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Jan. 25th, 2008 06:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jack"In general, a mathematical term that does not have several conflicting definitions is not important enough to be worth learning."
-- Jeffry/Rich via godplaysdice
"The phrase...which has become a cliché, came from Rinehart's novel The Door, in which the butler actually did do it."
--Sometimes, wikipedia excessly cross-linking can be done witily and informatively
"You're the rogue! You can't call 'not it' for sneaking around and getting rid of a corpse!"
--Roleplaying
"I'm not sure what that says about the quality of the episode. If the quality they were going for was marmite, then I think they've achieved it."
--Rochvelleth
"Children are unlike cigarettes though, in that they tend to turn into grown-ups given enough time."
--blue_mai
"Cold Calling Is Dead! Picture a life without cold calling ... Order my book ... Enter your primary email address in the box below, and we will send you our newsletter, including excerpts from... "
Seen in google ads. Is it irony? Or successful marketing?
"The filmmakers added new scenes to the film, including one...similar to one a sound-alike had uttered in a fan trailer. In it, Mr. Jackson repeatedly uses an Oedipal expletive to describe both the snakes and the plane."
-- Wall street journal review of Snakes of a Plane, via language log
"XML has an extremely low signal to noise ration."
--Best typo ever.
"One lesson to learn from all this is that those early Royal Society guys were very smart, and when they say something has a mysterious 0.4x in it, you should assume they know what they are doing."
-- Mark Dominus
O.J. Simpson is in jail for trying to reclaim some items in Las Vegas that an alleged thief stole from him. If O.J. is found guilty of asking a thief to return his belongings, he could go to jail for 30 years.
I assume O.J. is kicking himself for not killing everyone in the room, covering himself in their DNA, and going golfing. You have to stick with what works. What the Hell was he thinking?
-- Scott Adams
"Ecclesiastical heraldry differs notably from other heraldry in the use of special symbols around the shield to indicate rank in a church or denomination. The most prominent of these symbols is the ecclesiastical hat."
-- wikipedia
-- Jeffry/Rich via godplaysdice
"The phrase...which has become a cliché, came from Rinehart's novel The Door, in which the butler actually did do it."
--Sometimes, wikipedia excessly cross-linking can be done witily and informatively
"You're the rogue! You can't call 'not it' for sneaking around and getting rid of a corpse!"
--Roleplaying
"I'm not sure what that says about the quality of the episode. If the quality they were going for was marmite, then I think they've achieved it."
--Rochvelleth
"Children are unlike cigarettes though, in that they tend to turn into grown-ups given enough time."
--blue_mai
"Cold Calling Is Dead! Picture a life without cold calling ... Order my book ... Enter your primary email address in the box below, and we will send you our newsletter, including excerpts from... "
Seen in google ads. Is it irony? Or successful marketing?
"The filmmakers added new scenes to the film, including one...similar to one a sound-alike had uttered in a fan trailer. In it, Mr. Jackson repeatedly uses an Oedipal expletive to describe both the snakes and the plane."
-- Wall street journal review of Snakes of a Plane, via language log
"XML has an extremely low signal to noise ration."
--Best typo ever.
"One lesson to learn from all this is that those early Royal Society guys were very smart, and when they say something has a mysterious 0.4x in it, you should assume they know what they are doing."
-- Mark Dominus
O.J. Simpson is in jail for trying to reclaim some items in Las Vegas that an alleged thief stole from him. If O.J. is found guilty of asking a thief to return his belongings, he could go to jail for 30 years.
I assume O.J. is kicking himself for not killing everyone in the room, covering himself in their DNA, and going golfing. You have to stick with what works. What the Hell was he thinking?
-- Scott Adams
"Ecclesiastical heraldry differs notably from other heraldry in the use of special symbols around the shield to indicate rank in a church or denomination. The most prominent of these symbols is the ecclesiastical hat."
-- wikipedia