The Very-Many-Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread XLIII

[Comrade Ceasefire]

His own words! (I'm not sayin' he's dumb):
In his brain there's a lexiless hum
As he walks through this door
And examines that drawer
Twitching finger and wiggling thumb.

Quark strangeness and charm don't suffice
you must be able to rhyme in a trice
On things immaterial
and matters that really're
much more than just a god and a dice.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Are those smarter than whizzes called whizzers?
Anyway, this dude's up to all quizzers.
His -math seems truly poly,
And in verse he can volley.
Just do not ask the man to find scissors!

 

[Comrade Ceasefire]

His own words! (I'm not sayin' he's dumb):
In his brain there's a lexiless hum
As he walks through this door
And examines that drawer
Twitching finger and wiggling thumb.

Be careful of mocking the way
Some nations for things that they say
Canadians barged in
with looks of chagrin
And trust me I'm très sorry, eh.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Hey, go easy! I'm having a day!
First they spirited matter away,
With it, right down the drain,
Must perforce go my brain.
Next they'll tell me that grey isn't grey!

 

[Birdjaguar]

I'm thinking we need a limerick thread.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Well, most of mine are in the Trump threads (because it's a form suited to mocking absurdities).

And the ones here emerge immediately out of the discussion here about material/immaterial, and wouldn't make sense apart from that context.

I can just shut up.

Well, I mean . . . no . . . I can't. But I can stop writing limericks on this particular theme.

 

[Samson]

I have just thought of a good analogy for the propagation of an action potential: A Mexican Wave. A Mexican Wave is composed of people, which have mass and move perpendicular to the direction of the wave. The information passes from one person to another by photons (light that one person uses to see another) which are massless and move parallel to the direction of the wave. The wave itself is separate from both the people and the light that passes between them.

Is a Mexican Wave matter?

 

[Farm Boy]

Heheh.

And all the way back to the heart beat we go.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Well, that takes me back to my original formulation: that immaterial things (here a pattern representing fan enthusiasm) can move through a material medium (fans).

Fan's fannies!*

(And the rest of them, of course.) (But it does require getting yourself off your duff.) (Ya lardbutt; play along!)

*probably a limerick in that**
**that I won't write

 

[Samson]

And all the way back to the heart beat we go.

I do not now if I missed this above, but a heart beat is an action potential with the exact same information transfer mechanism as an axon.

Also this video of fire is surprisingly similar in a logic sense

Spoiler Excitable Mediums :

 

[Farm Boy]

Nah, you didn't miss anything. I just find the question interesting.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Once peppers have been pickled, isn't it too late to be picking them, anymore?

The narrative sequence just doesn't make any sense.

 

[Narz]

Well, one of the reasons I was open to Narz's early suggestion that material/immaterial might just no longer be a valid concept in physics is my sense that what we used to think of as solid, tangible stuff has actually been established as basically packets of energy--that there is no "stuff" anymore. I've been very careful about dropping myself down into chairs since I learned that.

I didn't really suggest anything as much as ask a question.

But it does appear to my layman mind as if 'immaterial' is just a euphanism for stuff we don't quite understand yet.

 

[Core Imposter]

Will somebody write me a limerick about the growth of trees and bushes? I was just down in the old neighborhood, and I am staggered by the way the place looks. In my own neighborhood all the wonderful site lines are just being obliterated by trees that seem to have mushroomed over the last few years. It's almost enough to make me believe in climate change.

 

[lymond]

Once was an old neighborhood flat
Yet nary a site may I gaze at
For the foliage shroomed
All the flowers bloomed
And, Oh My! how the trees doth grow fat

 

[Core Imposter]

Thank you.

 

[Birdjaguar]

The Carolinas are a prime area for plant growth: lots of rain, warm weather and a long growing season. Kudzu loves it there as do chiggers. If you want to live in an area where trees and shrubs grow slowly and great vistas are preserved longer, move to the desert. Climate chage over time is easier to see along the edges: beaches, deserts, mountains, etc. In NM we are in a 20 year drought. Where you live the signs of change will be more subtle.

 

[Gori the Grey]

NGL. Feel a little hurt that you asked for "somebody" to do it, when there's a certain "somebody" . . .

But good on lymond for filling the bill.

 

[lymond]

NGL. Feel a little hurt that you asked for "somebody" to do it, when there's a certain "somebody" . . .

But good on lymond for filling the bill.

Lol. I was thinkin of ya when I wrote that. I was bored and it took me like two minutes. Feel free to improve on it

 

[Gori the Grey]

Do you know those songs (mostly from the 50s) that use nonsense syllables to round out certain verse?

Is there one that is regarded as most famous, or most iconic? Or just jumps first to mind for you individually?

(Note: not "Who put the bop in the bipty bipty bop?" since that is working in a self-conscious and meta- way with the convention. Just a song that uses that convention.)