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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #25 on: November 25, 2017, 08:08:55 PM »
Phlogiston is one of the great words of all-time. Lousy theory, great word.
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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #26 on: November 25, 2017, 08:34:40 PM »
Well, I like any word with a ph in it... like electrophoresis.  Too bad they changed the official spelling of sulphur to sulfur.  Drat.

Phosphorescence is especially nice since it has that silent c as well.

However, it seems like almost any time someone objects to an aspect of the flat earth theory, they come up with some kind of an explanation.  Kinda fun, you ask me.  Not that you're askin' me.

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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #27 on: November 25, 2017, 10:19:21 PM »
Phosphorescence is good. One of my favorites is emerald. It might be because I love the color as well. So sound and color combine to make for a great word for me.
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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #28 on: November 26, 2017, 03:02:59 PM »
Quote from: 230RN on November 25, 2017, 08:34:40 PM
Well, I like any word with a ph in it... like electrophoresis.  Too bad they changed the official spelling of sulphur to sulfur.  Drat.

Phosphorescence is especially nice since it has that silent c as well.

However, it seems like almost any time someone objects to an aspect of the flat earth theory, they come up with some kind of an explanation.  Kinda fun, you ask me.  Not that you're askin' me.

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Whenever some place asks for my name (like a fast-food or the like), I tell them "Phred".  Then spell it for them.  Just to watch the vapor lock...
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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #29 on: November 26, 2017, 03:03:27 PM »
Our old cat was named "Phredd" (Fred).
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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #31 on: November 26, 2017, 07:59:21 PM »
Well since we're on lingo instead of Wunderkinder proving the earth is flat, I might mention that I love pronouncing anything to do with pneumatics as if the p were actually pronounced.  (Fun in Harbor Freight, eh?)  I also like to change the accenting on words.  I pronounce "remote" as REM oh tay.

I used to have fun with Baseline Road up in Boulder, pronouncing it as "bahz-el-EEN-ee ro-AD."

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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #32 on: November 26, 2017, 08:05:21 PM »
For a fun time, the next time you order fajitas pronounce them fah-jai-tas. I made an intensely religious man at my table choke on his ice water when I did that.
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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #33 on: November 26, 2017, 08:43:35 PM »
Quote from: 230RN on November 26, 2017, 07:59:21 PM
Well since we're on lingo instead of Wunderkinder proving the earth is flat, I might mention that I love pronouncing anything to do with pneumatics as if the p were actually pronounced.  (Fun in Harbor Freight, eh?)  I also like to change the accenting on words.  I pronounce "remote" as REM oh tay.

I used to have fun with Baseline Road up in Boulder, pronouncing it as "bahz-el-EEN-ee ro-AD."

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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #34 on: November 26, 2017, 08:58:54 PM »
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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #35 on: November 26, 2017, 10:24:24 PM »
Speaking of words....



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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #36 on: November 27, 2017, 06:40:38 AM »
Quote from: Amy Schumer on November 26, 2017, 03:02:59 PM
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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #37 on: November 27, 2017, 11:49:43 AM »
Quote from: 230RN on November 26, 2017, 07:59:21 PM
Well since we're on lingo instead of Wunderkinder proving the earth is flat, I might mention that I love pronouncing anything to do with pneumatics as if the p were actually pronounced.  (Fun in Harbor Freight, eh?)  I also like to change the accenting on words.  I pronounce "remote" as REM oh tay.

I used to have fun with Baseline Road up in Boulder, pronouncing it as "bahz-el-EEN-ee ro-AD."

Yeah, yeah, I know.  I'm just a jerk.  Waddaya gonna do?

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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #38 on: November 27, 2017, 10:45:24 PM »
My mom: "Dis coth que" for Discotheque
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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #39 on: December 01, 2017, 12:17:06 PM »
So she's Spanish and not French?

The "que" would be pronounced in Spanish, but not in French.

A lot of things are silent in French, n'est-ce pas?  Like in horse de overs, hors d'oeuvres ("or derv").

Que pasa with that?
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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #40 on: December 01, 2017, 03:36:10 PM »
Grotesque = Graht'-es-kew
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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #41 on: December 01, 2017, 06:50:06 PM »
Could have some fun with that:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/words-that-end-in-que#w15

I wondered what fique, the last word in that list was. (It's a plant fiber.)

So that prompted me to wonder what the nanny filter would do with fuque.

Ok... now I know.

Say, how's the flat earth rocket doing?
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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #43 on: February 05, 2018, 12:19:16 PM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IimQK_txr4M

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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #44 on: February 05, 2018, 03:04:12 PM »
Quote from: Ben on November 22, 2017, 09:32:49 AM
Somebody here posted a video a couple (or more?) years ago of a father/son project doing that with an iPhone. Super cool project and video, and as I recall, it got high enough that you could see curvature.

I guess any time you have a short focal length lens, things off the optical axis look curved, don't they?  "Barrel distortion," I think they call it.

ETA:  Yep:



Depending on where in the image plane you place the horizon, you could make a case that the earth is bowl-shaped.

That would explain why you can't get near the edges, right?

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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #45 on: February 05, 2018, 03:12:57 PM »
As the Southern Triumvirate will confirm, when I make restaurant reservations, I do it with the last name of Donner.  Because NOBODY thinks you're serious when you use the name "Rambo".

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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #46 on: February 06, 2018, 01:09:35 AM »
"you're" / "you are"

And yore first name is "Pass," right?  As in "Donner, Pass?"

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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #47 on: February 06, 2018, 08:43:49 AM »
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"you're" / "you are"

And yore first name is "Pass," right?  As in "Donner, Pass?"

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He gets to be in the Donner party.
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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #48 on: February 06, 2018, 09:01:19 AM »
Quote from: fistful on February 06, 2018, 08:43:49 AM

He gets to be in the Donner party.

I don't see how that's a party...
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Re: Manned Rocket Flight to Prove Earth is Flat
« Reply #49 on: February 06, 2018, 09:19:43 AM »
Quote from: Amy Schumer on February 05, 2018, 03:12:57 PM
As the Southern Triumvirate will confirm, when I make restaurant reservations, I do it with the last name of Donner.  Because NOBODY thinks your serious when you use the name "Rambo".

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