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Originally Posted by mike alexander
I dunno, Mak. You hit a home run then forget to touch second base. Tsk.
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It's OK. The rules in this league allow for the following:
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Upon further review the poster's shoelace touched the base, therefore the ruling on the field is overturned: home run!
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Originally Posted by mike alexander
I had never heard of Arrow's Theorem, but had empirically derived the Pizza-Topping Theorem many years ago, where I proved that with available toppings 'n' and pizza consumers 'm', the odds of satisfying everybody are [1/(m^n)]. Maybe [1/(n^m)]; I need to order more pizza to be certain. This doesn't even take into account the Chuck Corrollary, where Chuck wanders in after things are settled and demands anchovies.
Besides, Mak, the Erectoral College isn't just a tradition
it's a way to make the actual, difficult choice of Tawp Dawg so convoluted that any outcome can be justified post hoick by appealing to the thoughts in the two hundred year old dust under those perukes. The same ones invoked when deciding whether multiple carriers may use the same fiber-optic cable (Hamilton, for one, was quite firm in this belief, noting that even with spread-spectrum multiplexing the available electromagnetic bandwidth was simply insufficient).
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Funny, I was already doing my Zero impression prior to reading your post.
You're right, convolutions are excellent ways to cover the convoluted methods used to convolute the convulsed methods of choosing the next
hoicken burning bush, if he is a rich man, with a proper double chin, he should be so lucky.
As they say on the Moon, Earthrise, Earthset.