Miscellaneous desk | ||
---|---|---|
< March 4 | << Feb | March | Apr >> | March 6 > |
Welcome to the Wikipedia Miscellaneous Reference Desk Archives |
---|
The page you are currently viewing is an archive page. While you can leave answers for any questions shown below, please ask new questions on one of the current reference desk pages. |
My Linksys unit had really ------ up while asking a question. Question was that will the documentary aired on the Discovery Channel will destroy the Christian religion. A debate had followed this documentary. 205.240.146.224 01:02, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
I wondering if anyone knows where I could find a good picture of Borchert Field the only one I can find is the one in the article. I need it for a power point presentation on the history of baseball in Milwaukee.-- ChesterMarcol 03:36, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm watching through Pulp Fiction -one of my favorite movies- again and I've begun to notice the spectacular camerawork. In particular, there's one part where Butch is trying to sneak up to his apartment, and he squeezes through a small crack in the fence. The camera swoops through a hole in the fence and continues following him. Now a person holding a video camera maybe could have gotten through, but the view was very solid and straight like it must have been on a track. But it couldn't have been on a track since the camera is following Butch and you can clearly see 5 seconds before that there's no track there. And the camera can't just be rolling on the ground since it's fairly rough terrain (some trashy lawn). How is this accomplished? -- froth T 05:55, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
I don't recall the shot you're talking about -- I've seen the movie but long ago, but perhaps this will help... A lot of this kind of work can be accomplished by Steadicam - which is when a person holds the camera and walks with it but the steadicam device manages to keep the camera rather steady - and of course steadicam operators are usually very skilled at walking without bobbing too much. Hope that answers your question Rfwoolf 11:18, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
In a fight which would be more effective, Karate or Tae Kwon Do? Do you have any suggestions besides jiu jitsu or judo?
Hi, I often see doormats with "ER" written on it in big letters... what do they stand for or mean exactly? Thanks. 08:08, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Whereabouts are these doormats?If they're in a big building with lots of nurses and doctors and bleeding people lying round that might give you a clue ;) Lemon martini 10:32, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
What colour are they, and what style are the letters in, and where are they?
In the game of Perpetual Motion (solitaire), suppose I have the following columns in the tableau:
I can certainly move the 6s together. Is it permissible to then move the 5s together, or must I only make the possible moves on the top cards? I have one reference book that seems to suggest the latter; are there any other references which clarify this?
However, if for whatever reason you are playing the same game but with two rows (2 sets of columns) (perhaps to make it easier), then I would answer your question by saying that it's optional - depending on how difficult you want the game to be. Keep in mind that the more you pile/group cards together, the sooner you will end up with 4-in-a-row and be able to discard that set. So if you want to play an especially longer game, then you'd only be able to group one set of cards per deal.
In closing, perhaps you would like to ask your question in the discussion section of the article
Perpetual Motion (solitaire) which can be found here:
Tallk:Perpetual Motion (solitaire) -- but it may take a while before someone responds, if they respond at all.
One of the Wikipedians who contributed to the creation of that article is
User:Nanami_Kamimura - you might want to ask her this question.
Rfwoolf
11:29, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
What is the relationship between Lemmy Kilmister and Ozzy Ozbourne like? do they know each other and if so do they get on? Which one considers the other to be the original God of rock ect. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.144.161.223 ( talk) 12:03, 5 March 2007 (UTC).
since they're both dead i don't think it matters
Err... They are both alive and kickin!
