Notes & Queries

What was the best thing before sliced bread?

Why is there only 1 monopolies commission?

Is this a Gay - Money thing ?

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Originally posted by Jez Quigley:
What was the best thing _before_ sliced bread?

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A knife?

But what came first?

Harry

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Originally posted by Haddock:
How about a thread to get answers for the things that have always bothered you...........


Why have daddy long legs evolved to have such long legs?

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Let's start with some terminology, Nick.

Are these true Daddy Long Legs (Opilones) or Daddy Long Legs Spiders (Pholcidae). Both are Arachnids but within that category they are completely separate species. Opiliones are not spiders and have no spinning organs, fangs or venom glands.

Once we've established which beasties your engineer colleagues and you are referring to, the answers to your question may come out of examining the lifestyle of the beasties in question.

The question that's always bothered me is how did insect wings evolve? There doesn't seem to be any function in a partly evolved (but non functional) wing. And please leave God out of it.

Steve Margolis
defy convention - make music

I suggest we ask Matthew Robinson. As a not so recent thread indicated, he knows the answer to everything.

"The question that's always bothered me is how did insect wings evolve?"

Insects that can jump > Insects that can jump a long way > Insects that can jump and then float in the wind > Insects that have a flap of skin that aids gliding > Insects that can glide and steer > Insects that can glide, steer and flap a bit > Insects with wings.

Matthew

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Originally posted by 7V:

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Originally posted by Haddock:
How about a thread to get answers for the things that have always bothered you...........


Why have daddy long legs evolved to have such long legs?

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Let's start with some terminology, Nick.

Are these true Daddy Long Legs (Opilones) or Daddy Long Legs Spiders (Pholcidae). Both are Arachnids but within that category they are completely separate species. Opiliones are not spiders and have no spinning organs, fangs or venom glands.

Once we've established which beasties your engineer colleagues and you are referring to, the answers to your question may come out of examining the lifestyle of the beasties in question.

The question that's always bothered me is how did insect wings evolve? There doesn't seem to be any function in a partly evolved (but non functional) wing. And please leave God out of it.

Steve Margolis
_defy convention - make music_

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Steve,


I'm refering to the non-spider type that flies around.

Nick

And why does said Daddy long legs (I'm not sure which species here) have one of the most powerful venoms known to man, but no fangs etc to administer it (this is a fact I have heard several times from various sources).

To clear up any confusion I'm refering to the Cranefly (aka Daddy Long Legs in the UK).

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Though I think the quesation probably applies to all long legged insects.


Nick

When Wales play Ireland how many people in a crowd of 70,000 can't tell the difference between the the two teams due to red/green colour blindness?

Nick

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Originally posted by Haddock:
When Wales play Ireland how many people in a crowd of 70,000 can't tell the difference between the the two teams due to red/green colour blindness?

Nick

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Oh, that's not as much a problem as you'd think: Ireland are generally the ones whupping our arses (lately, anyway).

Cheers,

Tim
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Os nid Campagnolo yw hi, dyw hi ddim yn werth ei marcho...

Haddack and Tim,

Count me in on the colourblind front and I'm hoping that the reverse will be true next Wednesday thanks.

Mike

PS: My query is along the lines of something I have seen elsewhere. What if the hokey cokey really is what it's all about???