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Offline Grumpmeister

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Re: Fruit flies like a banana
« Reply #15 on: June 18, 2009, 06:08:52 PM »
If fruit flies like a banana does that mean that time flies like an arrow? whistle:
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Re: Fruit flies like a banana
« Reply #16 on: June 18, 2009, 06:31:48 PM »
I love the smell of smiting in the evening  eveilgrin:
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Re: Fruit flies like a banana
« Reply #17 on: June 18, 2009, 06:34:27 PM »
Makes a nice change from bleach I would imagine  whistle:
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Re: Fruit flies like a banana
« Reply #18 on: June 18, 2009, 06:37:50 PM »
Thats good Nick seeing as someone smiteth you as well Nick whistle:
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Re: Fruit flies like a banana
« Reply #19 on: June 18, 2009, 08:24:12 PM »
Oh how the smited are smitten.
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Re: Fruit flies like a banana
« Reply #20 on: June 18, 2009, 08:36:26 PM »
How low is it possible to go ????
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Re: Fruit flies like a banana
« Reply #21 on: June 18, 2009, 08:40:40 PM »
Lower than a snake's belly (actually I think it is something like minus 10,000)
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Re: Fruit flies like a banana
« Reply #22 on: June 18, 2009, 08:42:34 PM »
At least Nick knows what he's aiming for now noooo:
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Re: Fruit flies like a banana
« Reply #23 on: June 18, 2009, 09:02:14 PM »
Quote from: Grumpmeister on June 18, 2009, 06:08:52 PM
If fruit flies like a banana does that mean that time flies like an arrow? whistle:

Ahhh...

'Time flies' metaphorically implys that time goes quickly, an arrow practically flies through the air, and the species fruit flies like to eat bananas. The play is on the use of the word 'flies' in it's different uses. But put together, the two sentences separated by a comma, give the sentence a different meaning, because our brains see the meaning of the first clause of the sentence in the second clause, we see the sentence as meaning that time flies in the same manner as an arrow flies through the air (possibly direct and piercing), and fruit e.g. generic term for apples, pears, oranges fly through the air in the same way as a banana would fly through the air (possibly like a boomerang due to its shape).
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Re: Fruit flies like a banana
« Reply #24 on: June 19, 2009, 06:23:23 AM »
Quote from: Pirate on June 18, 2009, 09:02:14 PM
Quote from: Grumpmeister on June 18, 2009, 06:08:52 PM
If fruit flies like a banana does that mean that time flies like an arrow? whistle:

Ahhh...

'Time flies' metaphorically implys that time goes quickly, an arrow practically flies through the air, and the species fruit flies like to eat bananas. The play is on the use of the word 'flies' in it's different uses. But put together, the two sentences separated by a comma, give the sentence a different meaning, because our brains see the meaning of the first clause of the sentence in the second clause, we see the sentence as meaning that time flies in the same manner as an arrow flies through the air (possibly direct and piercing), and fruit e.g. generic term for apples, pears, oranges fly through the air in the same way as a banana would fly through the air (possibly like a boomerang due to its shape).
Do what now...?  Shrugs:
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Re: Fruit flies like a banana
« Reply #25 on: June 19, 2009, 06:25:23 AM »
I think Pirate has been at the grog again whistle:
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Re: Fruit flies like a banana
« Reply #26 on: June 19, 2009, 07:51:33 AM »
Quote from: Grumpmeister on June 19, 2009, 06:25:23 AM
I think Pirate has been at the grog again whistle:

On the Poop more like it.  ::)





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Re: Fruit flies like a banana
« Reply #27 on: June 19, 2009, 12:19:20 PM »
 Shrugs: I didn't understand it either...pasted from wikipedia
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Re: Fruit flies like a banana
« Reply #28 on: June 19, 2009, 12:20:49 PM »
Quote from: Pirate on June 19, 2009, 12:19:20 PM
Shrugs: I didn't understand it either...pasted from wikipedia
That isn't a Pugwash pun...  noooo:
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Re: Fruit flies like a banana
« Reply #29 on: June 19, 2009, 12:26:36 PM »
Oh alright  ::)

I wonder what Master Bates, Seaman Staines, and Roger the Cabin Boy think about it
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