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moonbouncer
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 | 01:38 PM
You can find fossils at the local nursing home. You can find fossils underneath your nuts if you dont shower. Did I mention that I had corn in my poo yesterday. It felt like a fossil coming out too. |
Smerk
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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 | 07:46 PM
I remember reading something like that - God created fossils as a joke - can't remember which particular book it was in, but can tell you it was written by Terry Pratchett. And of course, it wasn't about our world either...we don't travel through space on a flat world on the back of 4 elephants on the back of a turtle...do we? |
Sharruma
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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 | 04:18 AM
We used to
The world on the back of four elephants carried by a giant turtle was what people believed before it was proved the world was round. |
matzusdog
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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 | 06:05 AM
it was one of Pratchetts sci-fi books called Strata - I believe the quote was something like
"Fossils were a result of when the Creator was much younger and unsure of what He wanted, and was, as it were, idly messing about with the Pleistocene" |
Nettie
in Perth, Western Australia
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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 | 06:28 AM
Hurrah! Smerk, someone else from good old Perth! I thought I was the only one in our time zone! |
Nettie
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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 | 06:30 AM
By the way, moonbouncer, you scare me. Didn't your mother ever tell you to chew your corn properly??? Geez, that way your poo would be all mushy and yellow, not fossilised.
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Boo
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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 | 06:38 AM
Curses, I wasn't paying attention properly, and thought you meant Perth in Scotland.
Oh well. |
Nettie
in Perth, Western Australia
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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 | 06:40 AM
No, I meant the lovely sunny one!
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Boo
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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 | 07:01 AM
Hey, it's sunny here!
Well, it's not actually raining...
Much...
*sigh*
So! Back to the fossil debate!
(Just so I'm not completely OT) |
Smerk
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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 | 08:00 PM
Yes, we may be the most isolated capital city in the world, but we do exist! There are people here. It's not a fictional place! Matzusdog, I'm pretty sure I read it in a different Pratchett book - one of the Rincewind novels...but then Pratchett does recycle his material from time to time...by the way, what does the turtle stand on? |
Smerk
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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 | 08:03 PM
Nettie, I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one in Australia doing the occasional post. But then, some people don't say where they're writing from. |
matzusdog
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 | 02:55 AM
I'm pretty sure he answers that one as well - another turtle. And what does that one stand on? Well, its obvious. it's turtles all the way down... |
Smerk
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 | 03:24 AM
Just checking!  |
Nettie
in Perth, Western Australia
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 | 09:05 AM
Yeah Smerk, I think there are a couple of us. We're the ones who post and then have to wait until the next day to check for replies as everyone else seems to be alseep on the other side of the world.
Sigh, such is life I suppose.
It gives me something to do after work. |
Boo
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 | 09:08 AM
Just out of curiosity...
What time is it where you are, nettie?
It's 2.10 in the afternoon here.
(I really should be doing some work) |
Nettie
in Perth, Western Australia
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 | 09:29 AM
it's 10.30 at night, I should be in bed, early morning tomorrow |
Nettie
in Perth, Western Australia
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 | 09:48 AM
When I said that thing about everyone being asleep, I probably should have said when I post during the day. Obviously, when it's night here, it's day over there...somewhere...maybe...well, I'd assume so...
I'll just shut up now.
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Nettie
in Perth, Western Australia
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 | 09:50 AM
OOOOOOOHHHHHH I get it now! There's a little time thingy telling me when I posted in Alex's time! Who's the dickhead now Nettie!!!
(perhaps I should get my glasses prescription checked again...) |
Alex
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 | 09:58 AM
It's not my time actually. I think I set the daylight savings time option wrong. So it's an hour ahead. It said 'are you currently observing daylight savings time'? But what does that mean? Spring we're an hour ahead, and come Fall we'll be an hour behind. So aren't we always observing it, in one way or another? |
Boo
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 | 09:58 AM
Alex's time is magic time.
*nods sagely*
It's actually quite annoying, because I come on here when I'm at work, so about the time everyone is getting up over there, I'm going home over here.
HoHum. |
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