Pi Guy, where are you!?

DELENDA EST...

Truth, not troof. Troof comes from other mind-altering drugs

Everything's better with a bag of weed!

re: #4 Salem

Everything's better with a bag of weed!

Unless you happen to run into a black and white, red and blue.

Analyze this:

Last night I dreamed that I met a woman who looked exactly like my deceased mother. I tried to buy her something to eat, but she refused what I wanted to give her, saying, "I don't eat that."

I asked, "What do you eat?"

She replied, "Ping pong balls. Three at a time. They're good for your colon."

(No, I do not do drugs, and I'm not on any medication.)

re: #4 Salem

Quite you!
/Stewie voice

In a city not that far from me, a court just ruled that local law enforcement had to give several pounds of weed back to an area man.

He doesn't consume it (according to the report), but is a medical distributor.

re: #6 capitalist piglet

O...K...

Carbon Motors E7: NYPD Cool

I happen to think this is a really cool cop car.

re: #7 Slumbering Behemoth

I'll bet they weren't happy about that.

re: #6 capitalist piglet

Analyze this:

Last night I dreamed that I met a woman who looked exactly like my deceased mother. I tried to buy her something to eat, but she refused what I wanted to give her, saying, "I don't eat that."

I asked, "What do you eat?"

She replied, "Ping pong balls. Three at a time. They're good for your colon."

(No, I do not do drugs, and I'm not on any medication.)

Eat grapes. The red seedless ones.

re: #7 Slumbering Behemoth

Quite you!
/Stewie voice

In a city not that far from me, a court just ruled that local law enforcement had to give several pounds of weed back to an area man.

He doesn't consume it (according to the report), but is a medical distributor.

Those "Area Men" are always getting in trouble with the law...

//

Over the top romance book cover of the day

re: #7 Slumbering Behemoth

Quite you!
/Stewie voice

In a city not that far from me, a court just ruled that local law enforcement had to give several pounds of weed back to an area man.

He doesn't consume it (according to the report), but is a medical distributor.

Weed---Check this US Military Video, as they walk thru an Afghanistani WEED field...seems a few want to keep some...but it's a big field. Click on the vid when the page opens:

A'stan pot Field

I have to say that the recent Miss California hullabaloo has presented me with the gratuitous opportunity to bring up my dating a beauty pageant contestant.

*ahem*

When I was dating a beauty pageant contestant back in high school, I was informed she did fairly well until she got to the Q&A part, when the panel asked the tomboy-ish blonde who went plinking with her family up in the mountains with a .22 on the weekends what her opinion was on gun control.

I think her response was something along the lines of 'A firearm is an inanimate piece of metal and we would do well to reduce gun crimes by enforcing the gun laws already in the books'...

Out of 12 contestants, she finished 12th.

Even more ironically, she went to a public school that was maybe half a mile from the Christian school where Carrie Prejean attended.

re: #6 capitalist piglet

Analyze this:

Last night I dreamed that I met a woman who looked exactly like my deceased mother. I tried to buy her something to eat, but she refused what I wanted to give her, saying, "I don't eat that."

I asked, "What do you eat?"

She replied, "Ping pong balls. Three at a time. They're good for your colon."

(No, I do not do drugs, and I'm not on any medication.)

re: #10 Salem

Well, they didn't get into that part of the story, but I am willing to bet you're right. Tough shit for them.

HEY LITTLE GIRL, WANT TO GO FOR A RIDE?

A Little 10-year-old girl was walking home, alone, from school one day, when a big man on a black motorcycle pulls up beside her.

After following along for a while, turns to her and asks, "Hey there little girl, do you want to go for a ride?"

"NO!" says the little girl as she keeps on walking.

The motorcyclist again pulls up beside her and asks, "Hey little girl, I will give you $10 if you hop on the back."

"NO!" says the little girl as she hurries down the street.

The motorcyclist pulls up beside the little girl again and says, "Okay kid, my last offer!

I'll give you 20 Bucks "and" a Big Bag of Candy if you will just hop on the back of my bike and we will go for a ride."

Finally, the little girl stops and turns towards him and Screams Out...

"Look Dad, You're the one who bought the Honda instead of a Harley, YOU RIDE IT!"

For the record, it's not often I get to start a sentence with 'When I was dating a beauty pageant contestant...' and we actually met a few month after the pageant.

She wasn't too bitter about the outcome since she entered as a lark, and my pet name for her was 'Miss Teen [insert city name here], 12th Runner-Up'...

So many people can't handle the truth.

Really. They just don't know what to do when confronted with the truth. It especially confounds school principals trying to promote "being green" at school.

Nothing like a bit of truth to stir up trouble (and a bit of fun!).

re: #16 Dustyvet

Practical Joke Win!

re: #19 Fenway_Nation

For the record, it's not often I get to start a sentence with 'When I was dating a beauty pageant contestant...' and we actually met a few month after the pageant.

She wasn't too bitter about the outcome since she entered as a lark, and my pet name for her was 'Miss Teen [insert city name here], 12th Runner-Up'...

I upding'ed ya just for the opening sentence. ;-)

A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales.
The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small.

The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale.

Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible.

The little girl said, 'When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah'.

The teacher asked, 'What if Jonah went to hell?'

The little girl replied, 'Then you ask him'.

Yay! - New desk chair being delivered from Overstock tomorrow. I've been sitting on an ottoman.

FedEx guys hate Overstock. :D

re: #19 Fenway_Nation

For the record, it's not often I get to start a sentence with 'When I was dating a beauty pageant contestant...' and we actually met a few month after the pageant.

She wasn't too bitter about the outcome since she entered as a lark, and my pet name for her was 'Miss Teen [insert city name here], 12th Runner-Up'...

But what was her opinion on why US Americans don't know where places are on a map such as "The Iraq?"

re: #14 Pietr

Holy carp!

Given the amount of ridiculous hyperbole that erupts from prohibitionists whenever the subject comes up, how long before someone calls these soldiers lazy, corrupt, dangerous addicts?

I'm guessing :crickets:.

The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, and posted on the apple tray: 'Take only ONE God is watching.'

Moving further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies.

A child had written a note, 'Take all you want. God is watching the apples.'

nice eh..

re: #24 Cattt

Yay! - New desk chair being delivered from Overstock tomorrow. I've been sitting on an ottoman.
FedEx guys hate Overstock. :D

How'd you get him to agree to that?

Whoa, after skimming through the last thread, I am glad I don't have cable TV.
Ignorance, while not exactly bliss, is better than sticking your head in to a blender.

Three Californian surgeons were playing golf together and discussing surgeries they had performed. One of them said, "I'm the best surgeon in California . In my favorite case, a concert pianist lost several fingers in an accident, I reattached them, and 8 months later he performed a private concert for the Queen of England ."

The second surgeon said, "That's nothing. A young man lost an arm and

both legs in an accident, I reattached them and two years later he won a gold medal in track and field events at the Olympics."

The third surgeon said, "You guys are amateurs. Several years ago

a woman was high on cocaine and marijuana and she rode a horse

head-on into a train traveling 80 miles an hour.

All I had left to work with was the woman's hair and the

horse's ass.

I was able to put them together and now

she's Speaker of the House."

I do very much enjoy the folks on the LNDT.
Thought I would share!

re: #31 Floral Giraffe

I do very much enjoy the folks on the LNDT.
Thought I would share!

As we do you...LNDT'rs are loving peeps, heh heh.

re: #31 Floral Giraffe

We like you too. That nekkid table dance you did the other night might have biased us, though.

Rules Of Washington

If it's worth fighting for, it's worth fighting dirty for.

Don't lie, cheat or steal...unnecessarily.

There is always one more son of a bitch than you counted on.

