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[#] Mon Nov 03 2014 12:31:14 EST from fleeb

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When you create something, you store power within it.

Destruction is merely unleashing the power someone stored.

So, in many ways, the act of creating implies a greater capacity for power than destruction.

[#] Wed Nov 05 2014 11:22:45 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

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We really need to look into revoking your license to handle uranium.

[#] Sun Nov 09 2014 20:22:11 EST from vince-q

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Well, the Oakland Raiders have maintained their perfect record: 0-9.
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! <evil grin>

[#] Mon Nov 10 2014 15:18:36 EST from athos-mn

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I know very little about the NFL, but I know they're only trying to copy Detroit.

[#] Sun Dec 21 2014 14:59:49 EST from zooer

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Describe what Marsellus Wallace looks like.

[#] Sun Dec 28 2014 11:06:21 EST from LoanShark

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a bitch.

[#] Mon Dec 29 2014 09:37:52 EST from fleeb

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But, specifically, what kind? Great Dane? Poodle? Pug?

[#] Mon Dec 29 2014 11:50:56 EST from zooer

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What?!?

[#] Mon Jan 05 2015 15:00:13 EST from fleeb

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Fun word to add to your lexicon:

galactorrhea

The sponaneous flow of milk from the breast unrelated to the normal milk production of breast-feeding. Can occur in men as well as women.

[#] Tue Jan 13 2015 07:35:45 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

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And it sounds like something from science fiction.  If it's an alien from another part of the universe who has that problem while visiting Earth, it's intergalactic galactorrhea.



[#] Tue Jan 13 2015 09:48:34 EST from fleeb

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Oh, wouldn't that be grand!

The Galactorrites, known for extreme cases of galactorrhea. A messy species to work with.

[#] Tue Jan 20 2015 12:43:54 EST from fleeb

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I saw what I presume was a spelling mistake, but it has me wondering...

Can you have less than 0 percent of something?

If you are holding a wheel of cheese, and you want to give someone less than 0 percent of it, what does that really mean? Are you wanting that person to contribute to the wheel of cheese, or are we slipping into some weird theoretical mathematics where this model doesn't quite hold up... a case where a negative percentage has a meaning that doesn't quite fit into the idea of a part of something?

[#] Tue Jan 20 2015 12:48:47 EST from zooer

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Yes it is possible using Swiss cheese. If you cut out the holes in Swiss cheese and give only the holes to
someone you are giving them less than 0%.

[#] Tue Jan 20 2015 14:14:47 EST from fleeb

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Hmm...

[#] Wed Jan 21 2015 00:50:58 EST from vince-q

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Less than 0% of something, eh.
What is this, Obamanomics?

[#] Wed Jan 21 2015 09:00:39 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

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In statistics this is a common thing; you can speak of a figure going up or down by a certain percentage; i.e. a +xx% or -xx% change. The wheel of cheese makes it a difficult, but delicious, analogy. "Giving someone less than 0% of" the cheese does seem to imply that you are mandating them to give *you* cheese.

[#] Wed Jan 21 2015 12:18:34 EST from vince-q

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John: That's nacho cheese.
Joe: I never sid it was....

[#] Fri Jan 23 2015 03:42:44 EST from the_mgt

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I recently came across something similar, were two companies had 107% of all market profits. It was explained, that this is possible, because the other companies combined lost 7% of their money on this market.



[#] Fri Jan 23 2015 08:33:38 EST from fleeb

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Percentages are weird.

[#] Fri Jan 23 2015 16:22:18 EST from zooer

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When the space shuttle was being launched the announcer would say that engines are at 106%, it was explained
that the measuring standard never changed but with design and technology improvements the engines operated more
efficiently. The newer engines operated 6% better than the old standard.

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