Ask me questions about shit that I don't know

[MrScorpio]

I'll do my best

[nankerphelge]

1. What's the difference between...

Great Britain and the United Kingdom? (I had to look it up today)

[MrScorpio]

7. Great Britain are ALL the British Isles including Northern Ireland

(Ireland is out)

The UK is England, Scotland and Wales only

Am I right?

[nankerphelge]

9. Opposite

Great Britain is the Island consisting of England, Scotland, and Wales. United Kingdom is the country that consists of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. At least, that's what it was according to the dictionary I was looking at today.

[baby_mouse]

53. self-delete

bum.

[MrScorpio]

55. Oh c'mon, Dude

Please to lay a question on me.

[baby_mouse]

58. I did!

But I put it in the wrong place. see below.

Oh! you have.

[GOPisEvil]

2. What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? European?

Thanks.

[MrScorpio]

10. How fast are its wings beating? How heavy is it?

It's kind of hard to answer that question without more facts

Help me out here

[GOPisEvil]

14. Damn, Monty Python didn't go that far.

:dunce:

[Elidor]

3. What is the primary habitat of velvet ants?

It's been bugging me.

[MrScorpio]

13. Liberace's gravesite?

I'm guessing

[Elidor]

33. LOL, took me a second

Good answer!

[fudge stripe cookays]

4. Which more greatly represents...

the Baroque style in Roman architecture: Bernini or Borromini?

:P

FSC
art history majors can be a real pain, eh?

[MrScorpio]

16. Well it sure ain't Bertolucci

Let's go with Borromini. His name is longer

[fudge stripe cookays]

91. I concur.

While Bernini was an architectural genius, Borromini's work is much more unusual, and in keeping with the over-the-top-ness that was the Baroque.

And if it ain't Baroque, don't fix it.
FSC

[yewberry]

5. How do you feel about

high enjambment?

I mean, sure, sometimes it works, but mostly it's just irritating and kind of overly dramatic, don't you think?

[MrScorpio]

18. Anything to get more poets into the Mile High Club is cool with me

If anybody needs that, it's poets

[SpiralHawk]

93. Answered like a true Scorpio

You are all the same (except for those who are not).

[sundog]

6. when will my life get easier?

[MrScorpio]

22. Shark Month

No, better yet... Let's go with Shark Year

That and the money to pay for a new expert head Chef

[FuzzySlippers]

8. Can you explain cold fusion to me?

How about fusion cuisine?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

15. Cold fusion hasn't happened yet.

[MrScorpio]

23. Cold Fusion = Scam

Fusion Cuisine = Fad

[Misunderestimator]

11. What is it like to kiss a man in public?

[MrScorpio]

26. Never did that puppy

But you can ask these guys:

[Misunderestimator]

31. HEY! Aren't you supposed to make something up?

That's the "best" you could do? :eyes:

[MrScorpio]

47. Okay okay

It's the same as you would do in private

Just with more sunshine... and you're NOT naked.

[Misunderestimator]

50. Much better... thank you!

Now was that so hard?

[Misunderestimator]

28. Dammit... wrong spot

[jobycom]

12. Does Hildebrande (Pope Gregory VII) remind you at all of Newt Gingrich?

I saw great parallels between Emperor Henry and Bill Clinton on one hand, and Gregory and Newt on the other, in comparison of the Investiture Controversy to the Impeachment of Bill Clinton. Thoughts?

Also, the treatment of Boniface VIII and Clinton were similar.

[MrScorpio]

29. Not at all

Newt is alive (unfortunately), Pope Gregory VII is dead.

[jobycom]

36. Man

:yourock:

[LynzM]

17. Why do people do such stupid stuff?

Like answering the question of 'which one' with 'yes'... that one's up on my wall at work, because it's effectively the response I got from a question to a site.... :eyes:

[MrScorpio]

34. They're NOT paying attention

Like when...

What was your question again?

[LynzM]

61. Right on, man

I seriously want to write back pretty often and just say "would you fucking read what I bothered to write? PLEASE?" :eyes:

[mzteris]

19. math problem.........

Betty, Fern and Bob weigh: 115, 120, and 140 respectively.

If Betty sits 6 feet from the fulcrum and Fern sits 4-1/2 feet from the fulcrum on the same side as Betty, how far from the fulcrum must Bob sit to balance the girls?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

24. Incorrectly stated. It's a Physics problem. lol.

[mzteris]

30. That, too

but it was in the Algebra book........

[MrScorpio]

35. Fuck that...

If I were Bob, the last place I'd have two honies like Betty and Fern is a fulcrum

We'd all be in the shower

And they can both balance on my...

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

20. What's the difference between the following:

The Rule in Shelley's Case and the Doctrine of Worthier Title?

