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#1 2012-12-18 15:02:33
- bobbym
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Got me thinking...
Hi;
This was recently posted
Bobbym, Your site has an opportunity to become famous for the whole world. Order article in the magazine or the newspaper that your site was the first where new sensations are published!
as everybody on the planet already knows this site belongs to MIF. It did get me thinking though about that fame he mentions. Everyone knows I am a modest sort of chap but mixing with the Hollywood crowd seemed long overdue.
What the heck, called my PR man, spent the last of my savings and did this,
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#2 2012-12-18 19:56:42
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Re: Got me thinking...
Bob
Children are not defined by school ...........The Fonz
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself..........Galileo Galilei
Sometimes I deliberately make mistakes, just to test you! …………….Bob 
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#3 2012-12-18 21:02:37
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Re: Got me thinking...
Be sure not to forget us once you're famous.
Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.
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#4 2012-12-18 21:10:56
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Re: Got me thinking...
Hi anonimnystefy;
Welcome to the forum! Why not introduce yourself?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#5 2012-12-18 22:00:30
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Re: Got me thinking...
I already have an introduction thread...
Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.
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#6 2012-12-18 22:05:48
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Re: Got me thinking...
What did you think of the billboards?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#7 2012-12-18 22:35:59
- anonimnystefy
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Re: Got me thinking...
They get the message to people, that's for sure!
Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.
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#8 2012-12-18 22:53:49
- bobbym
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Re: Got me thinking...
Hmmmm. I suspected as much.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#9 2012-12-19 00:48:43
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Re: Got me thinking...
Would color and neon have put it out of your budget?
Bob
Children are not defined by school ...........The Fonz
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself..........Galileo Galilei
Sometimes I deliberately make mistakes, just to test you! …………….Bob
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#10 2012-12-19 02:16:51
- bobbym
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Re: Got me thinking...
Hi Bob;
I never thought of that. It is too late now, I am out of funds. I will have to use the old reappearing dollar trick.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#11 2012-12-19 02:28:44
Re: Got me thinking...
Who did these? You yourself?
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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#12 2012-12-19 02:33:34
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Re: Got me thinking...
Hi Agnishom;
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#13 2012-12-19 02:36:50
Re: Got me thinking...
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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#14 2012-12-19 02:47:31
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Re: Got me thinking...
Hi;
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#15 2012-12-19 03:24:19
Re: Got me thinking...
I like your idea though
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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#16 2013-04-23 18:45:59
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Re: Got me thinking...
If bobbym were a pope...
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#17 2013-04-23 20:03:08
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Re: Got me thinking...
What did you think of the billboards?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#18 2013-04-23 20:34:24
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Re: Got me thinking...
Good. Maybe, you should be Pope Bobbym. 
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#19 2013-04-23 21:10:01
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Re: Got me thinking...
They will never make an American pope in my lifetime.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#20 2013-04-23 21:19:53
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Re: Got me thinking...
Why?
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#21 2013-04-23 21:28:03
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Re: Got me thinking...
Took them thousands of years to pick out of Italy. I would guess they would pick predominantly Catholic countries. America is predominantly Protestant.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#22 2013-04-27 16:53:43
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Re: Got me thinking...
Oh.
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#23 2013-04-29 09:30:20
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Re: Got me thinking...
I wouldrun as Twitter!
The integral of hope is reality.
May bobbym have a wonderful time in the pearly gates of heaven.
He will be sorely missed.
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#24 2013-04-29 09:45:21
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Re: Got me thinking...
Twitter? Is he/she a person?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#25 2013-04-29 10:07:00
- anonimnystefy
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Re: Got me thinking...
It is a social network, like Facebook, except things go quite differently there. All the celebrities have a Twitter account, but, of course, everyone can have one.
But, I am guessing you already knew all this.
Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.
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