So are you
Is there a list of negroid scientists, or list of negroid philosophers, or could you give me examples of such people? I want to disprove a claim I heard that there are no important negroid philosophers or scientists. 193.65.112.51 12:13, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
They must be pure negroids or he will claim their intelligence is not from negtroid ancestors 193.65.112.51 12:16, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Ok, first of all let's think back waaaaay back in time. Man came from Africa. The cradle of mankind is in somewhat around the area of what is today Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania. Man's civilizations were born in Africa. The Egyptians, the Axumites the Ashantis were all ancient people who could read and write before Europe was even born. Mathematics was one of their strong science since they had to calculate to build those pyramids in Giza and the stellae in Axum and Lalibela. They had calendars, which tells they were strong in Astronomy. There was an Ethiopian called Yared who gave birth to a totally new way of music that is still used in the Ethiopian Orthodox church. There were great military strategists who beat European armies over and over again, especially in the case of Ethiopia, that withstood the the carving of Africa and slavery. Everything was exported from Africa is what I'm trying to say. It saddens me to know that not much is taught or passed on to the younger generation and needs to be asked about and even doubted. Here are some helpful websites:
http://library.temple.edu/articles/subject_guides/african_philosophy.jsp;jsessionid=41B406433A22CF1480D7DBD736C526F0?bhcp=1 http://inventors.about.com/library/blblackinventors.htm http://www.erraticimpact.com/~topics/html/african_philosophy.htm Sultan Paper 11:23, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
All 'races' gradually fade into each other, so that people living on the edges of a continent can be a mixture of two different races :) HS7 20:11, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Being an undemanding British consumer who wants nothing more from a television than the four main channels and teletext, I bought a combined TV and video recorder (small "desktop" style; Matsui brand) in October 2005. It had been working normally up to and including Saturday evening ... but appeared to be dead on Sunday morning. The normal routine is to press the power button on the front, which puts it into standby mode, then turn it on by pressing the standby button or channel up/down buttons on the front, or pressing the standby button on the remote control. When I did this yesterday, the standby light came on after pressing the power button, but nothing else happened. No matter which buttons I have pressed, I have not been able to turn the TV on. I have tried the plug in different sockets (not that that was likely to help!), but I'm at a loss to know what to do or try next. Does it sound like it is irretrievably broken? Does anybody have any suggestions on what the problem might be, whether it might be fixable, etc.?
Also, there is a video cassette in the video recorder bit, which is now "stuck" in there because with the TV being out of order, I can't eject it. How can I retrieve this?
Thanks, Hassocks5489 12:50, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Sometimes the electronics get their knickers in a twist. Try unplugging from the wall socket for 20 minutes. It often works. 86.202.31.98 14:56, 5 March 2007 (UTC)TVbuff
I had a remote malfunction and constantly send the "VOLUME UP" signal. Perhaps, in your case, your remote is sending the "POWER OFF" signal. Try pulling the batteries out of the remote and controlling the TV manually. If that works, you know the problem is the remote. StuRat 17:57, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for all the advice so far! My Dad has kindly taken it down to the village electrical shop today, to see if anything can be done. As it stands, the only thing that happens when the power button is pressed is that the standby light comes on: absolutely nothing else works on either the video recorder or the TV part of the unit. I have eliminated power supply problems and the remote as potential problems; Atlant's suggestion has potential. Anyway, I'll report back when I hear from the electrical shop! Hassocks5489 21:09, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Has anyone else experienced the phenomenon of one shoelace wearing out long before the other? All too often, one shoelace frays and eventually snaps while its partner is happy to continue for many months afterwards. I would have thought that both laces were subject to the same amount of wear and tear and should expire at more or less the same time, but no. And before anyone asks: no, it's not just the left or right lace that goes first, but it can be either. -- Richardrj talk email 13:02, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
If you'd like a serious reply instead, you might want to consider that the life of a shoelace is greatly affected by the eyelets through which it passes. One slightly-rougher eyelet, multiplied by many back-and-forths of the lace across that eyelet, will have a profound wearing effect on the lace. There may also be slight differentials in how you tie your shoes, pulling a tiny bit harder on the left than the right, or always managing to place one lace in precisely the same position time after time whereas the other lace ends up in a more-random position; the wear will be localized on the same-placed lace and distributed on the randomly-placed lace.
Atlant 17:46, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Alm Stag Eden Stack Fred Dam Iced Kris
Answers: Dell Treat Adam Doe Igloo Coin Stop
Sandman30s 14:36, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Hmmm. Normally I'd try look for this or SIMILAR answers on google - but a brief attempt at this has failed and I'd like to try figure it out myself. But no such luck yet.
