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Eagle
May 23, 2013, 3:44:55 PM5/23/13
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1. Johnny 's mother had three children. The first child was named
April. The second child was named May. ...What was the third child 's
name?
2. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches
tall and he wears size 13 sneakers....What does he weigh?
3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, ...what was the highest mountain
in the world?
4. How much dirt is there in a hole ...that measures two feet by three
feet by four feet?
5. What word in the English Language ...is always spelled incorrectly?
6. Billy was born on December 28th, yet his birthday is always in the
summer. ....How is this possible?
7. In California , you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden
leg. ...Why not?
8. What was the President 's Name...in 1975?
9. If you were running a race, ...and you passed the person in 2nd
place, what place would you be in now?
10. Which is correct to say,... "The yolk of the egg are white" or "The
yolk of the egg is white"?
11. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the
other field, ....how many haystacks would he have if he combined them
all in another field?
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Eagle
Why were the Indians here first? They had reservations.
April. The second child was named May. ...What was the third child 's
name?
2. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches
tall and he wears size 13 sneakers....What does he weigh?
3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, ...what was the highest mountain
in the world?
4. How much dirt is there in a hole ...that measures two feet by three
feet by four feet?
5. What word in the English Language ...is always spelled incorrectly?
6. Billy was born on December 28th, yet his birthday is always in the
summer. ....How is this possible?
7. In California , you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden
leg. ...Why not?
8. What was the President 's Name...in 1975?
9. If you were running a race, ...and you passed the person in 2nd
place, what place would you be in now?
10. Which is correct to say,... "The yolk of the egg are white" or "The
yolk of the egg is white"?
11. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the
other field, ....how many haystacks would he have if he combined them
all in another field?
--
Eagle
Why were the Indians here first? They had reservations.
Aardvark
May 23, 2013, 4:12:51 PM5/23/13
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On Thu, 23 May 2013 12:44:55 -0700, Eagle wrote:
> 1. Johnny 's mother had three children. The first child was named April.
> The second child was named May. ...What was the third child 's name?
>
Johnny.
> 1. Johnny 's mother had three children. The first child was named April.
> The second child was named May. ...What was the third child 's name?
>
> 2. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall
> and he wears size 13 sneakers....What does he weigh?
>
> 3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, ...what was the highest mountain
> in the world?
>
> 4. How much dirt is there in a hole ...that measures two feet by three
> feet by four feet?
>
> 5. What word in the English Language ...is always spelled incorrectly?
>
> 6. Billy was born on December 28th, yet his birthday is always in the
> summer. ....How is this possible?
>
> 7. In California , you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg.
> ...Why not?
>
> 8. What was the President 's Name...in 1975?
>
> 9. If you were running a race, ...and you passed the person in 2nd
> place, what place would you be in now?
>
> 10. Which is correct to say,... "The yolk of the egg are white" or "The
> yolk of the egg is white"?
>
> 11. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the
> other field, ....how many haystacks would he have if he combined them
> all in another field?
--
"I am not made like anyone I have seen; I dare believe I am not made
like anyone in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different."
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
Jenn
May 23, 2013, 4:43:30 PM5/23/13
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Eagle wrote:
> 1. Johnny 's mother had three children. The first child was named
> April. The second child was named May. ...What was the third child 's
> name?
Johnny
> 1. Johnny 's mother had three children. The first child was named
> April. The second child was named May. ...What was the third child 's
> name?
> 2. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches
> tall and he wears size 13 sneakers....What does he weigh?
> 3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, ...what was the highest mountain
> in the world?
> 4. How much dirt is there in a hole ...that measures two feet by three
> feet by four feet?
> 5. What word in the English Language ...is always spelled incorrectly?
> 6. Billy was born on December 28th, yet his birthday is always in the
> summer. ....How is this possible?
> 7. In California , you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden
> leg. ...Why not?
> 8. What was the President 's Name...in 1975?
> 9. If you were running a race, ...and you passed the person in 2nd
> place, what place would you be in now?
> 10. Which is correct to say,... "The yolk of the egg are white" or
> 11. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the
> other field, ....how many haystacks would he have if he combined them
> all in another field?
--
Jenn
Eagle
May 23, 2013, 6:06:00 PM5/23/13
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Jenn expressed precisely :
Na...2nd place. :D
>> 10. Which is correct to say,... "The yolk of the egg are white" or
> ummmm what's the rest of the question?
"The yolk of the egg is white"? lol
>> 11. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the
>> other field, ....how many haystacks would he have if he combined them
>> all in another field?
> Is this another trick question? <smile>
That smile of yours has me on edge, Jenn... lol
1.
Now stop pulling my laig Jenn! lol
>> 10. Which is correct to say,... "The yolk of the egg are white" or
> ummmm what's the rest of the question?
>> 11. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the
>> other field, ....how many haystacks would he have if he combined them
>> all in another field?
> Is this another trick question? <smile>
1.
