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24 Oct 2006, 10:57 pm

Who milked the first cow? and what was he doing when he milked it, exactly?

Do people who make annoying commercials know how bad they are?

Why exactly are buffalo wings called buffalo wings?

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24 Oct 2006, 11:03 pm

w*hen I looked for my dog I stayed up alot and got some black circles under my eyes
so I thought what is the physical mechanism of that? Oh Im too lazy to look it up.

*My old IBM replacement keyboard will not make a capital w for some strange reason.
My iliminated keyboard died.

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24 Oct 2006, 11:13 pm

When you loose a sock in the dryer, where does that other sock go to??

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24 Oct 2006, 11:17 pm

Serious question
Where does the light go in a room when you turn of the switch?

Not so serious question
What does alphaghetti look like in Japan?

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24 Oct 2006, 11:27 pm

Scrapheap wrote:

When you loose a sock in the dryer, where does that other sock go to??

Lets put it this way if you every see a time machine that does not spin its fake.

Oh an there are a lot of cave men wearing socks out there somewhere in time.

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24 Oct 2006, 11:29 pm

cyrus1874 wrote:

Serious question
Where does the light go in a room when you turn of the switch?

Not so serious question
What does alphaghetti look like in Japan?

It is absorbed by the shadows dark anti-matter how else can you explain why people
usually snore at night.

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24 Oct 2006, 11:37 pm

TheMachine1 wrote:

It is absorbed by the shadows dark anti-matter how else can you explain why people
usually snore at night.

That's the sound of the government beaming messages into their heads,

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24 Oct 2006, 11:43 pm

Deleated.

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25 Oct 2006, 1:42 am

cyrus1874 wrote:

Serious question
Where does the light go in a room when you turn of the switch?

It keeps travelling at 186,000 miles per second - so quick that we don't see it go. Since we turned out the light, there's no new light being emitted, so we're left in the dark.

It took me years to find the answer to that one. When I was a kid, I pestered the grown-ups about "How does the light get from the lamp to the rest of the room, especially all at once?" The answer's the same: it travels way fast.

I like Terry Pratchett's Discworld, where the speed of light is so slow that you can watch it travel, slowly illuminating things one by one.

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25 Oct 2006, 6:20 am

tinky wrote:

1 Who milked the first cow? and what was he doing when he milked it, exactly?

2 Do people who make annoying commercials know how bad they are?

3 Why exactly are buffalo wings called buffalo wings?

1. We will never know who exactly. I would guess that originally this was done if someone was starving or if a baby's mother died.

2. Yes. Notice how well you remember the annoying ones?

3. Think: Buffalo, NY. (that's my guess)

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25 Oct 2006, 6:25 am

tinky wrote:

Who milked the first cow? and what was he doing when he milked it, exactly?

Do people who make annoying commercials know how bad they are?

Why exactly are buffalo wings called buffalo wings?

I think buffalo wings originated in Buffalo, N.Y.

They delideratly make commercials as annoying as possible so you'll remember them.

Who milked the first cow? Beats the hell outta me. What must he have been thinking? Of course we figured out that we could milk goats long before cows. Did you know that ants farm and milk aphids?

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25 Oct 2006, 9:04 am

As a native to Buffalo NY, I can answer #3. Chicken wings have also been called Buffalo wings because the place of invention (OK, the place where a cook got the idea to serve what normally got thrown away) was the Anchor Bar on Main Street and East North Street in Buffalo NY. In fact, you can still visit the place today (and you will know if someone ordered the Suicide sauce because you will be crying simply smelling it from the kitchen)

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25 Oct 2006, 9:14 am

I was going to ask "Who was the first guy to eat an oyster, and what was he thinking?"

But it occurred to me that someone living where oysters are found probably watched an Otter cracking and eating one, and said "Whet the hey, the Otter liked it."

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25 Oct 2006, 10:13 am

How was a Cockney like me, ever born into a strictly Canadian family, with strictly Canadian values?

Oh, well. It doesn't matter. I'll be out on my own soon, than I can Bus up my new place.

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25 Oct 2006, 10:15 am

Reincarnation. Karma.

Next question.

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25 Oct 2006, 10:20 am

Prof_Pretorius wrote:

Reincarnation. Karma.

Next question.

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