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Posted: 2 Oct 2008 10:18 am
by Charlie McDonald
Could content mean content?

Anyone? Anyone? Nothing? :eek:

Posted: 2 Oct 2008 4:36 pm
by Richard Sevigny
Better content than contempt ;-)

Posted: 2 Oct 2008 5:04 pm
by Karen Lee Steenwijk
Gee came in late...what is this topic all about?I have seen nothing that has caught my "eye".hmmmm
I got nothing out of this!!


Karen

Posted: 2 Oct 2008 6:29 pm
by Edward Meisse
Karen Lee ! wrote:Gee came in late...what is this topic all about?I have seen nothing that has caught my "eye".hmmmm
I got nothing out of this!!


Karen


I feel exactly the same way. But then I guess we got out of it just what we put into it, didn't we? ;-)

Posted: 2 Oct 2008 7:39 pm
by Karen Lee Steenwijk
Wow! wouldn't it be "something" if we did? :D


Karen

Posted: 2 Oct 2008 8:39 pm
by David L. Donald
Nothing to it.

Posted: 2 Oct 2008 9:13 pm
by David Doggett
Karen, you have missed nothing.

Posted: 2 Oct 2008 10:34 pm
by David L. Donald
Nothing escapes you! Eh D. Dogg?

Posted: 3 Oct 2008 5:58 am
by Alan Brookes
Charlie McDonald wrote:Could content mean content?

Anyone? Anyone? Nothing? :eek:
"With tent". I have a tent... :D
Richard Sevigny wrote:Better content than contempt ;-)
"With time".

I guess with time you get a better tent.

Posted: 3 Oct 2008 6:44 am
by Tamara James
Alan Brookes wrote:
Charlie McDonald wrote:Could content mean content?

I guess with time you get a better tent.
With time, you HAVE to get a better tent. Holes develop where tent should be causeing drips and such. Now you have NOTHING where there should be something to do the job the tent is designed to do. So where there used to be tent is NOTHING. NOTHING, needing corrected, is corrected best by buying a new tent. Leaving your wallet with NOTHING to go camping with. Why get a better tent?

Posted: 3 Oct 2008 12:28 pm
by Karen Lee Steenwijk
table of contents, usually headed simply "Contents," is a list of the parts of a book or document (including Acts of Parliaments) organized in the order in which the parts appear. The contents usually includes the titles or descriptions of the first-level headers, such as chapter titles in longer works, and often includes second-level or section titles (A-heads) within the chapters as well, and occasionally even third-level titles (subsections or B-heads). The depth of detail in tables of contents depends on the length of the work, with longer works having less. Formal reports (ten or more pages and being too long to put into a memo or letter) also have tables of contents. Documents of fewer than ten pages do not require tables of contents, but often have a short list of contents at the beginning.
What happens when there is nothing in the table of contents? All this was for NOTHING!

Karen

Posted: 3 Oct 2008 4:14 pm
by Alan Brookes
A hole in a tent is an interesting concept. Holes don't exist, they just show where something used to exist. What is a hole made of ? If you removed a hole from a tent you wouldn't actually be removing anything, you would be adding back material that wasn't there beforehand.

When we remove holes where do we store the removed holes ? :eek: :?

Posted: 3 Oct 2008 5:12 pm
by Edward Meisse
When we remove holes where do we store the removed holes?


Why, in the Albert Hall, of course!! :lol:

Posted: 3 Oct 2008 6:06 pm
by David L. Donald
Alan Brookes wrote:A hole in a tent is an interesting concept. Holes don't exist, they just show where something used to exist. What is a hole made of ? If you removed a hole from a tent you wouldn't actually be removing anything, you would be adding back material that wasn't there beforehand.

When we remove holes where do we store the removed holes ? :eek: :?
Well Alan sometimes the HOLE exists,
but what might have been there never did.

You can make a hole in whole cloth,
and it then was something that did exist,
but went away.

But bend a wire around and weld it together,
you have a hole, but what was in the middle never existed.
Nothing was ever there.

Posted: 3 Oct 2008 7:56 pm
by David Doggett
Is the Table of Contents listed in the Table of Contents?

Suppose you have a list of all lists which do not list themselves. Is that list in the list? If it is, then it lists itself and so shouldn't be. But if it isn't, then it doesn't list itself, so it should be.

You can buy doughnut holes. I've eaten plenty. There are other holes you can buy, but they cost a lot more.

And don't forget black holes. They exist. They are the most massive macrobodies known - not exactly nothing. But they will eventually evaporate into nothing. And then there are worm holes, which are theoretical, and may or may not exist. So they could be nothing.

I've got to stop tuning in to this thread late at night.

Posted: 3 Oct 2008 9:06 pm
by Donna Dodd
You're unloading your groceries, and place the contents of the grocery bag on your table. Is that a table of contents?

:?

Posted: 4 Oct 2008 5:16 am
by Charlie McDonald
No, it's still a table.
David Doggett wrote:But they will eventually evaporate into nothing.
Are you sure? What about all the matter that collapsed? And conservation of energy?
I've got to stop tuning in to this thread late at night.
Early morning is no better. :eek:

Posted: 4 Oct 2008 7:20 am
by Richard Sevigny
David L. Donald wrote:Well Alan sometimes the HOLE exists,
but what might have been there never did.
Seems to me a hole is a whole lotta NOTHING :P

Posted: 4 Oct 2008 9:43 am
by Edward Meisse
The walls of a house are what hold it up. But it is the emptiness inside that makes it useful.

Posted: 4 Oct 2008 9:49 am
by Charlie McDonald
Edward, keep talking like that and I'll follow you forever.
Provided you live to be 160.

Actually, Lao Tzu had a lot to say about nothing.
Or so they say....

Posted: 4 Oct 2008 6:46 pm
by Edward Meisse
Provided you live to be 160.


Only 23 years until I'm half way there.
Actually, Lao Tzu had alot to say about nothing.


Actually, he was just pointing out that there is nothing we can say. Which is a kind of unusal thing for someone to say so much about. But I think he would have loved this thread better than anything.

Posted: 4 Oct 2008 9:00 pm
by Duane Reese
This thread could use some beers... For us...

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Here you go, boys. It's on the house. (I guess that means it's on b0b...)

Posted: 5 Oct 2008 4:08 am
by Karen Lee Steenwijk
Wow! Fifty pages of "all about nothing". Whew!I am now more educated on "Nothing"

Karen

Posted: 5 Oct 2008 5:10 am
by Matthew Walton
Edward Meisse wrote:
When we remove holes where do we store the removed holes?


Why, in the Albert Hall, of course!! :lol:
I've got a hole in me pocket...

Posted: 5 Oct 2008 7:06 am
by Charlie McDonald
Edward Meisse wrote:But I think he would have loved this thread better than anything.
Or at least better than nothing.