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Ok...I am not trying to be a ball hog here, in that this will be my 3rd thread today. I have gone quite a while with not too many new threads.

Since this year began we have had 42 new members join. That is probably about average for how it's been going. Those new members might have questions AND it seems that every day I can't believe that some of our old veterans of the board ask questions that I am amazed they are asking.:) I would hope they would have arleady known those answers. Everyone is encouraged to look at different areas of the board. The dark line that has words in it that start with the words "User CP" on the left, has places under each and every one of those words to the right. There is neat Chatroom. Under the Community tab there is a place to post albums of pictures, a members list and a contact info area. There is a public Calendar that EVERYONE can use and change and contribute to (if you so desire). There are several other informational areas too. In addition to those things, we have a number of forums in the "Postwar cards and Watercooler Talk" section, under it's icon at top, including football, boxing etc.... Those sections seem to have picked up some steam lately. So, if anyone has questions, suggestions, comments etc....feel free to post them here. If there are no posts/questions/comments, then so be it :). Just thought I would offer. best regards

(I really need to get this crossed over, or at least cracked out of this case:o)

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I'll start the ball rolling.... If a man walked around the equator of the Earth, how much further would his head go than his feet? Assume that the man is 6 feet tall.

:)

As soon as this question is answered, someone else can ask another question. (Just kidding, of course.)

Thirty seven point seven feet.

David:

You are correct! That engineering background of yours is still shining through! Good job!

OK... Next question...

What George Harrison song is Brett Favre's theme song? (hint: it's a joke)

well Barry
 

His detractors would probably say "I, Me, Mine"; however, I'm going with "All Things Must Pass".

"All Things Must Pass" it is...but interesting second choice.:)

Not exactly a question, but finish this bumper sticker--

"My wife said if I buy ONE MORE baseball card she'll leave me"--

"God -- - ----- ---- ---!


(Randy got it--Post 11)

What is my favorite color?

white

Fred, ......God am I gonna miss her. ?

No sorry, it's more of an off-white.

You got it Randy! I always loved that little saying!

question
 

what word is missing?

Remember: The ______ wants you to quit. Don't listen to it.

or if this is too difficult, try this one:

what word is missing?

Remember: The Monster wants you to quit. Don't ______ to it.

best of luck,

best,
barry

If Mama Cass would have shared half of her ham sandwich with Karen Carpenter would they both be alive today?

I've heard that one Jantz...nothing wrong with a little morbid humor.;)

I've heard this one somewhere before:

If Phil Rizzuto's wife married Joey Cora, what would her name be?

And if on a French Polynesian Island was watching a classic 1970 war movie, what would she be doing?

Cora Cora would be on Bora Bora watching Tora! Tora! Tora!:)

Wowah, Wowah, Wowah..... let's go back to those feet and head. Did that head go further or farther?

nice
 

Not quite the questions I was looking for but very nice indeed. Now here's a good one.

Which came first the chicken or the egg? (hint - there is a definitive answer)

If Tuesday Weld married Bobby Orr, divorced him and married Rick Monday, divorced him and married Ray Knight, divorced him and married the actor Frederic March III, her name would be:

Tuesday Orr Monday Knight March III

(I actually heard that one from Tim McCarver).

Frank- to me "further" and "farther" are interchangeable, but I believe there is a nuance between them. If you know please share.

Leon- I'll guess the egg.

Cheer up my brother, live in the sunshine
 

It's OK, Frank. Brad got his Ph.D. in Aeronautics Engineering from Wharton.

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Is that 37.7 feet really true, or is it a joke? I have no idea. If it is true, how do you calculate it?

Invoking the further/farther rule
 

Brad, I think Alex Trebek would reject David's answer. The question refers to time rather than distance.

good guess
 

Good guess but why? is the question now!!

Leave your zipper down in case you have to count to eleven
 

It's really true.
Circumference of Earth:
C=2πr [Circumference equals 2 times pi times radius]
Circumference of track of six foot tall man's head circumnavigating Earth:
C=2π(r+6)
Subtract the former from the latter and you get the further (f):
2π(r+6)-2πr=f
Expand the equation, you get:
2πr +12π -2πr=12π=12(3.1416)=37.7' further

Unclerube: Maybe he hits a timewarp along the way.

This Is Especially for Barry
 

Can you eat your cake and have it, too?

Leon- why the egg? Why not?

David- glad I asked. I recognized pi, the rest was a little hazy

Kevin- I don't like cake:(

Let's Try a Different Approach...
 

Assuming you like pie (or pi)...

Can you eat your pie and have it, too? :)

It's more about the sentence than the food! Most people say it backwards.

