WxMurray

I still, pick up the New York Times and the USA Today every weekday. I would pick up the local paper, but I don't like it, and I haven't gotten into the campus paper.

Hey there,

 

You know what? Out of those three things, I think only one really classifies as an important event. :blink:

Out of those things, this is the only one I want to hear about.

How about Shoreleave U (University)? No sickening rides (unless you want to hitch a lift on someone's killer bike) or upscale hotels, but the weather up here is great.

Happy Birthday to me! :blink:

Ah, I am no longer a teenager. Time to pull out the cane and ear trumpet and get some arthritis medication. :blink:

Which reminds me...check out our daily uber-cool STSF events promos at the StarTrek.com message boards.  :blink:

I've been doing that since they started. The title "tag line" can sometimes be quite amusing.

...and I correct the mistakes. It seems someone wanted April 3rd to disappear. :blink:

It seems that Blackadder is going to make a return this fall. From The Sunday Times. Let's hope! :blink:

Rowan Atkinson will also be making a Johhny English sequel. :blink:

I'm a Lutheran, and while it is sad to see such an important and loved man die, (not to sound caollous here) I am sorta happy to see him go. He has been on death's door for so long. I'm amazed he lived this long. At the rate he was going he was going to be 150. Still, it is sad to see him go. I kinda liked him and he had nothing to do with my religion.

Which reminds me...check out our daily uber-cool STSF events promos at the StarTrek.com message boards. :blink:

I've been doing that since they started. The title "tag line" can sometimes be quite amusing.

If you read what I said I am wearing whiter shoes and less faded jeans now. How would that be possible if they were all the same clothes?

Forget it. It was mildly amusing to me, anway.

Hey, I just realised something! I am reading this topic after not having read it since December... and with the exception of white shoes instead of grey and a slightly less faded pair of jeans I am wearing the exact same outfit!

So you've been wearing the same outfit since December 31? :blink:

I would also like to register my marginally hosted event:

 

BREAKFAST WITH HUFF

 

Daily between 9AM to 1PM in the Tube River vacinity of the MGM Grand.

 

I may or may not be present.

What's the menu? Donuts? :blink: I would hope so. I love donuts. Mmm.

I brainwashed my child early.

If I ever have kids I intend to do that, too.

The next day was our graduation ceremony. She just rolled her eyes at me.

Ah. Priceless. <_<

Actually, there are some legitimate grounds for confusion here. It all boils down to if "please follow each instruction in order, without skipping any" is itself an instruction. It conflicts with the numbered instructions which means the student has to choose which set of instructions should be given priority. Given that the numbered instructions conflict with each other it is logical to assume that they are of lesser importance than the paragraphed instructions, which means the student SHOULD follow each instruction in order, without skipping any, even though other instructions conflict.

That's what went through my head.

My roommate last year told me of a history test in high school where the directions at the top of the multiple choice test said "Do one." He read the instructions and handed it in. The teacher smiled, looked at the question, and said, "Very good. You got a 100." Everyone else was engrossed in the rest of the problems.

Wimbley X. Murray; Gerhard Saffir Murray

The following is a comprehensive test of individual instruction adherence. This test is timed, and must be completed in either blue or black ink. Pencil or other color inks are not acceptable. If you do not have a blue or black ink pen, you may raise your hand, and inform your instructor, now, and it will be provided. Individual results will be graded and tabulated at the end of the allotted period. Please do not copy from your neighbor and read everything before you begin. You have 5 minutes to complete as much of the test as you can. Most will not be able to complete it in that amount of time, but the percentage of completion will be tabulated into the comprehensive scores, so please follow each instruction in order, without skipping any. If you misunderstand a question, perform the instruction to the best of your understanding. The instructor will not explain any of the instructions.

