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Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 11:37 am

Cork wrote:Q: When is a mouse, while it spins?

A: The higher it goes, the fewer.

I didn't know you were a steam-engine fancier!

Lambchop · Post by **Lambchop** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 4:36 pm

djm wrote:There can be no doubt but that it was added on purpose. It appears in all forums, so it was done at a high level in the setup.

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djm

So, by extension, are we to assume that we, who each have our own personalities, are considered minnows, to be used for sustenance of some larger entity?

Is that what happens when Chiffers vanish, never to be seen again????

OMG! The management thinks were . . . fatheads????

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 6:13 pm

Walden wrote:
MTGuru wrote:http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?t=62252
That thread didn't answer the question.

only rich knows

djm · Post by **djm** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 6:15 pm

We are fod for da fodder, mud to da mudder, helpless victims of a social experiment let loose to run its eventual course into the ground ... Or is it? Do we not see the hand of indisputable micromanagement casting its shadow over all we say and do? And these crystal radio sets we find embedded into each forum, are they not silent cries for help from a diseased mind, trapped by its own invention, cast adrift among the stars until falling victim to ... What was I saying?

djm

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 9:44 pm

djm wrote:We are fod for da fodder, mud to da mudder, helpless victims of a social experiment let loose to run its eventual course into the ground ... Or is it? Do we not see the hand of indisputable micromanagement casting its shadow over all we say and do? And these crystal radio sets we find embedded into each forum, are they not silent cries for help from a diseased mind, trapped by its own invention, cast adrift among the stars until falling victim to ... What was I saying?

djm

Taking a short break from our meds regime aren't we...

Doc Jones · Post by **Doc Jones** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 10:00 pm

In the words of the Great Lyricist:

Fish heads, fish heads,
Roly, poly fish heads!

Fish heads, fish heads
Eat them up. Yum!

I had a fish head.
Took him to the movies.
Didn't have to pay to get him in!

Fish heads, fish heads,
Roly, poly fish heads!

Fish heads, fish heads
Eat them up. Yum!

Come to an understanding of this and you will be well on your way to minnow enlightenment.

Doc

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 5:40 am

Are you sure your last name isn't Demento?

Doc Jones · Post by **Doc Jones** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 7:01 am

For those uacquainted with this seminal work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcXA_pkf ... re=related

Doc

rhulsey · Post by **rhulsey** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 8:29 am

Doc Jones wrote:For those uacquainted with this seminal work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcXA_pkf ... re=related

Doc

Hmm. Looks like lipstick on da fish to me!

Cork · Post by **Cork** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 9:34 am

Innocent Bystander wrote:
Cork wrote:Q: When is a mouse, while it spins?

A: The higher it goes, the fewer.

;-)

I didn't know you were a steam-engine fancier!

Yes!

I learned that one from my late father, who was born in Scotland, way back in 1910, when steam power was widespread.

However, it's otherwise such nonsense that it seemed appropriate, here.

;-)

djm · Post by **djm** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 9:59 am

A bit of a check with Google brings out multiple wordings of the riddle and the multiple explanations that centre on the follwoing: the mouse was a British nickname for a weight on the governor of a steam engine. As the speed (measured in rpm) of the engine increased, the mouse would spin faster and higher (due either to centrifugal or centripetal force, depending on which source you read) which would reduce and control the engine's speed, so the higher the mouse flew, the fewer the rpm's.

djm

djm · Post by **djm** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:17 am

And just in case you were wondering what happened to the S.S.Minnow, it is restored and giving <A TARGET="NEW" HREF="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ ... three-hour tours of the BC coast</A>.

Go on. I dares ya!

djm

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:21 am

Is it an actual steamer?

dwest · Post by **dwest** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:26 am

I don't understand what's it doing attached to that big boat?

BTW I have never seen the show. No TV back then

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:38 am

dwest wrote:BTW I have never seen the show. No TV back then

Well if you have something faster than dial up...

http://video.aol.com/show/gilligans-island