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  • #1078094

    asdfghjkl-

    …GHW Bush – Nixon lost (someone said something about a senior moment)

    #1078095

    Joseph-

    Duodecimally

    #1078096
    Esther1
    Member

    ICOT- are you making fun of me?

    #1078097

    Esther1-

    Absolutely not!

    I’m saying I’m in the same boat, forgetting that Nixon lost in 1960.

    #1078098

    anon for this-

    That’s a very interesting question – I’d like to hear the answer.

    Until then, my guess: Nevada, because it gets its juice from the Hoover dam?

    #1078099
    brooklyn19
    Participant

    anon – cali? random guess but cuz of earthquakes?

    and btw BYM said she’s limiting her time on this site. so gurss that means we’re not gonna be seeing her as much.

    #1078100
    asdfghjkl
    Participant

    Who were the only two sitting vice presidents to be elected to the presidency?

    answer:john Adams and George H. Bush

    i’ll miss bym!!! so sad!!!!

    #1078101
    Esther1
    Member

    Texas? I once heard that and in my mind I was thinking of the LONE star state.

    #1078102
    brooklyn19
    Participant

    ok: which president issued the most pardons? how many?

    which president issued the least? how many?

    #1078103

    We can eliminate a few:

    New York, New Jersey, Ohio (NY and NJ were affected by the blackout a few years ago, caused by a toppled tree in OH).

    California (it bought its electricity from out-of-state brokers, causing the crisis that toppled Gray Davis).

    Esther1-

    Texas is the lone star state because it was an independent country for a short time, with one (lone) star and two stripes on its flag.

    (My appologies if you were insulted before – I was only poking fun at myself.)

    #1078104
    Esther1
    Member

    ICOT- I’m sorry if my earlier post wasn’t clear. I meant that this was my way of remembering this piece of info, not that this was the reason Texas is called the lone star state. And don’t worry, I’m really not offended:)

    #1078105
    asdfghjkl
    Participant

    brooklyn19: your question may lead to a political war around here!!!

    #1078106
    brooklyn19
    Participant

    lol ok here’s a hint that’ll steer away from war: Bush is not either of them. this is pure HISTORY, NOT current events!

    #1078107

    Joseph-

    The following, used in the sentence below, is probably not a word (although I think it should be, since triskaidekaphobia is).

    If it was a word, I suspect it might be an all-time champion.

    “Must I buy eggs in boxes of a dozen?” he shuddered, duodecaphobically.

    What’s your word?

    #1078108
    anon for this
    Participant

    Esther1 got it right. The power grid which covers 3/4 of Texas is largely isolated from the rest of the contiguous US & Mexico. Today there are a few small direct current transmission lines, but these are different from the large-capacity alternating currect lines that would be needed to connect the state to the power grid.

    The grid originally was completely isolated, and was designed that way to avoid federal oversight of the grid. The interconnected power grids in the other 48 states are under the jurisdiction of FERC, the Federal Electric Regulatory Commission (Texas’s DC connection lines with other states are under FERC’s jurisdiction though). The Texas grid, except for the DC ties, are only under the jurisdiction of the state public utility commission. Of course this wouldn’t have been possible if Texas didn’t have sufficient sources of power generation inside the state, including two nuclear power plants and many natural gas and oil plants.

    #1078109
    Joseph
    Participant

    ICOT –

    Geat words! The one I had in mind was fluoridation.

    #1078110
    noitallmr
    Participant

    Does anyone know any word that does have another word rhyming?

    “orange” is an example…

    #1078111
    Esther1
    Member

    noitallmr-

    Do you mean a word that does NOT have a rhyme?

    #1078112
    lakewoodwife
    Participant

    nothing rhymes with ‘purple’

    #1078113
    noitallmr
    Participant

    Esther1- Yeah sorry I should have written it better!

    Does anyone know of any word that does NOT have a rhyme???

    1) Orange

    2) Purple (Thanx lakewoodwife)

    Any more?

    #1078114
    Esther1
    Member

    argue

    #1078115
    brooklyn19
    Participant

    est

    how many feet are in a mile?

    #1078116

    anon for this-

    Very interesting – thanks for the info.

    Joseph-

    Thank you.

    “fluoridation” was not one that I thought of, but “Mrs. Try” came up with “fluorescence”.

    noitallmr-

    Silver is another non-rhymer (why all the colors – er, colours on the list?)

