Never Take a Wooden Nickel from an Indian

[syphrix]

I Googled across some posts on these forums while searching for how to calculate distance to stars. I poked around enough to warrant creating an account. Don't mind me, though, I'll be quietly perusing in the background.

 

Oh, but I do have one question: What did the pear say to the knife?

[pamela]

Hello syphrix,

Welcome to Hypography!!

[Boerseun]

Hi there and welcome!

Oh, but I do have one question: What did the pear say to the knife?

No idea - let's hear it!

[syphrix]

Hi there and welcome!

 

No idea - let's hear it!

 

Thanks for halving me. :wink:

[modest]

What did the pear say to the knife?...

 

Thanks for halving me...

 

"...But, you are not ah-pealing" :wink:

 

~modest

[Pyrotex]

I Googled across some posts on these forums while searching for how to calculate distance to stars. ...

Hi there Syphrix,

 

I recently found an excellent short answer to your question over at a wonderful website called Straight Dope , managed by Cecil Adams, one of the smartest people in the world. So he says. And who am I to disagree?

 

Click the link and take a look.

Pyro

[syphrix]

Hi there Syphrix,

 

I recently found an excellent short answer to your question over at a wonderful website called Straight Dope , managed by Cecil Adams, one of the smartest people in the world. So he says. And who am I to disagree?

Pyro

 

Wonderful! That's exactly the type of condensed response I was searching for! What's funny is that I kept finding articles about using Parallax but I didn't know how scientists measured the distance to the closer object of reference. Thanks a ton!

 

@modest - No, I've never been much of a pealing fellow -- My mother never showed me how; she's a good woman, though. As for the joke, I sadly cannot claim credit for it. A friend of mine told me that one a while back.