Now stop pulling my laig Jenn! lol
Jenn
May 23, 2013, 6:09:51 PM5/23/13
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--
Jenn
Mike Easter
May 23, 2013, 6:33:25 PM5/23/13
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Eagle wrote:
> 3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, ...what was the highest mountain
> in the world?
Mt. Everest isn't the 'highest' by every sense of reckoning.
> 3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, ...what was the highest mountain
> in the world?
By 'conventional' measurements, Mt. Everest and about half a dozen more
of its siblings in the Himalayas are the highest mountains above sea
level, but the top of Mt. Everest isn't the farthest point on earth from
the center of the earth, ie highest from the center.
Earth's shape is an oblate spheroid; that is, it is fatter at the
equator than at the poles, by a significant amount. Because of that,
sea level at the equator is higher than at the latitude of the Himalayas
and mountain tops which are at lower latitudes are therefore further
from the center of the earth than those at the same 'height' at higher
latitudes.
So...
... by such reckoning, the top of a mountain (volcano) in Ecuador is
'higher' further from the center of the earth than the top of Mt.
Everest is.
Its name is Chimborazo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimborazo_(volcano) While Chimborazo is
not the highest mountain by elevation above sea level, its location
along the equatorial bulge makes its summit the farthest point on the
Earth's surface from the Earth's center.
--
Mike Easter
Eagle
May 23, 2013, 7:08:05 PM5/23/13
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Mike Easter wrote this mess :
Thanks Mike, Always good to be properly educated. :D
Mike Easter
May 24, 2013, 8:16:07 AM5/24/13
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Eagle wrote:
> Mike Easter:
measuring, Chimborazo isn't even the tallest mountain in the Andes,
The Andes is the longest mountain chain on earth, so it extends over a
very wide range of latitude. Chimborazo is close to the equator, but
taller mountains above sea level can be found in the Andes further from
the equator.
The highest Andes peak is Mount Aconcagua which is in Argentina, much
further from the equator and with a lower sea level, ie sea level is
closer to the center of the earth there.
Kinda weird.
--
Mike Easter
> Mike Easter:
>> Eagle wrote:
>
>>> 3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, ...what was the highest
>>> mountain in the world?
>
>> Mt. Everest isn't the 'highest' by every sense of reckoning.
>
>>> 3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, ...what was the highest
>>> mountain in the world?
>
>> Mt. Everest isn't the 'highest' by every sense of reckoning.
>> While Chimborazo is not the highest mountain by elevation above sea
>> level, its location along the equatorial bulge makes its summit the
>> farthest point on the Earth's surface from the Earth's center.
> Thanks Mike, Always good to be properly educated. :D
To add to the paradox related to the shape of the earth, by conventional
>> level, its location along the equatorial bulge makes its summit the
>> farthest point on the Earth's surface from the Earth's center.
> Thanks Mike, Always good to be properly educated. :D
measuring, Chimborazo isn't even the tallest mountain in the Andes,
The Andes is the longest mountain chain on earth, so it extends over a
very wide range of latitude. Chimborazo is close to the equator, but
taller mountains above sea level can be found in the Andes further from
the equator.
The highest Andes peak is Mount Aconcagua which is in Argentina, much
further from the equator and with a lower sea level, ie sea level is
closer to the center of the earth there.
Kinda weird.
--
Mike Easter
Eagle
May 24, 2013, 9:20:49 AM5/24/13
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Mike Easter has brought this to us :
The person who wrote that test of facts needs to re-think this list of
facts now that some have been shot down like an old Zero fighter. :D
facts now that some have been shot down like an old Zero fighter. :D
Aardvark
May 24, 2013, 9:40:35 AM5/24/13
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The correct answers to those questions as given *are* correct, insofar as
the common knowledge of the populus is concerned, and adding further
detail known only to a few is somewhat superfluous. Everyone knows what
the 'highest mountain' is and the definition of the phrase is commonly
accepted, therefore the answer *must* always be, for that majority of
people who neither know nor care about the added fine details given by
Mike, Mount Everest.
Education was once described to me as simply diminishing deception, and
the more I've thought about it over the intervening years, the more I
believe that statement to be true.
A couple of small for instances- when you're first taught numbers and
basic mathematics, you're told that there are no numbers lower than zero.
Later, you learn about negative numbers, information that was previously
withheld. When you're first taught about the atomic weights of elements,
you're taught that the weights are whole numbers usually consisting of
the number of protons and neutrons in the atom's nucleus.
Later on, you're told that, well actually they're not exactly whole
numbers.
Answers given to questions asked of kids in possession of such incomplete
knowledge are, however, accepted as correct, as allowance is made for the
amount of deception they are under at that stage in their education
process. Some answers which would be accepted as correct from an eight
year old might not be accepted as correct from a twenty-eight year old.
All Mike did was remove some of the deception from which we all suffer,
but didn't render the answer 'Mount Everest' in any way incorrect, given
the level of deception shared by all. Answers are accepted or rejected
according to the burden of deception under which a particular peer group
is labouring.
