Nairb Notneb Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 According to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary these are the definitions: flammable: capable of being easily ignited and of burning quickly inflammable: FLAMMABLE which is capable of being easily ignited and of burning quickly Now if they mean the same thing why do we need two words for the same definition? Better yet, why does inflammable mean flammable if it has the negative prescript of "in" on it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckcsaber Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Answer me this. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Originally posted by ckcsaber Answer me this. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop? 1114 <.< >.> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ET Warrior Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 I believe the answer to your question is... Because the English language is weird. :\ We actually have a LOT of words that hold the same definitions though, they're called synonyms. So it's not THAT unusual Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RpTheHotrod Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Not to mention plenty of oxymorons...like sanitary landfill, or pretty ugly...heck, even military intelligence or Microsoft Works Single goose is geese plural....then why isn't moose meese? And why do you start a clock by winding it up, when it means stopping a report when you wind it up? and why does a light out mean it's not visible, while the stars out means they are visible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Dravis Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 It's the influence of all those other languages that mess English up. But it's good, because really that makes it a most descriptive and very useful tool, with so many ways to say very slight variations on the same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
•-BLaCKouT-• Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Actually, just to butt in and be a real smartarse; Flammable is where the liquid itself is easily set on fire (eg. Whiskey), whereas Inflammable is where the vapour of a liquid can lead to the liquid catching fire (eg. Petrol). [/nerd] I only had to say it because I was saying the very same thing one night in a pub and some real smartarse interrupted me with the answer B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IG-64 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Some things that annoy me: Why is colonal pronounced kernal? I mean, when we say the word colonies, were not saying kernies. Also, the state of Arkansas, why is it pronounced Arkansaw? We dont pronounce kansas kansaw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Dravis Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Originally posted by IG-64 Also, the state of Arkansas, why is it pronounced Arkansaw? We dont pronounce kansas kansaw. I think that it is probably a place name we aquired from the Native Americans. [/PC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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CapNColostomy Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 George Carlin does alot of jokes like these;observations about the English language, etc... I'll have to dig my books (*remembers When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops came out this month*) out to find better examples, but I googled these for now. When cheese gets it's picture taken, what does it say? When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny? If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted? When someone is impatient and says, "I haven't got all day," I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day? I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks? If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled? What if there were no hypothetical questions? Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to? Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread to begin with. I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it. May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2? I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories. Electricity is really just organized lightning. Women like silent men, they think they're listening. "I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it. If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting? Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they? Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy. I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away. Why is the man (or woman) who invests all your money called a broker? I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything. The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done. Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately. The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music. Religion convinced the world that there's an invisible man in the sky who watches everything you do. And there's 10 things he doesn't want you to do or else you'll go to a burning place with a lake of fire until the end of eternity. But he loves you! ...And he needs money! He's all powerful, but he can't handle money! This is a lttle prayer dedicated to the separation of church and state. I guess if they are going to force those kids to pray in schools they might as well have a nice prayer like this: Our Father who art in heaven, and to the republic for which it stands, thy kingdom come, one nation indivisible as in heaven, give us this day as we forgive those who so proudly we hail. Crown thy good into temptation but deliver us from the twilight's last gleaming. Amen and Awomen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pie™ Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Originally posted by CapNColostomy The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music. Couldn't have said it better myself! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kain Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Originally posted by Adam G. Affirmative action, equal opportunityCollege algebra Gaydrillsergeant Fast food Funny clean joke Jumbo shrimp Military intelligence Partly pregnant Back to the future Balding hair Happily married Executive decision Honest politician Debugged program Exact estimate... A winnar is j00 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ET Warrior Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Originally posted by Adam G. Debugged program int addition(int x, int y) { return x+y; } Bug free program I know, technically not a PROGRAM so much as a function, but whatever, I was lazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Dravis Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Darn, I was about to get that one ET! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IG-64 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Originally posted by Chase Windu oh, Oh, OH!!....I figured this out once.....seriously, ask Rhett. My tongue was bloody after. I really should have writen it down but it was over 1,000 I can tell you that much. As for the flamable thing I have no clue. Maybe it's one of those things where you're better off not knowing why it is. There should be a scientific test to decipher the adverage licks it takes to get to the chewy center of a tootsie roll pop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapNColostomy Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Originally posted by Chase Windu oh, Oh, OH!!....I figured this out once.....seriously, ask Rhett. My tongue was bloody after. I really should have writen it down but it was over 1,000 I can tell you that much. As for the flamable thing I have no clue. Maybe it's one of those things where you're better off not knowing why it is. According to Mr. Owl, it took "one, two-hoo, three...*CHOMP* Three." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jdome83 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 There's been one previously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IG-64 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Originally posted by Jdome83 There's been one previously. Yeah, I just googled it. The data suggests that it takes approximately 574 licks to reach the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jdome83 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Jeez my tongue would get sore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jebbers Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 just think about all the useless knowledge all of us swampies know....i think a thread about every useless bit of knowledge we know and not googled would be interesting....to see how much we dont really need to know... are those boobies in CapN's sig? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiE23 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 My German teacher gave this to me TiE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jebbers Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 TiE that is friggin awesome....never really thot about things like that.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiE23 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Originally posted by jebbers TiE that is friggin awesome....never really thot about things like that.... Das ist für sicheres. TiE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Dravis Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 I can see how that would be hard for someone to learn, although the meaning is usually fairly obvious from context. ¿Dónde está el tocino? ¡Amo el tocino! Meh, I'm taking Spanish... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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