So, because everybody's DYING to know....
How does a post office in Quebec handle power outages?
What sort of rations did a British soldier carry in 1821?
How many wallabies could you fit into a Tokyo subway car?
And finally and most importantly...who exactly is it who has such an affinity for forcing numerous wallabies into tightly-compacted areas? And why?
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Someone actually did the math on that wallaby question. ;) Hopefully someone saved the answer...
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Sep 26, 2008 - 19 52
I believe it was around 1,072 or 1,073.
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But how did you figure out the volume of the subway car? And where did you find the average volume of a wallaby?
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NaNoists, and, uh, I'd go with either word padding, lack of plot, or 'cause we can. :D
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That saves me making a thread.
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Wow, that's a big subway car. I was thinking train-sized, but I guess they're different over there. O.o
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I think there was stacking involved :-)
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They... sound rather squashed. o.o
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1lb bread, 1lb beef, 1 oz of butter or cheese, 1lb pease and 1 oz ruce. Bread was black or brown. Issue beer was barely alcoholic small beer, brewed largely to make water safe.
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Sep 27, 2008 - 18 30
I don't have an answer to the first question (yet!), but I started to Google for it, and this thread was on the first page of results. Go Google.
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Sep 27, 2008 - 22 55
Assuming that the post in Quebec functions like the post in Ontario, the answer seems to be: it stops delivering mail until the power comes back on.
http://www.dmnews.com/Canada-Post-Recovers-From-Outage/article/81819/
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Sep 29, 2008 - 06 30
Seeing as a power outage in Quebec is most likely to be caused by a massive winter storm, I don't blame them.
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The redneck wallaby was used, and the volume of a Tokyo subway car was based on the volume of a subway car in Boston, I believe? Though I can't exactly recall. We discussed several variables, such as whether there were any modifications to the car (seats in or out?), if there were passengers in the subway car, and whether or not they were in boxes. That number was based on free-range, but most likely sedated, redneck wallabies in an empty car, though I don't know if the seats were addressed or not. The seats would probably only cause you to take away a few wallabies. If you put them in boxes, redneck wallabies would most likely fit in a crate made for medium-sized dogs, as they are around 45 pounds.
And if we're talking rush hour Tokyo, passengers included, you're not getting any damn creature in there, and if you manage to get them in, they're not getting out alive.
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African or European?
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African wallabies are non-migratory. How would they end up in Tokyo?
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They simply close up shop and go play hockey.
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And finally and most importantly...who exactly is it who has such an affinity for forcing numerous wallabies into tightly-compacted areas? And why?
Because we're geeky writers and that's what we do.
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Oct 9, 2008 - 12 12
I just want to say how much "oh-god-is-work-over-yet-hey-wait-what's-this" joy this thread has brought me. Truly.
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Well. This is very...interesting. :D I'm sure we all needed to know that. And quite a heated discussion about the wallabies thing...I was kind of wondering the answer to that though.
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Yes emergence,you are correct.This seems to be happened around 1072 or 1073.
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Heh heh I wonder if anyone else got this...
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Heh heh I wonder if anyone else got this...
Now I do, that I read it a second time. Hee hee.
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I got it. I was a little miffed that somebody beat me to it, too.
The question is, are these laden wallabies?
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Define a "laden" wallaby.
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Laden in this case could mean carrying a coconut.
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A wallaby carrying a coconut?
I suppose it could grip it by the husk...
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But ... why would it want to?
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To make a better Monty Python reference, of course. Wallabies are very good about that sort of thing.
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Or you could interpret "laden" as "pregnant." In that case, perhaps pregnant wallabies want personal space, in which case the answer would be a very low number. Or, if all other factors were equal, the number would go down, because pregnant wallabies take up more room, and then double, because you have to count the baby wallabies.
And why would we want to fit them in there? Well, it just so happens that Elfa is on the run from both the evil remains of the USSR and the angry entirety of the CIA, and she has to hide somehow. How better than in a crowd of wallabies? She is a rather petite person.
Well, when we had the Quebeckian Post Office Power Outage, we had to write our NaNos by hand after our laptop batteries died. That and stick flashlights under our faces and howl like arctic snow wolves.
Rations. Well, to be rational, it depends on the weather. And gravitational forces. And that good old supply and demand. For example, he could be transported through a hole in the space-time continuum to Mars in 1943, in which case he would die immediately and the food wouldn't matter--unless he was picked up by the Heart of Gold. That would seem quite improbable because the odds of it happening to Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect were so small and it already happened, but one might argue that that makes it even less improbable and therefore more likely to happen. Except that if that makes it more likely to happen, that means it's less likely to happen.... *I think I'll sit in a corner and gibber for a while*
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