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Topic: PEEL Shipping Statute 437-B
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FordMustang
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 Since: Feb 2008
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posted 04-17-2008 23:44 |
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Originally posted by Officer 1BDI:
ETA: Incidentally, I'm the oldest sibling in my family and I'm also the sibling that everyone else ganged up on. I know they love me, but the way they treat me now that we're almost all adults is vastly different from the way they treated me when we were growing up.... It probably helps that we've moved away from each other.
Yup, that is my experience as well. I was the oldest as well (and very much like Fry in personality but more motivated and organized 'cuz I had to be as the oldest in a proper Brit-American family) and my siblings came behind me by just a few years. I was definitely a Fry type person. My mom was in a car accident as a passenger when she was 8 months pregnant with me. I stopped developing after that and so I was born at 9 months but way underdeveloped. It took me years to catch up with my age group, so I was always saying idiotic Fry things I never meant to say that made me the kicking post of my siblings and the kids at school. IQ wise I tested very high, but I did not have the coordination or common sense so I came across as a moron even though I was secretly the kid my classmates came to when they needed intellectual advice. My sister especially was hard on me because she hated that I was the oldest (she wanted to be the oldest) and I did not deserve to be the oldest since I was so obviously "idiotic" and clumsy so she was always beating me up and locking me up in places and then pretending she had no idea she was locking me up. By high school she changed her view of me since the sibling rivalry did not matter anymore. There were teachers who liked both her and me and no rivalry involved. So she dropped the rivalry and we finally started to become sisters and friends. She grew up to be a very wonderful, kind hearted lady and it touched me that she apologized to me a few years ago about how she treated me when we were kids.
I just mention it because Phil and Yancy had that kind of sibling/pecking order stuff; it's not abnormal. Regardless of the "Luck of the Fryish" or "Bender's Big Score" we know one way or another that Yancy did love Phil very much and got over his sibling rivalry to acknowledge that. I personally like the Luck of the Fryish view that he realized it only after he lost the chance to ever meet Phil again. It makes his recognition of how much Phil meant to him seem that much sweeter... and, yes, I apologize for being a newbie (noob) , but that is what I am.
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Bendersfan1221
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Since: Mar 2007
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posted 04-18-2008 00:20 |
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Originally posted by Officer 1BDI:
ETA: Incidentally, I'm the oldest sibling in my family and I'm also the sibling that everyone else ganged up on. I know they love me, but the way they treat me now that we're almost all adults is vastly different from the way they treated me when we were growing up.... It probably helps that we've moved away from each other.
It's exactly the same for me except the movie away part. I get ganged up on by everyone. I don't know why. I'm stuck here until I can afford and am ready/ have friends who are willing get my/our own place. I am the oldest but my famly treats me as if i am Fry like (I don't think, I'm clumsy all that Fry jazz but I don't show my intellegence as much as i should because it make people mad) and my little brother or sister is more Yancy like (they are basically perfect everyone loves them because they are not weird.) but If I get something my brother or sister want they automatically assume that they deserve it. ------------------
Bender: Bite my shiny metal ass!
Fry/Leela ♥
I ♥ Chekov.
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Officer 1BDI
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posted 04-18-2008 01:05 |
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Hurray for common childhood woes! XD Although, aside from a shared interest in science fiction, I don't have much in common with Fry. I was more of a "Lisa Simpson" type (she was my role model when I was in elementary school... which explains a lot in retrospect). I was that overachieving student that so many kids seem to loathe, and I always worried that my siblings hated me for it as well, but if it was a point of conflict I never heard them mention it; they seemed to despise my nerdish nature more. I think I just embarrassed them.And that is why LotF is my favorite episode: because when I first saw it, it gave me hope.  We get along nicely for the most part now, so all's well that ends well. quote:
and, yes, I apologize for being a newbie (noob) , but that is what I am.
I would like to point out that I can't find anything remotely "noobish" about your post and that you probably don't need to apologize.  [This message has been edited by Officer 1BDI (edited 04-18-2008).]
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Archonix
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posted 04-18-2008 05:30 |
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I'm taking notes.  My brother was always competing with me to be the better one, pretty much because he wanted to be the eldest. He couldn't be that, so he became the tallest instead. Everything I did, he had to do better because, at some level, he must have thought this would make him the eldest. Kids... anyway when I got into computers, he got into them more. When I buy a car, he buys a better car. He got his driving license first, went snowboarding when I merely expressed an interest in it, joined the terries when I expressed an interest in maybe joining the RAF... Then when I got a swedish wife, he went to Paraguay... Being the eldest with a competitive younger brother. Blech. quote:
Originally posted by Officer 1BDI:
...You realize that one of the biggest geek conventions in the United States is held annually in sunny San Diego, California, right?
