Ask Tom Cashel if you dare!

[Angcuru]

If you could choose one, singular, less than plural thing that you could do and be 100% sure of complete and absolute success, what would it be, and why?

Plus, boxers or briefs, and do you support Michael Jordan's being synonymous with skivvies?

 

[blackshirt5]

I can actually answer the parkway/driveway one.

A Driveway used to be the main drive up to a house; this is in the horse and carriage days, when houses were set much further back from roads, but the term has stayed in use. Parkways used to run through parks; hence, a way through the park.

And Jimmy Hoffa is in Giants Stadium.

 

[Desdichado]

And Jimmy Hoffa is in Giants Stadium.

Nah, he's at the bottom of the Detroit river. Either that, or buried in a dumpster behind a restaurant on Telegraph Road...

 

[blackshirt5]

Supposedly(I think Angcuru's father told me, actually), there's a plaque on a pillar in Giants Stadium that reads "Here lies J. Hoffa" that's supposed to be where he actually is.

 

[Tom Cashel]

What happens when an unstoppable object collides with an unmovable object?

Can god make a rock so heavy he can't lift it?

If I can only tell lies and I tell you that I am lying, does that mean that I am telling the truth?

1. Show me either of those objects and I'll tell you. Or you may consult issue #172 of The Incredible Hulk.

2. No.

3. All statements are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true, false and meaningless in some sense. So if a liar told me he was lying, I'd merely shrug...as should you.

Next question: When amortizing convertible debentures over the life of a thirty-year asset, if straight line depreciation had been used for the first eleven years, and then converted to the double-acceleration method allowed in the 1997 tax code, would the residual assets for the year 2003 be substantial enough to justify changing to a congruous working capital equity-based portfolio?

My cat's breath smells like cat food.

Who's on first? Why do we park on a driveway and drive on a parkway? Who's buried in Grant's tomb? What the heck does "too infinity and beyond" mean? What's the gross displacement of the Battleship Yamoto? Where is Jimmy Hoffa? Did dinosaurs build Stonehenge? Which was better Colecovision or Intellivision? What does blue smell like?

1. Exactly.
2. cf. Blackshirt5's reply.
3. What color is George Washington's white horse?
4. "Too infinity and beyond" is a measure of quaquaversality.
5. Exactly 1 SBU (Star Blazer Unit).
6. He's over there.
7. Yes. Big, stinky dinosaurs!
8. Intellivision.
9. Yesterday.

Why is the sky Orangy-green?

Pollution.

How does the entire text of the H.M.S. Pinnafore read when translated into Koine?

Tediously.

Do you dare to answer these questions? (not sure I would)
and another: how does one become omniscient? and another: why does cold fusion work?

1. Ahem.
2. Get yourself an Emerald City and a curtain to stand behind (i.e. appear omniscient, and you shall be so.)
3. Bungled results.

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? and if the chicken was first, why, in fact, did he cross the road?

1. Neither.
2. See #1.

If you could choose one, singular, less than plural thing that you could do and be 100% sure of complete and absolute success, what would it be, and why?

Plus, boxers or briefs, and do you support Michael Jordan's being synonymous with skivvies?

1. Put on a pair of boxers. Because they're comfortable.
2. See #1. (I prefer the phrase "tightie whities.")

Izzat all you got?

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

Izzat all you got?

Since you taunt, answer this:

Given the vector A= (x^2 - y^2)i + 2xyj
(a) Evaluate the cross-product of the gradient and vector A.
(b) Evaluate the double integral of the cross-product of the gradient and vector A dot-producted with the derivative of sigma over a rectangle in the (x,y) plane bounded by the lines x=0, x=a, y=0, y=a.

 

[Tom Cashel]

Those aren't even questions. You're just commanding me to "evaluate." Come back when you have a question.

NEXT!

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

Okay. If he shot the sheriff, but didn't shoot the deputy, who did?

why do people ignore signs (such as "No food or drinks")?

 

[Tom Cashel]

Okay. If he shot the sheriff, but didn't shoot the deputy, who did?

why do people ignore signs (such as "No food or drinks")?

1. Nobody. The deputy is still very much alive.

2. Because signs lie. Take your example: "No food or drinks." Well, everyone knows that there is food and there are drinks. They're all around us. They're in your refrigerator, and in your breakfast nook. There might be one or the other in your hand right now. I'd ignore a sign too if it made a silly claim like that.

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

1. Nobody. The deputy is still very much alive.

Then why did he say:

All around in my home town
They're trying to track me down.
They say they want to bring me in guilty
For the killing of a deputy,
For the life of a deputy.