Yet Another Cycling Forum
Random Musings => Miscellany => Kidstuff => Topic started by: hairyhippy on 26 April, 2008, 10:39:28 pm
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"How many birds would I need so that they could lift me up and make me fly?"
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A: One - but it has to be a special and big one. Be sure to look out for it!
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I'm sure you could google for the lifting capacity of certain birds... :P
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"I don't know - let's see if we can look it up"
(This was largely my parents' approach to That Sort Of Question - it was reasonably common that at some point over dinner me or my sister would be sent to get the big encyclopaedia down :) The internets must make this a lot easier!)
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I'm sure you could google for the lifting capacity of certain birds... :P
Don't be silly - a five-ounce bird couldn't lift a two pound coconut!
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A seemingly easy one, but you try answering it....
"Why do elephants have tusks?"
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"What are you doing?"..."why?"
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I'm sure you could google for the lifting capacity of certain birds... :P
Don't be silly - a five-ounce bird couldn't lift a two pound coconut!
He asked how many birds?
Can you use SI units; lead by example Wow!
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"How many birds would I need so that they could lift me up and make me fly?"
3218.
Maybe.
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I'm sure you could google for the lifting capacity of certain birds... :P
Don't be silly - a five-ounce bird couldn't lift a two pound coconut!
Would that be an African or European Swallow?
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"Dad, is an allotrope anything to do with an isotope?" ;D
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"Dad, is an allotrope anything to do with an isotype?" ;D
Miss Z the elder used to come up with unanswerable questions such as "Why is the sky?"
Mrs Z's best ever, when reading the Christmas turkey instructions ("defrost for 24 hours in a refrigerator"), was "How were people supposed to defrost their turkeys before they had 'fridges?"
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Well an eagle can apparently lift half it's own body weight, so that's about 3kg, so divide the weight of the child by 3.
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/eagle/ExpertAnswer05.html
Then to freak out the child, show them this video of an Eagle lifting up a small deer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-ibdPMGC1Y
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"Dad, is an allotrope anything to do with an isotope?" ;D
Well, that can be answered quite easily...
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"Dad, is an allotrope anything to do with an isotope?" ;D
Well, that can be answered quite easily...
Mind you, he didn't know whilst propelling the triplet with Siblings 1 and 2 down a country lane in Suffolk... ;D
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I had what's air made of? Followed by what's Nitrogen made of?
Now I could have talked about quarks and leptons but "ask Mummy she knows" is easier :D
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"Why does that lady have a moustache?"
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"Sir, what kind of pickled onions do they have in the big jars at fish'n'chip shops?"
Asked outright by a heavily pregnant 16-year-old in the middle of my obviously stunning (and vitally important) afternoon maths lesson on adding fractions.
She's a gem.
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"Sir, what kind of pickled onions do they have in the big jars at fish'n'chip shops?"
Asked outright by a heavily pregnant 16-year-old in the middle of my obviously stunning (and vitally important) afternoon maths lesson on adding fractions.
She's a gem.
P'raps she should be told that they are a form of oral contraception ;)
Bit too late now but could be usefull as future reference ;D
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"Sir, what kind of pickled onions do they have in the big jars at fish'n'chip shops?"
Asked outright by a heavily pregnant 16-year-old in the middle of my obviously stunning (and vitally important) afternoon maths lesson on adding fractions.
She's a gem.
At least they weren't pickled eggs (see Essex Pub ride). If they were then perhaps she wouldn't have been pregnant. ;)
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We had "what's a question?" the other day :-\
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We had "what's a question?" the other day :-\
<snort> ;D Some sort of logical black hole there....
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A statement used to find information.
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Little Cudzo asks a lot of "If x, then what?" questions, such as "If you fell down that big hole, then what?" To which the obvious answer is "You'd have to pull me out."
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My kids used to come up with some gems.
"Why do we wake up?"
"How do people remember how to talk?"
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I can't remember any specifically memorable questions, but I do remember my younger daughter, on first learning to speak, very quickly picked up "No! No point!" when asked to do anything.
Also, younger son's philosophical remark that "When I grow up I want to be a camel..."