Describe this mug to me, imagining that I am an alien on the other end of the telephone?
(Social and Political Sciences, Cambridge)
Thursday, 16 October 2008
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Fluid holder. Hey, you got any good stuff?
Posted by Jim Friday | 19.10.08, 03:14 GMT
Well...they're studying Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge and they seem to me to be complete smart arses who thought it would be rather funny to flood the Independent's topics forum with silly questions like this one. Is this some kind of experiment to see how many people respond with rude or abusive answers? ...oh hell I've got better things to do than....
Posted by Rob | 17.10.08, 23:20 GMT
Seeing as though you've mastered the telephone I suggest you dial 118 118 and and they will descibe it for you.
Posted by John | 17.10.08, 22:21 GMT
Do you have private boarding schools on your planet too? You do! Hurrah!
Posted by ask a silly question | 17.10.08, 13:47 GMT
I am Jack's clay mug. I hold liquids and have a handle. I can be broken.
Anyone get the reference? =P
Posted by Jake T | 17.10.08, 08:59 GMT
This hairless ape is brandishing a receptacle at me. It is made of clay and water that has been moulded and heated until hard and brittle. It has been coated with a harder substance to make it impermeable to liquids. I believe they use it in order to ingest such liquids, hot liquids. It has a "handle" on it so that they can hold it. It may have hot liquid in it now. Its hard fragile nature and the potential to contain scalding liquids make it likely that the ape is threatening me. There is no hope for this species. Fire the antimatter projectors now.
Posted by Conall | 16.10.08, 22:56 GMT
Me: Hey Hank! I'm in a wood panelled library on a shabby leather sofa with an open fire burning in the grate. Pictures of men in wigs and curlers everywhere. There's this beardy guy asking me dumb-assed questions. Nose glowing like Rudolph with claret-induced burst capillaries. Scurf of eczema on the shoulders of his elbow-patched jacket. Tendency to giggle at a high pitch while simultaneously snorting. At first glance looks like he has a glass eye - but it's just the way he makes eye contact. Casually uses words like 'exegesis' and 'ninthly'.
Hank: Hundred bucks he was a virgin till he left high school?
Posted by Theo | 16.10.08, 20:56 GMT
Why would an alien use a telephone?
Posted by stacey Woods | 16.10.08, 20:36 GMT
describe me the flavour of banana to me, professor?
Posted by xbrumster | 16.10.08, 20:21 GMT
This is an artificial construction used to contain liquid, for the purpose of conveying such liquid to the mouth of humans for the purpose of consumption for sustenance.
While I might detail its chemical construction, to do so would probably require that you have a sufficient understanding of such matters that any other details should be superfluous, so I shall omit this; other than to say it is entirely inorganic and that any designs you may perceive upon its outer surface serve only to please the aesthetic sensibilities of the user: in other words, they are decorative.
It is cylindrical in general form, open at one (circular) end, and hollow. On the outer surface it bears a handle, in the form of an incomplete letter D, with the with the straight side formed by the outer body of the vessel. This is necessary, as the liquid consumed is often initially hot, and conduction of this heat may make the body of the vessel uncomfortable to hold.
Posted by Mario Huet | 16.10.08, 20:11 GMT
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