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>> Does anyone know what The Raven became so popular?
>>
>> Or how it actually makes comprehensible /sense/, for that matter? It
>> seems to be a fairly random collection of sentences that collectively
>> don't seem to /mean/ anything...
>
> "Quoth the raven, 'eat my shorts!'"
>
> Best version *ever*.
LOL.
This one is better:
http://bash.org/?120296
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On 9/21/2011 13:51, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Yeah, I'm wondering exactly how long an unattented power plant, telephone
> exchange or water plant will continue functioning... Somebody somewhere
> probably has data for this.
For the Bell system as it existed back in 1990 or so, the estimate is that
it would run 17 years before the network would have a major partition, as
long as nobody dicked around with it.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
How come I never get only one kudo?
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On 9/21/2011 14:13, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> to be a fairly random collection of sentences that collectively don't seem
> to /mean/ anything...
A man's wife, Lenore, had recently passed away. Now he's contemplating
suicide. Now read the poem again.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
How come I never get only one kudo?
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On 22/09/2011 04:37 PM, Darren New wrote:
> On 9/21/2011 14:13, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> to be a fairly random collection of sentences that collectively don't
>> seem to /mean/ anything...
>
> A man's wife, Lenore, had recently passed away. Now he's contemplating
> suicide. Now read the poem again.
Oh, wait, "lenore" is a name??
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Orchid XP v8 escreveu:
> On 22/09/2011 04:37 PM, Darren New wrote:
>> On 9/21/2011 14:13, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> to be a fairly random collection of sentences that collectively don't
>>> seem to /mean/ anything...
>>
>> A man's wife, Lenore, had recently passed away. Now he's contemplating
>> suicide. Now read the poem again.
>
> Oh, wait, "lenore" is a name??
oh god...
Try harder Andrew. Poems are not that different from computer programs
written in a natural language. There's structure, metric, rules and,
thanks to a rich ambiguous natural language, much margin for
interpretation. It's fun and enjoyable...
--
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On 22/09/2011 6:52 PM, nemesis wrote:
>>> A man's wife, Lenore, had recently passed away. Now he's contemplating
>>> suicide. Now read the poem again.
>>
>> Oh, wait, "lenore" is a name??
>
> oh god...
You wouldn't credit it. ^^
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Stephen
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On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:15:48 +0100, Invisible wrote:
>>> Does anyone know what The Raven became so popular?
>>>
>>> Or how it actually makes comprehensible /sense/, for that matter? It
>>> seems to be a fairly random collection of sentences that collectively
>>> don't seem to /mean/ anything...
>>
>> "Quoth the raven, 'eat my shorts!'"
>>
>> Best version *ever*.
>
> LOL.
>
> This one is better:
>
> http://bash.org/?120296
It's not bad, but the reading on The Simpsons still is top of my list.
Jim
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>> oh god...
>
> You wouldn't credit it. ^^
According to my Latin dictionary:
"credo" "I believe"
Does anybody /else/ think it's weird that the Romans are the people who
hunted down and murdered Jesus Christ, and yet all the most official
Christian stuff is written in Latin?
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>> Oh, wait, "lenore" is a name??
>
> oh god...
>
> Try harder Andrew.
Actually, I looked up the poem, and it turns out it's actually longer
than the 4 random verses that usually get quoted. If you read the whole
thing, it does make a greater semblance of sense.
I still don't actually /like/ it though. Obviously.
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On 27/09/2011 10:57 AM, Invisible wrote:
> Does anybody /else/ think it's weird that the Romans are the people who
> hunted down and murdered Jesus Christ, and yet all the most official
> Christian stuff is written in Latin?
No, the Romans did not hunt him down. It was the High Priest who
arrested him, tried him in the Sanhedrin before sending him to Pontius
Pilatus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanhedrin_Trial_of_Jesus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontius_Pilate#Pilate_in_the_canonical_Gospel_accounts
--
Regards
Stephen
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