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| Clever Girl... >> Friends >> The List >> four to go... From: Katie Subject: four to go... The great questions of life that puzzle Andrew Yip. I might have these in the wrong order because I've deleted all the messages that contained the questions. 1. If the buttered side of bread always falls face downwards onto the floor it can be assumed that there is some kind of attractive force drawing the butter towards the floor. So when a slice of bread with butter on both sides is dropped there are two possible results. Firstly the forces of attraction could be so strong that it rips the bread in half and each side falls to the floor thereby doubling the amount of butter to floor contact. The process would look something like this working from the middle outwards. (I've never done one of these diagrams before - < > indicate movement.) _ < \ < | > / > _ The second alternative is that the bread will just flop around from one side to the other continuously like a dying fish. 2. Mind my French probably came from the fact that the French were seen by the English as awful, rude people. This may be historically due to the fact that France and England have been at war from about 1066 to about 1866 (no significance in this year it just makes for a nice round figure). It has contined to be the popular belief through popular culture representations of the French such as Monte Python and the Holy Grail and others. People if they are seen to be swearing are often considered to be of a lower class so they want to become more sophisticated by claiming to speak another language. When everyone knows they are just bullshitting they say "French" for the above reason indicating that the French were putting their collective rudeness into the person's mouth. 3. The whole Michael Jordan, hovercraft, John Howard's eyebrows thing. Well for starters they all have at least one 'o' in them. They move up and down, Michael Jordan jumping to the basketball ring, the hovercraft if there is any low level turbulance and the eyebrows move up and down on John Howard's head. 4. The whole waving a sword around shouting "I will vanquish all evil" does tend to put some people off and it is often not you but that brain sucking monster you keep on a leash. You know the one with tenticles and big claws and 16 eyes and... "the whole mucus thing". 5. Well in evolutionary terms the chicken hasn't been around all that long whereas the egg has been with us for ages (well not actually us because we got here after the chicken). Many animals like fish and dinosaurs and frogs of course have eggs and they were around long before any pathetic chicken. So this means that the egg came first. Unless of course you mean which came first the chicken bird or the chicken egg. In that case it would be the bird. First there would have been some kind of primitive bird that layed an egg one fine morning and and sat down for it to hatch expecting another nice little primitive bird to pop out. But this didn't happen because there was some kind of genetic mutation and out came the first chicken. And so it was not until this first chicken became old enough to lay an egg in its own right the first chicken egg did appear. This is a bit of a simplification and distortion of evolution (leaving out the whole bit on natural selection) and it might be too scientific but I'm supposed to be studying for biology. From Katie. back |
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