Natter 17: Welcome back, Nilly! We tried to set up a thread in honor of your favorite number as a lovely surprise for you, but then we had a punctuation war instead.
Natter:17 = --Punc+uation-war!--
Doesn't winter seem more like archiving season?
Willow ,'Lessons'
Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Noumenon - Oct 10, 2003 7:10:31 pm PDT #5524 of 10005
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
Frankenbuddha - Oct 10, 2003 7:28:30 pm PDT #5525 of 10005
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
So has anyone said "when come back, bring pi" yet?
Cass - Oct 10, 2003 8:11:18 pm PDT #5526 of 10005
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Grooooooan...
Hee!
Lysana - Oct 10, 2003 8:14:07 pm PDT #5527 of 10005
Hellbound Equal-Opportunity Nookie Hog
Uh... why not just make it "Nilly, Could This Be Mathier?" I mean, the style guides I know would say that the sentence takes a comma instead of an em dash there.
Cindy - Oct 11, 2003 12:58:07 am PDT #5528 of 10005
Nobody
Uh... why not just make it "Nilly, Could This Be Mathier?" I mean, the style guides I know would say that the sentence takes a comma instead of an em dash there.
In general, that's true, but not always. It depends on how the speaker is saying it, and what the speaker was going to say. For instance, say the speaker was going to say "Nilly, [insert here that mathematical expression that includes pi, which I've already memfaulted]," but then realized it was getting so damned mathy, that the "could this be mathier?" question just burst out of him. In a case such as that, the em dash would be more apt than the comma.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Oct 11, 2003 3:19:09 am PDT #5529 of 10005
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Feh, dashes. Ellipses are much more cool . . .
Oh, please, connie. Ellipses are much cooler. . .
DXMachina - Oct 11, 2003 4:03:48 am PDT #5530 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
So has anyone said "when come back, bring pi" yet?
It was awhile ago, but yeah...
DXMachina "Angel 3: Big Damn Evil, Sir." May 2, 2003 6:36:05 pm PDT
Laura - Oct 11, 2003 5:05:10 am PDT #5531 of 10005
Our wings are not tired.
Natter 17 = 4² - cos(π): Nilly — Could This Be Mathier?
This is so sweet.
I hope I got the code right! (Jon B had the pretty one) Hee!
Jon B. - Oct 11, 2003 5:09:57 am PDT #5532 of 10005
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
billytea - Oct 11, 2003 5:28:31 am PDT #5533 of 10005
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Er, I always thought lowercase delta looked kind of like a sperm.
It'd need a longer, and probably wrigglier, tail for me to make that connection.
Natter 17 = 4² - cos(p): Nilly - Could This Be Mathier?
Wow. My home computer doesn't have Times on it. That seems remiss.
Natter 17: Welcome back, Nilly! We tried to set up a thread in honor of your favorite number as a lovely surprise for you, but then we had a punctuation war instead.
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