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"I conclude that 'lots of love' can be abbreviated to LOL". - me
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"What a great day for America!" - @StevieTNZ
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand." Abraham Lincoln.
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I didn't know there was a user on PF called Abraham Lincoln.PeroK said:"A house divided against itself cannot stand." Abraham Lincoln.
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He's from back in the early days.StevieTNZ said:I didn't know there was a user on PF called Abraham Lincoln.
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He's Don Lincoln's uncle, or something.PeroK said:He's from back in the early days.
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Thread closed for moderation.
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Please try to remain on topic and avoid political statements, disguised or not.
I'll try to set the thread on its rails again:
I'll try to set the thread on its rails again:
Vanadium 50 said:If you can't make a quantitative prediction, you don't really have a theory.
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If one does not perceive gravity then it has no effect. The experimental evidence can be found in Road Runner cartoons. ##-## @jbriggs444
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First, if you are angry enough to think you might have done damage to a house, you need to seriously consider anger management. ##-## @Vanadium 50
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phinds said:You really not barking up the wrong tree with this so much as you are barking up a tree that doesn't even exist.
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jbriggs444 said:Approaches and becomes are not synonyms.
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Did you recognize the irony considering your avatar?phinds said:jbriggs444 said:Approaches and becomes are not synonyms.
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I know nothing. Nothing!fresh_42 said:Did you recognize the irony considering your avatar?
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Whatever the SI unit of pedantry is, I'm sure a different unit is in common use in the USA. ##-## @Vanadium 50sysprog said:How do we measure that?johann1301h0 said:. . . is anyone here pedantic enough . . .
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Vanadium 50 said:I will say if you need to invoke Wittgenstein to try and figure out what the OP means, it might be a sign that there might be a little bit of a clarity shortage.
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Dale said:At greater than 200 posts I think it is pretty evident that there has been no stifling of the discussion whatsoever.
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Vanadium 50 said:You probably should look into such compulsions, because some of what you say is just not so.
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I HAVE to include these two of favorites of mine even if they are my own:
it is unfortunate that you "understand" this since it is totally wrong.
I recognize every single word in that post, but strung together in that particular order, I can't make any sense out of them at all.
it is unfortunate that you "understand" this since it is totally wrong.
I recognize every single word in that post, but strung together in that particular order, I can't make any sense out of them at all.
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"I don't want you to get the impression that it's just a question of the number of words. Getting them in the right order is just as important."
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Even though it was directed at me, I still have to appreciate it.
Vanadium 50 said:Of course, if the student has never seen a determinant before, this is as useful as a Siamese-Swahili Dictionary. ("Once you know one, you can teach yourself the other!")
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@Vanadium 50 (I think that he may be not-so-secretly one of the Vanir) is a very witty guy ##\dots##Infrared said:Even though it was directed at me, I still have to appreciate it.
Vanadium 50 said:Of course, if the student has never seen a determinant before, this is as useful as a Siamese-Swahili Dictionary. ("Once you know one, you can teach yourself the other!")
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that's @Fervent Freyja maybesysprog said:@Vanadium 50 (I think that he may be not-so-secretly one of the Vanir) is a very witty guy ##\dots##
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanir
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Freya/Frigga cousin (she uses aliases)gmax137 said:
[non-rigorous use of rightarrows in this post]
##\mathrm {vanir \rightarrow vana \rightarrow}## 'dis' ##\rightarrow## goddess ##\rightarrow## 'ium' [non-feminine ending] well I hope that this thread can continue to be about Great One-Liners
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What the X? Did you just notice that on autopilot, or is that a known thing? or maybe you really are one of the Vanir? and if so, maybe you'd rather be one of the Aesir?Vanadium 50 said:"One of the Vanir" is an anagram of "Not heaven for I".
I'm starting to become curious about you.For what it's worth, I had determinants years before knowing anything about cross-products.
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