ask the person below you a question

Subject: Re: ask the person below you a question Sun Jun 15, 2008 9:13 am

Okay, I got into a whole discussion on chemical reactions and effects of the senses and so on, but got away from the main point, so I just erased it and started over.
The basic reason is that cigarettes have a lower ratio of pleasant:unpleasant smoke-borne chemicals than does a properly executed bonfire. Certain chemicals in a bonfire and a cigarette smell good, and certain chemicals in each smell bad. A bonfire just has more "good-smelling" chemicals than "bad-smelling." The opposite is true for a cigarette (assuming one is a non-smoker. Perception of chemicals changes due to addiction.)

Which do you prefer the smell of, cedar smoke or hickory smoke?

Subject: Re: ask the person below you a question Sun Jun 15, 2008 7:14 pm

the smell of none ... but if I have to choose ... hickory I guess

Why does jumping from buildings hurt?
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Subject: Re: ask the person below you a question Mon Jun 16, 2008 4:33 am

Because of the adrenaline shock, increasing tension on one's heart and blood pressure. Landing after jumping off buildings hurts because it causes damage to the body, and the pain is basically your body telling your mind not to do that again.

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

Subject: Re: ask the person below you a question Mon Jun 16, 2008 9:45 am

because they are both filled with blood and organs (yours isn't?)

Who is smoops?
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Subject: Re: ask the person below you a question Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:46 am

The stuffed bear I sacrificed last week to the Demigods Who Hate Cutesiness. (His full name happened to be Smoopsie-Woopsie Bearums. The horror.)

In Mostly Harmless (Book 5 of the Increasingly Inaccurately Named Hitchiker's Trilogy), who is Colin, and how does he get his name?

Subject: Re: ask the person below you a question Tue Jun 17, 2008 3:13 pm

a small, round, melon-sized, flying security robot - Colin was named after a dog belonging to a girl Ford had "fond memories"

[insert holy being here] bless wikipedia

What is aperture science and what was their initial goal? (what did they want to invent?)
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Subject: Re: ask the person below you a question Tue Jun 17, 2008 7:58 pm

You made me research ¬_¬-

Aperture science is, and their goal is- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture_Science#Setting

Am I lazy or what? Razz

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Subject: Re: ask the person below you a question Wed Jun 18, 2008 5:37 am

No. Not or. And.

Shower curtains? How would the portal device be used for shower curtains? Opening a portal into a shower with 4 walls, then closing the portal, thus creating a lack of necessity for a curtain? Or what?
(view the preceeding as one rather disjointed question)

Subject: Re: ask the person below you a question Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:40 pm

Like they said: he got kind of crazy due to mercury poisoning

Is it possible (in theory?)
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Subject: Re: ask the person below you a question Thu Jun 19, 2008 6:55 am

It's possible (in practice). Mercury has a recorded effect of insanity, similar to beethoven and the lead poisoning thing. I think one of those composers went mad due tio mercury poisoning, though not beethoven level madness, but risking excommunication for heresy level madness.

If Miss Lockheart: Do you know to whom I refer? (I'm thinking one of the Johanns, or Johannes, maybe but probably not Bach)

If someone else: On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the highest, how freaky do you find this after my poist on the nickname the person above you thread?

Subject: Re: ask the person below you a question Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:17 pm

Erm, nope

I'm terrible!!! I'll look in one of my books though.

Who is it?

Sidenote- many Chinese emperors have died of mercurial poisoning, they took it believing it would prolong their life, ironic.....
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Subject: Re: ask the person below you a question Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:30 am

who is who?

Who is this pokemon?

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Subject: Re: ask the person below you a question Sat Jun 21, 2008 5:19 am

Drapion, I think. I was originally thinking Scorupi, but that would have been the original evoplutionary stage. If this was one of the Kanto or Johto pokemon, I would know for sure.

Does anyone intend to purchase pokemon Platinum, once it is released (assuming you have, at the time, the money for the Pokemon DS games' increased release price)?

Subject: Re: ask the person below you a question Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:55 am

I'll wait till it is somewhat less expansive

Minigolf? Very Happy

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Subject: Re: ask the person below you a question Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:09 am

Yeah, minigolf rocks. Especially the big minigolf parks, with the giant minigolf greens and the mechanical obstacles.

What are each of your favorite modern boardgames (milton bradley and other), traditional boardgames (chess, go, shogi, parchesi, etc), and computer-style game (TurboRisk, SimCity, etc)?