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[hmmm27]

Man's first invention was probably the hair-tie, not a flint knife.

 

[WWGD]

I think it originally has been called Perish Dakar.

Polish or Perish Dakar? Maybe it is an electric Dakar?

 

[fresh_42]

Polish or Perish Dakar? Maybe it is an electric Dakar?

No, but they don't only have Dakar, they also have Datruck and Dabike. At least they used to Dahave.

 

[WWGD]

No, but they don't only have Dakar, they also have Datruck and Dabike. At least they used to Dahave.

Have you Dawatched the Rally? Binst Auf Peru?

 

[WWGD]

Math challenges in PF are getting insanely hard. Now you need to figure out a whole month: "Math Challenge --January".
How does one even start, January =?+ ! ?

 

[DrGreg]

Math challenges in PF are getting insanely hard. Now you need to figure out a whole month: "Math Challenge --January".
How does one even start, January =?+ ! ?

Well, --January is December, which is ten bers. You just need to work out what a ber is.

 

[Klystron]

Well, --January is December, which is ten bers. You just need to work out what a ber is.

Easy: a ber is what Davey Crockett killed when he was only three (according to Disney):

"Born on a mountaintop in Tennessee,
greatest state in the land of the free.
Raised in the woods so he knew every tree,
Kill't himself a bar when he was only three!"

"Davey, Davey Crockett, king of the wild frontier;
Davey, Davey Crockett, a man who don't know fear!"

Shucks! Davey killed himself a bar not a ber. Unless it was the elusive be-ar?

 

[WWGD]

Easy: a ber is what Davey Crockett killed when he was only three (according to Disney):

"Born on a mountaintop in Tennessee,
greatest state in the land of the free.
Raised in the woods so he knew every tree,
Kill't himself a bar when he was only three!"

"Davey, Davey Crockett, king of the wild frontier;
Davey, Davey Crockett, a man who don't know fear!"

Shucks! Davey killed himself a bar not a ber. Unless it was the elusive be-ar?

I think Fresheimer will claim the answer is 42. But he may be biased...

 

[Ibix]

I think Fresheimer will claim the answer is 42. But he may be biased...

Unfortunately, the time required for the complete proof ("SEVEN AND A HALF..." "Not till the middle of next week?!" "...MILLION YEARS") may prove problematic.

 

[WWGD]

Unfortunately, the time required for the complete proof ("SEVEN AND A HALF..." "Not till the middle of next week?!" "...MILLION YEARS") may prove problematic.

And soon, it will be 10 (million) years old...

 

[fresh_42]

Unfortunately, the time required for the complete proof ("SEVEN AND A HALF..." "Not till the middle of next week?!" "...MILLION YEARS") may prove problematic.

This comes if people only calculate on May 25th and do nothing the rest of the year.

Btw., get your towel ready on March 29th

 

[Ibix]

Btw., get your towel ready on March 29th

I wish I thought a towel would help. I wish I thought my government had even got a towel.

 

[fresh_42]

I wish I thought a towel would help. I wish I thought my government had even got a towel.

I can't help to think: It is so senseless. Nobody gains anything. The only significant difference I see is, that the monetary share won't be redistributed by the EU but then by the UK, if in a better way may be doubted. I don't get it.

 

[Ibix]

Nobody gains anything.

If you have money (like the architects of Brexit) you will be able to gain quite a lot by playing the markets, I think.

We shouldn't be discussing politics here, I think. And I'm liable to say something intemperate and get deleted...

 

[fresh_42]

We shouldn't be discussing politics here, I think.

Yeah, but it's a pity. Firstly, because it is hard not to think about it these days, at least if news are part of one's tv habits. Secondly, I've seen such a hilarious video clip of two men talking at the loo about: UK - GB - GB and NI - the various championships in sports, where they take part as England etc., or GB without mention NI, etc. until the rugby constellation IRFU and a pointy remark at the end: "... and where do they want to go then? Asia?" It was brilliant. My only comment had been: "The sad thing is, I understood it." But it was really funny.

 

[WWGD]

Hey, playing full Nirvana album at Starbucks on a cold, rainy day. Why not offer to play Russian Roulette with a doppio? I get the Seattle connection, but it goes beyond that... And nit seems nobody ever plays music from this century any more. Maybe because young people have no money and so no one caters to them?

