The correct word for this situation is "indubitably". Man, I love that word.

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.

You'd think. But; then again, look how much you can learn by not letting the world wiz by you.
Good point...
Oh; come now... I thought this was Fazor's make up a word day. I'm disapointed in you now.

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There's always time for "Indubitably"... though I keep writing my congressman to push for a law that requires people to say it "Iiiiiiiiiiiiiin'dubitibly", preferable preceeded by a nasally "Mmmmmmmm" and followed by the lighting of a cigar with a lit $100 bill.

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.

I just hope that he didn't learn it from that old breakfast cereal commercial like I did.

Naw, I've always inventinated words...must have had the same grammar teacher as a certian current US president.



Actually, my Junior and Senior years of highschool, aswell as thoughout college, I made a game of it. Every paper we had to write over 3 pages in length, I'd randomly make up a word and insert it discreetly into the paper. Not once was I ever called on it.

The key is to make up a word but use it in a way that a meaning is "clear" from the context. Por ejemplo:
"The fine particles of the lunar terrasol lay in intricate patterns, blown and pock-marked from countless collisions with space debris."

Okay, not the greatest sentance there, but the point is you don't have to know what "terrasol" is in order to understand the sentance. Obviously this game wouldn't work well in science classes; but in general, professors seemed reluctant to admit that they don't know a word (or, if you do it well enough, don't notice that they don't know the word).

This game is not to be confused with my senior-year slackery game that included aceing a essay test based on a book that doesn't exist, acing a essay test based on an autobiography that I didn't read (What was the most suprising thing I learned? That WWII hero Douglas MacArther had a secret drinking problem which almost got him kicked out of the millitary), and acing a paper on my "personal hero", a ficticious LA Swat member who resuced a handfull of hostages from a LA Highrise (which I took the time to come up with a fake building name) using Die-Hard'esque tactics.

Ah, those were the days.

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.

Are you prepared to defend this ATM idea?

edit: funny how the spell checker flags both Fazor and terrasol...

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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge" -- Charles Darwin
"Ignorance convinces" -- slang's dad
"Your right to hold an opinion is not being contested. Your expectation that it be taken seriously is." -- Jason Thompson

As long as I don't have to provide contupture of my claims, I can defend them all night.

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.

You'll have to provide both contupture and ratiation for it.

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And the "driving on the freeway on a scooter" analogy still holds true because the pilots are sitting in 7 to 30 ton aircraft o' doom and you are running around them in your very own Meatbody, Mark I. Beep, beep.
Trying to make sense of computers, The Error Log.

No, ratiation only applies to spoken claims, not written ones. Unless, of course, it's a thoropsis situation.

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"It is quite clear that Occam's razor does not sharpen in your pyramid." (Nicolas)

"Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." (Paul Simon)

Search Turns Up 1,500 Marijuana Plants In Ohio County
Ok; we've had some good weather, but isn't it also possible that in these harder times, the culprits have planted more? Or maybe you did a better search?

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I don't have an example at hand--but often, particularly web news sites, I see a truncated headline--but the entire headline has the opposite meaning. Something like:

"Beethoven Committed"

turns out to be

"Beethoven Committed to making 9th Symphony his best ever"

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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.

personal page: http://blog.astrosketches.info

How many times have you heard measurements thrown into a news story that just don't make sense.

To start us off. Retired deputy drowns.
Oh BTW; forget the actual story, those are to be discussed on other threads.

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Well, since you asked:

(Ok, I cheated a bit and searched for the term. Sorry. It's still a headline. )

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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge" -- Charles Darwin
"Ignorance convinces" -- slang's dad
"Your right to hold an opinion is not being contested. Your expectation that it be taken seriously is." -- Jason Thompson

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,408544,00.html

Wis. Couple Wins Lottery Four Times, Claims Formula

Of course, with that headline--what are the chances of winning lottery four times at random--maybe it's not random and the formula works for the lottery they entered.

But--I read the article, and it says all four tickets were for the same drawing and had the same number.

Ok--well, no wonder. It's no more unlikely than winning the lottery once.

Still, they want to patent the formula (which can be done. Weight Watchers has a patented formula for point values of food).

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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.

personal page: http://blog.astrosketches.info

Let me make a guess at the formula to be on record before the patent is filed...
T=4B
Where T is the number of tickets and B is the number of bets.

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I was going to ask if there's an advantage of buying four identicle tickets? I mean, winnings are generally spread among all winning tickets, so you'd still win the same amount. Only time it would come in handy is if someone else had a winning ticket too: you'd get 4/5ths share compaired to their 1/5th.

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.

That's true--though I don't know if this was a "fixed amount" lottery or a "one pool divided" lottery. many are such that if you hit all the numbers, you get a peace of the pool, or pie. If you get some, you get some fixed smaller amount.

Assuming you don't know something everyone else doesn't about the choice of numbers (and they do make a concerted effort to make them as nearly random as possible), your best bet for winning is buying up every number after the pool has risen from weeks of no winners--and hope for no duplicates, like an Australian group did in Virginia one time, resulting in a change in rules to make that harder to do.

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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.

personal page: http://blog.astrosketches.info

Just saw this headline on the Yahoo news box:

Reaction: I have no idea who this Gustav is, but it would seem easier to just arrest him rather than evacuate the city... Same thing when some Russian woman (I guess,judging by her name) attacked the city's levees a couple of years ago.

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Toyota To Cut Sales, Push Plug-In Car
That makes sense.
If you try to sell a car that needs to be pushed, you certainly are going to cut sales.

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