1. Print your full name at the top left hand corner of this page.

2. Underline your last name.

3. Circle the number of the second instruction

4. Underline the fifth word of the first instruction.

5. Draw a rectangular square around instructions two through five.

6. Cross out the third word of the fourth instruction by drawing a horizontal line through the word.

7. Place an “X” to the right of the number of any instruction, above, that does not have a period at the end.

8. Draw a horizontally elongated oval around the number of this instruction.

9. Draw a vertically elongated oval around the number of this instruction.

10. Underline the first line of the fourth instruction after the instruction indicated in number seven.

11. Place an “X” through the last word of the second previous instruction.

12. Skip the next four instructions.

13. Draw a large circle around all the text on the page.

14. Draw an “X” through the circle.

15. Place a box around the opening paragraph.

16. Draw an “X” through the box.

17. Place a box around the opening paragraph.

18. Draw an “X” through the box.

19. Bisect the lower triangle created by the above instruction.

20. Label the right angles of the triangles created in the above instruction by placing the number 90 by the angle.

21. Draw a line above the first skipped instruction.

22. Circle the last skipped instruction.

23. Draw a vertical line to the left of the numbers, starting with the first repeated instruction, and ending with the last repeated instruction.

24. Put a box around the word “box” anywhere it appears on this sheet.

25. Draw a circle around the word “circle” anywhere it appears on this sheet.

26. Draw a line under the word “line” anywhere it appears on this sheet.

27. Draw an inverted triangle around your name above.

28. Draw an arrow pointing to the number of the thirteenth executed instruction.

29. Circle the two ovals, collectively.

30. Execute only the first instruction above, and turn in your paper.

My schedule: Sleep til 9 or 10, float in the pool drinking coffee til 1, meander to wherever other nerds might be between 2 and 4, eat and drink a path across the city at night, kiss off around 1.

Would you like a donut or five with your coffee? <_<

What Ned could have seen was condensation (water) dripping from the exhaust system, showing the car to recently have been started, and not fully warmed up. A car that had been running at high speed for 40 minutes would have a clear exhaust.

That's it exactly.

The scene: it's World War II, an RAF airfield north of London. A dimly lit Quonset hut filled with air crews just returned from bombing runs over Germany.

The meeting opens with the chaplain leading the men in prayer for their lost comrades. He is followed by the flight operations chief, who begins the debriefing by asking the airmen, "From what direction were you attacked by the German fighter planes?"

Without hesitation or dissent, the reply was, "From above and behind."

The flight operations chief hastily scribbles the information on the back of top secret maps, and hands it to a junior officer with the instructions, "Get this information to the departing air crews. It may save their lives!"

As the officer turns to leave, from the inky shadows, a hand grasps his arm and he hears these words: "Hold that order. The information you're about to give will lose lives rather than save them."

What did the guy from the inky shadows know that the flight operations chief didn't?

I watched TNG with my parents since I was about sixish. They've been kicking themselves for it ever since.

No Coke, No Pepsi, No Cheeseburger, FRESCA WILL RULE!!!!

Fresca is a product of the Coca-Cola Company.

Perhaps the obvious question is why the heck it took them 40 minutes at high speed just to get to the next town over.

That is an integral part to the answer.

The car was going north?

or was the man actually a woman? <_<

 

was it because they were in a donut shop for 40 minutes?

maybe some mustangs don't have a backseat?

No, no, no, no. We are assuming the second Mustang is going south and is physically identical to the first, with two men in the front and a woman in the back.

license plate from afar?

No, the State Police couldn't get the plates (second paragraph).

Since he jumps three feet up each time, 28 will get him to the top.

Sargent O'Malley and his rookie assistant Ned are just pulling out of the local donut shop. They get a call on the radio that the town north of them has had a bank robbery. The suspects are proceeding south, and it's a high-speed chase.

The chase has been going on for 40 minutes, and O'Malley and Ned should be on the lookout -- even though the State Police don't have a plate number. They do, however, know that they're looking for a yellow Mustang with two men in the front seat and a woman in the back. The State Police were in hot pursuit, but they lost them -- right as they were headed towards Centerville, where O'Malley and Ned work.

What should happen, but as O'Malley and Ned are pulling out of the donut shop, they happen to see that very car -- with two guys in the front and a woman in the back. Sargent O'Malley says, "That's the car, Ned! We're going to go after it. Flip on the siren, and let's get 'em!"

Ned, who's been studying the back of the car, says, "I don't think so, Sarge. It's not them."

Just what did Ned see?

The vacuum shot forward, because the air being vented was sufficient to move it once the extra weight was removed.

 

I would never have gotten that bodyguard one. I am one of those compulsive people who returns front seats to the full upright position in two-door cars.

That's pretty close. Actually, the vacuum started turning in circles. Using Newton's Third Law (For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction), the vacuum would turn in circles opposite the direction that the motor rotates.