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Thread ID: 42853 2004-02-24 23:37:00 OT: What is the length of a piece of string? Billy T (70) PC World Chat
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217945 2004-02-25 09:04:00 Why can't one measure the strings shortness? Why is it the length is always measured? mark.p (383)
217946 2004-02-25 09:16:00 Hey Beetle, Its just a bit of fun.
How long is a piece of string.
gerrypics (323)
217947 2004-02-25 09:21:00 Okay folks:

Loved the logic, learned some new ideas, baffled beetle (sorry beetle, it was just a touch of whimsy to celebrate 2500 different ways to waste time when I should be working) and created a mild stir of interest in string lovers everywhere.

Drum roll.............................................. .....


And the winner is................................................ ..

TonyF (second on the list) for the undeniable, millimetre perfect, incontrovertable answer: Exactly twice the distance from the middle to one end. You are a man after my own heart Tony.:D

Runner up....................

Mark P for speaking out on behalf of the longitudinally challenged everywhere.

Cheers

Billy 8-{) :)
And I've won a few bets with that one ]:)
Billy T (70)
217948 2004-02-25 09:32:00 well at the moment ive had about as much fun as i can cope with . . . . . sorry . .

i can see your point BT but am wondering why we bother with things like this when around the country things are turning to crap ( no pun intended) .

great post count .

yeah ok, i hear ya, poor old beetle has got the wrong end of stick again . . . . i dont care .

i have a question for you . . . . What is the meaning of LIFE????
cos it sux .

since ya didnt get my green as grass to milk one . . . . . sigh .

sorry for the rant,
things not so rosy round here at mo,

beetle
beetle (243)
217949 2004-02-25 09:33:00 > and i thought there was enough post padders around with out all of us adding to the stupid post.

LOL beetle :^O :^O
PoWa (203)
217950 2004-02-25 09:56:00 Congratulations on the 2500 postings Billy T :), well done :D

Poor bug, do you have too much dust down there :D ( me trying to be funny here ;) )
stu140103 (137)
217951 2004-02-25 10:03:00 Nice one Billy, congratulations . :-)

A thoroughly entertaining and enlightening thread though the laughs have hurt my sort throat a bit . :p

BTW, general consensus is to keep the Friday ritual going, please . ;-)



Beetle: Cheer up . Tell Mummy all about it tomorrow? :p :D
Susan B (19)
217952 2004-02-25 10:13:00 Ok so ive missed something here?

BT had you canned your WFTWE? postings?

and yes Mummy, after school, maybe if i live that long . . . . . and are you sick? sore throat?????

dont know anything about printers? or word progs do you????? :p

just sinking in the abyss of 100 meters of very dusty carpet, having the end of my house wall ripped off for renovations and no bathroom does not help life .
and having a child have his finger jammed in the door, which is now quite black is heartwrenching . . . . .

and my hay fever is or was shocking, recovering well, but the temperament took a beating lately, due to things beyond my control . . . .

give me a few days and ill be back on top of the heap like normal . . .

:p


beetle
beetle (243)
217953 2004-02-25 12:39:00 > So How long is a peice of string? is as good as how
> do you get green grass to become white milk?????

And I had foolishly assumed for too many years that a British Standard String had a length in cubits, exactly 1 pi'th of it's circumference in Farads/K.

And now I find it's not. It was bad enough getting my grandmother's string stock converted to metric.

The grass problem is easier, to an "n" hectare green wire-enclosed bit, add "x" variably coloured methane generators, subtract the red meat-flavoured bits and the gooey brown bits, and you have the white liquid bit. Note this only applies with certain methane generators. If in doubt, re-install the OS
R2x1 (4628)
217954 2004-02-25 18:08:00 and just to confuse this issue a little more...................

if the length of string was so arranged as to form a circle..... ?.......what length would it then be.........'what's the length of a circle' ?
drcspy (146)
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