Nothing

Duane Reese · Post by **Duane Reese** » 18 Oct 2009 10:43 am

How has this discussion gone on so long without mention of the true terrestrially-originated master of nothing....

The Voyager I probe

No, the probe itself is not nothing, and it isn't studying nothing (exclusively) but given that it is over 110.239 astronomical units (10.22 billion miles) from the sun and further out in space than any known solar system objects besides comets, I'd say that it can testify to what nothing is all about more than any of us (and does, for several more years). It is mired in a greater quantity of nothing than any other man-made object has ever been.

That thing is beyond the sun's escape velocity, and as such is not scheduled to come back...ever. I'll tell you one idea it has disproved: "What goes up must come down." Not that thing...

Lowell Whitney · Post by **Lowell Whitney** » 18 Oct 2009 11:51 am

Who'd a thought, 70 pages and still NOTHING of redeeming value!!! $:\$
Lowell

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 18 Oct 2009 4:00 pm

Duane Reese wrote:...and further out in space than any known solar system objects besides comets...

It should soon make contact with Captain Janeway.

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 19 Oct 2009 1:55 am

Alan: But this is V-Ger from one of those Trekkie movies so I think the aliens got it in the end leaving us poor earth creatures with NOTHING once again...

Regards, Paul

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 19 Oct 2009 6:10 am

Yes, the robots decided that our planet was infested with organic life forms (us). They're probably right.

Fortunately we will have Kirk and Spock to protect us when that happens.

...otherwise, NOTHING.

Roger Crawford · Post by **Roger Crawford** » 19 Oct 2009 9:02 am

Nothing can stand it the way of this becoming the longest thread in SGF history.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 19 Oct 2009 4:32 pm

Eventually, but it has aways to go.

Larry Rafferty · Post by **Larry Rafferty** » 24 Oct 2009 4:36 pm

I heard that nothing rhymes with orange, so I wrote a rhyming verse:

Yesterday I ate an orange....
Today I am doing nothing....

Why does'nt this rhyme? What went wrong?

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 24 Oct 2009 5:01 pm

It's reckoned that orange is one of the few words in the English language which rhymes with nothing. I've been trying to prove this wrong, but so far I've come up with NOTHING.
(...and Larry, you're right, it doesn't rhyme !)

To add to the confusion, it's reckoned that month, silver and purple also rhyme with nothing. If they all rhyme with nothing then they should rhyme with each other, shouldn't they ?

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 25 Oct 2009 3:03 am

Didn't Roger Miller match PURPLE with MAPLE SYRUPLE ??

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 25 Oct 2009 10:28 am

It reminds me of the Polish immigrant who was struggling to learn English, when he came upon a newspaper displaying the headlines "Judge Pronounced Sentance".
"How can I master a language like that ?" he mumbled to himself.

(Presumably he mumbled it in Polish.)

Duane Reese · Post by **Duane Reese** » 25 Oct 2009 6:27 pm

Alan Brookes wrote:It's reckoned that orange is one of the few words in the English language which rhymes with nothing. I've been trying to prove this wrong, but so far I've come up with NOTHING.
(...and Larry, you're right, it doesn't rhyme !)

Waddya mean...? You have to be flexible:

door hinge (British h-drop — Alan how did you miss that?)
Iron Range (nod to our Minnesota steelers)
courage (rural intermountain accent)
syringe
porridge
Moore Ridge (Otero Co., NM)
Orrin Hatch (Utah senator) (you have to say it fast)

Close enough. Not always is there an "n", but just pretend you have a cold and you're off to the races...rhyming with "orange"...

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 26 Oct 2009 6:35 am

I think you've got something there with "syringe" and "orange", since most people say "oringe".

In days of yore, "orange", which comes from French, used to be pronounce "orrarnj".

By the way, talking of fruit, "cherries" comes from the French "cherice". The back-formation of the singular "cherry" is unetymological. Originally, in English, the word was "cherice", and the plural was "cherices". Eventually "cherice" became both singular and plural, as in "fish", and then "cherry" popped up.

