Posts by Martin Budden

Re: Pterodactyl in the sky with diamonds

Is that a Bonio in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?

Re: IXV??

14?

(p.s. "The post is required, and must contain letters." So here they are.)

Re: WTF

"slip one in" hehe very good! Keep it up ;-)

Re: Marmite?

Vinegar kills most of the fermenting processes.

Vinegar is the end product of fermentation by Acetobacter ;-)

Re: Gutteral throat sound...

Professor Hubert Farnsworth: I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all.

Fry: Oh. What's it called now?

Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Urrectum. Here, let me locate it for you.

Re: Its a planet.

[Pluto is] exactly where it should be according to the titus-bodes law.

No it isn't, and neither is Neptune.

Neptune should be where Pluto is. I wonder what bumped Neptune into the wrong place? I wonder if Pluto is a remnant of that event?

Re: Why is there an xkcd for everything?

There should be an xkcd explaining why there is an xkcd for everything.

Maybe we could use the camels to ship out the toads too?

(Oh dear, now I'm thinking of "camel-toad"... say it out loud)

Re: Begun the Ad Wars have

> > On a TV I mute the adverts.

> How will you know when a new season of Archer starts up?

He said he mutes adverts, he didn't mention trailers ;-)

Re: Simulation or Ad Campaign

The sales pitch is the angle required to initiate forward momentum. This is how every project gets off the ground, not just LOHAN.

Re: I must say, Elon is doing rather more

I pray the iRocket uploads U2 unnanounced.

Re: Why was the original article replaced?

And now both articles are there in the headlines! Curiouser and curiouser.

p.s. thank you to someone who isn't Spartacus for a good answer :-)

Re: Cold calls?

Easy way to deal with cold calls:

"Hello? What's that? OK, yes that does sound very interesting, hang on a moment please there's someone at the door, I'll be right back........"

Then you put the phone on the table (don't hang up!) and walk away. I've no idea how long they keep waiting before they hang up, but it works :-)

Hopefully Deloitte wasn't that dumb.

Such optimism!

Re: So-

...cleared out all the space around the object of smaller objects (fail).

The new definition has always bothered me because Pluto's orbit crosses that of Neptune, which surely means Neptune hasn't cleared its orbit of smaller objects, which surely means Neptune is merely a dwarf planet and not a proper planet? Yes I'm aware of the resonance which means Neptune and Pluto don't collide, but still... crossing orbits!!!