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#21368 03/14/01 09:27 PM
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I'd say that a prism can be any color you want it to be.

Put it on black paper, it will be black. (Wait, black isn't a color either) Anyway. . . put it on a red tomato, it will be red. Put it in the grass and it will be green. . . etc.


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Dear Jazz: Try that with a prism made of black glass.


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Try that with a prism made of black glass.

In that case, why would I be worrying about what color it is? It's black.
By the way, are any prisms made out of black glass? I've never seen one.


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I give up. I'm gong back to the party.


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Seems the word 'prism' could figuratively be applied to our own eyes, when colored by our experiences and resultant presuppositions.

The part that wasn't stupid was that I think Bridget96 has made a wonderful comparison. The rest was a mixture of nattering and YART. There, B--I think our sighs cancelled each other out.


It is true, Max. I am not especially eager to become a...a... that thing. Especially not after visiting a site that has a remarkable likeness to Tsuwm.






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> Especially not after visiting a site that has a remarkable likeness to Tsuwm.

I hope you're not expecting me to fall into *that trap, j...


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tsuwm & Jackie,
Maybe one of y'all could be Pooh-Bah and t'othah, Tiggah?


#21375 03/20/01 08:53 AM
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What color is a prism

I suppose this is a Zen type question, like the sound of a single hand clapping..


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I suppose this is a Zen type question, like the sound of a single hand clapping..

YES! and also reminiscent of that age-old question:

"If a man was speaking in the middle of a forest, and there was no woman around to hear him... would he still be wrong??"





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I suppose this is a Zen type question, like the sound of a single hand clapping..


Aah, but Bart Simpson answered that one years ago.


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