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Re: Skeletons are Minifigs too
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lugnet.loc.au
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Mon, 2 Aug 2004 04:09:36 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, James Howse wrote:
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In lugnet.loc.au, Richie Dulin wrote:
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In lugnet.loc.au, Kerry Raymond wrote:
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If you start counting legs, you run into a
number of special cases, e.g. how many legs does Prof Trelawney virtually
possess beneath her skirt and how many legs does a dementor have (does a
pogo stick count as one, or are there two vestigal legs on a dementor to
enable it to balance on the pogo stick?) . Best not to bother trying to do
arithmetic with legs given these unknowns and imponderables.
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If something can be counted, then it should be counted, statistics
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collected, and misleading conclusions leaped to.
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Legs, vestigal legs and pogo-sticktistics?
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It’s interesting that you mention legs. Whenever I’m at at one of those
things where I have to “tell the group something interesting about yourself”
(which is mostly work-related stuff, but could just as easily be a group
therapy session), I always make the bold claim that I have more than the
average number of legs for a human.
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But not, happily, much more than the average number of heads.
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Being work and presumably mostly accountants,
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No, mostly meat science/tech guys. And they’re used to four legs.
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they may see the joke a little quicker than some readers here.
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“Accountants ...see the joke a little quicker”. You don’t know many accountants,
do you?
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I am amused at the though of some readers horrified
imaginations picturing you with vestigal legs (pogo-stick optional). For the
record, Richie is (boardly) a (physically) normal human (at least externally,
on social aquaintence).
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I’m flattered!
-snip-
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IANAP, but I think most people miss the point of the whole Schroedinger’s
cat thing: Schroedinger didn’t like cats.
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(I am not a) physicist? philosopher? purist?
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I meant physicist, but the other two work too. (Philospher? Work? Surely not!).
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James (who is all three of the above, but only when observed to be so)
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Adieu
Richie Dulin
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Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: Skeletons are Minifigs too
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| (...) Could the dementors gravity repulsion (or indeed general repulsiveness) be harnessed as a useful source of propulsion? Or perhaps a military weapon-type application? Could a model that includes dementors be said to suck? (...) So many jobs (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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