Deep Thoughts

JD Sal
JD Sal Posts: 790
edited March 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
In women's basketball, shouldn't they call it woman vs woman defense?
"If no one sees you, you're not here at all"
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    woMAN. :D
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  • in_hiding79
    in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    Awwww man, I thought this was about Saturday Night Live....
    And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...,"
    "What a stupid lamb."
    "What a sick, masochistic lion."
  • faithful227
    faithful227 Posts: 352
    in_hiding79 wrote:
    Awwww man, I thought this was about Saturday Night Live....


    Same here....

    Was hoping for some Jack Handy. Ha.
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  • gleemonex
    gleemonex Posts: 848
    faithful227 wrote:
    Same here....

    Was hoping for some Jack Handy. Ha.

    I'm glad I'm not the only one.

    "Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself. Basically, it's made up of two separate words — "mank" and "ind." What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind."
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  • faithful227
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    "It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man."
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  • ForestBrain
    ForestBrain Posts: 460
    If a tree falls and nobody is around, does it make a sound?

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    The answer is YES. This is one of the most stupid "deep" questions I have ever heard. It freaking makes a loud sound!
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  • DOSW
    DOSW Posts: 2,014
    ForestBrain wrote:
    If a tree falls and nobody is around, does it make a sound?

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    The answer is YES. This is one of the most stupid "deep" questions I have ever heard. It freaking makes a loud sound!

    Yeah it's really dumb. Of course it makes a sound, you morons! :D
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  • NuclearTreeFrog
    NuclearTreeFrog Posts: 225
    One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh no,' I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' "He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. 'I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.
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  • in_hiding79
    in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    NuclearTreeFrog wrote:
    One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh no,' I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' "He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. 'I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.


    shit, that was funny!! :D
    And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...,"
    "What a stupid lamb."
    "What a sick, masochistic lion."
  • scot88
    scot88 Posts: 217
    ForestBrain wrote:
    If a tree falls and nobody is around, does it make a sound?

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    The answer is YES. This is one of the most stupid "deep" questions I have ever heard. It freaking makes a loud sound!

    Sorry to burst your bubble, but it actually doesn't. You see, sound is actually made up of waves (created when something hits something else, etc. etc.) These waves are then transmitted into the ear, where the inner workings of the ear (not sure exactly how it works, but it involves the vibration of those 3 small bones- the hammer, the anvil, and the cochlea) produces a signal to the brain that we interpret as sound.

    In other words, the phenomenon of sound doesn't exist without a human's (or other animal's) ears to translate the waves into sound. No humans around = no sound from a falling tree.
  • faithful227
    faithful227 Posts: 352
    "If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid looking in a mirror, because I bet that will really throw you into a panic."


    Keeping this thread alive because I love these :)
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  • jackrabbit slim
    jackrabbit slim Posts: 565
    "It's sad that a family can be torn apart by something as simple as a pack of wild dogs"

    and

    "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it"
  • JD Sal
    JD Sal Posts: 790
    "If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is, "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is, "Probably because of something you did."

    "Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny."
    "If no one sees you, you're not here at all"
  • NuclearTreeFrog
    NuclearTreeFrog Posts: 225
    If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.


    Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
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  • chopitdown
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  • MyHandsBound
    MyHandsBound Posts: 698
    DOSW wrote:
    Yeah it's really dumb. Of course it makes a sound, you morons! :D

    yeah but no one hears it.....
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    scot88 wrote:
    Sorry to burst your bubble, but it actually doesn't. You see, sound is actually made up of waves (created when something hits something else, etc. etc.) These waves are then transmitted into the ear, where the inner workings of the ear (not sure exactly how it works, but it involves the vibration of those 3 small bones- the hammer, the anvil, and the cochlea) produces a signal to the brain that we interpret as sound.

    In other words, the phenomenon of sound doesn't exist without a human's (or other animal's) ears to translate the waves into sound. No humans around = no sound from a falling tree.

    actually sorry to burst your bubble, but yes a tree falling in the woods does make a sound. the nobody in the saying is centred towards mankind. as we are not the only things that inhabit the woods or the only things that can hear, then it would be arrogant of us to think that just cause were not around to hear the sound, it doesnt exist. sounds will continue to exist without the presence of mankind.
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  • scot88
    scot88 Posts: 217
    catefrances wrote:
    actually sorry to burst your bubble, but yes a tree falling in the woods does make a sound. the nobody in the saying is centred towards mankind. as we are not the only things that inhabit the woods or the only things that can hear, then it would be arrogant of us to think that just cause were not around to hear the sound, it doesnt exist. sounds will continue to exist without the presence of mankind.

    :rolleyes:

    Hence my mention of "other animals" in my original post. But I'll restate it in a different way...if there were no beings with the capability to turn vibrating air waves into sound present in the woods, then it would not make a sound, just a pattern of vibrating air waves.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    scot88 wrote:
    :rolleyes:

    Hence my mention of "other animals" in my original post. But I'll restate it in a different way...if there were no beings with the capability to turn vibrating air waves into sound present in the woods, then it would not make a sound, just a pattern of vibrating air waves.


    you mean a woods devoid of all sentient beings?

    but then you also said this:...No humans around = no sound from a falling tree.
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  • ringo
    ringo Posts: 504
    As I bit into the nectarine, it had a crisp juiciness about it that was
    very pleasurable - until I realized it wasn't a nectarine at all, but A
    HUMAN HEAD!!

    And about the tree in the woods. I agree if no one is there than there is no sound. Life has evolved to interpret sound waves as audible sound.

    What happens when you blow a dog whistle, does that make sound?
    d'oh

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