Qwpzxjor1 Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 Anatidaephobia is the fear that you are being watched by a duck .....It's from Gary Larson's Far Side, my favourite ever cartoon sketch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted March 30, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted March 30, 2010 Your name can have a significant effect on the perception people have of you, going so far as to even make you appear more attractive or successful in others eyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted March 31, 2010 Moderator Share Posted March 31, 2010 In The Big Lebowski, the only time Donny fails to make a strike in the movie is just before he dies at the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Your name can have a significant effect on the perception people have of you, going so far as to even make you appear more attractive or successful in others eyes. weird you say that as the other day I was thinking I don't know any ugly girls called Sarah , in fact every Sarah I've known has always been above average in the "she'd get it " stakes .. every Lisa I've ever known has always been a bit flirty and every bloke I've ever met called Ian has been extremely unfunny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted March 31, 2010 Moderator Share Posted March 31, 2010 And I've never met an Alison that wasn't a minger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 how long before we get the first ..Oi my bird /wife is called Alison :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted March 31, 2010 Moderator Share Posted March 31, 2010 Unless there's a pic then she'll still be a minger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 In The Big Lebowski, the only time Donny fails to make a strike in the movie is just before he dies at the end. And ‘the dude’ never actually bowls a ball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted March 31, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted March 31, 2010 There is only one English professional football team whose name contains none of the letters in the word "mackerel". Swindon TownCorrect. Did you Google it, or work it out? It's a pretty old brain teaser to be fair, i think the answer is fairly well known. One of the rules of "Drinking Soccer Saturday" is to shout MAckerel every time Swindon are mentioned because of that brain teaser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted March 31, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted March 31, 2010 There is only one English professional football team whose name contains none of the letters in the word "mackerel". Swindon Town Correct. Did you Google it, or work it out? It's a pretty old brain teaser to be fair, i think the answer is fairly well known. One of the rules of "Drinking Soccer Saturday" is to shout MAckerel every time Swindon are mentioned because of that brain teaser. How annoying, I didn't know that. We had a round of five "mackerel" questions in our pub quiz on monday, and that was the only one we didn't get (the others were; country, U.S. state, London tube station and element). We still won though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phumfeinz Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 the largest number known to man is called Graham after professor graham. this ends in a 7, it was discovered in the 70's. Prior to this the largest number known was a googolplex. The zeroes in a googleplex would fill every atom in the universe, a Graham is massively larger A Graham is not the largest number known to man, as BOF ably demonstrated. However, it was once the largest number known to be used in a reasonably useful mathematical proof. Interestingly that proof was to solve a certain problem in Ramsey theory. If it does end in a 7, wouldn't ending it with an 8/9/0 instead make it bigger? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSufferingVilla Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 As determined by none other than myself, the largest number known to man is called a "Villa" and is the largest number ever calculated +1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted March 31, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted March 31, 2010 And I've never met an Alison that wasn't a minger What about Allison (two L's)? The amount of time in my high school years I spent wanking... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted April 1, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted April 1, 2010 the largest number known to man is called Graham after professor graham. this ends in a 7, it was discovered in the 70's. Prior to this the largest number known was a googolplex. The zeroes in a googleplex would fill every atom in the universe, a Graham is massively larger A Graham is not the largest number known to man, as BOF ably demonstrated. However, it was once the largest number known to be used in a reasonably useful mathematical proof. Interestingly that proof was to solve a certain problem in Ramsey theory. If it does end in a 7, wouldn't ending it with an 8/9/0 instead make it bigger? The Graham has never been claimed (except by colhint, who misunderstood things) to be the biggest number. It merely was, for a time, the largest "magic" number in a useful mathematical proof (magic in the sense that it's the specific number that made the proof work). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted April 1, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted April 1, 2010 Cats and dogs have developed more childlike features (big eyes, heads etc) as a way of placing themselves into a family structure normally occupied by a human child. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted April 1, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted April 1, 2010 Broccoli was vital to bringing James Bond to the silver screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ED Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 As determined by none other than myself, the largest number known to man is called a "Villa" and is the largest number ever calculated +1. Is it the number of goals we let in on saturday? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted April 1, 2010 Moderator Share Posted April 1, 2010 As determined by none other than myself, the largest number known to man is called a "Villa" and is the largest number ever calculated +1. Is it the number of goals we let in on saturday? No, we've already established that a number ending in 7 is not the largest number known to man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted April 2, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted April 2, 2010 The two and three toed species of sloth are both exceptions to a 'mammalian rule' - almost all mammals have 7 neck vertabrae, even those with very long or short necks. These sloths have 6 and 9 respectively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted April 2, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted April 2, 2010 The two and three toed species of sloth are both exceptions to a 'mammalian rule' - almost all mammals have 7 neck vertabrae, even those with very long or short necks. These sloths have 6 and 9 respectively.I'm quite surprised that none of those are Fibonacci numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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