Good job Stu!!
I often think that there should be things like this in school curriculi, to stimulate thought process in an interesting way. Mathematics USED to do that, but the thought process needed in our school years studying maths has been somewhat usurped by the allowing of calculators etc. We used to say 'what the heck good is this for future life'..well, it is only when we get old, that we realise the education system then, was far more useful in indirectly stimulating thought process..it wasn't the 'end' that was unilaterally important, but the route to the end was 'brain food', or mental excercise.That is why we were given these things to do then!! I never use a calculator, and can add and subtract and multiply mentally far quicker, as a rule, than somebody with a calculator..example in shops..I wonder if Zager and Evans realised how close to reality their song 'In the year 2525' would become..'some machine will be doing that for you'...In The Year 2525 Lyrics
In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie
Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today
In the year 4545
You ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to chew
Nobody's gonna look at you
In the year 5555
Your arms hangin' limp at your sides
Your legs got nothin' to do
Some machine's doin' that for you
In the year 6565
You won't need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube
In the year 7510
If God's a-coming, He oughta make it by then
Maybe He'll look around Himself and say
"Guess it's time for the judgement day"
In the year 8510
God is gonna shake His mighty head
He'll either say "I'm pleased where man has been"
Or tear it down, and start again
In the year 9595
I'm kinda wonderin' if man is gonna be alive
He's taken everything this old earth can give
And he ain't put back nothing
Now it's been ten thousand years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what, he never knew
Now man's reign is through
But through eternal night
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away
I think the timescale has shrunk from 1010 year cycles to more like 10 year cycles..
about the only thing they got wrong, IMHO
Nick
[This message has been edited by fierofetish (edited 10-12-2006).]
Well done!! PM me your addy!
Bicycles is the clue..and I would never have guessed, because the terminology is American..so I looked up 'bicycles' as slang..and they are a type of playing card..54 playing cards..only poker uses the jokers, as far as I know..and he was maybe cheating at cards, and got shot..and the cards fell out of his hand to the floor...errrm..long shot..but is it near the mark?
