DEMOCRACY IN ACTION! - we make up answers to the questions we want asked
Q. What’s this all about?
A. The YES BOY ICE CREAM philosophy is that even the greatest artists cannot draw a straight line without a ruler. If you test the lines in the drawings of the great masters with a ruler you will see at once that no line is prefectly straight, that lines that seem parallel are not always and that verticals are very rarely truly vertical.
Q. No, seriously. What the heeeeeeeel is going on here?
A. Nothing but the rent. And even that's looking a little subdued.
Q. What is the minimum number of colours I can use to colour any map so that no bordering countries share a common colour?
A.Thanks for the question, it's an interesting one. I'll start off by assuring you straightaway that five colours are sufficient to colour any map. In many cases, three colours are inadequate, especially where one region is bordered by three other regions. However, where there is an even number of surrounding countries, three colours will actually suffice. The answer to your original question lies somewhere in the middle. Given any plane separated into regions, such as a political map of the counties of a state, the regions may be coloured using just four colours in such a way that no two adjacent regions receive the same colour. One caveat is that each region must be contiguous. I have yet to prove this by hand and some of my friends remain sceptical of its veracity.
Q. Any tips for goal-shy strikers?
A. If you follow a football game attentively, you will notice that the goalkeeper, standing before the comparatively large goal, is more often hit than can be accounted for by the mere adventitious kicking of the players, even when you take account of the fact that the goalkeeper, whenever he can, will try to intercept the ball. The goalkeeper furnishes a prominent point in space which attracts the eyes of the opposing kickers. If the motor activity takes place while the kicker’s eye is fixed on the goalkeeper, then the ball will generally land near him. But when the kicker learns to reconstruct his field, to change the phenomenal centre of gravity from the goalkeeper to another point in space, the new centre of gravity will have the same attraction as the goalkeeper had before. Apparently. See Schelling’s Strategy of Conflict for more details.
Q. We want to buy your artists a drink, include them on a compilation, ask them to dance for us, slowly. What do we do?
A. Get in contact with us at the address below. We won't bite but may nibble gently.
Q. Was money funny?
A. Money WAS funny.
Q. A bright future for YES BOY ICE CREAM, then?
A. No doubt, no doubt.
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