I have a link for you :D

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/10/worlds-most-magnificent-pipe-organs.html
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Really, really BIG pipe organs...

Notice how almost all of them are in Europe, except the really huge ones 
which are all in America. (Do you think they're trying to compensate for 
something?) Notice also that *none* of them are in the UK.

The Wannamaker Organ is the largest _working_ organ in the world, with 
something like 23,000 pipes. The best the UK can offer is the Liverpool 
Cathedral and the Royal Albert Hall, both featuring pipe organs of 
almost exactly 10,000 pipes.

All I can say is, it's beats the hell out of the little 2-manual organ 
at the local village church. :-P

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> almost exactly 10,000 pipes.

  Isn't "almost exactly" an oxymoron?

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"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message 
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> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> almost exactly 10,000 pipes.
>
>  Isn't "almost exactly" an oxymoron?
>
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I don't know about that, but I think it's a good candidate for the 
definition of "limit" in calculus. :D

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Captain Jack wrote:
> "Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>>  Isn't "almost exactly" an oxymoron?
> I don't know about that, but I think it's a good candidate for the 
> definition of "limit" in calculus. :D

Didn't we go over that in the discussion about randomness, as 'almost 
surely'?  ;)

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Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> almost exactly 10,000 pipes.
> 
>   Isn't "almost exactly" an oxymoron?

It's a pretty common idiom, if nothing else. "Almost perfect" and "almost 
unique" (and "most unique") are common as well, and they're all "incorrect" 
also.

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> almost exactly 10,000 pipes.
> > 
> >   Isn't "almost exactly" an oxymoron?

> It's a pretty common idiom, if nothing else. "Almost perfect" and "almost 
> unique" (and "most unique") are common as well, and they're all "incorrect" 
> also.

  I don't have a problem with "almost perfect" because it clearly means
"close to perfect", but "almost exactly" somehow just doesn't work. You
don't say "close to exactly". It either is exactly something, or it isn't,
You don't get close to "exactly". :)

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Warp wrote:
>   I don't have a problem with "almost perfect" because it clearly means
> "close to perfect", but "almost exactly" somehow just doesn't work. 

Well, something is either "perfect" or not. So "almost perfect" means "not 
perfect."  It's just one of those absolutes.  But yes, even so, it means 
"close to perfect."   "Almost exactly" means "close to exact" too. I guess 
it's just what idioms you're used to.

I've heard people say they're a little bit pregnant or very pregnant too, 
meaning in the very first stages of pregnancy or late in the pregnancy.

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Mike Raiford schrieb:
> I have a link for you :D
> 
> http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/10/worlds-most-magnificent-pipe-organs.html 
> 
This is freakish...:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_As_Possible

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clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_As_Possible

  Can you infringe copyright on 4'33"?

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