[2796] in Central_America
New quotes for Wed Oct 10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Wed Oct 10 01:34:42 1990
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 90 01:34:04 EDT
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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bjaspan (Barr3y Jaspan):
If I only had a brain...
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celine (Robert Fullmer):
Maple trees
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debbo (Deborah A Birnby):
i belive right now if i could
i would swallow you whole
i would leave only bones and teeth
we could see what was underneath
and you would be free then
once i thought only tears could make us free
salt wearing down to the bone
like sand against the stone
against the shoreline
i am friend to the undertow
i take you in, i don't let go
and now i have you
i wanted to learn all the secrets
from the edge of a knife
from the point of a needle
from a diamond
from a bullet in flight
i would be free then
i am friend to the undertow (etc)....
i wanted to see how it would feel to be that sleek
and instead i find this hunger's made me weak
i believe right now if i could i would swallow you whole
i would leave only bones and teeth
we could see what was underneath
and you would be free then, free then
i am friend to the undertow (etc)...
-suzanne vega
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hedgcock (John M Hedgcock):
My address at school is: 500 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 225-8928
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horiuchi (Junjiro Horiuchi):
"Wagahai wa neko de aru"
Logged out last from m16-034-10 at Tue Oct 9 13:21:47 EDT 1990.
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jcbourne (Juliet C Bourne):
TOOL
^^^^
tool [MIT] to study
tool [Princeton] someone with political or business ambitions, usually a
Woodrow Wilson school major
tool [Purdue] someone who is used and abused
tool [SUNY - S.B.] someone you pick up, use, and put back when you're done
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jik (Jonathan I. Kamens):
Everything you always wanted to know about Arab attitudes toward
Israel, but were afraid to ask....
[T-t-t-t-t-that's all for now, folks. I'm still waiting for my
updated "Myths and Facts" to arrive...]
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kentt (Kent R Thurber):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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tytso (Theodore Y. Ts'o):
Article 5114 (13 more + 2 Marked to return)) in alt.romance:
From: fax0112@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Subject: Re: The probability of love
Message-ID: <1990Oct6.010938.1822@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
In article <113623@tiger.oxy.edu>, allison@oxy.edu (David Bruce Allison) writes:
> * pn eopy1 eopy2 eopn3 ffy hfy eon lm 008 rm 072 pi 000 ps 001 pl 060 hd 000 ft 000 fp 001 ss 011 018 000 000 ts 007 012
>
> It is said that the average person in their life will know about
> 1000 people. By "know" they mean someone who you could pass on
> the street, recognize, and greet by name. If you assume that
Of course this immediately rules out that possible quick spark that some
people, albeit a rarity, hit off real quick before they really get to know
them.
> half of these people (roughly) are of the opposite sex then the
> average man knows about 500 women and vice versa. If one man
> knows 500 women, then it takes 2000 men to know a million women
> (again vice versa). Consequently, only one man in two thousand
> will ever meet the proverbial "one in a million a girl". That is
"One in a million is an expression and has no mathematical realtionship.
Could be one in 100,000, but it just seems like more. There is no
scientific eviddence for such a statment. What are the error bars on
what constitutes a perfect match?
> to say, that for any given person, their chance of meeting that
> one in a million member of the opposite sex is 1/20th of 1 per
> cent. There are roughly 125 such people in each sex in the U.S.
> and 2,500 worldwide. On the other hand there are a quarter of a
Of course you are completely missing the fact that many of these members
of the opposite sex may be <16or > 50 years old making the pool
even smaller. (50 is arbitrary, actual mileage may vary.)
> million people of each sex who are the kind that come along "once
> in a lifetime" in the U.S. and 5 million worldwide. Everyone
Nope, nope, you are not doing the stats correctly. You are using
fermi statistics when in actuallity you should be using boson stats.
each person could be that one-in-a-million person for someone else,
carfeul how you count pairs.
> will meet one such person in their life. What does this all
> mean? I guess it just means that one should appreciate what you
> have because it may be the best thing that will ever happen to
> you.
I know this was in fun but if you took your numbers to their
logical conclusion and spread the 125 over the average area of the
US would quickly find that the odds of meeting the right person would
be so low that, approximately, NO ONE would ever meet the right
person.
Conclusion? Buy a dog!
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wchuang (Mithrandir):
Carry on my wayward son,
There'll be peace when you when are done,
Lay your weary head to rest,
Don't you cry no more.
Once I rose above the noise and confusion,
Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion,
I was soaring ever higher,
But I flew too high.
Though my eyes could see,
I still was a blind man,
Though my mind could think,
I still was a madman,
I hear the voices when I'm dreaming,
I can hear them say...
Carry on my wayward son,
There'll be peace when you are done,
Lay your weary head to rest,
Don't you cry no more.
Masquerading as a man of the reason,
My charade is the event of a season,
But if I claim to be a wise man,
It surely means that I don't know.
On the stormy sea of no real emotion,
Tossed about like a ship on the ocean,
I set a course for winds of fortune,
But I hear the voices say...
Carry on my wayward son,
There'll be peace when you are done,
Lay your weary head to rest,
Don't you cry no more.
Carry on, nothing equals this pleasure.
Now your life's no longer empty,
Surely heaven waits for you...
Carry on my wayward son,
There'll be peace when you are done,
Lay your weary head to rest,
Don't you cry no more.
a very hacked up translation
of the lyrics from "Carry On Wayward Son"
by Kansas...
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