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    Default Why do flies fly in small circles around the centre of a room...

    below the light?


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    I believe it's because they use the sun for navigation - y'know, "keep the sun on the left and carry on...". Do that with the light in the middle of a room, and you go in circles.
    Quote Originally Posted by nocaster
    ...so hearing the sound not coming from my arse is a weird concept...

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    Cockroaches & Keith Richards
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    it's not a circle it's a succession of straight lines.
    mucus ardour urban mr men turnip!

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    There are no straight lines in nature

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crotchet View Post
    There are no straight lines in nature
    Have you been listening to Luigi Colani?
    mucus ardour urban mr men turnip!

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    because they can.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crotchet View Post
    There are no straight lines in nature
    Light, crystalline edges.

    That's just off the top of my head (which isn't a straight line).
    Last edited by hungrymark; 30th June 2010 at 05:15 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hungrymark View Post
    Light
    Doesn't travel in a straight line owing to the curve in the space/time continuum
    Quote Originally Posted by jalapeno View Post
    Thatcher's Government was when the damage was done

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crotchet View Post
    below the light?

    I thought it was Moths that did this ... the flies in our house swoop and dive around the room with the sole intention of annoying me Thank God for 'Raid'
    “Jazz, isn’t that just a series of mistakes disguised as musical composition?”

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    Because they can't walk.

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