Nothing

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 11 Nov 2009 12:49 pm

I went shopping at lunchtime and bought nothing.

I guess I am now the proud owner of nothing. I think I'll take out a copyright on it and people will pay me royalties on its use.

NOTHING©

Rick Collins · Post by **Rick Collins** » 12 Nov 2009 8:04 am

Alan Brookes wrote:I went shopping at lunchtime and bought nothing.

I guess I am now the proud owner of nothing. I think I'll take out a copyright on it and people will pay me royalties on its use.

NOTHING©

Good idea.
I'm applying for a patent on the wheel myself, since nobody has.
Could I sue and collect retro-royalties?

But, if I sue I might get nothing.

I'm really, really beginning to hate that word __ nothing.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 12 Nov 2009 4:47 pm

Rick Collins wrote:...I'm really, really beginning to hate that word __ nothing.

There's nothing to hate.

Archie Nicol · Post by **Archie Nicol** » 22 Nov 2009 5:06 pm

We beat the Aussies at rugby yesterday. NOTHING short of pure luck and determination...Oh, and a missed conversion. Phew!

Arch.

Rick Collins · Post by **Rick Collins** » 23 Nov 2009 8:14 am

Great Archie!

But, could expand and expound on that term, "pure luck"?
Is that a lot better than "contaminated luck"?
Seemingly, "contaminated luck" would contain better odds.

You are correct to be happy about the outcome.
The final score could have been nothing to nothing.

Archie Nicol · Post by **Archie Nicol** » 23 Nov 2009 2:26 pm

`But, could (you) expand and expound on that term, "pure luck"?`

Maybe, sometime in the future when that other thread allows me.

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Ray Minich · Post by **Ray Minich** » 27 Nov 2009 2:10 pm

It is possible to have less than nothing...

When my bank balance is zero, there is "nothing in the bank".

When the account is overdrawn, is the balance then "less than nothing"?

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 27 Nov 2009 7:25 pm

Ray Minich wrote:...When the account is overdrawn, is the balance then "less than nothing"?

No, you can't have less than nothing, when you're overdrawn you have something ...a debt for the amount below zero.

But you've brought up something that hasn't been mentioned before in this thread (if that's still possible ) and that is negative numbers. They look like they're less than nothing, but they're actually something lower than zero, where zero is a point on a scale.

For instance, 0°C is not actually no heat. No heat occurs at -276°C.

Matthew Walton · Post by **Matthew Walton** » 29 Nov 2009 5:44 am

And why are there so many different units of measurement for temperature? Nothing makes sense, why can't we just settle on two?
Fahrenheit
Celsius
Kelvins
Rankine
Delisle
Newton
...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature_measurement
The logic here amounts to Nothing!

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 29 Nov 2009 10:27 am

Matthew Walton wrote:...why can't we just settle on two?...

I propose a seventh unit of temperature... the Tonebar Scale.
0°T will be the temperature at which the tonebar is too cold to handle.
100°T will be the temperature at which the tonebar is too hot to handle.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 13 Dec 2009 7:16 pm

Two weeks and NOTHING. Has everything been said on the subject ?

Don Kona Woods · Post by **Don Kona Woods** » 13 Dec 2009 8:26 pm

I'm gettin NOTHING for Christmas, cuz I've been NOTHING but bad. $:\$ $:\$

How bout you?

Merry Christmas and Aloha,

Don

Dianne Best · Post by **Dianne Best** » 14 Dec 2009 2:10 am

Well I donno why we need all those darned numbers for temperature. Everybody knows there's only five temperatures anyway:

Friggin HOT, Hot, nice, cold, and FRIGGIN COLD!

Lately Manitoba has been the last one.

Oh, I am sorry. Did I interrupt the discussion of nothing in particular?

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 14 Dec 2009 7:21 am

Gulp ! You do realise that "friggin" invokes the Pagan Goddess Frigg, the goddess of sex and reproduction, and, until recent times, "friggin" was considered a worse swear word than the other f word, because in addition to referring to sex, it also invokes paganism, which was blasphemy.

People nowadays don't realise that and think it's not swearing.

I'd better say NOTHING.

Dianne Best · Post by **Dianne Best** » 14 Dec 2009 11:42 am

Then I chose the right word! What else would you call -28c with a -44c windchill?

Richard Sevigny · Post by **Richard Sevigny** » 14 Dec 2009 5:12 pm

Dianne Best wrote:Then I chose the right word! What else would you call -28c with a -44c windchill?

Cold enough to emasculate a brass monkey

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 14 Dec 2009 5:48 pm

Dianne Best wrote:Then I chose the right word! What else would you call -28c with a -44c windchill?

I call it you get the weather in the location you choose to live. I lived for 35 years in England and then moved to California, where I've been for another 30 years. People here get a slight chill and complain that it's cold. They don't have a clue.

Think of it this way. People in Africa are worried that Global warming is going to make their location unlivable. But where you are, global warming is going to make the North of Canada, Greenland and Alaska prime real estate. Everyone is going to want to move north ! If you want to get rich, buy land north of the Arctic Circle. In 30 years time it'll be worth many times what you paid for it.

Ken Lang · Post by **Ken Lang** » 14 Dec 2009 9:57 pm

Back in the caveman days, the word for nothing was nobhotch. What was the word for something?
This is a trick question that I will answer for you.

There was no word for something, because nobody had nobhotch.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 15 Dec 2009 5:01 pm

Ken Lang wrote:Back in the caveman days, the word for nothing was nobhotch...

Nice try Ken, but back in cavemen days no-one could read and write, so we have no idea what languages they spoke. The earliest any language can be constructed back is Indo-European, spoken about 5,000 B.C. Caveman were thousands of years earlier than that, and about their languages we know...
NOTHING.

(Of course, some people still live in caves.....)

Roger Crawford · Post by **Roger Crawford** » 16 Dec 2009 8:25 am

I'm glad something is keeping nothing going.

Jimmie Martin · Post by **Jimmie Martin** » 18 Dec 2009 9:16 pm

How much does nothing cost?

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 19 Dec 2009 11:07 am

Different types of nothing cost different amounts, depending on what you have to remove to get to nothing.

Richard Sevigny · Post by **Richard Sevigny** » 19 Dec 2009 3:32 pm

Alan Brookes wrote:Different types of nothing cost different amounts, depending on what you have to remove to get to nothing.

Take divorce as an example. My brother's boss spent $60,000 to end up with nothing.

Larry Rafferty · Post by **Larry Rafferty** » 19 Dec 2009 3:37 pm

Alan Brookes wrote:Different types of nothing cost different amounts, depending on what you have to remove to get to nothing.

Alan...thank you for clearing that up !
Now I know what my grandpa meant when he said "nothing will make me spend $100 on a woman".

Don Kona Woods · Post by **Don Kona Woods** » 19 Dec 2009 11:46 pm

Nothing would make a person do something they don't want to do....True or False?
Why did you think that?

Aloha,

Don