[MrScorpio]

38. If you use the right one, it'll get you that real estate deal

If you use the wrong one, you're fucked

[Doctor_J]

21. How did Sipowicz manage to get MacDowell into the sack?

That one's got me stumped.

[MrScorpio]

39. Looks ain't everything

She saw that Andy was a man that cares

That and his huge package.

[NNadir]

25. I forget how to set up the Hamiltonian of an NMR spin system.

It's a cannonical matrix, I think.

Can you remind me what to do?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

27. Wow. I had Quantum a few years ago, and that stretches it.

[MrScorpio]

40. Been hanging out in too many quantum mechanic's bars, have you?

I can tell

[NoSheep]

32. Dad-gummit, you ARE so good at this thing!

okay. Why can I not learn to touch type?

[MrScorpio]

41. Blind fold yourself - Really

And listen to something for dictation

Practice, practice, practice

Then let me know later

[NoSheep]

82. Can you touch type? ( not a sex thread)

[MrScorpio]

83. I'm a hunt 'n' pecker

I hunt 'n' peck with the best

[NoSheep]

87. LOL!!!!

:rofl:

[swag]

37. What's the equilibrium interest rate on the 10-year Treasury note?

Thanks. You couldn't do worse than the pros. But you're a pro, for all I know.

[MrScorpio]

43. I think that if you doing better than 6% you're doing great

But taxes are still gonna bite you in the ass on the end run, despite what the Republicans say

[CanuckAmok]

42. If 16mm and 35mm film stock both shoot at 24 frames/second, why...

...do you need nearly twice the amount of 35mm to shoot the same amount of time?

[MrScorpio]

44. The 35mm's need for higher exposure time is the answer I think

Neccesary for better detail

[CanuckAmok]

46. No... the answer is more simple than that.

...

[Schema Thing]

69. Everybody knows size matters

Think of 35mm film as the equine, 16mm as the human, and IMAX as the blue whale.

Which is btw, why I believe that them tough sumbitches that carried the IMAX camera and film to the top of Everest could not possibly be human.

[CanuckAmok]

70. I know one of those guys... Chris Tate.

He's a grip, and he did "Fires of Kuwait" and "Everest", and a couple of other Imax films. His stories/photos of the logistics of moving that gear are even more interesting than the films themselves.

[Schema Thing]

90. I can imagine.

Getting those cameras, with film, to the top of Everest just boggles my mind.

[tyedyeto]

45. Where's the beef?

[MrScorpio]

48. Gimme a sec....

I'm showing it to MrsScorpio

[tyedyeto]

52. .

:woohoo:

Is it making her happy? Go for it!

[Champ]

49. In what ways will Matt Jones have to be successful in the NFL?

[MrScorpio]

51. Join a better team

Jacksonville?

Riiiiight

[baby_mouse]

54. Why do birds suddenly appear...

Every time I drink beer?

:toast:

:beer:

that's better...

[MrScorpio]

56. They're alcoholics

and they want to be close to you

[spacelady]

57. Why do so many people write Opps! when they mean Oops!

I have noticed this for years from many different people, so it is rather common.

[MrScorpio]

60. They're clumsy bastards, without simple regard for your sensitivity

The carelessness of some people is simply galling.

It must be a genetically based flaw in the human psyche.

Their crimes will be avenged.

[spacelady]

63. That is hugh

[hickman1937]

59. I already did.

Why did Motown die?

[MrScorpio]

62. It moved to Cali...

and lost its soul

It tried disco and failed miserably

[hickman1937]

66. Ya(sigh) and the world lost. n/t

[Liberalynn]

64. Why did our parents and teachers teach

us that hard work pays off when almost inevitably (although admitedly not always) the person who does the least work gets paid and other wise rewarded the most ?

[MrScorpio]

65. Such behavior is necessary to perpetual a society of wage slaves

Our rich ruling class would never play by these rules

That's why they get to go to Andover and Yale and we don't. They teach it differently there.

[driver8]

67. Who will win the Super Bowl??

[MrScorpio]

68. The team that gets the most points at Ford Field on 6 Feb 2006

You can bet on it

[Lilith Velkor]

71. What's Genjuro's superdeath move in Samurai Shodown IV?

[MrScorpio]

73. AABBCCA... No, AABBCACCABBB, No, that's not it

Lemme think: AAACCCBBBABBA

Is that it?

AABBCCABCCC, then ABC, then AABBCCABCCC

Try that

[Lilith Velkor]

77. Half circle back/quarter circle forward, or the other way?

[MrScorpio]

79. The first way

Give it a shot

[Lilith Velkor]

81. !!

