Expert Pronouncements Thread!

[Moderators]

All you experts please feel free to post in this thread.

[epaul]

Ducks have huge penises. 16" for a 15" duck!

[epaul]

If your tomato plants have gotten super dry, don't give them a large soaking all at once or you might get a bunch of splits fruits' skin as tomatoes that had thought themselves to be done growing swell with the influx of water.

[epaul]

A Subaru Outback can't haul a 40' trailer.

[epaul]

Some Chevy pickups look like Fords. And who the hell expects to see a Dodge pickup? They only sold 12 of them.

[paleo]

A campfire can get as hot as 2000 degrees f
Aluminum melts at 1221 degrees f
Steel melts at 2500 - 2800 degrees f.
Chert doesn't melt.

[paleo]

Frequency hopping synthesizers can change Frequency every 13 microseconds.

[epaul]

Ok, so technically, the size of a duck's penis isn't a postulation. A postulation would be, oh, say assuming the existence of a something as the basis for an argument maintaining what something else would then do, act, want, or effect. The extraordinary size of duck's penis relative to the size of the duck itself is not a postulation but a fact. So is the effect of excess water on the fruit of a tomato plant that has developed much of its fruit in very dry conditions. The part about only 12 Dodge pickups being sold might have been a postulation. Not sure. Still working on that one.

[Russell Letson]

Expert pronouncement threads draw all manner of strange stuff.

[james]

Having noticed the title's change and from experience , I postulate that forum readers have to reach for their dictionary and thesaurus less often when thread titles are about pronouncements rather than postulations.

[TKennedy]

Memento mori.

[epaul]

It was expert postulators. Now it's expert pronouncements. I'm waiting for expert prognosticators. There are advantages to knowing the future.


Ok, it takes me awhile to figure things out, but is this an attempt to find a home for political talk and election stuff? If so, would a thread title like, oh, say, political chat be clearer? I don't want to lose expertise in all the other areas this forum covers, and expert postulators and pronouncers covers a wide swath vaguely.

[james]

I've been meaning for the longest time to start an expert procrastination thread.

[factorychef]

2 ply or 4 ply?

[epaul]

Whatever the intent, I suggest a start over. There is some evidence of anger in the opening sentence, and the insulting tone won't help the thread get off to a good start. That is my prognostication.

[Rob Hanesworth]

If laziness were an Olympic sport, I would hope to finish fourth so I wouldn't have to walk to the podium.

[millring]

Aug 12, 2024 22:49:35 GMT -5 epaul said:

Whatever the intent, I suggest a start over. The(re) is some evidence of anger in the opening sentence, and the insulting tone won't help the thread get off to a good start. That is my prognostication.

Immoderate moderation?

[paleo]

The reason digital TV is so bandwidth efficient is the fact that it uses QAM modulation. Using QAM, a bit is not just a "1" or a "0", it can represent a 4, 8, 16 32..... bit digital word.

[Cornflake]

Some of Siri's pronouncements reveal a lack of expertise. She accents the first syllable of Tempe and pronounces Mesa "messa."

[Cornflake]

"Whatever the intent, I suggest a start over. Then is some evidence of anger in the opening sentence, and the insulting tone won't help the thread get off to a good start. That is my prognostication."

I read it as suggesting that we bring a little humility to discussions here. That's always a good idea.