Guest fountainhall Posted September 8, 2012 Posted September 8, 2012 Not sure it will help much, but I've never heard of the name Nobert - Norbert, yes. Were they sons? Or perhaps successors? Quote
ceejay Posted September 8, 2012 Posted September 8, 2012 Context from the last quiz pointed me the right way on this. It's Charles Babbage, known to some as father of the computer. Quote
kokopelli Posted September 8, 2012 Author Posted September 8, 2012 Congratulations ceejay! You won 10,000 chads. Happy Birthday Mr. Babbage. And Alan, Bill and Norbert? Whatever would their relationship be to the father of the computer? Another 10,000 chads awaits the answer. Quote
Guest fountainhall Posted September 8, 2012 Posted September 8, 2012 At least make them M&Ms or something sweet and edible!! Guess. Alan is Alan Turing who revolutionised computer theory with the concept of just one machine doing all tasks. Bill is Bill Mensch (?), involved with the design of the microprocessor. And is the 'Norbert' Norbert Wiener who was involved in computer ethics amongst a lot of other things? I guess Bill could also be Bill Gates. Quote
kokopelli Posted September 8, 2012 Author Posted September 8, 2012 FH, send me your address for the 10,000 M&Ms. You win. Bill Gates, Norbert Wiener and Alan Turning all computer types like Babbage. I see I did misspell Norbert's name in an earlier post which may have mislead you. If anyone had googled Alan, Norbert or Bill their names or photos would have popped up immediately. Quote
Guest fountainhall Posted September 9, 2012 Posted September 9, 2012 Yum! How many M&Ms in a packet, I wonder? Can't wait! Quote
Rogie Posted September 9, 2012 Posted September 9, 2012 Yum! How many M&Ms in a packet, I wonder? Reminds me of garden fetes and guess the number of sweets in the jar. 856 M&Ms per 1 lb bag. Ah, but is that official? Might be worth contacting Guinness to try and claim a new world record. Quote
Guest fountainhall Posted September 10, 2012 Posted September 10, 2012 Great! So Khun Koko will bring with him on his next visit to BKK 11.682 1lb bags of M&Ms (OK, you can forget the 0.682 - 11 bags will be enough to keep me content)!! Quote
Guest thaiworthy Posted September 10, 2012 Posted September 10, 2012 Great! So Khun Koko will bring with him on his next visit to BKK 11.682 1lb bags of M&Ms (OK, you can forget the 0.682 - 11 bags will be enough to keep me content)!! When you are through cosuming your prize, I shall be standing by with my trusty syringe and a full cc of Humalog insulin suspension. Where do you want your shot, in your rump, I presume? Quote
Rogie Posted September 10, 2012 Posted September 10, 2012 Does M and M stand for anything? I don't think I've ever scoffed one. I don't remember them being around when I was a kid but could well have a memory lapse. Would it be possible to make a healthy version? Say with soya replacing whatever they are made of. Like TW I hate to think what their glycaemic index is: The glycemic index, glycaemic index, or GI is the measurement of glucose (blood sugar) level increase from carbohydrate consumption. Foods raise glucose to varying levels. It estimates how much each gram of available carbohydrate (total carbohydrate minus fiber) in a food raises a person's blood glucose level following consumption of the food, relative to consumption of pure glucose.[1] Glucose has a glycemic index of 100, by definition, and other foods have a lower glycemic index. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycemic_index Wouln't it be great to polish off 10,000 of the healthy version of M and M's and be able to point to a 'new you'. Svelte figure and razor-sharpe brain buzzing with high octane alertness. Quote
Bob Posted September 10, 2012 Posted September 10, 2012 Does M and M stand for anything? For trivia buffs......initials for the co-creators of the candy (Mars, who was president of Mars Candy which I think provided the hard-shelled covering, and Murrie, who was president of Hershey Chocolates which obviously provided the chocolate). Quote
Guest fountainhall Posted September 10, 2012 Posted September 10, 2012 In the UK, M&Ms are known as Smarties. As far as look and taste, I think they are virtually identical. My days of having a svelte figure are long gone; so I'm perfectly happen to munch them as they are Quote
Rogie Posted September 11, 2012 Posted September 11, 2012 . . . I'm perfectly happen to munch them as they are I well remember some confectionary called Munchies made by Rowntrees. Wouldn't touch 'em nowadays as they're made by Nestles but in my youth they were most agreeable. And here is what has to be one of the best blogs ever devised! CANDYBLOG http://www.candyblog.net/blog/item/head_to_head_smarties_vs_mms/ Quote
