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Beetles: upon observing the million species of beetles currently identified, a famous entymologist was asked what he had discerned of God from his study of his creatures. The entymologist replied, "an extraordinary fondness for beetles."
I think he was misunderstood, and really was commenting on the Almighty's good taste in music.
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Sparteye>I think he was misunderstood, and really was commenting on the Almighty's good taste in music.
I think you are RIGHT - especially where concerns the song "Yesterday"... I can just hear that sung in heavenly tones as it applies to the world in which we currently live, can't you?
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BTW - how's the roundball going? I'm afraid I've been so loyal to AWADtalk that I haven't even looked once at ESPN.com or ACC.com or NCAA.com at all!
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is 'roundball' a reference to basketball?
just to let you know, it'll be a Cardinal victory. absolutely no doubt. you heard it here first....
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Yes - roundball IS basketball - as opposed to the American version of football...
Now, I'll show my total ignorance as far as NCAA basketball is concerned these days (well, I haven't actually watched any in a number of years) - just who are the Cardinals and why will they win???
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Attempting to simultaneously address my favorite subject of basketball and keep the thread vaguely related to words...
The Cardinal is the nickname for the Stanford team, which is likely to be the #1 seed in the west regional, and has as good a chance as any of winning the NCAA tournament. I believe that the Cardinal is a fairly recent nickname, changed from some term that offended some PC group or other. What I want to know is, why is the Stanford logo a tree? Why not call yourselves the trees, then? Explanations of the Stanford nickname and symbol histories would be appreciated.
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"Beetles: upon observing the million species of beetles currently identified, a famous entymologist was asked what he had discerned of God from his study of his creatures. The entymologist replied, "an extraordinary fondness for beetles."
Dear Sparteye: Was this famous person a hybrid sired by an entomologist, and his mother an etymologist?
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I think he was misunderstood, and really was commenting on the Almighty's good taste in music.
Now wait a sec. Isn't Imagine rather atheistic in nature? "imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try"
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The Turing Machine - Every serious computer user should know about this.
Mimicry of human mental abilities did not begin until the advent of electronics and mathematical logic structures. In the mid-20th century, the British mathematician Alan Turing designed a theoretical machine to process equations without human direction. The machine (now known as a Turing machine), in concept resembled an automatic typewriter that used symbols for math and logic instead of letters. Turing intended the device to be used as a "universal machine" that could be programmed to duplicate the function of any other existing machine. Turing's machine was the theoretical precursor to the modern digital computer.
"Automata Theory," Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 98 Encyclopedia. (c) 1993-1997 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Indeed, Dr. Bill. You have YARTed in a most pleasing manner. This has to do with why we have christenened (so to speak) our beloved spell-checker Ænigma, though of course the machine itself came post-WWII. 
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I think he was misunderstood, and really was commenting on the Almighty's good taste in music.
Now wait a sec. Isn't Imagine rather atheistic in nature? "imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try"
Unlike some of his followers, the Almighty has a sense of humour. Think of the way he chose for the human race to reproduce. Can you imagine dreaming that up with a straight face?
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