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Why can threads in off-topic and humor+jokes only be 50 pages if threads in the Civ 3 and 4 can be much longer?

The FfH 2 thread is 450+ pages long.
 
This article mentions a "whiskey-soaked period." What does this mean? I looked it up and got recipes for whiskey-soaked cakes and things.

Also, what does this mean? I looked up the big words and I got all sorts of plants and more confusing. Can somebody turn it into easy words?
"The pipestem physique, the big old head, the sea-oats hairline that has been subject to various hat and bandanna stratagems, all yield to an overbite of some grandeur."
 
aimeeandbeatles said:
This article mentions a "whiskey-soaked period." What does this mean? I looked it up and got recipes for whiskey-soaked cakes and things.
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I'm assuming either when the person was an alcoholic or when they loved the booze.

Also, what does this mean? I looked up the big words and I got all sorts of plants and more confusing. Can somebody turn it into easy words?
"The pipestem physique, the big old head, the sea-oats hairline that has been subject to various hat and bandanna stratagems, all yield to an overbite of some grandeur."
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The author was on something serious with a thesaurus next to him?
I dunno. Best translation:
Pipestem physique probably refers to being of good physique or trim, like the stem of a pipe.
Sea-Oats Hairline: Probably swept hairline. I'm guessing sea-oats literaly refers to sea waves.
Various hat and bandanna stratagems has something to do with either simple solutions or ingenious. I know it has something to do with the idealized Wild West and potentialy some outlaws.

I scored almost perfect on the ACT rhetorical and language skills and I'm having a hard time following this. You aren't alone Aimee.
 
Ajidica said:
I'm assuming either when the person was an alcoholic or when they loved the booze.


The author was on something serious with a thesaurus next to him?
I dunno. Best translation:
Pipestem physique probably refers to being of good physique or trim, like the stem of a pipe.
Sea-Oats Hairline: Probably swept hairline. I'm guessing sea-oats literaly refers to sea waves.
Various hat and bandanna stratagems has something to do with either simple solutions or ingenious. I know it has something to do with the idealized Wild West and potentialy some outlaws.

I scored almost perfect on the ACT rhetorical and language skills and I'm having a hard time following this. You aren't alone Aimee.
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If it helps at all, heres the paragraphs before and after:

Spoiler :
At the hall Petty unpacks a couple of trunks ("I end up wearing one or two shirts the whole time anyhow"), talking about how you can tell you're in the Deep South -"We passed about 50 wig stores on the way into town" when wardrobe woman Linda Burcher greets him. "Here we go again," he says. This band's an easy gig for Burcher ("It's pretty much go up onstage in what you're wearing throughout the day," Epstein later points out), and she complains to Petty that her last "hair band" job involved many blow-dryers. "We all wear wigs," Petty smirks.

He has never been the likeliest rock star. When the sit-com Wings was striving for a moment of high hilarity as some good ol' boys tried to name a truly handsome man, the most oafish one picked Petty. The pipestem physique, the big old head, the sea-oats hairline that has been subject to various hat and bandanna stratagems, all yield to an overbite of some grandeur.

"I didn't get into this to be a pinup," says Petty in his quiet, gravelly voice. "I wanted to be taken seriously as far as writing songs, making music The other thing limits your run, really. Some people are so good-looking they can't help it. But I'm certainly not" - the signature slow grin -"saddled with that problem."
 
Not a very good explosion. Considering all the new effects in Civ5 I was hoping for more with the nuke explosion.
 
Question: Im typing up an article for my forum. However, the article has a sidebar which is pretty long (about half the length of the regular article I estimate). In your opinions should I insert it at the end of the document or make a separate document?
 
I accidentally filled my gas tank with Premium gas (I had to use an opposite pump and apparently they switch the order of the quality on each side... plus the lighting was poor, anyway), it still had a bit less than a quarter of a tank of regular gas in it, will this hurt my car in anyway, or was it just a waste of a few bucks?

It is a 2000 Chevy Blazer by the way.
 
Why does the college have to send about 15-20 emails a day?
 
I have an algebra question. I've got these strange problems that I don't understand. For instance (? = what I have to find):


Use the formula d=rt for distance traveled to solve for the missing variable.
  1. d = ?, r = 55 mi/h, t = 3 h
  2. d = 240 mi, r = 60 mi/h, t = ?
  3. d = 552 mi, r = ?, t = 8 h
  4. d = 247.5 mi, r = 45 mi/h, t = ?

No American troops in Baghdad?
 
Airstrike92 said:
I have an algebra question. I've got these strange problems that I don't understand. For instance (? = what I have to find):


Use the formula d=rt for distance traveled to solve for the missing variable.
  1. d = ?, r = 55 mi/h, t = 3 h
  2. d = 240 mi, r = 60 mi/h, t = ?
  3. d = 552 mi, r = ?, t = 8 h
  4. d = 247.5 mi, r = 45 mi/h, t = ?
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Just a warning: It's been about four years since I've actually done any algebra. Longer since I've done it well.

I assume "r" stands for rate of travel and "t" is for time elapsed? "d" therefore being distance traveled?

1. d = 165 miles. "r" is 55 miles an hour, which is multiplied by "t," which is 3 hours. So you simply multiply 55 by 3, and presto, the answer is 165.

Now that you've seen how I've done that, I'll let you work the rest out for yourself. This is very simple algebra; I'm not very good at algebra and I solved it easily, so you should be fine now that you've had it illustrated for you.

For my own amusement though, and so you can check your answers - please don't cheat, you'll only hurt yourself in the long-run - I'll spoiler the other answers.

Spoiler :
2. t = 4 hrs.

3. r = 69 miles p/h.

4. t = 5.5 hrs.

I hope I got all that right.
 
Lord Baal said:
Just a warning: It's been about four years since I've actually done any algebra. Longer since I've done it well.

I assume "r" stands for rate of travel and "t" is for time elapsed? "d" therefore being distance traveled?

1. d = 165 miles. "r" is 55 miles an hour, which is multiplied by "t," which is 3 hours. So you simply multiply 55 by 3, and presto, the answer is 165.

Now that you've seen how I've done that, I'll let you work the rest out for yourself. This is very simple algebra; I'm not very good at algebra and I solved it easily, so you should be fine now that you've had it illustrated for you.

For my own amusement though, and so you can check your answers - please don't cheat, you'll only hurt yourself in the long-run - I'll spoiler the other answers.

Spoiler :
2. t = 4 hrs.

3. r = 69 miles p/h.

4. t = 5.5 hrs.

I hope I got all that right.
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165 was my original guess. Thanks.

WTH? Area of a parallelogram?

Use the formula A = bh for the area of a parallelogram to solve for the missing variable.


  1. A = ?, b = 6 ft, h = 3 ft
  2. A = 34 ft2, b = ?, h = 4 ft
  3. A = 175 m2, b = 25 m, h = ?
  4. A = ?, b = 23 cm, h = 15 cm
 
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