Guest fountainhall Posted September 11, 2012 Posted September 11, 2012 Kkun Rogie - you have solved a decades-old mystery! I KNEW different coloured Smarties had slightly different tastes. I recall as a child always sorting out the orange ones and leaving them to last! But I could never tell a difference between the colours in M&Ms. Now I know why!!! Quote
kokopelli Posted September 11, 2012 Author Posted September 11, 2012 Slight change, FH. I had to downsize to max of 1000 M&Ms. I just recalled a news article about a man (son of a famous US Astronaut) who was arrested at the airport as he was leaving the USA for Thailand. His suitcase was filled with candy, Viagra, condoms, photos of shirtless boys which was deemed suspicious. Quote
Guest thaiworthy Posted September 12, 2012 Posted September 12, 2012 Slight change, FH. I had to downsize to max of 1000 M&Ms. I just recalled a news article about a man (son of a famous US Astronaut) who was arrested at the airport as he was leaving the USA for Thailand. His suitcase was filled with candy, Viagra, condoms, photos of shirtless boys which was deemed suspicious. Koko, do you have a link to the article? I would like to read it, it sounds interesting. If you had given the name of the astronaut or the son's name, I might have googled it. Thanks. Quote
Guest fountainhall Posted September 12, 2012 Posted September 12, 2012 His suitcase was filled with candy, Viagra, condoms, photos of shirtless boys which was deemed suspicious. Yeah, and they confiscated the candy. I know!!! PS: Moderators, can we please have some more up-to-date and hip icons? I want to cry, but can't find a crying icon Quote
Rogie Posted September 12, 2012 Posted September 12, 2012 PS: Moderators, can we please have some more up-to-date and hip icons? I want to cry, but can't find a crying icon That's true, plenty of laughing or smirking emoticons but not a sausage crying. That's supposedly the beauty of a beard, being able to cry into it, but last time I had one I didn't cry at all, so can't verify that particular aspect of a beard's usefulness. Probably doesn't have one except to save time shaving or to hide a double chin or sagging neck. You can tell I'm in a funny mood today, all this waffling. Now down to business. Let's have some hip icons, hear hear, well said. But please not too many, some Message Boards seem to have dozens, some quite risque IMO. I don't really want to see two smileys having it off, so keep them tasteful - pretty please! Quote
kokopelli Posted September 12, 2012 Author Posted September 12, 2012 Thaiworthy, I will send you a PM with the name of the candyman. I think the guy was set up and duped so prefer not to publish his name. Quote
Guest thaiworthy Posted September 13, 2012 Posted September 13, 2012 Out of respect for Koko's wishes, I will not include the link or name of the convicted individual. However, there is more to Koko's story and I suspected as much. Hmmm . . . candy and shirtless young boys. Sounds like a cliche. "Here little boy, want some candy?" A little too cliched if you ask me. If that is the intent, why bring candy and not just buy it on arrival? Didn't the guy have any decent legal representation? I think you're right, Koko . . . a giant-sized clue that he was set up. How young is that supposed to infer, I mean really? 3-5 years old? Any prior record or history of abuse? When they searched the individual's home they found child pornography. Nothing like planted evidence to cinch the deal. Even if it wasn't planted, that kind of evidence hardly justifies the sentence, 42 months. Even more interesting is the fact that this individual is the first person from a large gay community to have been arrested under a law enacted to crack down on sex tourism. Sounds like a scapegoat to me. I think we're going to need a larger crying icon. Quote
Rogie Posted September 13, 2012 Posted September 13, 2012 I think the guy was set up and duped so prefer not to publish his name. Even more interesting is the fact that this individual is the first person from a large gay community to have been arrested under a law enacted to crack down on sex tourism. Sounds like a scapegoat to me. I think we're going to need a larger crying icon. What was the reaction of the gay community to this guy's prison sentence i wonder? For example any sympathetic articles written in the pink press or related websites? As we all know the gay community get very hot under the collar about this sort of thing. Quote
