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Author Topic: He read it in Harper's Index. 27 Sept 2004.  (Read 7493 times)

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JorgeFabregas

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He read it in Harper's Index. 27 Sept 2004.
« Reply #30 on: September 29, 2004, 05:28:25 pm »
I stand resolute in support of the fart theory. In fact, I have a hard time wrapping my brain around immediate association of semen and stinker. It seems like that would be a secondary or tertiary association at best. Perhaps the immediate association was with the volume, then. Then again, there are a lot of things I don't understand.
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He read it in Harper's Index. 27 Sept 2004.
« Reply #31 on: September 29, 2004, 06:20:26 pm »
I don't know why he'd call it a "stinker" either, but since he used liquid measurements it really can't be a fart.
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He read it in Harper's Index. 27 Sept 2004.
« Reply #32 on: September 29, 2004, 06:26:26 pm »
Teaspoons, cups, etc. are measurements of volume.  Gas, too, can be measured i/t/o volume.  "Cubic centimeters" is not as funny as "teaspoons."
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He read it in Harper's Index. 27 Sept 2004.
« Reply #33 on: September 29, 2004, 07:54:32 pm »
I think the ideal gas law is in play here also, unless we are measuring the volume of the particulate matter in the emission (and there always must be some) independent of the gases emitted.

I wonder what the apparatus used to measure Joltin' Joes airbiscuits looked like...
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He read it in Harper's Index. 27 Sept 2004.
« Reply #34 on: September 30, 2004, 08:22:48 am »
I'm with Ferocious J (nice guy, BTW, met him at APE) - - teaspoons can be a measure of volume, or gas.

I hated to see this discussion go down the wrong roads! Now you know. This cartoon has nothing to do with obscene ideas about reproduction chemicals.
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