The questions-not-worth-their-own-thread Question Thread!

[The Yankee]

In addition to that 1824 election, in 1876, 1888, and in 2000, the winner of the popular vote for the Presidency lost the Electoral College vote.

In 1800, Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr were tied with 73 electoral votes, since one elector cast two votes but could not differentiate who should be President and who should be Vice President. That election led to the passage of the Twelfth Amendment.

Edit: Might as well put the results here.

1800 Election

Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican) 41,330 61.4%
73 electoral votes

John Adams (Federalist) 25,952 38.6%
65 electoral votes

Aaron Burr (Democratic-Republican) not on presidential ballot
73 electoral votes

Charles Pinckney (Federalist) not on presidential ballot
64 electoral votes

John Jay (Federalist) not on presidential ballot
1 electoral vote

1824 Election

Andrew Jackson (Democratic-Republican) 151,271 41.3%
99 electoral votes (out of 261 total -- not a majority)

John Quincy Adams (Democratic-Republican) 113,122 30.9%
84 electoral votes

Henry Clay (Democratic-Republican) 47,531 13.0%
37 electoral votes

William Crawford (Democratic-Republican) 40,856 11.2%
41 electoral votes

1876 Election

Samuel Tilden (Democrat) 4,288,546 51%
184 electoral votes

Rutherford Hayes (Republican) 4,034,311 47.9%
185 electoral votes

1888 Election

Grover Cleveland (Democrat) 5,534,488 48.6%
168 electoral votes

Benjamin Harrison (Republican) 5,443,892 47.8%
233 electoral votes

2000 Election

Al Gore (Democrat) 51,003,926 48.4%
266 electoral votes

George W. Bush (Republican) 50,460,110 47.9%
271 electoral votes

 

[Mise]

Why do they wrap athletes in foil when they finish a race?

 

[Ziggurat]

super lawl @ Shaka

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Why do they wrap athletes in foil when they finish a race?

It keeps the juices in when you bake them.

 

[Brighteye]

Baked apples are delicious. Without foil they'd just be apple stew.

 

[hossam]

Do you have high blood pressure?

not that i know off, maybe i have some kind of disease?

 

[D0NIMATRIX]

Why do bouncy balls always bounce forward on every second bounce?

If you throw it overhand (the last part of your hand that touches the ball is the top part), then the spin will be clockwise if viewed from the left, and the ball will go back towards the person, who is on the right if you're looking from the left, then, since the spin has been inversed on the first bounce, it will seemingly go forward since on the first bounce it was moving in the opposite than it would have been moving were it on the ground, so it falls pretty straight down, and then the spin is sufficient to propel it forward. This is probably pretty hard to understand, so just observe a ball with markings on it next time you throw it.

 

[Brighteye]

not that i know off, maybe i have some kind of disease?

Unlikely. Those are the most common causes of recurring nose bleeds, but things such as heart problems, sniffing vile chemicals such as cocaine, acetone or meths, or even just excessive physical effort, can all cause nose bleeds.

So if you work in a paint factory, or you lift heavy weights, or you're overweight but haven't been diagnosed with hypertension, you could be getting nosebleeds because of it.

 

[obliterate]

If you throw it overhand (the last part of your hand that touches the ball is the top part), then the spin will be clockwise if viewed from the left, and the ball will go back towards the person, who is on the right if you're looking from the left, then, since the spin has been inversed on the first bounce, it will seemingly go forward since on the first bounce it was moving in the opposite than it would have been moving were it on the ground, so it falls pretty straight down, and then the spin is sufficient to propel it forward. This is probably pretty hard to understand, so just observe a ball with markings on it next time you throw it.

But it only happens with bouncy balls. No other balls leaps forward like the bouncy ball.

 

[GinandTonic]

But it only happens with bouncy balls. No other balls leaps forward like the bouncy ball.

Something to do with the way the ball compresses I guess, and the grip the distorted rubber has on the ground.

 

[Brighteye]

That's because of its bounciness. Bouncy balls tend to grip the ground well and get a lot of traction for the spin, and they, by definition, don't lose much energy in the collision, so the spin isn't lost, but reversed.

Non-bouncy balls lose the spin you put on them much more easily.

 

[Abaddon]

It happens with ALL objects, regardless of shape, bouncyness etc. Its just a round bouncyball is the most noticable.

Draw a stripe on a tennis ball and drop it, see what happens.

 

[King of Town]

I wonder how much that affects homeruns thrown by two seam vs. 4 seam fastball pitchers?

 

[King of Town]

On a seperate topic, should school readiness standards be raised? Ihad an ex whose mom was a teacher and she taught at two different schools, one where the kids were disadvantaged and were coming into the school not knowing abc's very well, or much of anything else. Her other school was in a district where most of the professors where our towns higher learning institution lived. Those kids came into kindergarten able to write paragraphs. Obviously giving her an easier time teaching, and putting the kids already with more advantages, even higher up.

 

[Hitti-Litti]

What does "kudos to [insert something/someone/anything]" mean?

 

[GinandTonic]

Kudos = respect, but with a context of it being a quantifiable thing. Something one might gain of loose.

 

[The Yankee]

It's also been used in the context where it would mean something like "good job" or "mazel tov."

It is also a delicious granola bar:

 

[Emperor2]

What's CFC's record number of posts by one user?

 

[greenpeace]

I think its Perfection (although it was a long time ago since I use to actively post here, so this might be outdated) with a grand total of:
33,217 posts

 

[Mise]

What's CFC's record number of posts by one user?

Click "Member List" on the top, then sort by number of posts.