 

[Ibix]

Hey, playing full Nirvana album at Starbucks on a cold, rainy day.

"Smells like soy latte"

With the Starbucks, it's expensive
Here we are now, caffeinate us
I feel shaky and wired up
Here we are now, caffeinate us
A machiato, a latte, a mocha, my espresso
Yeah, hey

 

[WWGD]

"Smells like soy latte"

With the Starbucks, it's expensive
Here we are now, caffeinate us
I feel shaky and wired up
Here we are now, caffeinate us
A machiato, a latte, a mocha, my espresso
Yeah, hey

...I am not going to cry ( for the $5 latte) . But you can stay in for hours .

 

[WWGD]

There is this bookstore "Four Minute Books" (Munich, I think). Either: Books to be read in 4 minutes or ... They only have four very small (minute) books? EDIT: I have many so many stupid jokes of this sort that I am starting to really havie trouble seeing which is which.

 

[DrGreg]

There is this bookstore "Four Minute Books" (Munich, I think). Either: Books to be read in 4 minutes or ... They only have four very small (minute) books? EDIT: I have many so many stupid jokes of this sort that I am starting to really havie trouble seeing which is which.

Isn't a four-minute book one that subtends an angle of $\frac{1}{15}$ of a degree?

 

[WWGD]

Isn't a four-minute book one that subtends an angle of $\frac{1}{15}$ of a degree?

You should join me in my act: 4-syllable * and 3-syllable repeat with ambiguous dialog. I got loads ( of boos and kicks) in the subway!

He came from Euro-pa Pa-Pa Patrick!

 

[WWGD]

Do you want to tune a fish sandwich? How do you tune a fish sandwich ? ( do you want a tuna fish sandwich).

 

[WWGD]

In case someone thinks jokes here, I found some use for mine. This acquaintance saw me while I was working. We talked for a while, which was fine, I enjoyed it. But then he started taking more and more time and I needed to get some work done. A few jokes on tunning fish sandwiches $^{TM}$ and others and he suddenly had to leave. You're welcome :).

 

[fresh_42]

They announced the train stations additionally in English. I still don't get it: the most spoken foreign language has definitely been Arabic.

 

[WWGD]

They announced the train stations additionally in English. I still don't get it: the most spoken foreign language has definitely been Arabic.

Then maybe you are not at the Trans-Europa Express?

 

[fresh_42]

More on a Trans-City-Express.

 

[WWGD]

More on a Trans-City-Express.

Trans-city? Stadt der Transvestites? Nein Europa Express!

 

[fresh_42]

Stadt der Transvestites?

Nope. I'm sure there are, but in combination with Arabic not so much. There once had been a Trans-Europe-Express ('57-'87). It was very famous among backpackers.

 

[WWGD]

Nope. I'm sure there are, but in combination with Arabic not so much. There once had been a Trans-Europe-Express ('57-'87). It was very famous among backpackers.

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Ah, the first ones doing techno.

 

[WWGD]

Kind of strange to talk with a(n) female phone rep. only to find out by email that it is a man. The more you know... the more confused you end up.

 

[WWGD]

Sucks how people explain technical terms using reserved words as unreserved and viceversa. After 10 minutes reading something about Python, I figured 'dictionary' was used more as glossary than the actual data structure. But I admit it is tricky and I am , have been, guilty of it.

 

[fresh_42]

What are the chances the conference finals are manipulated?

The referees have stolen the Saints their win, obvious to actually everybody. Now they've stolen the Patriots a new first in their fourth. Very strange. Good I don't bet. It would drive me mad.

 

[WWGD]

What are the chances the conference finals are manipulated?

The referees have stolen the Saints their win, obvious to actually everybody. Now they've stolen the Patriots a new first in their fourth. Very strange. Good I don't bet. It would drive me mad.

I just want to operate a Pizza store open during Super Bowl day. Some 30%+ of sales happen then.

 

[Ibix]

You know that thing where you see someone coming and you go right and they go left and you're still going to collide? I've just watched two guys, one staring at his smartphone and one dual wielding smartphones and staring at both of them, doing this. They iterated it four times before the synchronicity broke. Neither looked up even once.

 

[Borg]

You know that thing where you see someone coming and you go right and they go left and you're still going to collide?

