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Why is it that while working on bikes and wearing flip flops that when you drop a screwdriver the pointy end always finds the top of your foot?

BTW, I'll most definitely call you mommy if you lecture me about working in flip flops :)
 
I feel yet another long conversation involving yet more naive students durning term time on why when buttered toast always falls from the table to the floor butter side down. Sometimes I wonder if our hard earned taxes are spent wisely. . . . .
 
My brothers and I are still arguing the infinite string of variables to draw from when discussing the "will you get wetter walking, or running, in the rain?" conundrum...
 
You always catch more rain when you walk GP ….. best to just run at speed as long as you don’t stop to window shop … had to fix this after talking to buddy that helped me sort this all those yrs ago , I had mis-remembered ….sorry !
 
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grandpaul said:
My brothers and I are still arguing the infinite string of variables to draw from when discussing the "will you get wetter walking, or running, in the rain?" conundrum...
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When I was going to college in IL, I only had a 67 Triumph 500. Each day in the winter I got to the end of a road that was 8 miles to the school. Each day I tried to decide whether to ride fast and be more cold for less time or ride slow and be less cold for more time. Never did figure it out. The things the young do - when it was Icey I just rode on the shoulder in the snow - tuition cost me too much to skip class!
 
kommando said:
As long as they have toe protectors feel free to wear flip flops or even sandals with socks ;)
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:D I've broken my little toe three times in the past two years. Flip flops and immovable objects!

Here's the deal - my second most hated thing in the world is shoes. My most hated thing is socks! I may be old but you won't catch me in sandals with socks!
 
grandpaul said:
Are you basing it on "Myth Busters"? Some of their procedures were flawed. I don't have the 6 hours required to clarify my position...
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I once had an exam question in a course on Molecular Gas Dynamics, in which I had to prove, using molecular theory, running encountered fewer collisions with rain drops.

I could not prove it today, but it is intuitive that the less time you spend in the rain, the fewer encounters with rain drops you will have.

Thus, if you have a goal of getting from point A to point B, and getting less wet, run, don't walk.

Now, if you are concerned that, as time in the rain approaches zero, whether you will have fewer collisions with raindrops standing or moving, then the proof lies in molecular gas dynamic theory, and I have long forgotten that, but I do remember the the answer to the long ago exam question.

Slick
 
As I mentioned earlier and Slick confirms , run don’t walk in rain …. Spent and afternoon in park with a friend drinking beer sorting this question out yrs ago …. Also I used a Saab 9.3 to travel backroads from my home to port town on Bay of Fundy where I was working , all kinds of bad weather during those drives … no issues until yr 4 when balance system went , then air compressor , traded it on Passat #3 for what I had paid …. really liked the way the 9.3 handled our back roads …. I don’t use sandles but like Saab and Volvo…..
 
Bernhard said:
I feel yet another long conversation involving yet more naive students durning term time on why when buttered toast always falls from the table to the floor butter side down. Sometimes I wonder if our hard earned taxes are spent wisely. . . . .
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Paddy dropped his buttered toast the other day - it dropped butter side up!

he was amazed and told his friends, they were also amazed and suggested he should talk to Father Flaherty, he would want to know - perhaps it’s a miracle?

So he went and told the Father, he was incredulous and had to speak to the Bishop. The 2 of them believed it maybe a miracle and telephoned the Pope.

The Pope listened to what they all had to say and went away to consult with his cardinals and promised an answer on the subject of ‘Paddy’s miracle”

3 days later the Pope called the Bishop with a message for the Priest and Paddy.

The Pope decreed there was no miracle, but just that Paddy had buttered the wrong side of the toast.
 
Landspeedracer said:
Paddy dropped his buttered toast the other day - it dropped butter side up!

he was amazed and told his friends, they were also amazed and suggested he should talk to Father Flaherty, he would want to know - perhaps it’s a miracle?

So he went and told the Father, he was incredulous and had to speak to the Bishop. The 2 of them believed it maybe a miracle and telephoned the Pope.

The Pope listened to what they all had to say and went away to consult with his cardinals and promised an answer on the subject of ‘Paddy’s miracle”

3 days later the Pope called the Bishop with a message for the Priest and Paddy.

The Pope decreed there was no miracle, but just that Paddy had buttered the wrong side of the toast.
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This sounds like a Dave Allen sketch... (the man was a comedy genius)
 

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