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Olly Buckle · 11-07-2007, 11:37 AM

Spot on Huni, self derogatory in this case, no one else included, I know it's tautology, just being double sure I am the most junior of the junior staff. Bobs head, touches cap, shambles off.

vangoghsear · 11-07-2007, 12:33 PM

Probably didn't mean me, but...

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Originally Posted by Olly Buckle

But still wish that I could sometimes be
Like Dannyboy or those who start with v

Cran · 11-07-2007, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Olly Buckle

Cran:-Is that second quote in your signature from Schroediger?

uh ... no ...

Schroedinger's cat suffered from the Uncertainty Principle -
didn't know if it was dead or alive ...

until someone opened the box ...

the second quote in my signature ... is mine ...

Olly Buckle · 11-07-2007, 03:05 PM

Vangoghsear you are most definitely included in my wish.

I thought it was that you could not be sure the cat was still in the box until you opened it, I picked up my science from Dirk Gently's holistic detective agency by Douglas Adams, that was why the joke, piss poor joke anyway, sorry.

Olly Buckle · 11-07-2007, 04:38 PM

Eiji, Ilasir. stop complaining and go look at my new thread in writing challenges, "write a poem"
When were you last called a goer Ilasir, sorry but it's a rhyme, sort of.

Olly Buckle · 11-07-2007, 04:38 PM

Cran · 11-07-2007, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Olly Buckle

I thought it was that you could not be sure the cat was still in the box until you opened it, I picked up my science from Dirk Gently's holistic detective agency by Douglas Adams, that was why the joke, piss poor joke anyway, sorry.

Apology not necessary - the joke was fine ...

Douglas Adams - great science humourist, lousy science teacher ...

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Schrödinger proposed his "cat", after a suggestion of Albert Einstein's. He states that if a scenario existed where a cat's state of life or death could be made dependent on the state of a subatomic particle, and also isolated from any possible observation, the state of the cat itself would be a superposition — according to the Copenhagen interpretation, at least.

Schrödinger did not wish to promote the idea of dead-and-alive cats as a serious possibility. Rather he believed the "absurd" conclusion indicated a flawed assumption.

- from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger's_cat

with apologies to Schrödinger for mis-spelling his name ...

The Backward OX · 11-08-2007, 06:28 AM

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Originally Posted by huni

I thought the title was a reference to the old saying (derogatory) that "Those that can - do, those that cant' - teach".

Nothing derogatory in truth, Uluru-climber.

Olly Buckle · 11-08-2007, 04:55 PM

Enlighten me Ox, what is Uluru-climber

Amara-J · 11-08-2007, 04:58 PM

huni wrote a poem called Uluru. Here are the links:

First version: http://www.writingforums.com/poetry/87672-uluru.html

Second edit: http://www.writingforums.com/poetry/...-2nd-edit.html

Cheers.

Cran · 11-08-2007, 05:01 PM

travel to the red heart of Australia ...
find the second biggest, but most famous rock in the world ...
follow the chained path to the top ...

and there, young pilgrim, you shall find your answer ...

or, you could track down and read huni's poem on the subject ...

actually, I don't think huni claimed to have climbed ...
only to have witnessed ...

ms. vodka · 11-08-2007, 05:04 PM

awww it's been a long time since i've been written into a poem here.

and a fun one too.

and i don't know olly, i think you're holding your own pretty dang well.

jen

Olly Buckle · 11-08-2007, 07:36 PM

Complimenting a lady often draws one in return I find, have you noticed my thread "write a poem" in writing challenge? More people are mentioned there.

Oh you mean Ayres Rock don't you?

The Backward OX · 11-08-2007, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Olly Buckle

Enlighten me Ox, what is Uluru-climber

Seems you didn’t need my answer.

Although, one could start a discussion over whether Uluru/Ayers Rock in Central Australia is or is not the world’s largest rock. Some argue that its competitor for the title - Mt. Augustus, in Western Australia - is a monocline, while Uluru is a monolith. So one might say huni’s rock is the world’s largest monolith and just keep quiet about monoclines. But then you find some smartarse on Google Earth Community saying Uluru isn’t really a monolith but part of a far larger and more complex underground rock formation which includes The Olgas, twenty-eight rounded hills twenty-seven clicks (seventeen miles, give or take) west of Uluru.

Whatever, Uluru is also famous as the spot where Lindy Chamberlain’s baby daughter Azaria was allegedly taken by a dingo, in August 1980. Those who laugh at American actors imitating Pommy accents should listen to Meryl Streep trying to talk like an Aussie in Evil Angels, the movie about it all.

And to wrap it up, Texas just isn’t in it when it comes to “world’s biggest anything” (except perhaps world’s biggest idiot). We have not only the world’s biggest rocks, but the world’s biggest coral reef, biggest coastline, biggest golf-course, biggest solar power station, biggest telescope, biggest coal port, and biggest bullshitters.

Aren’t you sorry you asked?

Baron · 11-08-2007, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by The Backward OX

Seems you didn’t need my answer.

Although, one could start an discussion over whether Uluru/Ayers Rock in Central Australia is or is not the world’s largest rock. Some argue that its competitor for the title - Mt. Augustus, in Western Australia - is a monocline, while Uluru is a monolith. So one might say huni’s rock is the world’s largest monolith and just keep quiet about monoclines. But then you find some smartarse on Google Earth Community saying Uluru isn’t really a monolith but part of a far larger and more complex underground rock formation which includes The Olgas, twenty-eight rounded hills twenty-seven clicks (seventeen miles, give or take) west of Uluru.

Whatever, Uluru is also famous as the spot where Lindy Chamberlain’s baby daughter Azaria was allegedly taken by a dingo, in August 1980. Those who laugh at American actors imitating Pommy accents should listen to Meryl Streep trying to talk like an Aussie in Evil Angels, the movie about it all.

And to wrap it up, Texas just isn’t in it when it comes to “world’s biggest anything” (except perhaps world’s biggest idiot). We have not only the world’s biggest rocks, but the world’s biggest coral reef, biggest coastline, biggest golf-course, biggest solar power station, biggest telescope, biggest coal port, and biggest bullshitters.

Aren’t you sorry you asked?

And on top of all that you have Dame Edna, the monolith of culture.