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BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(

10 Aug 05 - 11:36 PM (#1539826)
Subject: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Bobert

Okay... Seein' as Iz gotten a few rather threatenin' PM's about not usin' animals, I figured I'd jsut throw this little Wes Ginny algebra out... It ain't ough... The Wes Ginny Slide Rule figgured it out in about 15 seconds but at least it ain't no animal....

Bobert


11 Aug 05 - 10:39 AM (#1539945)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: bobad

All Your Base are Belong to Us.


11 Aug 05 - 12:01 PM (#1540044)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: GUEST, Hamish

Dunno. But's it's something along the lines of:

You and I, together = happiness; negative income exceeding savings = unhappiness. But that's not it, is it?


11 Aug 05 - 01:06 PM (#1540115)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Bobert

Nope, but money is part of the story....


11 Aug 05 - 01:19 PM (#1540137)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: CarolC

Youth plus income equals happy, minus income equals less money equals not happy?


11 Aug 05 - 04:17 PM (#1540366)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Cluin

I fell asleep on my keyboard again. Must... kick... this... internet addiction.


11 Aug 05 - 04:20 PM (#1540373)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: SINSULL

The centipede ate your paycheck?


11 Aug 05 - 04:22 PM (#1540378)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Cluin

I'll have a number 3, but can you substitute honey garlic wings for the shrimp?


11 Aug 05 - 05:50 PM (#1540481)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Helen

You & I (together) = happiness. You - I = increase in dollars (cost, i.e alimony) = unhappiness

i.e. translates as the joke which goes: Why not just find a woman you hate and give her your house and all your money and forget about going through marriage.

Helen

P.S. Being more on the happy than sad scale of marriage at present I don't agree with that joke.


11 Aug 05 - 05:55 PM (#1540489)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Bobert

Close but no cigar... But close...


11 Aug 05 - 06:12 PM (#1540510)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Cluin

Nothing is sleazier than Weimar Germany.


11 Aug 05 - 09:18 PM (#1540739)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Bobert

Agreed...

Now back to guessin'...


11 Aug 05 - 09:21 PM (#1540742)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Cluin

I was guessin'.

Fallink in luff again, vot am I to do?...


11 Aug 05 - 09:29 PM (#1540749)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: GUEST,leeneia

You plus I equal happiness, but without I, wealth only means unhappiness.


11 Aug 05 - 09:33 PM (#1540754)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: CarolC

I'm not going to guess any more. I think I should give someone else a chance to win this time.


11 Aug 05 - 09:35 PM (#1540758)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Cluin

Why is it that being cross-eyed makes you happy, but if you lose an eye, you get more money but it makes you unhappy?


11 Aug 05 - 10:43 PM (#1540841)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Bobert

Leena... so close....

Hint: Lok at the "Subjexct" title in the postin box as opposed to the one on the front page....

(You have now said too much, Bobert... Way too much...)

B;)


11 Aug 05 - 10:55 PM (#1540848)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Cluin

J'aime mons pubis, mais je suis pauvre, c'est dommage


11 Aug 05 - 11:06 PM (#1540859)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Bobert

No Hablis....


11 Aug 05 - 11:18 PM (#1540869)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: bobad

It means I love my pubis but I am poor, pity.


11 Aug 05 - 11:25 PM (#1540879)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Amos

Youth (or you) plus self is happiness; when self is greater than or equal to money, unhappiness results.

Not that that makes much sense, but hey, this is Bobert ASCII!!


Alternative: When you and I are together, I am happy; but when my needs exceed my income, I am miserable. (Requires that the I variable be local and redefined midstream).

A


11 Aug 05 - 11:28 PM (#1540883)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Cluin

"mons pubis" is not "my pubis". It's Latin for "camel toe".


11 Aug 05 - 11:33 PM (#1540889)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Bobert

Worst guess of the night goes to Cluin... Camel's toe mighta worked on the last puzzle but not this one....


11 Aug 05 - 11:33 PM (#1540892)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Cluin

The +I and -I cancel each other out, leaving
Y=:)=>$=:(

Why is happiness greater than money and sadness?


11 Aug 05 - 11:51 PM (#1540908)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: bobad

Money can't buy me love?


11 Aug 05 - 11:56 PM (#1540912)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Bobert

Dangit, you two....

Keep it up and I'z just gonna tell it and move on to the next... You two is pathetic...

But I likes yaz, ahhhh, fir the couple of knotheads that you'es is, that is...

Bobert


11 Aug 05 - 11:57 PM (#1540913)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Cluin

You can't hide your lying eyes?


12 Aug 05 - 12:02 AM (#1540917)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Cluin

Yes, we have no bananas?