California has always struck me as a land of extremes.
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Torgo
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Since: Dec 2007
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posted 04-18-2008 09:42 |
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Originally posted by Archonix:
I'm taking notes. Being the eldest with a competitive younger brother. Blech.
I'm in the same boat as you guys, except instead of one younger sibling, I have 2 to contend with.  ------------------
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Bendersfan1221
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Since: Mar 2007
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posted 04-18-2008 10:05 |
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I have 2 younger siblings who think that they are supposed to be the eldest. Right now my younger brothers goal is to get his drivers license before I do. So I have alot of the same probablem so as Arch there.
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Frisco17
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Since: Aug 2005
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posted 04-18-2008 23:06 |
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Originally posted by Archonix:
I'm taking notes.
California has always struck me as a land of extremes.
It really is. I look at California whenever I wonder what a state on crystal meth looks like.
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Bendersfan1221
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Since: Mar 2007
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posted 04-18-2008 23:30 |
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Yeah, I think California has gotten more messed up since I moved.
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seattlejohn01
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Since: May 2007
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posted 04-19-2008 00:11 |
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I lived there for many years, and thought it was the best place to live. Then I moved to Washington, and realized I just didn't have anything to compare it to; life up here is so much better. Given a choice between California & Washington, I'll vacation in California every now & then, but I'll live in Washington.
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Bendersfan1221
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posted 04-19-2008 00:15 |
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Yeah, same. I like it here in New New York, except for the cold... I could do with out that. But i definatly prefer to vaction out there and not live.
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x.Bianca.x
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posted 04-19-2008 03:38 |
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I have two little really annoying sisters to put up with, one of thems a pig and one of thems a slut. I know you think im mean but you don't know them.
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Bendersfan1221
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Since: Mar 2007
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posted 04-19-2008 10:51 |
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My younger sister is a slut too. I know what you mean.
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Tornadoboy
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posted 04-19-2008 10:54 |
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Off-topic, much?
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coldangel_1
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posted 04-19-2008 11:13 |
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Everyone's a slut.
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Bendersfan1221
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posted 04-19-2008 11:45 |
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Tornadoboy, this thread always gets off topic. Don't fight it.Colds what's your reasoning behind that?
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Tornadoboy
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Since: Feb 2008
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posted 04-19-2008 13:34 |
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I shall fight off-topicness as if it were Onespawn.(Not that I'm doing all that much to get it back on topic.)
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Frisco17
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Since: Aug 2005
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posted 04-19-2008 21:20 |
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Originally posted by Bendersfan1221:
Colds what's your reasoning behind that?
Two things.
1) By now Coldy doesn't need a reason. B) You're just asking for it. You know that, don't you?
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Bendersfan1221
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Since: Mar 2007
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posted 04-19-2008 23:22 |
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Oh yeah. I forgot that. Oh well to lazy. Also nice Frisco so "B" is now a number.
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km73
Starship Captain
Since: Aug 2007
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posted 04-20-2008 01:05 |
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Alternatively, "1" could be a letter.
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Frisco17
Liquid Emperor
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posted 04-20-2008 21:15 |
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Originally posted by Bendersfan1221:
Oh yeah. I forgot that. Oh well to lazy. Also nice Frisco so "B" is now a number.
Why not? Ninaka's a unit of meassure now.
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Sine Wave
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posted 04-20-2008 21:17 |
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Originally posted by km73:
Alternatively, "1" could be a letter.
1o1.
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seattlejohn01
Liquid Emperor
Since: May 2007
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posted 04-20-2008 22:18 |
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Originally posted by Frisco17:
Why not? Ninaka's a unit of meassure now.
With gradiants of measure & mathematical numbers, no less. There's a greater Ninaka, a lesser Ninaka, a negative Ninaka, the square root of Ninaka, integrals & differentials of Ninaka...
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SonicPanther
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posted 04-20-2008 22:32 |
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Originally posted by Bendersfan1221:
Oh yeah. I forgot that. Oh well to lazy. Also nice Frisco so "B" is now a number.
Don't your teachers ever refer to a question or problem as "number B"?
