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posted May 11, 2004 05:08 PM         

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There is something that I had been doing for quite some time (since April of 2002) on another site. Unfortunately, I don't frequent that site anymore. In fact, I don't go to ANY sites anymore, except for this one. Still, I enjoyed doing this very much and learned a great deal in the process of doing it.
It started out as a Dear Abby sort of thing called: Dafremen Answers Five Questions
People are encouraged to ask ANY question they can think of, it doesn't matter whether or not it makes any sense, or even whether or not I know the answer. I then try to give the best answer that I can possibly give to the five questions presented. I would like to do something like that here at Lindaland if you think that would be possible. One of the problems I ran into at the other site was that the threads became ridiculously long, because the questions were all in one post.
The following are some examples of questions and answers from that site:
Q: What is the average velocity of a sparrow carrying a coconut?
A: The average velocity of a sparrow carrying a coconut unassisted is 0Mph or 0.0Kph. The average velocity of a single-stage rocket-assisted sparrow carrying a coconut is 854.342Mph/1374.930171648Kph for the first 53 meters after which the object ceases to be a sparrow and becomes a ball of feather, meat and bone plastered to the side of a coconut.
The average velocity of a Sparrow air-to-air missile is Mach 3.7(approx 2743.3831424481 Mph at sea level). This velocity would be considerably reduced with the addition of a coconut as cargo, mainly as a result of added wind resistance rather than added weight. Initial wind tunnel tests in my basement indicate a probable velocity of somewhere between Mach 2.8(2076.07372942019 Mph at sea level) and Mach 3.0(2224.36471009306 Mph at sea level) Thanks for the fascinating question.
Q: Who do you admire most? (and why?)
A: That's a really tough question. I HAD always admired my grandfather for being able to hold his own in a conversation. He and I would sit for hours "yelling" at one another. What most bystanders never realized is that we were having the time of our lives. Granted, when you're 67, having a 9 year old logically debate you into a corner can be a bit irritating(which is probably why Grandpa RARELY let me debate him into a corner. Usually we just ended up switching sides. Everyone was puzzled when by the end of the discussion, Grandpa was defending MY point, and I his.)
These days I admire creation more than anything. That's the truth too. I would feel silly admiring people anymore except perhaps in a personal, friendly way, definitely not the admiration that one feels for a hero or a role-model.
It's not arrogance though, I would feel just as silly if anyone admired ME in that way. Folks should look PAST the achievements of other people and start admiring the rest of the universe more. We're too self-centered as individuals and as a race. (Yours truly probably raises THAT bell-curve quite a bit.)
Ok that's all a bunch of hogwash, it's the character that Michael Douglas played in Falling Down. D-FENS!
Q: I'm currently on the cowboy diet of baked beans and pork and coffee and nothing else. I am losing weight but friends complain about other aspects of the diet. Any suggestions?
A: Give up dieting. Learn to get the proper amount of exercise and to eat the proper types and amounts of food. Learn what your body can burn and what it cannot. Stay away from the mirror. Scales measure weight. Mirrors measure insecurity. If all else fails, take up herding sheep. I hear shepherds are less picky about the odors or weight of their bunkmates.
Q: Daf, why are humans such social creatures?
A: Not all humans ARE social creatures, some of us are becoming less social by the week. However for the majority that are, I think we can sum the entire phenomenon up in one word: MORTALITY.
Humans are afraid to see themselves as they truly are, small, weak, vulnerable and possessing of a finite existence. So they congregate in groups to talk each other out of such preposterous notions. They pat each other on the backs, give each other knowing nods and remind each other of the divinely or naturally spiritual nature of the human condition. They blow each others faces up to billboard size in advertisements to match the scale of everything around them, concluding in the face of such fabricated ševidenceš that they are indeed as larger than life, center-stage-in-the-production as they think they are.
They surround themselves with images of humans, human creations and more humans. The Earth appears small on our TV screens, human faces appear large.
Without the constant reassurances of other humans we must face a different reality. One in which we are simply another, tiny part of a MUCH bigger picture.
Copernicus and Galileo were both forced to eat crap for even indirectly BEGINNING to reveal this truth to humankind.
Q: Is it best to ignore your young`un when he/she is having a temper tantrum (nothing major

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posted May 11, 2004 06:35 PM         

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Try a string, and we'll see how it goes.

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posted May 12, 2004 08:56 PM         

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Where?

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posted May 13, 2004 02:45 AM         

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You decide. Probably FFA.

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"Never mentally imagine for another that which you would not want to experience for yourself, since the mental image you send out inevitably comes back to you." Rebecca Clark

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