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Appropriate Movie Quote Of The Day
Let's just pretend he's some escaped lunatic with a hook for a hand and we're doing everybody a favor.
Which movie?
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Abu Hamza - The day the music died?
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Sorry, don't know this one.
PS: It's raining here.
Whether I think I can, or think I can't, I am always bloody right!
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Captain Hook: First Class... 
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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Teresa May : Abu Hamza affair
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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"From a cold, eerie spot, cook a great dish."(5,9)
Nice and easy to end the week.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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From a cold, eerie spot, cook ANAG: ACOLDEERIESPOT
a great dish.
RADIO TELESCOPE
I prefer
LOO DEPRECIATES to A COLD EERIE SPOT though! 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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 I knew there was a reason I should eat more chocolate!
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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Science and technology
1. Two men with the first name Steve set up Apple computers – what were their surnames?
2. What elementary particle was discovered at CERN this year?
3. What is the name of the machine that is the furthest away from this building?
4. In radio, what do the letters FM stand for?
5. How many faces does a dodecahedron have?
6. What is measured with an anemometer?
7. What type of vehicle are “The Long March”, “Arianne” and “Grasshopper”?
8. How many wheels are in the landing gear of an Airbus A380?
9. What is the chemical symbol for lead?
10. In MIG welding, what does the acronym “MIG” stand for?
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Will anyone who can't answer number 1 please hand in their geek card on the way out and number 2 was two years ago.
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There is a tennis player with same last name.
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How is #3 a valid question? Does the premise assumes we are the only civilization in the universe?
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I'd accept any other answer so long as it were proven within the allotted time for answering the question 
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1) Jobsworth and Unpronounceable
2) The Ships Bosun
3) The Death Star
4) Frequently Mediocre
5) None - they went extinct in 1660 (or possibly 1690, depends on who you believe)
6) Anemones: Cnidaria, class Anthozoa, subclass Hexacorallia
7) Kung Fu spaceships.
8) One at the top, and two at the bottom.
9) L
10) Fighter
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: 4) Frequently Mediocre
Now that explains AM... 
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: OriginalGriff wrote: 4) Frequently Mediocre
Now that explains AM...
AM - Always Mediocre 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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Ok let's try this, get ready to laugh at me for failing
1. Wozniak and Jobs
2. Higgs Boson
3. Voyager, I'm not sure which one of them. Also, there should be machines elsewhere in the universe. If it is truly infinite, more civilizations have to exist, no matter how low their density.
4. Frequency Modulation
5. 12 obviously, it's right in the name.
6. Wind speed
7. Rockets, btw it's Ariane with 1 n
8. As if I'd know that. Plenty of them.
9. Pb
10. No idea
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The Dead One and The Fat One
The Sherlocktron
Unknowable, depends on the number of civilisations on our light cone.
Force Majure
Two, you cannot trust any of them.
Distance. You drop one and see how long it takes to hit the ground. That will tell you how high up you are.
They are political machines designed to impress the world by projecting Military Ability as a threat.
Sufficient
There isn't one, it has been stolen by pikeys and sold to a scrap dealer.
MIG[^]
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: 1. Two men with the first name Steve set up Apple computers – what were their surnames?
No, it wasn't
Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: 2. What elementary particle was discovered at CERN this year?
The chocolate particle. It's never been seen before because DBC attracts & ingests them instantly
Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: 3. What is the name of the machine that is the furthest away from this building?
George (it's actually an all but unpronounceable squeak used by the Draaak of the DSiikki't system, but George is easier to type)
Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: 4. In radio, what do the letters FM stand for?
Freddy Mercury
Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: 5. How many faces does a dodecahedron have?
One - although quite why extinct birds are competing in olympic events is beyond me
Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: 6. What is measured with an anemometer?
You spelled it wrong - it's an amenometer and measures prayer strength
Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: 7. What type of vehicle are “The Long March”, “Arianne” and “Grasshopper”?
The Long March is a Subaru manufactured in a leap year. Arianne is Johnny Mathis' scooter. Grasshopper is a kung-fu bike
Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: 8. How many wheels are in the landing gear of an Airbus A380?
All of them
Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: 9. What is the chemical symbol for lead?
HB (pencil joke)
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http://xkcd.com/1381/[^]
Fermat realises that his "sleep code" is as bad as mine!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I guess if Fermat were alive today he would have tweeted the "last theorom" with a broken link to the proof...
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