Analysis of Question: Alm Stag Eden Stack Fred Dam Iced Kris 3 4 4 5 4 3 4 4 (Number of letters in each word) V C V C C C V C (Whether a word begins with a consonant or vowel) C C C C C C C C (Whether a word ends with a consonant or vowel) VCC CCVC VCVC CCVCC CCVC CVC VCVC CCVC (Which letters are consontants or vowels) VCCCC VCVCVCCC VCCCC VCC VCVCVCCC VC (The pattern found in this) ALMST AGEDENST ACKFR EDD AMICEDKR IS (Arrangement of letters in pattern)
Analysis of Answers: Dell Treat Adam Doe Igloo Coin Stop C C V C V C C (Whether a word begins with a consonant or vowel) C C C V V C C (Whether a word ends with a consonant or vowel) CVCC CCVVC VCVC CVV VCCVV CVVC CCVC (Which letters are consontants or vowels)
Observations: 1. None of the Question words end in a Vowel. 2. Of the Answer words, 'Dell' is the only word to end in a double-consonant (CC) 3. None of the Question words or the Answer words end in a Consonant-Vowel(CV) 4. All of the vowels except 'U' are used in both the Question and the Answers. 5. None of the answers contain a letter that the questions haven't used, with the exception of 'Stop' which uses the letter "P". Current possible answers: 1. "Treat" since the Question seems to follow a pattern in the number of letters in each word: "3 4 4 5 4 / 3 4 4 " -> "5", and also because in the Question no words end in a vowel (Of the answers, Treat is the only word with 5 letters in it that also doesn't end in a vowel)
Other avenues to check: Binary, morse code.
Theme analysis of question and answers: Question Alm - Alpine Grassland (possible singular of alms?) Stag - Deer (type of beetle?) Eden - Location ( Garden of Eden, Eden project, Anthony Eden) Stack - (Chimney stack, a stack of things, to stack) Fred - Name Dam - Water (manmade structure, verb, landscape-altering, power source) Iced - Water (past participle of verb, adjective, military usage - thrown out?) Kris - Weapon/Object (manmade) Answers Dell - A small valley (computer company, probably a name as well) Treat - (A verb, a noun, a sweet, manmade?) Adam - Name (first man in Eden myth, a made man, godmade) Doe - Deer Igloo - Water (Manmade structure) Coin - (verb, noun, manmade) Stop - Verb (noun)
(Things in brackets are me 86.139.237.132 18:53, 5 March 2007 (UTC))
Alphabet Analysis: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ A AAAAA A AAAAA AAA <- (Question) A AA <- Alm in Question A A AA <- Stag in Question AA A <- Eden in Question A A A AA <- Stack in Question AAA A <- Fred in Question A A A <- Dam in Question AAA A <- Iced in Question A A AA <- Kris in Question ---------------------------------------------------- AA A <- Dell in Answers A A A A <- Treat in Answers A A A <- Adam in Answers AA A <- Doe in Answers A A A <- Igloo in Answers A A AA <- Coin in Answers AA AA <- Stop in Answers
Rfwoolf 16:26, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Yes I know the answer :) I purposely changed the original question so that it cannot be googled. Let's see if any bright spark out there can get it :) There is a definite pattern with a simple but fiendish rule. Will leave it open for a day... Sandman30s 19:00, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Any takers? Let me know if I must post the solution. Sandman30s 09:32, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
Anyway since there is still someone thinking, I will wait a bit. Just to mention you guys are waaaay off the mark. Looking for difficulty is not always a good thing. Even a primary school kid might just see the pattern here. Similar to the following puzzle which is very difficult if you attempt advanced maths but has a very simple rule and pattern.
What is next and why?
1 11 21 11 12 31 12 21 12 13
(It goes row by row, NOT column, and yes there ARE spaces there!)
Okay I give up on the word one Capubadger 15:30, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
it is stop as it goes from yellow, trough green to blue, so stop is next
Stop is green, it is Coin as it looks brightest :] HS7 16:01, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
I've just got that number one ROTFL, how do people think of things like that :) HS7 16:04, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
OK tan-ta-ra-raaa! Remove the Capitals and letters with extensors and you get a pattern of colours: magenta cream ceris. So the next letter must be an e to complete cerise which is found in Dell (remember the D is removed) which is your answer. Infuriatingly simple :) Sandman30s 19:29, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
So basically it is a rubbish sequence which almost noone would be able to work out :) HS7 19:42, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Wikipedians! My name is Eric Hartley and I think that the two previous telenovelas titled Desire (TV series) and Fashion House, in my own personal opinion because I am an easy-to-please type of person, did get good ratings just like Wicked Wicked Games and Watch Over Me did. I have an idea about MyNetworkTV's scheduling, instead of canceling all telenovelas, why can't the television network have telenovelas and reality shows co-exist on the same network just like Univision's programming.
