bignumber5

How many actors have played Blofeld in the Bond films? 9, due to using different actors for hands and voice in the faceless early ones. I could only name 3. Anthony Dawson ? (From Russia with Love) (uncredited, hands) Eric Pohlmann ? (From Russia with Love) (uncredited, voice) Anthony Dawson ? (Thunderball) (uncredited, hands) Joseph Wiseman ? (Thunderball) (uncredited, voice) Donald Pleasence ? (You Only Live Twice) Telly Savalas ? (On Her Majesty?s Secret Service) Charles Gray ? (Diamonds Are Forever) John Hollis ? (For Your Eyes Only) Max von Sydow ? (Never Say Never Again) (unofficial)

Perhaps when you click on someones user name, and see their limited info, avatars could be there (if people want them - I can live without). That way the forum maintains it's nice clean/innocent at work look, but they're there if you want to see them. Just a thought.

Top Cat's Gang was one that came up in a pub quiz ages ago and only a few people get all of... for the record, Benny (the Ball), Brain, Choo Choo, Fancy Fancy and Spook

Coincidence of the numbers in question, because you upped the dimensions of one side by the same amount that you dropped the other side by. Doing this makes a difference to the area (because it is based on multiplication) but the perimeter remains constant (because it is based on addition). The "but why?" question can only really be answered with a smidge of basic algebra. Have put it below, but realise that if your freind is a bit baffled by the mathematics of this then it may not help: If the first rectangle has sides A by B metres (in your example, A=12, B=6) Area = AxB = AB sq.metres Perimeter = A+B+A+B = 2A + 2B = 2(A+B ) metres Now the second rectangle has measurements (A-2) by (B+2) metres Area = (A-2)x(B+2) = AB + 2A - 2B - 4 sq.metres Perimeter = (A-2)+(B+2)+(A-2)+(B+2) = 2A + 2B = 2(A+B ) metres So if you change the sides by equal and opposite amounts (ie +2 to one and -2 to the other in your example) the area will change but the perimeter will not. If you change them by unequal amounts, the perimeter will vary. I hope this makes it clear.

some cross-posting above, methinks

Riiiight... RosieH, you are rather proving Annaj's point - a man's woman? I can only assume that to be a euphamism for really obviously good looking. What else could you possibly be basing that on?

For squares and rectangles, Area is one side multiplied by the other, Perimeter is adding all 4 sides together. 6 by 12 Area = 6x12 = 72 Perimeter = 6+12+6+12 = 36 8 by 10 Area = 8x10 = 80 Perimeter = 8+10+8+10 = 36 So if using 1x1 tiles/slabs and a roll of fencing, you need 8 more tiles but the fencing roll will still be long enough. Make Sense?

(edited as post seemed to come out twice)

Has anyone considered the possibility that the aging Pope is the Vatican equivalent of Phil, Duke of Edinburgh - old, slightly bigotted, few remaining marbles and poor impulse control, occsaionally drops casual verbal bombshells that don't represent the more diplomatic standpoint of the rest of his group? Just a thought. Agree, tho, that he'd never issue a statement in similar tones regarding a racial group. Very much a point in favour of James' arguement, which I confess to poo-pooing at an earlier stage/page (edited for getting m'names muddled!)

If they are books that are good for that reason - but a funny book can be a good book whilst doing nothing of the sort, non?

I fink you've got a bit muddled - first line of my post was responding to you, the rest was just me going off on one ;-)

Oh, that's fine, that is, you use your words and your clever...

Anything that induces creative new swear-words should always be cultivated...

How exciting - my first cross-thread arguement!

No kidding. I was just a teenager when I first read it and I loved it then - to my 'burban 14 y.o self it was a world away. Now it is very comforting to re-read. It's never occurred to me that others might find it pants. S'pose that raises the point that the right book at the right time can be great without really being a great book, if you see what I mean... (But you can still bugger off cos i love it. It doesn't all have to be about the beauty of the writing and the wonder of the human spirit ;-) )

Have just seen "American Psycho" on the great books thread, and would like to propose a motion to have it shifted to here - anyone in favour?

The Secret History - Donna Tartt The Timetravellers Wife - Audrey Niffenegger Atonement - Ian McEwan

oops, sorry, posted on wrong thread!

Well, except that he should have gone out last week... but for the latest "phone-votes don't count" scandal. (here it comes, because we do watch, but only after about a month in, once the dancing gets good... And we've just got back from a weekend away and watched the recording) Mrs.number5 (who should be getting ready for work but is hollering this at me as I type) points out that they've had the same rules for 6 years and then they changed them because the same rules would mean 1 person definitely would go out. So he stays in. And wins. Fix? Well, the "we suddenly realised that he'd definitely be in the dance-off" means a certain statistical slowness in the technical booth, because that was bleedin' obvious. Yes, he would. So he should, because those are YOUR rules. Yes? No, apparently not... I think the it's-all-a-bit-of-fun-for-charity-so-doesn't-matter-who-wins arguement starts off well, but as the contest gets further on, people are training bastard-hard for 6-8hrs a day, 5 days a week, and it starts to matter to them that that's rewarded. Can you blame them? Also, I think to label the 2 lady-finalists as bland or similar because they focus on, well, dancing, rather than on pissing about in order to progress... well that's not very nice, is it? Are you just getting your claws out because they're pretty ladies, or do you really think that in a show formatted around celebs learning to dance, we should damn those that are actually learning to dance and instead reward those that act the modern-fool? I think that if the John Sargeant set-up highlighted one thing, it's that there comes a point in the series where the people who are having a giggle accept dismissal with dignity, leaving those who are actually good dancers to take it to the finishing line. If it's not at all about dancing, why the feck do they bother to dance?!

I've only see Haye fight once, in his lighter incarnation, and i ccan only remember thinking that he was very, VERY fast. The extra poundage may well knacker that.

Anything that you get snobbed at if you haven't read... "Oh really, you haven't read Wuthering Heights? Oh...". Feck off. Oh, and both Kilroy-Silke and Jeremy Kyle have written books...

... is a day off with Mrs.number5 - haven't had a whole Christmas Day off together for 5 years.

Plus the overseas-download-count fails to consider when mikeP/sean/mockers are on holiday...

Nowt wrong with being a carpenter, sorry you prefer one of these father-to-the-saviour-of-man types but I'm bringing up HIS KID with honest graft - where's he, then, eh? Says he can be everywhere and see everything but quick enough to turn a blind-eye when there's real parenting to be done... Bloody Jerusalem Blow-Ins - not like when I grew up round here.

this happens to me pretty frequently - most particularly a pain when i've arranged to have something delivered on a day when i'm off, so i dutifully get up at 7 for the 8-6 time slot and stay in all day only to get one of these cards and a speedy getaway at 5.20. Tend to throw major tantrums at "help"line staff, not very constructive but highly cathartic.