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Ferre
23-12-2009, 06:02 AM
World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale

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Strong
23-12-2009, 10:51 AM
Bobby McFerrin is awesome. He does some of classical music pieces that are just stupefying.

Atom
23-12-2009, 12:12 PM
That guy is nuttier than a fruitcake. That was horrible! lol

Muddy
23-12-2009, 12:19 PM
I wonder if it's worse to be nuttier than a fruitcake or fruitier than a nutcake...

Muddy
23-12-2009, 12:20 PM
That probably belongs in the Hmmmm thread.

Atom
23-12-2009, 12:24 PM
I wonder if it's worse to be nuttier than a fruitcake or fruitier than a nutcake...I'd go with the latter if it wasn't for the former. I think I've been brainwashed.

Strong
24-12-2009, 09:34 AM
Have you been eating dishwasher tablets? :sqconfused:

Atom
24-12-2009, 09:40 AM
No but I think someone might have slipped a few into Bobby's eggnog.

Strong
24-12-2009, 09:50 AM
Is he frothing at the mouth? When he rubs his eyes, is there a squeaky noise? Does he smell pine fresh by any chance?

Are we talking about Bobby Ewing btw.

Atom
24-12-2009, 09:53 AM
Pine fresh? Please tell me that you meant lemon fresh, that is all that I ask.

lol

Atom
24-12-2009, 09:56 AM
I never did like balsamic vinegar.

Strong
24-12-2009, 09:59 AM
Pine fresh? Please tell me that you meant lemon fresh, that is all that I ask.

lol

Lemons are over rated, I like limes.

I never did like balsamic vinegar.

Can you descale taps with that?

Atom
24-12-2009, 10:03 AM
Lemons are over rated, I like limes.



Can you descale taps with that?Limes are nice.

No. And furthermore, anyone who likes pine nuts was a squirrel in their previous life.

Strong
24-12-2009, 10:08 AM
Since you raise the subject, shouldn't those squirrelly critters be hibernating by this time of year. I have a pair that come and sit on the back fence, but 5 feet from my window. They'll sit there for half the day. I suspect it is something to do with the vent from next doors heating boiler. They may have figured out it pumps out warm air and use it to keep warm. Either that or they are trying to jump the cat when it comes out the cat flap.

They may be pining for nuts though.

Atom
24-12-2009, 10:12 AM
Interesting.

Pining for nuts lol.


Squirrels do not hibernate that I know of, I've spent many hours in the woods at all times of the year.

Strong
24-12-2009, 10:29 AM
Well it seems some do and some don't.

Ground dwellers live in burrows, and many become dormant in winter (hibernate) or summer (estivate). As opposed to some ground squirrels (like white-tailed prairie dog), tree squirrels do not hibernate. They however become very inactive during the winter months to preserver energy.

Do Squirrels hibernate (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Do_squirrels_hibernate)

I'll have to ask them if they are tree squirrels. I hope they are not offended.

Atom
24-12-2009, 10:33 AM
Well it seems some do and some don't.



Do Squirrels hibernate (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Do_squirrels_hibernate)

I'll have to ask them if they are tree squirrels. I hope they are not offended.Red squirrels eat pine nuts. I have observed no hibernation by red squirrels whatsoever.

Atom
24-12-2009, 10:36 AM
Most of my many hours in the woods of northern New England were spent virtually motionless, both on the ground and in tree stands.

Strong
24-12-2009, 10:44 AM
Were you pretending to be a tree? What kind?

Atom
24-12-2009, 10:49 AM
Were you pretending to be a tree? What kind?I was big game hunting. That is what real men do.

Strong
24-12-2009, 10:58 AM
Yeah, oh to be a real man. Us fake men in London just go to Tescos or Sainsburys and buy humus and bread sticks. :sqwink:

Atom
24-12-2009, 11:02 AM
lol


I don't really hate pine nuts, it's just that I ate some once and they made me puke violently for about 5 minutes.

Speaking of which, I watched that Ecclesiastical Elite vid in Ferre's sig link last night and I am still trying to digest that sucker. lol

Atom
24-12-2009, 11:03 AM
The one's preceding that vid were quite interesting. I'll be watching the one's succeeding tonight sometime.

