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>> Oh... You must be /Mother of Pearl/. :-D
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> That's an old Goons joke. :)
> And it is what I was thinking. You old mind reader, you :)
Let me just go ask this clam...
Hello?
Oh. Is Perl in?
No. But I'm her mother.
Oh, you must be /mother of Pearl/!
Oldies but goldies. IIRC, they wanted to climb the highest mountain in
the world, which necessitates starting from the bottom of the ocean. And
they also repeatedly told Ellington to "drive on", until eventually he
did... "He should have waited for us!"
You can't get the wood, you know...
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From: Fredrik Eriksson
Subject: Re: I bet you'll appreciate this...
Date: 26 Aug 2009 06:00:27
Message: <op.uy9kq1t77bxctx@e6600>
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On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:16:06 +0200, Stephen <mcavoysAT@aoldotcom> wrote:
> On 25 Aug 2009 21:56:55 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:04:20 -0700, Darren New wrote:
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>>> Stephen wrote:
>>>> Did we not do this to death a couple of years ago?
>>>
>>> I seriously hope it wasn't *that* long ago!
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>> I'm pretty sure it wasn't, just feels like it. ;-)
>>
>
> Well I searched OT back to 2007 and could not find the thread.
There was a discussion about the meaning of infinity in April this year.
Monkeys were mentioned.
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FE
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On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:00:18 +0200, "Fredrik Eriksson"
<fe79}--at--{yahoo}--dot--{com> wrote:
>>>> Stephen wrote:
>> Well I searched OT back to 2007 and could not find the thread.
>
>There was a discussion about the meaning of infinity in April this year.
>Monkeys were mentioned.
Yes, but the one I remember was quite long and it went into the "infinite number
of monkeys on an infinite number of typewriters hitting the keys for an infinite
time" hypothesis, in depth.
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Stephen
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On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:18:48 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
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>Let me just go ask this clam...
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>Hello?
>
>Oh. Is Perl in?
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>No. But I'm her mother.
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>Oh, you must be /mother of Pearl/!
You're older than you look :P
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Stephen
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>> Let me just go ask this clam...
>>
>> Hello?
>>
>> Oh. Is Perl in?
>>
>> No. But I'm her mother.
>>
>> Oh, you must be /mother of Pearl/!
>
> You're older than you look :P
I know a wisened little old man who looks exactly like an elf. He's a
bit of a Goons addict.
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On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:00:51 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
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>I know a wisened little old man who looks exactly like an elf. He's a
>bit of a Goons addict.
My condolences. ;)
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Stephen
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From: Fredrik Eriksson
Subject: Re: I bet you'll appreciate this...
Date: 26 Aug 2009 07:14:23
Message: <op.uy9n59we7bxctx@e6600>
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On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:52:22 +0200, Stephen <mcavoysAT@aoldotcom> wrote:
>> There was a discussion about the meaning of infinity in April this year.
>> Monkeys were mentioned.
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> Yes, but the one I remember was quite long and it went into the "infinite
> number of monkeys on an infinite number of typewriters hitting the keys
> for an infinite time" hypothesis, in depth.
This is the one I was talking about:
http://news.povray.org/povray.off-topic/thread/%3C49ec8b09%241%40news.povray.org%3E/
There was also some peripheral discussion here:
http://news.povray.org/povray.off-topic/thread/%3C49f68344%40news.povray.org%3E/
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FE
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On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:14:23 +0200, "Fredrik Eriksson"
<fe79}--at--{yahoo}--dot--{com> wrote:
>This is the one I was talking about:
>http://news.povray.org/povray.off-topic/thread/%3C49ec8b09%241%40news.povray.org%3E/
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>There was also some peripheral discussion here:
>http://news.povray.org/povray.off-topic/thread/%3C49f68344%40news.povray.org%3E/
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Thanks, I found both of those Fredrik. I would need to resurrect an old laptop
to find the thread, I think.
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Stephen
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On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:06:44 +0100, Stephen wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:30:22 +0100, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
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>>Stephen wrote:
>>
>>> And Pearl's mother says her tea is ready :)
>>
>>Oh... You must be /Mother of Pearl/. :-D
>
> That's an old Goons joke. :)
And you said you didn't listen to The Goons. ;-)
Jim
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On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:52:22 +0100, Stephen wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:00:18 +0200, "Fredrik Eriksson"
> <fe79}--at--{yahoo}--dot--{com> wrote:
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>>>>> Stephen wrote:
>
>>> Well I searched OT back to 2007 and could not find the thread.
>>
>>There was a discussion about the meaning of infinity in April this year.
>>Monkeys were mentioned.
>
> Yes, but the one I remember was quite long and it went into the
> "infinite number of monkeys on an infinite number of typewriters hitting
> the keys for an infinite time" hypothesis, in depth.
Yeah, I think that's the one from April....
Jim
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