jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Well, what do you think?

dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone

👍👍 Cute!!

"...the speed of dark?" -- What f-stop and rule of photography should I use for that?

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

1/186,000 …… f- stop doesn’t matter.

Stan

dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone

No wonder I can't do that with my little beginner camera.

That does it!!!
Now as soon as I flunk the test, I have to go buy the snazziest shiny new camera!!!

bobbyjohn Loc: Dallas, TX

In panel #3, I, like many others, checked ... and indeed the numbers on a phone and calculator ARE reversed. Never though about that in past, but now I (we) are enlightened!

BBurns Loc: South Bay, California

True, "..f- stop doesn’t matter", but you're going to need a fast lens !

doxphoto Loc: Allentown, PA

We keep darkroom doors closed so the dark doesn’t leak out.

BebuLamar

I know for sure the orange came before the color orange.

PAR4DCR Loc: A Sunny Place

Don

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

I once had a teacher who would differentiate between things that were "Need to Know" (will be on the test) and "Nice to Know" (won't be on the test).

Harry02 Loc: Gardena, CA

Where were youse guys in the 60s? No Lucas jokes?
Lucas, the prince of darkness. Motto: get home before dark

I used to have a custom labeled mason jar of official Lucas smoke.

Have you let the smoke out of the wires on your British machine?
Here is one Lucas Replacement Wiring Harness Smoke kit, P/N 530433, along with the very rare Churchill Tool 18G548BS adapter tube and metering valve. These kits were supplied to Lucas factory technicians as a trouble-shooting and repair The smoke is metered, through the fuse box, into the circuit which has released it's original smoke until the leak is located and repaired. The replacement smoke re-introduced.
Lucas is the patent holder for the short circuit.
Lucas - Inventor of the first intermittent wiper.
Lucas - Inventor of the self-dimming headlamp.
The three position Lucas switch - Dim, Flicker and Off.
The Original Anti-Theft Device - Lucas Electrics.
Lucas is an acronym for Loose Unsoldered Connections and Splices

Back in the 70's, Lucas decided to diversify its product line and began manufacturing vacuum cleaners. It was the only product they offered which did not suck.
Q: Why do the British drink warm beer? A: Because Lucas makes their refrigerators
Alexander Bell invented the Telephone. Thomas Edison- the Light Bulb. Joseph Lucas invented the Short Circuit.
There are no British Astronauts, because they saw the spacecraft had Lucas switches, and everyone quit.
Lucas Electric, from the country that brought us the Dark Ages.

I've had a '64 Triumph and a '66 BSA, chopped.
For the Triumph, I ended up pulling the harness and nailing it to a chunk of plywood.
I could get the wire right, in 16 gauge, proper ends and fit, and Working.
The BSA I just wired in place. The board finally ended up at Marlin's shop
With the headlight, on the horn was an emergency stop. Engine and system couldn't handle the load.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I've always wondered why there is that difference in keypads. I have to stop and think when I use the keypad on the phone.

RKastner Loc: Davenport, FL

Someone had to do it....so here are the answers. There will NOT be a test at the end.

1. Male ladybugs are called ladybugs too....even though they're not technically bugs. They're beetles.
2. Orange the fruit was definitely named before its corresponding color was.
3. The answer is the telephone is arranged in that order so the alphabet to each number will correspond in the correct number. When the telephone was first used peoples numbers were not just numbers they were call letters and numbers. The keypad has a different reason. Calculators were made in the beginning with tubes, Before 1964, calculators were either mechanical or electronic devices with heavy tubes. The key pads on the first calculators actually resembled old cash registers, with the left row of keys numbering 9 on top down to 0 on the bottom.
4. Darkness travels at the speed of light. More accurately, darkness does not exist by itself as a unique physical entity, but is simply the absence of light. Any time you block out most of the light – for instance, by cupping your hands together – you get darkness.

BBurns Loc: South Bay, California

See my post from 3/2019 titled The Prince of Darkness.
Scroll down to see the photo of the jar.

revhen Loc: By the beautiful Hudson

Questions certain mountain folk would like. Now we of the more rivery folk deal more practical questions like, "Why does the sun come up in the east?"