Handsome brooding vampire guy has to swoop in all sensitive mouth and overhanging forehead. How 'bout leaving some scraps for the homely-looking fellows who don't turn evil when they get some?

Doyle ,'Life of the Party'


All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American

Discussion of episodes currently airing in Un-American locations (anything that's aired in Australia is fair game), as well as anything else the Un-Americans feel like talking about or we feel like asking them. Please use the show discussion threads for any current-season discussion.

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Jon B. - Jan 03, 2003 2:26:30 pm PST #1184 of 9843
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

The ratio given by the sides of an A4 piece of paper. It has the nifty property that if you cut the paper in half crossways, the sides of the new (half-sized) pieces of paper are in the same ratio.

So the silver ratio is the square root of two, then. t /math geek


billytea - Jan 03, 2003 2:27:16 pm PST #1185 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

So the silver ratio is the square root of two, then.

Correct, or rather (by convention) its reciprocal.


Tom Scola - Jan 03, 2003 2:33:29 pm PST #1186 of 9843
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

How can the square root of two be a ratio if it isn't a rational number?


billytea - Jan 03, 2003 2:40:42 pm PST #1187 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

How can the square root of two be a ratio if it isn't a rational number?

A ratio doesn't have to be the ratio of two integers. There's no real problem with them being irrational numbers.


Karl - Jan 03, 2003 7:30:23 pm PST #1188 of 9843
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.

The `golden ratio' isn't rational, either. [IIRC, it's (1+sqrt(5))/2.]


guineagal - Jan 04, 2003 7:47:16 am PST #1189 of 9843
I didn't jump to conclusions. I took a small step, and conclusions there were. -Buffy

Billytea, The Democratic Republic of Congo does have a postal service, my friend is living and working there, but it is not very good (go figure). I am a huge Buffy fan exhiled by the US government to Guinea, in West Africa. Hope to meet some worldly Buffy fans.


Am-Chau Yarkona - Jan 04, 2003 7:49:54 am PST #1190 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

So, Unamerican but not by choice, huh?

Welcome to Buffistas, guineagal! Do you manage to get Buffy in Guinea?


Theodosia - Jan 04, 2003 8:20:30 am PST #1191 of 9843
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

guineagal, I hope you weren't exiled because of your Buffy-liking! That would be daunting news to all of us! :-)


§ ita § - Jan 04, 2003 8:31:48 am PST #1192 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

We so need a map of posters. This is too cool.


Am-Chau Yarkona - Jan 04, 2003 8:34:44 am PST #1193 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

I may have spent too long looking at sites which sell pretty pictures to sick on your walls. I read ita's post and wondered why we'd need to map where there where posters, and then started on a train of thought all about maybe its'd got very obssesive about Legolas posters, and she wanted to know where they all were.

And then I read it again, and went, oh! Duh.

Yeah- 'Where in the World? Buffistas' would be cool.