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Re: 125 years ago...
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Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:16:19 GMT
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Ross Crawford wrote:
> In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Trevyn Watson wrote:
> > Adina and I were in the Engineering Library at Queen's, looking at bound
> > journals, when we found Scientific American. We took the oldest book off the
> > shelf (1879!), and opened it to a random page. On that page, we found this
> > article:
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> > http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/tjw/misc/oldsciam.jpg
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> > University libraries are SO COOL!!!
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> WOW! That would have been fun to see! The article doesn't mention if it actually
> WON any games though...
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> ROSCO
HUH?
second paragraph, second line:
"...where it has played a large number of games without losing a single one."
must be all that down under summer heat eh? Ross?
:)
Chris
There's no 'I' in 'team'. There's four in 'platitude-quoting idiot'.
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| (...) Um... { "not losing" == "winning" } == FALSE but { "not losing" & "not drawing" == "winning" } == TRUE So Rosco's question is legit, although hair splitting, it's possible to get a draw in Checkers (both sides have a single king, for example) (...) (23 years ago, 18-Dec-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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