An honest answer can get you into a lot of trouble.

The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant.

Chicken little only has to be right once.

"NO" is only an interim response.

You can't kill a bad idea.

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you ever tried.

The truth is a variable.

A porcupine with his quills down in just another fat rodent.

You can agree with any concept or notional future option, in principle, but fight implementation every step of the way.

A promise is not a guarantee.

If you can't counter the argument, leave the meeting.

re: #31 Floral Giraffe

I do very much enjoy the folks on the LNDT.
Thought I would share!

Hi Floral Giraffe! Thanks for adding to my karma :-)

Oh...and while there's still some time remaining on the left coast, the greenies could celebrate Earth Day with a sincere 'thank you' for the diesel locomotive designers of the 1950s and onward for dynamic braking (friction from the locomotive while braking would be directed towards the batteries) which would serve as a sort of template for their beloved hybrid automobiles.

Oh...and a typical freight train...even when powered by the oldest, grimiest, smokiest, nasitest, loudest, dirtiest, beat-up 40 year old GP40s can remove anywhere from 100 to 300 trucks from the highways depending on whats being hauled. So take your revised emissions standards and cram them, greenies...

re: #28 pink freud

How'd you get him to agree to that?

I'm not going to touch that straight line. :D

Thought I'd post this-it's a Kitty vid link my cousin sent me. It's every bit as TRUE and good as anykitty link...

Kitty

This is something Reine sent me earlier ...

Astronaut Sunita Williams Pics Of Earth

Enlarge to full screen. Just breathtaking photos ...

re: #33 Slumbering Behemoth

Sir, you have mistaken me for another!
*funny*

re: #9 acwgusa

Carbon Motors E7: NYPD Cool

I happen to think this is a really cool cop car.

I agree. I think they've been pitching that car for a while, though. I seem to remember looking at photos of it a year or two ago.

If 0bama was smart he'd give out a few to PD's with Porkulus money... And some more cops to go with it.

We could use a few more in my area...

re: #35 pink freud

You deserve it!

re: #42 Floral Giraffe

You deserve it!

Thanks Floral, but *I'm* not the one doing nekkid table dances! LOL!

re: #39 pink freud

Fantastic! love the nightfall shots.

re: #40 Floral Giraffe

Wait, you're right. It's all coming back to me now. I was the one doing the nekkid table dance, and as I recall, not a single damn one of you even so much as clapped! Way to hurt a guys feelings.

What? Y'all don't like my tentacles?

re: #44 rawmuse

Fantastic! love the nightfall shots.

Isn't that wonderful! I had the pleasure of viewing it on a 24" monitor today at work. Wow!

/to imagine how she must've felt when taking those shots ...

re: #39 pink freud

This is something Reine sent me earlier ...

Astronaut Sunita Williams Pics Of Earth

Enlarge to full screen. Just breathtaking photos ...

Not photos so much as graphics... 2, 3, 5, and 6 are genuine astronaut photos but the rest are composites of satellite imagery.

Today in History, April 23rd:

1597 – William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor is first performed, with Queen Elizabeth I of England in attendance.

1985 – Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. (The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than 3 months.)

1988 – Pink Floyd's album Dark Side of the Moon leaves the charts for its first time after spending a record of 741 consecutive weeks (over 14 years) on the Billboard 200.

re: #1 pink freud

Pi Guy, where are you!?

I'm here! I literally just got home!

What's up?

re: #46 pink freud

I viewed them on my 50" HDTV, which doubles as my monitor.

re: #49 gmsc

I'm here! I literally just got home!

What's up?

Oh, nothing. We were all just wondering where you were!

Didja have fun? ;-)

re: #43 pink freud

T'wasn't me, I assure you...

re: #50 rawmuse

I viewed them on my 50" HDTV, which doubles as my monitor.

Very cool.

re: #51 pink freud

Oh, nothing. We were all just wondering where you were!

Didja have fun? ;-)

I just got home from work, actually. But, it can be a fun job, and it was busy (bizarrely busy for the middle of the week).

Hmmm . . . I guess I did have fun.

It's nice to know I was missed.
:)

I'll even be here for fruitcup tonight!

re: #48 gmsc

741 consecutive weeks! I did not know that ...wow!

re: #49 gmsc

My nephew, 16 years old, is having a BLAST with some of the math links you have provided here. He has a lot of potential, and I thank you for opening some doors for his mind!

re: #54 gmsc

Good, I will take this to mean that you have kicked your cold. I hope your Mom is doing better also.

In all fairness, apparently the price of brand-spanking new, straight off the assembly line locomotives is coming down so much that even reigonal and short-haul railways like the Indiana Railroad, Montana Rail Link, Florida East Coast and Iowa Interstate can afford them. Normally they would lease or purchase outright locomotives like this secondhand once the 'Big 4' (CSX, Union Pacific, Burlington Northern-Santa Fe, Norfolk Southern) along with Canada's 'Big 2' (Canadian National, Canadian Pacific) when they ordered their brand-spanking new locomotives.

Ironically, sometimes the manufacturers are backlogged and can't deliver the new locomotives fast enough to the 'Big 4' or 'Big 2' and they wind up leasing the very same locomotives back that they sold to the reigonals/shortlines or leasing companies.

re: #50 rawmuse

You bastard. Only because you have one and I don't.//

My DLP projector bulb fried and I don't know whether to drop $300 on a new one (I liked the 8' screen picture) or get a big LCD. Been making due with the 24" LCD TV and 21" monitor

Anyone else here, see Lily Tomlin in the theater in NYC, do the
"soup, art.
art, soup"
sketch?

While showing a can of Campbells soup & a Warhol painting?

re: #56 Floral Giraffe

You should come play some night when he is twisting our brains into pretzels with his brain-teasers. :-)

re: #60 Floral Giraffe

Nope. I jes be uh ole cajun livin down to da swamps.

:-)

I would LOVE to!
It just gets late & I get sleepy, on the left coast.
I DO make a point to read the LNDTs to see what I've missed!
Never stayed up for "fruitcup".
Just wrecks the next day for me!

re: #56 Floral Giraffe

My nephew, 16 years old, is having a BLAST with some of the math links you have provided here. He has a lot of potential, and I thank you for opening some doors for his mind!

You're welcome!

I'm glad to hear they're being put to good use.

Last Sunday, I just posted links to a video series called 12 Things I Wish My Students Knew. It's all about 12 simple things for students to focus on that, if practiced conscientiously, will easily result in higher grades (often in the 90% range). You might want to pass that particular link on.

If he likes having fun with the math, check out my posts labeled Math and Martin Gardner – he'll find endless links just in those posts!

re: #46 pink freud

/to imagine how she must've felt when taking those shots ...

Probably nothing, since she didn't take most of them.

Real astronaut photography of earth can be found here:

[Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov...]

It's a little bit tough to search. Start by looking under "collections", or you can database search for all the photos taken by individual missions and then select "show thumbnails". If you spend some time here, it's a good source for wallpapers, especially if you have Photoshop to do some processing with.

An alternative is to go here:

[Link: www.spaceflight.nasa.gov...]

And select "Gallery" at the top, pick either shuttle or station, and then select the latest mission from the drop-down lists (currently STS-119 for Shuttle and Expedition 18 for ISS). You'll get a page of thumbnails which each have caption info and your choice of sizes to look at. When the shuttle is flying the current mission's page will update with new photos almost every day.

re: #54 gmsc

Hey, Amigo. I posted this a # of threads back, didn't know if you caught it. Try this game-I've only gotten to game 4 on it, 190 thousand plus points. The instructions are crap; when you hear the hooting/wail from it, one or more of your columns is too high . If you don't shorten them fast, you lose, no matter how much time you have left-they don't tell you that, and it took me 20 full games to figure that out...HehHeh.

re: #57 pink freud

Good, I will take this to mean that you have kicked your cold. I hope your Mom is doing better also.

