Trivial questions you want answers to

Why can't Pluto talk, the duck can, the two mice can even bloody Goofy & Pete can and they're dogs too. Why not poor Pluto :(
 
When you breathe into your hands to check if you have bad breath, are you really smelling your breath, or just your hands?
 
Cartus said:
I've wondered why human beings are the only species that needs to use toilet paper? Is a design fault? With the exception of one or two dogs I've known all animals are able to keep clean without employing additional agents.
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Maybe but then again maybe a clean drop with the occasional klingon would preferable than trying to wipe with claws or talons.:arghh:
 
i Suisse I should think myself lucky then, my pooch wipes her own backside when necessary. She sits down lifts up back paws and scoots along the ground:)
 
Just what does "OK" stand for .... ?

Would love to know ...
 
Quicksnapper said:
Just what does "OK" stand for .... ?

Would love to know ...
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There are several theories....................
from the Scots expression och aye,
the Greek ola kala ('it is good'),
the Choctaw Indian oke orokeh ('it is so'),
the French aux Cayes ('from Cayes', a port in Haiti with a reputation for good rum)
or au quai ('to the quay', as supposedly used by French-speaking dockers),
or the initials of a railway freight agent called Obediah Kelly who is said to have written them on documents he had checked.

or a more likely explanation is that the term originated as an abbreviation of orl korrekt , a jokey misspelling of 'all correct'
 
Cobra said:
There are several theories....................
from the Scots expression och aye,
the Greek ola kala ('it is good'),
the Choctaw Indian oke orokeh ('it is so'),
the French aux Cayes ('from Cayes', a port in Haiti with a reputation for good rum)
or au quai ('to the quay', as supposedly used by French-speaking dockers),
or the initials of a railway freight agent called Obediah Kelly who is said to have written them on documents he had checked.

or a more likely explanation is that the term originated as an abbreviation of orl korrekt , a jokey misspelling of 'all correct'
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You can add to that list: Oberst Kommandant, Open Key from early telegraphy, Orrin Kendall, biscuits supplied to the US Union Army in the Civil War.

According to my copy of 'P.O.S.H. and other language myths' there's no evidence any of them or many other similar definitions are true.

According the book the Boston Morning Post used the term 'oll korrect' to mean 'all correct' in 1838 (as Cobra has written above) and this is the true origin of OK.
 
Quicksnapper said:
Just what does "OK" stand for .... ?

Would love to know ...
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I read [years ago] that it originated in the US. There was a bloke who was meant to check boxes/crates etc. for shipping and when he'd done it he'd scrawl OK in chalk on the crate. It was short for Orl Korrect.
 
Why is it whenever I watch the weather on tele they show me the weather we've already had first? Who cares, its gone and I probably saw it!!!
 
Raptor Mike said:
Why is it whenever I watch the weather on tele they show me the weather we've already had first? Who cares, its gone and I probably saw it!!!
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Then they tell you what the weather's doing now.
I can see that by looking out a window! :lol:
 
Traditionally a bride wears White to signify purity, so why does a groom wear black? ( I think I probably know the answer)
 
Maggie52 said:
Traditionally a bride wears White to signify purity, so why does a groom wear black? ( I think I probably know the answer)
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Chinese brides wear red for good luck, think black for grooms is just fashion.
 
Farmerjim said:
I read [years ago] that it originated in the US. There was a bloke who was meant to check boxes/crates etc. for shipping and when he'd done it he'd scrawl OK in chalk on the crate. It was short for Orl Korrect.
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As your the 3rd person to post Something like) that, I guess its settled :thumbs:
 
viv1969 said:
Then they tell you what the weather's doing now.
I can see that by looking out a window! :LOL:
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You may be joking - or think you are BUT...

A couple of my wife's students are forecasters at the Met office and do exactly that when anyone asks what the weather's likely to do!

However, I can see the sky over the Met office from my computer room and have heard local forecasts (BBC, who get their info from the Met office) saying it's clear when it's persisting down and that it's raining when the sun's blazing down - maybe they need a window cleaner!!!
 
Nod said:
You may be joking - or think you are BUT...

A couple of my wife's students are forecasters at the Met office and do exactly that when anyone asks what the weather's likely to do!

However, I can see the sky over the Met office from my computer room and have heard local forecasts (BBC, who get their info from the Met office) saying it's clear when it's persisting down and that it's raining when the sun's blazing down - maybe they need a window cleaner!!!
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Well to be fair I said I can look out a window...not a forecaster.
 
viv1969 said:
Well to be fair I said I can look out a window...not a forecaster.
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Fear not, we won't have to do that soon,
The "machine will be doing it for you" ;)

On the news this morning & My mate Google also say's

Funding has been confirmed for a £97m supercomputer to improve the Met Office's weather forecasting and climate modelling.
The facility will work 13 times faster than the current system, enabling detailed,
UK-wide forecast models with a resolution of 1.5km to be run every single hour, rather than every three.
It will be built in Exeter during 2015 and become operational next September.

Now they can really make a hash of it, as the saying goes,
"to err is to be human, but it takes a computer to really f*** things up" :D
 
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