I have strong views about how......

[j4bberw0ck]

.....many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

Is it discriminatory that I think it's 63,360 and other people think it's 4 or maybe 100,000? What about the 36,640 angels that can't dance on the head of the pin I'm using but apparently can on the pin that other people are using?

Is their free speech being constrained if they can't complain?

Should social workers be involved?

Does anyone care?

Should anyone care? :eek::roll:

[buggyracer]

?????? eh ?????

[quality]

What you on about.

[Piglet]

you have lost us j4bberw0ck. :roll:

[dozerboy]

.....many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

Is it discriminatory that I think it's 63,360 and other people think it's 4 or maybe 100,000? What about the 36,640 angels that can't dance on the head of the pin I'm using but apparently can on the pin that other people are using?

Is their free speech being constrained if they can't complain?

Should social workers be involved?

Does anyone care?

Should anyone care? :eek::roll:

Well said!!

[BMcGillivray]

Pin heads can vary in size... care to share the dimensions of the Pin head you are referring to?

[BMcGillivray]

According to this Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_on_a_pin the most commonly accepted answer is ... {pi squared}/6.

[MadPict]

But how many camels, bearing wise men, can pass through the eye of a needle?

Seems there is a wiki for almost everything now....

[j4bberw0ck]

Sorry, peeps......

I'd just read through the "I have strong views about immigration" thread and some of the belly-button-gazing wafflings and was reminded of similar great debates in history; like how many angels can dance on the head of a pin (http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_132.html), and whether boiled eggs should be eaten from the big end or the little end:


Besides, our Histories of six thousand Moons make no mention of any other Regions, than the two great Empires of Lilliput and Blefuscu (http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/dict/b.html#blefuscu). Which two mighty Powers have, as I was going to tell you, been engaged in a most obstinate War for six and thirty Moons past. It began upon the following Occasion. It is allowed on all Hands, that the primitive way of breaking Eggs, before we eat them, was upon the larger End (http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/dict/b.html#bigend): But his present Majesty's Grand-father (http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/dict/l.html#l-grand), while he was a Boy, going to eat an Egg, and breaking it according to the ancient Practice, happened to cut one of his Fingers. Whereupon the Emperor his Father (http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/dict/l.html#l-ggrand) published an Edict, commanding all his Subjects, upon great Penaltys, to break the smaller End (http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/dict/b.html#bigend) of their Eggs. The People so highly resented this Law, that our Histories tell us there have been six Rebellions raised on that account; wherein one Emperor lost his Life, and another his Crown. These civil Commotions were constantly fomented by the Monarchs of Blefuscu (http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/dict/b.html#blefuscu); and when they were quelled, the Exiles always fled for Refuge to that Empire. It is computed, that eleven thousand Persons have, at several times, suffered Death, rather than submit to break their Eggs at the smaller End.

Evidently I owe everyone an apology again for my sense of (alleged) humour :cool::lol: .

[j4bberw0ck]

According to this Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_on_a_pin the most commonly accepted answer is ... {pi squared}/6.

I chose 63,360 as it's number which springs to mind immediately - the number of inches in a mile, as beaten into my head by a maths teacher. But [pi^2]/6 is as good an answer and maybe illustrates my point...... :lol:

[Rheghead]

Seems there is a wiki for almost everything now....

I think Wiki has grown too big and out of control from its original purpose. As a result the site's owners allow contributions from any Tom, Dick and Harry. As a result, a lot of their facts cannot be substantiated in fact and therefore cannot be trusted. A sad pickle for what was a great encyclopedia.:~(

[MadPict]

The people involved with various wiki's tend to dislike anyone actually adding to it or correcting mistakes. There is one in particular 'editor' who has threatened me with banning my wkik account over my attempts to improve his wiki.

It does still ahve a future but I believe (and I have fallen for this myself) a lot of people take what is written in the same light as they might if they referred to a hard back encyclopedia. But then I dare say some critics would even question the veracity of what is written down on paper...

[jamieS]

Sorry, peeps......

I'd just read through the "I have strong views about immigration" thread and some of the belly-button-gazing wafflings and was reminded of similar great debates in history; like how many angels can dance on the head of a pin (http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_132.html), and whether boiled eggs should be eaten from the big end or the little end:



Evidently I owe everyone an apology again for my sense of (alleged) humour :cool::lol: .

I eat my egg from which ever end fitts into the egg cup holder best at the time...How do you eat yours?

[danc1ngwitch]

cough cough ops that was splutter splutter... open mind is what is needed... pokes my belly yep going down slowly not wobbling so much ... nuttin wrong wea things dancing on pins lol[lol]

[Tristan]

I chose 63,360 as it's number which springs to mind immediately - the number of inches in a mile, as beaten into my head by a maths teacher. But [pi^2]/6 is as good an answer and maybe illustrates my point...... :lol:


[pi^2]/6 so part on an angel would be on the pin? and that part would be unmeasurable?
Does that also mean that the angel is part of an angle?
Interesting.

[Orger]

Whats going on in here....??

Im totally lost, anyone want to share whats going on but in a way that us not so cleaver ones will understand...