remember the guy who got done for speeding?

In other news, the earth is round and we won WWII.

"DanTXD" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@individual.net:

Bloke is a f****it, we did win WWII, and the earth is oval.

It's an oblique spheroid actually

Oblate spheroid

-Mark

Geoid.

Halmyre wrote: >>>>> In other news, the earth is round and we won WWII. >>>>

All of which are, in fact, round. So Dan was right :-)

Will people *please* stop posting these stories as that man is offensively ugly.

the original story is on the same site at

He's got more chins than the chinese phonebook.

Fraser

Aren't they the same thing? Either way, I certainly learnt it as an obique spheroid way back when I did A Level Physics!!

PMSL! classic that's going in the book, right next to my 'Badger Nadgers' listing ;)

Indeed, it's been around as long as there have been phonebooks.

I did A-Level Physics and they never taught us nothing about Bleek Steroids. They just told us it was round.

Oblate means flattened, oblique would mean that it had undergone a shearing motion like this | | -> / /

Although now that I think about it, if it only underwent one shear it would be the same as being oblate, after a bit of rotation to bring its axes back in line. If it underwent two identical shears but on different axes, it would become Prolate. Otherwise it would just be a ellipsoid.

Not sure what this has to do with cars though :-/

-Mark

next you'll be trying to tell us onions are square just because they have edges :) it's flat I tell you, I've seen it from far away!!!!!!!!!!!!