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Why does buttered bread fall butter down on the carpet ?

To spite the FussBudget  >:(

Grrrrr  ;D
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LOL!  It doesn't only happen to you, Fuss!  :-/

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LOL!  It doesn't only happen to you, Fuss!  :-/
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Yes, but it doesn't spite me if your buttered bread falls on the floor !

Don't get me wrong, I would be sorry  ;)

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Yes, but it doesn't spite me if your buttered bread falls on the floor !

Don't get me wrong, I would be sorry  ;)
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Once again... :P

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Once again... :P
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Why don't the emoticons have noses ?

A : Nobody Nose.... ::)

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why do old people drive slow in the fast lane?
To piss young people off !

or why do they put brail(sp?) on drive up atms?
Do they??

or whats wrong with green eggs and ham?
They're mouldy and will make you sick !
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Why does buttered bread fall butter down on the carpet ?

To spite the FussBudget  >:(

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It's funny I can laugh about it now because I hate when that happens.

That's something to do with gravity and the weight of the butter on the one side. Yeah, I'm a regular Bill Nye (The Science Guy).  ;D

Here's one:

Why do your fingers get all "pruney" when swimming for too long?

One would think water would have the opposite effect and swell the skin.

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Why do your fingers get all "pruney" when swimming for too long?

One would think water would have the opposite effect and swell the skin.
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Not just your fingers, hey ?   I...oh...errr...ummm...BYE  ;D

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Why do your fingers get all "pruney" when swimming for too long?

One would think water would have the opposite effect and swell the skin.
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You've answered your own question, Hairspray: the skin does swell, but the finger underneath doesn't.  Since you have that extra area covering your same-sized digit, the skin around it goes all ruckled.

Phil
PS Yesterday morning, I dropped my son's Nutella on toast.  Two out of the four pieces fell Nutella side down, proving that it's only butter that doesn't play ball.

Phil's addendum: the odds on a piece of bread falling butter-side-down are proportional to the cost of the carpet

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Surely that's to do with the amount of the weight of the *spread inspecific* proportional to the toast....
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Weight, wind resistance, whatever - no, that might have some basis in science, rather than Sod's Law of the Universe.

Phil

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Not just your fingers, hey ?   I...oh...errr...ummm...BYE  ;D
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"George" experienced "shrinkage" in one "Seinfeld" episode.

That was from swimming too.  ;D

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You've answered your own question, Hairspray: the skin does swell, but the finger underneath doesn't.  Since you have that extra area covering your same-sized digit, the skin around it goes all ruckled.End Quote

Yeap, I'm a regular Bill Nye (The Science Guy).  ;D  ;)  8)

P.S. Nutella is awesome stuff! Mmmmmm........

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"George" experienced "shrinkage" in one "Seinfeld" episode.

That was from swimming too.  ;D
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You would think after all this time it would know better than to be afraid of a little water.... ::)

It IS supposed to have a mind of it's own, or so I am often reminded !  ;D

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"George" experienced "shrinkage" in one "Seinfeld" episode.

That was from swimming too.  ;D
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lol great episode, especially when the girls walked in on him changing , yeah definately a great episode

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If they get olive oil from squeezing olives and peanut oil from squeezing peanuts, where does baby oil come from?  ;)
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Darn!  I hate to think what my shaving oil has been squeezed out of  :o

Though reminds me of one other: what's the difference between mashed potato and pea soup?

Phil

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okay this is pretty simple, you think of some weird explanations for things that happen naturally in nature
like for example:

Why is the sky blue? because it wants to be.  :)

im not really good at this, but i want to see how you guys respond to this.
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actually, although the sky appears to be blue, it is, technically, black.  ;) It is an optical illusion.

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Another one is about what you mentioned, butter.

So you know how buttered toast would almost certainly always land butter side down, right?  And cats always land on their feet, soooooooooooo...strap buttered toast butter side up on the back of a cat, then toss him in the air.  By these corollaries, the cat and butter combination will continue to hover in the air...or crash to the ground, I don't know which.  But it does explain why UFOs sound like a thousand cats purring.
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LMAO



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If they get olive oil from squeezing olives and peanut oil from squeezing peanuts, where does baby oil come from?  ;)




Cat
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lol, johnson and johnsons baby oil, sqeezed from only the best babies  ;D

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Didn't know whether to put this here or in the
"A super-saturated solution is one that holds more than it can hold."
"The skeleton is what is left after the insides have been taken out and the outsides have been taken off. The purpose of the skeleton is something to hitch meat to."
"To keep milk from turning sour: Keep it in the cow."

