The Cooler vs. The Age-Old Riddle

[EmmaJane]

Shouldn't threads stay on topic? or is that a new thread question?

Col

If they should then the watercooler has been failing to do this for a long time

 

[ColinEssex]

If they should then the watercooler has been failing to do this for a long time

I've noticed that too Emma

Col

 

[EmmaJane]

I have no idea why "chicken" is used for cowardly behavior. I can't find a thing. Maybe because of they way the run around like they're terrified of everything? There's a little more to work with for "yellow", which comes from the term "yellowbelly". Yellowbelly seems to have originated in the late 1700s as an insult to people from Lincolnshire. Apparently a particular animal native to the Fens of Lincolnshire is a yellow-bellied eel. It caught on in the U.S. as an insult from soldiers and western settlers toward the Mexicans. Why it means cowardly, however, I do not know. I've found references to "lillyliver" which explain how bile was once thought to instill passion and courage, so a pale liver would indicate cowardice. But that refers to pale or white, and not yellow, although it would explain the belly reference. I don't know if they're related or not.

I think I prefer the idea of a lizard to bile!!! I don't think I want to know how they determine the colour of your bile......

We do as a species seem to like associating colours with emotions;
Red - Love
Green- Jealously
Yellow - Fear

Maybe with as we are in an age were we are meant to get in touch with our emotions it's time to add a few more..... what about resentment as teal?

 

[EmmaJane]

I've noticed that too Emma

Col

I can't imagine who could be doing that so often

 

[commandolomo]

The chicken of course. How can you have an offspring without the parent? Unless, there was some sort of immaculate conception of the egg. Hmmmm....now wait a minute. I may have to revise my statement.

As disturbingly annoying the "chicken or the egg" scenario is it is in no way as insanely ridiculous as the "if a tree falls in a forest with noone around, does it make a noise" bit.

Of course the tree makes a sound, because if "noone" is around, he must hear it

 

[Kraj]

Shouldn't threads stay on topic?

Meh. *shrug*

Of course the tree makes a sound, because if "noone" is around, he must hear it

You wouldn't happen to have read Katherine Kerr's Deverry books?

 

[MrsGorilla]

I said McNuggets, since they're not really made out of chicken and therefore don't rely on the whole chicken/egg argument. Of course, that makes no sense, but then neither do McNuggets.

 

[dan-cat]

We do as a species seem to like associating colours with emotions;
Red - Love
Green- Jealously
Yellow - Fear

You may find this article interesting

http://www.kheper.net/topics/typology/four_humours.html

 

[Rich]

I want to know who got plucked first ?

 

[Kraj]

I said McNuggets, since they're not really made out of chicken and therefore don't rely on the whole chicken/egg argument. Of course, that makes no sense, but then neither do McNuggets.

Do you ever see tha SNL sketch "Stand Up and Win"? I can't find any place that has the clip online, but if you can imagine the Seinfeld-esque delivery of the lines the transcript I found will still be plenty funny. There's an absolutely priceless McNuggets joke.

 

[MrsGorilla]

Do you ever see tha SNL sketch "Stand Up and Win"? I can't find any place that has the clip online, but if you can imagine the Seinfeld-esque delivery of the lines the transcript I found will still be plenty funny. There's an absolutely priceless McNuggets joke.

I do remember seeing that and thinking it was funny. Was that the same episode where Jerry Seinfeld was doing the Point/CounterPoint with "himself"?

 

[Rich]

Obviously, they'll all have to be killed because of bird flu,
Col

Yeah, I've caught flu off a bird on more than one occasion and felt like killing them because of it

 

[Kraj]

I do remember seeing that and thinking it was funny. Was that the same episode where Jerry Seinfeld was doing the Point/CounterPoint with "himself"?

Possibly, but I don't think I've seen that one so it might not be. I know he's hosted a couple times.

 

[Ron_dK]

Ah, so the idophone can also be played by a booby?

You got me there, I was thinking of more pear shaped booby(s)

 

[BarryMK]

Ah, so the idophone can also be played by a booby?

Kraj Please show a little more respect for one of our national Rock' n Roll icons or we shall be constrained to make equally scurrilous attacks on Elvis...

 

[Kraj]

Kraj Please show a little more respect for one of our national Rock' n Roll icons or we shall be constrained to make equally scurrilous attacks on Elvis...

Ha! Like what? That he was a self-destructive, alcoholic, drug addict who flushed his enormous talent down the same toilet where his degenerating life abruptly ended? No. Please. Don't.

 

[Rich]

Ha! Like what? That he was a self-destructive, alcoholic, drug addict who flushed his enormous talent down the same toilet where his degenerating life abruptly ended? No. Please. Don't.

Don't a lot of talented stars go the same way.

NB. no Americans were harmed, discredited, abused or insulted during the composition of this question

 

[ColinEssex]

Ha! Like what? That he was a self-destructive, alcoholic, drug addict who flushed his enormous talent down the same toilet where his degenerating life abruptly ended? No. Please. Don't.

None of us can really appreciate what it was like to be Elvis - the most famous and greatest singing artist ever. To be the original rock n roller and to go on to have the fame, where ultimately it took its toll must have been a nightmare.

I know there's those who say "he wanted fame, he got it" etc etc, but the joy he gave to people and still does through his singing will go on forever, its truly a sad loss - not unexpected he died early.

Only the 4 Beatles can / could empathise with such worldwide acclaim and adulation.

Elvis is one of America's true successes - a national icon you should be proud of.

Col

 

[Rich]

None of us can really appreciate what it was like to be Elvis - the most famous and greatest singing artist ever. To be the original rock n roller and to go on to have the fame, where ultimately it took its toll must have been a nightmare.

Col

Yeah his early stuff was great, but then thanks to Parker he became nothing more than a commercial sausage machine.
And of course he ate too many burgers

 

[Kraj]

Don't a lot of talented stars go the same way.

Yep.

None of us can really appreciate what it was like to be Elvis - the most famous and greatest singing artist ever. To be the original rock n roller and to go on to have the fame, where ultimately it took its toll must have been a nightmare.

I know there's those who say "he wanted fame, he got it" etc etc, but the joy he gave to people and still does through his singing will go on forever, its truly a sad loss - not unexpected he died early.

Only the 4 Beatles can / could empathise with such worldwide acclaim and adulation.

I agree. I was just poking fun at Barry's "threat". I don't place a judgement on Elvis at all, I just think it's a terrible, terrible shame when a great person who means so much to so many people allows that to happen to themselves.