A Thread For Absurd And Absurdist Questions Of A Questionable Nature

[Bennn]

[quote name='Hilde' date='11 April 2010 - 12:26 AM' timestamp='1270938376' post='2090642']
Can there be life beyond the tree of life?
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Someone's mixing mythology with Biblical truths.

[Marie-Therese]

[quote name='txdinghysailor' date='10 April 2010 - 06:26 PM' timestamp='1270938393' post='2090644']
Well basically austenite, martensite, and stuff are different phases of steel. 1045 steel is a carbon-steel that has .45 wt % carbon.
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Hence my previous answer (which may or may not be correct...)

[quote name='Marie-Therese' date='10 April 2010 - 02:30 PM' timestamp='1270924244' post='2090507']
At the austenite grain boundaries?
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[txdinghysailor]

[quote name='Marie-Therese' date='10 April 2010 - 09:21 PM' timestamp='1270945270' post='2090692']
Hence my previous answer (which may or may not be correct...)
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It's partly correct. I'm impressed.

[Marie-Therese]

[quote name='txdinghysailor' date='10 April 2010 - 08:26 PM' timestamp='1270945567' post='2090697']
It's partly correct. I'm impressed.
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Don't be. It's all about quick wit, a knowledge of research, and quick draw google skills.

I have a very limited metallurgical knowledge, mostly my experience in that area is from chemistry and not engineering.

[jeffpugh]

[quote name='Hilde' date='10 April 2010 - 04:27 PM' timestamp='1270931234' post='2090562']
Yggdrasil, I didn't know you could go beyond it.
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Lullz.

[goldenchild17]

[quote name='Laudate_Dominum' date='06 April 2010 - 03:03 PM' timestamp='1270587799' post='2087876']
QUERY I.

Some of the old demonologies mention goblins, hobgoblins, werewolves, and various other legendary creatures as though they are real. Could a Catholic believe in such things or might they be explicitly condemnations somewhere? I know that some churchmen have condemned belief in some legendary creatures but I can't recall anything that is other than private opinion on the matter.

If belief in, say, werewolves, is in fact heretical, isn't it a crime to pretend with kids that such things are real? T'would be somewhat like pretending that Martin Luther is a saint only to spring the terrible truth on them when they're deemed "old enough." Similarly, if belief in goblins turns out to have been condemned as vile heresy or pagan devilry, should not the Lord of the Rings books be placed on the Index?

If belief in the fairies of folklore and legend is not condemned, I must, for fun's sake, entertain the possibility of their reality; at least goblins, werewolves, brownies, gnomes and pixies.
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Not exactly from a Catholic. But fun reads nonetheless:

[url="http://books.google.com/books?id=fpaCCyGuMqwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=vampires+his+kith+his+kin&cd=1#v=onepage&q=vampires%20his%20kith%20his%20kin&f=false"]The Vampire, his Kith and Kin[/url]

[url="http://books.google.com/books?id=g2_vfYCPy6kC&pg=PA325&lpg=PA325&dq=the+werewolf+in+lore+and+legend+montague+summers+online&source=bl&ots=0LysjTb1_V&sig=W1Vlx9JBr5KRhFvG3KYR_5PrnnE&hl=en&ei=pxvCS_a8C4H68AaNwojXCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAUQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q&f=false"]The Werewolf in Lore and Legend[/url]

[jeffpugh]

L_D, should a Latinist learn Cyrillic?

[Laudate_Dominum]

[quote name='Sacred Music Man' date='11 April 2010 - 09:21 PM' timestamp='1271035285' post='2091287']
L_D, should a Latinist learn Cyrillic?
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I'm inclined to answer in the affirmative but I'd have to ask the fish to be sure.

[laetitia crucis]

[quote name='Laudate_Dominum' date='12 April 2010 - 09:05 PM' timestamp='1271117131' post='2092031']
I'm inclined to answer in the affirmative but I'd have to ask the fish to be sure.
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Maybe he'll come online soon. Then you can ask him.

[jeffpugh]

[quote name='Laudate_Dominum' date='12 April 2010 - 08:05 PM' timestamp='1271117131' post='2092031']
I'm inclined to answer in the affirmative but I'd have to ask the fish to be sure.
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Interesting... I hope my question wasn't too straight-forward for this thread.

[txdinghysailor]

Why?

[MIKolbe]

this thred needz chezburgerz

[Laudate_Dominum]

[quote name='MIkolbe' date='13 April 2010 - 08:13 AM' timestamp='1271160789' post='2092366']
this thred needz chezburgerz
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[txdinghysailor]

If the plural of goose is geese why isn't the plural of mongoose mongeese?

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='txdinghysailor' date='13 April 2010 - 06:18 PM' timestamp='1271200682' post='2092785']
If the plural of goose is geese why isn't the plural of mongoose mongeese?
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That's because the word mongoose comes from the Marathi language, which is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people of western and central India, and therefore has completely different rules from the Germanic languages goose comes from.

[IgnatiusofLoyola]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' date='13 April 2010 - 06:27 PM' timestamp='1271201226' post='2092795']
That's because the word mongoose comes from the Marathi language, which is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people of western and central India, and therefore has completely different rules from the Germanic languages goose comes from. [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif[/img]
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I knew that. [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/whistle.gif[/img]

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='IgnatiusofLoyola' date='13 April 2010 - 06:40 PM' timestamp='1271202044' post='2092802']
I knew that. [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/whistle.gif[/img]
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That was totally right off the top of my head too.

[jeffpugh]

How do you explain moose and meese?

[IgnatiusofLoyola]

[quote name='Sacred Music Man' date='13 April 2010 - 08:32 PM' timestamp='1271208727' post='2092884']
How do you explain moose and meese?
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Mousse is an excellent dessert, especially chocolate mousse.

Ed Meese was Attorney General under the late President Reagan.

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='Sacred Music Man' date='13 April 2010 - 08:32 PM' timestamp='1271208727' post='2092884']
How do you explain moose and meese?
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Moose is Algonquin.