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Discussion in 'Hull City' started by originallambrettaman, Mar 27, 2011.

  1. originallambrettaman

    originallambrettaman Mod Moderator
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    A flight data recorder is called a black box, but it's not black, what colour is it?
     
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    originallambrettaman, Mar 27, 2011
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    Iv'e asked Jeeves and he's still scratching his head on this one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     
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    Bright yellow or dayglo orange?
     
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    Bright Orange
     
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    Orange!
    But I once new a Chinese girl who had a little black box!! <whistle><whistle><whistle>:emoticon-0103-cool:
     
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    It's International Orange, which is apparently the colour that contrasts most with all other colours.
     
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    just imagine Chelsea's away kit a couple of season's ago..
     
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    International Orange is actually red :emoticon-0112-wonde

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    Is the correct answer. It is also the reason that life-jackets, life-boats, life-rafts and the smoke from distress flares are also orange.
     
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    I believe it's called a Black box because the inventor of it had the surname Black.
    So rather than be called a Black Box, it should be called a Black Box
     
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    It's got nothing to do with anyone called Black, it's just a term used to describe a device that transfers data(The bloke that came up with the concept was actually a German mathematician called Wilhelm Cauer).
     
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    Can't wait till the football starts again if this is what we're discussing while it's off.
     
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    Cauer Box..................Why didn't he invent a new colour called Cauer?
     
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    Maybe Millwall fans throw black boxes when they run out of chairs?
     
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    Really a Black Box is a sealed thing. You stick the input in at one end, get the output at the other, but have no idea what's going on inside it.

    Bit like our midfield, really.
     
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    it was invented by the bloke who got murdered in cluedo.
     
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    What, Colonel Mustard, who was murdered in the library with a lead pipe?
     
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    no colonolel mustard is one of the usual suspects. it was dr black what gone done in. possibly in the library with the lead pipe.
     
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