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I have a link for you :D
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/10/worlds-most-magnificent-pipe-organs.html
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~Mike
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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] dev null> wrote:
> almost exactly 10,000 pipes.
Isn't "almost exactly" an oxymoron?
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"Warp" <war### [at] tag povray org> wrote in message
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> Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> 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] tag povray org> 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] dev null> 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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I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".
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Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> 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
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> 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] anonymous org> wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_As_Possible
Can you infringe copyright on 4'33"?
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