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Diomedes Member Posts: 995 From: Central Florida, USA Joined:
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herebedragons Member (Idle past 884 days) Posts: 1517 From: Michigan Joined: |
I saw this episode of Big Bang Theory the other day and this scene cracks me up.
"If there ever is a Church of Sheldon, this will be when it started." I'm still laughing HBDWhoever calls me ignorant shares my own opinion. Sorrowfully and tacitly I recognize my ignorance, when I consider how much I lack of what my mind in its craving for knowledge is sighing for... I console myself with the consideration that this belongs to our common nature. - Francesco Petrarca "Nothing is easier than to persuade people who want to be persuaded and already believe." - another Petrarca gem. Ignorance is a most formidable opponent rivaled only by arrogance; but when the two join forces, one is all but invincible. |
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 311 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5949 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
Over in Is there a legitimate argument for design? a thread of "Why is the Sky Blue?" has been running, though it seems to be more about that type of question rather than trying to answer the question.
PhD Astronomy Clifford Stoll stumbled into computer security in the 1980's by investigating an series of unusual log-ins at the Berkeley computer center, eventually tracing (or rather finally getting the government to do that trace) the activity back to a German hacker working for the Soviets to break into US government and university computers to find information on Reagan's "Star Wars" initiative. That story is told in his book, "The Cuckoo's Egg" (excellent and fun read) and an episode of Nova ("The KGB, The Computer, and Me", available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcKxaq1FTac). In "The Cuckoo's Egg", he tells the story of the final oral exam for his PhD in which one professor asked his, "Why is the sky blue?" In order to answer it fully and properly, it took two to four hours. Here is an interview in which he tells that story:
Since this is my first attempt at embedding YouTube, the URL for that is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfm3MFj6LLU.
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 311 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
As you have guessed, I'm reading through the whole of S.F.A.M. Bear with me.
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ringo Member (Idle past 438 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
quote:Or, as I sometimes tell people who don't like their jobs, "If work was fun they wouldn't have to pay you. They'd have people waiting in line to pay to do it." When people ask me if I like my job I tell them it's like a ride at Disneyland.
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4443 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.0
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What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy
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Diomedes Member Posts: 995 From: Central Florida, USA Joined: |
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Or, as I sometimes tell people who don't like their jobs, "If work was fun they wouldn't have to pay you. They'd have people waiting in line to pay to do it." When people ask me if I like my job I tell them it's like a ride at Disneyland. I like having a job slightly more than I like being homeless.
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Is that Bieber?
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Diomedes Member Posts: 995 From: Central Florida, USA Joined:
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Maybe this one is more apropos, especially in the USA:
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mike the wiz Member Posts: 4755 From: u.k Joined: |
Technically speaking, I'm not a movie-addict anymore, but like with mose useless information, I tend to have the ability to retain it in my memory. I hope this is a "good try" at least. Sorry for the profanity, but they are direct quotes.
Name: "Son of Durel" - General Zod, Superman 2.
occupation: "scum sucking gutter-trash" - Toecutter, Madmax. Address: My "cage in Elderado" - Cop, Predator 2. Sex: "It's a kilt, SICKO!" - The Grinch. ---what do you think about our trains? "I think of it as a bucket of piss to drown rats in." - Curly, The Green Mile.
---Are our trains comfortable to sit in? "I feel like a little worm on a big fucking hook". ? ---what could we improve about our service, do you enjoy our twin-tracks? "I'll turn you into twins." - Duke, City Slickers 2. ---what do you think of the speed of our trains? "Like glaciers in winter time." - Josey Wales. ---Would you like a free ticket for filling in this questionaire? "give it to me, give it to me, come on, come on give it to me, give it to me, come on, come on give it to me...." - Nazi, Falling Down. ---Where is your destination? "This train will stop at Tukamkari." - Bounty Hunter, For a Few dollars more. ---Why are you going there? "I gochta know!" - Criminal, Dirty Harry. ---Was filling out this form difficult, and did our employees render a good service? "even with all this accumulated knowledge, when are these dummies going to learn how to use a door knob?". - Lex Luthor, - Superman 2 ---Do you feel we have treated you with respect? "why do you say these things to me, when you know I will kill you for it?" -General Zod, Superman 2. ---were these forms easy to fill out? "is there no-one on this planet to even challenge me!!!" - General Zod. ---Thanks for your time. "I'm a kid, that's my job." -Kid, Uncle Buck. ---Finally, what would you say to passengers that would use our service in future? "You'll think you've been fucked by a train." Warden Norton, The Shawshank Redemption. |
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mike the wiz Member Posts: 4755 From: u.k Joined: |
The Year 2169:
"Jones, Peterson and sons have been working on their atmosphere-reducing megaflunk at zap-station 12 for 150 years, after 172 thousand experiments their quantum megaflunk has produced a tetra-peptide randomly, but they are no closer to producing a living cell despite many years of intelligent science, they tell me however you do nothing here in this lab but sit there and stare at a flask." "I'm an atheist sir, I believe life will eventually create itself."
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 311 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
Not actually a reply to my post ... or to anything else.
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