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| From:  Advnelisgi® (Original Message) | Sent: 4/11/2006 7:20 PM |
What time of day do most tornadoes occur?
a) Between 3am and 4am
b) Between 10am and 11am
c) Between 5pm and 6pm
d) Between 10pm and 11pm
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Can you tell me the origin and the history of the phrase: "The best laid plans of mice and men?" |
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From Robert Burns's (1759-1796) poem 'To a Mouse', 1786. It tells of how he, while ploughing a field, upturned a mouse's nest. The resulting poem is an apology to the mouse and goes on to say that
'The best-laid plans o' mice an' men
Gang aft a-gley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain
For promised joy. '.
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| Gang aft a-gley (A free translation of the second line could be: Often go awry or become unraveled.) |
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How can you forecast the coming winter weather using a persimmon?
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With difficulty, lol. Never heard of that one before Wiz but I have used seaweed to forecast weather before, have you ever tried that? Kiwi |
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A Persimmon fruit has many seeds inside. Upon cracking them open, you will find any one of the three pieces of "silverware" shapes. KNIFE: you'll slice through winter (mild)
SPOON: you'll need to spoon out the snow (moderate)...
FORK: you'll have to "dig in" (severe)...
so...whichever you find the most of, within the seeds, is the winter prediction.
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Here is another version of the same answer: Cut open a persimmon seed and look at the shape of the kernel inside. If the kernel is spoon-shaped, lots of heavy, wet snow will fall. If it is fork-shaped, you can expect powdery, light snow and a mild winter. If the kernel is knife-shaped, icy, cutting winds will occur for the next few months... |
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Does forked lightning travel up or down? |
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| | (1 recommendation so far) | Message 37 of 41 in Discussion |
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Both, actually. A visible forked channel, called a stepped leader, stretches down from the thundercloud until it induces a streamer of positive charge to rise from Earth to meet it. As soon as the two connect and form a pathway, the bright return stroke shoots up from the ground to the cloud in what we see as the brilliant flash of lightning. |
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If you had one fruit or vegetable to rely on for the greatest nutritional value, what would it be? |
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| | (1 recommendation so far) | Message 40 of 41 in Discussion |
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Both broccoli and kiwifruit have a very high nutritional value. But if we had to rely on just one, I think we would rather eat lots of kiwifruit than lots of broccoli. |
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