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[wibbles]

Originally posted by Jamie

I am not crying wibbles .... only asking why you're so quick to get personal with people you don't know ???

chill out..stop being over sensitive...It wasn't meant in a nasty sort of way but if I saw someone that could lick their elbow I'd be thinking they were a bit weird..may freak-like

[Jamie]

Originally posted by wibbles

... It wasn't meant in a nasty sort of way ...

 

S'ok then ... just sounded a bit like you were saying I was a freak that's all.

 

I can't like my elbow personally ... I am about 1.5 inch away ... but some people can.

[Phanerothyme]

Originally posted by mimicraze

Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump. [/b]

 

I have yet to see a slug jump either.

 

Elephants are one of the few vertbrates to have 4 knees.

[saxon51]

Here’s one.

 

Using a chessboard, place 1ml of water from an eyedropper on the first square.

Place 2ml on the second square.

Place 4ml on the third square.

Place 8ml on the fourth square…. and so on, doubling the amount for each square right up to the 64th square.

 

NB: Use an old chessboard, you might ruin it.

 

How much water will there be on the 64th square?

 

 

Ans. = 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 ml

 

or 9,223,372,036,854,776 litres

 

or 9,223,372,036,855 cubic metres (tonnes)

 

Equivalent to a body of water 1 km deep with a surface area of 9,223 sq km

 

Boy, is that one really buggered-up chessboard!!!

[saxon51]

A spider has enough gossamer in its spinneret at any one time to reach the moon and back (500,000 miles!!). NATO have lost 23 spiders to oxygen starvation so far trying to prove it.

[saxon51]

There are more people alive on earth at this moment than have ever lived and died throughout human existence up until 50 years ago:loopy:

[saxon51]

A fart in a wooden chair is louder than a fart in an upholstered chair. I've just proved it!!!

[mojoworking]

Originally posted by markham

Here’s one.

 

Using a chessboard, place 1ml of water from an eyedropper on the first square.

Place 2ml on the second square.

Place 4ml on the third square.

Place 8ml on the fourth square…. and so on, doubling the amount for each square right up to the 64th square.

 

NB: Use an old chessboard, you might ruin it.

 

How much water will there be on the 64th square?

 

 

Ans. = 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 ml

 

or 9,223,372,036,854,776 litres

 

or 9,223,372,036,855 cubic metres (tonnes)

 

Equivalent to a body of water 1 km deep with a surface area of 9,223 sq km

 

Boy, is that one really buggered-up chessboard!!!

 

I heard a variation of that one, but with grains of rice instead of water.

 

Apparently, by the 64th square there is enough rice to cover the whole of India to a depth of 12 inches (or some equally unfathomable amount)

[mojoworking]

Originally posted by Bedhead

if a shark went backward - it would die

 

That one works better if you point out that sharks die if they stop swimming. No swim bladder, apparently, so they can't "hover" in the water and have to keep water passing through their gills

[saxon51]

Originally posted by markham

Here’s one.

 

Using a chessboard, place 1ml of water from an eyedropper on the first square.

Place 2ml on the second square.

Place 4ml on the third square.

Place 8ml on the fourth square…. and so on, doubling the amount for each square right up to the 64th square.

 

NB: Use an old chessboard, you might ruin it.

 

How much water will there be on the 64th square?

 

 

Ans. = 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 ml

 

or 9,223,372,036,854,776 litres

 

or 9,223,372,036,855 cubic metres (tonnes)

 

Equivalent to a body of water 1 km deep with a surface area of 9,223 sq km

 

Boy, is that one really buggered-up chessboard!!!

 

That by the way is an area of land 60 miles x 60 miles, so we could easily flood Lancashire and most of Manchester.

 

Sam Mig., if you're reading this, grab your chessboard and eyedropper and meet us on the Woodhead pass if they release you when your sanity certificate has been granted.