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and also the term "the graveyard shift". As someone would sit in the graveyard all night to listen for bells being rung. :)
 
this weekend won't arrive quickly because i have too many exams this week... so sydkiwi you can blame me... or my uni...
CB ;)
 
I just got puzzled last night as to why there was an 'eject' button on my cd player remote. seems a lil silly to me, I'm just gunna have to get up and change the cd anyway.
 
vurt: BigKev's stain remover, shower cleaner, lemon juice.. Umm actually there's about 20-500 products I know of can clean markings/stains off walls. It all depends on the mark/stain what the actual wall is made of.
11: some people like to push eject and then walk to the cd player so it's instantly open instead of waiting that whole 2 seconds or so :)
 
Vurt: Use sugar soap (i believe the brand is "Selley's" or something...) It comes in a blue bottle, and if this stuff doesn't de-stain your walls, then nothing will... :)
 
Originally posted by elevhein:
I just got puzzled last night as to why there was an 'eject' button on my cd player remote. seems a lil silly to me, I'm just gunna have to get up and change the cd anyway.
'cos (well, this is what i always figure), cd players take *so* bloody long to eject the cd, it's best to have a button, so it's out by the time you get there.
but maybe i'm just lazy :)
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elevhein: I often puzzled about the same thing but I just bought a new DVD button which doesn't have an eject button on the remote and it craps me off getting to the player and having to wait til the doov comes out. Crazy.
 
Global,
For your end-of-the-universe question, there is NOTHING outside the universe and there are no other universes outside it like there are galaxies outside our galaxy. Universe by definition is EVERYTHING so there is NOTHING outside. If there were other universes outside our universe then it wouldn't be a universe because it wouldn't include everything inside it. I know it is very hard to comprehend but believe me, I've had many discussions on this topic with some very educated people. Hope this helps.
 
The universe, by definition..is all matter and energy. So perhaps beyond the universe, something *beyond* matter and energy exists..
I personally wouldn't call it "case closed" just because you've spoken to some very educated people. Just my 2c anyway ;)
 
Ps n Qs

Something my sister and I were pondering the other night....

What are your Ps and Qs?

As in, "mind your Ps and Qs".
 
Its meaning in recent times—and the one I learned as a child in west London nearly 50 years ago—has been “to mind one’s manners”, “to behave properly”. This is a weakened sense to the one it had in the nineteenth century, when it meant, according to Eric Partridge in A Dictionary of Historical Slang: “to be careful, exact, or prudent in behaviour”.

These are some of the explanations I’ve seen advanced in various places:
Advice to a child learning its letters to be careful not to mix up the handwritten lower-case letters p and q.
Similar advice to a printer’s apprentice, for whom the backward-facing metal type letters would be especially confusing.
Jocular, or perhaps deadly serious, advice to a barman not to confuse the letters p and q on the tally slate, on which the letters stood for the pints and quarts consumed “on tick” by the patrons.
An abbreviation of mind your please’s and thank-you’s.
Instructions from a French dancing master to be sure to perform the dance figures pieds and queues accurately.
An admonishment to seamen not to soil their navy pea-jackets with their tarred queues, that is, their pigtails.

It is possible to put forward objections to all of these. Why should p and q be singled out for attention in handwriting, when similar problems occur with b and d? This comment might be thought to apply with even greater force to the poor printer’s apprentice. The pints and quarts explanation sounds reasonable, provided that men in bars used to drink beer by the quart, as in fact they did. The French dancing-master explanation sounds just too far-fetched to be credible, as does the one about the seamen. The mind your please’s and thank-you’s seems just as unlikely as the others, but is seriously advanced by some dictionaries, the current edition of the Collins English Dictionary among them.

There are two similar usages recorded:
There was once an expression P and Q, often written pee and kew, which was a seventeenth-century colloquial expression for “prime quality”. This later became a dialect expression (the English Dialect Dictionary reports it in Victorian times from Shropshire and Herefordshire). OED2 has a citation from Rowlands’ Knave of Harts of 1612:
“Bring in a quart of Maligo, right true: And looke, you Rogue, that it be Pee and Kew.” Nobody is really sure what either P or Q stood for. To say they’re the initials of “Prime Quality” seems to be folk etymology, because surely that would make “PQ” rather than “P and Q”.
Partridge says that the phrase learn your Ps and Qs, was common about 1820, again being advice to children who may be confused about the two letters.

You may feel the first of these tends to confuse the issue rather than illuminate it, and you may be right. It may just be coincidence. However, the second does tend to support the idea that it relates to children learning their alphabets. If I had to make a choice, I’d plump for the alphabet-learning origin.

What we do know is that mind your Ps and Qs was first recorded in 1779 but that it is slowly dying out. To lose it would be a pity, as it is a link to the past and makes a good subject for some quiet speculation and ingenious attempts at explanation. In common with so many words and phrases in English, its origins must remain a mystery.
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Pleo, at a guess, partly sunny is more cloudy than partly cloudy and vice versa. "Partly" suggests a portion that is less than half. I mean, that isn't the definition of course, but I think that's the suggestion.

part·ly (pärtl)
adv.
In part or in some degree; not completely.

So I guess "partly sunny" would mean that it's sunny to a degree, but not completely, and hence mostly cloudy?

I know what I mean, shut up.
 
You are more likely to catch the common cold in the winter, however, because humidity drops. Colds and viruses love dry weather. When mucus is moist, it's better able to capture the viruses and pass them to the stomach, where they perish in acid.
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Shnouzerpuff said:

Another couple of Q's:
Where do flies go to sleep?

[ 20 November 2002: Message edited by: Shnouzerpuff ]
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I think flies tend to die instead of sleep. Theyll buzz around for a few days, shag a couple of times, and then cark it
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^^ also coz you tend to spend more time indoors with no air circulating, hence rebreathing any shit that people have coughed up
 
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