12 Aug 05 - 12:02 AM (#1540918)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Amos

You make me happy but when I worry about money I am unhappy; you plus I is happiness; subtract me and it leads to money which is sad.

A


12 Aug 05 - 12:02 AM (#1540919)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Bobert

We have a new winner of the worst guess of the night: Cluin! Who beat out the old winner: Cluin....

Knock yerselves out with worser and worser guessin'

Iz goin' to bed....

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...........


12 Aug 05 - 12:04 AM (#1540921)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Cluin

The Banana Boat Song?


12 Aug 05 - 12:05 AM (#1540922)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Cluin

Show me the way to go home?


12 Aug 05 - 12:10 AM (#1540924)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: bobad

Ah come on B'bert give us one more shot at it.

How about "we're happy together,but if I split you'd have more dough but you would'nt be happy" or something like that?


12 Aug 05 - 12:12 AM (#1540925)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: bobad

OK if that's not it Im sticking with "All your base are belong to us"


12 Aug 05 - 12:12 AM (#1540926)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Cluin

You and I drank all the martinis and now all my money's gone so we're sad because I can't buy us any more booze?


12 Aug 05 - 12:13 AM (#1540927)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: bobad

Dang I think you got it Clu


12 Aug 05 - 12:16 AM (#1540928)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Cluin

Your crotch and I are happy together, but when I'm away, you have no money and thus are sad


12 Aug 05 - 12:20 AM (#1540929)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: bobad

Ah, now I see the camel toe allusion, Little slow on the uptake.


12 Aug 05 - 12:57 AM (#1540954)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: bobad

Two can live cheaper than one?


12 Aug 05 - 01:29 AM (#1540967)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Biskit

lesse here,...cleavage & I git along great and I happy, then I spend all my money and the cleavage be gone an' th gal wi' it??.....
~B~


12 Aug 05 - 08:00 PM (#1541394)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Bobert

Okay, I done gave out the BEST CLUE and I guess that everyone was too busy guessin' to pay no attention to the BEST CLUE... So I'll repeat it.... Don't look at the top of the page... Look in that little box above where you post... There is a subtle difference that makes the story complete....

No more clues..

And, BTW, before Cluin guesses again, it's wrong... There that oughta save me from havin' to come back and tell Cluin once again: bad guess... No, might as well make that the next 3 guesses....

Bobert


12 Aug 05 - 08:11 PM (#1541397)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Amos

It says RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(.

So I guess that's the secret, huh? It just means RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(.



A


12 Aug 05 - 08:12 PM (#1541399)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Amos

With you I am happy; if I have to tear myself away from you to chase money, I am unhappy.

A


12 Aug 05 - 09:21 PM (#1541430)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Bobert

Nope, Amos... Go back an' study the box above where you post.... Last clue, gol dangit

($U&^I*^%(^%#@**_(&*, bunch of friggin' retards..............

(Now, Bobert, that ain't too politically correct...)

Nevermind that last mutterin'...

Bobert


12 Aug 05 - 09:40 PM (#1541442)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: freda underhill

it's an advertisemnt for Viagra.


12 Aug 05 - 10:01 PM (#1541447)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Bobert

Heck, Freda, I thought that Cluin had reached way down in barrel... Maybe you'd like to explain that one...

Viagra????

No, no, a thousand times no....

Okay, gal dang it, you retards is makin' me, ahhhhh, annoyed... Yeah, annoyed.... This one ain't rocket surgery...

No Viagra, no supid stiff that ain't got nuthin' to dp do with nuthin'... Like free association ain't like, ahhhh, a friggin' answer???

(Hmmmmm, Bobert, maybe these folks is jus' pretendin' that they ain't no smarter than a box of creek rocks... Maybe it's you who ain't no smarter than a box of creek rocks??? Ever think about that????)

Okay, last clue: social commentary!!!!

Bobert


12 Aug 05 - 10:10 PM (#1541451)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Amos

Dang, Bobert, yer clues ain't no good. If they wuz, I woulda translated yer hieruglyphich by now and been well on my way to fame and riches.

A


12 Aug 05 - 10:45 PM (#1541462)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Bobert

Yer on yer way to somewhere, A..... But, sadly, not fame and riches...

But look at poor ol' broke down Chuin... Poor thing done guessed him/herself out....

Okay, what if I conceed that Y+I means "You and I"... Does that help???

B:)


12 Aug 05 - 11:19 PM (#1541477)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: CarolC

I can't see any difference between the symbols in the box just above where I'm typing right now, and the symbols at the top of the page (except that it's two different kinds of type). Do I have to be dyslexic to be able to see the difference?


