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Skriven 2006-05-19 12:46:17 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
  Kommentar till text 29975 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
Ärende: Canadian "Skills"
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18 May 06 22:32, FRANK SCHEIDT wrote to ROY WITT:

 FS> -=> 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 ...

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


Roy
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