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The discussion revolves around a variety of topics, beginning with the reopening of a thread on the Physics Forums. Participants express relief at the continuation of the conversation and share light-hearted banter about past threads. There are inquiries about quoting from previous threads and discussions about job opportunities for friends. The conversation shifts to humorous takes on mathematics, particularly the concept of "Killing vector fields," which one participant humorously critiques as dangerous. Participants also share personal anecdotes, including experiences with power outages and thoughts on teaching at university. The tone remains casual and playful, with discussions about the challenges of winter, the joys of friendship, and even a few jokes about life experiences. The thread captures a blend of humor, personal stories, and light philosophical musings, all while maintaining a sense of community among the forum members.
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Some girl today told me I was a one in a million kind of guy:smile:

But then I realized that there was 7000 other's just like me :frown:

I want to be a one in a 7 billion kind of guy :cool:
 
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I think she was drugged.
 
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Silicon Waffle said:
I think she was drugged.

Ummm, well, uhhh, not something that could be found with a forensic analysis at least.
 
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JorisL said:
Found that after your reply :-)

But hey, now we know that place exists.
Yeah, it looks pretty tasty.
 
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Stupidest line I have said in a job interview (so far) , upon seeing a picture on the interviewer's desk
and being told it is his mom: "your mom looks like she's really strong". A few minutes of awkward silence
afterwards and then I just left. I have no idea why I said it. Not waiting for a call back.
 
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I have a mosquito bite right in the center of my forehead. Right. In. The. Center.

If I scratch it enough I might look like a baby Unicorn.
 
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WWGD said:
Stupidest line I have said in a job interview (so far) , upon seeing a picture on the interviewer's desk
and being told it is his mom: "your mom looks like she's really strong". A few minutes of awkward silence
afterwards and then I just left. I have no idea why I said it. Not waiting for a call back.
What a great scene! Please send an account of this to the TV sitcom writer of your choice.
 
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Back from vacation. Not looking forward to opening my work email... :olduhh:
 
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lisab said:
I have a mosquito bite right in the center of my forehead. Right. In. The. Center.

If I scratch it enough I might look like a baby Unicorn.
I was thinking of the mark of Buddha, but oh well :D
 
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zoobyshoe said:
What a great scene! Please send an account of this to the TV sitcom writer of your choice.
Good thing only now I noticed the resemblance. I would have asked her : " How did you get Boris Yeltsin to pose for a picture and in that horrible woman's dress"? Were you both drunk? My interview today went better, though I may have been underdressed.
 
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WWGD said:
Good thing only now I noticed the resemblance. I would have asked her : " How did you get Boris Yeltsin to pose for a picture and in that horrible woman's dress"? Were you both drunk? My interview today went better, though I may have been underdressed.
So, instead of saying, "like an ugly Russian cross-dresser," you said "strong." Sounds perfectly cordial to me. What was her problem?
 
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Could you believe this?
Joe Di Maggio's uniform number was 5:

http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/nyy/history/retired_numbers.jsp

Which means his uniform read : " 5 DiMaggio " . And he was not even Mexican!

I think that qualifies as an alien plot by "Ancient aliens " standards. And it makes me " an alien theorist",

which basically means that I have a theory, in the loosest sense of the word.

Maybe call "Unsolved Mysteries"?

Moderator alert:
I don't want to read the rest of the post titled:

Should I read Thornton's or Lanczos' for Anal
 
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...In the Math textbooks section. X-Rated Math textbook post.
 
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WWGD said:
Could you believe this?
Joe Di Maggio's uniform number was 5:

http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/nyy/history/retired_numbers.jsp

Which means his uniform read : " 5 DiMaggio " . And he was not even Mexican!

I think that qualifies as an alien plot by "Ancient aliens " standards. And it makes me " an alien theorist",

which basically means that I have a theory, in the loosest sense of the word.

Maybe call "Unsolved Mysteries"?

Moderator alert:
I don't want to read the rest of the post titled:

Should I read Thornton's or Lanczos' for Anal
I don't get it.
 
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I don't either. How do you use a book for something Anal?

I'm kidding, it just reads like this, but it ends in Analysis. Still, kind of surprising on
first read.
 
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Just a cheesy joke: 5 DiMaggio = Cinco de Mayo.
 