12 Aug 05 - 11:25 PM (#1541481)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Bobert

No, no, a thousand times no, CarolC...

Look closer....


12 Aug 05 - 11:33 PM (#1541486)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: freda underhill

does $ stand for a word starting with S?

ps, sorry about the Viagra one, i started on maybe Y stood for Y fronts & went from there..


12 Aug 05 - 11:41 PM (#1541488)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: CarolC

BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(

Capital B, capital S, colon, capital Y, plus sign, capital I, equal sign, colon, right parenthesis, minus sign (or hyphen), capital I, equal sign, right angle bracket, dollar sign, equal sign, colon, left parenthisis


RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(

Capital R, capital E, colon, capital B, capital S, colon, capital Y, plus sign, capital I, equal sign, colon, right parenthesis, minus sign (or hyphen), capital I, equal sign, right angle bracket, dollar sign, equal sign, colon, left parenthesis

Is it the "RE"?


13 Aug 05 - 01:04 AM (#1541508)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Cluin

You and I performed a colonoscopy, then took a bow, but while I was gone to the bathroom, you took the money and ran, so now me and my colon are sad.


13 Aug 05 - 08:01 AM (#1541659)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Bobert

CarolC
The BS and RE have no more to do with the solution that Cluin's colonoscopy answer....

Tell ya what folks, I might just have to break down and reveal the solution tonight so we can get past this little bit of Wes Ginny algebra and get back to more adult themes like zoo animals...

Bobert


13 Aug 05 - 08:27 AM (#1541685)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: JennyO

Is it something to do with the P-Vine spending all your money??


13 Aug 05 - 08:35 AM (#1541691)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Bobert

Ahhhhh, no, but that does give me an idea fir a future puzzle...

BTW, where is the P-Vine... I woke up this mornin' an she was gone an' she took the checkbook wid her... Hmmmmmmm?


13 Aug 05 - 12:02 PM (#1541813)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Amos

Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(

The two lines above are from the box above the posting box and the top of the page respectively.

"You and I are happy without me chasing money and getting unhappy".


A


13 Aug 05 - 12:33 PM (#1541826)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: JennyO

This quote keeps coming to mind, but I don't quite see how it fits these symbols:

"Annual income one pound, annual expenditure nineteen shillings and sixpence; result happiness.
Annual income one pound, annual expenditure one pound and sixpence; result misery."

Mr Micawber, Nicholas Nicholby, by Charles Dickens


15 Aug 05 - 05:24 AM (#1542010)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Helen

I still think my suggestion is a good one:

You & I (together) = happiness. You - I = increase in dollars (cost, i.e alimony) = unhappiness

BTW, the song that came into my head after posting that suggestion was:

"Love & marriage, love & marriage,
Go together like a horse & carriage.
This I tell you brother
You can't have one without the other"

I used to think that that meant no free love, i.e. no marriage, no love, but after seeing this hieroglyphic I'm wondering whether it isn't saying: where there is no love there can be no marriage. But since I am wrong in my translation then my allusion to this song is wrong too. Eh?

Helen


15 Aug 05 - 06:41 AM (#1542044)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: JennyO

Money can't buy me love?

I'm really reaching here - c'mon Bobert, I think it's time you told us what it is.


15 Aug 05 - 06:50 AM (#1542048)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: rumanci

Well !!

If another thread's anything to go by it stands for

Yucca plant + Ignorance = no impressive performance unless lots of dosh is spent = the bloody thing will still survive and look 'orrible

;-)
rum


15 Aug 05 - 10:14 AM (#1542186)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Bill D

you & I together means smiles...when I leave it means less money, which means frowns.


or something like that.... kinda dense symbolism


15 Aug 05 - 10:20 AM (#1542192)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Amos

I suspect that when the intended meaning is finally announced, it will elicit huge groans of protest against its virulent violation of ideographic conventions.

A


15 Aug 05 - 11:55 AM (#1542285)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: CarolC

I think Bobert's taking the piss.


15 Aug 05 - 12:23 PM (#1542304)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Bill D

he don't need to take it...he will be given it...


15 Aug 05 - 12:28 PM (#1542306)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: JennyO

All right, I'll give it one more try.

You and I are happy, but when I am not around there is less money and you are not happy/there is sadness.


15 Aug 05 - 01:35 PM (#1542339)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Cluin

All variations on my guess.

I kinda suspect Bobert will announce he typed it in wrong.


15 Aug 05 - 01:39 PM (#1542340)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Amos

How about, "I am happy with you here, but I don't like the way you spend money"?, or "I love you but I can't afford you....".