Yep – I've been over it for about 3 days now. My mom is on the tail end of the same cold, and is starting to feel better, but she still has those nasty lingering parts I had to deal with.

re: #63 Floral Giraffe

I would LOVE to!
It just gets late & I get sleepy, on the left coast.
I DO make a point to read the LNDTs to see what I've missed!
Never stayed up for "fruitcup".
Just wrecks the next day for me!

Well. Then you know there are *two* fruitcups ...the genyoowine pure-d original fruit cup, patented by LIttleOldLady, and the one made by the former-fruit-cup-interloper-but-now-much-loved Red.

If you have the Red version, you may never make it work, though.

/where is Red, anyway!?

re: #62 pink freud

Enjoy some "mud puppies" for me!
Thanks for the dings!
( I think crawdads are called mudpuppies?)
I'm in LA, so not too sure about the name!

re: #66 Pietr

Hey, Amigo. I posted this a # of threads back, didn't know if you caught it. Try this game-I've only gotten to game 4 on it, 190 thousand plus points. The instructions are crap; when you hear the hooting/wail from it, one or more of your columns is too high . If you don't shorten them fast, you lose, no matter how much time you have left-they don't tell you that, and it took me 20 full games to figure that out...HehHeh.

I've only seen this thread from today. Where's the link?

re: #9 acwgusa

Carbon Motors E7: NYPD Cool

I happen to think this is a really cool cop car.

All that's missing is the hot model [barely] dressed as a cup playfully danging some handcuffs out in front of here while draped across the hood...

re: #65 Pawn of the Oppressor

Oooh ...thanks, Pawn! Bookmarked for later ...I love this stuff!

re: #71 Fenway_Nation

...dressed as a cop

PIMF

re: #70 gmsc

I've only seen this thread from today. Where's the link?

Oops...

[Link: www.greatdaygames.com...]

re: #64 gmsc

I am so happy to send that!
Learning is so good, and to be encouraged!
Thank you!

re: #69 Floral Giraffe

Enjoy some "mud puppies" for me!
Thanks for the dings!
( I think crawdads are called mudpuppies?)
I'm in LA, so not too sure about the name!

Muwd buwgs. Crawdaddies!

re: #62 pink freud

Like any "poor ol' country boy" you've gotten some poor bastard to give you his money and make him happy he did it.

Where in da' swamps is you? What Parish is you in?

re: #71 Fenway_Nation

LOL. At first I thought you had a thing for Angela Landsbury and "Beauty & the Beast"///

re: #76 pink freud

We have "sea bugs" Aka lobsters.
Tasty little devils!
YUM!

re: #77 calcajun

Lafayette, cal ...smack dab in the heart of cajun country ...and loving every minute of it. I've got the swamp in mah blood!

/Crawfish Festival coming up!

re: #78 calcajun

Uh...giggity giggity goo?

But I only ever ate the tails...we used to throw 'em in the fire, when we reeled them in to check our bait. Big suckers, made you think there was a small fish on, LOL. But, I've had Gumbo in NO, so I probably did eat more than the tail, in my later years...:>))

re: #80 pink freud

So how feasable is crawdad fishing with live grenades or TNT?

re: #75 Floral Giraffe

I am so happy to send that!
Learning is so good, and to be encouraged!
Thank you!

You're welcome, again.

I've always found the best way to encouraging learning is to make it fun.

I remember I started reading Martin Gardner's books in 5th or 6th grade. I enjoyed the math aspects of them. I remember connecting something I'd learned from the books with some math we were learning in class.

When explaining my approach to the problem to the teacher, I guess I referred to the more technical aspects by their proper names and explained them a little too well, and she was stunned that such a young kid understood a topic she was teaching almost as well (possibly better?) than she did.

re: #74 Pietr

Oops...

[Link: www.greatdaygames.com...]

Thanks!

I've got it bookmarked, and will be checking it out in a second, as soon as I finish up some e-mailing (which I'm doing while typing here).

re: #83 Fenway_Nation

So how feasable is crawdad fishing with live grenades or TNT?

No no no. Someone's been lyin' to you, Fenway. You gotta get a string, tie a chicken gizzard on the end, lower it into a muddy bit of water, and when you feel the tug on the end you have to pull up real slow.

/takes a while to get enough for a gumbo, though ...

re: #76 pink freud

Dem's good eatin'

My brother throws whole fists of garlic--split in two-- into his boil--and it's pretty tasty when it's cooked. He and I ate several one time when I was a teenager. This was in August, too. The next morning, my mom walks into my room and nearly gags at the smell. I had to wash the sheets twice and bomb the bed with Lysol to kill the garlic smell that had leeched through my pores.

re: #64 gmsc

There is NOTHING more wotrhwhile, than educating the minds of the next generation. IMHO. Nothing.

re: #71 Fenway_Nation

All that's missing is the hot model [barely] dressed as a cup playfully danging some handcuffs out in front of here while draped across the hood...

Oh a Badge Bunny eh?...:)

Damn typos.
Damn!

re: #81 Fenway_Nation

re: #80 pink freud

Envious--very envious. There's no place out here anymore to get crawfish--fresh. Can get frozen tails--but nothin to make a decent boil.

re: #88 Floral Giraffe

There is NOTHING more wotrhwhile, than educating the minds of the next generation. IMHO. Nothing.

But, unfortunately, The LLL is (and has been) doing that to our kids and grandkids...

re: #88 Floral Giraffe

There is NOTHING more wotrhwhile, than educating indoctronating and influencing the minds of the next generation. IMHO. Nothing.

-William Ayers.

OK...he's probably not on record as saying that, but...well...you get the idea.

re: #87 calcajun

Hahaha! Ooooh ...that does sound good, though. It's getting on nigh time for me to have me one 'a dem crawfish boils, m'sef!

/they're down to $8 a pound, peeled tails. Not bad ...considering bread is up to 3.49 a loaf ...

re: #93 Fenway_Nation

-William Ayers.

OK...he's probably not on record as saying that, but...well...you get the idea.

Read my 92, Fenway...GMTA.

re: #86 pink freud

LOL.

Tell him about walking your crawfish before ya' boil 'em

re: #88 Floral Giraffe

There is NOTHING more wotrhwhile, than educating the minds of the next generation. IMHO. Nothing.

re: #90 Floral Giraffe

Damn typos.
Damn!

It is sort of funny making typos when talking about the importance of education.
;)

Actually, it probably makes the message more effective!

Getting back to the basic idea, I agree highly.

re: #89 Dustyvet

Me? No...just an admirer of the female form, especially when enhanced with costumes of varying dgrees of imagination...

re: #94 pink freud

I have not had a good local loaf of French bread in a while. I saw my folks in Metairie recently and even went in to the Quarter to Central Grocery--but no Reising's Bread.

re: #86 pink freud

No no no. Someone's been lyin' to you, Fenway. You gotta get a string, tie a chicken gizzard on the end, lower it into a muddy bit of water, and when you feel the tug on the end you have to pull up real slow.

/takes a while to get enough for a gumbo, though ...

He can cheat. He can use chicken. For the gumbo--not the bait.

re: #96 calcajun

LOL.

Tell him about walking your crawfish before ya' boil 'em

Well, you see ...dem bugs is all chock fulla that crappola which ain't so good on da tongue, so a'fore you go to boilin's dem, you's gotta walk em through you salt water bat'h, make 'em poop all dat bad stuff outs.

