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It's the one where you give ten students 100 Krone each and they have to see how far they can get away from Oslo University by the time their next essay is due.
Close. Marks for effort ;) But no.
It's the verified sightings of Noggin the Nogg (http://www.nogginthenog.co.uk/)game.
Is it a map of traffic demand between venues (colour-coded by volume-to-capacity ratio) for the 1952 Winter Olympics?
Beagle nil point. Lambi deux points.
Your getting warm on traffic demand !!
Its a map of communications links colour coded for data traffic volume
I don't see how it could be microwave links, there's some bloody big lumps in the way... ???
Bluenose hits the spot.
It's a dynamic network weather map of the backbone of Uninett, serving the education and research sector in Norway. The map shows the network capacity by line thickness and daily traffic load by line colour.
I was probably unfair to Beagle. He should have had a point for mentioning the education sector !
Bluenose, you want to take up the baton?
Isn't it good when we get a new game ;D
Ok guys, What is this?
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Clue: consider where I come from.
They're the famous Mexican Staring Frogs of Southern Sri Lanka, featuring the famous evolutionary double-bluff "here I am" camouflage system.
I was thinking of posting some funny answer, but then decided to tell what I think it is:
The Pseudophryne corroboree, also called the Corroboree Frog, native to Southern Tablelands of Australia...
An evolutionary rival to the Zebra? Or possibly Tiger -but I don't think the teeth are sharp enough.
Silly people! It's obviously two frogs. ;D
Either that, or it's Friedl Munch's illustrations for 'The Water Babies'...
Does Kosciuszko National Park ring any bells?
I am actually curious not so much about the frogs as the plant they are standing in.
it's a frog and celery-top salad.
With cilantro.
I'll bet that bright colouring is designed to fool predators that the frogs are poisonous or inedible. Does it resemble a particularly unpleasant mint humbug sold only in the sweet shops of New South Wales?
Hi guys,
Sorry I haven't been online for the last couple of days. Anyway...
One point each to Beagle, Griffin, Mero, Zono and Chatty for making me laugh, plus a bonus point to Beagle for the cammo gag.
Full points and a big gold star to Kiyo for not only getting the answer right but providing the scientific name as well.
Your turn Kiyo...
Thank you for the gold star.
Here's a little picture:
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Is it an Olm or Proteus (Proteus anguinus)
a cave dwelling amphibian with external gills found naturally in Karst in Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia bit also artificially located in other parts of europe including kents cavern (http://www.kents-cavern.co.uk/)
A nice guess...
But unfortunately wrong.
But you get a point for the effort. :)
It's a frayed teddy bear that you take to bed with you?
I think it's the "after" photo - ie what happens to you after having a bowl of Black Bart's fish head stew.
well it looks like an olm....
is it a mexican salamander or axolotyl?
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on March 18, 2007, 05:25:38 AM
it's a frog and celery-top salad.
With cilantro.
I hate cilantro. (http://www.ihatecilantro.com)
;D
Quote from: goat starer on March 19, 2007, 01:04:32 PM
is it a mexican salamander or axolotyl?
Yup, it's a Mexican Axolotl
A wonderfully bizarre word (aber Grottenolm ist auch nicht schlecht)
Oh ,I say dear siblings ,due to the title of this site,the wee critters must be outlandish,extrovertd toads!
Quote from: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on March 19, 2007, 01:59:48 PM
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on March 18, 2007, 05:25:38 AM
it's a frog and celery-top salad.
With cilantro.
I hate cilantro. (http://www.ihatecilantro.com)
;D
I joined. And said I found out from you.
:mrgreen: <--Green, but NOT cilantro green!!
what is this one...
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A reenactment of the Monty Python reenactment of the Battle of Pearl Harbour.
Rugby training of the College Republicans Adolescent Party League.
Running down muddy hill contest.
number 3 is close..... but no cigar
Is that the contest where they run downhill chasing cheese?
It's the mating ritual of the Lesser Spotted Rugby Memorial Team. The ones displaying their feet are the front runners.