YOU might consider that relatively good, and I suppose it is, for such a small network. You may have liked the shows, too. But ratings are not based on opinion - they are weighed in terms of market share. I think the term "modest" is an accurate and non- WP:POV term to describe that particular percentage of overall available viewers in that market. Jfarber 15:40, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
I think I've heard that in olden times (as in the wild west), when something exceedingly painful had to be done, like an amputation, and there was no laudanum or anything around, patients were sometimes given a bullet to bite on while the doctor chopped away. Hence, "bite the bullet". Is this true? If it is, what was the thinking behind it? Oskar 16:06, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
surely this would have been life threatening as what would happen if the bullet went off while in ones mouth?!
Sometimes they made people bite a bit of leather instead :) HS7 19:46, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Are you allowed to bring tomatoes across the border into the US? Nick 18:12, 5 March 2007 (UTC)nicholassayshi Nick 18:12, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
It depends who is allowing you to do it, since I doubt the mexicoans would mind much :] HS7 15:43, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
Another one from me...
When taking photos of street scenes and whatnot in Brighton on Saturday, the car shown to the right (copied and enlarged from the full photo) passed my camera just as I took the picture. Now, I am quite interested in cars, especially from the 1970s and 1980s, and consider myself familiar with most makes and models - but although it looks "familiar" in an "I-can't-quite-place-it" way, I can't positively identify it. Needless to say, it was off down the Lewes Road before I could turn my head and check! I'm also intrigued by the nice array of lights, the large aerial-type thing on the right, and the object between the lights on the roof.
A positive identifcation would be much appreciated! (The registration number dates it to 1981-1982, if that helps.) Hassocks5489 21:48, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
That is a Subaru GL wagon. I think it is an '81. The rally lights are all after-market. See here: www.theeel.com/cars/images/subaru_GL.jpg 161.222.160.8 05:20, 6 March 2007 (UTC) (forgot to sign)
People say Elvis Presley is dead, but others say he's not. I heard that Elvis's middle name is "Aron". And that there is a federal law stating you can't put your own name on a tombstone.(Is this true?) That's why the grave is selled "Aaron". Saying hes still alive. I also heard that somebody, for whatever reason, spent the night by the gate of Graceland the night he died. He said that he didn't see any body come out of the house. Also that when people tour Graceland, they don't let them go upstairs. They did the same thing when he was alive. Could he possibly be up there? Could he have just cracked under the pressure of being so famous and payed people to stage his own death? Would his family be in on it? If he was still alive, He would have to pay somebody to get him a new look. Could somebody please help me shed some light on this subject?
Elvis never exsted to start with, it was just someone that looked and sounded just like him :] Hidden secret 7 15:07, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
You may not be able to put your own name on a tombstone, but you can put somebody else's name on it. Somebody else bought JFK's tombstone, and had it engraved with his name.
What if they both had the same name :? HS7 17:11, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
When my grandparents died they only put my grandmothers name on the grave as she died first, and would have added my grandfathers name later, but most of the stone had been stolen, so they bought a new one and put both names on that, but if it hadn't been stolen, his name still wouldn't have been added until after he died :( HS7 19:40, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
How much do tattos hurt? 24.104.25.254 23:52, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
My calendar refers today as Labour day in Austrailia and WA. What place is WA? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.210.72.105 ( talk) 23:57, 5 March 2007 (UTC).
So why is Western Austrailia considered a different entity?
