Funny Friday!!!
- Thread starter rgranger
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Well we got a head start this week but...IT IS ACTUALLY FRIDAY ....
From Reader's Digest,
"Visiting Annapolis, I noticed several plebes on their hands and knees holding pencils and clipboards. “What are they doing?” I asked our tour guide. “Each year, the upperclassmen ask the freshmen how many bricks it took to finish paving this courtyard,” he said. “So what’s the answer?” my friend asked. The guide replied, “One.” "
The Best Funny Stories: Funny Short Stories to Tell Your Friends
-Will
"Visiting Annapolis, I noticed several plebes on their hands and knees holding pencils and clipboards. “What are they doing?” I asked our tour guide. “Each year, the upperclassmen ask the freshmen how many bricks it took to finish paving this courtyard,” he said. “So what’s the answer?” my friend asked. The guide replied, “One.” "
The Best Funny Stories: Funny Short Stories to Tell Your Friends
-Will
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SBO Weather and Forecasting Forum Jim & John
- Oct 22, 2014
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Don't you just love a democratic solution. We drew straws you lost. Seems so random.
That was the original Rube Goldberg contraption. It was like watching two locomotives on the same track racing towards each other. I knew something terrible was going to happen but I just couldn't look away. I figured he would eventually fire it up to full speed and the whole thing would fly apart into a million pieces.
Unfortunately, nothing terrible happened. Maybe next time. Hopefully.
Unfortunately, nothing terrible happened. Maybe next time. Hopefully.
Well.. if he scaled that down, it would make a good automatic soup/stew stirring device.
Is his next revision an electric motor driven air propeller with wind generator sans battery storage attached ?
Is his next revision an electric motor driven air propeller with wind generator sans battery storage attached ?
Democratic, indeed! Democracy is three wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
Good Lord man, this could well be the Holy Grail of the perpetual motion machine.
My only prayer is that they don't revoke his day pass before he completes his magnus opus.
As opposed to three sheep and one wolf, but only the wolf gets a vote. Democracy seems much lonelier.Democratic, indeed! Democracy is three wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
-Will
Funny thing is there is a "perpetual motion" wind powered car that actually works.
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H.L. Mencken
"Democracy is the worst form of government – except for all the others that have been tried.” - Winston Churchill