I think Kiyo's right.
Alternatively it could be:
The All-England Sound of Music trials.
or
The Get out of Yorkshire as fast as Possible Competition.
Ummm.... the Bannockburn all-stars inclined stampede?
kiyo is right but he aint having it!!!!! name the place AND the cheese!!!!! I had to get the correct flipping salamander!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;)
Cooper's Hill, Gloucestershire. Double Gloucester.
Next event 28th May 2007. First race is at noon. And for Kiyo, there's a pub called the Cheese Roller about half a mile away.
I think Kiyo should have this one but to pass the time all you have to do with this pic is guess which day's weather forecast this was:
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5th June 1979?
Is it 16th October 1987...
it must be as it shows no hurricanes.
What was that day when there was absolutely no weather at all in the Republic of Ireland? ;D
Doomsday, if the temperatures are in Kelvin and the wind in Beaufort
The correct answer is, obviously, 15th March 2007.
Kiyo's answer was closest as it had a 5 in it.
Kiyo's turn to bat.
;D
And now something completely different:
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Folks, now here's the story 'bout Minnie the Moocher,
She was a red-hot hootchie-cootcher,
She was the roughest, toughest frail,
But Minnie had a heart as big as a whale
And correct you are...
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Now for a piece of architecture that got torn down when the last resident died without a successor (I hear there is now a shopping center). No sense of tradition these days :-\.
Dracula's Castle?
Wrong style
It looks like there was an outer keep and an inner keep and so I imagine the last resident was a prisoner. Was it Zenda?
Spandau?
What? The Ballet?
Apparently the band were named after graffiti found at that maximum security twilight home for retired civil servants. Pretty sure I'm right, but if not ignore this:
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Clue: It's not an early iPod prototype.
Ah I got the supermarket. You are right.
But what I really want to know, is why that man in the picture is tugging at his ear ? (I blew it up to check it wasn't an iPod).
Is that the new iMac?
Or just the necessary equipment to be able to run Windows Vista?
Quote from: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on March 22, 2007, 11:41:58 PM
Or just the necessary equipment to be able to run Windows Vista?
I'm skeered that may be right.
I want a Mac. I'm not a big user of software, just a 'net and e-mail kinda person, so...why not? OH, yeah. Money...and the availability of a good Dvorak compatibility program. Hmmm.
Another clue:
(http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h119/osborn_2006/picture2.jpg)
It's not a computer.
(Picture credit - BBC)
Quote from: Griffin
But what I really want to know, is why that man in the picture is tugging at his ear ?
He's having one of those "I wish I knew which lever to pull" moments>
Beagle was right about Spandau.
.....
Hm, the engine control room of an aircraft carrier or another mobile nuclear power plant?
Picture 1 says to me "control room for the Hoover Dam (or perhaps Niagara Falls) generating system"
Picture 2 and its collection of tubes in the background says "early control room for the Internet/ARPANET". ;D
You're both on the right lines, but it's not very mobile Swatopluk.
There's a clue in the British childhood riddle "Which two seas are separated by a river", but that may not help unless you're very well up on UK geography.
That last piece of machinery appeared on an album cover by Hawkwind, and the place is associated with another band's cover as well. (I love giving Swatopluk rock music clues ;) ).
In that case, I believe that this is a view from outside the "what is this":
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It's the Battersea Power Station... and in the foreground is the bridge that connects the two seas (Chelsea and Battersea) that are divided by the river (Thames).
Edit: assuming I got it right, here's mine:
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What are the names of the tests that generated the two "hump"-y curves in the middle of the graph?
I think Aggie's still away, otherwise this would be a very quick one.
Hmm, can't name the tests, but have a good idea what the charts are about. Will resist Googling for now.
Now that I think about it, I should've realized - tests like this really matter when you're putting stuff back into the ground. ;)
Aye, suspected it was more to the geotech side than the environmental.
It was indeed control room A from Battersea Power Station.
