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FNGD QUESTION THREAD FRI MAR 21, 2008

#1 Post by etaoin22 » Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:50 pm

Q1 TURNING AND TURNING - B In the Northern hemisphere, what is the direction of rotation of a low-pressure system?

G - In the Southern hemisphere, what is the direction of rotation of a clock?

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#2 Post by ontellen » Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:51 pm

clockwise

clockwise

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#3 Post by silvercamaro » Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:51 pm

Counterclockwise (to the left)
Clockwise (to the right)

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Re: FNGD QUESTION THREAD FRI MAR 21, 2008

#4 Post by christie1111 » Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:53 pm

etaoin22 wrote:Q1 TURNING AND TURNING - B In the Northern hemisphere, what is the direction of rotation of a low-pressure system?

G - In the Southern hemisphere, what is the direction of rotation of a clock?
counter clockwise

clock wise :)
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#5 Post by etaoin22 » Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:56 pm

You'd have to Go Ask Alice for the clocks not to go clockwise.

But dont expect a physicist to know why time goes forwards.

Low pressure systems are disgustingly counterclockwise here in this hemisphere.

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#6 Post by etaoin22 » Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:57 pm

FNGD Q2 - IN THE WIDENING

B - Name a team which would make the NHL playoffs, if the playoffs were to begin today.

G - Name another such team.

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#7 Post by silvercamaro » Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:59 pm

I have remained shamefully unaware of hockey this year.

The Calgary Flames (if that's even a hockey team name)
The Chicago Black Hawks

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#8 Post by ontellen » Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:00 pm

Ottawa Senators

Detroit Red Wings

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#9 Post by christie1111 » Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:01 pm

etaoin22 wrote:FNGD Q2 - IN THE WIDENING

B - Name a team which would make the NHL playoffs, if the playoffs were to begin today.

G - Name another such team.
Penguins.

I guess it isn't the Hartford Whalers since they now RIP.

In honor of our Meister, the Maple Leafs.

Don't they all make the playoffs?
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#10 Post by christie1111 » Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:05 pm

Or maybe the Meister prefers the Canadians.

Maybe OntEllen has an advantage in this Q
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#11 Post by ontellen » Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:06 pm

Most make the playoffs but the Toronto Maple Leafs are hanging on by a VERY slim thread right now.

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#12 Post by etaoin22 » Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:06 pm

Only half the teams do.

And I am a fan of the Sens and the Canadiens, NOT of the Leafs. Who are sorta like the Yanks, if the Yanks had not one a World Series for 40 years but were still the best moneymaking team.

Calgary is on the cusp but in.

Black Hawks aint.

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#13 Post by silvercamaro » Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:08 pm

etaoin22 wrote:
Calgary is on the cusp but in.

Black Hawks aint.
I am happy and grateful to have gotten one of the two right. :D

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#14 Post by etaoin22 » Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:11 pm

Q3 - MOO!

B - Which Republican candidate for President was famously nominated at the Cow Palzce?

G - Elsie is the cow associated with which dairy?

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#15 Post by ontellen » Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:12 pm

I realize I have an advantage here but my team - the Buffalo Sabres are still in it but they're certainly not having the wonderful season they did last year.

No one can figure out why the richest team in hockey can't put together a good team (not even great - just good). I'm glad I've never cheered for the Leafs (I was always for the Canadiens).

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#16 Post by silvercamaro » Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:13 pm

Barry Goldwater

Borden

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#17 Post by ontellen » Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:14 pm

Richard Nixon

Borden

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#18 Post by christie1111 » Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:16 pm

etaoin22 wrote:Q3 - MOO!

B - Which Republican candidate for President was famously nominated at the Cow Palzce?

G - Elsie is the cow associated with which dairy?
No idea, George Bush, not the current one.

Borden, I hope.
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#19 Post by silvercamaro » Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:19 pm

How embarrassing. My neighbor just came to the door to say that Lizbit has been barking and barking. He was very nice, but I feel terrible that I was largely unaware that she was driving everybody else crazy.

I have lured her inside with a chewy stick.

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#20 Post by christie1111 » Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:21 pm

silvercamaro wrote:How embarrassing. My neighbor just came to the door to say that Lizbit has been barking and barking. He was very nice, but I feel terrible that I was largely unaware that she was driving everybody else crazy.

I have lured her inside with a chewy stick.
She get out to the back 40 where you couldn't hear her?

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#21 Post by etaoin22 » Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:22 pm

Barry Goldwater, at the Cow Palace, which unlikely as it seems, is in San Francisco. Unless they tore it down. I bicycled past it in 1985, and it was still there then.

Elsie. Borden.

As Alex said on J!, if its not Borden it's Carnation. Or the other way round. Or he implied it.

You get one more question, specially written for haveing talked about light bulbs.

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#22 Post by christie1111 » Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:25 pm

I predict the girls are going to win tonight.

I don't know why, I just have this feeling.....
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#23 Post by silvercamaro » Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:26 pm

christie1111 wrote:
She get out to the back 40 where you couldn't hear her?

:D
The thing is that I "could" hear her, but more-or-less didn't. It's like that selective deafness that mothers get when kids are 3.

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#24 Post by etaoin22 » Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:28 pm

Q4 - LIGHT BULBS BUT NO TOILET PAPER

B - This city is known as the "Electric City". Cause General Electric used to make stuff there. Probably gazillions of light bulbs and so on. This city is very close to the capital city which is upstream from Poughkeepsie.

G - This city is known as the "Electric City". Because of trolleycars. It shares its name with the family famous throughout the state, one of whose members was the Governor back in '64 and got whomped by Goldwater at the Cow Palace

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#25 Post by ontellen » Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:31 pm

So does that explain the old coots who used to live behind us and just let their dog bark and bark and bark. I've never seen a dog like her. She just sat in the backyard barking at nothing - non stop. Sometimes it was at 1:00 a.m.

We put up with it for over 10 years. When they died I can't say I was overcome with grief. As far as I know Muffy is still alive and living with their daughter - I hope she has managed to shut her up.

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