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Dr. D, How can I gain 10 pounds?

valkyrie wrote:Dr. D, How can I gain 10 pounds?

Dr D is out of office and I will answer all enquires for him, to gain 10 pounds then you have to eat 20 doughnuts a day.

Is this an anecdote of yours?

valkyrie wrote:Is this an anecdote of yours?

how did you know?

valkyrie wrote:Dr. D, How can I gain 10 pounds?

Take something to the UK and sell it to a pawn shop. You should be able to sell the strangest thing and get 10 pounds easily, perhaps a few pence too.

Alternatively, you could just ask Sara_UK for 10 pounds.

PrettyPenny wrote:Why is a money plant called a "money" plant?

The Pachira aquatica is known as the money tree due to the rich harvest in nuts that it can bring, allowing one to sustain itself on it.

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From 9 am onwards this morning, it may take up to 4 days for Dr. D. to respond to your question, therefore it is requested that if other forum frequenters can reply, that would be beneficial.

Kind Regards

Dr. D.

Also due to mass deletions the 19th page isn't working properly on this thread. Or at least won't work till the right number of posts spill over.

Edit: Tada!

hope this helps

Dr. D. , when did u get ur Phd. ?

Palkid7 wrote:Dr. D. , when did u get ur Phd. ?

I have several Ph. D. across a wide array of subjects.

Which one in particular?

mmm... makes me wonder, can u list them plz ?

Palkid7 wrote:mmm... makes me wonder, can u list them plz ?

No. With instances of personality theft these days, I have to limit how much about me is online.

^ian^ wrote:

Bleakus wrote:what is the most screwed up combination of drink (non alcholoci) that i can do in my next episode of DareDudes?

Dr. Pepper, Vegemite, Condy's Crystals, Cod Liver Oil.

I don't think it gets much worse than that.

Thats easy dude.

Ok I have one !
if a car was travelling 80Km/hr and the car stops evey 30 minutes. Knowing that the car capacity is 4 people including the driver , and that the distance from the target is 100Km and that the car's tank capacity is 14 Gal. what would be the rate of flow of pepsi out of my can as i am drinking after a thirsty day !!! Answer me Dr. D !!!!

This is my Q.

Dr. D,

Australia lost the game against windies, what could be the most logical reason? what was the turning point in the game accorsing to you.

Jeevan wrote:Dr. D,

Australia lost the game against windies, what could be the most logical reason? what was the turning point in the game accorsing to you.

There are two significant factors that resulted in Australia losing. I should point out, the total score was completely gettable but we made two fundamental errors.

Firstly, the selection of Watson as an opener. He might do OK against Bangladesh, but against West Indies they were kidding themselves. A wasted wicket that brought Ricky Ponting to the crease far too soon and resulted in him losing his wicket early. In opening combos, you need one stroke player (Gilcrhist) and one to ticker (Katich), Watson is neither.

The second is the continuing viewpoint that Micheal Clarke is a middle order batsman. He scores to slowly to be this far down the order and also has a very very nasty habit of running players out. Last night was sadly no exception.

Perhaps move Clarke to open with Gilcrhist, and push Watson down to the lower order, and things might have been different.

Cricket is one of those things where the smallest things can make the biggest difference.

Well done West Indies.

Where does the word "question" come from?

Concord wrote:Where does the word "question" come from?

It comes from the Latin derivation Questor / quaerere - which means to seek. The word Quest also has the same root, and the basic summisation of 'question' is a journey or task to find something.

What about my Q. Dr. D ?

Palkid7 wrote:What about my Q. Dr. D ?

What is that??

constantine wrote:sara
next time try this belgian beer called hoegarden...its sweet/fruity/light...most of the girls i know love it...it aint a typical beer...but like any beer does give u a beer belly....i personally go for jack Ds with diet coke...or scotch or single malt....beer is a bit over rated now a days...and it does interrupt your drinking time...sorry Dr D for highjacking yer thread...

sorry to but in here, but that happens to be one of my favourite beers, the Hoegaarden Wit or the Grand Cru - with lemon! mmmmm
Most of the Belgian beers are yummy IMHO.

why does a 'know' start with a "k" but a "NO" wudnt start with a 'K'

why is a DO pronounced as a "du"
But a SO not prounced as a "su"

u a yellow

Don
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Dr. D, could you explain this?
http://www.dubaiforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=12516

Dr. D. is currently on Eid Break and will respond when he returns.

Goodnight children.

easternjewel wrote:why does a 'know' start with a "k" but a "NO" wudnt start with a 'K'

why is a DO pronounced as a "du"
But a SO not prounced as a "su"

The written English language is littered with contradictory rules and odd spellings of words. Why night, nite and knight for instance?

Well, it took some research, but I have uncovered the *true* answer to this.

English is not what you would call a 'classical' language, such as Latin, Greek or Hebrew, with structured and logical progression. In fact, it is a modern language that draws heavily on other languages for the base meaning of words, and even borrows letter from latin, greek, arabic and other languages to form its words.

Prior to written English there was no set way to spell words, and in much the same way that we use Romanji to spell out japanese words such as Konichiwa, other scripts were used to literate English words.

Hence everyone had a different interpretation as to how they formed the words. It wasn't until the Great Vowel Shift (make sure you pronounce the V properly) of the 1500's did it move towards any standardisation and the pronunciation of words was locked down into a structure.

Unfortunately, like anything English, they only did half a job before they knocked and decided to get pissed down the pub. Hence the English language has changed little in 500 years despite many non-English people's attempt to fix this.

valkyrie wrote:Dr. D, could you explain this?
http://www.dubaiforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=12516

Unfortunately this is the realm of the unexplainable. There are many things we don't understand, that even evade science for an explanation, such as string theory, quantum physics, gravity etc.

In order to grapple with strange unknown phenomenon, many science people apply Occam's Razor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor) which in a nutshell says the simplist reason is often the most likely one.

In this instance, applying Occam's Razor, I would assume that the simplist explanation is that the police department should train their pursuit cops better. Worst car chase ever.

Oh, that and it appears to be a ghost.