Strong
24-12-2009, 11:14 AM
OK! But what about the humus?

Muddy
24-12-2009, 08:13 PM
Things that make you go humus?

Atom
25-12-2009, 03:14 AM
I went to watch the following two videos but they're gone, most of the videos have changed to different ones.

Atom
25-12-2009, 03:22 AM
I vaguely remember One Step Beyond airing, I was seven or eight years old.

Atom
26-12-2009, 12:04 PM
don't worry

Atom
26-12-2009, 12:04 PM
be happy

ewomack
27-12-2009, 11:51 AM
Real men eat humus intravenously...

Muddy
27-12-2009, 12:38 PM
Nothing like main-lining straight humus.

Atom
27-12-2009, 12:50 PM
OK! But what about the humus?Humus is just an early stage of gasoline, pay no mind to that.
lol

Strong
27-12-2009, 01:46 PM
You can make gasoline from chick peas!?! Or are you alluding to some sort of methane production?

Atom
27-12-2009, 01:53 PM
You can make gasoline from chick peas!?! Or are you alluding to some sort of methane production?I was referring to the decomposition of animal matter.

Atom
27-12-2009, 01:55 PM
Humus

"the dark organic material in soils, produced by the decomposition of vegetable or animal matter and essential to the fertility of the earth."

Muddy
27-12-2009, 01:56 PM
I thought it was Dawg that likes it when the chick pees.

Strong
27-12-2009, 02:14 PM
I was referring to the decomposition of animal matter.

I see! Humus is nothing not a laughing matter.

Atom
27-12-2009, 02:20 PM
I see! Humus is nothing not a laughing matter.What? lol

I guess mushrooms grow well on sawdust and hay. I saw that on a PBS gardening show.

Muddy
27-12-2009, 02:21 PM
Nothing humorous about humus.

Strong
27-12-2009, 02:22 PM
Don't mind me, I'm just rambling.

(Remove 'nothing' from my previous post.)

Atom
27-12-2009, 02:23 PM
You can order a variety of different mushroom spores, they come in a bag of sawdust or w/e, then you just poke a few holes in the plastic.

Muddy
27-12-2009, 02:27 PM
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Atom
27-12-2009, 02:35 PM
Black eyed chick pees in lemon jelly, wonderful.
lol

Atom
27-12-2009, 02:39 PM
I wish those vids didn't take so long to download. I'm going to jump in the shower then come back and watch it.

Atom
27-12-2009, 03:13 PM
Ok I watched it.

It's getting awfully close to tea and biscuits, what time you got? Blasted clocks anyway. Dig in, kids.

Atom
27-12-2009, 03:19 PM
Am I the only one that noticed a lack of power in the pentatonic scale demonstration? lol

Atom
27-12-2009, 03:23 PM
C'mon, kids, drink up then it's off to bed with yince.

Atom
27-12-2009, 03:28 PM
Yince is a word that was used by my mother, grandmother and great grandmother (Pennsylvania German), it's akin to y'all in the south.

Muddy
27-12-2009, 03:41 PM
I thought that was what you meant since in Ohio they say you'ns. Pronounced more like yunce.

Atom
27-12-2009, 03:49 PM
Yunce is actually a variation of yince or vise versa I've noticed, sometimes it sounded like they (mother/grandmother) were saying yince and sometimes it sounded like yunce. I speak in past tense because they are dead. I find it rather peculiar that you'ns would be pronounced yunce..
you sure them Ohioan Germans ain't got some Dutch in 'em or some damned thing? lol

Atom
27-12-2009, 04:12 PM
Apparently a tree was substituted as a celebration symbol by the early Germans in opposition to the nativity at Christmas, and is where our current Christmas tree tradition arose from, oddly enough. Evidently the early Germans were the first to decorate a tree on Christmas.

Halo
28-12-2009, 11:49 PM
Black eyed chick pees in lemon jelly, wonderful.
lol

Someone say black eyed peas? :sqbiggrin:

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Atom
29-12-2009, 09:30 AM
That is an important song.

Atom
29-12-2009, 09:40 AM
I'm sure that it doesn't seem it to most.

Atom
29-12-2009, 09:51 AM
I'm one that has never really been able to just let it all go. I think something of that nature would be required on the dance-floor, for example.