Orbis non sufficit
Monday, April 19, 2004
Question Answering
Alrighty then, here we go!
Jason:
1. GOODBYE: The ‘good’ of ‘good-bye’ was originally ‘God.’ The expression is a contraction of ‘God be with you,’ a form of farewell first recorded in the late 16th century. Its gradual reduction can be traced through a series of metamorphoses (Shakespeare, for instance, had ‘God be wy you’ and “God buy’ ye”[16th and 17th century]), and there was “ God b’y you” [17th century] and numerous other versions and it did not reach its modern form until the 18th century [M-W says 19th]. The substitution of’ ‘good’ for ‘God’ seems to have been mainly due to the influence of such phrases as ‘good day’ and ‘good night.’
2. Who needs light? But if I had to light something for the heck of it, I'd hope to hell that match wasn't a safety match and light that :P.
3. I believe I will leave one switch off, turn the next on, then flip the third like crazy for quite a while in the hope that it will fry the fillament in the third globe. Should be obvious enough once I go into the bulb room :P.
Steve:
1. Mars next tuesday, alive and well eh? Well, firstly you should complete your course, majoring in quantum physics and temporal mechanics or some such. Then you must devote your life to researching time travel. In case you do not achieve this you must mentor people to take your place and continue the research with instructions to bring you back a space ship or teleportation device once they are sucessful. Then you must bring that ship or device back to now and give it to yourself so you can go to mars. Don't blame me if the spaceship doesn't arrive though, it will be your own fault for not being motivated enough or for picking unreliable heirs :P.
2. Yes i am.
3. Maybe, though I'm at uni right now so I can't check for you.
Fudgey:
1. I'm afraid I don't know what you're looking at, you'll have to provide more details :P.
2. Lisp comes from the Old High German word, "lispen," which means "to lisp," therefore I'd say it was a cruel German dude :P.
3. Please contact your manufacturer for further details.
Sean:
1. I'd say an old lady beat him to death with that iron bar because Jason was trying to steal her pie from the windowsill.
2. She sent the earth hurtling through space at near-light speed while waiting behind in a space-craft, thus taking advantage of relativistic effects as defined by einsteins equations. Either that or the day before yesterday was the 30th of december and her birthday is on the 31st. Then she was 18 yesterday, will be 19 on the 31st of december this year and 20 on the 31st of december next year.
3. Because the adding up is buggered. You can't just add the $2 the bellboy has like that. That should have been subtracted to give the cost of the room, not added to give the total amount of money floating about. The people have $1 each, the kid has $2, and the manager has $25. 3 + 2 + 25 = $30.
Alrighty then, here we go!
Jason:
1. GOODBYE: The ‘good’ of ‘good-bye’ was originally ‘God.’ The expression is a contraction of ‘God be with you,’ a form of farewell first recorded in the late 16th century. Its gradual reduction can be traced through a series of metamorphoses (Shakespeare, for instance, had ‘God be wy you’ and “God buy’ ye”[16th and 17th century]), and there was “ God b’y you” [17th century] and numerous other versions and it did not reach its modern form until the 18th century [M-W says 19th]. The substitution of’ ‘good’ for ‘God’ seems to have been mainly due to the influence of such phrases as ‘good day’ and ‘good night.’
2. Who needs light? But if I had to light something for the heck of it, I'd hope to hell that match wasn't a safety match and light that :P.
3. I believe I will leave one switch off, turn the next on, then flip the third like crazy for quite a while in the hope that it will fry the fillament in the third globe. Should be obvious enough once I go into the bulb room :P.
Steve:
1. Mars next tuesday, alive and well eh? Well, firstly you should complete your course, majoring in quantum physics and temporal mechanics or some such. Then you must devote your life to researching time travel. In case you do not achieve this you must mentor people to take your place and continue the research with instructions to bring you back a space ship or teleportation device once they are sucessful. Then you must bring that ship or device back to now and give it to yourself so you can go to mars. Don't blame me if the spaceship doesn't arrive though, it will be your own fault for not being motivated enough or for picking unreliable heirs :P.
2. Yes i am.
3. Maybe, though I'm at uni right now so I can't check for you.
Fudgey:
1. I'm afraid I don't know what you're looking at, you'll have to provide more details :P.
2. Lisp comes from the Old High German word, "lispen," which means "to lisp," therefore I'd say it was a cruel German dude :P.
3. Please contact your manufacturer for further details.
Sean:
1. I'd say an old lady beat him to death with that iron bar because Jason was trying to steal her pie from the windowsill.
2. She sent the earth hurtling through space at near-light speed while waiting behind in a space-craft, thus taking advantage of relativistic effects as defined by einsteins equations. Either that or the day before yesterday was the 30th of december and her birthday is on the 31st. Then she was 18 yesterday, will be 19 on the 31st of december this year and 20 on the 31st of december next year.
3. Because the adding up is buggered. You can't just add the $2 the bellboy has like that. That should have been subtracted to give the cost of the room, not added to give the total amount of money floating about. The people have $1 each, the kid has $2, and the manager has $25. 3 + 2 + 25 = $30.
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