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...and one straight out of my son's joke book:

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"Vacumm: A large, empty space where the pope lives."

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...he asked me to explain that one only last week.

Phil

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I have a condiment-related question:

What are the ingredients in allspice?

They are not listed.

It's like there's a conspiracy to keep the ingredients to that particular condiment a secret.

Then again...

Maybe the answer is easy and I just didn't care enough to solve the mystery in the first place.  :P

What about the ones in Chinese 5 spice?  ???
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Allspice is not a mixture of spices it is the name of one single spice similar to nutmeg.

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Allspice is not a mixture of spices it is the name of one single spice similar to nutmeg.End Quote

I have heard that before, but was also told of it being a mixture of spices by foreign chefs on 2 different occasions. Maybe they had their own recipe for allspice.  ???

Thanks Gis!  :)

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What about the ones in Chinese 5 spice?  ???
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Beijing's version of the Spice Girls ??? ;D

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"Respiration is composed of two acts, first inspiration, and then expectoration."
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*gasp* *cough* *spit* ... this is true ... must have had a cold like the one I have now...

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why do old people drive slow in the fast lane?
or why do they put brail(sp?) on drive up atms?
or whats wrong with green eggs and ham?
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Had a tough time 'cuz I didn't know what brail was, if you meant "braille" or the little dots that you can feel, it's for the blind drivers  8). (haven't you ever heard the ever so popular expression "what the f... are you doing, are you f...ng blind!!??" yelled from one driver to another?

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I knew someone who worked for The Association of the Blind and Visually Impared who used to work with "mobility" meaning, he taught people how to use the white cane and such. He once told me that he used to drive a motocycle on his way to meet clients-complete with white canes in hand. He said that what he wanted to do was pull up to a light, prior to the white line, take out the cane and start tapping as if he was looking for the white line. I'm sure that would make the people around him very nervious.




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... and how likely it was that same spider, upon biting a human, could make that human a Spider-Man...
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...not to mention whether, there is a possible mutation which allows for the breaking of the laws of physics, or that the mutation must occur in pretty much EVERY cell in the body, or at least all germ cells, in order to hang around for more than a few days

But it is about as likely as drinking some goo and turning into a green goblin-like character ;-)

Phil

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My friend and I tried to calculate how likely it was that a spider could be irradiated enough to acquire the ability to transfer its powers, and how likely it was that same spider, upon biting a human, could make that human a Spider-Man.  We were missing a bunch of details, but based on mutational probabilities, our number turned out to be very small.  You have a better chance of winning the lottery ten thousand times than becoming Spider-Man :P
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Which begs the question... what super hero is the likeliest?  Some guy from another planet?  A guy with gills?  A chrome dome fellow hanging ten on a silver surfboard...?

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Which begs the question... what super hero is the likeliest?  Some guy from another planet?  A guy with gills?  A chrome dome fellow hanging ten on a silver surfboard...?
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Ya wanna get technical, Batman's the one who is "most likely" to really be able to exist.  Remember he had no powers, just really good athletic ability, martial-arts training, and cool gadgets bought with his inherited fourtune.

As to those with actual powers, I'd guess Daredevil.  He's blind, but compensates with his other senses.  Scientists have proven that a blind person's hearing does not really get better, but he/she pays better attention to what is heard.

But now that doctors can partially or completly restore hearing loss with surgury, why couldn't it also happen due to a chemical?
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Restore hearing in some cases.  
Who's Iron Man?  Tony Stark?  Isn't he just a guy with a weak heart in a cool metal full-body suit?

And I can't remember their names, but didn't Marvel and DC both have magicians...

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Restore hearing in some cases.  
Who's Iron Man?  Tony Stark?  Isn't he just a guy with a weak heart in a cool metal full-body suit?

And I can't remember their names, but didn't Marvel and DC both have magicians...
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Iron Man is Tony Stark...he's a Bruce Wayne-type billionaire, except he's more like a Superman than a Batman.  They did the weak heart-need suit angle later in the hero's development though.

DC had Zatanna, Dr. Fate and the Spectre...there might be more.  Marvel just had Dr. Strange, he's the big guy, but that doesn't mean there aren't side characters.

I agree with Kat, Batman is like the ultimate "reality" superhero.  Imagine if Bill Gates were more badass!