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on moving away by celticskatermatt1
14 Nov 2004, 7:26 PM
who needs punctuation when the place has a face?
Maybe some nu-punk song lyrics.
4 out of 5 quantum physisists agree; Colgate Whitening with Scope severely improves your chances of a
sheep-related injury.
dnt. abbrivt. punct.
What good is the last line, except to rhyme?
Okay, in a fist fight, who would win:
Your vulva condensed poetry,
or a pair of Anne rice's underwear?
nice
Mastery? With no demeaning adjectives, no slanderous associations, except for the rather mild “gross misunderstandings”? How atypical. Oh, I see, it’s flattery to get an admission. Well your reliance on blunders has gotten you to where and when you are, and I’m not joining you.
Your mastery of base 35 doesn't excuse your gross misunderstanding of the situation, Dovina. Just admit that the amount of power required by the Delorean is 3.1 jigawatts, and you can dig yourself out of this rather ugly hole.
I presume this means you are quite satisfied and refusing any offers of assitance. By the way it's the D of November here, 1M9. what is it there?
INSIPID Tell Dovina you're sorry.
I knew when I posted this poem that the imagery was far-fetched, and therefore easy to misinterpret and easy to attack. I have already admitted this, and therefore your attack is somewhat justified. Rather than casting off your diatribe off as easy slander, which would be my first reaction, I have done your exercise. The representation of each line in the poem is in parentheses.
Snow on the ground
(Snow is a covering, a shroud – his jokes or my missives)
shallow and dirty
(contaminated, showing traces of the thing covered – pain)
Up in the trees
it’s crusty and clean
(uncontaminated snow on limbs – effective jokes or missives)
Black limbs sagging
(limbs and anything dark = pain)
frosty and white
(pain covered and unseen)
Tan earth hidden
(earth = pain)
‘neath snow and dust
(only partially hidden)
Such are the jokes
(jokes = snow)
that cover his wounds
and the missives
(missives = snow)
surrounding mine
Which are more lofty
(his jokes or my missives?)
covering whiter?
Which bear the dust
(his jokes or my missives?)
Of weaker defense?
(weaker = contaminated with dust)
INSIPID I think you were weak in the bowels and you shook a hard, frozen stool off behind a bush.
1. "1.21 is 1.21 regardless of anybody's phrasing of it." An astounding insight. But "one point twenty-one" is not the same as "1.21", as you will see if you manage to understand the following:
You are doubtless familiar with binary or hexadecimal arithmetic, or at least the concept of using bases other than 10. Let's use base 35, where digits above 9 are written using letters A - Z. Then how is the following pronounced?
1.L
The answer is "One point L", or "One point twenty-one", since the value of L is 21. In base 10, this evalutes to 1 + (21 / 35) = 1.6.
Still in base 35, how is the following pronounced?
1.21
The answer is "One point two one". In base 10, this evaluates to 1 + (2 / 35) + (1 / 1225) ~= 1.058. Not at all the same as "One point twenty-one".
I bet you still don't get it. Then think about this. What is the value of "one point a million"? Is it the same as "one point ten" or "one point one"? No. And only a massive thicky could possibly think otherwise.
2. The unit is a Jigawatt. 1.21 gigawatts is a paltry amount, much less than the amount of power delivered by a lightning bolt.
Pardon me, Raja Z.