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having recently returned to mediaville after a long abcess
i was intrigued by the California Angels mlb annucking team speaking
babytalk and turning common wording like seams into seami drool drool
like two common street whores standing in an alley hustling drunks.

In article . com,
wrote:

On Aug 24, 2:09 pm, Ryan Cousineau wrote:

Last night I asked more than 1% of the world's PhD demographers to
rate the section of the Wikipedia entry that Dan cited for content and
accuracy. The average rating was a just a bit higher than 6 out of 10.

I recently learned that sample size is much more important than sample
proportion. 60% sounds like a fairly good mark.

We agreed 6 out of 10 is a D.

You're right about sample size, but my dining room table is only so
big.

I smell a grant application...

--
Ryan Cousineau http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

Ryan Cousineau wrote:
I smell a grant application...

The Amsterdam breweries and brothels must have enhanced
your senses.

In article ,
Donald Munro wrote:

Ryan Cousineau wrote:
I smell a grant application...

The Amsterdam breweries and brothels must have enhanced
your senses.

Greece was awesome. I hardly did any riding, but I drank a lot of beer.

Oddly, Heineken is one of the most popular brands,

--
Ryan Cousineau http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

wrote:
On Aug 24, 3:17 pm, Bob Schwartz
wrote:

As dumbasses go, you're one in a billion. Approximately.

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.b...3260cec15a69a3

Yes, it is important to get the scale right.

The estimate of the world population during the 2007 Tour was
6.6 billion(1). How many PhD demographers did you have around
your dining room table discussing an inaccurate (imagine that!)
Wikipedia entry. I'll let Connelly complete the math, including
estimates as a function of time.

Bob Schwartz

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population - The Gold
Standard for accuracy.

Ryan Cousineau wrote:
Greece was awesome. I hardly did any riding, but I drank a lot of beer.

Oddly, Heineken is one of the most popular brands,

One sip of Retsina will tell you why foreign products are preferred.

Shame you didn't go anyplace that served andouillette.

Bob Schwartz

In article ,
Bob Schwartz wrote:

Ryan Cousineau wrote:
Greece was awesome. I hardly did any riding, but I drank a lot of beer.

Oddly, Heineken is one of the most popular brands,

One sip of Retsina will tell you why foreign products are preferred.

Shame you didn't go anyplace that served andouillette.

I'd think you could get it in Amsterdam. After all, ED's description of typical
Dutch food is, "Pretty much like French, only with more mayonnaise."

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tanx,
Howard

Fabergé eggs are elegant but I prefer Fabergé bacon.

remove YOUR SHOES to reply, ok?

I said, "It smells like Asia"
She said, " that's kelp stupid."

In article ,
Howard Kveck wrote:

In article ,
Bob Schwartz wrote:

Ryan Cousineau wrote:
Greece was awesome. I hardly did any riding, but I drank a lot of beer.

Oddly, Heineken is one of the most popular brands,

One sip of Retsina will tell you why foreign products are preferred.

You don't know the half of it. First off, let me say that the local
brew, Mythos, is a perfectly nice lager.

Second, as part of the Feast of the Assumption celebrations, there was a
mass at the local church dedicated to Mary. In a very civilized
tradition, after church there were cookies and hard liquor. In a
profoundly insane tradition, the liquor in question was mastica.

It's mastic-flavoured liquor.

Now, I'll drink an awful lot, and it is true that I drank two different
cups of this stuff on two different occasions. Maybe three. But it's not
very good at all.

Shame you didn't go anyplace that served andouillette.

I ate "local sausage" about 5 times. Not really spicy, but really
flavourful. One of my favourite meals, though I had so much good food in
Greece it beggared the mind. There was this grilled octopus at a cafe in
Athens....

I'd think you could get it in Amsterdam. After all, ED's description of
typical
Dutch food is, "Pretty much like French, only with more mayonnaise."

True story: we stayed with my wife's cousin, the well-traveled, urbane
Malou, on our short overnight layover in Amsterdam. She asked where we
wanted to eat, and I said something like "I'd like to have a traditional
Dutch dinner." She looked at me like I had two heads and said there
hardly was such a thing. We had some wonderful Spanish food, instead.

Greece is pretty much the opposite: all Greek food, all the time.

--
Ryan Cousineau http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

On Aug 23, 9:40 pm, "Jim Flom" wrote:
"Dan Connelly" wrote in message

...

SLAVE of THE STATE wrote:

Why would you even care about such a thing?

Because I care how long I am expected to live, not previous generations.

http://www.nmfn.com/tn/learnctr--lif...-longevity_end


Maybe Dan's epitaph will be:

"BURIED BY THE LAW OF AVERAGES"



Sorry for the morbid humor.