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BillTre
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You laugh! But as kids, we made jokes like "Free Greenland! Away with the ice shield!" Well, it was a joke back then like winning a backhoe ride through the Appalachian Mountains! (mountains adjusted). Only jokes, but here we are!BillTre said:
Well you won't be laughing about the Gulf Stream stopping in a while either!fresh_42 said:You laugh! But as kids, we made jokes like "Free Greenland! Away with the ice shield!" Well, it was a joke back then like winning a backhoe ride through the Appalachian Mountains! (mountains adjusted). Only jokes, but here we are!
The list is actually a lot longer than this. And if it becomes true what he, who must not be named, lately said according to the news channels here, then it will get even worse than that.BillTre said:Well you won't be laughing about the Gulf Stream stopping in a while either!
Well. You don't know that for sure.BillTre said:Also two buttons, but only goes up.
A screenshot would work for this.BadgerBadger92 said:
One old Star Trek novel gave the Klingons a visual range of near-UV to yellow. There's a comment in passing that they rather like the look of the all-black Star Fleet Security uniform.Orodruin said:
I decided to destroy a good joke by looking it up. The IAU defines the light year in terms of the Julian year (365.25 days). No light leap years for you!BillTre said:Leap Light Years:
https://www.iau.org/public/themes/measuring/ said:The light-year is roughly equivalent to 0.3 parsecs, and is equal to the distance traveled by light in one Julian year in a vacuum, according to the IAU. To think of it in easily accessible terms, the light-year is 9,460,730,472,580.8 km or 63,241 au.
That IS a real MATH joke! Not that silly stuff in the corresponding thread.berkeman said:
Frabjous said:
That's what the dinosaur said as it saw the asteroid approaching.berkeman said:
BillTre said:
Smithsonian Magazine said:Among paleontologists, the four-spiked tail of Stegosaurus is called a "thagomizer." It is one of a few terms inspired by one of Gary Larson's beloved "Far Side" cartoons: a caveman points to a slide of a Stegosaurus tail and names the nasty-looking structure in honor of "the late Thag Simmons." Humans and Stegosaurus missed each other by over 140 million years, but the joke was so perfect that paleontologists couldn't help but informally use it.
another word derived from a joke:gmax137 said:cromulent
"Cromulent" is a 1996 coinage (neologism) by a TV writer to mean fine, acceptable, excellent, legitimate or authentic. It is for humorous effect, with a touch of sarcasm. See cromulent - Wiktionary . The word first appeared in 1996 in The Simpsons.