Jimmy lost interest in playing chess with Joe, and insted took up building model airplanes. Joe grew despondant, and looked to the cat for support. "I love you, Kitty," Joe said in all humility.
"No, you do not love me," said the cat, "you only love my tuna smell. A tuna is something I can never be."
"'Tis true," admitted Joe. "I am sorry for trying to eat you."
"That's OK," replied the cat. "But now you understand why you must leave this place."
"Yes," replied Joe, who packed up her chessboard and chess pieces and left.
Reading comprehension questions:
Why did Joe have to leave?
Why did Joe confuse the smell of tuna for a cat?
Why was the cat's course of action the smartest one?
(note - there are no right or wrong answers.)
Joe left because there was no tuna
Joe confused the smell of tuna fo the cat for 2 reasons:
1) the cat had no name , so he felt the need to label it and
2) wouldn't you?
the cat's actions - not the wisest ones - because when the cold turkey and tuna hordes unite and rise up to take over the world - who will help hime save the day. Certinly not the dog. Not with a name like Phydeux.
Good night and good luck.
good night and sweet tuna dreams to all
I spend an hour setting up a MySQL DB, and you guys kill off a thread.
I hate it when real life interferes with Natter. I hadn't even caught up in the old Natter.
t Waving to the new thread
t Unless anybody posts while I'm typing this - and considering the timezones, the chances for that are slim - I'm going to have post # 3³ And I don't remember when I had a double-digits post #
[Edit: I wanted to post another line, saying that what I just wrote above simply invites Murphy to play. Hmm, had I posted that, would Raq's post still be before mine?]
Sorry Nilly!!! I like 27 also, as all multiples of 9 are good.
PS: I'm reading
Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps;
did you say you'd read it?
as all multiples of 9 are good.
Then you deserve that number. Or something.
Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps
I've been dying to read it for ages. I read other stuff by the same writer, and he's excellent, IMO. I wasn't able to find it in Israel, yet, but I hope I will. How do you like it?
It's very good so far. I'm fairly familiar with Einstein's work (and Newton's) that he's discussing, but not that familiar with Poincare's, but it's very readable and interesting.
And I don't even want to try to calculate the odds of me posting simultaneously with you.
