Monday, July 01, 2013
See The Last Nano-Seconds Of The Big Bang
If you are a fan of The Big Bang Theory (on at least 4 times a day on E4 so clearly a lot of people are) like me you may like this link to the notes writer Chuck Lorre writes which are shown for a fraction of a second with the credits.
http://www.chucklorre.com/index-bbt.php
I'm the sort of person who interrupts Sheldon to correct him on minutia and objects that the opening song clearly tells us that the bang happened "13 million years ago" rather than 13 billion (which I suspect American creationists will find even less plausible)
http://www.chucklorre.com/index-bbt.php
I'm the sort of person who interrupts Sheldon to correct him on minutia and objects that the opening song clearly tells us that the bang happened "13 million years ago" rather than 13 billion (which I suspect American creationists will find even less plausible)
Sunday, January 27, 2013
What Persuaded Cameron To Make A Principled Decision That We Are Entitled To A Referendum On The EU - In 2018
A man was condemned to death for stealing a kiss from the King's daughter. He told the King that if his life was spared, he would teach the King's favorite horse to sing. Instead, the King made a bargain.
"I'll spare your life for one year," the King said. "If in that year you teach my horse to sing, you will go free. If not, your sentence will be carried out."
Later in the stables the condemned man, chained in the stall, was brushing the horse and crooning in its ear when a stablehand came up. "Why'dye make sooch a harebrained bargain?" he asked.
"A lot can happen in a year," the man replied. "The King could die. The horse could die. I could die. And who knows? The horse might learn to sing."
"I'll spare your life for one year," the King said. "If in that year you teach my horse to sing, you will go free. If not, your sentence will be carried out."
Later in the stables the condemned man, chained in the stall, was brushing the horse and crooning in its ear when a stablehand came up. "Why'dye make sooch a harebrained bargain?" he asked.
"A lot can happen in a year," the man replied. "The King could die. The horse could die. I could die. And who knows? The horse might learn to sing."
Labels: British politics, EU, humour
Monday, April 26, 2010
GALAXY SONG - MONTY PYTHON + ME
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
except for nuclear, tidal & geothermal (spoken very quickly because it doesn't scan)
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
And if you think such a universe must be diverse
Each second we get another infinite new multiverse
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A necessary antidote to seeing the idiocies around us. There must be a universe where somebody intelligent is First Minister, Prime Minister or God. Indeed there must be an infinity of them.
Labels: Errata, humour, Science/technology
