Useless facts. Page 18

Quote: lofthouse @ October 28 2012, 8:37 PM GMT

Rik mayall!!?

"Davros, you complete and utter bastard!!"

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Would make a welcome change from Matt Smith. Nothing against Smith mind, just the dross he is required to perform.

Quote: Raymond Terrific @ October 28 2012, 8:55 PM GMT

I don't think you can have someone do Dr Who, who is already quite well known. Take Rowan Atkinson - people already know him as Rowan Atkinson, he couldn't really "be" Dr Who if you know what I mean. I think that's why all the previous ones (well, since the reboot, I'm not sure about before that) are people who haven't really made it into the mainstream consciousness.

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Rowan Atkinson already played the Doctor in The Curse of Fatal Death and was superb. Didn't feel like I was watching Mr Blackbeaner taking the piss, but rather, the genuine Doctor. That's how good The Curse of Fatal Death was. Scripted by Moffat - his first and finest Who.

Quote: billwill @ April 17 2013, 7:39 PM BST

I very much doubt that one, but it is a common myth.

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Myth?
The Mpemba effect. The Royal Society of Chemistry says its true ( they offered a £1000 prize for the best explanation ) and Aristotle was aware of it... But feel free to continue doubting, you doubting Thomas.

My tea was yummy.

Quote: Sinon @ April 17 2013, 8:47 PM BST

Myth?
The Mpemba effect. The Royal Society of Chemistry says its true ( they offered a £1000 prize for the best explanation ) and Aristotle was aware of it... But feel free to continue doubting, you doubting Thomas.

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Wiki says:

The Mpemba effect, named after Tanzanian student Erasto Mpemba, is the assertion that warmer water can freeze faster than colder water. Although there is anecdotal support for the effect, there is no agreement on exactly what the effect is and under what circumstances it occurs. There have been reports of similar phenomena since ancient times, although with insufficient detail for the claims to be replicated.
The phenomenon seems contrary to thermodynamics, but a number of possible explanations for the effect have been proposed. Further investigations will need to decide on a precise definition of "freezing" and control a vast number of starting parameters in order to confirm or explain the effect.

Ok, so not something that happens all the time, it's just been reported to happen occasionally, but it's not easily reproducible. I guess the impurities in the water are going to have an effect.

Quote: Nil Putters @ April 17 2013, 8:47 PM BST

My tea was yummy.

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Mine was too, even though it was freakishly low in calories.
I could eat another one right now...

Quote: zooo @ April 17 2013, 9:28 PM BST

Mine was too, even though it was freakishly low in calories.

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Can't say the same for mine. Mmmmmmmm curry.

Mine was good but not as good as I had hoped.

To avoid weight gain I only eat really tasty stuff at weekends.

Like an entire chocolate cake?

Quote: zooo @ April 17 2013, 9:56 PM BST

Like an entire chocolate cake?

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I don't care for chocolate cake - too sickly.

I bet Chip is more of a Victoria Sponge kind of man.

I know I am

I've more got him down as a French Fancy.

From wikipedia:

"...Hans Gamper was a Swiss football pioneer, player and club president. He founded football clubs in Switzerland and Catalonia, most notably FC Basel, FC Zürich and FC Barcelona".

Quote: chipolata @ April 17 2013, 10:10 PM BST

I don't care for chocolate cake - too sickly.

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You're too sickly for chocolate cake?

Who are you, the hunchback kid from The Secret Garden?

Einstein's last words are unknown, he uttered them in German and the only witness was an American Nurse who didn't speak German