#26780
04/23/2001 7:41 PM
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My point was that he didn't live in Ireland.
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#26781
04/25/2001 3:34 PM
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Hello, `All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.' -Found in Linux Fortune Cookies. Did someone say that academicians are humourless?  Manoj Bangalore India 12°58' N, 77°39' E http://www.geocities.com/kummini/index.html
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#26782
04/26/2001 1:32 AM
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One out of every three persons is suffering from some form of mental illness.
Think of two of your best friends. If they are OK, then it must be you.
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#26783
04/26/2001 2:15 AM
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My mother always said that the youngest of my older brothers was her Chinese baby despite his blond hair and blue eyes. Around the time he was born in 1962 an article appeared in the Montreal Gazette stating that one out of every five children born today was Chinese. Since here was her fifth child he must therefore be Chinese.
(She was kidding.)
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#26784
04/26/2001 4:13 AM
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(She was kidding.)So you say, so you say. Are you certain?
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#26785
04/26/2001 5:44 AM
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Jackie wrote: One out of every three persons is suffering from some form of mental illness.
Think of two of your best friends. If they are OK, then it must be you.No, that's not a syllogism! The first statement only says that on the average, I am suffering from a mental illness with one-third chance. I have no proof to refute that!  Manoj. Bangalore India 12°58' N, 77°39' E http://www.geocities.com/kummini/index.html
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#26786
04/26/2001 11:59 AM
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Jackie, of course, wasn't kidding. But then I happen to know that two of her friends are totally whacked out, so she must be triply sane.
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04/26/2001 6:29 PM
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Jackie, of course, wasn't kidding. But then I happen to know that two of her friends are totally whacked out, so she must be triply sane.
Dear Faldage,
Aptually®, I seem to be a part of quite a variety of triangles, and in some I am definitely the only sane one.
So perhaps in the others, I can get balanced out, by losing it entirely, such as when I go skinny-dipping hi, m & bor blurt amorous assertionshi s.
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#26788
04/27/2001 11:20 PM
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"Property is theft. Therefore theft is property. Therefore this ship is mine". - Zaphod Beeblebrox. This sort of logic is commonly found in my school.
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#26789
04/28/2001 6:01 AM
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This sort of logic is commonly found in my school.Jimbo, this sort of logic is commonly found everywhere! Douglas Adams' ability to re-present the commonplace as humour is why the books are so popular. 
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#26790
04/28/2001 9:26 AM
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It annoys me because of the people on the short end.
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#26791
04/28/2001 9:53 AM
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It annoys me because of the people on the short end.
Yes, if one has been at the short oend of such reasoning, it is harder to find the humour in it. For some reason your post left me singing the song "Don't want no short people round here", a perennial favourite of mine despite being both short and round.
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04/28/2001 2:48 PM
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...being both short and round.You're as cute as a button, too!
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#26793
04/28/2001 10:27 PM
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Actually, I picture you looking the same as Arthur Dent, except without the beard, which is the opposite of what you say.
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#26794
04/28/2001 10:38 PM
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Actually, I picture you looking the same as Arthur Dent, except without the beard, which is the opposite of what you say.Flattering, and pretty accurate as a description of the "real" MaxQ. This cheap knockoff, however, looks nothing like that, as can be seen by taking a trip to the Rogues' Gallery at my idrive account, and looking for oneself.
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#26795
04/29/2001 5:52 AM
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Flattering, and pretty accurate as a description of the "real" MaxQ. This cheap knockoff, however, looks nothing like that, as can be seen by taking a trip to the Rogues' Gallery at my idrive account, and looking for oneself.Oh, I dunno. Give you a nondescript dressing gown and a pair of slippers, and that slightly confused and quizzical look would slot right in to HHGTHG. Nobody ever said that Arthur Dent was tall or thin. Only that he was perpetually one behind in the understanding-his-current-situation department ...
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04/29/2001 6:17 AM
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Nobody ever said that Arthur Dent was tall or thin.Somewhere, possibly in the radio scripts which I do not have, Arthur's height is given as around 6 ft - 6 inches tallr than I am.
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04/29/2001 9:44 AM
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I usually think of characters being at least tall. I also think of Zaphod as being blue and wrinkly.
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04/29/2001 12:44 PM
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>Flattering, and pretty accurate as a description of the "real" MaxQ. This cheap knockoff, however, looks nothing like that, as can be seen by taking a trip to the Rogues' Gallery at my idrive account, and looking for oneself.
I didn't know that it was possible to put faces to some of the names. Now that I know, I've aded to your gallery. In the image I posted, I'm the older, follicly-challenged person.
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