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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 24 Mar 10 - 10:38 PM THE NUMBERS OF THE LIVING DEAD!! (Coming soon to a math class near you) |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 24 Mar 10 - 09:18 PM DR Math writes very wisely To enlighten MOAB's Eiseley On the numbers which are Prime 'THough the names of them don't rhyme. Still the paradox of powers Lingers through his lecture;s hours One to zero? Naught to one? Gee, but mathematic's fun. Hornbuckle Sweeney, Grade Nine, Miss Periwinkle, Arbuthnot Junior High School, Erring, Minn. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Eiseley Date: 24 Mar 10 - 07:39 PM This is what Dr. Math says: One is neither a prime nor a composite number. A prime number is one with exactly two positive divisors, itself and one. One has only one positive divisor. It cannot be written as a product of two factors, neither of which is itself, so one is also not composite. It falls in a class of numbers called units. These are the numbers whose reciprocals are also whole numbers. Zero is not a prime or a composite number either. Zero has an infinite number of divisors (any nonzero whole number divides zero). It cannot be written as a product of two factors, neither of which is itself, so zero is also not composite. It falls in a class of numbers called zero-divisors. These are numbers such that, when multiplied by some nonzero number, the product is zero. The most important fact of multiplication of integers is called the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic. It says that every whole number greater than one can be written *uniquely* (except for their order) as the product of prime numbers. This is so important that we tailor our idea of what a prime number is to make it true. If 1 were a prime number, this would be false, since, for example, 7 = 1*7 = 1*1*7 = 1*1*1*7 = ..., and the uniqueness would fail. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 24 Mar 10 - 07:14 PM ANd to the first, only itself. To Zero then, the two powers are but one, And one, the opposite of zero's very self. Zero to the Oneth, or to the zero-eth Alike contrive to show the Zeroness Behind all frames and powers among forms Whence cometh one, and all it does abet, And the end of lies, when liars do confess. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 24 Mar 10 - 06:59 PM Is zero prime or not? A prime is defined as a number only evenly divisible by itself and one, but you can't divide ANYTHING into zero (e.g., 0/1) or anything BY zero (e.g., 0/0). Or does this make it the Schoedinger's cat of numbers, both prime and not-prime. And if this is the case, can it be warded off by garlic? |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Acme Date: 24 Mar 10 - 05:39 PM She's got it bad. . . |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 24 Mar 10 - 05:35 PM There nothing that represents the MOAB magic mystique Like double-contrarian double-negation speak Plucking the parallel streams of time And citing an even number as Prime Or not the Prime (from one before)-- Like opening two sides of the same door And oscillating through the powers of N Until they go around some distant bend And reappear in present time Leaving us all fired up and Primed. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Eiseley Date: 24 Mar 10 - 05:00 PM Does it count if I landed on the right Prime But called it by some other name? I'll just have to wait and be right the next time And bury my head, now, in shame. 34807 (actually 08, now) not 38407 |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Eiseley Date: 24 Mar 10 - 04:55 PM And here is one now, Three Eight Four Oh Seven! I just have to learn when to pounce For if I guess wrong, it's like bread without leaven Just slouching without without any bounce. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Eiseley Date: 24 Mar 10 - 04:54 PM For on the horizon, and not very far, And reaching beyond, out of view, Are Hundreds of Primes, and they know who they are And Eiseley is coming for you! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Eiseley Date: 24 Mar 10 - 04:54 PM Excitement numerical's old hat to you Ye who've been BSing for years But for me, a young 'un it's all pretty new But I'm not reduced yet to tears! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Little Hawk Date: 24 Mar 10 - 04:42 PM You will shortly hear a knock on your door, Rapaire, unless you act soon and do as I have instructed you to do. That is a warning... |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 24 Mar 10 - 02:47 PM If you use "Here's thousands thirty-four point eight", ding-dong, it scan quite nicely with four strong beats per line. Off with your head, Moriarty!! A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 24 Mar 10 - 02:36 PM No scansion..."Here a pore lonely mind busted", to paraphrase Tom Sawyer. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 24 Mar 10 - 02:25 PM I'm sorry--I meant "thousands thirty-four point eight". |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 24 Mar 10 - 02:24 PM I cannot wait! I WILL not wait! Here's thirty seven thou and eight!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 24 Mar 10 - 02:15 PM Well, you would probably want to support any program that enlightened teenagers who thought "Amish" was the name of a rock band, no? They ARE good people but a bit unusual and teaching the young to view them with equanimity is an important part of their education, even if it drives them to Intercourse. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 24 Mar 10 - 01:29 PM Heck, I don't see what's so special about the Amish. Every one I've known have been pretty good people. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 24 Mar 10 - 10:39 AM The "visit to Amish country" is the PR billing. It just happens to include Intercourse, but they don't promote that part... |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: MMario Date: 24 Mar 10 - 10:36 AM If I recall correctly, they would have to do a detour from any of the logical rooutes between DC and NYC to get to Intercourse; the school must just love stopping there.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 24 Mar 10 - 10:27 AM Please note that Big Bone Lick is in Kentucky and French Lick is in Indiana. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 24 Mar 10 - 10:26 AM Intercourse is (or was, I understand they changed the name) just down the road from Blue Ball, PA. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Acme Date: 24 Mar 10 - 12:19 AM They probably support the entire town on the tourist trade. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 23 Mar 10 - 10:05 PM LOL!! Obviously you are raising him with a sense of humor. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Eiseley Date: 23 Mar 10 - 10:02 PM My oldest son (14 yrs) is on a school tour back East. Today on the way to New York City from Washington D.C. the bus drove through Amish country, including the town called Intercourse, Pennsylvania. He just telephoned and said he bought a shirt that said, "Intercourse: it's just like I thought it would be." |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 23 Mar 10 - 08:42 PM Well, gee, Rapaire, maybe somebody stuck a couple of large washers up his butt, ya think?? |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 23 Mar 10 - 08:30 PM I dunno about that, Amos. I saw a bull once who was obviously having a difficult time...never mind. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 23 Mar 10 - 07:40 PM I could make a suggestion, but I know that the quality of BS is not strained. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 23 Mar 10 - 06:58 PM Unlike Rapaire Who plays too free. Poor, poor, Amos. Tsk, tsk. A fine mind shattered and lost. How very, very sad. Let's take up a collection so he can spend some time at the NYCFTTS -- I'm sure they could find a closet or someplace where he can spend the brain cells he still has. I've got...let's see...a Canadian penny and couple of washers about the size of quarters. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 23 Mar 10 - 06:49 PM What I like about Eiseley Is that she plays niseley. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: GUEST,Eiseley Date: 23 Mar 10 - 05:00 PM Okay, okay. Here's to Then and Now: "The cold Duke was afraid of Now, for Now has warmth and urgency, and Then is dead and buried. Now might bring a certain knight of gay and shining courage—"but no!" the cold Duke muttered. "The Prince will break himself against a new and awful labor: a place too high to reach, a thing too far to find, a burden too heavy to lift." The Duke was afraid of Now, but he tampered with the clocks to see if they would go, out of a strange perversity, praying that they wouldn't. Tinkers and tinkerers and a few wizards who happened by tried to start the clocks with tools or magic words, or by shaking them and cursing, but nothing whirred or ticked. The clocks were dead, and in the end, brooding on it, the Duke decided he had murdered time, slain it with his sword, and wiped his bloody blade upon its beard and left it lying there, bleeding hours and minutes, its springs uncoiled and sprawling, its pendulum disintegrating." James Thurber, Thirteen Clocks |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Acme Date: 23 Mar 10 - 04:48 PM Eiseley, if you keep that up, we're all going to have to go back and read the entire thing. And that just isn't going to happen (though we do play "drop the needle" sometimes and wade back in and pick up random posts to re-read and enjoy). |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 23 Mar 10 - 04:16 PM Yes, but Eiseley!!...that was then, and this is Now. