Unutterably Silly Corrupt-A-Topic (anymore off-topic and it would be on-topic)

[crich70]

Newsflash: Mr. Milburn Pennybags (better known as Rich Uncle Pennybags) announced today that 1 billion Monopoly dollars had gone missing from his estate. Police are baffled as to how the theft came about as you don't just put a billion dollars in your wallet and walk out.

[Solitaire1]

Originally Posted by Dylrob

You mean the prior statement wasn't off-topic?

*fines Solitaire 1 billion Monopoly dollars for being on-topic in an off-topic zone*

If I make a post that is on-topic, then I make the latter part of my post about an completely unrelated topic to take it off topic and stay in keeping with the thread guidelines.

Now, to take this off topic:

Why do we call sneakers "sneakers?" They don't seem to be very quiet since they squeak as you walk, preventing you from sneaking up on people.

[crich70]

Originally Posted by Solitaire1

If I make a post that is on-topic, then I make the latter part of my post about an completely unrelated topic to take it off topic and stay in keeping with the thread guidelines.

Now, to take this off topic:

Why do we call sneakers "sneakers?" They don't seem to be very quiet since they squeak as you walk, preventing you from sneaking up on people.

I think it's cause London bobbies took to wearing them when trying to sneak up on Jack the Ripper. Of course he may have had a pair as well since they never did catch him.

[trichobezoar]

Hob the Troll





Hob the Troll lives under a bridge and hates goats, for reasons that should be obvious. He is occasionally drawn out from his sanctuary to gatherings of nerdy humans in bodices and jerkins, throwing axes and drinking mead. He plays music for them, and they give him coin to stop.

“Hob Sings!” is his first album.

Listen to "Hob Sings!" at www.Last.FM!

[Solitaire1]

If time is actually a circle, then time travel into the past might be possible. Just go into suspended animation, wait until the end of time, pass through the barrier and arrive at the beginning of time. Then, wait until you arrive at your destination.

[Hitch]

I need a cakewreck so bad it's painful. Barring that, http://clientsfromhell.net/. If that doesn't work, I'm running over to either Slushpilehell or lousybookcovers. I am just needy, needy, needy.

Hitch

[Solitaire1]

I was thinking about the song "The Twelve Days Of Christmas" and a humorous article I read a long time which shows the results of receiving all of those gifts. It ends with (among other things) the recipient's home being destroyed due to crowding.

Thinking about it, I realized that if you take the song as written then the amount of items the recipient receives is even more massive. The recipient doesn't receive just one partridge in a pear tree but 12 (one for each day), 22 turtle doves, 30 french hens, and so on. In terms of birds alone you end up with 184 birds. Plus, you get even more crowding considering that the maids-a-milking means that you also get cows to go with them, and swans-a-swimming means that you need a pond for each swan to swim in (42 in total), plus dancing/leaping room for the dancing ladies and the leaping lords. Plus, what if the drummers are like John Bonham (who I've heard is a very heavy drummer), wouldn't you need ear defenders to handle the sound of 12 massively heavy drummers? Unfortunately, the value of the golden rings (40 of them) will be unlikely to defray the costs.

[badgoodDeb]

I think that's why the recipient's home was destroyed due to over crowding!

[red_phoenix]

Originally Posted by Solitaire1

I was thinking about the song "The Twelve Days Of Christmas" and a humorous article I read a long time which shows the results of receiving all of those gifts. It ends with (among other things) the recipient's home being destroyed due to crowding.

Thinking about it, I realized that if you take the song as written then the amount of items the recipient receives is even more massive. The recipient doesn't receive just one partridge in a pear tree but 12 (one for each day), 22 turtle doves, 30 french hens, and so on. In terms of birds alone you end up with 184 birds. Plus, you get even more crowding considering that the maids-a-milking means that you also get cows to go with them, and swans-a-swimming means that you need a pond for each swan to swim in (42 in total), plus dancing/leaping room for the dancing ladies and the leaping lords. Plus, what if the drummers are like John Bonham (who I've heard is a very heavy drummer), wouldn't you need ear defenders to handle the sound of 12 massively heavy drummers? Unfortunately, the value of the golden rings (40 of them) will be unlikely to defray the costs.

Bob and Doug McKenzie's version is much more practical.

[Solitaire1]

Originally Posted by red_phoenix

Bob and Doug McKenzie's version is much more practical.

I'm not sure since they never finished the song (because it was too hard). It's likely that on the 12th day they got 12 breweries (possibly brewing Guinness or maybe Moulson).

Now to take this off-topic:

What if they did a science fiction movie that was about the ordinary people who do the day to day work? Imagine: Herb Smith - Lust For Accounting For The Empire!

[crich70]

Time is nothing more than a means of measurement. It doesn't really exist.

[Lin2412]

My friend just sent this to me, I don't know if it's really true or just a series of comments by fans, but I was laughing so hard while shopping because it's just too funny to read it with Snoop Dog's voice in my mind:

[Solitaire1]

Thinking about The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, I wonder if it began as a Wikipedia-type of repository of information? Could it be that somewhere in the distant past a planet much like ours (but didn't get destroyed for a intergalactic bypass), developed its own version of the internet that continued to grow and grow until it contains so much information that it started to become a sentient mass of information that had to be imprisoned in a book to contain it?

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by Solitaire1

Thinking about The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, I wonder if it began as a Wikipedia-type of repository of information? Could it be that somewhere in the distant past a planet much like ours (but didn't get destroyed for a intergalactic bypass), developed its own version of the internet that continued to grow and grow until it contains so much information that it started to become a sentient mass of information that had to be imprisoned in a book to contain it?

No, no, no, no, no. Don't be silly. It's obviously the result of a MR thread from a parallel universe, that someone started in the Lounge, with a title like..."If you were Hitchiking to Orion, what would you want to know?," and it grew from there. Then the mods made a wiki entry for it. Then MR'ers started adding to it. Senior MR'ers started policing it, but...it got out of hand. Then, at some crucial point--probably when Texanns002 wrote his 1,000th post on image resolution--it grew sentient, out of resentment, and just...up and left.

Hitch

[crich70]

Originally Posted by Hitch

No, no, no, no, no. Don't be silly. It's obviously the result of a MR thread from a parallel universe, that someone started in the Lounge, with a title like..."If you were Hitchiking to Orion, what would you want to know?," and it grew from there. Then the mods made a wiki entry for it. Then MR'ers started adding to it. Senior MR'ers started policing it, but...it got out of hand. Then, at some crucial point--probably when Texanns002 wrote his 1,000th post on image resolution--it grew sentient, out of resentment, and just...up and left.

Hitch

Did it at least remember to take its towel along with?