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Just a final word on numbers...
>googolplex
well, lets see... how do i explain it.
just like a googol is 1 followed by 100 zeros,
a googolplex is 1 followed by a googol zeros.
In other words (read numbers....),
like googol=10^100 (^= raised to the power of)
googolplex=10^(10^100).
sorry if it's a but technical. Just a clarification.
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as I recall, back in the days when the UK still treated a billion as 1 plus 12 zeros, "milliard" was Brit-speak for 1 plus 9 zeros.
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> Looking at the pictures I think that Richard Branson has a much nicer beard. I did read somewhere that it is impossible
to be successful in the USA if you have a beard.
Own up those who proudly possess a beard. Rubrick? Twusm (I think not), David 108 ...
Whoa! I just stumbled on this now (I've been away since June 20th). Nope. No beard - never have and probably never will. Just some occasional stubble from lack of regular shaving. Every girlfriend I have ever had has disliked beards so I humoured them and kept a clean jaw. I suppose that's incentive for never growing one in the future!!!
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Rubrick
I'm so-oo disappointed. Even worse - wrong on evey count!
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Apparently this thread has twisted into beards...
At any rate, here is one point where Jo and I disagree:
keep thyself unshaven, 'Brick Dear. The better to be seen and caressed!
I have, on a few occasions, kissed a
bush-face--most unpleasant!! Prickly!! Ick.
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no beard have i
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AnnaStrophic (note the respectful capitals)
from whence your wisdom?!
i have a beer
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No beard have I, but of another's beer would I willingly partake. How did we get so far from cyberclutter? 
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must apologize for dragging this noble discussion into the realm of beers. but you must admit beer is MORE ENJOYABLE when strained through a generous hirsuteness/hirsutity
one of these words must be a coined one, which returns us to the original discussion, does it not?
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>How did we get so far from cyberclutter?
what's this, then?
-Ron Obvious
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>>i have a beard
william<<
Then I shall blow you a kiss 'round the world, Dear--
prepare thy (presumably non-hirsute) forehead!
And, David--weren't you going to bring a slab to paulb's
party??
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No beard have I and beer I detest. Even the smell of it makes me feel ill.  Bingley
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>>No beard have I and beer I detest<<
Great minds think alike, Dear!
Prepare any part of thy face thou wouldst prefer to
receive thy kiss upon, and I shall blow one in
thy direction as well!
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>you must admit beer is MORE ENJOYABLE when strained through a generous hirsuteness/hirsutity<
Well, no, I don't see why I must admit that at all.
If I am drunk enough that I can't keep my hair (or indeed anyone else's hair or beard!) out of my drink, I am drunk enough!
Although apparently it works the other way round and beer makes very good hair conditioner.
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Oh, Bridget, that's funny! Yep, I'd have to be way far
gone to drink anything through someone's beard!
And william, you sure do have a way with words! First
hises, and now hirsutity! Are you writing your own
dictionary, O hairy one?
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i'm afraid, jackie, any dictionary i might write would be incomprehensible to anyone but myself and my beard.
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>cyberchondriac - (after "hyperchondriac") a user who always thinks there is something wrong with his computer.
Er, do you mean hypochondriac? a person who is neurotic about bad health? I looked up hyperchondriac, but couldn't find anything. hypochondriac means below the breastbone cartilage, and is a referent to the abdomen, which the Romans considered the seat of melancholy.
Hyperchondriac might be a person who is neurotically certain that he's in good health when in fact he's not.
TEd
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>Did you hear that the Internet had finally disproved the idea that if you gave an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters, one day one of them would write "Hamlet"!
Actually, a computer has produced a sequel to Hamlet, Hamlet II. In its entirety:
Herald enters stage right.
Herald: Where the HELL is everyone?
exit stage left.
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>hypochondriac means below the breastbone cartilage, and is a referent to the abdomen, which the Romans considered the seat of melancholy.
Hyperchondriac might be a person who is neurotically certain that he's in good health when in fact he's not.<
As it's above the ribcage, I take it he's also a pain in the neck ;)
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<exit stage left>
pursued (no doubt) by a bare [sic] stage!
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>pursued (no doubt) by a bare [sic] stage!
I was gonna take a picture, but I couldn't decide among my Kodiak, my Brownie, and my Polaroid. What a grizzly tail!!!!
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Ok, guys-- Kodiaks, browns, polars, and grizzlies all have tails, but please, what is a bare's tage? 
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>please, what is a bare's tage?
Glad am I that you asked that question. Our Industrial Age, Iron Age, Bronze Age, Stone Age, was preceded by the period before Man made clothes. Yes, it was the Barest Age of all.
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First of all. We have a saying that goes: “El hombre y el oso, cuanto mas feo mas hermoso”. Roughly: “Man and bear, the uglier, the better”. Once said that I've got to admit that I wear a beard and my wife loves it although my younger son refuses kissing me because of it. I started wearing it some eons ago when I got married, I’m so lazy that shaving myself every morning was a torture for me so wearing a beard delivered me of this chore. Five months ago I discovered that I could stop combing myself by cutting my hair very short so that’s the way I wearing it. Right now I’m considering getting neutered to avoid taking a shower every morning.  Juan Maria.
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>> Right now I’m considering getting neutered to avoid taking a shower every morning.Er--well--I, um, was wondering if any of these threads would ever return to the gutter. Now I know. I suppose then you'd want to wear your debutante gown! But I think I might just decline the party invitation.
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Following your sequel to Hamlet - here are a couple of showstoppers:
"Oh there's Goddot!"
"I'm looking for three sisters, they ordered a taxi to Moscow"
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