Tuesday, April 11, 2006
It's a fish
I sometimes wonder about those phone in competitions you get on telly, you know the sort of thing:
Which of these is an animal with four legs?
A) A dog
B) A fish
Obviously they're designed to be very easy on the basis more people are likely to call in (the logic there is somewhat flawed anyway but I won't get in to that now), but I do sometimes wonder if there are people out there who call up and then get the answer wrong. The law of averages says that at least 1 or 2 people out of the thousands of callers should get one wrong, but by the same token if enough monkeys called up a fairly high percentage would probably get the answer right too.
I'm not suggesting of course that monkeys do call up TV quiz lines (I'm sure they're not that interested in winning an HD camcorder or a Ford Focus), but I'd be interested to do an experiment to see who fared better: Monkeys, Students or Northeners. My money is on the monkeys.
Which of these is an animal with four legs?
A) A dog
B) A fish
Obviously they're designed to be very easy on the basis more people are likely to call in (the logic there is somewhat flawed anyway but I won't get in to that now), but I do sometimes wonder if there are people out there who call up and then get the answer wrong. The law of averages says that at least 1 or 2 people out of the thousands of callers should get one wrong, but by the same token if enough monkeys called up a fairly high percentage would probably get the answer right too.
I'm not suggesting of course that monkeys do call up TV quiz lines (I'm sure they're not that interested in winning an HD camcorder or a Ford Focus), but I'd be interested to do an experiment to see who fared better: Monkeys, Students or Northeners. My money is on the monkeys.
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Snot
Obscure post alert (just to make a change!) - I'm just trying to work out why you can't have an operation to remove whatever it is in your nose that generates snot. I mean. In this day and age you can have your eyes fixed with lasers (the lasers in Star Trek can't do that I bet), you can fake a moon landing (hell, the Yanks did that in 1969) and you can buy pens that are also clocks, so surely you can remove a couple of totally useless things in someone' nose?
Just think about this for a second. No more runny noses, no sneezing over strangers on the tube, no more having to discreetly wipe bogeys on the underside of chairs, it'd be brilliant. I even have a plan to keep Kleenex in business - it's called the Holly Valance channel.
Something else I've just thought of - why do pilots refer to enemey fighters as 'bogeys'? The only thing I can think of is that years ago a pilot sneezed on his radar and thought the bogeys on the screen were planes. Well go on then, YOU come up with a better suggestion.
Just think about this for a second. No more runny noses, no sneezing over strangers on the tube, no more having to discreetly wipe bogeys on the underside of chairs, it'd be brilliant. I even have a plan to keep Kleenex in business - it's called the Holly Valance channel.
Something else I've just thought of - why do pilots refer to enemey fighters as 'bogeys'? The only thing I can think of is that years ago a pilot sneezed on his radar and thought the bogeys on the screen were planes. Well go on then, YOU come up with a better suggestion.
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