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*Bob*

*Bob*

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bean_and_legumes Wrote:

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> i request more questions like "Donald Duck never

> wears trousers. but always wraps a towel round his

> waist after bathing - why?"

> and less well known, mathematically and logically

> solvable problems like the three doors probability

> pooper..


I thought I was getting into the spirit of things, Beans.

After all, you did start us off with a biology O-level yawner classic.

*Bob*

*Bob*

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Alas, I did GCSEs too.

But a teacher began one of our lessons by writing said oyster/shell conundrum on the blackboard. I think it was a way of gettin dahn wit da kidz. "Hey - science can be fun!"


I could only assume it must have been in his biology o-level paper, circa 1935.

david_carnell

david_carnell

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Honestly, you really, really must switch. Chav gets close to the mark though. If the host knows which door has the car behind it - switch. If he opens doors randomly - it makes no difference what you do. The problem can be simplified if you increase the number of doors. Say to 100. Choose a door. The host then opens 98 other doors all revealing goats leaving one other door and your original door. The chances of you having picked the door with the car the first time round are very small so of course you would then switch.


If you want the long and frankly overly complicated answer, Wikipedia (as always) is on hand.


On a lighter note, why do many hands make light work and yet too many cooks spoil the broth?

Brendan

Brendan

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Why does a series of Zs indicate that someone is asleep? Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz


Is it some kind of onomatopoeia? I have never heard a sleeping person make a sound that sounds like Zzzzzzzzzzz.


And is it peculiar to English or does Zzzzzzzzzzz mean that someone is asleep in Portuguese, French or Swahili too?

Brendan

Brendan

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giggirl Wrote:

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> If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats

> always land on their feet, what happens if you

> strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?


I think you have just solved the world?s energy crisis by inventing a perpetual motion machine.

Bellenden Belle

Bellenden Belle

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giggirl Wrote:

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> If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats

> always land on their feet, what happens if you

> strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?


I get all my scientific knowledge from fiction - so forgive me if ths is wrong.... but according to Jonathan Safran Foer in his book Extrememly Loud and Incredibly Close - if you drop a cat from say the second floor, they will die.... but drop them from say the top of a tower block - say eighteen floors - and they will have time to relax, and arch their bodies, effectively creating a parachute effect, so they will land on their feet.

There's even an illustration in the book to demonstrate this.


So if the bread is fresh and has the ability to bend, it will survive; toast or a bagel I believe would hinder the cat's ability to arch its back ... meaning death for both.

Brendan

Brendan

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annaj Wrote:

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> Brendan, a semi-detached (ie in physical contact

> with another home on only one side) home on the

> coast I would imagine. Not nearly as mysterious as

> the other questions on here if you don't mind me

> saying so.


So that song's about a house then.

annaj

annaj

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What song?


Oh dear, have I just been spectacularly naive and/or completely missed the point?

There is only one other interpretation I can think of - "a semi" is also what a man has when half way from flaccid to erect. Given the correct stimulation, that could happen anywhere including by the sea!


Edited, because falccid is not, in fact, a real word!

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