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WWGD said:
Just a cheesy joke: 5 DiMaggio = Cinco de Mayo.
In English the "g's" in DiMaggio are hard. It doesn't remotely sound like "de mayo". Also, only a Spanish speaker is going to see "5" and think "cinco." Your average American is going to think, "five."
 
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zoobyshoe said:
In English the "g's" in DiMaggio are hard. It doesn't remotely sound like "de mayo". Also, only a Spanish speaker is going to see "5" and think "cinco." Your average American is going to think, "five."

That is why it was intended for bilingual people who pronounce names in Spanish and pronounce soft g's in DiMaggio -(which is the case around here, were DiMaggio sounds like DiMajjo). So I estimate around 2.47 people will get it and -1 people will like it, but maybe my calculations are wrong.
 
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WWGD said:
That is why it was intended for bilingual people who pronounce names in Spanish and pronounce soft g's in DiMaggio -(which is the case around here, were DiMaggio sounds like DiMajjo). So I estimate around 2.47 people will get it and -1 people will like it, but maybe my calculations are wrong.
I am English-Spanish bilingual and instinctively pronounce di Maggio with a soft g even though I know it's Italian so that is wrong. I didn't get it until you explained. Sorry...
 
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Hold, it. I was wrong. It is a soft "g" in English. Pronounced just like the "j" in "jellyfish". What I was trying to point out, is that it is not an "h" like in Spanish. "DiMahhio" could well call "de Mayo" to mind, but neither a soft nor hard English "g" will.
 
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In other words, the joke would have worked if someone saw "5 DiMaggio" as saying "Cinco Di Mahhio."
 
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Actually, the " Di Mahhio " pronunciation is more of an Anglo version. In Spanish it is more like "De Majjo", with a strong J, as in Jacob. At least in many Spanish-speaking countries. I think your pronunciation is more "Spanglish" , like, e.g., Tex-Mex lingo.
 
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My SAT Subject test scores just came in. I got a perfect 800 in both Physics and Math Level 2! I feel like I'm on top of the world!

I'd like to thank anyone and everyone who helped me on this awesome website, because I covered most of the syllabus here just browsing through threads and posts in the past few months without actually realizing it. PF rocks!
 
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PWiz said:
My SAT Subject test scores just came in. I got a perfect 800 in both Physics and Math Level 2! I feel like I'm on top of the world!

I'd like to thank anyone and everyone who helped me on this awesome website, because I covered most of the syllabus here just browsing through threads and posts in the past few months without actually realizing it. PF rocks!
Congratulations!
 
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My wife sent me a link to a friend's Instagram page. He recently got married and they apparently went to Tahiti for their honeymoon. The link shows a picture of his boarding pass. Unfortunately, it's sitting on top of his passport so that the whole world can see his full passport number. I hope he enjoys identity theft. :rolleyes:
 
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WWGD said:
Actually, the " Di Mahhio " pronunciation is more of an Anglo version. In Spanish it is more like "De Majjo", with a strong J, as in Jacob. At least in many Spanish-speaking countries. I think your pronunciation is more "Spanglish" , like, e.g., Tex-Mex lingo.
So the name, "Gorge", is pronounced "Jor-je"? I thought it was "Hor-he".
 
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zoobyshoe said:
So the name, "Gorge", is pronounced "Jor-je"? I thought it was "Hor-he".
Your right, this is true only when the g is in the middle of the word, at the beginning it is as you said.
 
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Yo no say nada...

:redface:
 
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zoobyshoe said:
So the name, "Gorge", is pronounced "Jor-je"? I thought it was "Hor-he".
It is the first time I use this word, but it is a moot point, a useless point I made: I am 99.999777 % (precisely this amount) sure that there
are no words in Spanish with a double g. So I don't know how it would be pronounced, a word that does not exist. A "one hand clapping" type thing.
 
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WWGD said:
It is the first time I use this word, but it is a moot point, a useless point I made: I am 99.999777 % (precisely this amount) sure that there
are no words in Spanish with a double g. So I don't know how it would be pronounced, a word that does not exist. A "one hand clapping" type thing.
Caravaggio! I would imagine Spanish speakers attack the pronunciation as English speakers do: adopt something as close to the Italian as is convenient.
 
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Having watched both series of "Cosmos" now I for some reason prefer the one with Carl Sagan, even though the new Cosmos is much more flashy and graphical and.. cgi filled to the brim.
 
