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A teacher asks her class, ‘If there are 5 birds sitting on a fence and you
shoot one of them, how many will be left?’
She calls on little Ralphy.

He replies, ‘None, they will all fly away with the first gunshot.’

The teacher replies, ‘The correct answer is 4, but I like your thinking’

Then little RALPHY says, ‘I have a question for YOU.

There are 3 women sitting on a bench having ice cream:

One is delicately licking the sides of the triple scoop of ice cream.
The second is gobbling down the top and ******* the cone

The third is biting off the top of the ice cream.
Which one is married?’

The teacher, blushing a great deal, replied, ‘Well, I suppose the one that’s gobbled down the top and ****** the cone.’

To which Little RALPHY replied, ‘The correct answer is ‘the one with the wedding ring on,’ but I like your thinking.’

LITTLE RALPHY ON MATH (Part 2)

Little RALPHY returns from school and says he got an F in arithmetic.

‘Why?’ asks the father?

‘The teacher asked ‘How much is 2×3,” I said ‘6′, replies RALPHY.

‘But that’s right!’ says his dad.

‘Yeah, but then she asked me ‘How much is 3×2?”

‘What’s the fu–ing difference?’ asks the father.

‘That’s what I said!’

LITTLE RALPHY ON ENGLISH

Little RALPHY goes to school, and the teacher says, ‘Today we are going to learn multi-syllable words, class. Does anybody have an example of a multi-syllable word?’

RALPHY says ‘Mas-tur-bate.’

Miss Rogers smiles and says, ‘Wow, little RALPHY, that’s a mouthful.’

Little RALPHY says, ‘No, Miss Rogers, you’re thinking of a bl*owjob.’

LITTLE RALPHY ON GRAMMAR

Little RALPHY was sitting in class one day.
All of a sudden, he needed to go to the toilet.
He yelled out, ‘Miss Jones, I need to take a ****!!’

The teacher replied, ‘Now, RALPHY, that is NOT the proper word to use in this situation.
The correct word you want to use is ‘urinate.’
Please use the word ‘ur-i-nate’ in a sentence correctly, and I will allow you to go.’

Little RALPHY, thinks for a bit, and then says, ‘You’re an eight, but if you had bigger t its, you’d be a TEN!’

LITTLE RALPHY ON GRAMMAR (Part 2)

One day, during lessons on proper grammar, the teacher asked for a show of
hands from those who could use the word ‘beautiful’ in the same sentence
twice.

First, she called on little Suzie, who responded with, ‘My father bought my
mother a beautiful dress and she looked beautiful in it.’

‘Very good, Suzie,’ replied the teacher. She then called on little Michael.

‘My mummy planned a beautiful banquet and it turned out beautifully.’

She said, ‘Excellent, Michael!’ Then the teacher reluctantly called on
little RALPHY.

‘Last night at the dinner table, my sister told my father that she was
pregnant, and he said ‘Beautiful, just fu–ing beautiful!”

LITTLE RALPHY ON GETTING OLDER

Little RALPHY was sitting on a park bench munching on one candy bar after
another…
After the 6th one a man on the bench across from him said, ‘Son, you know
eating all that candy isn’t good for you. It will give you acne, rot your
teeth, and make you fat.’

Little RALPHY replied, ‘My grandfather lived to be 107 years old.’

The man asked, ‘Did your grandfather eat 6 candy bars at a time?’
Little RALPHY answered, ‘No, he minded his own fu–ing business.

I LOVE Little RALPHY!!!!!

By: Desert Dweeb

i can deal with clumps, but my mascara always flakes off and i get black all under my eyes.

By: kateisgreat921

it’s always like tihs

By: JustDance(-:

However, tremors up to magnitude 5.0 on the Richter scale can be caused by movement of glaciers, and those quakes are increasing in frequency:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8889-glacial-earthquakes-rock-greenland-ice-sheet.html

Ekström reports that quakes ranged from six to 15 per year from 1993 to 2002, then jumped to 20 in 2003, 23 in 2004, and 32 in the first 10 months of 2005 – matching an increase in Greenland temperatures.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=slv8-&p=ice%20quake&type=

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Anyone seen data from 2006 & 2007?
Yes, I did assume that increasing flow and increasing tremors attributed to increasing meltwater would imply that the glacier was warming, as the scientists studying the process believed.

Even the publically reluctant Bush administration seems to now thoroughly endorse the carbon cycle anthropogenic global warming theory, and I’ve found no reason to disbelieve the latest research as presented by ten federal agencies here:

http://www.carboncyclescience.gov/news.php
Ah, the Senator James M. Inhofe EPW Press Blog… Why do you suppose he would he publish material opposing GW theory? Do you suppose it could have anything to do with him being given over $500,000 by the two industries most threatened by global warming?

The top industries supporting James M. Inhofe are:
1 Oil & Gas $319,958
2 Electric Utilities $195,907
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/indus.asp?CID=N00005582&cycle=2006

You don’t need a postgraduate degree in climatology to understand that math!

This country desperately needs campaign finance reform.
Yes, Gray, Lindzen, etc. were included in the IPCC process and they’re upset that the summary did not reflect their skeptical opinions, just as scientists on the other end of the specturm are mad that the IPCC softened their dire warnings. That compromise is a valuable part of the consensus process:

“Achieving consensus requires serious treatment of every group member’s considered opinion…. A close equivalent phrase might be the “collective disagreement” of a group, keeping in mind that a high degree of variation is still possible among individuals.”

Consensus does not mean agreement, it means that disagreement is considered and the group makes the best possible decision having considered opposing views. Thus the claim that skeptical scientific views were not considered in the IPCC process are not only groundless, but are probably disingenuous.
For anyone inclined to rant without actually reading the articles:

“He discovered the glacial quakes three years ago, when looking for unusual earthquakes, and traced them to slips within the ice. And the quakes can be substantial: a 10-metre slip of an ice slab roughly the size of Manhattan Island, and as tall as the Empire State building, causes a magnitude-5 quake on the Richter scale.”

“The finding adds to evidence that the Greenland ice sheet is far more vulnerable to temperature increases than had been thought. Models that treated glaciers like giant ice cubes had predicted very slow melting. But recent studies of Greenland glaciers have shown much faster effects when meltwater causes glaciers to slip easily over rock.”

“…in a single area of north-western Greenland scientists recorded just one quake between 1993 and 1999. But they monitored more than two dozen quakes between 2000 and 2005.”

Pretty straightforward.

By: J S