Things you've learned from watching The Simpsons?

Jan 5, 2005, 10:58 PM ET21 posts by 12 posters

21 posts

Howard, Fine, and HowardJan 5, 2005, 10:58 PM ET

Hilter's birthday is April 20th (same as Barney's)

Paul BartramJan 6, 2005, 2:26 AM ET↩ Howard, Fine, and Howard

Water goes down the drain the other way round in Australia (and it does, I just tried it!)

Paul

MickeJan 6, 2005, 8:06 AM ET↩ Paul Bartram

"Paul Bartram" <p.bartram AT OR NEAR optusnet.com> skrev i meddelandet news:41dce823$0$2529$[email]...

Rather than calling you (I would get a huge bill) can you try it 20 times and se if it spins the other way every time? (Or at least more than half the times)

/Micke

Paul BartramJan 7, 2005, 2:41 AM ET↩ Micke

Hang on, I'll just jump on my bike and pedal down to my neighbour's place...

P.S. With some prepaid international phone cards, it only costs (US) 70c an hour to call here these days.

Paul

Aaron HirshbergJan 6, 2005, 9:45 AM ET↩ Paul Bartram

The coriolis force due to the rotation of the Earth is in the other direction in the Southern Hemisphere, but the force is so small that it cannot be observed in a sink or toilet or bathtub. It can only be observed in carefully conducted experiments, or in meteorological air flows. We discussed this a long time ago. See "Illustrated Experiments in Fluid Mechanics". Specifically, the chapter on Vorticity.

Xpace Mvxevm

Aaron HirshbergJan 6, 2005, 9:46 AM ET↩ Paul Bartram

If I lived in Australia, I would not be playing with my sink or toilet. I would be at one of those nude beaches, eyeballing those beautiful amazon women you got down there.

Xpace Mvxevm

GymdandyJan 6, 2005, 8:32 PM ET↩ Aaron Hirshberg

Darren Hayes says:

Amazon women are from South America, and there are nude beached in America

Darren Hayes DOES NOT sunbathe naked.

Paul BartramJan 7, 2005, 2:42 AM ET↩ Aaron Hirshberg

[email] wrote:

Hey, nobody told me about those!

Paul

GymdandyJan 6, 2005, 8:30 PM ET↩ Paul Bartram

Group: alt.tv.simpsons Date: Thu, Jan 6, 2005, 5:26pm (CST+16) From: p.bartram AT OR NEAR optusnet.com (Paul Bartram)

Water goes down the drain the other way round in Australia (and it does, I just tried it!)

Paul

Paul BartramJan 7, 2005, 2:51 AM ET↩ Gymdandy

All I can say is, in my bathroom basin the water always drains out in a clockwise spiral. Maybe it is just the imperfect shape of the ceramics or the drain, but I believe in magic.. If I didn't, I wouldn't watch The Simpsons.

Paul

Aaron HirshbergJan 7, 2005, 9:52 AM ET↩ Paul Bartram

What I have learned from the Simpsons: "It is better to have two knives than to have two wives."

Xpace Mvxevm

larry grenierJan 7, 2005, 5:42 PM ET↩ Aaron Hirshberg

Which line to go in when you are checking out of a supermarket,it actually works fro Homer And Apu.

mike averaJan 9, 2005, 4:24 AM ET↩ Aaron Hirshberg

purples a fruit...

MickeJan 10, 2005, 12:40 PM ET↩ Howard, Fine, and Howard

"Howard, Fine, and Howard" skrev i meddelandet news:GH2Dd.50562$[email]...

I'm from Sweden, and after watching the DVD:s with english subtitles I've learned that 'Gross' spelles 'Gross' The thing is, my next door neighbours' mailbox says 'B Gross' (He's from switzerland)

/Micke

JsonitsacJan 10, 2005, 7:35 PM ET↩ Howard, Fine, and Howard

"i am gay..."  D'OH!

Mark WilsonJan 11, 2005, 2:52 AM ET↩ Jsonitsac

"jsonitsac" wrote in message news:[email]...

And if THAT fails, six simple words. "I'm not gay, but I'll learn."

Y.EJan 11, 2005, 2:36 PM ET↩ Howard, Fine, and Howard

You can buy a dog with an untwistable stomach.

Ken CarriereJan 11, 2005, 7:46 PM ET↩ Howard, Fine, and Howard

Tons of stuff about Ralph's cat.

rich tinteraJan 12, 2005, 12:52 PM ET↩ Howard, Fine, and Howard

Katherine Hepburn's "Me" is not a book. A zebu has a hump and a dewlap.

Ken CarriereJan 12, 2005, 9:41 PM ET↩ rich tintera

wrote in message news:[email]...

That was a question on Jeopardy the other night and I knew it from the Simpsons. ("Which award-winning actress titled her autobiography 'Me'?").

rich tinteraJan 16, 2005, 2:38 PM ET↩ Ken Carriere

the

'Me'?").

I believe you. I'm a Jeopardy addict, and tho I can't cite specific examples, there have been a bunch of times where I got the question from having watched The Simpsons.