Same thing as with many threads. The derailing disease got it

But I have a question for you, Impie. What do you Think of the Iron Man movies?

Well, with something as vague as that...

What did you expect?... ...

I've only seen the first and that was good.

I DON'T EVEN GET THE REFRENCES!

A SONG?

A MOVIE?

A BOOK?

AN ANCIENT SCROLL WHICH HAST FOR TOLD THE COMING OF DRAGONS?

Aw, I'm sorry ImperialSnob


We've all kind of got high spirits on this site, but we weren't trying to derail your thread on purpose. What kind of questions did they ask on that other thread?


I've got a question for you:


What was the name of the imaginary female friend Uriel Septim VII had as a child?

Foretold...One word...Note the e...

Well, as most of them are pretty famous songs, I assumed you would have known them...

Had it been me, and didn't get the references, I'd have joined in in a vaguely comedic way and sent random answers back at the random questions...Like, 1) No it's Golden Wonder, 2) No, more like a week last Tuesday, 3) Aw C'moooon!! The ball was clearly IN!!, 4) No, but it would make a good squeezy toy...5) I am Weasel!!...6) Build an Igloo...7) It's the glue that holds everything together baby!!...

And that's just off the top of my head...

The others are references to Monty Python...

I apologise for doing my own thing with your thread, I was attempting to engage or indeed simply gauge your level of wit is all...

Fear not, I shall not be troubling your wit further... ...

Uriela Septim,see,explains alot about Martin



What songs where they?

Dude, it's 10pm...I was in work this morning at 4.45...That's am...That question hurts...Seriously...

Go to youtube...

1) Keane - Is It Any Wonder?

2) World Party - Is It Like Today?

3) Whitesnake - Is This Love?

4) Marillion - It's actually called If My Heart Were A Ball It Would Roll Uphill...

5) The Who - Who Are You?...

6) Now That We've Found Love etc - Not sure exactly but Heavy D. and The Boys did a version...

7) What's Love Got To Do With It? - Tina Turner...

Ayyyy...

I still want to know the cruising velocity of an unlaided swallow...

The hell is an unlaided swallow?????

unlaided isn't even a word.

Whoopsie...unlaiden...

Like an empty table...*Stares wistfully into distance*...

So, just so I know, what is the correct placement of cutlery at a dinner party?...

Wait, so we can't ask off the wall questions, but you can give off the wall answers? Unfair, I say!

Your answer is incorrect.

Silverware is set up in the order of its use/from left to right, IE:


Left of plate: Salad fork (same as a dessert fork - the shorter fatter fork) is outer, dinner fork (the long slender fork) is alongside the plate.

Right of plate: Knife goes closest to plate (sharp edge facing plate), then soup spoon (larger fatter), then the dessert spoon (small spoon).

Napkin goes on the left near forks (unless you want to make a fancy shape of it and put it in the middle of the plate).

Bread and butter plate goes above the forks/ glass of water goes above the spoons, and wine glass goes to the right of the water glass.


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Wow! I'm impressed, Miss Manners mALX. That impressive and authoritative lesson conjures an image of you trying to teach Maxical to curtsey! Oh my goodness, I can almost envision the calamity scene, complete with Eyja braying in the background!

You can ask ANY question you want as long as it's question that is actually answerable.

Any question is answerable...It's just choosing whether to take it seriously and answer it properly with the right info or have fun with it if you don't know...

Therefore...Is this an answerable question?...

Yes.

The answer is Justin. When Uriel Septim VII was a child he had an imaginary female friend named Justin. (which yes, that is a boys name). That is Elder Scrolls Lore.

The way I always remember this: start from the outside, move inwards, and things for dessert are above the plate.

I do have trouble remembering whether the bread and butter plate is on your left or right. There was once an Incident in which half the table at a formal dinner had to pass their bread plates around because I picked the wrong one, and I was sitting next to the head of my college at the time and in fact that whole memory is labeled "abject humiliation! do not open!" on my mental bookshelves. You'd think that sort of thing would lead to you not making the mistake again... alas, I still can't remember which way round it goes. I'm just now really really afraid of getting it wrong.

Er. Questions!

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

One cord.

I though that was the answer to "How long is a piece of string?"

And while I'm here ...

