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thedaveformula | 21:32 Wed 29th Dec 2010 | Science
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Avatar Image boxtops
Presumably - whatever it's got opposite it?
21:34 Wed 29th Dec 2010
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A doorway to another world....
21:35 Wed 29th Dec 2010
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Nice definition, boxtops....

Its a bit like the question, when you close a fridge door do you know if the light is off, or is it on.........
21:35 Wed 29th Dec 2010
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If I try to investigate I will just see myself looking back at me!
21:35 Wed 29th Dec 2010
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Do pictures exist if there's no one there to see them?
21:36 Wed 29th Dec 2010
Avatar Image ummmm
No, when everyone goes out all the pictures disappear..
21:37 Wed 29th Dec 2010
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Avatar Image naomi24
following on from DT ...... or the one about does a tree falling make a sound if no one's around to hear it?
21:38 Wed 29th Dec 2010
Avatar Image DTCwordfan
Or as a friend of mine said at business school when we were asked as the opening question on the law course.

"Would somebody please define "What is being out at cricket?"

He quipped, "A cessation of being in."


The previous year had been very quiet until one of the foreigners intervened (and yes I was at London Business School which is in Regents Park just behind the top of Baker Street), "The English amongst us are all up at Lords."
21:39 Wed 29th Dec 2010
Avatar Image ChuckFickens
All are essentially a variation on http://en.wikipedia.o...r%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat
21:40 Wed 29th Dec 2010
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Pure existensionalism!
21:40 Wed 29th Dec 2010
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Mirror Mirror on the wall who's the fairest of them all, Isn't it weird to know that we don't know what we look like without consulting the mirror.
21:41 Wed 29th Dec 2010
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Exactly Chuck. :o)

Love it!
21:42 Wed 29th Dec 2010
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s should be t (for what its worth
21:44 Wed 29th Dec 2010
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And, yes Oscarina....

Descartes - do we exist or are we a figment of our imagination?
21:44 Wed 29th Dec 2010
Avatar Image naomi24
My friends and I once had a discussion and came to the unavoidable conclusion that none of us existed. :o)
21:46 Wed 29th Dec 2010
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I don't think I do after a bottle of Christmas port.....
21:48 Wed 29th Dec 2010
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Mostly sand, soda ash, dolomite, limestone, salt cake and aluminium. Silver if it's an old mirror.

:-)
21:48 Wed 29th Dec 2010
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If we are going to be philosophical - "love is but the touching of two skins" says Francoise Sagan. How does that square with narcissism....?
21:49 Wed 29th Dec 2010
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there will always remain a reflection of sorts in a mirror regardless of whether you are looking at it or not
21:53 Wed 29th Dec 2010

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