// :-)

/ya''' didn't know I could talk pure Cajun, did ya'll?

re: #97 gmsc

It is sort of funny making typos when talking about the importance of education.
;)

Actually, it probably makes the message more effective!

Getting back to the basic idea, I agree highly.

Got an Email, a week or so gone back, from my cousin. The message inside had all the words scrambled, but I read it easily. At the end, it exlpained how our minds correct each word in context, as long as the first and last letters were correct. It worked for me, so I'd agree...

re: #99 calcajun

I have not had a good local loaf of French bread in a while. I saw my folks in Metairie recently and even went in to the Quarter to Central Grocery--but no Reising's Bread.

I haven't seen Reisings since I lived in New Orleans. Here, now, we've gotten all uptown, what with River Ranch and Whole Foods and upscale bread shops. Lafayette's not what it used to be ...

re: #101 pink freud

Makes me remember my grandparents who had thick accents--lived in Port Allen and Plaquemines.

re: #72 pink freud

Oooh ...thanks, Pawn! Bookmarked for later ...I love this stuff!

No problem.

Spend a bit of time with the astronaut photography link on the weekend. I did a quick search for the DFW area and within half a minute I found a nice photo of the whole area that showed everything from Dallas to Fort Worth, including the airport, Rt. 30, GP and most of Arlington, and with a bit of supplemental help from Google Maps I could even pinpoint my apartment complex. Of course from 200 miles up it was just a smudge of pixels on a 4000x2000 image, but still... "I can see my house from here!"

re: #97 gmsc

Approaching the "iron fist rule" and not using PIMF = mistake!

re: #103 pink freud

Sounds gentrified. Thank goodness Zuppardo's and Dorignac's are still going in NOLA.

re: #102 Pietr

Got an Email, a week or so gone back, from my cousin. The message inside had all the words scrambled, but I read it easily. At the end, it exlpained how our minds correct each word in context, as long as the first and last letters were correct. It worked for me, so I'd agree...

You can do that with any message, as long as you keep the first and last letters the same. Here's an online page that will scramble words in this manner for you!

Just for fun, here's how your post comes out:

Got an Eaiml, a week or so gnoe bcak, form my couisn. The mgessae indise had all the wodrs srelcabmd, but I raed it elsaiy. At the end, it eapxielnd how our midns crecort ecah wrod in coexntt, as lnog as the frist and lsat letrets wree cercort. It wroked for me, so I’d agere…...

Speaking of education and e-mails, I always liked the one where rules of grammar and syntax are given in a manner that violates the rule itself:

• Make sure each pronoun agrees with their antecedent.
• Just between you and I, the case of pronoun is important.
• Watch out for irregular verbs which have crope into English.
• Verbs has to agree in number with their subjects.
• Don't use no double negatives.
• Being bad grammar, a writer should not use dangling modifiers.
• Join clauses good like a conjunction should.
• A writer must be not shift your point of view.
• About those sentence fragments.
• Don't use run-on sentences you got to punctuate them.
• In letters essays and reports use commas to separate items in series.
• Don't use commas, which are not necessary.
• Parenthetical words however should be enclosed in commas.
• Its important to use apostrophes right in everybodys writing.
• Don't abbrev.
• Check to see if you any words out.
• In the case of a report, check to see that jargonwise, it's A-OK.
• As far as incomplete constructions, they are wrong.
• About repetition, the repetition of a word might be real effective repetition - take, for instance the repetition of Abraham Lincoln.
• In my opinion, I think that an author when he is writing should definitely not get into the habit of making use of too many unnecessary words that he does not really need in order to put his message across.
• Use parallel construction not only to be concise but also clarify.
• It behooves us all to avoid archaic expressions.
• Mixed metaphors are a pain in the neck and ought to be weeded out.
• Consult the dictionery to avoid mispelings.
• To ignorantly split an infinitive is a practice to religiously avoid.
• Last but not least, lay off cliches.

re: #99 calcajun

La Brea Bakery. We are spoiled!

donuts and cops

re: #104 calcajun

Makes me remember my grandparents who had thick accents--lived in Port Allen and Plaquemines.

It's the funniest thing, Cal. I was raised here and grew up sitting in the coffee shops with my daddy, *visitin'* ...listening to the old folks speak the patois. It's not quite English and not quite French. I had my children and became very aware of clear pronunciation ...I didn't want them to sound "uneducated". Now that they're grown, they can lapse into it just as I can, but for the most part none of us have much of an accent.

*However*, I can go sit in one of the old cafes and have coffee with the old folks and slip right back into like I've never learned any other way. And I love it.

re: #108 gmsc

Funny. But, this is the sort of pedantry up with which I shall not put.

Damn. The economy is so trashed, even mad scientists are resorting to drastic measures to make a buck.

/WTF?

re: #107 calcajun

Sounds gentrified. Thank goodness Zuppardo's and Dorignac's are still going in NOLA.

I assume Schwegman's is history?

/I lived there MANY moons ago

re: #111 pink freud

I know what you mean. Lot's of old friends have the infamous "yat" accent. Give me a beer and put me in them and I fall right back into it after more than 20 years.

re: #114 pink freud

Died in the late 80's. Rouses' took over the Super Sav'a Centers which bought up Schwegs--as we used to call it.

re: #115 calcajun

I know what you mean. Lot's of old friends have the infamous "yat" accent. Give me a beer and put me in them and I fall right back into it after more than 20 years.

And *that's* ...because you have the swamp in your blood! ;-)

YAWN.

Gotta get to bed. Nite y'all.

re: #108 gmsc

My sister home schools the youngest.
I send your posts with the title "math genius" and she reads them.
And shares with the kids.

For this, I thank you!
Again!

re: #116 calcajun

Died in the late 80's. Rouses' took over the Super Sav'a Centers which bought up Schwegs--as we used to call it.

Rouses' just opened a mega-store, here, in Youngsville. It's the fastest growing place in the state. Booming.

re: #117 pink freud

I know. Went for a visit in September 07-- still damn hot. Didn't mind a bit.

re: #118 calcajun

Nite Cal. Prayers for your mother in law.

aim was horrible, or they knew who would then... take office!

I sat, as did millions of other

Americans, and watched as
their government underwent
a peaceful transition of power
a couple of weeks past.
At first, I felt a pride and patriotism as I watched Barack Obama take his Oath of office. However, all that pride quickly vanished as I later watched 21 Marines, in full dress uniform with rifles; fire a 21-gun salute to the President. It was then, in horror, that I realized how far America 's Military had deteriorated. Every last one of them missed.

re: #112 calcajun

Funny. But, this is the sort of pedantry up with which I shall not put.

Man visiting Harvard: "Can you tell me where the bathroom's at?"
Harvard student: "I'm sorry, at Harvard we do not end sentences with prepositions."
Man: "Oh, I'm sorry. Can you tell me where the bathroom's at, asshole?"

---

A boy who didn't want his bedtime story to be from a book about Australia once asked his mother, "What did you bring that book, which I didn't want to be read to from out of, about down under, up for?"

re: #120 pink freud

But the local foods are going. I saw where Crystal Foods is no longer in NOLA. Is Blue Plate mayo still around?

re: #125 calcajun

Yes. I'll send you some if you'd like.

re: #123 Pietr

aim was horrible, or they knew who would then... take office!

I sat, as did millions of other

Americans, and watched as
their government underwent
a peaceful transition of power
a couple of weeks past.
At first, I felt a pride and patriotism as I watched Barack Obama take his Oath of office. However, all that pride quickly vanished as I later watched 21 Marines, in full dress uniform with rifles; fire a 21-gun salute to the President. It was then, in horror, that I realized how far America 's Military had deteriorated. Every last one of them missed.

Whoa...:)

re: #122 pink freud

Thanks. Later.

