tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post1903623530802323652..comments2024-03-28T02:54:46.537-04:00Comments on The TOF Spot: Bats in the BelfreyTheOFloinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-40363038001063675752013-05-25T12:41:15.918-04:002013-05-25T12:41:15.918-04:00Total nit-pick, but it's isotopes, not isomers...Total nit-pick, but it's isotopes, not isomers!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-69550093209352657702013-05-24T11:40:53.151-04:002013-05-24T11:40:53.151-04:00Calvin gets it:
http://i192.photobucket.com/album...Calvin gets it:<br /><br />http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z60/palacepuppy/Cartoons-MARK%20WITH%20X%20WHEN%20USED/bats1b.jpg<br /><br />Joelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12280376685573719417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-50370114364765647392013-05-24T11:33:16.452-04:002013-05-24T11:33:16.452-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Joelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12280376685573719417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-24072592923185008812013-05-24T09:00:46.656-04:002013-05-24T09:00:46.656-04:00The British press had a field day when the Europea...The British press had a field day when the European Union decided that carrots should be classified as fruit *for purposes of making jam*. Just leave that last bit off and you can see how stupid bureaucrats are. Thankfully we have journalists to tell us so.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-30349770819903199102013-05-14T11:43:47.567-04:002013-05-14T11:43:47.567-04:00Swwoping in from a slightly different flight-path:...<i>Swwoping in from a slightly different flight-path:</i><br /><br />On an off day--on a day when they're off from work, that is--two GNUs are sitting on a bench having an old conversation while feeding the pigeons.<br /><br />1st GNU: I just finished reading a biography of Linnaeus.<br /><br />2nd GNU: Since when were you interested in Charlie Brown?<br /><br />1st GNU: Not Linus, you dope; Linnaeus.<br /><br />2nd GNU: Oh, him.<br /><br />1st GNU: Yeah, he's one cool dude. He's the guy who invented the system of scientific classification.<br /><br />2nd GNU: You mean kingdom, phylum, class...?<br /><br />1st GNU: Yup. And you know what?<br /><br />2nd GNU: No, what?<br /><br />1st GNU: There are lots of things wrong with the Bible, yes indeed. But thanks to Linnaeus, we know another thing that's wrong with it.<br /><br />2nd GNU: Really? Cool. What might that be?<br /><br />1st GNU: The Bible says that bats are birds. But thanks to Linnaeus and his classification scheme, we know they're really mammals, not birds.<br /><br />2nd GNU: Ha! The evidence just keep piling up, does it not?<br /><br />1st GNU: Sure does. Hey, not to change the subject, but I bought a book this morning for my sister's daughter. She turns 6 next Saturday.<br /><br />2nd GNU: What book did you buy?<br /><br />1st GNU: It's a collection of Aesop's Fables. I liked them when I was a kid.<br /><br />2nd GNU: Me too. Remember 'The Swallow and the Crow'? (The Swallow and the Crow had a contention about their plumage. The Crow put an end to the dispute by saying, "Your feathers are all very well in the spring, but mine protect me against the winter.")<br /><br />1st GNU: Yeah, that's a good one.<br /><br />2nd GNU: I liked it too. But you know what? I was a kid the, and as I got older it struck me as being kind of dumb.<br /><br />1st GNU (warily): Whadda you mean?<br /><br />2nd GNU: Well, everyone knows that swallows and crows can't talk, right? So what's the point?<br /><br />1st GNU: What's the point? Are you serious? The point isn't about talking birds. Of course not. Like you said, everyone knows swallows and crows don't talk.<br /><br />2nd GNU: Well, then, what's the point?<br /><br />1st GNU: The story conveys a moral. In this case, the moral is "Fair weather friends are not worth much."<br /><br />2nd GNU: Really? Gee, why didn't they just say so? Why gussy it up with all that nonsense about talking birds?<br /><br />1st GNU (after a pause (and with a frown)): What kind of bird-brain are you, anyway? Sheesh...<br /><br />2nd GNU: Hey! That's not nice, and I reject your insult. Besides, according to Linnaeus I'm a mammal-brain.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-89303456229898585662013-05-13T20:48:25.884-04:002013-05-13T20:48:25.884-04:00Most impressively, I think, is the case of "f...Most impressively, I think, is the case of "fire." Having discovered that many forms of fire were oxidation, scientists decreed that all fire that burns is oxidation -- and when they discovered that suns do not oxidize, they tried to decree that they were not fire, nor did they burn. <br /><br />A prohibition that they themselves fail to observe, often, because there is no other word in English meaning to undergo a process consuming material and producing light and heat.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com