My Calendar says on March 12, it's Labour day in Austrailia-Vic and Eight Hours day in Austrailia-TAS. I'd assume TAS is Tasmania
mp oy#d mpy. oy#d vs;;rf sidyrttso;opt/
Miscellaneous desk | ||
---|---|---|
< March 4 | << Feb | March | Apr >> | March 6 > |
Welcome to the Wikipedia Miscellaneous Reference Desk Archives |
---|
The page you are currently viewing is an archive page. While you can leave answers for any questions shown below, please ask new questions on one of the current reference desk pages. |
My Linksys unit had really ------ up while asking a question. Question was that will the documentary aired on the Discovery Channel will destroy the Christian religion. A debate had followed this documentary. 205.240.146.224 01:02, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
I wondering if anyone knows where I could find a good picture of Borchert Field the only one I can find is the one in the article. I need it for a power point presentation on the history of baseball in Milwaukee.-- ChesterMarcol 03:36, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm watching through Pulp Fiction -one of my favorite movies- again and I've begun to notice the spectacular camerawork. In particular, there's one part where Butch is trying to sneak up to his apartment, and he squeezes through a small crack in the fence. The camera swoops through a hole in the fence and continues following him. Now a person holding a video camera maybe could have gotten through, but the view was very solid and straight like it must have been on a track. But it couldn't have been on a track since the camera is following Butch and you can clearly see 5 seconds before that there's no track there. And the camera can't just be rolling on the ground since it's fairly rough terrain (some trashy lawn). How is this accomplished? -- froth T 05:55, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
I don't recall the shot you're talking about -- I've seen the movie but long ago, but perhaps this will help... A lot of this kind of work can be accomplished by Steadicam - which is when a person holds the camera and walks with it but the steadicam device manages to keep the camera rather steady - and of course steadicam operators are usually very skilled at walking without bobbing too much. Hope that answers your question Rfwoolf 11:18, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
In a fight which would be more effective, Karate or Tae Kwon Do? Do you have any suggestions besides jiu jitsu or judo?
Hi, I often see doormats with "ER" written on it in big letters... what do they stand for or mean exactly? Thanks. 08:08, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Whereabouts are these doormats?If they're in a big building with lots of nurses and doctors and bleeding people lying round that might give you a clue ;) Lemon martini 10:32, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
What colour are they, and what style are the letters in, and where are they?
In the game of Perpetual Motion (solitaire), suppose I have the following columns in the tableau:
I can certainly move the 6s together. Is it permissible to then move the 5s together, or must I only make the possible moves on the top cards? I have one reference book that seems to suggest the latter; are there any other references which clarify this?
However, if for whatever reason you are playing the same game but with two rows (2 sets of columns) (perhaps to make it easier), then I would answer your question by saying that it's optional - depending on how difficult you want the game to be. Keep in mind that the more you pile/group cards together, the sooner you will end up with 4-in-a-row and be able to discard that set. So if you want to play an especially longer game, then you'd only be able to group one set of cards per deal.
In closing, perhaps you would like to ask your question in the discussion section of the article
Perpetual Motion (solitaire) which can be found here:
Tallk:Perpetual Motion (solitaire) -- but it may take a while before someone responds, if they respond at all.
One of the Wikipedians who contributed to the creation of that article is
User:Nanami_Kamimura - you might want to ask her this question.
Rfwoolf
11:29, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
What is the relationship between Lemmy Kilmister and Ozzy Ozbourne like? do they know each other and if so do they get on? Which one considers the other to be the original God of rock ect. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.144.161.223 ( talk) 12:03, 5 March 2007 (UTC).
since they're both dead i don't think it matters
Err... They are both alive and kickin!
