Okay, but why do only second-degree polynomials yield parabolic curves?  You can't just say it and leave it like that!
The vapors included fatigue and a tendency to faint at the drop of a plot point and are somehow related to "female" problems.
Which means it's hysteria and can be alleviated by the application by specially trained medical personnel of a vibrator, right?
	
 
		
		
 Okay, but why do only second-degree polynomials yield parabolic curves?
Ahhh, Emily and Polynomials. That takes me back.
	
 
		
		
::wonders if "the vapors" is relatede to "vapor lock"::
	
 
		
		
Okay, but why do only second-degree polynomials yield parabolic curves?
It has to do with the nature of conic sections.
No, really. I'm pretty sure one could prove this.
eta: or you could prove it from the definition of a parabolic curve and ignore the whole conic section thing, I think....
	
 
		
		
 Which means it's hysteria and can be alleviated by the application by specially trained medical personnel of a vibrator, right?
That's totally my favorite Olde Tyme Remedy.
	
 
		
		
Doing a quick run by to ask if anybody here has seen this show 'Fire Me, Please'?
I have never laughed so hard at the T.V. in recent memory!
	
 
		
		
Jonathan on Blow-Out just said that he is hair. 
I saw a rerun today in which he attended a staff meeting, after-hours, inexplicably holding a comb the entire time.  He really 
is
hair.
	
 
		
		
Which means it's hysteria and can be alleviated by the application by specially trained medical personnel of a vibrator, right?
That's totally my favorite Olde Tyme Remedy.
The neat thing? The remedy is still just as effective today.
	
 
		
		
Well, tommyrot, if you run across a proof, let me know, would you?
	
 
		
		
   Sara, we eat there next visit.
Oh hell yeah.  I swear, I'm going to limit myself to at MOST once a week as I work through their menu.
Today, my mom bought me some salvia (though...not like anything I've ever seen!  They look like alien plants.  Freaky!) and a new ivy to replace the one I suddenly killed.  That was fun.
I'm still a little leery of how I'm going to survive a whole week with them.  I figure I'll work in some trips to mortgage people by myself and whatnot.  And shoo them away sometimes.