October 3, 2003, 00:39
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If that isn´t what you always wanted to know I can´t help you!
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When cookie-lovers open packages of their favorite snacks, some of the biscuits are often in bits.
Now scientists say they know why -- and it has little to do with the way cookies are packaged and transported.
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Read on here: http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/eu...ble/index.html
Take that, conspiracy theorists!
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October 3, 2003, 01:35
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Them scientists surely have lots of free time. 
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October 3, 2003, 01:36
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Scientists can now explain why the cookie crumbles?
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October 3, 2003, 01:42
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Yeah! That I call scientific progress 
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October 3, 2003, 01:54
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So, it has nothing to do with me dropping the package 
revoke their funds 
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October 3, 2003, 02:19
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Something else you always wanted to know.
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October 3, 2003, 20:06
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Don't listed to the Linux Satanist, people.
Heil Arnold! Heil Arnold! Heil Arnold!
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October 3, 2003, 20:08
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I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity. -- Bill Veeck | Don't listed to the Linux Satanist, people. - St. Leo | If patching security holes was the top priority of any of us(no matter the OS), we'd do nothing else. - Me, in a tired and accidental attempt to draw fire from all three sides.
Posted with Mozilla Firebird running under Sawfish on a Slackware Linux install.:p
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October 4, 2003, 08:25
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Originally posted by St Leo
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Arnold has no chance against the Order Of The Broken Cookies!
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October 4, 2003, 09:08
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Now, how do WE apply this to everyday life?
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October 4, 2003, 09:16
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Originally posted by donegeal
Now, how do WE apply this to everyday life?
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Most of the people in the world I know are accepting realists. Whatever happens, be it for better or worse, stick their hands in the pockets, shrug and say "That's how the cookie crumbles."
With the information now available because of these dedicated visionary scientists, such lazy and inept attitudes towards the world are obsolete. We are now informed that fate isn't just the order of the universe.
All life events are obviously determined by a combination of heat, humidity and transportation. I am therefore moving to a cold, dry environment with no roads. All idealists are welcome to join me at my tundra retreat where we will suffer from nothing but boredom...
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October 4, 2003, 09:18
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Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Them scientists surely have lots of free time.
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Its called Government Grants.
Biggest waste of taxpayer money and the sole source of Global Warming.
If this is true, why do my Oreos and Chips Ahoy! cookies ALWAYS come intact with no broken ones? I always thought it was better packaging but now it appears the Brits just have inferior cookie technology.......
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October 4, 2003, 09:25
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Instead, laser tests carried out by British physicists found that cookies -- or biscuits, as they are known in Britain -- often develop "fault lines" a few hours after baking.
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That is blatantly obvious to anyone who's ever baked anything, but I guess now that we've done laser tests, we can know for certain. 
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October 4, 2003, 09:39
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GF... can anyone match the US in cookie technology?
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October 4, 2003, 09:49
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Sigh, I miss cookies. 
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October 4, 2003, 10:03
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October 4, 2003, 10:05
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No cookies in Japan?
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October 4, 2003, 10:06
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Hey, I found some real bread today! That was fun!
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October 4, 2003, 10:07
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What do they usually eat there for breakfest?
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October 4, 2003, 10:12
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I'm in China. They usually eat eggs, some sort of fluffly white pastery thing, and rice pudding for breakfast. I have no clue what they do to their bread, but it is terrible. Occassionally you can find some French or Italian bread at a supermarket. Actually, most of their cookies are rather decent, but foreign cookies are expensive.
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October 4, 2003, 10:13
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Ah- - you flag/location field fooled me. But interesting
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October 4, 2003, 10:16
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No, I only taste Japanese.
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October 4, 2003, 10:32
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No cookies in Japan?
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No good cookies.
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October 4, 2003, 10:36
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Good cookies are hard to find everywhere.
Unless you know how to bake.
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October 4, 2003, 10:41
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Fine, no mediocre cookies.
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October 4, 2003, 10:46
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Isn't British science awesome? No wonder the sun never sets on the British empire!
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October 4, 2003, 10:48
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No wonder the sun never sets on the British empire!
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This is still true only because the sun never rises over what's left of the British empire.
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October 4, 2003, 11:14
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The scientists used an optical technique called "digital speckle pattern interferometry" to study the surface of cookies cooling to room temperature
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Speckle? Oh come on, who's gonna believe that's real science!
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October 4, 2003, 12:56
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If a cookie is a biscuit there, then what is a biscuit?
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October 4, 2003, 13:43
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Originally posted by Anun Ik Oba
If a cookie is a biscuit there, then what is a biscuit?
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Soggy.
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