So are you
Is there a list of negroid scientists, or list of negroid philosophers, or could you give me examples of such people? I want to disprove a claim I heard that there are no important negroid philosophers or scientists. 193.65.112.51 12:13, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
They must be pure negroids or he will claim their intelligence is not from negtroid ancestors 193.65.112.51 12:16, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Ok, first of all let's think back waaaaay back in time. Man came from Africa. The cradle of mankind is in somewhat around the area of what is today Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania. Man's civilizations were born in Africa. The Egyptians, the Axumites the Ashantis were all ancient people who could read and write before Europe was even born. Mathematics was one of their strong science since they had to calculate to build those pyramids in Giza and the stellae in Axum and Lalibela. They had calendars, which tells they were strong in Astronomy. There was an Ethiopian called Yared who gave birth to a totally new way of music that is still used in the Ethiopian Orthodox church. There were great military strategists who beat European armies over and over again, especially in the case of Ethiopia, that withstood the the carving of Africa and slavery. Everything was exported from Africa is what I'm trying to say. It saddens me to know that not much is taught or passed on to the younger generation and needs to be asked about and even doubted. Here are some helpful websites:
http://library.temple.edu/articles/subject_guides/african_philosophy.jsp;jsessionid=41B406433A22CF1480D7DBD736C526F0?bhcp=1 http://inventors.about.com/library/blblackinventors.htm http://www.erraticimpact.com/~topics/html/african_philosophy.htm Sultan Paper 11:23, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
All 'races' gradually fade into each other, so that people living on the edges of a continent can be a mixture of two different races :) HS7 20:11, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Being an undemanding British consumer who wants nothing more from a television than the four main channels and teletext, I bought a combined TV and video recorder (small "desktop" style; Matsui brand) in October 2005. It had been working normally up to and including Saturday evening ... but appeared to be dead on Sunday morning. The normal routine is to press the power button on the front, which puts it into standby mode, then turn it on by pressing the standby button or channel up/down buttons on the front, or pressing the standby button on the remote control. When I did this yesterday, the standby light came on after pressing the power button, but nothing else happened. No matter which buttons I have pressed, I have not been able to turn the TV on. I have tried the plug in different sockets (not that that was likely to help!), but I'm at a loss to know what to do or try next. Does it sound like it is irretrievably broken? Does anybody have any suggestions on what the problem might be, whether it might be fixable, etc.?
Also, there is a video cassette in the video recorder bit, which is now "stuck" in there because with the TV being out of order, I can't eject it. How can I retrieve this?
Thanks, Hassocks5489 12:50, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Sometimes the electronics get their knickers in a twist. Try unplugging from the wall socket for 20 minutes. It often works. 86.202.31.98 14:56, 5 March 2007 (UTC)TVbuff
I had a remote malfunction and constantly send the "VOLUME UP" signal. Perhaps, in your case, your remote is sending the "POWER OFF" signal. Try pulling the batteries out of the remote and controlling the TV manually. If that works, you know the problem is the remote. StuRat 17:57, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for all the advice so far! My Dad has kindly taken it down to the village electrical shop today, to see if anything can be done. As it stands, the only thing that happens when the power button is pressed is that the standby light comes on: absolutely nothing else works on either the video recorder or the TV part of the unit. I have eliminated power supply problems and the remote as potential problems; Atlant's suggestion has potential. Anyway, I'll report back when I hear from the electrical shop! Hassocks5489 21:09, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Has anyone else experienced the phenomenon of one shoelace wearing out long before the other? All too often, one shoelace frays and eventually snaps while its partner is happy to continue for many months afterwards. I would have thought that both laces were subject to the same amount of wear and tear and should expire at more or less the same time, but no. And before anyone asks: no, it's not just the left or right lace that goes first, but it can be either. -- Richardrj talk email 13:02, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
If you'd like a serious reply instead, you might want to consider that the life of a shoelace is greatly affected by the eyelets through which it passes. One slightly-rougher eyelet, multiplied by many back-and-forths of the lace across that eyelet, will have a profound wearing effect on the lace. There may also be slight differentials in how you tie your shoes, pulling a tiny bit harder on the left than the right, or always managing to place one lace in precisely the same position time after time whereas the other lace ends up in a more-random position; the wear will be localized on the same-placed lace and distributed on the randomly-placed lace.
Atlant 17:46, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Alm Stag Eden Stack Fred Dam Iced Kris
Answers: Dell Treat Adam Doe Igloo Coin Stop
Sandman30s 14:36, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Hmmm. Normally I'd try look for this or SIMILAR answers on google - but a brief attempt at this has failed and I'd like to try figure it out myself. But no such luck yet.
