View Single Post
Old 10-20-2006, 01:51 PM   #60
MaggieL
in the Hour of Scampering
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia)
Posts: 4,060
Quote:
Originally Posted by Elspode
wouldn't the resulting explosion be rather louder than the mere ring of an empty pot? I mean, I'm just askin'...
You're overlooking the fact that the pot is in the process of emptying itself. By the time you heard the noise, it's empty.

Besides, the original catchphrase involves kettles, as I recall. :-)
__________________
"Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..."

MaggieL is offline   Reply With Quote