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Old 05-October-2008, 02:35 PM
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Why do I like this thread so much?

A funny paragraph, in an article full of them:

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Two years passed without a single monkey being procured, and Congress was close to cutting the project's funding. It was then that Reed got the idea to utilize monkeys already being bred in captivity. The Congressional Subcommittee for Scientific Investigation was enthralled by the idea of watching caged monkeys copulate, and increased funding by 40 percent.
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You mean the Teravolt Hadron Collider (THC)? It already thinks it's on the moon, man.

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sorry to have bothered you guys and gals....
you wouldn't believe it...but last night i couldn't see the 'new thread' button, on the top left of folders. kept going to the main page and my user cp.

i [b]was[b] tired. i knew it was something simple. and there it is, in the subfolders staring at me in my face! ha! i feel like a jerk.

i'll put one together soon, as i had intended last night, as soon as i am able to shake this feeling stupid and a bit of motivation.
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I think that if you collided 100 monkeys a day, for 100 days straight, you'd eventually see the Higgs boson.
If you went on the S.S. Higgs, you might run into the bosun...........



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So, assuming energy scales linearly all the way up to the mass of a monkey (probably a bad assumption), colliding two monkeys at the same velocity as the LHC collides protons should be around 8,000,000 megatons.
The funding was lost for fear of a woman eventually being President. If she had an LMC, she could say "Don't make me release my flying monkeys!"
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The funding was lost for fear of a woman eventually being President. If she had an LMC, she could say "Don't make me release my flying monkeys!"
I'll get you for comments like that, my pretty... and your little dog too!
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The Zen version... What is the sound of one monkey colliding?
Another question if two monkeys collide and no one is there to hear it do they make a sound?
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How interesting that at this moment this thread is right next to the "fear of research funding cuts" one!
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Many years ago I had a screen saver with flying toasters. Hmmm, I wonder ...
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