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WWGD said:
That is why it was intended for bilingual people who pronounce names in Spanish and pronounce soft g's in DiMaggio -(which is the case around here, were DiMaggio sounds like DiMajjo). So I estimate around 2.47 people will get it and -1 people will like it, but maybe my calculations are wrong.
I got it :smile: and I even chuckled!
 
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Thanks, lisab, but I think we settled on "5 de Caravaggio" , I think. But I think deCaravaggio is injured this season, so we won't see his number.

Good intentions but misguided: a group of volunteers distributes, or at least offers, packs of food in the subway cars.They alternate between cars, between routes.
But, how many homeless/hungry hang out all day in/between subway cars? I suggested to them they get a fixed/centric site in the city so the homeless/hungry can know where to go, instead of them having to subway -surf see if they run into the volunteers. Seems like a well-intentioned though bizarre effort.
 
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There are these online tests you can take in which you enter your (or a ) name and email and then the results are sent to you, saying " mr x, your IQ is ..."
I took one making sure I got almost everything wrong and gave a friend's email address. He should be receiving an email soon saying " Your IQ is 23 " ,not knowing where it comes from.
 
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WWGD said:
There are these online tests you can take in which you enter your (or a ) name and email and then the results are sent to you, saying " mr x, your IQ is ..."
I took one making sure I got almost everything wrong and gave a friend's email address. He should be receiving an email soon saying " Your IQ is 23 " ,not knowing where it comes from.
:DD Excellent idea!
 
  • #1,489
I really hate clothes shopping! That's really hard:frown:
 
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why are you fat? :DD
 
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Pipeline that leaked wasn't equipped with auto shut-off
http://news.yahoo.com/california-oil-spill-harder-clean-choppy-waters-081709505--finance.html

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The pipeline that leaked thousands of gallons of oil on the California coast was the only pipe of its kind in the county not required to have an automatic shut-off valve because of a court fight nearly three decades ago, a county official said.

The original owner of the pipeline skirted the Santa Barbara County requirement by successfully arguing in court in the late 1980s that it should be subject to federal oversight because the pipeline is part of an interstate network, said Kevin Drude, deputy director of the county's Energy and Minerals Division. Auto shut-off valves are not required by federal regulators.
I wonder if the company saw it as an unnecessary expense.Sea lion rescued from Santa Barbara oil spill dies at SeaWorld
http://news.yahoo.com/sea-lion-rescued-santa-barbara-oil-spill-dies-234613823--finance.html
 
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Lisa! said:
I really hate clothes shopping! That's really hard:frown:

Me, too! Absolutely hate it. Malls are the worst. I don't like the fancy lights they use, or the music, or that there are never any windows or natural scenes. Everything feels fake and plastic and it's all a ruse to make you spend money. Most of the things I buy in malls, I hate when I get home - "What the heck was I thinking by buying that?!"
 
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Just another birthday for Detroit-area woman _ her 116th
http://news.yahoo.com/just-another-birthday-detroit-area-woman-her-116th-164853914.html

Happy Birthday, Jeralean Talley!

The stories she can probably tell.
 
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  • #1,495
For those who don't wander through the Special and General Relativity Forum very often.
A Slower Speed of Light game.
 
  • #1,496
Borg said:
For those who don't wander through the Special and General Relativity Forum very often.
A Slower Speed of Light game.
Nice! I think they should make a game where quantum effects become progressively more noticeable on large scales as well! How much of fun would it be to see the moon disappear and reappear at different spots...erm... well on second thoughts, that might not be as much fun :confused:
 
  • #1,497
Political earthquake here. I wonder how much popcorn I will need to watch the situation evolve for the next 5 years.
 
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Borek said:
Political earthquake here. I wonder how much popcorn I will need to watch the situation evolve for the next 5 years.
Buy 1,825 bags of microwave popcorn. That's one bag a day. Of course, some days will be 3 bag days, but other days will be 0 bag days.
 
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zoobyshoe said:
Buy 1,825 bags of microwave popcorn. That's one bag a day. Of course, some days will be 3 bag days, but other days will be 0 bag days.
think that's 1826 :D *wiseguy alert*
 
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nuuskur said:
think that's 1826 :D *wiseguy alert*
1827, in this case.
 

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