Now we're onto the hydrothingy test and the hydrowotsit test (maybe).
Those be soils tables....
I'm confused...
How can you plot dry density against water content? Shirley the dry density is when there is no water content?
Good job I'm a small scale polluter rather than an environmentalist.
It's a camel race. Looks like the furthest one is going to touch the ribbon first but that could be just the effect of perspective.
In answer to Beagle's dilemma, the water is inside the camel's humps and as indicated by the word "content", how much remains. The dry density reflects the changing quality of sandy desert terrain over which the camels are racing.
The trick is to calculate from the information, which camel actually will win the race.
It's actually the progress of the level of blood in my alcohol (the more I drink, the less blood there is) on Monday (the straight one), Tuesday and Wednesday.
But it has been disguised as something to do with density and water to fool my parents... ;)
Quote from: beagle on March 23, 2007, 09:45:26 PM
I'm confused...
How can you plot dry density against water content?
Funny, I never thought of it that way before.
In this case, "dry density" doesn't mean "density of this thing that is dry", it means "density of this wet thing, not counting the water".
QuoteShirley the dry density is when there is no water content?
Shirley may be dry, but I think she'd have words to say over you talking about her "density". ;)
QuoteGood job I'm a small scale polluter rather than an environmentalist.
Actually, tests like these are quite often done in aid of urban sprawl, covering pristine wilderness with asphalt (translation: tarmac), and other assorted pillaging of the natural world.
Quote from: Griffin NoName The Watson of Sherlock on March 23, 2007, 10:07:43 PM
It's a camel race. Looks like the furthest one is going to touch the ribbon first but that could be just the effect of perspective.
Ack! Now that I've started to look at it from different perspectives, all I see is Dolly Parton hiding under a blanket. ;D
That's funny. I though it was a chart of my IQ in relation to my declining ability to stay awake...
Then I realized you can't chart negative numbers without red ink. It says so in the Moron's Manual.
I borrowed one from the White House.
Purdue TDR Method?
Not exactly, but they're related.
That's the "after"... the graph above is for the "before".
Or to put it less obliquely, you would use the Purdue TDR test (or another in-situ density measurement) to gauge how well your construction crew did relative to one of the little humpy curves above.
Here's a hint: the difference between the two curves is that the lower and right-er curve is "standard" and the upper and left-er curve is "modified".
Quote from: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on March 26, 2007, 09:46:16 PMHere's a hint: the difference between the two curves is that the lower and right-er curve is "standard" and the upper and left-er curve is "modified".
"modified"? Is the second camel cross-dressing? or pregnant?
Quote from: Griffin NoName The Watson of Sherlock on March 26, 2007, 10:15:48 PM
"modified"? Is the second camel cross-dressing? or pregnant?
I hope not. I especially hope the second camel isn't pregnant, since in this case, "modified" means "pounded with a hammer twice as much".
Poor, poor camel fetus. :(
Quote from: Griffin NoName The Watson of Sherlock on March 26, 2007, 10:15:48 PM
Quote from: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on March 26, 2007, 09:46:16 PMHere's a hint: the difference between the two curves is that the lower and right-er curve is "standard" and the upper and left-er curve is "modified".
"modified"? Is the second camel cross-dressing? or pregnant?
Dolly did mention that she'd had a 'boob job' not so long ago... I quote 'When your husband asks to see your boobs and you have to lift your skirt to show him - It's time for a boob job.'
Hmm... seems people have grown disinterested in my humps (or "my lovely lady lumps" if you prefer, to quote the Black Eyed Peas ;) wow, I really don't like that song ). Does someone have another "this" for which we can figure out what it is?
maybe another hint?
Sure.
The test is named after a person who, by his name, you might expect to meet in an examination.
Dr.Auditor?
Proctor and Modified Proctor compaction tests.
Based on googling: soil compaction tests "dry density" "water content" , anyways.
Hooray! Someone got it!
Your go, Aggie.
Ok... gotta think of what kind of miserably unidentifiable unique and curious object to post....