A little boy goes to his father and asks 'Daddy, how was I born?'

The father answers, 'Well, son, I guess one day you will need to find out anyway! Your Mom and I first got together in a chat room on Yahoo. Then I set up a date via e-mail with your Mom and we met at a cyber-cafe. We sneaked into a secluded room, where your mother agreed to a download from my hard drive. As soon as I was ready to upload, we discovered that neither one of us had used a firewall, and since it was too late to hit the delete button, nine months later a little Pop-Up appeared that said:

'You got Male!'

re: #113 Slumbering Behemoth

Damn. The economy is so trashed, even mad scientists are resorting to drastic measures to make a buck.

/WTF?

You think that's demented?

How about taking an Atari 800XL, a Texas Instruments TI-99/4a, an 8-inch Floppy Disk, a 3.5-inch Harddrive and an HP ScanJet 3C, and programming them in such a way that their sounds perfectly recreate Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen?

(I can simultaneously geek out and rock out!)

re: #118 calcajun

YAWN.

Gotta get to bed. Nite y'all.

G'nite, calcajun!

Presidential Poison

Prosecuting Heroes

Rife With Bogus Idealism, Waste, AmeriCorps Doesn't Need To Exist

/clown car Xing next 3.75 years, beep beep

Combat Dancing In Baghdad, Iraq

re: #119 Floral Giraffe

My sister home schools the youngest.
I send your posts with the title "math genius" and she reads them.
And shares with the kids.

For this, I thank you!
Again!

*EMBARASSED*
//

Seriously, I love hearing things like this, and knowing I'm doing some good for future generations.
:)

re: #130 gmsc

Yeah, but have you seen it done by sock puppets?

re: #135 Slumbering Behemoth

Yeah, but have you seen it done by sock puppets?

Not bad!
;)

Although, you have to admire the guts man who can stare such a classic in the face and say, "Why a Bohemian Rhapsody? Why not a Bohemian Polka?"

OK...time for a very special Sweep the Canadiens, sweep the Twin bill with the Twins, Boston Bruins/Boston Red Sox simply-kick-ass-edition-and-don't-you-forget-it version of Fenway's Nightly Precious Metals and Overseas Market Update:

Precious metals:

Gold- $891.70 an ounce (up 0.11%)
Silver- $12.39 an ounce (up 0.56%)
Palladium- $229 an ounce (down 0.87%)
Platinum- $1163 an ounce (down 0.51%)

Overseas Market Update:

Australia's All Ordinaries- up 1.89%
Hang Seng- up 1.97%
Singapore's Straits Times- up 0.56%
Tel Aviv's TA100- up 0.65%
Mumbai's SENSEX- up 1.05%
Taiwan Weighted- down 0.18%
Johannesburg's JSE Limited- up 0.74%
Shanghai Composite- up 0.11%
Nikkei- up 1.37%
New Zealand's NZSE50- down 0.15%
KOSPI Seoul Composite- up 0.94%

Now just the Muslim countries!

Dubai's ADX- down 0.23%
JKSE Jakarta Composite- down 1.21%
Amman's ASE Weighted- down 0.16%

/Still waiting on those updates, Cairo and Kuala Lumpur...

But the most important thing to take away from all of this is that the Bruins and Red Sox simply and unambiguously kick ass...Here's hoping the Celts can follow suit.

Pakistan is done:

Clinton says Pakistan is abdicating to the Taliban

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pakistan's government has abdicated to the Taliban in agreeing to impose Islamic law in the Swat valley and the country now poses a "mortal threat" to the world, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday.

Surging violence across Pakistan and the spread of Taliban influence through its northwest are reviving concerns about the stability of the nuclear-armed country, an important U.S. ally vital to efforts to stabilize neighboring Afghanistan.

"An important U.S. ally" - Of course they are, I'm wondering if the Taliban taking over negates the use of that phrase?

Probably not in this era of hopey-change.

Personally I've no dog in this fight, but this is a curious claim that shouldn't just float there without being proven or disproven.

The US has succeeded in building a computer able to solve any strategic or tactical problem. Military leaders are assembled in front of the new machine and instructed to feed a difficult tactical problem into it. They describe a hypothetical situation to the computer and then ask the pivotal question: ATTACK OR RETREAT?

The computer hums away for an hour and then comes up with the answer: YES.

The generals look at each other, somewhat stupefied. Finally one of them submits a second request to the computer: YES WHAT?

Instantly the computer responded: YES SIR.

re: #138 Spiritualized

Pakistan has been done for a long time. The world is just sitting around now waiting for us to get tired of the game. Not that anyone would lift a finger to help us, mind you, but I don't think they would be sad to see Pakistan undergo "regime change".

re: #6 capitalist piglet

Analyze this:

Last night I dreamed that I met a woman who looked exactly like my deceased mother. I tried to buy her something to eat, but she refused what I wanted to give her, saying, "I don't eat that."

I asked, "What do you eat?"

She replied, "Ping pong balls. Three at a time. They're good for your colon."

(No, I do not do drugs, and I'm not on any medication.)

Strange- but here's my advice: you are the only one who can make sense of that dream. In a few days, it might come to you, if you keep an open mind about it, but mot dreams I've had along those lines don't make sense until a little later.

re: #139 Slumbering Behemoth

Personally I've no dog in this fight, but this is a curious claim that shouldn't just float there without being proven or disproven.

If it's been removed then there is no way of proving or disproving.

I think its was wholly improper to bring that crap on over here to begin with. Hoosier's post, I mean ...to bring it from Ace's to here. What's the point?

This poster has played a wicked little blog game like I've not seen here from any other. Now LGF seems to be her portal through which she can lure others to her own sick blog.

There's something way off about this poster. This has been evident to anyone who reads frequently and can see the twists and turns, the constant drama, the everything-is-about-me and the constant racist undertones. In light of that -- without needing proof -- I find it plausible that this is something she would do. It's about the drama and it's racist. It fits, and it's sick.

I cannot emphasise enough how awesome it is to be a Boston fan at this point in time.

I distinctly remember how awful the year 2000 was for all things Pats, Celts, Sox or Bruins. Do you know what the highlight was? Trading Ray Bourque to the Colorado Avalanche very near the end of his career so that he could get his name etched on the Stanley Cup there, since there was no way in hell it was going to happen in Boston.

re: #39 pink freud

This is something Reine sent me earlier ...

Astronaut Sunita Williams Pics Of Earth

Enlarge to full screen. Just breathtaking photos ...

just amazing! thanks for sharing

Wow- I have not been paying enough attention.

re: #144 Fenway_Nation

I cannot emphasise enough how awesome it is to be a Boston fan at this point in time.

I distinctly remember how awful the year 2000 was for all things Pats, Celts, Sox or Bruins. Do you know what the highlight was? Trading Ray Bourque to the Colorado Avalanche very near the end of his career so that he could get his name etched on the Stanley Cup there, since there was no way in hell it was going to happen in Boston.

congrats to the B's on sweeping the hated "Les Habitants" tonight. Now we need the Celtics to come through tomorrow night against the Bulls in Chitown.

re: #6 capitalist piglet

Analyze this:

Last night I dreamed that I met a woman who looked exactly like my deceased mother. I tried to buy her something to eat, but she refused what I wanted to give her, saying, "I don't eat that."

I asked, "What do you eat?"

She replied, "Ping pong balls. Three at a time. They're good for your colon."

(No, I do not do drugs, and I'm not on any medication.)

Before you actually try using ping pong balls to clean out your colon, you might want to ask someone who knows for sure, such as Francisco Tebar Honrubia:

Well-Hawaii finally got this right, at least:

Couple married over 60 yrs-reunited

re: #146 Sharmuta

I have, Sharm ...and it's bothered me for quite a while.

re: #143 pink freud

I've noticed you and others have expressed concerns, but I have not followed that one's posts well enough to say for sure.

