Totally useless facts ...
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Corno Dolce
Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
Same here, Ms. Margaret, same here...
Contratrombone64
Admiral of Fugues
I sleep for 24 hours a day ... just manage it with my eyes open whilst I work, no one's noticed yet ...
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Corno Dolce
Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
Some people have all the perks - @CT64 - :shake::shake::shake::shake::shake::shake::shake:
methodistgirl
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I have a wrestling match with my bed when I go to sleep. My back
is killing me when I wake up.
judy tooley
is killing me when I wake up.
judy tooley
Contratrombone64
Admiral of Fugues
Margaret - you are, indeed, a bottomless pit of useless (but fascinating) tid-bits ...
marval
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Thank you CD, by the way I couldn't find those villages , but I did find that there is a beer call Piddle on the Hole.
www.beerpal.com/wyre-piddle-in-the-hole-beer/11480/
Margaret
www.beerpal.com/wyre-piddle-in-the-hole-beer/11480/
Margaret
Contratrombone64
Admiral of Fugues
Talk about nominative determinism ...
Corno Dolce
Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
And subjunctive aphorisms.......
:grin: coupled with catatonic catharsis.............
:grin: coupled with catatonic catharsis.............
Corno Dolce
Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
Yeah - Old Rod Stewart has done a *few* things in his life...:grin::grin::grin:
Corno Dolce
Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
Thats an interesting phenomenon.......
Corno Dolce
Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
I'm just guesstimating now: Could it be a Physics problem or because the sound waves emanating from a duck have a special characteristic which precludes their propagation? Sometimes ducks quack very loudly. I remember many years ago a summer in Sweden on a lake in the province of Småland where I heard some ducks quarreling and I could definitely hear an echo - The sound waves bounced off the water and the trees and the land topography surrounding the lake.
Contratrombone64
Admiral of Fugues
The thing about the duck's quack not echoing has been proved false...I saw it on T.V. on myth busters I think the show was.
marval
New member
Well CD, I found this which slightly dispels the myth that a duck doesn't quack at all. You were right CT, you must watch different tv to me.
Does a duck's quack echo?
The short answer is yes, it does. But this is a science myth that has been quoted all over the place.
Professor Trevor Cox and a team at Salford University recently did some research to get to the bottom of the problem with the help of willing volunteer, Daisy the duck. They found that a duck's quack does echo, but it is quite hard to hear the echo because of the quality of the quack sound. A sound that fades in and out (like a duck quack) makes an echo which can become mixed up with the original sound being made. This means it is hard to distinguish one from the other.
The other reason the myth may have arisen is because you don't often find ducks hanging around places where you commonly get echoes, like cliffs on a beach, or large cathedrals!
That could be it. Which in a way is physics.
Margaret
Does a duck's quack echo?
The short answer is yes, it does. But this is a science myth that has been quoted all over the place.
Professor Trevor Cox and a team at Salford University recently did some research to get to the bottom of the problem with the help of willing volunteer, Daisy the duck. They found that a duck's quack does echo, but it is quite hard to hear the echo because of the quality of the quack sound. A sound that fades in and out (like a duck quack) makes an echo which can become mixed up with the original sound being made. This means it is hard to distinguish one from the other.
The other reason the myth may have arisen is because you don't often find ducks hanging around places where you commonly get echoes, like cliffs on a beach, or large cathedrals!
That could be it. Which in a way is physics.
Margaret