Analysis of Question: Alm Stag Eden Stack Fred Dam Iced Kris 3 4 4 5 4 3 4 4 (Number of letters in each word) V C V C C C V C (Whether a word begins with a consonant or vowel) C C C C C C C C (Whether a word ends with a consonant or vowel) VCC CCVC VCVC CCVCC CCVC CVC VCVC CCVC (Which letters are consontants or vowels) VCCCC VCVCVCCC VCCCC VCC VCVCVCCC VC (The pattern found in this) ALMST AGEDENST ACKFR EDD AMICEDKR IS (Arrangement of letters in pattern)
Analysis of Answers: Dell Treat Adam Doe Igloo Coin Stop C C V C V C C (Whether a word begins with a consonant or vowel) C C C V V C C (Whether a word ends with a consonant or vowel) CVCC CCVVC VCVC CVV VCCVV CVVC CCVC (Which letters are consontants or vowels)
Observations: 1. None of the Question words end in a Vowel. 2. Of the Answer words, 'Dell' is the only word to end in a double-consonant (CC) 3. None of the Question words or the Answer words end in a Consonant-Vowel(CV) 4. All of the vowels except 'U' are used in both the Question and the Answers. 5. None of the answers contain a letter that the questions haven't used, with the exception of 'Stop' which uses the letter "P". Current possible answers: 1. "Treat" since the Question seems to follow a pattern in the number of letters in each word: "3 4 4 5 4 / 3 4 4 " -> "5", and also because in the Question no words end in a vowel (Of the answers, Treat is the only word with 5 letters in it that also doesn't end in a vowel)
Other avenues to check: Binary, morse code.
Theme analysis of question and answers: Question Alm - Alpine Grassland (possible singular of alms?) Stag - Deer (type of beetle?) Eden - Location ( Garden of Eden, Eden project, Anthony Eden) Stack - (Chimney stack, a stack of things, to stack) Fred - Name Dam - Water (manmade structure, verb, landscape-altering, power source) Iced - Water (past participle of verb, adjective, military usage - thrown out?) Kris - Weapon/Object (manmade) Answers Dell - A small valley (computer company, probably a name as well) Treat - (A verb, a noun, a sweet, manmade?) Adam - Name (first man in Eden myth, a made man, godmade) Doe - Deer Igloo - Water (Manmade structure) Coin - (verb, noun, manmade) Stop - Verb (noun)
(Things in brackets are me 86.139.237.132 18:53, 5 March 2007 (UTC))
Alphabet Analysis: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ A AAAAA A AAAAA AAA <- (Question) A AA <- Alm in Question A A AA <- Stag in Question AA A <- Eden in Question A A A AA <- Stack in Question AAA A <- Fred in Question A A A <- Dam in Question AAA A <- Iced in Question A A AA <- Kris in Question ---------------------------------------------------- AA A <- Dell in Answers A A A A <- Treat in Answers A A A <- Adam in Answers AA A <- Doe in Answers A A A <- Igloo in Answers A A AA <- Coin in Answers AA AA <- Stop in Answers
Rfwoolf 16:26, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Yes I know the answer :) I purposely changed the original question so that it cannot be googled. Let's see if any bright spark out there can get it :) There is a definite pattern with a simple but fiendish rule. Will leave it open for a day... Sandman30s 19:00, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Any takers? Let me know if I must post the solution. Sandman30s 09:32, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
Anyway since there is still someone thinking, I will wait a bit. Just to mention you guys are waaaay off the mark. Looking for difficulty is not always a good thing. Even a primary school kid might just see the pattern here. Similar to the following puzzle which is very difficult if you attempt advanced maths but has a very simple rule and pattern.
What is next and why?
1 11 21 11 12 31 12 21 12 13
(It goes row by row, NOT column, and yes there ARE spaces there!)
Okay I give up on the word one Capubadger 15:30, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
it is stop as it goes from yellow, trough green to blue, so stop is next
Stop is green, it is Coin as it looks brightest :] HS7 16:01, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
I've just got that number one ROTFL, how do people think of things like that :) HS7 16:04, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
OK tan-ta-ra-raaa! Remove the Capitals and letters with extensors and you get a pattern of colours: magenta cream ceris. So the next letter must be an e to complete cerise which is found in Dell (remember the D is removed) which is your answer. Infuriatingly simple :) Sandman30s 19:29, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
So basically it is a rubbish sequence which almost noone would be able to work out :) HS7 19:42, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Wikipedians! My name is Eric Hartley and I think that the two previous telenovelas titled Desire (TV series) and Fashion House, in my own personal opinion because I am an easy-to-please type of person, did get good ratings just like Wicked Wicked Games and Watch Over Me did. I have an idea about MyNetworkTV's scheduling, instead of canceling all telenovelas, why can't the television network have telenovelas and reality shows co-exist on the same network just like Univision's programming.