If there is something to this, proof does need to be shown, Charles needs to know, and so do the rest of the Lizards.

If I recall, Afrocity invited Lizards to join a FaceBook group she started, and to the best of my knowledge FB registration requires meat-world identification.

If my assumption about FaceBook is true, and if others suspicions/claims about Afrocity are true, Lizards need to know this. And as is the nature of Lizards, they need to see proof.

re: #151 Slumbering Behemoth

I practice safe internet.

re: #151 Slumbering Behemoth

Charles has already mentioned it, and I trust his instincts. I still haven't been paying enough attention.

re: #147 _RememberTonyC

congrats to the B's on sweeping the hated "Les Habitants" tonight. Now we need the Celtics to come through tomorrow night against the Bulls in Chitown.

I sincerely hope 0bama get to take some time off from pile-driving the country into the ground the office to take in a Bulls/Celts game...and oh yes, I hope it's such a horrific beatdown that generations of Chicago fans shall hang their heads in shame when that game is alluded to decades from now.

I'm not sure who's a bigger punk- Mike Komisarek or Joaquim Noah

re: #152 freetoken

As do I Freetoken. If you were to google my meat-world name, the only links you would find are to a physicist of some note.

As should be evident by now, I am not anything remotely near a physicist.

re: #151 Slumbering Behemoth

I've noticed you and others have expressed concerns, but I have not followed that one's posts well enough to say for sure.

If there is something to this, proof does need to be shown, Charles needs to know, and so do the rest of the Lizards.

If I recall, Afrocity invited Lizards to join a FaceBook group she started, and to the best of my knowledge FB registration requires meat-world identification.

If my assumption about FaceBook is true, and if others suspicions/claims about Afrocity are true, Lizards need to know this. And as is the nature of Lizards, they need to see proof.

I'm not here as much as many others, but Afrocity always did stand out. One time I recall her asking a question that went something like "what do you all think of minorities?" Some were taken aback and answered that they judge people on their character rather than their ethnicity. Nobody answered in anything resembling racist words. Some defended Afrocity saying she worded her question awkwardly, but meant nothing offensive. But it always kind of rubbed me the wrong way and I did not forget it.

All I know is trying to play games with this joint it's a pretty safe bet the house will win.

re: #154 Fenway_Nation

I sincerely hope 0bama get to take some time off from pile-driving the country into the ground the office to take in a Bulls/Celts game...and oh yes, I hope it's such a horrific beatdown that generations of Chicago fans shall hang their heads in shame when that game is alluded to decades from now.

I'm not sure who's a bigger punk- Mike Komisarek or Joaquim Noah

I can't believe you called Noah a punk! I used that exact word to describe him to my friends, co-workers, and 16 year old son. I wish I could upding you 10 times for that one. Bostonians can always tell a punk when they see one. Although I wonder why people from Boston keep VOTING for them :)

re: #156 _RememberTonyC

One of the first posts: "Everyone on here is white except for me"

I wasn't sure I'd actually read that correctly when I saw it. Race is used divisively by her, of this there is no doubt.

Here's a challenge! The answer, by the way, will be provided after fruitcup.

Imagine you have an array of 1 million light bulbs, all of which are off to start with. The light bulbs are numbered from 1 to 1,000,000.

Starting with light #1, you change the status of every bulb (When I say "change the status", that will refer to switching a bulb either from off to on, or from on to off). Since they all started off, they are all obviously now all on.

Next, starting with light #2, you're going to change the status of every 2nd bulb. As you can probably imagine, the odd numbered lights are all on, and the even numbered lights are all off.

You continue in this manner, starting with light #3, and then switching the status of every 3rd bulb, then starting with light #4 and switching the status of every 4th bulb, and so on. You only stop after you start with bulb #1,000,000, and switch the status of every millionth bulb (obviously, just the one bulb).

Assuming that none of the bulbs burn out, once you've performed this exercise, which light bulbs will be on, and which light bulbs will be off?

re: #153 Sharmuta

Charles has already mentioned it, and I trust his instincts. I still haven't been paying enough attention.

Nor have I. I do believe Pink F. was the first to voice suspicion, though.

I am not gonna call for a pitchfork and torch witch hunt, but certain allegations have been made that should either be proven or disproven, with evidence.

If those allegations turn out to be true, then a great many Lizards have been skillfully played for fools by a dishonest infiltrator looking to cultivate trust for some personally objective.

re: #159 pink freud

One of the first posts: "Everyone on here is white except for me"

I wasn't sure I'd actually read that correctly when I saw it. Race is used divisively by her, of this there is no doubt.

"Everyone?" That seems like stereotyping to me!

re: #157 Sharmuta

All I know is trying to play games with this joint it's a pretty safe bet the house will win.

I'm pretty sure I've heard that somewhere before (and since I live in Vegas . . .).
;)

re: #155 Slumbering Behemoth

My "meat-world" name is unique enough that a google search will indeed find information that will lead to me and some work I've done.

Whereas on the internet I go by many names...

/ but I don't sock-puppet!

re: #163 gmsc

I'm pretty sure I've heard that somewhere before (and since I live in Vegas . . .).
;)

I would never bet against Stinky.

re: #160 gmsc

sounds like a prime number algorithm...

OK ... it's 4:40am in beautiful Connecticut ... time to hit the hay ...

G'Night all!

re: #158 _RememberTonyC

re: #167 _RememberTonyC

'nite _RememberTonyC!

re: #157 Sharmuta

All I know is trying to play games with this joint it's a pretty safe bet the house will win.

In this case, I am not worried about Charles or his blog, but individual Lizards who might have been duped into revealing personal information.

re: #161 Slumbering Behemoth

Nor have I. I do believe Pink F. was the first to voice suspicion, though.

I am not gonna call for a pitchfork and torch witch hunt, but certain allegations have been made that should either be proven or disproven, with evidence.

If those allegations turn out to be true, then a great many Lizards have been skillfully played for fools by a dishonest infiltrator looking to cultivate trust for some personally objective.

That is the conclusion I reached about three-four weeks after she registered. The ensuing months have only confirmed this for me.

re: #165 Sharmuta

I would never bet against Stinky.

To paraphrase Wesley Snipes from Passenger 57, "Always bet on Stinky!"

/

re: #169 Slumbering Behemoth

In this case, I am not worried about Charles or his blog, but individual Lizards who might have been duped into revealing personal information.

This is exactly why I don't do facebook or or the like. I mean- I love you guys, but... I have to look out for me. Nothing personal.

re: #155 Slumbering Behemoth

As do I Freetoken. If you were to google my meat-world name, the only links you would find are to a physicist of some note.

As should be evident by now, I am not anything remotely near a physicist.

During my first year of college, I was woken up in the middle of the night by someone claiming to represent the Nobel Prize committee, and they were telling me that I had been selected as that year's winner for one of their Nobel Prize divisions.

I was tired, and figured this was exactly the type of gag some of my geekier college buddies would try and pull. At the time, I hung up in the middle of the call, and figured I'd ask my buddies about it the next day. Being a middle-of-the-night thing, though, it didn't cross my mind again until about 3 days later.

What caught my attention is a news story mentioning that someone who lived in the same area as me, and who had the same first and last name as me (different middle initial, though), had been selected as a Nobel Prize winner!

Towards the middle of the story, there was even a side note about the Nobel Prize committee calling the wrong person (which would be me) at first!

I was shocked as hell that I'd actually received a call from halfway around the world from the real Nobel Prize committee!

I may be good in math, but I am not anything remotely near a physicist.

