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Q: What is the air speed velocity of a coconut laden swallow?

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Q: What is the air speed velocity of a coconut laden swallow?

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A coconut laden swallow has no air speed velocity. It is a physical impossibility. Unless coconuts can fly.

Still an impossibility, because then, it would be the coconut that would have an air speed velocity.

Jeez, people.
 

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A coconut laden swallow has no air speed velocity. It is a physical impossibility. Unless coconuts can fly.

Still an impossibility, because then, it would be the coconut that would have an air speed velocity.

Jeez, people.
Coconuts can and do fly in Florida. Sometimes at 155 mph....
 

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Why are the little round doughnut things called Holes.
They cannot be holes since holes are a nothing.
And if they are a nothing they have no calories?

From the Tao, Stephen Mitchell's translation:

We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move.

We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want.

We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.

We work with being,
but non-being is what we use.
 

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so humans abhor emptiness?

Makes sense and one reason I like to eat doughnut holes to eliminate the feeling of emptiness.
Which some strive thru meditation to achieve.
 

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so humans abhor emptiness?

Makes sense and one reason I like to eat doughnut holes to eliminate the feeling of emptiness.
Which some strive thru meditation to achieve.

Just giving you an alternative viewpoint on "the useful nothing."

No, humans use emptiness, without really paying attention to what they are using, or what is useful about it. Emptiness is a waiting state.

Oh Jeez, you got me in Tao mind now. I'll have to go to bed.
 

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Just giving you an alternative viewpoint on "the useful nothing."

No, humans use emptiness, without really paying attention to what they are using, or what is useful about it. Emptiness is a waiting state.

Oh Jeez, you got me in Tao mind now. I'll have to go to bed.
George Carlin would disagree. His educational monologue on Stuff indicates that humans abhor an empty space.

George Carlin the professor of what humans profess.
 
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George Carlin would disagree. His monologue on Stuff indicates that humans abhor an empty space.

Did you ever hear Stephen Wright's bit about "everything in my apartment was stolen, and replaced with an exact duplicate?" Another classic.

The "stuff' bit was one of Carlin's best.

Hey, do you like Billy Connolly? I bet you would. He is my absolute favorite.
 

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George Carlin would disagree. His educational monologue on Stuff indicates that humans abhor an empty space.

George Carlin the professor of what humans profess.

By the way, I think I might would believe the Tao before I'd believe George Carlin. Just sayin. His interpretation of reality could be a bit...skewed....
 

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By the way, I think I might would believe the Tao before I'd believe George Carlin. Just sayin. His interpretation of reality could be a bit...skewed....
Ahh but that is because Carlin attempts to explain humans skewed view of reality, and since he is a human...
All things human are skewed somewhat.
 

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I think WE might be a bit skewed, comparing Carlin to the Tao. It's making my brain hurt.
 

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At the airport now, 50 degrees, freezing, lost my hiney, fell off.
Everything is grey, brown, drab, cold. Can't wait to leave....

Well, sorry hon, but maybe without a hiney you'll be more comfortable in that godawful airplane seat! Get your attendant (for god's sake don't call her a stewardess) to get you a pillow or a doughnut to sit on. If you bat your eyes at her, she'll be nice. :sad: :cry: :hug:

If you get a choice, take the navy blue doughnut instead of the Hoochie Mama Pink one.
 

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Pretty much. Lived in the Tampa area for 7 years.
You could tell where you were when they opened the plane door after landing.

It's worse on the Atlantic side. Much much stinkier. Jacksonville, omg, need one of those white filters from the hospital. And forget about drinking the water. Tastes like algae.

IMO the Panhandle and NW Florida around Crystal River are the best parts of the state. Less like actual Florida. :)
 

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If a cat always lands on its feet and buttered bread always lands buttered side down what would happen if you strapped a piece of buttered bread, butter side up, to a cat's back and tossed it out a window? Asking for a friend...

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I'm an expert because I hang out with you guys.

A:. What goes up must come down. Spinnin' wheels, got-ta go round.

You got some weird friends, dude. Maybe you should help them find jobs or something, eh?
 

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