He just diced the second boss. :wow:

[ghostsofgiants]

72. Could God microwave a burrito so hot, that he himself couldn't eat it?

Oh and dude, remember that time you dropped your car keys and we thought the phone was ringing?

[MrScorpio]

74. God doesn't eat

Wait a sec, he does... he craps Republicans

But since he's God, he can handle it.

On the second question: Yeah, I remember that... Hey, I thought that we were gonna keep that on the down low?

[ghostsofgiants]

76. Dude, you just blew my mind....

[Redstone]

75. Why is jpeg compression lossy and gives you lousy

image quality, but LZW-compressed TIFF files are lossless and decompress to the same image quality as the original?

I do know the answer to this one. Not that the knowledge is necessarily worth anything.

Redstone

[MrScorpio]

78. Because the alpha channel is curtailed when the conversion to jpeg?

I mean wehn you maintain that alpha channel in tiff, you keep the quality, right?

Something like that

[Redstone]

80. Nope.

jpeg looks at blocks of eight pixels and, if they have similar color and brightness values, mushes them together to an average value. That's why you get artifacts, and why jpeg files get worse when you re-save them with jpeg compression a second or third time.

LZW compression looks at each pixel, and does something like this: Let's say that pixel #1234 has a value of 10C, 15M, 20Y, and 40K. If the compression process sees that pixel #2256 has the same values, instead of describing it by its color value, it just says the binary version of "same as #1234." An oversimplification, but you get the idea.

That's why TIFF files with large amounts pixels that have the same color as other pixels (such as a blue sky) compress to smaller files that ones that do not.

You've learned something tonight.

Redstone

[MrScorpio]

84. Dude, You are the DUDE!

That's the highest honor, btw

[Redstone]

85. Why, thank you.

Redstone

[Redstone]

86. Got another one. How can "conditioning shampoo"

take one thing (dirt) out of your hair, yet at the same time put something else (conditioning oil) INTO you rhair?

Warning: I know the answer to this one too (I'm full of useless knowledge).

Redstone

[MrScorpio]

88. Soap affects one type of oil, that associated with dirt

But not another type, that associated with the conditioner?

[Redstone]

89. Nope. It's the Miracle of Polymerization.

(Shampoo doesn't generally have any soap in it anyway; it has detergent, which is different.)

What happens is the the shampoo has long-chain molecules (polymers), and it has two different kinds of them.

One kind has one end that "sticks" to dirt, and the other end "sticks" to water a bit more strongly than the first end sticks to dirt. So these molecules grab on to some dirt, then carry it away when the other end sticks to the rinse-water molecules.

The other "conditioner" molecules have one end that REALLY likes to stick to hair, and another end that likes to stick to water--but only enough to keep it in emulsion in the shampoo bottle. So when you rinse, it stays put because one end of it is more attracted to hair than the other end is to water.

Another oversimplification, but there you go.

Redstone

[put out]

95. Yes, shampoo makes

nifty little compounds, one side hydrophobic, one side hydrophilic. Called mycells, micells? Soap won't work, it makes salts. Your belly does the same thing to break down fats and get them into your guts.

But, I'm smart enough to use more than one product while bathing, so I never saw the point in combining products. Plus I don't understand how the conditioner works with shampoo. I don't use stuff I can't understand.;-)

How you doing these days.

[Redstone]

98. Doing well, thank you for asking. Yourself?

This "How can the shampoo take one thing out of your hair and put another thing in at the same time" question is one I've heard a lot. People seem surprised to hear the answer, though I don't know why.

Redstone

[Burma Jones]

92. Who put the Bomp in the Bomp de Bomp de Bomp?

Who put the ram
In the rama lama ding dong?
Who put the bop
In the bop shoo bop shoo bop?
Who put the dip
In the dip da dip da dip?

[Redstone]

100. It was me. I also wrote the book of love,

so there are two of your questions answered at once.

Redstone

[Left_Winger]

94. How many cats would a catnip nip,

if a catnip could nip cats?

[AllegroRondo]

96. Why is it that when you burp while playing the clarinet,

your tuning goes flat?

[StopTheMorans]

97. How do you impress women?

:shrug:

[Redstone]

101. Spectacular stupidity has always worked for me.

Especially if it involves subesquent hospitalization.

Disclaimer: They are indeed impressed by this, but there is the downside of the lingering suspicion that you're a raving lunatic.

I didn't sayit was the BEST way, just one way.

Redstone

[MrScorpio]

102. It all depends on the woman

Each of the are impressed by a different thing.

That's all I know

[LynneSin]

99. What is the capital of Comoros

:shrug:

[MrScorpio]

103. Moroni

It has a Freeper capital too... MORANI... But, of course, you knew that