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Dad Joke

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What colour gives you wind? Burple.

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One Liner

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My tattooist. I’d swear she’s got designs on me.

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One Liner

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Apparently they've found a way to make explosives from poo. I call it bang out of ordure.

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Flat-Bottomed Clouds

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Why do these clouds have such flat bottoms?



 

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An Alien In My Beer

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Proof of the existence of extraterrestrial life!




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Bumblebee

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Edited by Richard Walker, Friday, 8 Apr 2022, 17:02

The euphorbia is in full flower and this bumblebee loves it!


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We often hear the phrase, “The fur flew”. Would that be hairo-o-dynamics?

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Love Haiku

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In some past time long ago
When hope was younger
We would have married.
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Crossword Clue

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Edited by Richard Walker, Tuesday, 5 Apr 2022, 21:35

From today’s Times Quick Cryptic, set by Joker.

Half the alphabet? This was split some time ago (4)

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Car-toon

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Edited by Richard Walker, Monday, 4 Apr 2022, 20:08


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Dad Joke

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I bought myself an attack worm. Waste of money, it was spineless.

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A BIG number

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These numbers have the property that if you double them you get a perfect square

2, 8, 18, 32, 50, 72, 98, ...

And these have the property that if you multiply them by 3 you get a perfect cube

9, 72, 243, 576, 1125, ...

Some numbers are in both lists; the smallest is 72 and

2 x 72 = 122, 3 x 72 = 63.

It's not possible to extend this and find a number n such that 2n is a square, 3n a cube and 4n a fourth power. However it was asked on Quora what the smallest number is such that n such that 2n is a square, 3n a cube and 5n a fifth power. Alon Amit showed the answer is 215320524. In full this is

6810125783203125000000000000000.

I decided to extend this to the next prime number, 7, and found the smallest n such that 2n is a square, 3n a cube, 5n a fifth power and 7n a seventh power is 21053140584790. This impressive number evaluates to

150462810922326152710290228433686961530697356776074449373600141938371053848189980134027578261857302770024765419887333164323078738017254430529707573248000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

which has 234 digits.

I think we can continue and add 11, 13 etc. but at this point I ran out of steam!


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Airplane Memento

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One of the planes a friend crewed in times gone by has been taken out of service and will be recycled but people who worked on her in the early days were offered a piece of the plane as a memento. My friend chose a window and brought it to the pub where it attracted great interest.


Here is the plane it came from. It was window 6 on the left hand side.


Registration- G-EZPG

First Flight - 21/01/2005

Type - Airbus A319-111

Serial Number - 2385

Engines - x2 CFM56-5B5/P

Total Hours - 44,668 (21.09.21)


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Dad Joke

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What colour makes you bunged-up? Gold.

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Fame at Last

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https://www.newscientist.com/lastword/mg25333791-400-this-weeks-new-questions/

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What colour lets you into the car? Khaki.

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News From The Garden

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Our garden has a brick planeter, a bit like a wishing well with no well. It was overgrown when we moved here and we never did anything with it until about four years back, when we planted some lavender and a tine holly tree.

Neither exactly thrived, so we decided to redevelop the site. Lavender and holly have been replanted, we hope in a better spot, and we've put in new plants, fewer, but with a more consious design.

The central plant is a quince.This one is ornamental (I think people call these Japonica) but edible quices are a fruit related to apple and pears, and once eaten widely in this country; now unusual and hard to obtain here, although still common in some othe European countries. If you'd like a recipe for baked quince, just ask in the comments.



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Amphibian Introductions

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Let me introduce you. Sal, Amanda.

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The Magnolia Tree

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Art Trouvé - Standing Figure

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Playground Joke

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Why can Dalmatian dogs never hide? Because they’re always spotted!

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Donkey Joke (awful)

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My donkey ran away on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. I thought, that’s three days on the trot.

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Apples and Pears Puzzle Again

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See https://learn1.open.ac.uk/mod/oublog/viewpost.php?post=244360

Given all three labels are wrong, there are only two possible combinations.

1) Label A & P - contents A    Label A - contents P   Label P - contents A & P  

2) Label A & P - contents P    Label A - contents A & P   Label P - contents A  

If we take a fruit from A & P as we are permitted inspecting it will tell which of 1) and 2)  is correct.

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Dad Joke

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I wanted to join the snooker club. But there was a queue,

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