The many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XVII

[Leoreth]

Well, it's better than Kappa Kappa Kappa

What's up with these Greek letter abbreviations anyway? Is there a historical reason behind it, or is it simply a childish way to look better?

 

[Ajidica]

Well, it's better than Kappa Kappa Kappa

What's up with these Greek letter abbreviations anyway? Is there a historical reason behind it, or is it simply a childish way to look better?

Wikipedia is your friend:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternities_and_sororities#History_and_development
Basicaly in the first fraternity a bunch of people wanted to show off how smart they are, and one of the founders was really good at greek so they used greek letters.

 

[Skwink]

My cat had a very small tick on her head. I used tweezers and pulled it out, carefully mind you, but I don't know what happened to it when I got it out. I could tell it wasn't just lying there, it had already bitten. So now that it's pulled off, is it still alive?

 

[Cutlass]

Probably. They are fairly hard to kill.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Here's a rather strange one. I have this newspaper clipping where all the text was replaced with OCR'd stuff and there's a lot of typos... I couldnt find an original. I have a majority of it typed but I don't know what the name in the red area is supposed to be. Any suggestions?

 

[timtofly]

Lenny Kravitz
Mark Brine
Tennessee Ford
Hank Williams
Elvis Presley

My guess is that it is a very badly edited list of singers that should be recognized. Too bad there is no footnote to the footnote.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Except thats not a footnote. What happened was the text of the newspaper was OCR'd and the actual text-image was replaced with this garbled mess.

Take a look (it's the third column of the article in the middle of the page):
http://www.mediafire.com/?4g6mh9f55aivw5z

 

[NickyJ]

My cat had a very small tick on her head. I used tweezers and pulled it out, carefully mind you, but I don't know what happened to it when I got it out. I could tell it wasn't just lying there, it had already bitten. So now that it's pulled off, is it still alive?

Yeah, it takes a lot to kill them, so it's probably alive. Whenever I remove ticks, I make sure to have a tick jar around. (Basically, a one ounce jar with about a quarter ounce of rubbing alcohol. Once they're in there, they're as good as dead.)

 

[Quackers]

You...own..a...tick...jar??

 

[madviking]

Wikipedia is your friend:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternities_and_sororities#History_and_development
Basicaly in the first fraternity a bunch of people wanted to show off how smart they are, and one of the founders was really good at greek so they used greek letters.

A college freshman goes to a fraternity.

Delta Iota Epsilon Sigma.

 

[timtofly]

Except thats not a footnote. What happened was the text of the newspaper was OCR'd and the actual text-image was replaced with this garbled mess.

Take a look (it's the third column of the article in the middle of the page):
http://www.mediafire.com/?4g6mh9f55aivw5z

I will stick with my first answer. I think that he was trying to support ASCAP's efforts in legislation that had to do with non-network TV. He may have been drunk and was just throwing out names. The first two were "new" artist on the scene IMO.

There was a David Brin who wrote "The Postman" a 1997 Kevin Costner Film in which Tom appeared, but that would have been a prophecy about a future role. The novel came out in 1985, but I doubt Tom knew he would be in the movie in 1987.

 

[madviking]

Why are Swansea City in the EPL and not the WPL?

 

[W|M]

There's a WPL?

 

[Quackers]

Welsh teams always used to play in the old first Divison (EPL) and lower level English leagues. In the early 1990s EPL + WPL was formed, some Welsh teams decided to stay in the EPL + feeder leagues like Swansea, others moved into the WPL. So Swansea got promoted to EPL for this year, Cardiff City are in the 2nd tier of English football with others like Wrexham play in the Conference (5th tier of English football).

 

[W|M]

Wrexham is in Wales?

 

[Quackers]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrexham
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrexham_A.F.C.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

What is an existential crisis and how will I know if I'm having one?

 

[Disgustipated]

I'll try to word this as a question.

Is this the most horrifying news story you have ever read?

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/875317...ladder-after-entering-penis-during-beauty-spa

Zhang Nan was bathing with live eels to cleanse his skin when one rogue serpent took a liking to his manhood.
Eel swims up penis China removed urethral trauma G. Vezhaventhan Abdominal Ultrasonogram Foreign object: The dead eel is placed next to the surgical tool used to remove it from Zhang Nan's bladder (Picture: CEN)

The eel treatment in question is a similar concept to the popular London spas that offer fish pedicures.

Thinking that the eels would make him look ten years younger, Nan dived into the water and let them feast upon layers of dead skin.

But after laying in the spa bath, Nan felt a sharp pain and realised a small eel was working its way up his urethra and into his bladder.

'I climbed into the bath and I could feel the eels nibbling my body. But then suddenly I felt a severe pain and realised a small eel had gone into the end of my penis,' the 56-year-old from Honghu, Hubei province said.

'I tried to hold it and take it out, but the eel was too slippery to be held and it disappeared up my penis.'

(OK, that's enough cringing now... it's horrible, though, we know...)

Rushing himself to hospital, the man underwent a three-hour operation to remove the six-inch eel which was dead by the time doctors found it.

Surgeon Jin Wang said that, because of the eel's slippery nature, it was able to make a smooth entry into the genitals of Nan.

'The diameter of the urethra in a man's penis is just a little narrower, but because eels are quite slippery, its body worked as a lubricant and so it got into the penis smoothly,' he said.

(Really - stop cringing - we can see you...)

Believe it or not, Nan's case follows a similar incident when a 14-year-old boy in India had to undergo emergency surgery.

In a case study published by urologists Dr G Vezhaventhan and R Jeyaraman, they described how they removed a 2cm-long fish from the boy's bladder.

The teenager said that while holding the fish he had gone to the toilet and, while urinating, the fish had 'slipped from his hand and entered his urethra'.

Hmmm...

 

[shadowplay]

My best friend's grandmother died. I don't think I ever met her except maybe when I was a child. Do I go to the funeral?

 

[PeteAtoms]

My best friend's grandmother died. I don't think I ever met her except maybe when I was a child. Do I go to the funeral?

If you really are best friends with this person, and s/he asks you to go, you should say 'yes'. If not, use your best judgement.