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Re: What is this thing?
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Tue, 5 Apr 2005 05:15:34 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dave Schuler wrote:
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> > It does--thanks!
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> > "PARIS HOT-HEAD TANDEM HEAD HAT BLOCKER"
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> > I was able to parse exactly 0% of that. Well, maybe the individual words sort
> > of made sense, but all in a row like that, I was totally lost.
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> I parsed it just fine. However I didn't get the meaning Clark did, what I got
> had something to do with Paris Hilton. So, fine, but incorrect.
Ah. The old "precision vs.accuracy" thing. Got it.
The funny (well, maybe it's funny--you tell me) thing is that I stumbled onto
that listing by hunting for clone bricks. I searched "+tandem +block*" and
that's what turned up.
Dave!
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| (...) I parsed it just fine. However I didn't get the meaning Clark did, what I got had something to do with Paris Hilton. So, fine, but incorrect. (20 years ago, 5-Apr-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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