It's "unladen" not "unlaiden", and the swallow flies at a rate of 42. (The units are unspecified).

I like the "unlaid swallow" best.

I don't, they're always in a bad mood.

The silverware setup is correct though, we had to set a formal dining table for every meal growing up, 4 daughters meant every fourth day it was my turn to set. Getting something wrong was def noticed, lol.

...

I need to go shopping, therefore, what is the correct starting off procedure in a car?...I seem to have forgotten...

Either a Saint on the dashboard or a bobblehead doll on the rear window is all you need know.

What is your opinion on Skyrim, ImpSnob?

I've decided to take the family out on a trip to the moon, therefore, which launch vehicle should I use to travel there in?...

I like it but it's my least favourite of the 3 newer TES games even though I think I have the most time in Skyrim but that's because it has the best mods.



A Galaxy Dropship.

Or NASA's Saturn V rocket which sent the Apollo landers...

I wish to visit our nearest star, Proxima Centauri, just for the hell of it...If I travelled at the speed of light - all 186,282 miles per second of it - how long would it take me to get there and back?...

Approximately 16 minutes - eight to get there and eight to get back again.

Sorry Impsnob for taking that question

Not quite...Slightly more than that...

Oh, wait! You didn´t mean our sun *facepalm*

Sorry, McB. I can see why you fired me as your minion

But you did say "nearest star" which is our sun!

The sun is A LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG way away.

Alpha Centuri is the nearest star.

Our sun is a star, you know We just call it the sun.

Yes,it's a star.

A very far away star.

A very veryveryveryveryvvveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryve
ryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryvery far away star.

8 hours round trip.

The distance is measured in light years. Farther than that mALX!

Warp speed ahead!

MERRRRRROOOOWWWWWW *ping*


Ah, 8 hours. Right on schedule!

Actually it's a trick question. At the speed of light, you would experience no time lapse at all, but everyone back at home would think it took 9 years(ish). Since you have to slow down, stop and turn round, that's the only time you'd experience time, and the question didn't give any clues about that part.

So if 8 hours for reversing is reasonable, mALX could be right (subjectively).

Care to provide a source? I'd like to read about this.

And kudos to mALX!

You guys have never met my wife. She could get there and back in two hours as long as there was no shopping available. If you factor in the time it takes for her to shop then it'll take approximately 9 hours.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation (with pictures and nasty maths)

Of course, the speed of light can't be reached, so time stopping at that speed is a limit value.

Hasn't Acadian told you I'm always right yet? Lol.

A bazillion points to everyone!!...

Ex-Minion, yes the sun is indeedie our nearest star...Named Sol by scientists as it happens...Oddly enough, it's Latin for sun...But anyways...Yes, well done that man and his maths...

Impy!!...Yes, the sun is a long long way away...93 million miles, give or take a few...And well done for knowing that the Alpha Centauri star system to ours...Made up of three stars...Named, boringly enough, A, B and C...C is also called Proxima Centauri which is the nearest star to ours...

Everyone else, but most espescially Ghastley...Nice one!!...

Yes, Ghastley's right about all the nasty maths and time dilation effects etc and yes, I meant subjective time from Earth of my travelling 4.24 light-years there and back (as a straight round trip) would be about 9 hours...

Though I do take issue with the scientists who insist on this quantum effect thing...A light particle still has to travel the distance the 4.24 light-years actually is, and therefore, you, as an observer on a craft travelling at said speed would be aware of time passing...Stands to reason...But they're the clever ones with letters and stuff around their name and I milk cows, so - as a wise man once observed - I know my place... ...


Aaamywho...



Hi! I'm Sam Beckett, lead character in TVs old show, Quantum Leap...Where each week, by way of Super Science™ and Plot Contrivance™, my soul essence would possess the body of some unsuspecting person in any year that my character had been alive and "Help them" in some way...Be it protecting Jackie Onassis or helping Buddy Holly with the lyrics to Peggy Sue...

Help! Something has gone wrong with the machine and I seem to have been transported to England in the 1500s...I seem to be inside a ginger fat dude with a penchant for offing his wives...

Who am I?...

I'm Henry the Eighth ♫ I am ♫ I am...

...which is pretty much the only thing I know about past British monarchs.

They're not really gone, just look underneath him...