Curse

RedStar · Feb 13, 2008, 10:33 AM // 10:33

my brain

do you have Alzheimer ?

Tosha · Feb 13, 2008, 10:41 AM // 10:41

I cant remember

What are emotions?

azzer20 · Feb 13, 2008, 10:41 AM // 10:41

Don't knoe never had 1

Why do people cry ?

RedStar · Feb 13, 2008, 10:43 AM // 10:43

because they are emos

why don't they just cut themselves ?

azzer20 · Feb 13, 2008, 10:44 AM // 10:44

Because they faint when they see blood

Why are Emos so emolike?

RedStar · Feb 13, 2008, 10:51 AM // 10:51

because they are wammos in disguise

where can I buy the same disguise ?

Tosha · Feb 13, 2008, 10:57 AM // 10:57

At your local dump

Why do dumps smell bad?

RedStar · Feb 13, 2008, 11:03 AM // 11:03

because it's full of expired stuff

how can dumps smell good ?

Tosha · Feb 13, 2008, 11:06 AM // 11:06

Burn them down! Burn it all! BUURRRNNNNNN MMMUUAHAHAHAH... *cough* sorry about that

Why is fire warm?

RedStar · Feb 13, 2008, 11:10 AM // 11:10

so you can burn something with it

why is ice cold ?

Tosha · Feb 13, 2008, 11:14 AM // 11:14

Because warm was already taken by fire

Why is cola with ice so popular?

**cosyfiep** · Feb 13, 2008, 11:16 AM // 11:16

because the salesmen did a good job telling their people to water down the cola so they can sell more!

Why do people drink coffee??? (bleh)

Tosha · Feb 13, 2008, 11:21 AM // 11:21

Because if they dont, they look like a corpse in the morning

Why doesnt candy grow on trees?

Flem · Feb 13, 2008, 04:30 PM // 16:30

Wait....I thought it did.

Why do I have to work so much?

**cosyfiep** · Feb 13, 2008, 07:21 PM // 19:21

Because SOMEone has to pay the bills!

Why is it cold in the winter and warm in the summer?

Flem · Feb 13, 2008, 07:45 PM // 19:45

The boundary AB between sunlight and shadow--between day and night--is always perpendicular to the Earth-Sun line, as it was in the example shown at the beginning.
But because of the tilted axis, as each point on Earth is carried on its daily trip around the rotating Earth, the part of the trip spent in daylight and in the shadow are usually not equal. North of the equator, day is longer than night, and when we get close enough to the north pole, there is no night at all. The Sun is then always above the horizon and it just makes a 360-degree circuit around it. That part of Earth enjoys summer.

A mirror-image situation exists south of the equator. Nights are longer than days, and the further one gets from the equator, the larger is the imbalance--until one gets so close to the pole that the sun never rises. That is the famous polar night, with 24 hours of darkness each day. In that half of the Earth, it is winter time.

Half a year later, the Earth is on the other side of the Sun, that is, the Sun's position in the above drawing should be on the right, and the shaded part of the Earth should now be on the left. The Earth's axis however has not moved, it is still pointed to the same patch of sky, near the star Polaris. Now the south pole is bathed in constant sunshine and the north one is dark. Summer and winter have switched hemispheres.

A big difference between summer and winter is thus the length of the days: note that on the equator that length does not change, and hence Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter do not exist there (depending on weather patterns, however, there may exist a "wet season" and a "dry season"). In addition, the Sun's rays hit the summer hemisphere more vertically than the winter one.

At equinox night and day are equal (that is where the word "equinox" comes from)

Some interesting facts

If June 21 is the day when we receive the most sunshine, why is it regarded as the beginning of summer and not its peak? And similarly, why is December 21, the day of least sunshine, the beginning of winter and not mid-winter day?

Blame the oceans, which heat up and cool down only slowly. By June 21 they are still cool from the winter time, and that delays the peak heat by about a month and a half. Similarly, in December the water still holds warmth from the summer, and the coldest days are still (on the average--not always! ) a month and a half ahead.

And what about our distance from the Sun? It, too, varies, because the Earth's orbit around the Sun isn't an exact circle. We are closest to the Sun--would you believe it? --in the cold wintertime, around January 3-5. This may have an interesting implication for the origin of ice ages, as will be explained later.

To be or not to be?

azzer20 · Feb 13, 2008, 08:58 PM // 20:58

not to be

Why did Flem post a long thread no one is reading anyway?

Flem · Feb 13, 2008, 09:08 PM // 21:08

Because my answers rox. Also- I was born covered in "placenta" and "win".

What is Denmark spelled backwards in Latin?

azzer20 · Feb 13, 2008, 09:14 PM // 21:14

Cough sirup

In all seriousness, how IS it spelled backwarsd in Latin?

**cosyfiep** · Feb 14, 2008, 01:12 AM // 01:12

no idea, Latin is a dead language. (but methinks it wouldnt be too different, but heck was it even Denmark when latin was a real world language?)

Why do people worry about spelling things backwards?