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Intriguing idea. The quick answer is: that's not what the card says. I actually googled around for this to satisfy my own curiosity - there is obviously a relationship between speed and mass in E=mc2. The answer appears to be that moving objects actually increase in mass (but only by the tiniest amount until you hit the speed of light) as speed increases. To give you an idea of how small the increase is: a 100,000 kg jet travelling at 2,000mph would increase in mass by only half a milligram (roughly). All news to me! Any other suggestions out there for the truck?

It's a fascinating work of art - the guy has made several all over the world with the same theme (different figures). For anyone that is interested here is a good article in The Guardian on the Chinese one: 380,000 eyes fulfil a sculptor's vision

Actually, I'm beginning to think that the 'prose' they put at the end of the spam is better than most of the legitimate emails I get (asking me to do work, and other boring things like that). Here are some random 'end of spam' moments from my trash bin: "Like flogging a dead horse There is no accounting for taste Be a good sport - wherever you go The first step is the hardest. When yuh dead yuh nah sabee, and when yuh sabee yuh dead." "Absence makes the heart go wander. When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. You cant hurry love One good turn deserves another One good turn deserves another" "stranger. Let the flock graze. They trotted off while his own mount chomped away on the grass. He sat down cross-legged and motioned to me. Sit. We must talk." "it creaked when he dropped into it. Play, he ordered and sat back to enjoy the music. Okay, gang, ready to go! I blew into my lapel microphone and my" "Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel. He who does not honour his wife dishonours himself You cannot burn the candle at both ends Murder will out Still waters run deep"

Top haggling takes an Oscar performance - sounds like you earned one!! Cheers!

And the card says..... "The lift" WINNER! Good work! Every point made, by the way, was a good one. I'm sure that about 3% of domestics are caused by brain teasers. By comparison, 72% are Ikea-related. Okay I have another one: Imagine a bridge 4 km long and strong enough to hold 10,000 kg, but no more. A loaded transport truck weighing exactly 10,000 kg drives onto the bridge. At the half way point, a sparrow weighing 30 g lands on the truck, yet the bridge doesn't collapse. How could this be?

Good work!

Ach, you've been sore ever since our replica toaster business got burned. I said write "Amateur ECT kit" on the customs form, but would you listen? "Metal bread cosy" indeed. As for the dog thing, I'm only in it for the biscuits, and you know it.

And you're problem with this is? Me running, er next to eddie, or no, that's me on the other side. I'm in there somewhere anyway.

@ryyannon - no, I said I like to dress as eddielee to amuse the dog. @usil - don't worry about the hair - it's all in the nails. Just how does that dog get his nails looking so gorgeous?! Artoero?

Hmm...mechanical legs. I like it! "It's good, but it's not right...!" (Have a good one!)

Okay....! As I said, you have to get what is written on the card! A survey was conducted of all the various mechanical modes of transportation people use to get to work each day. What did it find was the most common form of transportation?

And the card says..... "It was just moments after twelve o' clock." WINNER! Okay, great start, another one coming right up!

I have a bunch of cards with some brain teasers on them. A few of them are good, some of them are easy, quite a lot of them are annoying. I figured that whereas the annoying ones are normally, well, annoying - they could provide a bit of scope for some funnies too. So feel free to play along, or wind everyone up as well. There is only one rule: the 'right' answer is always what is written on the card. Take it as a given that I agree with you that there were a million better answers - it's us versus the quesion card for shits and giggles. Here's a relatively easy and uncontroversial clock-related question to start things: TwoTone has a clock that chimes on both the hours and the half hours. The clock strikes once for each half hour, once for one o'clock, twice for two o'clock, three times for three o'clock, etc. As TwoTone commando rolled into his house one day, he heard the clock chime once. A half hour later it chimed once again. A half hour later it chimed once, and a half hour later it chimed once again. Since the clock is working properly (of course), what time was it when TwoTone entered his house?

There are lots of Tiffany and Chanel rep earrings out there (see ioffer), but I've never managed to find the right deal with the added Western Union and postage fees to want to buy any of it (jewellery in general). Maybe one time if I double it up with a watch purchase... But if you shop around gen earrings aren't necessarily all that expensive (I mean, there's nothing to them). Cheers!

What can I say: it has been made quite clear in both Vanity Fair and Vogue that brown cat fur straps are in for golden labs this season! Major faux pas! More seriously - yes, my other hobby is dressing up dogs for amusement. And for the record, that was one giggle and six thumbs up (I have an extra two sets of arms, thus my interest in watches).

And it's all the waiting for referrals too - a process of elimination at the speed of an asthmatic ant. "Just feckin' fix it!" is what you want. The 'wait and see' thing just doesn't cut it after a while. Still - removing 2 discs sounds drastic - it's a solution but, you know, you end up looking like this: On the pinched nerve: obviously there are loads of google links to excellent sites on pinched sciatic nerves, but it must be reassuring (?) to know that your agony is shared! It seems to be a rest job. Hopefully, because you injured yourself doing something slightly innocuous, it will sort itself. It's a personal thing, but I'd be speaking to a GP before I went to a chiropractor. Fingers crossed for all of you!

LOL!

Ah, thanks! I've been lost since it disappeared from all our avatars.

Or at the very least, not dangling off a boat I agree that the boat probably pushed him off - the driver might just have been used to braking his car, but that bit fat boat would bring massive additional momentum. What's most surprising is that it stopped!

If you think that's bad, just imagine being in a hurry and getting stuck behind one of TwoTone's ladies in the ATM queue....

Some lovely pieces! Great work!

G'day / Auch aye!

Cheers for the other number! Telstra's contempt for the public knows no bounds.

Good work! Now where did you say the porn was?