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davenn said:
"Oh I,
could tell you why
the ocean's near the shore" (Yip Harburg)
davenn said:
Does the stack overflow on washing or not washing?jack action said:Murphy's Law is recursive. Washing your car to make it rain doesn't work.
You're on a roll!davenn said:A bit of meteorite humour in the current climate of shortages
I admit to having once said more or less exactly that myself. In my defence, I was about 5 years old at the time...davenn said:
Wow, that's such a non-sequitur right there. While the reasoning holds for murder, the bigger the war, the bigger the x, but also the k. So k/x does not tend to 0 as x approaches infinity, unless one shows first that x grows faster than k.jack action said:
David Brin observed that lotteries aren't so much a tax on people who are bad at maths. Everyone knows the house always wins. People play because they hope they'll get lucky - so lotteries are a tax on hope.BillTre said:
I'm not sure "like" is the correct response to that, but there doesn't seem to be an option for "uncomfortable acceptance that someone may have a point".BillTre said:
"Asking for things basically every other developed country has" (stronger actions against global warming as exception) shouldn't be very provocative.BillTre said:I consider it provocative. of thought.
However, I live in the US.mfb said:"Asking for things basically every other developed country has" (stronger actions against global warming as exception) shouldn't be very provocative.
I've come here to post this one, even though I thought it might have already been postedfresh_42 said:The shortest math joke: Be ##ε < 0##.
WWGD said:I am at the Chemistry department to ask a question but all the students Argon.
WWGD said:I am at the Chemistry department to ask a question but all the students Argon.
Yes, we're worried. The lab assistant hasn't benzene, ether.Vanadium 50 said:Are you sure? When I look for students I Xenon.
Klystron said:ether
Darn, you quick-witted japesters! I was mentally riffling through terms for 'worried or concerned' trying to find a chem joke. Not as easy as alliteration .jbriggs444 said:Mis-spelled ether there.
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