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#1 2006-04-01 16:18:57
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Why is that you fill in a form by filling it out, an alarm goes off by going on, a building burns down as it burns up, you cut a tree up after you cut it down, and when the stars are out you can see them better when the lights are out?
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#2 2006-04-02 04:18:56
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In New Jersey you always have to go down the shore (beach), you can never go up it.
"In the real world, this would be a problem. But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist. So we'll go ahead and do that now..."
#3 2006-05-11 18:44:25
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Yea, I never understood why you would want to "take" a dump.
"When subtracted from 180, the sum of the square-root of the two equal angles of an isocoles triangle squared will give the square-root of the remaining angle squared."
#4 2006-07-24 02:11:53
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Yeah...I guess that's just how English is. Sometimes I think that someone just came up with all these phrases, wrote it in a book somewhere and then someone found it, and declared it proper English...just kidding, lol.
But anyway...why would you want to take a dump? Sounds horrible when people say it now that you think of it.
#5 2006-08-28 05:19:47
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#6 2006-08-28 05:45:58
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Wait a minute...
http://www.mathsisfun.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1857
Mathsisfun! Quit spammin' your own forum! :-P
A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.
#7 2006-08-28 05:48:53
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I tried to catch a bus once. The bones in my hand were shattered.
"In the real world, this would be a problem. But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist. So we'll go ahead and do that now..."
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#9 2006-08-28 18:39:45
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Take a look at this:
English drags
You have to click the play button in the flash interface for it to start playing. It's a lady talking about the 'paradoxes and idiocies' in the English language. 
NB: I didn't write drags ... filter.
#10 2006-08-28 18:47:32
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There's a lot in there for only 3 minutes and 40 seconds. It's pretty cool how they've summed up a lot of the stuff in the English language that is pretty odd. Nice find. 
There's a filter on 'drags'? O.o
I did it myself without realising what would happen to the word. :\
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