FromTheRafters
May 24, 2013, 10:10:52 AM5/24/13
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Aardvark laid this down on his screen :
Another aspect of this is the scientific side. Having been asked about
the "tallest" mountain, one may be satisfied in the answer "Everest"
before even getting the definition of the word "tallest" in this
context. The answer "Everest" is therefore wrong because the scientist
failed to check his assumptions, said assumption being that the
definition of "tallest" was the same as 'highest elevation above sea
level'. Hawaii's Mauna Kea may well be the "tallest" if tallness is
measured from peak to the average of local surrounding terrain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauna_Kea
the "tallest" mountain, one may be satisfied in the answer "Everest"
before even getting the definition of the word "tallest" in this
context. The answer "Everest" is therefore wrong because the scientist
failed to check his assumptions, said assumption being that the
definition of "tallest" was the same as 'highest elevation above sea
level'. Hawaii's Mauna Kea may well be the "tallest" if tallness is
measured from peak to the average of local surrounding terrain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauna_Kea
BurfordTJustice
May 24, 2013, 10:22:45 AM5/24/13
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"FromTheRafters" <err...@nomail.afraid.org> wrote in message
news:knns5m$buf$1...@dont-email.me...
Another aspect of this is
Where is my blog oh mouthy one????
Aardvark
May 24, 2013, 10:44:44 AM5/24/13
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it is in this case. No variables are given to potential respondents, and
none assumed, other than 'above sea level'.
> The answer "Everest" is therefore wrong because the scientist
> failed to check his assumptions, said assumption being that the
> definition of "tallest" was the same as 'highest elevation above sea
> level'.
expected to be either scientists or Mike Easter, were they? :-)
> Hawaii's Mauna Kea may well be the "tallest" if tallness is
> measured from peak to the average of local surrounding terrain.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauna_Kea
question: 'What's the tallest mountain, including undersea mountains?' Of
course, the question 'What is the *highest* mountain peak in the world?'
would probably be 'Mount Everest'. The question 'Which mountain's peak is
furthest from the earth's centre?' would give a completely different
correct response.
Odds are, the response from the vast majority of the educationally
deceived to all three questions will be 'Mount Everest', as not many know
about the bulging equator, imagining the earth as a perfect sphere.
Because of the expected shortcomings in potential respondents' knowledge,
I would accept 'Mount Everest' as the correct response in all three
cases, even though it isn't factually correct, as demonstrated by Mister
Easter.
Ferd Berfle
May 24, 2013, 11:40:01 AM5/24/13
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"Mike Easter" <Mi...@ster.invalid> wrote in message
news:b07jpc...@mid.individual.net...
Astronomical Union (IAU) & the International Earth Rotation and Reference
Systems Service (IERS) have reached an agreement on the base datum but not
sure when full implementation is expected.
US only fully implemented the NAVD88 (replacing NGVD29) in 2000 or there
abouts and will be updating that to GRAV-D in 2022. Lots of ups and downs
involved.
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a283303.pdf
http://www.fig.net/pub/fig2012/papers/ts04b/TS04B_weston_5691.pdf
FromTheRafters
May 24, 2013, 1:34:23 PM5/24/13
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terms better than that. Leaving the measure as vague as "highest" or
"tallest" one must assume layman's terms are being used - and everybody
knows Everest is the answer.
Aardvark
May 24, 2013, 1:42:17 PM5/24/13
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as engineers. :-)
> Leaving the measure as vague as "highest" or
> "tallest" one must assume layman's terms are being used - and everybody
> knows Everest is the answer.
variables, a layman can do no other than interpret the question in terms
with which he's most familiar. A scientist or an engineer, the quirky
people they are, will automatically ask what variables, if any, are
involved.
BurfordTJustice
May 24, 2013, 1:52:39 PM5/24/13
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What I meant
--
Well You lying sack of woman leech where is my blog?
Anybody that mooches off women is lower than those
mooching of taxpayers.
You are both and a Liar.
Where is the blog, fuckwit?
What I meant
--
Well You lying sack of woman leech where is my blog?
Anybody that mooches off women is lower than those
mooching of taxpayers.
You are both and a Liar.
Where is the blog, fuckwit?
SilverGhost
May 24, 2013, 1:58:29 PM5/24/13
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> ... by such reckoning, the top of a mountain (volcano) in Ecuador is
> 'higher' further from the center of the earth than the top of Mt.
> Everest is.
>
> Its name is Chimborazo.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimborazo_(volcano) While Chimborazo is
every day.
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On 5/23/2013 5:33 PM, Mike Easter wrote:
> ... by such reckoning, the top of a mountain (volcano) in Ecuador is
> 'higher' further from the center of the earth than the top of Mt.
> Everest is.
>
> Its name is Chimborazo.
>
> not the highest mountain by elevation above sea level, its location
> along the equatorial bulge makes its summit the farthest point on the
> Earth's surface from the Earth's center.
>
Very precise of you to offer that explanation. Learn something new
> along the equatorial bulge makes its summit the farthest point on the
> Earth's surface from the Earth's center.
>
every day.
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