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Max, are you trying to imply that Rouspeter might be wrong? I've been working for years on the assumption that HHGTTG was absolutely right about the population of the galaxy, and that the morons I generally have to deal with on a daily basis (with, of course, the potential exception of the members of this august forum) were simply figments of my fevered imagination, conjured up by me and for me to keep me from feeling lonely.
The next thing that this board will debunk will be bistromathics. I don't know!
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Max, are you trying to imply that Rouspeter might be wrongSacred blue, no! I just expanded the quote to work in the piece on Sex, hoping to lure the (ominously?) absent Gutter Police Chief to join the thread. 
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Sacred blue, no! I just expanded the quote to work in the piece on Sex, hoping to lure the (ominously?) absent Gutter Police Chief to join the thread.Oh, that's all right, then.  [Saunters off into the sunset whistling some Gilbert O'Sullivan tune or another emoticon]
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Gilbert O'sullivan? They were 2 people and Sullivan wasn't Irish.
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Gilbert O'sullivan? They were 2 people and Sullivan wasn't Irish.
Sorry, jimthedog, but Gilbert O'Sullivan is very real, as you will find out if you visit this site http://www.gosullivan.com/
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Stop that... now I'm humming alone, again, naturally, and I think I hear something caribbean in the bachground... 
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Dear CK and Max: Sadly, it appears that there is a Gilbert O'Sullivan. But his talent seems minuscule compared with that of either Gilbert or Sullivan. The only thing he has going for him is the similarity in names.
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The only thing he has going for him is the similarity in names.
As one who grew up hearing Mr. O'Sullivan's biggest hit often, I was well aware of his existence, but did not know that he had changed his first name specifically to create the similiarity to G & S. The other consequence of so much exposure to that most Magdalen of songs is that I have a craving for Schweppes® lemonade every time I think of it.
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It seems to me that some very bright people take seriously ideas that to me seem stupid. At the moment I am thinking about the idea that a thousand monkeys typing indefinitely would eventally type Shakespeare's complete works.
In the first place there is no reason to be confident that there is any such thing as infinite time. And even if the logistics of training and maintaining the monkeys could be met,I believe the time elapsed prior to completion of a single correct line would be so great that there could be no hope of completing the whole task.
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>It seems to me that some very bright people take seriously ideas that to me seem stupid. At the moment I am thinking about the idea that a thousand monkeys typing indefinitely would eventally type Shakespeare's complete works.
It is of course a silly idea, I mean, a typewriter? Now really, how 20th century! Just give them Word 2000 with the built-in proofing tools and just see what they can do! I meen eye all ways use my spell chequer and it works four me.
Of course it goes without saying that you would need someone to reboot the computers every few days when they crash and update/patch the softwre as appropriate.
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