A "Well, bugger me!" thread

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

So if I bit your eyeball, you could stop using contacts? Makes sense, I suppose.

[Cort Haus]

It would be understandable if there was no word for 'blue' in Welsh because there are few naturally occurring instances of blue there, with the permanent grey skies of rain, and presumably limited supplies of woad.

[Seeker]

The Homeric thing is actually pretty easy to explain...'Homer' was working within a rather rigid poetic discipline where he had to use certain adjectives at certain places and times. Remembering that this is poetry and not prose, we find that:

-All sheep and cattle are invariable shaggy; strong men, no matter what age or description, are also 'shaggy' at times
-all seas are wine-dark
-all bronze is pitiless
-all good soldiers are 'well-greaved', etc etc

I think the poet was well-aware what colour the sky is, it's just he was adhering to a metrical and poetic 'convention' that was very rigid and well-understood by his target audience.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Let n = the number of "o"s in between B---BS. As of 10:31 PM EST 2009 Jan 10, the lowest value of n for which the Google Image results returns zero results is 46.

[snoopy369]

Well, that's useful to know

[SlowwHand]

Let n = the number of "o"s in between B---BS. As of 10:31 PM EST 2009 Jan 10, the lowest value of n for which the Google Image results returns zero results is 46.

But if you do a Google search on boobs video, surprisingly there are only 10 hits.
10, 46. They must generally come in pairs.

[snoopy369]

You probably have safesearch turned on, don't you ...

[Alinestra Covelia]

They must generally come in pairs.

Hmm... empirical factfinding under way.

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Yep, it's true. I did a quick survey of a nearby sampling frame and I can confirm this. Though I got a few funny looks.

[Dinner]

You probably have safesearch turned on, don't you ...

That is the only reasonable explanation. I found quite a few more then 10.

[onodera]

AC, you made me think Lord Shiva was back. Necromancy is an abomination. :|

[snoopy369]

LordShiva never left, onodera. He just transmigrated into the ether, becoming a part of every post and haunting every thread.

[Dinner]

Lord Shiva is like Jesus. He exists in everything and nothing.

[Theben]

Now I'm not sure if I believe in Lord Shiva.

[Alinestra Covelia]

You can get kosher telephones. These are telephones that are designed in a way so that the dialler themself is not actually opening or closing any electric circuits. One such use is so that the Israeli Defense Force can still use phones to communicate without violating the Shabbat.

Story, from The Jerusalem Post

Article also refers to a kosher pen (the ink vanishes after a while so it's not classed as writing), and a kosher computer mouse.

[Zkribbler]

You're struggling with this, aren't you? Why do you need a specific word for "blue" or brown"? What's no important about those particular points on the colour spectrum?

Er...brown is the color of earth, and blue is the color of the sky.

Q: Take a look outside and see what color the sky is.
A: Well, it's kinda greenish only with not so much yellow.