Short message

John Fields wrote:
This is just a short message
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John Fields
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Where are the sparks and smoke? :)
--
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Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
 
Terry Given wrote:
John Fields wrote:

This is just a short message


ditto
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Luhan Monat (luhanis 'at' yahoo 'dot' com)
"The future is not what it used to be..."
http://members.cox.net/berniekm
 
Active8 wrote:
John: 0 + 23 header lines
Me: 2 + 16 header lines :p
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why stop there: all those who didnt send a message at all (0 + 0 header
lines) come first-equal :)

Cheers
Terry
 
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 14:12:09 +1300, Terry Given wrote:

John Fields wrote:

And thereby wins.
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There was a young man from Purdue,
Whose limericks stopped on line two.

And of course:

There was a young man from Verdun
 
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:48:59 +1300, Terry Given wrote:
<snip>
I read a funny comic book by Matt Groenig (aka Simpsons) years ago. He
had a page-long dissertation along the lines of

Those who can, do
Those who cant, teach
Those who cant teach, teach teachers...
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or "teach others to teach" is the way I heard it.

That's interesting. My Uncle Joe (you remember Uncle Joe, ...) told
me that and he didn't get it from a comic book. I doubt the
colleague who told him did, either.
culminating in

Those who cant finish unfinished sentences
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So what was the name of the comic book?
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Best Regards,
Mike
 
Active8 wrote:
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:48:59 +1300, Terry Given wrote:
snip

I read a funny comic book by Matt Groenig (aka Simpsons) years ago. He
had a page-long dissertation along the lines of

Those who can, do
Those who cant, teach
Those who cant teach, teach teachers...


or "teach others to teach" is the way I heard it.

That's interesting. My Uncle Joe (you remember Uncle Joe, ...) told
me that and he didn't get it from a comic book. I doubt the
colleague who told him did, either.

culminating in

Those who cant finish unfinished sentences


So what was the name of the comic book?
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Beats the hell out of me - I saw it once, about 15 years ago.

Cheers
Terry
 
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:30:12 +1300, Terry Given wrote:

Active8 wrote:
John: 0 + 23 header lines
Me: 2 + 16 header lines :p

why stop there: all those who didnt send a message at all (0 + 0 header
lines) come first-equal :)
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How can no message be a short message?
--
Best Regards,
Mike
 
Terry Given wrote:
Active8 wrote:

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:48:59 +1300, Terry Given wrote:
snip

I read a funny comic book by Matt Groenig (aka Simpsons) years ago.
He had a page-long dissertation along the lines of

Those who can, do
Those who cant, teach
Those who cant teach, teach teachers...



or "teach others to teach" is the way I heard it.

That's interesting. My Uncle Joe (you remember Uncle Joe, ...) told
me that and he didn't get it from a comic book. I doubt the
colleague who told him did, either.

culminating in

Those who cant finish unfinished sentences



So what was the name of the comic book?


Beats the hell out of me - I saw it once, about 15 years ago.

Cheers
Terry
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Probably "Life in Hell".

--
Regards,
Robert Monsen

"Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis."
- Pierre Laplace (1749-1827), to Napoleon,
on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God.
 
Active8 wrote:
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:30:12 +1300, Terry Given wrote:


Active8 wrote:

John: 0 + 23 header lines
Me: 2 + 16 header lines :p

why stop there: all those who didnt send a message at all (0 + 0 header
lines) come first-equal :)


How can no message be a short message?
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Think coding efficiency. All of the short messages posted here so far
have carried zero information, yet required many, many bits to do so. a
non-existent message carries the same amount of information (ie none)
but uses far less bits (to wit: zero ) (pun intentional)

Cheers
Terry
 
"Robert Monsen" <rcsurname@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:EpadnahvQs7Ep6TfRVn-oQ@comcast.com...
Terry Given wrote:
Active8 wrote:

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:48:59 +1300, Terry Given wrote:
snip

I read a funny comic book by Matt Groenig (aka Simpsons) years ago.
He had a page-long dissertation along the lines of

Those who can, do
Those who cant, teach
Those who cant teach, teach teachers...



or "teach others to teach" is the way I heard it.

That's interesting. My Uncle Joe (you remember Uncle Joe, ...) told
me that and he didn't get it from a comic book. I doubt the
colleague who told him did, either.

culminating in

Those who cant finish unfinished sentences



So what was the name of the comic book?


Beats the hell out of me - I saw it once, about 15 years ago.

Cheers
Terry

Probably "Life in Hell".

--
Regards,
Robert Monsen

"Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis."
- Pierre Laplace (1749-1827), to Napoleon,
on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God.
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Hmmm, slow night fellas ??

--
Regards ..... Rheilly Phoull
 
Rheilly Phoull wrote:
"Robert Monsen" <rcsurname@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:EpadnahvQs7Ep6TfRVn-oQ@comcast.com...

Terry Given wrote:

Active8 wrote:


On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:48:59 +1300, Terry Given wrote:
snip

I read a funny comic book by Matt Groenig (aka Simpsons) years ago.
He had a page-long dissertation along the lines of

Those who can, do
Those who cant, teach
Those who cant teach, teach teachers...



or "teach others to teach" is the way I heard it.

That's interesting. My Uncle Joe (you remember Uncle Joe, ...) told
me that and he didn't get it from a comic book. I doubt the
colleague who told him did, either.


culminating in

Those who cant finish unfinished sentences



So what was the name of the comic book?


Beats the hell out of me - I saw it once, about 15 years ago.

Cheers
Terry

Probably "Life in Hell".

--
Regards,
Robert Monsen

"Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis."
- Pierre Laplace (1749-1827), to Napoleon,
on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God.


Hmmm, slow night fellas ??

--
Regards ..... Rheilly Phoull
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Waiting for dinner to cook.

Cheers
Terry
 
Enough of this competitive brevity. While John Fields sholud be
congratulated for saying nothing - because he never seems to have
anything useful to say - twenty messages of congratulation seems to
represent rather too much of a good thing.

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Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
 
On 17 Mar 2005 01:50:57 -0800, bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote:

Enough of this competitive brevity. While John Fields sholud be
congratulated for saying nothing - because he never seems to have
anything useful to say - twenty messages of congratulation seems to
represent rather too much of a good thing.

-----------
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
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---
There was an old man from Nijmegen
whose rhetoric often went beggin'
for nice things to say;
instead he'd just bray
amidst all the rest of his squeggin'

--
John Fields
 
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