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Skriven 2006-05-21 07:42:00 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av ROY WITT
Ärende: Canadian "Skills"
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-=> Quoting Roy Witt to Frank Scheidt <=-

 RW>>>>>>> really surprising, but it's a start for Stewie...Who knows, he
 RW>>>>>>> may yet convince the uros that barrels rattle.
 
 FS>>>>>> Odd, isn't it, he doesn't realize, that for a barrel to *rattle*
 FS>>>>>> it cannot be empty.  That is, there must be something inside
 FS>>>>>> *to* rattle.  I wonder why he cannot understand that.
 
 RW>>>>>> Heh. He just admitted that he dropped something (a chime) into a
 RW>>>>>> barrel and it rattled. The chime rattled, of course not the
 RW>>>>>> barrel, and the sound of the chime bouncing around in the barrel
 RW>>>>>> eminated from the barrel, making him believe that barrels
 RW>>>>>> rattle. Interesting how far out of the way of admitting that
 RW>>>>>> barrels don't rattle, just to save face when he makes stupid
 RW>>>>>> statements that he can't back up.
 
 FS>>>>> But don't you find it somewhat amusing how he's twisting and
 FS>>>>> turning to cover his ass rather than to admit he spoke carelessly
 FS>>>>> when he claimed an *empty* barrel could "rattle"?
 
 RW>>>>> I sure do...his rambling on is hilarious and then another fool
 RW>>>>> 'chimes' in and makes it even funnier...LOL!
 
 FS>>>> I think his best bet is to re-define "barrel" as, for example, "a
 FS>>>> container with something loose inside -- something which can
 FS>>>> easily rattle" ...
 
 RW>>> Well, here we go. He's now changed the scenario to include
 RW>>> something inside the barrel to make it rattle. However, it's still
 RW>>> not the barrel doing the rattling.
 
 SA>>> The words ... loose ... rattle ... think upon them, you are
 SA>>> actually starting to get an incling of why an empty (for the
 SA>>> womble) wooden barrel can rattle. No need to re-define "barrel"
 SA>>> just think upon the ideas wrought from the main word "loose" you
 SA>>> have mentioned above. Consider a barrel is made from wood and iron,
 SA>>> you may just get the reason.
 
 SA>>> You cannot prove an empty barrel cannot rattle, it is easy to prove
 SA>>> physicaly, but financialy, someone nearer to you could also do so
 SA>>> without the travel costs involved ... unless you are paying of
 SA>>> course ;)  ... though I suppose you would possess the knowse
 SA>>> (knowledge) to do so yourself. First get a cask of wine ( last one
 SA>>> I had was a five imperial gallon Graham's port cask ) and drain it.
 SA>>> The better the wine then of course the better the draining
 SA>>> experience. Leave the cask / barrel for a few weeks and roll it
 SA>>> round the kitchen floor, if it stays in one peice it will rattle.
 
 FS>> I think that's his problem -- emptying the wine barrel into his
 FS>> own stomach ... heh heh heh ... after that the *room* seems to
 FS>> rattle ...
 
 RW>> Did you notice that in NZ, they must have cheap barrel makers? If a
 RW>> barrel doesn't stay intact for more than a few weeks, it and the
 RW>> contents must be the cheapest one can get. Meaning that only an
 RW>> indigent wine-drinking alcoholic would indulge in that crap.
 
 FS> One *more* good reason to be grateful we're here in the US ... of
 FS> course there's "PL", but he's more an aberration than a true
 FS> American ...

 RW> Of course. PL is not only an aberration, but everything he says about
 RW> America is beguiling.

He gave it away some time back when he admitted he sympathized 
with the Europeans ... I think he's just a *spy* pretending to be 
an American ...

... "Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious." ÄÄ Ustinov

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