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    #242
    Mini850
    Registered Users Posts: 297 ✭✭Mini850


    Malari wrote: »
    The number of trees on earth is greater than the number of stars in the galaxy.

    I find this hard to be-leaf................



























    Ill get my coat..........................:pac:


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    #243
    Malari
    Registered Users Posts: 18,150 ✭✭✭✭Malari


    Mini850 wrote: »
    I find this hard to be-leaf................

    Well, you only said that to be poplar. :cool:

    I checked it out and it seems legit!


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    #244
    BrokenArrows
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    Malari wrote: »
    Well, you only said that to be poplar. :cool:

    I checked it out and it seems legit!

    Im assuming you're taking the piss.

    If you're not....:eek::eek::eek:


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    #245
    Malari
    Registered Users Posts: 18,150 ✭✭✭✭Malari


    BrokenArrows wrote: »
    Im assuming you're taking the piss.

    If you're not....:eek::eek::eek:

    http://www.nature.com/news/trillions-of-trees-1.18333


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    #246
    Bandana boy
    Registered Users Posts: 4,325 ✭✭✭Bandana boy


    Malari wrote: »
    The number of trees on earth is greater than the number of stars in the galaxy.

    What the hell is Sting harping on about then !


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    #247
    GBX
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    If you email your boss "suck my balls" you wont have to go to work anymore.


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    #248
    Winterlong
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    GBX wrote: »
    If you email your boss "suck my balls" you wont have to go to work anymore.

    Unless your boss is happy to take you at your word...


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    #249
    A Neurotic
    Registered Users Posts: 3,779 ✭✭✭A Neurotic


    Contrary to popular usage, the term 'psychotic' doesn't mean, of itself, that someone is violent or dangerous.


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    #250
    Kat1170
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    GBX wrote: »
    If you email your boss "suck my balls" you wont have to go to work anymore.

    If she is beautiful, you might even 'get a raise'











    Ooh-err, missus, fnarr fnarr :P


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    #251
    steddyeddy
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    Malari wrote: »
    http://www.nature.com/news/trillions-of-trees-1.18333

    That's a brilliant paper.


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    #252
    Miley Byrne
    Registered Users Posts: 1,377 ✭✭✭Miley Byrne


    runawaybishop wrote: »
    With a sufficiently large piece of paper and assuming you can fold it as much as you want you would only have to fold it 42 times and it's thickness would reach the moon.

    Just on a similar theme, any piece of paper can only be folded in half seven times


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    #253
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    Huguette Clark died on May 24, 2011.
    Her father W A Clark was born on January 8, 1839.
    172 years, 4 months between the birth of the father and death of the daughter.
    He was 67 when she was born. She died at 104 years.


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    #254
    mloc123
    Registered Users Posts: 9,454 ✭✭✭mloc123


    Advbrd wrote: »
    A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2 inches by 3-1/2 inches.

    POA right?


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    #255
    ILikeBoats
    Registered Users Posts: 2,450 ✭✭✭ILikeBoats


    Miley Byrne wrote: »
    Just on a similar theme, any piece of paper can only be folded in half seven times

    Nearly sure Mythbusters did it eight times. They got a piece of paper the size of an airplane hanger or something like that


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    #256
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    Almost all thoroughbred horses (racehorses to the unwashed) are descended in direct male line (father to father about 24 generations) from the Darley Arabian, bought in Aleppo, Syria, in 1704. Thomas Darley, who bought the horse, shipped it back to England. Darley never saw the horse again. He died in Syria.


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    #257
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    ILikeBoats wrote: »
    Nearly sure Mythbusters did it eight times. They got a piece of paper the size of an airplane hanger or something like that

    Seven is the usual limit but Eleven has been achieved.


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    #258
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »
    Strictly speaking it stands for Bayerische Motoren Werke it just translates to the same initials.

    He's right you know.As an aside,people consider bananas to be a fruit, botanically speaking though they are classed as berries,whilst strawberries,botanically speaking are not true berries,and are classed as fruit.


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    #259
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    harry Bailey esq wrote: »
    He's right you know.As an aside,people consider bananas to be a fruit, botanically speaking though they are classed as berries,whilst strawberries,botanically speaking are not true berries,and are classed as fruit.

    The old saying... Intelligence is knowing Tomatoes are a fruit but wisdom is knowing not to put them in a fruit salad.


    Rhubarb is a vegetable.


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    #260
    maudgonner
    Registered Users Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »
    Rhubarb is a vegetable.

    In the middle ages rhubarb was imported to Europe from Asia and was more expensive than spices such as saffron and even opium.


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    #261
    IvyTheTerrible
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    Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »
    The old saying... Intelligence is knowing Tomatoes are a fruit but wisdom is knowing not to put them in a fruit salad.


    Rhubarb is a vegetable.

    Leeks are just leaves.


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    #262
    Four Phucs Ache
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    Goose bumps appear when our body is cold and show up when teeny tiny muscles stuck to our hair follicles flex, causing hair in these follicles to stand, creating a heat-trapping layer in the skin.


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    #263
    Cartouche
    Closed Accounts Posts: 248 ✭✭Cartouche


    Strawberries are the only fruit that has seeds on the outside


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    #264
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Cartouche wrote: »
    Strawberries are the only fruit that has seeds on the outside

    And Cashews


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    #265
    scamalert
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    meetings in japan are usually held while standing up :) - was told that,while it seems strange one,but given culture wouldn't be surprised since imagine saves time and down to business there.


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    #266
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    maudgonner wrote: »
    In the middle ages rhubarb was imported to Europe from Asia and was more expensive than spices such as saffron and even opium.

    I get loads of wild rhubarb behind me house,never bothered taking any and making something out of them.


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    #267
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    scamalert wrote: »
    meetings in japan are usually held while standing up :) - was told that,while it seems strange one,but given culture wouldn't be surprised since imagine saves time and down to business there.

    Meetings in Japan can seem interminably long. They take forever to reach a decision, in my experience.

    This is a decent summary...http://www.worldbusinessculture.com/Business-Meetings-in-Japan.html


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    #268
    maudgonner
    Registered Users Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    harry Bailey esq wrote: »
    I get loads of wild rhubarb behind me house,never bothered taking any and making something out of them.

    I feckin' love rhubarb and I'm having an awful craving for it now :(

    (If you don't want to make tarts or crumbles, rhubarb & ginger jam is fairly easy to make and it's lovely!)


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    #269
    Cartouche
    Closed Accounts Posts: 248 ✭✭Cartouche


    The scientific name for the Black Rat is Rattus rattus


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    #270
    Yourself isit
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    Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »
    The old saying... Intelligence is knowing Tomatoes are a fruit but wisdom is knowing not to put them in a fruit salad.


    Rhubarb is a vegetable.

    Tomatoes are a culinary veg apparently. Hat tip David Mitchell.


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    #271
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,283 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Cartouche wrote: »
    The scientific name for the Black Rat is Rattus rattus

    The scientific name for the Southern Giraffe is Giraffa giraffa.


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