From Wikipedia:

The phrase's earliest recording is from 1546 as "wolde you bothe eate your cake, and have your cake?" (John Heywood's "A dialogue Conteinyng the Nomber in Effect of All the Prouerbes in the Englishe Tongue") alluding to the impossibility of eating your cake and still having it afterwards. The modern version (where the clauses are reversed) is a corruption which was first signaled in 1812.

I went to George Washington University... Not Wharton...

I found out a few days ago that my great, great, ..., great grandfather was friends with George Washington... I thought that was pretty neat...

Are PETA people allowed to use the word "FURther"?

It's an expression. Expressions shouldn't be taken literally.

PETA: People Eating Tasty Animals

This is the phrase that eventually got the Unibomber caught. The Unibomber mis-used the phrase in several of his writings... His brother recognized the mis-use of the phrase and turned his brother into law enforcement...

Was joking, Brad. The Wharton reference was for another Board member not known for his absolute command of orthography.

David,

Are you insinuating that someone's brain is not able to communicate with the board's "writing mechanism?"

I think...therefore I am......
 

I believe there is a "law of inclusion" though I can't find it right off hand, that says something to the effect of:

"whichever element is inside the other had to come first"

Jim: That's a good one. :)
Leon: Where are you going with this? :o

Lost me there. Was the egg inside the chicken or the chicken inside the egg.

woops
 

Woops...sorry, I misstated my own answer :(. The chicken came first as it's inside the egg. I think I will go make an omelette and forget about science for a while....

But the egg is inside the chicken too!

Hence the enigma.

An enigma yes, but Leon claims to have solved it. The egg is in his court.

Spring . . the bird is on the wing.
But dat's absoid! The wing is on the boid.
-ancient Mad Magazine bit

PS. Leon: That Orange Border Wagner would look great in an SGC slab.

Spring is sprung.

The grass is ris.

I wonder where the boidy is.



(Ancient Brooklyn Schollboy Poem.)

This is an etc.
 

Early in the morning late at night.
Two good boys got up to fight.
Back to back they faced each other.
Drew their swords and shot each other.
A deft policeman heard the noise and shook the life out of those dead boys
Now if you don't believe my story is true ask the blind man he saw it too.

They're not really supposed to be interchangeable.

Farther is used when actually or metaphorically speaking of distance. He can hit a ball farther than anyone. He went farther up the corporate ladder than any of his peers.

Further is used when speaking of non tangible progression. He was able to further his ideas with the forum.

How many baseball cards collectors does it take to change a light bulb?

God created birds on the 5th day.

Wow. If this board turns into Creationism vs. Evolution, I'm out of here.


I already live in Texas where the Board of Education debates it every year.


:D

Thanks Don. It makes perfect sense.

Texas is a little backward, Jim.

They're not interchangeable. Well, at least they're not meant to be.

Farther should be used for physical distance and further for metaphorical or figurative distance.

It's all relative, Barry. Folks in Kansas think Texas is on the lunatic fringe.


(No offense to anyone in Kansas. I'm just saying...)

Has there ever been a Net 54 thread that went farther, further, and faster off the rails than this one?

Right now, if someone made a baseball card observation on here, would they have to note it as OT?

What's a baseball card? ---and why would anyone care?

As long as we're already OT...


Word of the day: 1. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

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I think this has become the thread not to discuss baseball cards. It's for filling time on a lazy Saturday afternoon (springlike in Brooklyn today).

............ and for a virtual illiterate like me, easy to remember:

Farther = FAR = Distance

Cheer up my brother, live in the sunshine
 

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How about "far out", which doesn't express distance but a state of mind?

I haven't really checked out the site for a couple of days, I come back today and see this thread!
Wow! Where am I? Chickens/Eggs, Further/Farther, etc.../etc...,
RC

What could be more appropriate at this juncture than an elephant joke?

What is the difference between a beer joint & an elephant fart?

You've got me Fred.

One's a bar room and the other is a BAROOOOM!

Hey Barry--

You & I may be the only ones left alive for this thread, so here 'ya go---

A beer joint is a bar room--an elephant fart is a BARRR----OOOOOOOM!

By the way, I wonder if this is the FIRST elephant joke ever on Net54?

---and if it isn't, I'll bet it's the 1st one that, because of this thread, wouldn't be considered OT!



PS---Jim--You slipped in while I was typing! Good job!

We haven't had that many elephant jokes.

elephant joke
 

So there's a guy sitting on a fence in Arizona snapping his fingers. Another guy comes up and asks him what he is doing? Guy on the fence tells him he is keeping elephants away. Guy that walked up says, there ain't any elephants for thousands of miles of here. Guy on fence says "it's working ain't it!!"

What is the difference between Yankee fans and dentists?

I'll stab!

A dentist is a pain in the mouth while a Yankee fan is a pain in the -ss!