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Bendersfan1221
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posted 04-20-2008 22:54 |
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I forgot about Ninaka being a number. Approximatiyl what is it equal to?SP my teachers never say "Number B"
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SpaceCase
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posted 04-21-2008 11:48 |
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Originally posted by SonicPanther:
Don't your teachers ever refer to a question or problem as "number B"?
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Originally posted by Bendersfan1221:
... my teachers never say "Number B"
Mine did...
It irritated me to to the point I wanted to slap them senseless! 
'Course they could've already been senseless...  [This message has been edited by SpaceCase (edited 04-21-2008).]
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Bendersfan1221
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posted 04-21-2008 14:32 |
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SC that is why I am so happy my teachers on't do that. I would lose it after a bit.
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km73
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posted 04-21-2008 22:09 |
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Yeah, I seem to recall a couple instances of something like that. Nothing too rampant though, fortunately.
I can see how that could get aggravating after a while.
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Bendersfan1221
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posted 04-21-2008 22:43 |
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How could it not. B is a letter not a number, unlike ninaka which is a number and name. What is Ninaka equal to? I must know.
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Frisco17
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Since: Aug 2005
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posted 04-21-2008 22:57 |
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It wasn't so much that I thought it was a number as it was me not paying attention.
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Bendersfan1221
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posted 04-21-2008 23:03 |
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Ah. I love how that managaed to spiraled from me commenting of one of colds normal comments to talking about numbers and letters.------------------
Bender: Bite my shiny metal ass!
Fry/Leela ♥
I ♥ Chekov.
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hobbitboy
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posted 04-22-2008 07:37 |
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Originally posted by Bendersfan1221:
B is a letter not a number
Except, of course, in bases like hexadecimal where it is not only a number but a digit as well.B (Hex) = 11 (Dec)
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coldangel_1
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posted 04-22-2008 08:08 |
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All math geeks please form an orderly line behind the guillotine.
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SpaceCase
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posted 04-22-2008 12:50 |
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Originally posted by hobbitboy:
Except, of course, in bases like hexadecimal where it is not only a number but a digit as well.B (Hex) = 11 (Dec)
[*Sigh*]Allow me to say this a plainly as possible: "B" is a letter, not a number; a letter.
Yes, it is used in Hexidecimal notation to represent a number.
Why? - Because our decimal numeration system does not have a one symbol for "11," and:
- Standard human beings do not have sixteen fingers!
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Originally posted by coldangel_1:
All math geeks please form an orderly line behind the guillotine.
Please take a number for faster service.Have one... Here y'go... Have a nice day... Oh... now serving number, uh... 00100101... [*We now return you to your regularly sheduled theread, already in progress*]
Yes, I'm done now...
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Bendersfan1221
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posted 04-22-2008 13:51 |
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Please no math explanations. Thanks colds adn SC to an exten for getting rid of the math geeks.
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km73
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Since: Aug 2007
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posted 04-22-2008 18:42 |
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Still on letters and numbers? Man, things in this thread have a long life.And not to plagiarize or intrude on HypnoBrecky's territory or anything, but the only thing to belatedly say to this quote:
Originally posted by Sine Wave:
1o1.
is     .
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Sine Wave
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posted 04-22-2008 19:33 |
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Oh km, you just don't stop. quote:
Originally posted by Bendersfan1221:
Please no math explanations. Thanks colds adn SC to an exten for getting rid of the math geeks.
Rid of us? Our numbers are diverging, you will never be rid of us!
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Bendersfan1221
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Since: Mar 2007
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posted 04-22-2008 20:48 |
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NOOOOOO!!! Math is evil. Must rid world of math....
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seattlejohn01
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posted 04-22-2008 21:36 |
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Survey says...EEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Math is a universal language & must be respected. Those afraid of math must be marginalized...
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FordMustang
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posted 04-22-2008 21:43 |
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...I SO agree with that, but only math that results in the termination of life. All other benign forms of math are cool... just don't please involve decapitation, thank you. Tea and cucumber sandwiches and no death sentences are served on the outer deck with a side of cucumber sandwiches and your favorite musicial group, merci bien.
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Frisco17
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posted 04-22-2008 22:10 |
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Originally posted by Bendersfan1221:
NOOOOOO!!! Math is evil. Must rid world of math....
Yes and no. Math for math's sake is evil there I agree. Math for other (usually distructive) purposes is usefull. That said, I will speak no more of this math. I demand a return to something resembling relevence! [This message has been edited by Frisco17 (edited 04-22-2008).]
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