As galaxies pass through it, the pressure from this gas pushes on the gas inside the galaxy, sweeping it out (like driving with your windows open removes bad odors lingering in your car, possibly also due to gas).

From the “Face of Beauty” (spiral galaxy image) thread.

So I’m NOT the only one whose sense of humour tends toward the toilet variety here …

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Nup, sorry, its all dirty and unfit to post I’m afraid!

He said “you can call this the positive Bill direction, and this the…” then he draws two concentric circles. “I don’t even know what this is.” He puts dots in it. “Here, you can call this the sprinkled donut direction. So, we developed the unit vector “Sprinkled donut hat” that day.

Good times.

Why did the GRB cross the Universe?

But you can’t cross the Universe with GRB – the former is a volume, not a vector.

lim(GPA->0) BSc = BA

http://www.amestrib.com/articles/2009/01/30/ames_tribune/news/doc49809864eeaf5088886432.txt

“I like to think I’m something of a funny guy.”

Funny ha-ha or funny odd?

Bein’serious for a sec though :

Who doesn’t? very, very few people think of themselves as being humourless – the lack of a sense of humour is a trait most frequently found in a fanatic or zealot.

Natch what constitutes humour & “being funny” (comic funny that is) varies widely from culture to culture and even person to person.

Still most of us claim a GSOH to use the common acronymn and many even claim humour is what separates us from animals and makes us human – Heinlein made a case for this, I think, in his classic ‘Stranger in a Strange Land.’

Which is all stating the obvious to some degree but whatever. Enough philosophy! Lets bring on the jokes!

Qu. When is a sword safe?

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A. When its Kappa Orionis! (a.k.a. ‘Saiph’ meaning sword in Arabic.)

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PS. Click on my name to visit stellar expert James Kaler’s page on this star.

See also Saif al Jabbar (Eta Orionis) al http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/saifaljabbar.html

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The Implications of Punctuation:

A teacher and a school inspector were feuding over something and the teacher, being cheeky, wrote on the chalkboard the following line:
The teacher said “the Inspector is a fool.”
The inspector saw this, smiled and quickly changed the punctuation, quotes marks and commas to read:
‘The teacher’, said the Inspector,’ is a fool.’
So commas misplaced, word order reversed
Can make writer object
Shout, swear & curse!

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Continuity: Subtitling and translation can also lead to weird mistakes. Han Solo says (twice in the special edition) that he dumped his cargo because “Even I get boarded sometimes”, and in Dutch cinema’s the subtitles read as if he said “Even I get bored sometimes”.

I hope its not too much of a faux pas to post this on both these threads. Just in case people miss it on the other one.

The Historical Society regrets to inform its members that tonight’s Black Death Re-enactment is cancelled due to illness.

Its always darkest just before the dawn – so if you’re going to steal your neighbours newspaper that’s the time to do it!
- Yoga Maharishi Fattibastard (Check source?!)

Thought for the day : Does a bracket after an emoticon give it’s face a double chin???

Thought for the day : If they ever make a TV show called ‘Parasite’, will they still call its compere a ‘host’?

Thought for the day : Are garbos at our disposal?

Thought for the day : Has the word ‘passe’ (en Francais) now become itself? (Or passed away?)

Thought for the day : If the Moon really was made from green cheese then we’d really be grateful for the vacuum of space because, well, can you imagine just how bad a moon sized lump of really old, really mouldy cheese might smell?!

Thought for the day : Is it “better Late than never” if Late = deceased?

“To the question, “how do I know I exist?” a professor famously
replied, “And who’s asking?”
- Philosopher and author, Antony Flew.

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Patrick Moore’s Personal Apocalpyse tale :

“A few years ago I was walking along Charing Cross Road in Central London when I came across a man who was wearing sandwich boards. Normally I would’ve paid little attention to him and I assumed he must have been protesting about something quite mundane but in fact his message was much more dramatic :

Rising to his feet he drew a deep breath and unleashed a volley of wild invective.”
- Page 1, introduction, “Countdown – Or how Nigh is the End?”, Patrick Moore, Pan Books, 1999.

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Would the congregation please note that the bowl at the back of the Church labelled ‘For the sick’ is for monetary donations only.’
- Apparently a real church sign.

We apologise for the error in the last edition in which we stated that Mr Fred Nicolme is a defective of the police force. This was a typographical error. We meant, of course, that Mr Nicolme is a detective in the police farce.
- ‘Derby Community newspaper’ (Other info. unavailable.)

Minimalist art: The less said the better.

Apollodorus : “O Socrates how it grieves me to see you die so undeservedly.”
Socrates : “My dear Apollodorus, would you rather see me die deservedly?”

Is Armageddon the last word in warfare?

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Because he saw the Moebius strip!

Alpha Librae = Zubenelgenubi

Beta Lib = Zubeneschmali

Gamma Lib = Zubenelakrab

Delta lib = Zublgubi

I kid you not!

What is the rudest star type?

F0!

1) The name of which variable star implies insanity?

2) What is a boxers favourite spectral class

3) What is the smelliest star type?

4) What spectral type always looks bad in photos?

5) What would be the favourite musical style of the inhabitants of Alpha Aurigae?

SCROLL DOWN …

…& KEEP SCROLLING

… & again

Okay :

1) RU Lupi *

2) K0 (Kay Oh as in knock out!)

3) B0 as in B. O.

4) B4 – the “after” photos always beat the “B4″ ones ..

5) Acapella (A-capella! Sorry … ..)

* Yes that _is_ a real star! RU Lupi (“are you loopy!?”) is a variable -an RW Aurigae or T-Tauri type nebular variable in Lupus. Probably a young star still in the process of accreting material it varies irregularly from 9th to 13th magnitude and is, probably, a G5 dwarf star located (again, most likely) around 400 light-years away.

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A: Because its neither rare nor well done!

(Hmmm .. not sure if that qualifies really but anyhow. )

Good comedy Sf – Futurama – for sure! Red dwarf, also some good lines from ‘Firefly’ (Serenity) Jane the tough mercenary there had some good lines and straight man type roles.

Data from Star trek was often quite funny.

Quark & the Ferengi generally like Jar Jar in Star Wars were trying to funny but not!

Course humour is a subjective thing …

Ie the barman has to pay him?

“Hey, barman!”, exclaimed the Proton, “How come he did not have to pay for his beer, but we do?”

“Ah!”, replied the barman, “He’s a Neutron. Therefore, no charge!“

Why did the GRB cross the Universe?

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No, seriously, guys… I wanna know…

Acupunctual!

Is this blog on?