Useless Knowledge

[JPC82]

A duck's quack DOES FUCKING echo

On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily (wonder how many dna tests have been wrong on jeremy kyle due to this   )

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver

[Simon Pieman]

I'm sure a duck's quack does echo

[neville w]

An Ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain

Armadillos are the only creatures apart from man that can catch leprosy

[wheretherealredsare]

Playing poker with leprous armadillos is no fun after they've thrown their hands in for the fourth time.

[Ben Wah Balls]

Maybe not perfect rhymes but everyone knows orange rhymes with lozenge and also quite well with syringe. Also purple rhymes with turtle and hurdle, and silver rhymes with quicksilver and salver.

[JPC82]

Maybe not perfect rhymes but everyone knows orange rhymes with lozenge and also quite well with syringe. Also purple rhymes with turtle and hurdle, and silver rhymes with quicksilver and salver.

so they dont rhyme then  

[Barry Scott]

I'm sure a duck's quack does echo

Of course it echos. I'm a geek for reading up on these kind of "facts".

A duck's quack is a sound, therefore produces sound waves, sound waves can be bounced/reflected by cretain surfaces, which then produces the echo. So it's physically impossible to have a sound which doesn't echo.

Secondly, i read a study on this exact subject by some American university. They explained that a duck's echo has a very gradual decay, which as a result produces an echo which muges with the original sound.

What they mean by this is the echo and the decay, produce a near identical rate of decay in the sound, this in fact results in a longer sounding quack as the quack and the echo essentially become one.

[Simon Pieman]

It's great being a smart arse isn't it Barry?    

[JPC82]

I'm sure a duck's quack does echo

Of course it echos. I'm a geek for reading up on these kind of "facts".

A duck's quack is a sound, therefore produces sound waves, sound waves can be bounced/reflected by cretain surfaces, which then produces the echo. So it's physically impossible to have a sound which doesn't echo.

Secondly, i read a study on this exact subject by some American university. They explained that a duck's echo has a very gradual decay, which as a result produces an echo which muges with the original sound.

What they mean by this is the echo and the decay, produce a near identical rate of decay in the sound, this in fact results in a longer sounding quack as the quack and the echo essentially become one.

i stand corrected

[Simon Pieman]

Ah but now you know more useless knowledge minty

[JPC82]

Ah but now you know more useless knowledge minty

good point

[Barry Scott]

It's great being a smart arse isn't it Barry?    

 

I hope you were referring to us both in a nice way.  

I don't know how i seem to manage it but i come across as such a partonising, self righteous idiot on this forum. My new years resolution is to act like a normal person and not an up-my-own-arse twat.

[Luci]

I keep thinking of that damn mint credit card when you post!

[Simon Pieman]

I hope you were referring to us both in a nice way.  

Something like that

 

[Ben Wah Balls]

A perfect rhyme is just a type of rhyme, they do rhyme and quicksilver and silver is a perfect rhyme anyway.