Mind Boggler
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hahah im 16 and i am the future.. someone once told me that and i laughed in their face and walked away.. as i walked i go there goes ur future...... walking away..... better come get it... lmfao they where all shocked...
JustAnotherVictim
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OMG I asked somebody why do we drive on parkway and park in the driveway today. So weird I saw this.
Anyway Why do people go from the ground to the top of skyscrappers to insert coins into a device to look back down at the ground?
I only read the first page.
Anyway Why do people go from the ground to the top of skyscrappers to insert coins into a device to look back down at the ground?
I only read the first page.
Why does the ATM machine ask you for your PIN number?
So, after you put Automatic Tranny Fluid fuild into your car, you need to run to the Automatic Teller Machine machine where it asks you to enter your Personal Identification Number number. You might even have to enter your Social Security Number number to verify! Then you jump BACK in your car that is equipt with an ABS breaking system!! You might even notice the Vehicle Identification Number number on your door jam as you get back into your car.
So, after you put Automatic Tranny Fluid fuild into your car, you need to run to the Automatic Teller Machine machine where it asks you to enter your Personal Identification Number number. You might even have to enter your Social Security Number number to verify! Then you jump BACK in your car that is equipt with an ABS breaking system!! You might even notice the Vehicle Identification Number number on your door jam as you get back into your car.
cadman said:
Hahahahaha.
But, I always call it the ATM, PIN, & VIN, with nothing at the end. I say "I'm putting my PIN into the ATM". Actually, I've never heard anyone call it an ATM Machine, but maybe thats just me.
87CandyBlueT said:
Ya I was thinking about it to myself yesterday morning when I was on the highway.
Another George Carlin one
"Why do people saying they're going to 'take a shit'. Wouldn't they be leaving a shit?"
Supracentral said:
In the examples you gave. Look at them as "short cut" words, you need take into account the whole action.
The use of "pre" in your examples is pre-action-action, and not pre-action.
The middle action is dropped to make a short cut word/ catch word.
So preheat:
To heat beforehand
As in pre [putting food in] heat oven
pre-existing medical condition
Pre [your medical records] existing medical condition
pre-screen
Pre [boarding the plane] screen passengers
And all ovens (and everything else) are heated, there is no actual "cold" only degrees of heat. Absolute zero is the point on the thermodynamic (absolute) temperature scale where the heat energy is at a minimum, It can be shown from the laws of thermodynamics that absolute zero can never be achieved. So your oven is already preheated. :icon_razz
This will be a long one, and maybe not exactly on topic, but...
Technology is said to have a "snow ball" effect right. Example, computers, first ones were the size of a small warehouse with VERY basic abilities. Now a PDA can do wonders.
So lets look at the history of powered flight:
1903-
Orville and Wilbur Wright make first powered, sustained, and controlled flight in a heavier-than-air flying machine.
1910-
First take off from a ship.
1914-
Automatic gyrostabilizer leads to first automatic pilot. A gyroscope linked to sensors keeps the craft level and traveling in a straight line without aid from the human pilot. Two years later added a steering gyroscope to the stabilizer gyro and demonstrate the first "automatic pilot."
1917-
The Junkers J4, an all-metal airplane, introduced
1925-
Introduction of lightweight, air-cooled radial engines
1927-
Charles A. Lindbergh completes first solo, nonstop trans-Atlantic flight.
1928-
First electromechanical flight simulator
1930-37
Frank Whittle, British inventor, invents the jet engine.
*Note only 30 years going from first flight to the start of jet technology*
1933-
Douglas introduces the 12-passenger twinengine DC-1.
Also- Boeing 247, flies for the first time.
1939-
Germany's Heinkel 178 is the first fully jet-propelled aircraft to fly.
1939-
First practical single-rotor helicopters
1939-1945
World War II spurs innovation, too many to list, but airplane-detecting radar /airborne radar, radiowave navigation techniques, first practical jet fighter- the twin-engine ME 262, which flies at 540 miles per hour, also the Flying Fortress and Superfortress, plus MANY others.
1947-
Sound barrier broken
1949-
First jet-powered commercial aircraft
1961
Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, is the first man in space
1963-
First small jet aircraft to enter mass production
1969-
Boeing 747, U.S. astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., are the first to walk on the moon.
1971
First space station
Ok, so look at that, in roughly 50-60 years we go from not flying to the wide production of jet aircraft. Follows the snowball effect, ok, but in the last 50?...what major strides....fly by wire?...thrust vectoring?....I always bring this up when people tell me "aliens" are the ones flying UFOs around. I think some people need to take their heads out of their ass.
Technology is said to have a "snow ball" effect right. Example, computers, first ones were the size of a small warehouse with VERY basic abilities. Now a PDA can do wonders.
So lets look at the history of powered flight:
1903-
Orville and Wilbur Wright make first powered, sustained, and controlled flight in a heavier-than-air flying machine.
1910-
First take off from a ship.
1914-
Automatic gyrostabilizer leads to first automatic pilot. A gyroscope linked to sensors keeps the craft level and traveling in a straight line without aid from the human pilot. Two years later added a steering gyroscope to the stabilizer gyro and demonstrate the first "automatic pilot."
1917-
The Junkers J4, an all-metal airplane, introduced
1925-
Introduction of lightweight, air-cooled radial engines
1927-
Charles A. Lindbergh completes first solo, nonstop trans-Atlantic flight.
1928-
First electromechanical flight simulator
1930-37
Frank Whittle, British inventor, invents the jet engine.
*Note only 30 years going from first flight to the start of jet technology*
1933-
Douglas introduces the 12-passenger twinengine DC-1.
Also- Boeing 247, flies for the first time.
1939-
Germany's Heinkel 178 is the first fully jet-propelled aircraft to fly.
1939-
First practical single-rotor helicopters
1939-1945
World War II spurs innovation, too many to list, but airplane-detecting radar /airborne radar, radiowave navigation techniques, first practical jet fighter- the twin-engine ME 262, which flies at 540 miles per hour, also the Flying Fortress and Superfortress, plus MANY others.
1947-
Sound barrier broken
1949-
First jet-powered commercial aircraft
1961
Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, is the first man in space
1963-
First small jet aircraft to enter mass production
1969-
Boeing 747, U.S. astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., are the first to walk on the moon.
1971
First space station
Ok, so look at that, in roughly 50-60 years we go from not flying to the wide production of jet aircraft. Follows the snowball effect, ok, but in the last 50?...what major strides....fly by wire?...thrust vectoring?....I always bring this up when people tell me "aliens" are the ones flying UFOs around. I think some people need to take their heads out of their ass.