<p dir="ltr">Have you no shame, sir!</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 12, 2014 6:54 PM, "spike" <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> extropy-chat [mailto:<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mike Dougherty<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 12, 2014 6:31 PM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] cheerful thought<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p><br>On Dec 12, 2014 6:47 PM, "spike" <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p><p>> <span style="color:#1f497d">>…</span>If one went to heaven only to discover one’s harp was always out of tune and one’s wings didn’t fit right, would those be ith world problems?<br><br>> <span style="color:#1f497d">>…</span>What’s the point in being a math geek if you can’t have a weird sense of humor?<u></u><u></u></p><p><span style="color:#1f497d">>…</span>It's just one dimension less than that line of course. <u></u><u></u></p><p><span style="color:#1f497d">>…</span>If not a weird sense of humor I'd have none at all. <span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">When Descarte came up with the term “imaginary” for the i axis, I wonder if he realized what potential it creates for geek wordplay?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I have heard that he had a horse which understood mathematics, and was a most attentive audience whenever he introduced a new concept.  But not in this case, for when the mathematician tried to explain the concept to the beast, it objected with an emphatic NAY!  <u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">(Brace yourself, you know it is coming.  Save yourself, stop reading, flee!)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The problem was he put Descarte before the horse.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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