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    For the game show pointless 100 people were shown a picture of the Earth, only 91 managed to identify our home world.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lord bunberry View Post
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    For the game show pointless 100 people were shown a picture of the Earth, only 91 managed to identify our home world.
    Was the picture of a globe or a disc?

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    Quote Originally Posted by lord bunberry View Post
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    For the game show pointless 100 people were shown a picture of the Earth, only 91 managed to identify our home world.
    What planet are these people on?

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    Quote Originally Posted by HUTCHYHIBBY View Post
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    What planet are these people on?
    Obviously not Earth

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    Quote Originally Posted by J-C View Post
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    Obviously not Earth
    Strangely enough, that was the joke.

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    Arguably, it would be easier to recognise a picture of the full planet Earth if you didn't live on it.

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    "Captcha", as in the tool used by websites to prove you're "not a robot", is an acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".

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    Well not a totally useless fact this being a Hibs message board but in 1927/28 season Hibs played Queens Park and won the home match 6-2 and lost the away game 6-2.

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    Edinburgh is the largest UK city with no indoor sport/ music arena
    Absolutely cannot believe there isn't an arena in Edinburgh. Its baffling.

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    This thread has been hijacked with some useful information and that’s not right,
    A group of kangaroos are called a mob
    And my personal favourite only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lord bunberry View Post
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    This thread has been hijacked with some useful information and that’s not right,
    A group of kangaroos are called a mob
    And my personal favourite only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116.
    So there’s a chance on 21st of May someone in the world watched SDG’s goal and thought “FFS, not again”?


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    So there’s a chance on 21st of May someone in the world watched SDG’s goal and thought “FFS, not again”?
    No because the population of the world in 1902 was well under 2 billion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lapsedhibee View Post
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    No because the population of the world in 1902 was well under 2 billion.
    But by 2016 there were people over 114 years old.

    According to Wikipedia, there were 9 people born prior to 26th April 1902 who lived beyond 21st may 2016.

    The population in 1902 was 1.6bn which means of those alive when Hibs won the Scottish cup they had a 0.0000005625% chance of seeing it happen again.
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    Quote Originally Posted by danhibees1875 View Post
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    The population in 1902 was 1.6bn which means of those alive when Hibs won the Scottish cup they had a 0.0000005625% chance of seeing it happen again.
    Have you adjusted your calculation to take account of the fact that 400,000 of the population of the world since "1874" have been yams, and not at the first game?

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    "The bees knees" expression has nothing to do with bees.

    One for the Stupid etc thread too, methinks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by lapsedhibee View Post
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    Have you adjusted your calculation to take account of the fact that 400,000 of the population of the world since "1874" have been yams, and not at the first game?
    Surely those people would have been the most likely to have said "FFS, not again!" per the earlier post.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Future17 View Post
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    Surely those people would have been the most likely to have said "FFS, not again!" per the earlier post.
    Good point, though yams don't live to 114 because of all the inbreeding.

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    Absolutely cannot believe there isn't an arena in Edinburgh. Its baffling.
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    Parallel lines will infact meet eventually.
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    Unhygienix, the fishmonger in the Asterix books, is always barefoot. Surprisingly, this is not commented on in any of the stories.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sleeping giant View Post
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    Parallel lines will infact meet eventually.
    Is this some sort of theoretical infinity related nonsense?
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    Scotland and England were once separated by a massive ocean called the Iapetus ocean. Both were south of the equator and Scotland was part of what is now North America.

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    Quote Originally Posted by J-C View Post
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    Hate to be a killjoy but the name Jesus was never used in that part of the world at the time, IF their was some born to Joseph the carpenter his name was actually Yeshua, which is translated into Greek as Iesus, Greek being widely spoken at that time. Dos Cristos is also Greek meaning the Messiah or chosen one, or enlightened one, so basically he was Iesus Dos Cristos, or Yeshua son or Joseph.

    Happy Yuletide, a pagan festival which sees the days begin to get longer and is seen as a rebirth of the sun.
    Why do they sing "in the bleak midwinter" when its about 20 to 30 degrees there at this time of year?
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    Why do they sing "in the bleak midwinter" when its about 20 to 30 degrees there at this time of year?
    What we consider the traditional nativity scene is a western creation. The story itself is only mentioned in 2 of the Gospels, Matthew and Luke. The 2 accounts were written independently but share many similarities which suggest the basic premise is correct. By that I mean a child was born in or around Bethlehem during the reign of Herod and he went on to be worthy of note in his time.

