If Einstein was an idiot, would light be slower?

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If, when you flicked the switch, would you have to wait for the light to come on? If the sun went out would you have a few more minutes to live? Would you need a tripod to take a flash picture of your girlfriend naked?

What? Einstein didn't define the speed of light?

OK, ok. What if Einstein was an idiot and E equaled simply MC?

Well, this is all silly, isn't it. If those atomic bombs just went "Fssst" and didn't kill thousands of people and lay waste to the Earth, it wouldn't be any fun at all, would it.

Zen Clown (Zen Clown), Friday, 16 January 2004 11:03 (twenty-one years ago)

You fool!

If Einstein were an idiot light wouldn't go slower.......

It just wouldn't quit so bright!

еdë §téè£, Sunday, 18 January 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I just found this "e" laying by my keyboard. Feel free to use it wherever.

еdë §téè£, Monday, 19 January 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

th nd

hurley (hurley), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

It appears to be obvious, judging from this thread, that the participating Yanks are idiots. This was a marvelous forum at one time and has perservered through obnoxious trolls and even a change of servers. If Yanks are fucking things up, I wish someone would say so.

I don't care if an American started it. It is the Brits who have turned it into the marvelous thing that it is. Americans just don't seem to have the proper wit.

Yes. I'm drunk. Did anyone think I was phoney? Ha!

Anyway, I wonder about Linkey and Jarlid and Matt and Hurley and everyone and wonder if they are thinking "fuck it" or if they have lives offline and don't have the inclination to banter with idiots.

I'm not one of those drunks who wants to fight. When I get drunk, I want to apologize to people.

If there is anything I need to be sorry for...I'm sorry.

I'm a German. Rome? Sorry about those Vandals. You librarians in Alexandria? Sorry about those fucking Christians. You native Americans and all indiginous people everywhere who have had their world destroyed? Sorry about those fucking asshole White Men. You cows? Sorry about McDonalds. You chickens? Sorry about KFC. You Jews? Well...Oh! Oh! And Gaia, Mother Earth, I am so very, very sorry what we have done to you.

Zen Clown (Zen Clown), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 06:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Mr. Clown, while I am not a "Yank" (cognate with a "jerk"?), but remain proudly an Oregonian, a man apart and a man of parts, there is always a chance that the poorly informed might confuse me with such a creature as a "Yank", purely from the miserable accident of my country of birth - an act I take no responsibility for whatever.

Therefore I demand a retraction. Not just any retraction, either. I demand you place your genitals in a bucket of ice water. The resulting retraction might be violent enough to jar your back teeth.

BTW, apologies accepted. Keep 'em coming, child. I just cain't never get enough of 'em. Mother's milk, manna and all that rot. Prevents aging more effectively than the daily injections of fetal lamb cells.

Aimless, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Child? Child?

I'll have you know, Sir, that I have been breathing the fetid air of this insignificant orb of matter since 1946.

As for retracting, I welcome the opportunity to do so, Sir, but the ice water seems somewhat extreme.

I have, however, stood on my front porch, naked, In January, in Missouri, for a full 47 minutes and I am now genderless.

(Oregonians...sheese.)

Fancy a pint?

Zen Clown (Zen Clown), Thursday, 22 January 2004 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Always.

For Ormskirk I speak not. For myself...several pints please. And I believe, Clown, that it's your round.

Matt (Matt), Thursday, 22 January 2004 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

If, Sir, I could somehow convey myself to be in your presence, I would be honored to buy a round or two or ten.

I would elaborate but someone might lock the thread.

Zen Clown (Zen Clown), Thursday, 22 January 2004 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh God I'm so tempted.

Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...
Did I ever tell you about the time I had a piss, stark bollock naked and glowing white in the dark, into the gutter in Railton Road, Brixton (what was known as the Front Line during the race-riots only a year or so before) at about 4:00am outside the 101 Anarchist bookshop? Oh yeah, I got bollocks. Pint, please.

Dorien Thomas (Dorien Thomas), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)


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