Questions version 2 (+15 rep)

[Mr.Sam]

if I need to spread before repping you, you won't recieve your rep sorry (it'll take me to rep asbout 50 people before repping you again...:rolleyes:)

the answers arn't as obvious as you think.

1. What colour were carrots origionally?

2. Where does moleskin come from?

3. How do you write a dictionary?

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5. Who can levitate?

[iknowkungfu]

nvmmmmmm

[Mr.Sam]

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4. What is a pregnant goldfish called?

didn't realise twit and **** were filtered...

Goldfish don't get pregnant, they lay eggs which the males fertilize in the water.

[Jord]

1. Purple
2. Cant find one =[[[
3. Write one :P
4. twerp/Twit
5. David blame

[camera]

yellow?
bacteria?
just write it?
me?

[mangle]

Red/Yellow
Cba with others.

Oh, he can levitate
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=40S8G2ZuRpE

[Misawa]

1. Carrots were originally purple :)
2. Moleskine, the Italian notebook company
3. Copy one, lol
4. ...David Blaine and Criss Angel, according to the cables that hoist them

[Mr.Sam]

i'll do the answers at 12, get your answers posted

[Redacted]

1. Maroon/Purple
2. Italy, A Notebook, In two sizes.
3. With a pen
4. Goldfish don't get pregnant, they lay eggs which the males fertilize in the water.
5. Gravity

[Mr.Sam]

1.

Red, purple, and even black

http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/history.html


2.

Q. Where does moleskin come from?
A. It's a tightly-woven cotton fabric.

http://www.davidmorgan.com/moleskin.html



3.

Q. How do you write a dictionary?


apparently John Simpson is starting with M. The original source was from Answers.com, (who seem to glean most of their definitions from Wikipedia)


The planned third edition, or OED3, is intended as a nearly complete overhaul of the work. Currently (2005) John Simpson is the Chief Editor. Since the first work by each editor tends to require somewhat more revision than his later, more polished work, it was decided to balance out this effect by performing the early, and perhaps itself less polished, work of this revision pass at a letter other than A. Accordingly, the main work of the OED3 has been proceeding in sequence from the letter M. When the OED Online was launched in March 2000, it included the first batch of revised entries (officially described as draft entries), stretching from M to mahurat, and successive sections of text have since been released on a quarterly basishttp://www.answers.com/topic/oxford-english-dictionary-1


The ongoing revision process began with entries in the letter M. Quarterly updates of at least 1,000 words will be released online during the next decade until the whole Dictionary has been revisedhttp://www.askoxford.com/worldofwords/oed/oedonline/?view=uk


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5.
Q: Who can levitate?
A: Everybody and everything.

Nothing actually 'touches' anything else. The electromagnetic forces in the electronic shells of atoms stop the atoms in your feet from approaching too close to the atoms in the floor - you can get to within a few billionths of a metre, but no closer, the electromagnetic repulsion equalling the force of gravity. You just hang there in (not very much) space.

You don't slip and slide all over the place, though, because the floor (and your feet) have a hugely mountainous surface, providing lots of lateral friction (the valley walls are equally repulsive). Fill those valleys in with, say, water, and you slide like mad.

So when you go up to a chair and try to get too close by poking it with a finger, it moves away from you!