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Originally posted by Elizabeth:
Where are all the mates to the unmatched socks that come out of the dryer?

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Why is the TV and Radio listings book ALWAYS on the wrong page?

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Originally posted by Ann:
And why do sock manufacturers insist on making every pair subtly different?

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For my dear husband, I buy 5 pairs of identical socks at a time. I buy white socks and I buy black socks. even he is able to match up his newly laundered socks. )

Okay, here's mine -

The stuff isn't much thicker than hair, but has up to 5 cores of flux or resin (or rosin)

Here is the weird bit - solder melts at a significantly higher temperature than the flux. How do they get the multicores in the solder??

The can't drill it out and pour the cores in - the rolls are too long. They can't extrude it, because the core is to brittle - it wouldn't extrude.

How do they do it??

Oh and why can't you taste your own saliva, why don't magnets run down and why can't you tickle yourself...

Cheers,

After all, you only ever use them when you are clean...

As we have two sons, 12½ and 14, (and me) we have some pretty gungy towels!

Cheers,

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CharlottePlatz wrote:
But, for me, I would like to know how it is possible that I can be thinking of a person that I have not seen or heard from in months - and then in the enxt hour, out of the blue, the person phones or emails me. I'm not too sure if I believe in psychic ability - but I wonder, how does this happen?

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Pretty often. I have dubbed this Brenton's Law (in honour of my good self), also known as the law of threes.

If you learn a new word, you will hear at least three times in the next three weeks, and you will never have heard it before!

Example, years ago I heard the word "lickspittle" for the first time. I thought to myself, "this is going to crop up again and again over the next few weeks"

The next day, the then Prime Minister, Paul Keating used the word describing a political enemy. Or friend. We never knew with Paul.

And off course, lickspittle was in the news for weeks after that!

Cheers,

Why does Linux have an error message saying something about the printer being on fire?

When you hear what you consider to be a new word, surely the first time you actually take it on board and log it as interesting you then begin to notice it?

Like when you change cars, suddenly you see loads similar - but it isn't that they weren't around before (unless it is totally new of course!) but that you are now noticing them because they mean something.

Or when you are running really late for something then you get really stressed out about being behind a slow vehicle but if you have plenty of time it doesn't get at you and make you remember.

Sorry to be boring - it is a natural gift.

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Some of these posts are perilously reminiscent of a Seinfeld monologue

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<Brenton picks up mike, stands on stage. Spotlight. Talks about nothing>

Why is it that the poorest communicators in the world gravitate to the internet, where they become the most erudite and vocal people, willing to spill their guts to complete strangers?

<canned laughter>

Why do villians in American movies always have British accents? I mean is it because of the revolution? Are all Brits evil megalomaniacs, bent on destroying the world?

<canned laughter>

And what is with that whole destroying the world thing anyway? Where do they plan to live? <quizzical look>

<canned laughter>

<applause>

<music>

<roll credits>

You are probably right about just noticing things, but Newton got laws of motion named after him just for noticing stuff falling.

It is my little bit of fame and I am grabbing it!

And I think it is a conspiracy...

The slow car when in a rush is one that I have thought about. I have noticed that I am often stuck behind slow cars when not in a rush, but it doesn't stick out as much. It is not so memorable.

The person appearing just after one has thought of them is like the fact that saying everything is quiet is supposed to tempt fate.

I have thought about that too. I work with computers, and let us assume where I work we get a failure on average every 10 minutes. If things start going well, we may get a break of 1/2 hour. That is the point where somebody says "Its going well, isn't it!". The odds are that something will go wrong. That is just probability.

In the Garden of Eden, did the mosquitoes' bite (or sting, or whatever) hurt?

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Originally posted by BTMO:
Oh yes - and why do you have to wash bath towels?

After all, you only ever use them when you are clean...

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Why do villians in American movies always have British accents? I mean is it because of the revolution? Are all Brits evil megalomaniacs, bent on destroying the world?

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Originally posted by Siegfried:

However did we get from something like a wolf to something like a pekingnese.. and why did anyone want to?

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Originally posted by Gill:
Isn't it rather unjust to say that poor Saint Jude, who has enough troubles just from bearing the same name as the traitor, refuses to answer prayers unless the supplicant grants him press coverage?

Oh! Is THAT why people do that? How VERY weird! Some Catholic newspaper owner, I wouls imagine!

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I don't know the exact origin, but remember that, in my childhood (about 40 years ago), the printed "Novena to St Jude" sometimes contained the line at the end "publication must be promised." At the time, I doubt it meant publication in print - the idea was to spread devotion to Jude because, as the prayer referenced, his memory was obscure because he bore the same name as the traitor.

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why can't you taste your own saliva

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Try saving it in a glass and drink it cold

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What is an Olay?

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It's an egg laid that is perfectly round, of course. So the Oil of Olay was originally devised as a lubricant to help the chicken achieve this result.