Sorry for deviating.

What has this to do with "nothing"?

NOTHING.

Matthew Walton · Post by **Matthew Walton** » 26 Oct 2009 4:01 pm

Alan Brookes wrote:It's reckoned that orange is one of the few words in the English language which rhymes with nothing. I've been trying to prove this wrong, but so far I've come up with NOTHING.

I never got this. isn't it obvious? Orange rhymes with orange!
Let me explain:
Orange (the fruit)
rhymes with
Orange(the color)
See, it's not that hard after all!

Duane Reese · Post by **Duane Reese** » 26 Oct 2009 4:36 pm

Wait a minute, Matthew...

Orange (the fruit)
rhymes with
Orange (the color)
rhymes with
Orange (between Beaumont and Louisiana)
rhymes with
Orange (the amplifier line)...

Dude!

Hey Alan, I added one more to my list.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 26 Oct 2009 4:45 pm

Duane Reese wrote:Wait a minute, Matthew...

Orange (the fruit)
rhymes with
Orange (the color)
rhymes with
Orange (between Beaumont and Louisiana)
rhymes with
Orange (the amplifier line)...

Dude!

Hey Alan, I added one more to my list.

...also rhymes with Orange (County, California).

What about that big monkey, the Orange Utang ?

Archie Nicol · Post by **Archie Nicol** » 26 Oct 2009 4:58 pm

Nothing rhymes with orange, eh?
What about.....

Depending on pronunciation.

Arch.

Duane Reese · Post by **Duane Reese** » 26 Oct 2009 8:23 pm

Alan Brookes wrote:What about that big monkey, the Orange Utang ?

That sentence reminds me of..

Orange-Flavored TANG!

Don Kona Woods · Post by **Don Kona Woods** » 26 Oct 2009 11:25 pm

This is an experiment:

- Let us all procrastinate about nothing and see how long we can procrastinate about nothing!

After the experiment please report your results so that the results of Nothing can be tabulated.

Aloha,

Don

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 8 Nov 2009 10:50 am

Don Kona Woods wrote:This is an experiment:
- Let us all procrastinate about nothing and see how long we can procrastinate about nothing!
After the experiment please report your results so that the results of Nothing can be tabulated.

PROCRASTINATION OVER...

NOTHING has been posted since October 26th.

If we don't keep posting it will disappear from people's minds.

The results of the "Nothing" were nothing.

By the way, if you use the Search function and search for "nothing" it will say "No topics or posts met your search criteria."

Don Kona Woods · Post by **Don Kona Woods** » 9 Nov 2009 8:40 am

If we don't keep posting it will disappear from people's minds.

If we do that, then we will have NOTHING!!!!

Having NOTHING could be very scary!!!

Aloha,

Don

Richard Sevigny · Post by **Richard Sevigny** » 9 Nov 2009 6:19 pm

I don't know, Don. Don't the Buddhists say that bliss is the ability to envisage nothing with your mind???

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 10 Nov 2009 7:44 am

Seems to me that once we clear our minds and think about nothing, and that doesn't mean thinking about thinking about nothing, we fall asleep.

Rick Collins · Post by **Rick Collins** » 10 Nov 2009 9:13 am

Alan Brookes wrote:Seems to me that once we clear our minds and think about nothing, and that doesn't mean thinking about thinking about nothing, we fall asleep.

I beg your pardon, Mr. Alan Brooks (BTW I Never Promised You a Rosie Garden), but if one clears their mind,
that would have to mean that there's no sex __ since I once heard sex is all in your mind.

This must be true, because last night I dreamed that I was lying between Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Beal on a secluded beach on Kauai, HI.
Then I woke up and there was NOTHING.

I'm really beginning to hate that word __ NOTHING!

Richard Sevigny · Post by **Richard Sevigny** » 10 Nov 2009 1:55 pm

Alan,

But isn't sleep a form of bliss??