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From: Patrick Scheible on 6 May 2010 15:50 Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer(a)cs.nmsu.edu> writes: > Walter Bushell <proto(a)panix.com> writes: > > > In article <758.813T1744T5065541(a)kltpzyxm.invalid>, > > "Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs(a)kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: > > > >> In article > >> <michelle-AE88DE.19010405052010(a)62-183-169-81.bb.dnainternet.fi>, > >> michelle(a)michelle.org (Michelle Steiner) writes: > >> > >> > In article <1068.812T2159T10235148(a)kltpzyxm.invalid>, > >> > "Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs(a)kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: > >> > > >> >>>>>> That's pretty good, considering that he will probably die before > >> >>>>>> Cochrane will be born. Time travel, anyone? > >> >>>>> > >> >>>>> Maybe he is friends with the Doctor. > >> >>>> > >> >>>> Doctor Who? > >> >>> > >> >>> Of course. > >> >> > >> >> No, he's on first. > >> > > >> > Who's on first? > >> > >> That's right. > > > > No Wright's on third. > > No, I Don't Know is on third. I don't give a darn. -- Patrick
From: Jennifer Usher on 6 May 2010 15:34 "The Doctor" <doctor(a)doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote in message news:hruisc$ijn$1(a)gallifrey.nk.ca... > Anyone for Douglas N Adams? One of my favorites! -- Jennifer Usher
From: Jennifer Usher on 6 May 2010 15:36 "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm(a)cable.mendelson.com> wrote in message news:slrnhu5hbh.gul.gsm(a)cable.mendelson.com... > jmfbahciv wrote: >> >> then we invented the VAX, which sucked better. > > Or just more. > > Meanwhile, there is a brand of vacuum cleaner from Oz called the VAX > and one of their models is the Ultrixx. And their advertising tagline was "Nothing sucks like a VAX." -- Jennifer Usher
From: Jennifer Usher on 6 May 2010 15:43 "Walter Bushell" <proto(a)panix.com> wrote in message news:proto-E419A6.12085106052010(a)news.panix.com... > In article <758.813T1744T5065541(a)kltpzyxm.invalid>, > "Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs(a)kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: > >> In article >> <michelle-AE88DE.19010405052010(a)62-183-169-81.bb.dnainternet.fi>, >> michelle(a)michelle.org (Michelle Steiner) writes: >> >> > In article <1068.812T2159T10235148(a)kltpzyxm.invalid>, >> > "Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs(a)kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: >> > >> >>>>>> That's pretty good, considering that he will probably die before >> >>>>>> Cochrane will be born. Time travel, anyone? >> >>>>> >> >>>>> Maybe he is friends with the Doctor. >> >>>> >> >>>> Doctor Who? >> >>> >> >>> Of course. >> >> >> >> No, he's on first. >> > >> > Who's on first? >> >> That's right. > > No Wright's on third. I don't know. -- Jennifer Usher
From: Jennifer Usher on 6 May 2010 15:44
"Charles Richmond" <frizzle(a)tx.rr.com> wrote in message news:hruud9$bvo$3(a)news.eternal-september.org... > Jennifer Usher wrote: >> >> >> "Mensanator" <mensanator(a)aol.com> wrote in message >> news:7b6d8ba5-ffab-4d20-b345-7085cf663b13(a)b18g2000yqb.googlegroups.com... >>> On May 4, 8:41 pm, "Jennifer Usher" <jennisu...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>> "Peter Flass" <Peter_Fl...(a)Yahoo.com> wrote in message >>>> >>>> news:hrovgt$ggh$3(a)news.eternal-september.org... >>>> >>>> > Someone of Newton's generation would have been quite happy with >>>> > atomic >>>> > physics. Put your lead into a reactor instead of some retort and out >>>> > comes gold. Obvious. >>>> >>>> That reminds me of the story about the guy who travels back in time to >>>> take >>>> Newton a calculator, thinking it would advance science. He is in the >>>> process of demonstrating some things when the answer happens to be, >>>> "666." >>>> Newton does not take that one well at all. >>> >>> What was the problem? Summing the integers from 1 to 36? >> >> I don't recall exactly. The idea was, it was just accidental. I do >> remember that the story was written in the days of LED displays, and it >> described Newton's reaction as seeing "the number of the beast, glowing >> with the red fires of Hell..." >> > > But Rockwell calculators had "big *green* numbers, and little rubber > feet"!!! :-) Obviously, it was not one of those. -- Jennifer Usher |