    Generally speaking the Gospel of Mark is considered to be the first written and is regarded as being close to a first hand account. His description of a young man standing at a distance in the Garden of Gethsemane before the arrest of Jesus is thought by some to be a depiction of himself. The subsequent Gospels, Matthew then Luke then John tended to expand on Marks work and evolve the idea of Jesus as a divine being. As an example when describing the resurrection of Jesus Marks Gospel describes the tomb as being occupied by a 'young man dressed in a white robe' whilst the Gospel of Matthew depicts 'an angel in clothes as white as snow'; Luke talks of 'two men in clothes as white as snow' whilst John describes 'two angels' and a 'gardener' who is revealed to be Jesus himself.

    The Nativity scene was developed by the west to portray the humility of Jesus, a helpless infant in a vulnerable state. The addition of snow and harsh weather conditions probably played nicely into that. Further the Gospels themselves again hold the clue. Marks Gospel omits the Christmas story and is scant on detail throughout. As I said above it's regarded as a first hand account and reads like someone keen to get as much of what they remember written down as quickly as possible, it starts at the beginning of Jesus' public life. Matthew and Luke (by far the most commonly used in the liturgy of the Catholic Church) expand on the story and are arguably propaganda by early Christians to push home the case for Jesus as the Messiah, the divine birth and supernatural imagery play nicely into that. Both use the preceding texts, Marks Gospel in the case of Matthew and Mark and Matthew in the case of Luke as the basis for their writings along with the 'Q source' in the two source hypothesis. Johns Gospel is a far more political and theological work. It assumes a level of knowledge on behalf of the reader and is primarily focused on the separation of the early Christian movement from Judaism. It also draws information from not only the works of Matthew, Mark and Luke but also the 'Signs Gospel. John is clear that Jesus is divine from the beginning, there is no ambiguity as there is with Mark. The Christmas story is omitted because it is , in the eyes of the author, not required.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pretty Boy View Post
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    What we consider the traditional nativity scene is a western creation. The story itself is only mentioned in 2 of the Gospels, Matthew and Luke. The 2 accounts were written independently but share many similarities which suggest the basic premise is correct. By that I mean a child was born in or around Bethlehem during the reign of Herod and he went on to be worthy of note in his time.

    Generally speaking the Gospel of Mark is considered to be the first written and is regarded as being close to a first hand account. His description of a young man standing at a distance in the Garden of Gethsemane before the arrest of Jesus is thought by some to be a depiction of himself. The subsequent Gospels, Matthew then Luke then John tended to expand on Marks work and evolve the idea of Jesus as a divine being. As an example when describing the resurrection of Jesus Marks Gospel describes the tomb as being occupied by a 'young man dressed in a white robe' whilst the Gospel of Matthew depicts 'an angel in clothes as white as snow'; Luke talks of 'two men in clothes as white as snow' whilst John describes 'two angels' and a 'gardener' who is revealed to be Jesus himself.

    The Nativity scene was developed by the west to portray the humility of Jesus, a helpless infant in a vulnerable state. The addition of snow and harsh weather conditions probably played nicely into that. Further the Gospels themselves again hold the clue. Marks Gospel omits the Christmas story and is scant on detail throughout. As I said above it's regarded as a first hand account and reads like someone keen to get as much of what they remember written down as quickly as possible, it starts at the beginning of Jesus' public life. Matthew and Luke (by far the most commonly used in the liturgy of the Catholic Church) expand on the story and are arguably propaganda by early Christians to push home the case for Jesus as the Messiah, the divine birth and supernatural imagery play nicely into that. Both use the preceding texts, Marks Gospel in the case of Matthew and Mark and Matthew in the case of Luke as the basis for their writings along with the 'Q source' in the two source hypothesis. Johns Gospel is a far more political and theological work. It assumes a level of knowledge on behalf of the reader and is primarily focused on the separation of the early Christian movement from Judaism. It also draws information from not only the works of Matthew, Mark and Luke but also the 'Signs Gospel. John is clear that Jesus is divine from the beginning, there is no ambiguity as there is with Mark. The Christmas story is omitted because it is , in the eyes of the author, not required.
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    Laphroaig was legal to buy in prohibition, but only from pharmacies. Due to its pungent, antiseptic like smell it was mistaken for an antiseptic and it was mistakenly granted a medicinal license.

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