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“Mate: A friend, or girlfriend.
Mate: Someone you have just met.
Mate: Someone you are threatening to have a barney with.
Mate: The guy serving you beer at the pub.
Mate: Someone whose name you can’t remember.
Mate: Anyone else.
Mate: I don’t know what your name is, but ill call you mate.
Mate: Pardon me sir, but I have reason to believe that you have secreted on your person items for which you do not intend to furnish payment.”

— Extract from the Australian English dictionary

June 03, 2012, 12:30pm

“A guy walks into a bar and the bartender asks what can I get you? The guy responds for me h2o please, his friend say I’ll have h2o too , the friend dies…….”

— mayorfl’s comment on “Accidental Reaction - Periodic Table of Videos”.

June 02, 2012, 3:50pm

“That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only which gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper prince on its goods.”

— Thomas Paine

May 22, 2012, 12:19am

“.. men and women have four and twenty ribs, that is, twelve on each side.” .. extra ribs are surprisingly common: one in every ten or so adults has them. … In most people with extra ribs, … a vertebra that normally does not bear ribs has become transformed into one that does. Sometimes this means the loss of a neck vertebra, sometimes the loss of one in the power back.”

— Armand Marie Leroi, “Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body” pg91

May 20, 2012, 11:53pm

“Likewise, a person who insists on perfection in friends is bound to have no friends” & “People who insist on finding Mr. or Ms. Right to settle down are bound to remain Mr. or Ms. Single for the rest of their lives”

— Cengel & Boles - “Engineering Thermodynamics”

May 19, 2012, 10:44pm

“To the human ear, sonic vibrations that are integral multiples of a single frequency, and thus periodic in time, sound harmonic, whereas those with irrationally related frequencies, and hence experiencing non-periodic vibrations, sound percussive. This is why most tonal instruments rely on vibrations in one dimension, be it a violin string, a column of air in a wind instrument (flute, clarinet, trumpet, or saxophone), a xylophone bar, or a triangle. On the other hand, most percussion instruments rely on the vibrations of two-dimensional media, e.g., drums and cymbals, or three-dimensional solid bodies, e.g., blocks. The frequency ratios of the latter are irrationally related, and hence their motion is not periodic. For some reason, our appreciation of music is psychologically attuned to the differences between rationally related/periodic and irrationally related/quasi-periodic vibrations.”

— -Peter J Oliver (via ladyphysicist)

May 17, 2012, 9:02pm