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Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: geg (---.15-2.cable.virginmedia.com)
Date: August 26, 2012 08:37PM

4) is it useful?

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.as43234.net)
Date: August 27, 2012 10:25AM

0) Animal, vegetable or mineral? Possibly vegetable and/or mineral.
1) Can you put it in a breadbox? You most certainly could, if the breadbox measured up.
2) Is it a battenburgh cake? No.
3) Is it a grand piano? No.
4) Is it useful? Yes, by Heisenberg, yes!

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: Ian (---.40.255.88.threembb.co.uk)
Date: August 27, 2012 02:08PM

I was going to suggest the Armillaria Ostoyae (sp?) better known as the Honny Mushroom, but now you've mentioned Heisenberg I'm not sure (yes crap physicist joke).

Is it a Large Hadron Collider?

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: MistyCat (122.58.102.---)
Date: August 27, 2012 03:05PM

Will its nature be exposed by our method of questioning?
Edited to remove out-of-turn question.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/27/2012 03:14PM by MistyCat.

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.as43234.net)
Date: August 27, 2012 06:48PM

0) Animal, vegetable or mineral? Possibly vegetable and/or mineral.
1) Can you put it in a breadbox? You most certainly could, if the breadbox measured up.
2) Is it a battenburgh cake? No.
3) Is it a grand piano? No.
4) Is it useful? Yes, by Heisenberg, yes!
5) Is it a Large Hadron Collider? No.

I suspect your breadbox must be very large indeed.

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: geg (---.15-2.cable.virginmedia.com)
Date: August 28, 2012 03:14PM

6) Can you eat it?

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.as43234.net)
Date: August 28, 2012 04:33PM

0) Animal, vegetable or mineral? Possibly vegetable and/or mineral.
1) Can you put it in a breadbox? You most certainly could, if the breadbox measured up.
2) Is it a battenburgh cake? No.
3) Is it a grand piano? No.
4) Is it useful? Yes, by Heisenberg, yes!
5) Is it a Large Hadron Collider? No.
6) Is it edible? No.

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: delacuesta (---.adsl.xs4all.nl)
Date: August 29, 2012 06:52PM

EgonSpengler Wrote:
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> 5) Is it a Large Hadron Collider? No.
>
> I suspect your breadbox must be very large indeed.

Not necessarily. A large hadron may fit in to any breadbox, I suppose.


7) Is it Ffordean?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/29/2012 06:57PM by delacuesta.

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.as43234.net)
Date: August 29, 2012 07:50PM

0) Animal, vegetable or mineral? Possibly vegetable and/or mineral.
1) Can you put it in a breadbox? You most certainly could, if the breadbox measured up.
2) Is it a battenburgh cake? No.
3) Is it a grand piano? No.
4) Is it useful? Yes, by Heisenberg, yes!
5) Is it a Large Hadron Collider? No.
6) Is it edible? No.
7) Is it Ffordean? Not as far as I'm aware.

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: OB (---.range86-181.btcentralplus.com)
Date: August 29, 2012 07:55PM

8) is it found in a normal household

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.as43234.net)
Date: August 30, 2012 01:50PM

0) Animal, vegetable or mineral? Possibly vegetable and/or mineral.
1) Can you put it in a breadbox? You most certainly could, if the breadbox measured up.
2) Is it a battenburgh cake? No.
3) Is it a grand piano? No.
4) Is it useful? Yes, by Heisenberg, yes!
5) Is it a Large Hadron Collider? No.
6) Is it edible? No.
7) Is it Ffordean? Not as far as I'm aware.
8) Is it found in a normal household? I would imagine more than half of households have at least one.

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: OB (---.range86-181.btcentralplus.com)
Date: August 30, 2012 03:14PM

9) is it now or has it ever been a potted plant?

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.as43234.net)
Date: August 30, 2012 05:41PM

0) Animal, vegetable or mineral? Possibly vegetable and/or mineral.
1) Can you put it in a breadbox? You most certainly could, if the breadbox measured up.
2) Is it a battenburgh cake? No.
3) Is it a grand piano? No.
4) Is it useful? Yes, by Heisenberg, yes!
5) Is it a Large Hadron Collider? No.
6) Is it edible? No.
7) Is it Ffordean? Not as far as I'm aware.
8) Is it found in a normal household? I would imagine more than half of households have at least one.
9) is it now or has it ever been a potted plant? No.

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: delacuesta (---.adsl.xs4all.nl)
Date: August 30, 2012 08:51PM

10) Is it manufactured?

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.as43234.net)
Date: August 30, 2012 09:19PM

0) Animal, vegetable or mineral? Possibly vegetable and/or mineral.
1) Can you put it in a breadbox? You most certainly could, if the breadbox measured up.
2) Is it a battenburgh cake? No.
3) Is it a grand piano? No.
4) Is it useful? Yes, by Heisenberg, yes!
5) Is it a Large Hadron Collider? No.
6) Is it edible? No.
7) Is it Ffordean? Not as far as I'm aware.
8) Is it found in a normal household? I would imagine more than half of households have at least one.
9) is it now or has it ever been a potted plant? No.
10) Is it manufactured? Absolutely, defiantly yes.

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: MistyCat (122.58.102.---)
Date: September 01, 2012 07:56AM

Does it use batteries?

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: OB (---.range86-178.btcentralplus.com)
Date: September 01, 2012 09:09AM

12) ...and is it black and white and read all over

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.7-3.cable.virginmedia.com)
Date: September 01, 2012 11:04AM

0) Animal, vegetable or mineral? Possibly vegetable and/or mineral.
1) Can you put it in a breadbox? You most certainly could, if the breadbox measured up.
2) Is it a battenburgh cake? No.
3) Is it a grand piano? No.
4) Is it useful? Yes, by Heisenberg, yes!
5) Is it a Large Hadron Collider? No.
6) Is it edible? No.
7) Is it Ffordean? Not as far as I'm aware.
8) Is it found in a normal household? I would imagine more than half of households have at least one.
9) is it now or has it ever been a potted plant? No.
10) Is it manufactured? Absolutely, defiantly yes.
11) Does it use batteries? No.
12) Is it printed papers of some kind? No.

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.10-3.cable.virginmedia.com)
Date: September 01, 2012 11:27AM

Is it a container?

Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.as43234.net)
Date: September 03, 2012 08:32PM

0) Animal, vegetable or mineral? Possibly vegetable and/or mineral.
1) Can you put it in a breadbox? You most certainly could, if the breadbox measured up.
2) Is it a battenburgh cake? No.
3) Is it a grand piano? No.
4) Is it useful? Yes, by Heisenberg, yes!
5) Is it a Large Hadron Collider? No.
6) Is it edible? No.
7) Is it Ffordean? Not as far as I'm aware.
8) Is it found in a normal household? I would imagine more than half of households have at least one.
9) is it now or has it ever been a potted plant? No.
10) Is it manufactured? Absolutely, defiantly yes.
11) Does it use batteries? No.
12) Is it printed papers of some kind? No.
13) Is it a container? No.

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