Why? How? Where? When?

Here’s a few from me,

1) WHY is a Building not called a Built?

2)HOW did we come to know Flats as Flats and not as apartments as in America?

3)WHERE did the names for colours come from?

4)WHEN did languages such as English, Russian, French, Chinese etc begin?

Why did Kamikaze pilots wear crash helmets???????

Why is there no blue food ?

there is…… 😀
Michael

PS Ashley, have you solved your TLA quandry yet ?

Why is there no blue food ?

Michael

PS Ashley, have you solved your TLA quandry yet ?

Ok, if anyone can solve the following for me I will be eternally grateful (and it will help me immensely with the collection of RAF videotapes I am currently cataloguing)

1) Any clue what PMP stands for in relation to the RAF? All I have so far is footage of paratroopers practicing jumping out of aircraft over Salisbury Plain. It has been suggested that PMP stands for ‘Practice Makes Perfect’, but if anyone has got evidence/further ideas, please help!

If anyone can solve the above I will be eternally grateful 😀

It isn’t Personal Media Player then, or the Filipino Workers Party (Partido ng Manggagawang Pilipino, PMP) or the World Federation Of Scientists Permanent Monitoring Panel.

What’s the context apart from being military/RAF? These are all real:

Project Management Plan
Project Management Professional (Certification)
Performance Measurement Procedures (from a Canadian military website)
Permanent Military Professor
Protective Mobilization Plan (US Army WWII)
Proletarian Military Policy (invented by Leon Trotsky therefore unlikely)

BTW Cataloguing. Do you mean cataloguing as in MARC21-type Cataloguing (AACR and all that stuff?)

Rob / Kansan

Why are blondes stupid?

At the train station, a blonde was sitting reading a girly mag, when someone laughed at her. She looked up and just said “hiya” to him.

Ok, if anyone can solve the following for me I will be eternally grateful (and it will help me immensely with the collection of RAF videotapes I am currently cataloguing)

1) Any clue what PMP stands for in relation to the RAF? All I have so far is footage of paratroopers practicing jumping out of aircraft over Salisbury Plain. It has been suggested that PMP stands for ‘Practice Makes Perfect’, but if anyone has got evidence/further ideas, please help!

2) On a similar note, has anyone got any idea what Exercise Crown Warrior was, when it took place, where, and why? I have established that the army was involved too, but other than that, not a clue…

If anyone can solve the above I will be eternally grateful 😀

What was there before the universe? There must be something, but then again what was before that, and before that! That one keeps me awake at night

Cripes when i was seventeen it wasn’t space and time that kept me awake at night!!!!!! :diablo:
GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS………………….
oh there’s that tingling again 😀 😀

Why dose hair and nails grow after death?

A nice bottle of Grange Hermitage

If you say so. I trust you…

What was the best thing before sliced bread?

A nice bottle of Grange Hermitage

What was the best thing before sliced bread?

No problem, Steve – I’ve learnt something aswell! 🙂

Hi Steve,

I just typed CVN in to Google and after checking a few links came up with this page.

http://www.reagan.navy.mil/

Go to Ship’s History and look up Facts and FAQ’s

Hope that helps. 🙂

For those who can’t be bothered to check the link –

“C” means aircraft carrier, “V” indicates fixed wing (vice rotating wings as on helicopters), and “N” stands for nuclear powered. So CVN means (in Navy-speak) “aircraft carrier, fixed wing, nuclear powered”.

“Well i’ll be buttered on both sides”, i tipped the C would be carrier and the N would be nuclear, but i was never sure about the V. Thanks old chap you’ve answered a question that’s been bugging me for a long time

Wow barrythemod… nicely said.

And yeah, even though your statement is true, I also wonder what there was before…

What was there before the universe? There must be something, but then again what was before that, and before that! That one keeps me awake at night

Sleep soundly my man.It`s not the past you have to worry about but whats yet to come 😉

What was there before the universe? There must be something, but then again what was before that, and before that! That one keeps me awake at night

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I think its something to do with UK hook sizes….

why is the fluff in my navel always blue ,when i do not posses a blue jumper?

Belly Button Fluff

Each morning when we wake up, and every evening, when we retire, it has been noted that we often accumulate small amounts of lint, or ‘fluff’, in our navels1. Commonly referred to as ‘belly-button fluff’, the exact nature and cause of its appearance has been a mystery for generations. Thankfully, recent experiments in Australia may have found the answer at last.

So, What is Belly-Button Fluff?

Quite simply, it is collected fibres from your clothing. There’s probably a little dead skin in there too, but the majority of it is small fibres from your clothes. Contrary to popular belief, evidence suggests that belly-button fluff comes up from underwear rather than down from your t-shirt or top.

We all have body hair to some degree. Women tend to have fine, almost invisible body hair, while men’s hair is coarser and more visible. The hair drags fibre residue up from the ‘pants’ area until it congregates in the navel.

Karl Kruszelnicki, a physicist at the University of Sydney, Australia, conducted a major study2 of this strange occurrence over the space of a year. Just under 5000 participants answered his survey from across Australia and elsewhere, and over 66% admitted to experiencing fluffage in the naval region.

One theory suggested that hairier, overweight people are more likely to produce fluff, so some of the participants were asked to shave their stomachs to see how this affected the results. Though the findings were inconclusive, Dr Kruszelnicki did find that a large proportion of the shaved subjects noticed a decrease in the amount of fluff production, presumably because there were no hairs to carry the fluff over the curve of the bellies. However, some of the slim, hairless, female participants also confessed to experiencing fluff build-up. Kruszelnicki deduced that this might be down to certain bodily movement that continues to move the fluff into their belly buttons without the involvement of body hair.

But Why is It Always Blue?

It has been observed that belly-button fluff tends to be of a blueish tint. Sometimes it looks a little grey, sometimes purple, but generally it’s a pale blue colour. Most clothing has elements of blue or white. The dyes in black clothing, for example, are often not actually black but a very dark blue.

If you have a clothes dryer, have a look at the lint filter – that tends to be blue too.

Random Facts

Belly-button fluff makes great kindling for fires.

Belly-buttons are as unique as finger-prints. But belly-button prints would probably be impractical.

Pierced navels tend not to collect fluff, probably because they tend to be exposed and therefore less likely to collect all those tiny fibres.

Why is it acceptable to use worms as fisihing bait, but not dogs?

I think its something to do with UK hook sizes….

why is the fluff in my navel always blue ,when i do not posses a blue jumper?

Why is it acceptable to use worms as fisihing bait, but not dogs?