his stool every single day, and would log the results every day for forty years, and that he (or someone) actually published his chronicle in a book. And that this book is actually listed in the Guiness Book of World Records as a contender for "most boring book of all time".

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23 Apr 2018, 7:26 pm

Perhaps the Prince drank half of the water, and an optimist, a pessimist and a scientist argued over it.

"It's half full" claimed the optimist.

"No, the glass is half empty" a pessimist argued.

"Well Actually, the glass is always full" stated the scientist.

"Dammit just drink the water, who cares if it's half empty or full or whatever? You guys make the worst guests. Now get out of my house" sighed a person who had been quietly watching them squabble.

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23 Apr 2018, 8:12 pm

Lost_dragon wrote:

"Dammit just drink the water, who cares if it's half empty or full or whatever? You guys make the worst guests. Now get out of my house" sighed a person who had been quietly watching them squabble.

Don't forget about the engineer guest who would say "why is that glass twice as big as it needs to be?".

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24 Apr 2018, 5:24 am

naturalplastic wrote:

Lost_dragon wrote:

"Dammit just drink the water, who cares if it's half empty or full or whatever? You guys make the worst guests. Now get out of my house" sighed a person who had been quietly watching them squabble.

Don't forget about the engineer guest who would say "why is that glass twice as big as it needs to be?".

The pessimist sees long, dark tunnel.
The optimist sees a light far at the end of it.
The realist sees an approaching train.
The machinist sees three idiots on his tracks.

PS. They all die. It's no fun.

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24 Apr 2018, 5:36 am

magz wrote:

naturalplastic wrote:

Lost_dragon wrote:

"Dammit just drink the water, who cares if it's half empty or full or whatever? You guys make the worst guests. Now get out of my house" sighed a person who had been quietly watching them squabble.

Don't forget about the engineer guest who would say "why is that glass twice as big as it needs to be?".

machinist also known as train driver :wink:

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24 Apr 2018, 6:10 am

Oh yes, I know a song that fits this thread perfectly. The singer's voice is harsh and sad, the story is sadder still. To make matters worse, it is sung in Russian and the video is graphic. Be warned.

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24 Apr 2018, 6:48 am

Actually, the water was supposed to be aerated, so the same mass took up twice as much volume.

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24 Apr 2018, 7:47 am

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24 Apr 2018, 10:47 am

And then the pessimist dumped the water on both the scientist and optimist, and said,
"Now the glass is *completely* empty!" :twisted:

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24 Apr 2018, 12:24 pm

I prayed for God to give me my dad's poor appetite and that's exactly what I got.

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25 Apr 2018, 12:34 am

magz wrote:

They all die? Even the machinist? I would think he'd be pretty safe on the train from hitting pedestrians?

edit: the joke didn't make me laugh.

No, no, bad thing in this thread :shameonyou:

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