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sorry to dig this up but it's "the popliteal fossa".
EDIT: Apologies FP, just saw your answer (am working from both ends towards the middle & full of cheap, but passable, Grey Fox Merlot.) |
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You can't keep yours eyes open when you sneeze.
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"They reasoned that an object situated at the center and related equally to the extremes in every direction can have no impulse to move in any specific direction. In fact, they compared the situation of such an object with that of a man violently but equally hungry and thirsty, standing at the same distance from food and drink and unable to decide in which direction to move." - Aristotle |
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One-eyes -- the Manxmen's slang name for the ex-Colonial Civil Servants settled in retirement on the Isle of Man to avoid British taxes. Because of their habit of standing in a pub or at parties, pink gin or beer in hand, loudly declaiming: "WhenIwas in Africa/Malaya/India...", but the One-eyes from India often held a brandy-and-soda, of course.
There is another reason for the name that cannot be told on this forum because of the rules....... The Aussies among us might guess it though. |
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Baseballs hit at Denver's Coors Field carry farther than in any other stadium in the country---the 'Coors Field Effect'
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Despite releasing Ocean's 13 (domestic gross: $115m and counting) and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (domestic gross: $252m and counting) during the most recent quarter, Time Warner's movie division only recorded $81m in profits for that period.
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I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? It's gotten to the point where careful investigation is needed just to tell parody from reality. I think that means reality is broken.- Noclevername. |
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OK, I guess I'll be replying to myself then...
The combined mass of the inner Solar System (planets, moons, asteroid belt) is equal to almost exactly twice the mass of the Earth- to within less than one percent.
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You can repair the scratches on your watch glass by brushing them with tooth paste.
Don't believe me, try it! Know how it works, please let the rest of us know.
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Half the world's nickel supplies derive from a single asteroid impact in Sudbury, Canada 1.8 billion years ago.
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Some bridges built by Romans are still in use:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_bridges (NB Trajan's bridge over the Danube lasted 1,000 years.) Late 20th Century bridges only last 25-50 years? And were DESIGNED in this way? Was the public told this on the day the bridge was opened? |
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A rock thrown at 45 degrees related to horizon will travel further than any other angle (barring any obstacles).
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I bet you are right.
A bullet dropped from a gun's height will hit the ground at the same moment as a bullet fired from it (horizontally), given it is released at the moment the gun is fired and you disregard the Earth's curvature. ![]()
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"They reasoned that an object situated at the center and related equally to the extremes in every direction can have no impulse to move in any specific direction. In fact, they compared the situation of such an object with that of a man violently but equally hungry and thirsty, standing at the same distance from food and drink and unable to decide in which direction to move." - Aristotle |