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perfectly reasonable, sensible and serious inquiry
Procrustean refers to the time period before the Earth's crust formed from the cooling of the surface of the liquid mass that was the early Earth. The Procrustean bed is the top of the liquid core of the Earth directly beneath the crust.
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Dear SM: If you grow up to be a frog, I hope a genuine Prince kisses you.
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Dear Father Steve: we are all so glad to see you posting again, you could not possibly offend.Quite right, dr. bill. Father, we have been too long evicarated, and if my poor thread can be credited with inducing your return, then it is a tremendous success!  [buy you a beer? -e]
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Procrushtian Bed:
Otherwise known at the Iron Maiden.
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WordWarbucks Do you have any idea how the lyrics--lyric for purists--of "It's a Hard-Knock Life" sung a hundred times this week in rehearsal for the show tomorrow night can crush your head like a walnut!!?? I live (barely) to tell the tale...
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Do you have any idea how the lyrics--lyric for purists--of "It's a Hard-Knock Life" sung a
hundred times this week in rehearsal for the show tomorrow night can crush your head like a walnut!!??
Well, my nut-brained friend, you have no doubt noticed, just by pecan into one, that a walnut looks an awful lot like a cerebrum! Even has a corpus callosum.
Goober pea-brained Geoff
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Bad vicar!
Ah, the acrid, but also palliative emissions of Vicar's Vapo-Rub!
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I always wondered how Procrustes went about stretching wimps six feet tall. I wonder if the mechanics of the rack and pinion were known in his day. I have seen pictures of a mechanical computer of amazing complexity recovered from an ancient wreck. But I have never seen any indication that the Greeks that early having anything with gears or screws. Let's hear some theories.
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I've thought for a long time that shelled pecan meat looks like a brain, but this spring I also noticed that shelled pecans look like baseball mitts.
Not sure how I can fit these observations into the Variations on a Theme....
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never seen any indication that the Greeks that early having anything with gears or screwsArchimedes had a screw. http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/a/archimscr.asp
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