Side note: There's no Nobel Prize for mathematics. The standard legend is that Alfred Nobel's wife once cheated on him with a mathematician, so he has since forbidden any Nobel Prize to be created for mathematics.

re: #166 freetoken

sounds like a prime number algorithm...

Nope. I will say that all the bulbs with prime numbers will wind up in the off position, but there are many non-prime-numbered bulbs that will also be off.

BTW, if you do find an algorithm that is able to determine every prime number and misses every non-prime number, there is an award of several million dollars waiting for you.

re: #172 Sharmuta

My sister has a facebook account and in trying to convince me to sign up said 'I've already heard from two of your ex-girlfriends in high school- they were asking about you.'

I told her no thanks for reasons that may not be so obvious to everyone...

Classic e-mail urban legend turned into a TV ad:

I must seek the arms of Morpheus (or have Keyboard imprints on my forehead, when I awaken). No fruitcup for me tonight...L8rs, Lizard Nation.

re: #177 Pietr

*sniff*

re: #177 Pietr

I must seek the arms of Morpheus (or have Keyboard imprints on my forehead, when I awaken). No fruitcup for me tonight...L8rs, Lizard Nation.

G'Nite, Pietr!

(Pietr was so close, too!)

re: #174 gmsc

Yup, went back and read it again. At first it reminded me of a common algorithm for finding primes (by going through an array and marking all the non-primes.)

G'nite Pietr!

re: #160 gmsc

Assuming that none of the bulbs burn out, once you've performed this exercise, which light bulbs will be on, and which light bulbs will be off?

The lights representing the perfect squares (1, 4, 9, 16...) will be illuminated. The rest will be dark.

Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™

Fruitcup is on the buffet --->
Help yourselves!

Thank you, littleoldlady!

re: #183 littleoldlady

Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™

Fruitcup is on the buffet --->
Help yourselves!

Yummy!

Yep - I'm back and here for fruitcup!

re: #183 littleoldlady

Goodmorning goodmorning GOODMORNING!

re: #182 Opilio

The lights representing the perfect squares (1, 4, 9, 16...) will be illuminated. The rest will be dark.

Correct!

Had you heard this one before, or did you figure it out yourself?

BatGuano! :-)

gmsc! :-)

pink! ;-)

re: #187 gmsc

Correct!

Had you heard this one before, or did you figure it out yourself?

Did some 2 A.M. figgerin'

Thank you littleoldlady.

Boy, we have some smart people here!

I was going to say NONE of the bulbs are lit.

/don't worry about me; I'll sit in the dark... ;-)

re: #170 pink freud

One way or the other, the truth will come out in the wash. That reasonable Lizards have raised some concerns is something of an alarm call.

re: #172 Sharmuta

What do we need FaceBook for when we can rendezvous here? ;)

Facebook, Myspace, and the like are great tools to enhance your resume, though. It is a guarantee that nearly any job you apply for in this age, your potential employer is going to do a web search on you. Knowing this, you can exploit such free services to your great advantage.

However, if I was using such a service in this way, I would never share that information in an anonymous forum such as this.

/The Tao of Zombie, do not let one identity mix with another

re: #183 littleoldlady

Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™

Fruitcup is on the buffet --->
Help yourselves!

*whew!* Made it!

Sharmuta! :-)

Fenway! :-)

re: #191 littleoldlady

/don't worry about me; I'll sit in the dark... ;-)

Cursing the darkness instead of lighting a candle?

re: #188 littleoldlady

Be careful ...this gets stuck in your head and you're done fer!

re: #187 gmsc

Correct!

Had you heard this one before, or did you figure it out yourself?

Took a brute force approach: Did it by hand with 20 bits (lights) and recognized the pattern that was forming.

re: #195 littleoldlady

Littleoldlady!

How about those Bruins!?

re: #191 littleoldlady

Boy, we have some smart people here!

I was going to say NONE of the bulbs are lit.

/don't worry about me; I'll sit in the dark... ;-)

Scoot over. I have fresh strawberries. They'll never find us.

re: #197 pink freud

GIMME A GUN!

/did you see the one who walked into a light pole?
//...that was me ;-)

re: #182 Opilio

The lights representing the perfect squares (1, 4, 9, 16...) will be illuminated. The rest will be dark.

re: #187 gmsc

Correct!

Had you heard this one before, or did you figure it out yourself?

For those who don't understand why this is correct, consider this:

1) If a bulb starts off, and is switched on and off any even number of times, it will be off. If a bulb starts off, and is switched on and off any odd number of times, it will be on.

2) Bulbs are switched once for each of their factors. For example, the factors of 15 are 1, 3, 5 and 15, so the only time the #15 bulb will be switched is during the runs for bulbs 1, 3, 5 and 15. Since 15 has 4 factors, it will be switched on and off 4 times (an even number of times), and will therefore be off.

3) The only numbers that will be on, then, are obviously those with an odd number of factors. The only numbers with an odd number of factors are square number. For example, the factors of 16 are 1, 2, 4, 8 and 16. That's why the only light bulbs that are on will be the square-numbered bulbs!

re: #198 Opilio

Took a brute force approach: Did it by hand with 20 bits (lights) and recognized the pattern that was forming.

That's a good approach – take a small sample, and see if you recognize any patterns developing!

re: #199 Fenway_Nation

Oh YEAH! I LOVE football!

;-)

"Don't worry about me; I'll sit in the dark" is the punchline to "How many Jewish mothers does it take to change a light bulb?"

/see joke. see joke fall flat. ;-)

re: #191 littleoldlady

Boy, we have some smart people here!

I was going to say NONE of the bulbs are lit.

/don't worry about me; I'll sit in the dark... ;-)

In real life, the environmentalists would keep reminding you that incandescent light bulbs will be illegal by 2014 anyway, and would probably smash them.

Taking into account the real world, your answer could be correct, as well!
;)

re: #204 littleoldlady

"Don't worry about me; I'll sit in the dark" is the punchline to "How many Jewish mothers does it take to change a light bulb?"

/see joke. see joke fall flat. ;-)

I updinged you for it! I recognized the joke!

How many Las Vegas magicians does it take to change a light bulb?
Just one – he holds it and the world revolves around him!

---

How many software programmers does it take to change a light bulb?
It can't be done. It's a hardware problem!

re: #202 gmsc

That's a good approach – take a small sample, and see if you recognize any patterns developing!

Which reminds me . . .

re: #201 littleoldlady

LOL!

Oh, you will love this.

Rearranged my room. The 16" clock on the wall on the side of my bed (because I am blind when I wake up, you see) ...the clock is now across from the large wall mirror above my dressing table where I sit to become beautiful in the morning (after coffee, of course).

Well, I've become quite proficient at telling mirror time. (This is quite a feat.)

Sunday I woke up, squinted at the clock, gasped, and thought, "How did I sleep until three o'clock!?!"

Walked past the glass patio door, looked outside ...bummed, blew my ENTIRE day!

Kitchen, coffee (there are three digital clocks in kitchen, but I never checked any of them, I was too bummed), then back here to check on the world while I lamented my bad fortune and thought about how I would spend what precious little was left of my day.

Email! A friend, "Have lunch with me." Damn, more lamenting.

A full FIFTEEN minutes went by before I realized it was only 9:00.

Truthfully ...and you think you have problems?

;-)

/time to rearrange -- again

re: #208 pink freud

You are a BRAVE woman! I've become somewhat dyslexic in my old age and would even THINK about doing something like that!

re: #160 gmsc

Here's a challenge! The answer, by the way, will be provided after fruitcup.

Imagine you have an array of 1 million light bulbs, all of which are off to start with. The light bulbs are numbered from 1 to 1,000,000.