A


15 Aug 05 - 01:44 PM (#1542347)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Cluin

Y and I superimposed = Peace (upside down) = happiness
Remove the I and it's Yen which is far eastern (direction of the arrow $ = sadness and the root of all evil (money in general)


15 Aug 05 - 05:02 PM (#1542483)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Bobert

Okay, okay...

Sorry, bit I had a little mental health emergency in the familee night before last and yesterday morning thought that it would be a purdy good idea to get the P-Vine away from the farm fir a day 'er two... Yes, she's much better now... I din't mean to leave you all in the lurk and though no one has hit it square on the ehad the head has been struck... so...

Congrates to Helen fir the best shot...

Now if I were goin' to interject yer another clue and you all see either Helen's answer or BillD's then you will get it:

:) = happy child
:) = unhappy child

Yeah, this was my little Wes Ginny algebraic social comment about kid's livin' in one parent households... Yeah, I understand it it a generlization and not true in every case but unofrtubately it is the case in way to many....

And sorry to have run off on ya all...

Bobert


15 Aug 05 - 07:09 PM (#1542587)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Cluin

Get some sleep, Bobert


15 Aug 05 - 07:14 PM (#1542593)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: SINSULL

JeezLoueeze, Bobert. Remind me to show you the letter I got from Dan Quayle when he bashed single motherhood and Murphy Brown. I had a few choice words for him.
SINS, a single mother


15 Aug 05 - 07:34 PM (#1542612)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Amos

huge groans of protest against its virulent violation of ideographic conventions.


All over cyberspace, Bobert, the :) and the :( icons are used to represent the first person singular emotional state -- a smile, a sad feeling, and similar. Right.

So lessee.... you come along and pose this great mystery puzzle and we all work our keyboards to thebone trying to decode it....and now, at the last minute, you tell us you redefined those two symbols to represent happy and sad children?? Unilaterally defining common symbols to make a puzzle??

You oughta be horsewhipped, amigo. Here, tell ya what. Decode this one for me:

$!=>**bg**==>*BSEG*+==YMMV<==IMHO-{{{XXX}}}

Give up?

It means "After the dinosaurs went extinct, humanoids shifted from nocturnal to diurnal lifestyles".

Didn't get it, didja?


A


15 Aug 05 - 07:39 PM (#1542616)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Cluin

Aw, you're just sore because you're a friggin' retard, Amos. You should have looked in the subject box above the reply box and noticed the subtle difference which would have made it all clear, like Bobert suggested.


15 Aug 05 - 07:50 PM (#1542632)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Bobert

All. I can say is one thing, Amos: Preperation H... Works great on 'noids....

As fir Cluin's suggestion that you is a friggin' retard all I gotta say is this: Amos did not have sex with that woman!!! That oughtta take care of that little situation, Amos... You owe me...

Bobert


15 Aug 05 - 09:13 PM (#1542719)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: CarolC

While we're on the subject, could someone please tell me what the subtle difference is between the two things Bobert maintain's are subtly different? I still can't figure that part out, and it's making me :(


15 Aug 05 - 09:20 PM (#1542725)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: GUEST,Emma Roid

Preparation H works for me!


15 Aug 05 - 09:35 PM (#1542734)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Bobert

Okay, CarolC... Look at the title to the thread as it appears after the word "subject"... If you will notice the :)'s and :('s run into the ='s and that kinda throws off the feel of the :( and :) so that was my hint... Yeah, maybe folks weren't seein' the figures correctly so that's why I asked folks to look at the box other where you post because the spacin' was better....

Bobert

P.S. Hey, bartender. A round of P-H fir evryone... And it's on me... Ahhhhh, the bill is on me....


15 Aug 05 - 09:38 PM (#1542735)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: bobad

Bobert

I got one word for you

BOGUS


15 Aug 05 - 09:46 PM (#1542740)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Amos

I pasted the two lines one over the other. See upthread. They are identical except for the elements Bobert said made no difference, RE: and BS:. Well there is one other difference -- the word "Help!" after the posting box, which must have been what Bobert meant, for reasons which do not need pointing out.

Bobert, you know I loves ya, andf I yam glad the Peavine has cooled off some. But don't gimme no more damn Rebuses, hokay?   LOL!


A


15 Aug 05 - 10:11 PM (#1542757)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Bobert

What???

You talkin' to me???

Ahhhh, what's a "rebuse"??? Got anything to do with "repubs"? Kind sounds like you accusercated me of bein' a dionged repub, Amos???

Grrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!.

I ain't no Repub and I didn't have sex with that woman, gol dangit!!

(Yeah, I mighta had sex with the P-Vine and maybe that's part of that little situation but that don't make me no Repub!!!!)

