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The Imponderable Thread

Let's don't forget being dummb as a Box of Rocks. What level of Dumbness do we ascribe to said Rocks, and what Size to said Box?

American or European measurements?

Which iz close-Lee reladed to to be-n "dumb az a twig." Which leads one to think, "If I am as dumb as a twig, and a general sized 'stick' is about as smart as a box of new, old condoms...then how dumb am I?"
 
How do they get the liquid into a snowglobe without having any air-bubbles?


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What does a cat call its vagina?

Nice. :p

My son asked me this a couple of weeks ago:

Why does your stuff burn up when your house burns down? :confused:

One that I've been wondering:

You can hang a picture, and you can hang a convict, but after the fact why is it that the picture is "hung," and the convict is "hanged?"
(I suppose the convict could have been hung, but after he's hanged, that fact is somewhat irrelevant.) :p
 
The philosopher Wittgenstein put this as imponderable.

It is said that people used to think the Sun went round the Earth, because from Earth that's what it looks like. And Wittgenstein asks: but what would it have to look like, for it to look as if the Earth was going round the Sun?