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cancel2 2022
08-01-2009, 04:03 PM
What do they have in common?

Beefy
08-01-2009, 04:08 PM
What do they have in common?

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

cancel2 2022
08-01-2009, 04:15 PM
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Good answer but not the right one.

PostmodernProphet
08-01-2009, 04:23 PM
the telescope isn't looking at sperm whales and sperm whales aren't looking at the telescope......

cancel2 2022
08-01-2009, 04:26 PM
the telescope isn't looking at sperm whales and sperm whales aren't looking at the telescope......

Nice try.

FUCK THE POLICE
08-01-2009, 04:34 PM
Both tube shaped.

cancel2 2022
08-01-2009, 04:55 PM
Both tube shaped.

True enough, but not right.

Beefy
08-01-2009, 04:56 PM
They were both created by intelligent designers.

ib1yysguy
08-01-2009, 04:58 PM
Government?

cancel2 2022
08-01-2009, 05:13 PM
They were both created by intelligent designers.

You're going to hell for saying that. :)

FUCK THE POLICE
08-01-2009, 05:29 PM
True enough, but not right.

You asked for how they were simialar, not the clever way you were thinking of that they were simialar when you invented the question.

Norman Paperman
08-01-2009, 05:30 PM
Oil from sperm whales is used to lubricate the Hubble telescope.

Beefy
08-01-2009, 05:30 PM
You asked for how they were simialar, not the clever way you were thinking of that they were simialar when you invented the question.

Do they teach pompousity it physics class?

cancel2 2022
08-01-2009, 05:30 PM
Here's a clue, space is very cold.

Norman Paperman
08-01-2009, 05:30 PM
You asked for how they were simialar, not the clever way you were thinking of that they were simialar when you invented the question.

He asked what the have in common, not how they were similar.

Beefy
08-01-2009, 05:36 PM
Here's a clue, space is very cold.

Ah! Got it. They both are in cold places.

Norman Paperman
08-01-2009, 05:39 PM
See post #12.

Beefy
08-01-2009, 05:40 PM
That's not "in common", unless sperm whales use their blubber for lubrication also.

Norman Paperman
08-01-2009, 05:44 PM
That's not "in common", unless sperm whales use their blubber for lubrication also.

Ah, but it is the one thing that ties them together. NASA has been using sperm whale oil as a lubricant pretty much since day one. Sperm whale oil does not freeze, thus the hint given by Tom about the cold.

cancel2 2022
08-01-2009, 05:52 PM
That's not "in common", unless sperm whales use their blubber for lubrication also.

The commonality is that they both contain sperm oil, up to now it is the only oil that doesn't freeze in space.

cancel2 2022
08-01-2009, 05:55 PM
That's not "in common", unless sperm whales use their blubber for lubrication also.

Apparently it is used for echo location amongst other things.

cancel2 2022
08-01-2009, 05:57 PM
Oil from sperm whales is used to lubricate the Hubble telescope.

Well done, give that man a gold star. :cool:

Beefy
08-01-2009, 06:00 PM
What do my refrigerator and the Large Hadron Collider have in common?

cancel2 2022
08-01-2009, 06:05 PM
What do my refrigerator and the Large Hadron Collider have in common?

1) Neither of them works maybe?

2) They are both buried underground

Beefy
08-01-2009, 06:05 PM
1) Neither of them works maybe?

2) They are both buried underground

LOL

Right on both counts, but not what I'm looking for.

cancel2 2022
08-02-2009, 03:26 AM
LOL

Right on both counts, but not what I'm looking for.

I give up.

PostmodernProphet
08-02-2009, 05:04 AM
The commonality is that they both contain sperm oil, up to now it is the only oil that doesn't freeze in space.

well, that explains how whales flew here from outer space, then....I wondered why the cold hadn't stopped them......

cancel2 2022
08-02-2009, 05:08 AM
well, that explains how whales flew here from outer space, then....I wondered why the cold hadn't stopped them......

Does your religion forbid you to say the word sperm?

PostmodernProphet
08-02-2009, 05:08 AM
you put things into both that deteriorate into smaller components that never get eaten?......

PostmodernProphet
08-02-2009, 05:09 AM
Does your religion forbid you to say the word sperm?

no, does your illness prohibit you from saying the word, humor?......

cancel2 2022
08-02-2009, 05:15 AM
no, does your illness prohibit you from saying the word, humor?......

Humour, there I said it only I spelt it correctly.

PostmodernProphet
08-02-2009, 05:31 AM
Humour, there I said it only I spelt it correctly.
lol.....so it is true....I had heard Brits weren't known for their humor.....you've got a different flavour of humour.....our, maybe you just gout soume different ideas abouut spelling.....

Damocles
08-03-2009, 11:04 AM
What do my refrigerator and the Large Hadron Collider have in common?
They both contain atoms. Oddly enough it's also what links me and your refrigerator.

USFREEDOM911
08-03-2009, 05:49 PM
Does your religion forbid you to say the word sperm?

And obviously, the word just slips from your tongue. :cof1:

Canceled1
08-03-2009, 06:21 PM
And obviously, the word just slips from your tongue. :cof1:

And all along I thought the Hubble was looking for Tom's cajones.

Sperm whales, eh?

Here first: :readit: