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xkcd presents "What If?"
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 Quote:Bob Schroeck wrote:Indeed. Another reason to go to Berlin. Ebony the Black Dragon http://ebony14.livejournal.com "Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you." 
"But while people may be worthless,I'm rounding down. ..."
-- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012 Quote:robkelk wrote:I feel I should start introducing myself as an extreme mutation of Ted Olsen. Ebony the Black Dragon http://ebony14.livejournal.com "Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you." 
I'm thinking someone should take the plaintiff of that case out around back of the courthouse and slap some sense into him and his lawyer. Assuming he has a lawyer.
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak. 
If you check the linked article at Lowering the Bar you see the telling words "PRO SE". I can't imagine why he can't find a lawyer, what with all the Ted Olsons in the galaxy. Surely there must be an equal number of Linel Hutzs or Chris Jenkins.
--- The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself." >Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI
I'm fairly certain that this case will be dismissed by the judge as a waste of the court's time. The sheer number of spurious, goofy, and just downright insane civil suits that get filed is astonishing, and many of them are just chucked by the judge or withdrawn by the plaintiff when they see how much money they're going to have to spend.
Ebony the Black Dragon http://ebony14.livejournal.com "Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you." 
The new one is up ("a handful of pollen contains roughly the same number of calories as a hamburger"):
http://what-if.xkcd.com/97/ ---------------------------------------------------- "Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV
Heh. Reminds me of the squirt bottle of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycopodium_powder]lycopodium powder I bought from a magicians' store way way back in the early 80s. (I must still have that around somewhere, I know I never used it up. Another reason to clean out the library...)
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak.
"What's that?" "No idea. Wikipedia is down, so I can't check."
-- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
*OM NOM NOM NOM* "I'm like a Bee - Pollen goes straight to my Thighs."
--- The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself." >Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI 
The reference concerning fire as a variety of oxidation reminded me of an Art Linkletter book citing somewhat odd answers kids gave on tests in school. An illustration in the book showed a boy running away from a burning house, yelling, "Oxidation!"
----- Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
"I don't want to draw someone throwing up a gallon of blood - so here's a squirrel instead."
-- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
"It's still quite potent by homeopathic standards."
You could probably sell it as a hangover cure. --- The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself." >Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI
Image text: "If that thing engulfs Earth, the chirping will be DEAFENING."
Or, if you insist on a quote from the article itself: "(Birds can fly in zero g—or, at least, they flap around in confusion. But, to be fair, that's how I'd react if I were abruptly and without warning yanked from my bed and tossed into the air in a zero g airplane cabin.)" -- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
The following is the first sentence from a journal article on starling metabolism:
We trained two starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) to fly in a wind tunnel whilst wearing respirometry masks. I really think the paper should have stopped there; no matter what their results were, they can't possibly improve on the achievement they opened with. ---------------------------------------------------- "Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV
"The Agent is approaching the electric fence, Sister Mary!" "Charging laser rifle."
We've reached 100 columns. --- The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself." >Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI
"However, I couldn't find any films about this war. I'm sure one exists somewhere; if you can find it, feel free to tag it on IMDb."
-- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Heh. Did anyone click on the "Citation needed" for the sentence "But IMDb is more than just a fetish database"? It takes you to the IMDb page for an episode of an ESPN TV series called "Citation".
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak.
http://what-if.xkcd.com/101/
Plastic Dinosaurs ---------------------------------------------------- "Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV
"Aquaman"
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak.
"There's no way to know without painstakingly tracing every step of the manufacturing process of your particular toy." IMAGE: "It'll be fun!"
-- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
"A typical novel might have half a million to a million characters in it, Letters, I mean, although I can think of a book series which comes close on the other kind."
-- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
"To run a microwave would require one novel per second." ['Citation' text]: "It would also require near-relativistic finger speeds, which would require impossible forces, huge amounts of extra energy for control, and would promptly destroy your hands AND the keyboard."
----- Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
What would happen if all the bodies of water on Earth magically disappeared?
http://what-if.xkcd.com/103/ ---------------------------------------------------- "Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV |
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