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  1. Re:Build the whole plane out of the black box on AirAsia QZ8501 Black Box Found · · Score: 1

    It certainly won't, because it will be too heavy to get off the ground.

  2. Re:Real 3D or on 3D Cameras Are About To Go Mainstream · · Score: 1

    More like 75, and they're still around.

  3. Re:Plural of cyclotron on The Mystery of Glenn Seaborg's Missing Plutonium: Solved · · Score: 1

    Well, that's one way to wean yourself off the Internet...I usually grit my teeth and press on.

    Though I still lose it when somebody writes "ex-patriot".

  4. Re:Yay, religion of peace! on In Paris, Terrorists Kill 2 More, Take At Least 7 Hostages · · Score: 2

    The Last Temptation, on the other hand...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  5. Re:My complaint about Kirby Delauter on Lawmaker's Facebook Rant Threatens Media For "Unauthorized" Use of His Name · · Score: 1

    his head is so far in rectal defilade

    Dang, am I gonna steal that.

  6. Re:No coverup on Scientist Says Potential Signs of Ancient Life in Mars Rover Photos · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're showing your age.

    OK, OK, I'm off your lawn.

  7. Re:islam on Gunmen Kill 12, Wound 7 At French Magazine HQ · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sure it was; I've seen the NTSB report. The pilot exceeded the certificated service ceiling of the aircraft; solar radiation caused primary structural debonding; and the pilot left a parabolic trail of wax, feathers and Greek obscenities into the Sea of Crete.

    Pilot error.

  8. Re:islam on Gunmen Kill 12, Wound 7 At French Magazine HQ · · Score: 1

    How many wheels will fit in a wheel barrel?

  9. Re:One man's piss is another man's ... on Bill Gates Endorses Water From Human Waste · · Score: 1

    Pretty much a slam dunk. It's a popular demonstration in Stats courses -- though the subject is usually Oliver Cromwell.

  10. Re:Follow the breadcrumbs on Finding Genghis Khan's Tomb From Space · · Score: 2

    Oops, mea culpa. Wrong Khan.

  11. Re:Follow the breadcrumbs on Finding Genghis Khan's Tomb From Space · · Score: 1

    Can't they just follow Alph down to the Sunless Sea and peek into the measureless caverns?

  12. Re:History Channel on Finding Genghis Khan's Tomb From Space · · Score: 3, Informative

    To be honest, its former self was the Hitler Channel. You could scarcely watch three shows in a row without one, usually two, being about Hitler.

  13. Denver Museum of Nature & Science on Museum's Adults-Only Nights Show That Alcohol and Science Are a Good Mix · · Score: 1

    ...caters events all the time; my former employer had its Christmas party there every year. Buffet, music, dance band, string quartet, bar service, buskers, and horse-drawn sleigh rides in the adjoining park.

  14. Re:Why pay to see crap in uncomfortable seats? on Box Office 2014: Moviegoing Hits Two-Decade Low · · Score: 1

    Dang, I just posted pretty much the same message a few lines up.

  15. Re:Hilarious posts on Box Office 2014: Moviegoing Hits Two-Decade Low · · Score: 1

    ...Aaand, we've found the culprit.

  16. Re:Outdated distribution mode on Box Office 2014: Moviegoing Hits Two-Decade Low · · Score: 1

    The infrastructure currrently exists to release all films for home rental immediately!

    Kim Jong-Un may be helping that along...

  17. Re:Economics on Box Office 2014: Moviegoing Hits Two-Decade Low · · Score: 1

    Of course it is. Reasons to go to the theater:

    -The screen is big.
    -You get to see the film a few months earlier.

    Reasons to watch at home:

    -The incremental cost of "admission" is small.
    -Food comes at grocery store prices, in limitless variety.
    -You can have a drink.
    -You can toke up.
    -The chair is comfortable.
    -If there are any loudmouths present, you can tell them to STFU.
    -Your feet don't stick to the floor.
    -You have a pause button.
    -If your companion likes the movie and you don't, you don't hurt their enjoyment by turning around and playing with the computer.

    Did I mention the theater has a big screen?

  18. Re:Does Godwin's Law apply.... on Vast Nazi Facility Uncovered In Austria; Purported A-Bomb Development Site · · Score: 1

    No.

  19. Re: Hitler and the NAZIs were so stupid. on Vast Nazi Facility Uncovered In Austria; Purported A-Bomb Development Site · · Score: 2

    Actually, it's an acronym for NAtionale soZIalist, the political party.

    Actually, it's a contraction, German style.

    German has a lot of compound words, which means it has a lot of long words, which means it needs a better system of contractions than we have in English. We remove one letter or a contiguous string and replace it with an apostrophe; Germans remove letters from any number of places in the word and don't bother with the apostrophe.

    Examples you might have heard at the movies: Kaleun = Kapitanleutnant; Uffz = Unteroffizier; Stalag = Stammlager

  20. Re:Sizes of Constellations on What Northern Hemisphere Astronomers Are Missing From the Southern Hemisphere · · Score: 1

    Constellations aren't real things, they're imaginative descriptions of patterns people see

    In astronomical terms, a constellation is one of the 88 areas of the sky defined by the International Astronomical Union. What you're describing are asterisms.

    Every point in the sky is in a constellation, and a constellation is normally named after an asterism in it. Some rather vague asterisms and their associated constellations were designated in modern times to fill in the far southern sky where the ancients hadn't designated any -- like Telescopium.

  21. Well, that's pretty obvious on What Northern Hemisphere Astronomers Are Missing From the Southern Hemisphere · · Score: 1

    What Northern Hemisphere observers are missing from the Southern Hemisphere?

    All of them.

  22. Re:Told you it wasn't North Korea on Norse Security IDs 6, Including Ex-Employee, As Sony Hack Perpetrators · · Score: 4, Insightful

    OK, let's see. A government agency issues an opinion on who did it: Obviously a lie.

    A commercial security company issues an opinion on who did it: Case closed.

    Love the Internet.

  23. Re:Bombs in the US? on The Interview Bombs In US, Kills In China, Threatens N. Korea · · Score: 1

    People who laugh at fart jokes go to his movies.

    There's a reason why fart is an anagram of frat...

  24. Re: The Navy sucks at negotiating on US Navy Sells 'Top Gun' Aircraft Carrier For One Penny · · Score: 2

    He thinks the ships are made of Legos.

  25. Re:The Navy sucks at negotiating on US Navy Sells 'Top Gun' Aircraft Carrier For One Penny · · Score: 1

    You don't need men to shovel coal into boilers any longer either.

    Neither did we in WW2. Teddy Roosevelt converted the Navy to oil power.