If a tree falls in a forest...

[Elgarian]

O Tree! Would I were noble as thou art!
If all thy mighty branches brought thee down,
All men would gather, Acrobat, and King,
Philosopher, and Chamberlain, and Clown,

To hear thy noble death-cry. Pity, then,
That if they could not see thee in thy pain,
And thy dark fall should not observèd be,
Thine agonies might all be spent in vain.

And men would say, 'tis nought; go hence, away,
And think not on this phantom o' the air.
A tree did fall, forsooth, without a sound,
Mayhap we do not know, and neither care.

O Tree thou standest still, amongst them all.
We pity men who have not heard thee fall!

[Renfield]

This thread has well and truly gone Through the Looking Glass.

[mahler10th]

This thread has well and truly gone Through the Looking Glass.

Yes.  It is bananas.

[Renfield]

If a banana bananas a banana, does it make purée?

[knight66]

If the Hadron guys really have made particles move faster than the speed of light; then all bets are off on this tree....falling...forest scenario.

Mike

[Elgarian]

If a banana bananas a banana, does it make purée?

Banana! How thy yellow skin did shine!
I flung it down beneath my enemy's feet!
And lo! He slipped, and tumbled to the ground!
Revenge, like my banana, tasted sweet.

[Elgarian]

If the Hadron guys really have made particles move faster than the speed of light; then all bets are off on this tree....falling...forest scenario.

Exactly. Now, we can hear the tree fall as the cue for us to go and enjoy watching it stand itself up again.

[71 dB]

If the Hadron guys really have made particles move faster than the speed of light

It's a trick in the media to make the public more interested about scientific research and increase it's funding.

So, the explanation is (out) there, they are just deliberately slow with it. 

[springrite]

...
Revenge, like my banana, tasted sweet.
...

Taken from an 18th century porn poetry collection?

[Elgarian]

Taken from an 18th century porn poetry collection?

O Freud! The crimes committed in thy name!
Cigar! Banana! Phallic avatar!
But in my verses, worked from weaker weft,
Bananas simply mere bananas are.

[springrite]

A little known fact: Freudian slip was originally called The Banana Slip.

[DavidRoss]

It's a trick in the media to make the public more interested about scientific research and increase it's funding.

So it [faster-than-light neutrinos] must be true! 

[Renfield]

All the faster-than-light thing means is that the tree might fall in the forest after no one's there to hear the sound.

Where by 'tree', 'one' and 'sound' I clearly mean 'banana'.

[Elgarian]

by 'tree', 'one' and 'sound' I clearly mean 'banana'.

I think this is what Wittgenstein meant when he said there was no such thing as a private banana.

[Renfield]

I think this is what Wittgenstein meant when he said there was no such thing as a private banana.

[springrite]

I think this is what Wittgenstein meant when he said there was no such thing as a private banana.

So this thread is not Saving Private Banana. All bananas are officers.

[Elgarian]

So this thread is not Saving Private Banana. All bananas are officers.

Yes. Private Banana has long been a Major Issue. Corporal Punishment may prove the only solution to this General Problem, if we're ever going to get to the Colonel Ofthematter.



How silly are we allowed to get before a moderator intervenes out of sheer pity, by the way?

[knight66]

I think you need to test it out. Only one eyebrow raised at the moment and only marginally. When both meet my well receded hairline, I may feel impelled to do summat.

Mike

[Ten thumbs]

It's lucky really that bananas don't grow on trees.

[Renfield]

Time for some gene-splicing, I suppose.