Needle in a haystack
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See, I dont think it would be that difficult to find a needle in a hay stack.
Youve got two options:
1. Go arms flailing until you get *****ed
2. Just keep shaking the hay and moving from A to B. Eventually it'll fall it. Its heavier.
20minutes. Tops.
Actually, third option and 5 minutes tops.
Burn the hay stack.
Youve got two options:
1. Go arms flailing until you get *****ed
2. Just keep shaking the hay and moving from A to B. Eventually it'll fall it. Its heavier.
20minutes. Tops.
Actually, third option and 5 minutes tops.
Burn the hay stack.
That's an example of the term being used in such a way to describe the annoyance of the small strand of hay that is *****ing him like a needle.
Really?
I think it would be harder to specify a particular strand of hay in the first place, let alone find it.
Seems I'm not the only person that thought it was a sewing needle but continue thinking it's the made up phrase that you originally thought it was
A hay stack will burn for days. Believe me.
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Really? I would have thought it to be fairly quick burning thing.
But either way.. a lot less man hours
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Exactly what i was going to post, i've always taken it as a metal needle and the mythbusters seem to confirm that.
I always assumed it was a sewing needle, and funnily enough there was an episode of Brainiac last week or the week before asking what the easiest way to find said needle was
1. Setting the whole lot on fire
2. Putting the hay in water and finding it that way
3. Sifting through the hay and passing from one pile to another.
I believe the setting fire to it option worked out the fastest
1. Setting the whole lot on fire
2. Putting the hay in water and finding it that way
3. Sifting through the hay and passing from one pile to another.
I believe the setting fire to it option worked out the fastest
Really? I would have thought it to be fairly quick burning thing.
But either way.. a lot less man hours
I suppose it depends how tightly packed the hay is and at how dry. The one I saw going up on flames was still smouldering two days later.
I always assumed it was a sewing needle, and funnily enough there was an episode of Brainiac last week or the week before asking what the easiest way to find said needle was
1. Setting the whole lot on fire
2. Putting the hay in water and finding it that way
3. Sifting through the hay and passing from one pile to another.
I believe the setting fire to it option worked out the fastest
Mythbusters done it first I believe.
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What is it's an aluminum needle?
I'm currently fashioning a sign that reads 'No non-magnetic needles to be lost in this haystack' that we can display by the haystack. I appreciate that I could have extended this to include all forms of needle, but then we'd have an MRI machine sitting around going unused.
Weird, they seem like intelligent people on that show.
I'd understand if it was Brainiac thats a kids show but I could tell you burning a haystack would be the quickest way...without attempting it. Its just obvious.
But how would you prove it? Its more fun fdoing that just saying 'meh, its obvious'.