[QUOTE=axn;499225]Shouldn't that be[quote]Driver: Sorry . . . I f:censored:g forgot where I was.[/quote][/QUOTE]:tu: ... But shouldn't that f:censored:g be[QUOTE=axn;499225]Shouldn't that f:censored:g be[quote]Driver: Sorry . . . I f:censored:g forgot where I was.[/quote][/QUOTE][size=1]Ouch, the meta hurts my head[/size]

[QUOTE=ewmayer;499195]Old programmer's [url=#oldprogrammerjoke]joke[/url] appropriate for today's date:

Q: Why can’t programmers tell the difference between Halloween and Christmas?

A: Because oct 31 = dec 25.[/QUOTE]
That's an amazing coincidence.

Edit:Technically Halloween isn't an official holiday, but still.

Edit2: I've heard December 25th as a holiday has some pagan roots, so maybe that's a way to connect them.

I've heard that telephone poles are not being made any longer.

Apparently they are long enough already.

[QUOTE=jasong;499409]That's an amazing coincidence.

Edit:Technically Halloween isn't an official holiday, but still.

Edit2: I've heard December 25th as a holiday has some pagan roots, so maybe that's a way to connect them.[/QUOTE]

Wiki is your friend:

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas[/url]
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween[/url]

Patron: "Is my old car fixed?"

Mechanic: "Yeah... Just crap in the carburetor."

Patron: "How Often?"

[url]https://getpocket.com/explore/item/top-10-design-flaws-in-the-human-body-923964997[/url]

[QUOTE=kriesel;501275][URL]https://getpocket.com/explore/item/top-10-design-flaws-in-the-human-body-923964997[/URL][/QUOTE]
Good one! :davar55:

That is what I always tell to my creationist friends, if god created the human body, he really did a lousy LOUSY job...

[QUOTE=LaurV;501308]That is what I always tell to my creationist friends, if god created the human body, he really did a lousy LOUSY job...[/QUOTE]
Some of those goodies also fall under the heading of [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_vestigiality]Human vestigiality[/url].

There was a program on PBS some years ago that would probably make creationists cringe. It was called "Your Inner Fish," based on the book by that title by Neil Shubin. Somehow (*), I have more trouble with the notion of creationists [i]reading[/i] that book than I do with that of them [i]burning[/i] it.

To me, the creationist avatar of "intelligent design" is especially laughable. In the second place, because the examples of the human lower back, wisdom teeth, and appendix are such obvious examples of our bodies not being optimally designed. But in the [i]first[/i] place, because creationists pushing this new brand of Biblical literalism shows that [i]creationism itself[/i] is evolving.

(*)From [url=https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2426499/kitzmiller-v-dover-decision.pdf]MEMORANDUM OPINION, TAMMY KITZMILLER, et al. Plaintiffs [i]v.[/i] DOVER AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT, et al., Defendants.[/url]

[quote]In the midst of this panoply, there arose the astonishing story of an evolution mural that was taken from a classroom and destroyed in 2002 by Larry Reeser, the head of buildings and grounds for the DASD. At the June 2004 meeting, Spahr asked Buckingham where he had received a picture of the evolution mural that had been torn down and incinerated. Jen Miller testified that Buckingham responded: “I gleefully watched it burn.”[/quote]

[QUOTE=Dr Sardonicus;501325]There was a program on PBS some years ago that would probably make creationists cringe. It was called "Your Inner Fish," based on the book by that title by Neil Shubin. Somehow (*), I have more trouble with the notion of creationists [i]reading[/i] that book than I do with that of them [i]burning[/i] it.
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When one is employed to spot counterfeit currency, they do not look at the methods of the counterfeiters, they look at legitimate currency. They examine and memorize every part of it so that when the counterfeit shows up, they can say with certainty,"Yes, this is counterfeit. Send it to be burned."

[QUOTE=jasong;501624]When one is employed to spot counterfeit currency, they do not look at the methods of the counterfeiters, they look at legitimate currency. They examine and memorize every part of it so that when the counterfeit shows up, they can say with certainty,"Yes, this is counterfeit. Send it to be burned."[/QUOTE]In the third place, the folks who are supposed to spot counterfeit money are generally store clerks or bank tellers. And they don't memorize every part of real currency. What they do is look for basic things like the appropriate "security strip" or watermark, or else test the ink with a marker (though that last test, I have heard, is unreliable).

In the second place, when they spot counterfeit, they don't "send it to be burned." Since counterfeiting is a [i]crime[/i], they call in the law, which ultimately brings in the Secret Service, whose job it is to catch counterfeiters. And part of that process is examining the counterfeit currency to figure out how it was made, which can help lead to the perp. In any case, the bad money is [i]evidence[/i], and will not be destroyed at least until the criminal case is done. It may even be preserved for purposes of comparison in future investigations.

And in the first place, I don't see even the vaguest relation between counterfeit money and expressing scientific theories. If you're saying that someone should be empowered to determine that anything contrary to a given brand of biblical literalism is "counterfeit," and the material destroyed, been there done that. The Inquisition had an [i]Index Librorum Prohibitorum[/i]. I'm not sure how the books themselves were destroyed, but their [i]authors[/i] or people deemed responsible for printing or distributing those books were sometimes burned.