Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:50 am
Full Metal Alchemist wrote:What makes a clock tick?
Everyone knows the answer to that one. Its just the tock that's the mystery.
Tue Jan 18, 2005 9:15 am
_jaye_ wrote:Who are you?
I am me. *Puts on a Rafiki-type voice* The question is... who are you?
Why is it that when you open a bottle of Squirt, it doesn't go squirt, but *Fsst*?
Tue Jan 18, 2005 11:49 am
Why fish never sink? :)
Tue Jan 18, 2005 1:48 pm
Scholastic wrote:Why fish never sink?
But they do! If they float that means they are dead.
Tue Jan 18, 2005 4:47 pm
This one stumped me.
How do you know that the blue you see is the same as the blue everyone else sees? (As in colour)
How do you know that the blue you see is the same as the blue everyone else sees? (As in colour)
Tue Jan 18, 2005 4:55 pm
Qanda wrote:Scholastic wrote:Why fish never sink? :)
But they do! If they float that means they are dead. :P
Make sense. :)
Another one, why fish never feel thirsty? :)
Tue Jan 18, 2005 5:56 pm
Twinkle wrote:This one stumped me.
How do you know that the blue you see is the same as the blue everyone else sees? (As in colour)
I've wondered that too. We could all be seeing different colours, but never know it...
Tue Jan 18, 2005 6:05 pm
Cassi wrote:Twinkle wrote:This one stumped me.
How do you know that the blue you see is the same as the blue everyone else sees? (As in colour)
I've wondered that too. We could all be seeing different colours, but never know it...
I know... and we all know them by the same name, so we couldn't just go out and ask: "Is this red, or green?"
Tue Jan 18, 2005 6:19 pm
Twizzler0171 wrote:Cassi wrote:Twinkle wrote:This one stumped me.
How do you know that the blue you see is the same as the blue everyone else sees? (As in colour)
I've wondered that too. We could all be seeing different colours, but never know it...
I know... and we all know them by the same name, so we couldn't just go out and ask: "Is this red, or green?"
Because the wavelength of blue light doesnt vary between people and generally retinal cells and such are 'standardised.' Thus, the likelihood of me seeing blue as actually a green colour and not knowing it are slim.
Tue Jan 18, 2005 6:44 pm
the retinal side of the argumant is sound yes.
but the brain doesnt perceive things the same from person to person (EG: dispraxia and althzeimers (im sure thats spelled wrong)
i myself have dyspraxia (mild form of althzeimers) so what i see is entirely differant to what you see.
but the brain doesnt perceive things the same from person to person (EG: dispraxia and althzeimers (im sure thats spelled wrong)
i myself have dyspraxia (mild form of althzeimers) so what i see is entirely differant to what you see.
Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:20 pm
why do british people put that pointless extra "u" in the word "color"?
Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:24 pm
Why did Amercian people take out the u in "colour"?
Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:26 pm
What always stumped me was why most brits say cant as in carnt and Americans say it can t but we say pasta and they say pahstah! hmmmm 
Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:29 pm
Zero wrote:...How much wood COULD a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
I think the REAL question is 'How many swords could a sword chuck chuck if a sword chuck could chuck swords?'
One of my favorite questions...
'Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he himself couldn't eat it?'
Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:41 pm
skizzy the wonder lizard wrote:why do british people put that pointless extra "u" in the word "color"?
we didnt, you took it out.
why did you take it out?
well, it goes back to the closing days of your little insurgant war, having realised you would win (we were more concerned with the african colonies, much more lucrative) you thought you needed your own language.
so you took a few "u"s out of our language.