Bobert


15 Aug 05 - 10:20 PM (#1542764)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: CarolC

Excerpted from my first post to this thread...

Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: CarolC - PM
Date: 11 Aug 05 - 01:19 PM

Youth plus income equals happy, minus income equals less money equals not happy?



...Bobert, as you can see, I correctly interpreted the fact that you were using happy and not happy emoticons, so I don't see how your hint was supposed to help me.

I'm going to claim this one for myself just on principle.

I win again!


15 Aug 05 - 10:24 PM (#1542768)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: JennyO

Well I'm kinda glad I didn't get that one, cos that would mean my mind works in a peculiar way - but I didn't, so it doesn't, if you see what I mean - well I know what I mean anyway.......


15 Aug 05 - 10:31 PM (#1542778)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Bobert

Nope, CarolC, while you indeed came close it wasn't close 'nuff fir the cigar since you were missin' that one important factor: a kid... Now I ain't buyin' that :) can only pretain to "first person" but if yer relatives show up at my door tonight with bats and rifles then sho nuff... you is the winner!!!

Now, if you look back at yer post and Helen's I think you will see that she did indeed probe the soultion a little more than you... But, hey, maybe Helen was just eloboratin' what you said and if that's the case then send yer relatives over to her house....

Hey, I jus' think 'um up... I ain't no danged referee 'er nuthin'... Measnwhile there's an easy one that I just put up... Whats it all about???

Bobert

PS.... Plus everybody knows I loves ya, CarolC, so you gonna have to win one big time without the whisperin's....


16 Aug 05 - 05:40 AM (#1542958)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Helen

No, I wasn't elaborating on anyone's interpretation because I looked at the thread title on the main page and thought that that was what it meant.

I am a little in need of translation, though Bobert. Why does it say an increase in $$, i.e. >$. How does that fit with your statement? Are you saying that one adult plus kids get more money than 2 adults plus kids? I am not speaking from experience because I am rugrat-less but I hear tell that single parents are doing it really tough in the money department.

Helen


16 Aug 05 - 09:39 AM (#1543045)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Bobert

Minis "I" = less $ I bring into the household = :(

Not that $ is everything but sho nuff helps runa happy home...

B~


16 Aug 05 - 09:57 AM (#1543056)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Bill D

...so...you mixed emoticons with an abbrevation for 'income'?

how are we poor peasants supposed to figger that out? Why couldn't 'I' have meant Ignoramus? or Idolatry?


16 Aug 05 - 10:52 AM (#1543098)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: JennyO

So as far as I can see, my guess at 12.28pm

You and I are happy, but when I am not around there is less money and you are not happy/there is sadness.

was right except for the bit about the children, and there was nothing in your equation to suggest children.

So I think I'll just take another week of peace now, and NOBODY CAN STOP ME! MWUHHAAAHAHAAHAA!


16 Aug 05 - 03:42 PM (#1543368)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Cluin

Heck, I said that one before you did, Jen.

Well, more or less...


16 Aug 05 - 05:35 PM (#1543439)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Helen

No BillD, I is just I, as in me, but with one less person there is less money. Umm, I don't want to criticise 'n' all that but should it have been <$   and not   >$   ?

Long time since I did maths too, but...

Helen

P.S. I hope you and the P-Vine are well and as happy as possible, Bobert. which reminds me, and forgive me if this has been explained, but why is she called "the P-Vine"?

P.P.S. Looking forward to your explanation which I am sure will have a creative logic to it.


16 Aug 05 - 05:47 PM (#1543447)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Bobert

Ahhhh, hmmmmmm? Danged if I know??? Let me go ask the P-Vine... Maybe she has a better explaination then my obvious lack of one...

Awww, jus' funnin'... Tell you what... PM WYSuzie and ask her... She always knows stuff about my thinkerator that I ain't got a clue 'bout... Maybe she can shed some light on the subject and if she can please PM and tell me why I refer to P-Vine, who I call P-Vine, as "the" P-Vine when I writes 'bout her... I sho nuff would like to know myself...

Bobert


17 Aug 05 - 03:43 AM (#1543712)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Helen

Okay, so is her name really P-Vine and have I got egg on my face because I thought that was the nickname you have for her? Uh-oh, this egg is really sticky and yellow!

Helen


17 Aug 05 - 08:38 AM (#1543841)
Subject: RE: BS: Y+I=:)-I=>$=:(
From: Bobert

Well, truth be known, it is her nickname but that's what everyone who grew uop with her calls her... It's even in all her high school year books... I don't think there's too mant folks that know ger given name...

But now as to why I refer to her as "the" P-Vine when I write about her, heck if I know...

Bobert