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#123301 02/19/04 12:53 PM
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When all things are possible, what wonder that some things should be actual? (This is my sole deduction of existence from essence.)

--George Santayana


#123302 02/19/04 01:57 PM
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Not all things are possible. Reminds me of first joke I ever heard. The Devil caught a tough little kid, but said
he would let him go if he could think of something the Devil could not do. The kid cocked up one leg, insolently
farted, and said:"Chase that around a corner, strain it through a sieve, and paint it green. The Devil let him go.


#123303 02/19/04 03:39 PM
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all things must be possible if we can have Santayana and farting in the same thread...





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#123304 02/19/04 04:26 PM
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Chase that around a corner and paint it green.


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Finally, I know where Chomsky got his famous "colorless green ideas" ...


#123306 02/20/04 01:05 PM
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"colorless green ideas"

Ha! Good one, jheem.



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