    #1078117
    brooklyn19
    Participant

    What is James Naismith famous for inventing? In what year did he invent it?

    #1078118
    Bais Yaakov maydel
    Participant

    oh i know THIS one!! (courtesy of three brothers lol) he invented basketball, i think in the 1890s….?

    #1078119
    Esther1
    Member

    brooklyn- It’s 5,280 feet in a mile.

    #1078120
    xerox
    Member

    James Naismith invented the sport of BASKET BALL!! i think in the early 1900s?

    #1078121
    xerox
    Member

    sorry- didn’t see that bym got it first!!

    -i’ve got a house full of bros too!!

    #1078122
    asdfghjkl
    Participant

    Bais Yaakov maydel:

    welcome back!!! you were missed!!!!

    #1078123
    Bais Yaakov maydel
    Participant

    lol k question, what teams does the CR go for? (baseball, basketball, hockey, football…)

    #1078124
    brooklyn19
    Participant

    nice BYM it was 1891

    #1078125

    bym—i dont know if u saw- but i think it was on this thread-we asked where uve been -so we missed ya

    #1078126
    Esther1
    Member

    I think basketball was originally invented as a winter sport, being that it can be played indoors. BYM and xerox-is that correct?

    #1078128
    xerox
    Member

    i’m not sure about the winter part but i think that the game originally was created to be an indoor game.

    #1078129
    anon for this
    Participant

    What structure was known as “Galloping Gertie”?

    #1078130
    noitallmr
    Participant

    FOOTBALL, FOOTBALL, AND ONLY FOOTBALL!

    This is the one decent sport in the world! Any supporters out there?

    ICOT- “(why all the colors – er, colours on the list?)”

    In the U.S do you write “colors”??? We write “colours”…

    #1078131
    Esther1
    Member

    The structure collapsed. Was it a bridge?

    #1078132

    anon for this-

    The Tacoma Narrows bridge, which galloped off into the sunset in a severe windstorm in the 1940’s.

    The book “To Engineer is Human” (recommended) does a good job of explaining the design flaw in detail for the layman.

    I’m sure it’s taught in Engineering 101.

    #1078133
    intellegent
    Member

    I can only try,

    are you saying that all colors don’t have rhyming words?

    red-lead

    yellow-mellow

    green-mean

    blue-who

    …..

    #1078134

    noitallmr-

    Correct.

    intellegent-

    Indigo

    I know, I know

    I meant Silver, Purple and of course Orange

    It only rhymes with a kludge like door hinge

    Off the spectrum there’s ultraviolet

    My hair is messy, I’ve got to style it

    #1078135
    Esther1
    Member

    Xerox- I googled James Naismith and here’s what I found:

    “James Naismith invented basketball as a sport to play indoors during the cold Massachusetts winters.”

    Biography of Canadian James Naismith who invented basketball.

    By Mary Bellis, About.com

    #1078136
    anon for this
    Participant

    The film of the Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse is a staple of high school physics classes, a graphic illustration of the importance of analyzing natural frequency & resonance in designing structures (everyone got off the bridge in time).

    #1078137

    anon for this-

    “(everyone got off the bridge in time)” – except one dog.

    #1078138
    anon for this
    Participant

    ICOT, true. But that’s hardly the same as a person dying. And if the reporter would have shown more common sense, the dog (and the vehicle it was in) would’ve survived too.

    #1078139

    anon for this-

    You win 🙂

    The car bouncing up and down on the bridge made the clip a lot more dramatic.

    The book explained that the primary reason the bridge bounced so much once the wind caused the bridge to undulate at the right frequency, was the fact that the bridge was basically constructed as a ribbon, with no depth to give it added rigidity.

    #1078140
    brooklyn19
    Participant

    what does E pluribus unum mean and where can you find those words?

    #1078141
    anon for this
    Participant

    Which author published books under in every major category of the Dewey Decimal system, except philosophy?

    #1078142

    brooklyn19-

    “From many, one”

    It is legelly required to be present on all US coins, as is “Liberty” and “In G-d We Trust” (coins and currency for the latter)

    #1078143

    anon for this-

    Asimov?

    #1078144
    brooklyn19
    Participant

    actually, i believe it’s not on the dime

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