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Actually I do know a few about that subject, but this isn't the place, is it? I thought JC wasn't really supposed to have got it on with "that woman", was he? Is equivocating about whether you're being equivocal or not, equal to "just" equivocating, or is it really, really? That's sic, dude. customer: "Is that the helpdesk? Yeah my mouse isn't working again, it's right at the other edge of the desk this time, and I can't move it any further, what should I do?" helpdesk: (former Eng.Lit. student) "Have you tried moving it farther?"

"Once the linear function of hydrocarbon oxidation no longer commutes with the entropic cycle of the engine-space, The system will not admit any allowed harmonics and the wave-function should collapse." (Moi, encore)

"Iuvenes dum dumus": q. What did the philosophy student say to the medical student? a. "I'm sic." Scientists think Philosophers think about things that aren't interesting. Philosophers think about why Scientists think that their science is 'interesting'.

In Australia, a canneloni is usually understood to mean someone drinking by themselves. "An accident at sea can ruin your entire day" --1st century B.C. Sicilian Roman general I just remembered this one: Two neutrinos go through a bar...

"A Merry Xmas and Happy New Year from the management to all our customers. If what you have left with us over the past twelve months isn't complete rubbish, it will do 'til we get some." q. What did the proton say to the electron? a. "That's no charge, for you..."

I recall a IS lecture about "Fukawe birds", which are a navigational paradigm, in database searches, or graph traversals, and so on. They are used to construct the query: "where the Fukawe?"...

It's the way he looks, of course Q. How can you tell if an engineer is an extrovert? A. He looks at your shoes when he talks to you.

`T ain` no thang... "Photons have long been believed to be completely hairless; some expect to find bald photons after all: this is (the scientists say) because they have lost their hair --possibly photon hairpieces will be discovered too" --yours, etc... WE sure need to measure change, or we are bound to observe it because we're changing too. But it's a number, for 'crying out loud'... --this was how the 'time' was first "told", in fact, and this is therefore a chronistic pun, which, like a colloquial sobriquet, is just "one of those things"

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.” ~ Terry Pratchett

Women are a lot like cars. Every man wants a hot, sexy-looking one stashed somewhere so he can take it for a drive every now and then, while the other, ordinary-looking one that's easier to handle and gets more mileage is back at home. Never a dull moment Q. What's the good thing about Alzheimers? A. You're always meeting new people...!

No links to add to the groaning table, so just a comment, with whatever weight it may have: Applied Mathematics is what helps make a whole lot of the (modern) world go, and its applicability to something like Art or Music, or Literature, or any subject that I would guess many reading this would place firmly outside of the realm of Science, isn't just possible, it's been happening ever since we picked up a paintbrush, or started to create music and rhythm. I was surprised to see a comment (in the first post) about the surprise someone experienced when discovering that Music was a mathematical topic. But of course music (being a science of harmonies and sound and beat) is mathematical, and represents one of our earliest attempts to find order and meaning in the world...

Hi, I'm the kiwi bloke with the stupid name -which is completely intentional btw. I'm pretty interested in science, and into a lot of different stuff (chemistry, physics, electronics, condensed-matter, quantum theories, informatics, even biology and yawning)... I have a (first) degree (Comp. Sci.) but have studied all the other stuff, so am "capable", I feel with this science thing. I'm into any good discussion that looks at some of the basics, or the more exotic stuff, maybe. I don't really have any advanced math, this is ok because I understand what math is (projection, mapping, modeling, etc). I guess I'm a bit of a polymath. I play piano, mostly classical stuff (because much of the modern stuff is way too easy). I also speak a bit of Latin, and my motto is: "ut sapiens sibi fortunam habet, ergo iucundum sapere debet" (since knowledge is its own reward, learning should be fun)... See ya

Ok, so you've heard the one about the guy who pulls up to the gates of a crematorium and asks the security guard "You got a light?"...

What does the sign say at the top of Irish ladders? “Stop”. If “can't” is a contraction of “cannot”, is “cart” a contraction of “carrot”? Or is it a contraption?

Has anyone else suggested having a language topic, at all? Wherein the terminology and usage etc. gets discussed and people contribute their version of it? Could also have a metaphor and analogy subsection, or whatever, to discuss the use (valid or otherwise) of same. Scientists use analogy and metaphor all the time, don't they? We might (e.g.) explore the metaphor of science as religion. I mean there are parallels. Science has ritual, a following, temples of learning, etc. These (and plenty of others) could be explored from this angle (metaphor et analogy). No? Yes? Or would it mean too many opportunities for, um, non-scientific or illogical argument? Wouldn't want to do that... or anutha sectin abot moden languag nd it's used. Wot u think? but culd b even herdr 2 work that 1 no woddiym sayn?