The Jokes thread

tshuck

Joined Oct 18, 2012
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A transistor walks into a bar and orders a drink. After a quick sip, the transistor begins sobbing quietly to himself. The bartender notices and asks the transistor if there's anything he can do. The transistor yells at the bartender about the drink being watered down and being taken for a fool and storms out, screaming all the while.

A patron asks the bartender, "Why didn't you throw him out, instead of taking that verbal abuse?".

The bartender then turns and says, "He's my best customer, he's bipolar."
 

Georacer

Joined Nov 25, 2009
5,182
@Ron_H

Exactly. It's a meaningful adjective not a proper name.

I knew you guys are inquisitive, so I didn't give it out.

But scalene is quite a bit harder; I had to consult a family member for it:
The Greek adjective is σκαληνός (skalenos). It's derived from the ancient verb σκάλλω (skalo, as in scalp), meaning "to dig, to carve". My godmother estimates the word was used due to the similarity of the triangle to the crude rock tools, used for digging and carving.

The adjective was first used to describe the shape by Thales of Miletus.

P.S. I 'll have to learn to write in phonetic alphabet sometime.
 
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tindel

Joined Sep 16, 2012
939
I heard this on the radio the other day:

A beautiful woman dies and is met by Peter at the gates of Heaven:

Peter: I see you've had four marriages. The first one was a lawyer, then a circus performer, then a preacher, and finally an undertaker. That's a pretty diverse group.

Beautiful woman: Sure is! One for the money, Two for the show, Three to get ready, and Four to Go!
 

maxpower097

Joined Feb 20, 2009
816
I have a cop that has his set is "The Cops are Near" I changed mine to "Growhouse" I thought that was funny cause I really do have a closest garden of peppers and am an avid gardener. I talk to him all the time and I assume he knows its me cause I'm the only one with 200 pots on his porch
 

Markd77

Joined Sep 7, 2009
2,806
That comes under restarting, we call it a hard reboot. I used to work with some Macs and the only way to reboot them when they crashed was to turn them off at the wall.
 

killivolt

Joined Jan 10, 2010
836
That comes under restarting, we call it a hard reboot. I used to work with some Macs and the only way to reboot them when they crashed was to turn them off at the wall.
The difference with a Mac you don't have to scan the system files, before loading the system.

It just boots without.........you shut down prematurely.
 
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