Starting with light #1, you change the status of every bulb (When I say "change the status", that will refer to switching a bulb either from off to on, or from on to off). Since they all started off, they are all obviously now all on.

Next, starting with light #2, you're going to change the status of every 2nd bulb. As you can probably imagine, the odd numbered lights are all on, and the even numbered lights are all off.

You continue in this manner, starting with light #3, and then switching the status of every 3rd bulb, then starting with light #4 and switching the status of every 4th bulb, and so on. You only stop after you start with bulb #1,000,000, and switch the status of every millionth bulb (obviously, just the one bulb).

Assuming that none of the bulbs burn out, once you've performed this exercise, which light bulbs will be on, and which light bulbs will be off?

I have pondered this for awhile now, and my answer is:

Why do you hate the environment?

re: #173 gmsc

Side note: There's no Nobel Prize for mathematics.

Obviously, there is no understanding of it (or time zones) at the Prize committee HQ, either, if they are calling you up in the middle of the night.

re: #209 littleoldlady

You are a BRAVE woman! I've become somewhat dyslexic in my old age and would even THINK about doing something like that!

So I shouldn't worry then?

re: #204 littleoldlady

Someone told me this joke once:

Q: What's the number one neuroligical condition that Jewish mothers pass on to their sons?

A: Guilt

Instead of laughing, I asked 'Are you sure that isn't Catholic mothers?'

re: #205 gmsc

In real life, the environmentalists would keep reminding you that incandescent light bulbs will be illegal by 2014 anyway, and would probably smash them.

Taking into account the real world, your answer could be correct, as well!
;)

re: #210 Sharmuta

I have pondered this for awhile now, and my answer is:

Why do you hate the environment?

GMTA!

re: #183 littleoldlady

Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™

Fruitcup is on the buffet --->
Help yourselves!

Definitely will cleanse the palette after the chicken, bean, and rice burrito...

re: #205 gmsc

If that is true a lot of light bulb makers in Kentucky are going to be unemployed. The Chinese will be happy, though.

Me, I've been buying "regular" bulbs on sale for 25 cents a pop. When they go to 10 cents I'll rent a storage facility for them. ;-)

/WAY too klutzy to have dangerous bulbs like those squiggly ones in my house!

re: #209 littleoldlady

Has anyone heard about the dyslexic, insomniac philosopher? He sat up all night wondering if there is a dog.

re: #210 Sharmuta

I have pondered this for awhile now, and my answer is:

Why do you hate the environment?

BTW, Opilio got it right in #182, and the explanation for why is at #202.

re: #213 Fenway_Nation

Sure, AS IF daughters don't suffer from the same disease!

;-)

re: #215 freetoken

Ugh! You're a better man than I, Gunga Din!

/...oh wait ;-)

freetoken! :-)

re: #212 pink freud

BTW, there are a few comments downstairs that might interest you.

re: #211 Slumbering Behemoth

Obviously, there is no understanding of it (or time zones) at the Prize committee HQ, either, if they are calling you up in the middle of the night.

Well, it could be that they figure you wouldn't mind being woken up to be told that you've won a Nobel Prize.

Granted, that wasn't true in my case.

If that happened to me today, my response would be, "Listen, I figure there are 2 possibilities here. First, you're one of my buddies trying to pull something over on me, in which case, it's a joke. The other possibility is that you're the real Nobel Prize committee, as in the one that awards Peace Prizes to people like Jimmy Carter and Yassir Arafat, in which case, you're an even bigger joke. Either way, get off my phone line and don't call back!"

OK...since Erik isn't here, I might as well try and fill in.

A rancher in Arizona had a lengthy section of fence he needed help buiding. He remembered that the local Navajo handyman was looking for work and enlisted his services. The handyman was wondering why he had a .22 slung over his shoulder as he was being shown the jobsite...

'What's the rifle for?' he asked
'Oh...that's in case any rattlers show up' the rancher reassured.
'You need not worry- the creatures of the desert are good friends of my people'
'Well...I'm going to get some water for us, but I'll leave this behind just in case.' the rancher said, propping the rifle up against a rock outcropping.
It was a long way back to the house for the water, but when the rancher returned he could see about a half-dozen dead rattlesnkes, each with a .22 casing a few feet away. The handyman had the rifle propped up against a fencepost a few feet away from where he was working.
'What happened?' the rancher asked. 'I thought you said that the desert animals were friends of your people'.
'Oh that...' the handyman replied. 'Well, I had so damn many friends showing up, I couldn't get any work done'

re: #221 Slumbering Behemoth

In Charles' hands now.

re: #219 littleoldlady

Sure, AS IF daughters don't suffer from the same disease!

;-)

I thought there was some sort of built-in immunity...

re: #225 Fenway_Nation

I thought there was some sort of built-in immunity...

Nope. Although we DO get the added perk of being able to pass it on to the next generation. ;-)

Too pooped to pop. G'nite Lizards, catch y'all later.

'Night, Slumbering! :-)

re: #227 Slumbering Behemoth

Too pooped to pop. G'nite Lizards, catch y'all later.

Good night, SB!

Someone please again remind me why the GOP saw fit to select this guy to run for the Senate in 2004, against Barrack Obama?

re: #230 freetoken

Someone please again remind me why the GOP saw fit to select this guy to run for the Senate in 2004, against Barrack Obama?

[Video]

They had already given up?
//

Good night, everyone! Time for this gal to get some sleep. :-)

re: #232 pink freud

Good night, everyone! Time for this gal to get some sleep. :-)

Sleep well, my pinkness!

'Night, pink! :-)

Coffee therapy isn't working this morning... :-(

re: #231 gmsc

They had already given up?
//

They didn't have to have a name in the slot! I've often voted where there were only one major party candidate on a ballot. True, those were for minor political office and not US Senate, but still...

Good morning LoL
It's been a while.
Got any fruitcup left?

re: #235 littleoldlady

Coffee therapy isn't working this morning... :-(

Calls for massive doses of chocolate. Stat.

re: #235 littleoldlady

Coffee therapy isn't working this morning... :-(

BOO!

(Did that help at all?)

Let Gays Have Marriage; We’re Not Using It

GM Is Becoming a Royal Debacle

Is the Associated Press calling President Obama a communist?

BTW, littleoldlady, I did passby earlier this week.

What's the story with you and BatGuano getting nekkid?
;)

VIA! VIA! VIA! :-)

How've you been?! Where've you been?! And where are you now?

re: #241 gmsc

Just my version of "boo!" ;-)

littleoldlady

Did you know I'm expecting my first grandchild, due date this weekend. A girl to be named Emily.

re: #244 nonic

littleoldlady

Did you know I'm expecting my first grandchild, due date this weekend. A girl to be named Emily.

Congrats!

What's the old saying? "Grandkids are so much more fun. We should've had them first!"

re: #242 littleoldlady

Hey Kiddo,
Been out and about with about 1,800 friends
Sitting in SBMA (Subic Bay) as we speak

Heading home in two days
Missed you all

re: #244 nonic

Aw, come on! We're not old enough to be grandmamas/bubbies...

_{^{/yes we are :-/}}

_{^{MAZEL TOV, nonic! :-) :-) :-)}}

re: #246 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Home for good?

/you've been missed, too!

Well, another company that's in trouble and angling for a bailout is having to deal with a furor over bonuses that are being paid to their executives.

Only this time, it couldn't have happened to a more deserving bunch of people. Heh.

re: #247 littleoldlady

Honey, I'm old enough to be my youngest kid's grandmother. Really. My youngest was born when I was 41. Sweet and charming young lady was born when you were 16, right? How is she? How's she doing? What's she doing?

re: #245 gmsc

Thanks. :-)