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Eiseley Date: 23 Mar 10 - 03:10 PM As I remember from my recent perusal of the MOAB corpus, Rapaire was born but his mother at some point rejected him and demanded his bellybutton back. Eiseley |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 23 Mar 10 - 03:07 PM Rapaire has kindly informed us that he was not born. That would include being untimely ripped from someone's WOmb with a Vous. One has to ask, then, how his kindly benevolent Executive Directorship manages to materialize his allegedly corporate hologram into the Pocatello library once a month. P'raps he will be so good as to elucidate. Now, as we wander on our way We pleasure take in posts a-plenty; To reach the 75 of Kay Requires only one and twenty! And BS bright and of good worth From worry now has freed us Discussing Booke Man's lack of birth From care has surely freed us. Type on, type on, you MOABs bold, And spare no elocution To reach that number, bright and gold, Requires diligence on all our parts. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 23 Mar 10 - 11:45 AM Oh, I'm sorry. I got the details all wrong. But the principle is clearly intact.... A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 23 Mar 10 - 10:51 AM 1. There is no place named "Pocatello State". 2. My father died when I was five. 3. I wasn't born and didn't grow up here. 4. I never attended any school here, but I did give some classes. 5. I boxed once, at age eight, and knocked my cousin out cold. 6. I have never boxed since -- it's silly. Such a morass Amos has put himself in.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 23 Mar 10 - 10:14 AM It was actually a southern cross--followed by a northern uppercut--that laid Rapaire low by KO in his last season as varsity boxing contender back at Pocatello State. His father managed to have all the news stories suppressed and the negatives burned. After all, that's what fathers are for. But the shiner was world class. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 22 Mar 10 - 11:22 PM Oh, Rapaire, you make such a stink. George Sand, T.S. Eliot, George Cross, and Eliot Cross, and George Eliot, and Eliot Sand...they are all brothers in their souls, you know. Don't be such a perfidious hair-splitter, I beg thee. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 22 Mar 10 - 11:12 PM I'm not, but Amos is. But then, he lives in SoCal. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Acme Date: 22 Mar 10 - 11:06 PM Are you guys mixing Mary Anne Evans up with Aurore Dudevant? Again? Geez, Louise. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Eiseley Date: 22 Mar 10 - 10:27 PM Is this the one you mean? When you see the Southern Cross For the first time You understand now Why you came this way 'Cause the truth you might be runnin' from Is so small. But it's as big as the promise The promise of a comin' day. So I'm sailing for tomorrow My dreams are a dyin'. I have my ship And all her flags are a flyin' She might be all that I have left And music is her name. Crosby, Stills and Nash have some fine songs, but the lyrics really need the melody to carry them along. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 22 Mar 10 - 10:12 PM Gracious, Amos. You don't seem to know your George from your T.S. Eliot. They were quite different in many ways, you know. For one thing, Eliot, T.S. was born in St. Louis and Eliot, George was born in England. There are other, slightly minor, differences as well. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 22 Mar 10 - 10:08 PM I think that was the Southern Cross, Eiseley--the one called Jowadzhe. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 22 Mar 10 - 08:58 PM I say to you of Apple, and to you of Microsoft, and to you of Intel and to all of you of Silicon Valley, NO! A thousand times no! You will not crucify this nation upon a Cross of Sand, By George!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Eiseley Date: 22 Mar 10 - 08:19 PM I think the George Cross is a nautical medal. Wasn't it awarded to Silas, the ancient Marner? |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 22 Mar 10 - 07:49 PM Is he one of them G-uber peas? |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 22 Mar 10 - 07:02 PM I think that was a military pun, or isn't that what the George Cross is used for? I think a G-uber is meet. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 22 Mar 10 - 05:56 PM He is not an Ubermensch. Perhaps a Mittlemensch or even a Middlemarch, but you'd have to check with George on that or she'll be Cross. (Hyuck, hyuck, I jist worked in one of them there litterairy puns, hyuck.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 22 Mar 10 - 03:35 PM There's no question, Hawkster, that you are SOME kind of uber, certainly. Possibly a "G" type. A |
