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Old Jul 2nd 2007, 4:06 pm
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2 tough questions - are you ready?

Question 1:
If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and she had syphilis, would you recommend that she have an abortion?


Read the next question before looking at the response for this one.




















Question 2:
It is time to elect a new world leader, and only your vote counts. Here are the facts about the three candidates.



Candidate A.


Associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologists. He's had two mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10 martinis a day.


Candidate B.

He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in college and drinks a quart of whiskey every evening.

Candidate C.


He is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, drinks an occasional beer and never cheated on his wife.

Which of these candidates would be our choice? Decide first... no peeking, then scroll down for the response.
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Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt.


Candidate B is Winston Churchill.



Candidate C is AdolF Hitler.





And, by the way, on your answer to the abortion question: If you said YES, you just killed Beethoven.

Pretty interesting isn't it? Makes a person think before judging someone.

Remember: Amateurs...built the ark.

Professionals...built the Titanic
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Old Jul 2nd 2007, 4:45 pm
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Originally Posted by spain
2 tough questions - are you ready?

Question 1:
If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and she had syphilis, would you recommend that she have an abortion?
Read the next question before looking at the response for this one.

Question 2:It is time to elect a new world leader, and only your vote counts. Here are the facts about the three candidates.

Candidate A.

associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologists. He's had two mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10 martinis a day.


Candidate B.

He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in college and drinks a quart of whiskey every evening.

Candidate C.


He is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, drinks an occasional beer and never cheated on his wife.

Which of these candidates would be our choice? Decide first... no peeking, then scroll down for the response.
.
candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt.


Candidate B is Winston Churchill.



Candidate C is AdolF Hitler.





And, by the way, on your answer to the abortion question: If you said YES, you just killed Beethoven.

Pretty interesting isn't it? Makes a person think before judging someone.

Remember: Amateurs...built the ark.

Professionals...built the Titanic

There wasn't much wrong with the Titanic though.
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Old Jul 2nd 2007, 4:48 pm
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Originally Posted by rugbymatt
There wasn't much wrong with the Titanic though.
Apart from not having enough life boats
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Old Jul 2nd 2007, 5:12 pm
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Originally Posted by Lionda
Apart from not having enough life boats
And the bulkheads were too low - if they were high enough there wouldn't have been need for any lifeboats - maybe!!
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Originally Posted by spain
2 tough questions - are you ready?

Question 1:
If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and she had syphilis, would you recommend that she have an abortion?


Read the next question before looking at the response for this one. Question 2:
It is time to elect a new world leader, and only your vote counts. Here are the facts about the three candidates.



Candidate A.


Associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologists. He's had two mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10 martinis a day.


Candidate B.

He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in college and drinks a quart of whiskey every evening.

Candidate C.


He is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, drinks an occasional beer and never cheated on his wife.

Which of these candidates would be our choice? Decide first... no peeking, then scroll down for the response.

Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt.


Candidate B is Winston Churchill.



Candidate C is AdolF Hitler.
And, by the way, on your answer to the abortion question: If you said YES, you just killed Beethoven.

Pretty interesting isn't it? Makes a person think before judging someone.

Remember: Amateurs...built the ark.

Professionals...built the Titanic
On the subject of Beethoven - for a smile read the Wikipedia blurb on the guy, unless it's been changed someone has been quite naughty!!
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Originally Posted by leighbloke
On the subject of Beethoven - for a smile read the Wikipedia blurb on the guy, unless it's been changed someone has been quite naughty!!
not getting it? Is this a northern thing?
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Originally Posted by spain
2 Remember: Amateurs...built the ark.

Professionals...built the Titanic
Of course we never found out how the ark would have fared against a bloody great big iceberg.!!
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Of course we never found out how the ark would have fared against a bloody great big iceberg.!!
must have floated..........we still have giraffes!
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Originally Posted by rugbymatt
There wasn't much wrong with the Titanic though.

Ahhhhh wrong smarty pants. Recently after research it was said that the Titanic was doomed anyway as the construction was flawed. Had it encountered very high seas the likelyhood of its back being broken would have been quite high

But then there are so many opinions on titanic ...
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Originally Posted by rugbymatt
not getting it? Is this a northern thing?
No you wouldn't just checked it and it's been edited to remove all the rude and anti sematic references.
Makes me feel a little foolish - maybe RB, you can give some advice on how I can cope with this?
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Originally Posted by leighbloke
No you wouldn't just checked it and it's been edited to remove all the rude and anti sematic references.
Makes me feel a little foolish - maybe RB, you can give some advice on how I can cope with this?
Uh ohhhh
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Originally Posted by rugbymatt
must have floated..........we still have giraffes!
Maybe it sank in only 21ft of water and they could just keep their noses in the air.
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Originally Posted by Mitzyboy
Ahhhhh wrong smarty pants. Recently after research it was said that the Titanic was doomed anyway as the construction was flawed. Had it encountered very high seas the likelyhood of its back being broken would have been quite high

But then there are so many opinions on titanic ...
There is a theory that the Olympic and the Titanic were swapped round because the original Titanic, or the new Olympic, was showing stress fractures already.

I will admit that the sinking of the Titanic changed a huge amount the design and construction of ships to follow, but lets face it, the Olympic and the Britannic never broke up and they were built almost identically, in fact the Olympic never had a full double hull.
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Originally Posted by leighbloke
No you wouldn't just checked it and it's been edited to remove all the rude and anti sematic references.
Makes me feel a little foolish - maybe RB, you can give some advice on how I can cope with this?
Well since I never feel that way I couldn't answer you, but you could ask Mitzy.
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Originally Posted by rugbymatt
There is a theory that the Olympic and the Titanic were swapped round because the original Titanic, or the new Olympic, was showing stress fractures already.
Yes I heard that but didn't one have the wrong number of funnels or something like that
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