YOU might consider that relatively good, and I suppose it is, for such a small network. You may have liked the shows, too. But ratings are not based on opinion - they are weighed in terms of market share. I think the term "modest" is an accurate and non- WP:POV term to describe that particular percentage of overall available viewers in that market. Jfarber 15:40, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
I think I've heard that in olden times (as in the wild west), when something exceedingly painful had to be done, like an amputation, and there was no laudanum or anything around, patients were sometimes given a bullet to bite on while the doctor chopped away. Hence, "bite the bullet". Is this true? If it is, what was the thinking behind it? Oskar 16:06, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
surely this would have been life threatening as what would happen if the bullet went off while in ones mouth?!
Sometimes they made people bite a bit of leather instead :) HS7 19:46, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Are you allowed to bring tomatoes across the border into the US? Nick 18:12, 5 March 2007 (UTC)nicholassayshi Nick 18:12, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
It depends who is allowing you to do it, since I doubt the mexicoans would mind much :] HS7 15:43, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
Another one from me...
When taking photos of street scenes and whatnot in Brighton on Saturday, the car shown to the right (copied and enlarged from the full photo) passed my camera just as I took the picture. Now, I am quite interested in cars, especially from the 1970s and 1980s, and consider myself familiar with most makes and models - but although it looks "familiar" in an "I-can't-quite-place-it" way, I can't positively identify it. Needless to say, it was off down the Lewes Road before I could turn my head and check! I'm also intrigued by the nice array of lights, the large aerial-type thing on the right, and the object between the lights on the roof.
A positive identifcation would be much appreciated! (The registration number dates it to 1981-1982, if that helps.) Hassocks5489 21:48, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
That is a Subaru GL wagon. I think it is an '81. The rally lights are all after-market. See here: www.theeel.com/cars/images/subaru_GL.jpg 161.222.160.8 05:20, 6 March 2007 (UTC) (forgot to sign)
People say Elvis Presley is dead, but others say he's not. I heard that Elvis's middle name is "Aron". And that there is a federal law stating you can't put your own name on a tombstone.(Is this true?) That's why the grave is selled "Aaron". Saying hes still alive. I also heard that somebody, for whatever reason, spent the night by the gate of Graceland the night he died. He said that he didn't see any body come out of the house. Also that when people tour Graceland, they don't let them go upstairs. They did the same thing when he was alive. Could he possibly be up there? Could he have just cracked under the pressure of being so famous and payed people to stage his own death? Would his family be in on it? If he was still alive, He would have to pay somebody to get him a new look. Could somebody please help me shed some light on this subject?
Elvis never exsted to start with, it was just someone that looked and sounded just like him :] Hidden secret 7 15:07, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
You may not be able to put your own name on a tombstone, but you can put somebody else's name on it. Somebody else bought JFK's tombstone, and had it engraved with his name.
What if they both had the same name :? HS7 17:11, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
When my grandparents died they only put my grandmothers name on the grave as she died first, and would have added my grandfathers name later, but most of the stone had been stolen, so they bought a new one and put both names on that, but if it hadn't been stolen, his name still wouldn't have been added until after he died :( HS7 19:40, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
How much do tattos hurt? 24.104.25.254 23:52, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
My calendar refers today as Labour day in Austrailia and WA. What place is WA? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.210.72.105 ( talk) 23:57, 5 March 2007 (UTC).
So why is Western Austrailia considered a different entity?
My Calendar says on March 12, it's Labour day in Austrailia-Vic and Eight Hours day in Austrailia-TAS. I'd assume TAS is Tasmania
mp oy#d mpy. oy#d vs;;rf sidyrttso;opt/