It's called an indicisajig.

 

[Ibix]

It's called an indicisajig.

And when prompted by mobile phone use, the indeviceajig.

 

[Borg]

And when prompted by mobile phone use, the indeviceajig.

That's just a plain old zombie apocalypse.

 

[Borg]

I took the day off yesterday but Monday decided that it wouldn't be denied.

 

[WWGD]

Just read about this guy who has a B.S degree in Puppetry. If he advances, goes further into it, he may end up with a Masters...A Master of Puppets.
I have the impression that was not the intended reference for Metallica's song.

 

[WWGD]

Wow, another weird one: I am walking on the sidewalk about to enter a coffee shop. There is this (supposedly) homeless guy sitting on the sidewalk. He says something. I , distractedly, mumble something. He yells some insult and spits, as in disgust. I order something at the coffee shop, and, out of curiosity go back out. Then the guy is receiving a large order from an Italian restaurant, taking it to his car...and driving away?

 

[WWGD]

Of course, I would have preferred if they had alled them Houston Eulers...

 

[strangerep]

Just read about this guy who has a B.S degree in Puppetry. If he advances, goes further into it, he may end up with a Masters...A Master of Puppets. [...]

At least he'll be able to https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/tours/puppetry-of-the-penis-star-spills-on-the-audience-member-who-left-him-shocked/news-story/3f8f8e9b7791e998ab30a9b96793a3e1, unlike some Masters and PhD degrees.

 

[WWGD]

At least he'll be able to https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/tours/puppetry-of-the-penis-star-spills-on-the-audience-member-who-left-him-shocked/news-story/3f8f8e9b7791e998ab30a9b96793a3e1, unlike some Masters and PhD degrees.

I think I would prefer unemployment to it. EDIT: But it would be interesting to see their business cards/CVs.

 

[WWGD]

What is it about the waiters at the Thai place. Everytime I show up, this guy asks: " Yes Sir?", and I reply: " One for the lunch special". This for some 40+ times by now. Next time walk in and he asks me, I will reply : " Can Chai come out and play soccer in the park?". Seriously, what else woulda customer drop by a restaurant?

 

[WWGD]

Wow, this guy says ( overheard) he is studying Archeology. What kind of field work does one do? Dumpster diving?

 

[WWGD]

I wonder if one can go backwards from sampling to estimate population parameters when knowing the pop parameters and, e.g., samples keep missing the known pop parameters. I saw some 8-10 women above 6' in the last few days. Does that mean I am experiencing unusual situations?

 

[Ibix]

A two-sample t-test or a Mann-Whitney U/Wilcoxon rank-sum test will let you know how probable it is that the mean of two samples is the same. Or a chi-square goodness-of-fit test if you are just considering tall/not tall. Which one is appropriate depends exactly what you are measuring.

You'd have to do a proper random sampling exercise, though. It's possible that you simply noticed a couple of tall women and your brain is now helpfully flagging tall women, and you suddenly have the impression they're everywhere.

 

[fresh_42]

There is a German song about a gambler. The lyrics is about the 17 at a roulette table. A friend of mine kept betting on 17 and lost one game after the other. Do you believe me, that 17 actually fell, the moment he had left the table? And there was my then girlfriend who observed a long series of RED and wanted to apply the doubling algorithm on BLACK. Needless to say that BLACK fell after she ran out of her budget. So, I guess the answer is NO.

But there are of course general developments: people grow taller and fatter than they used to, caused by better nutrition. I remember a lingerie shop in a mall whose assortment was diametral to what I saw outside the shop running around in the mall. I couldn't figure out whether the shop owner was exceptionally stupid or just tried to have the ordinary women out of his shop. I think I could rule out that he ran out of articles for otherwise I would have been able to observe a demand while I was in there.

This leads me back to a favorite quotation of mine: "And as the probability is not always on the side of the truth, so it happened ..." (Michael Kohlhaas, H. Kleist)

 

[Ibix]

I am sitting on the train opposite someone with an honest-to-God Salvador Dali moustache.

 

[WWGD]

Almost hot into a really stupid fight at the supermarket when I accidentally took someone else's cart
"No, it's not really your stuff until you have paid for it". Failed effort at levity. Can't believe someone would want to make such a deal out of something, frankly, so stupid.