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To: Tax-chick; ThomasThomas; null and void; Monkey Face
"I just did penance for snickering at marginal humor ..."

Nobody did marginal humor like Pierre de Fermat. Mathematicians have been doing penance ever since.

1,494 posted on 09/21/2008 8:41:52 AM PDT by NicknamedBob (I think Obama understands "root hog, or die" as well as anyone. He's number two at the trough.)
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To: NicknamedBob

*sigh*

You lost me at “Mathmeticians.”
No “marginal humor” here. I don’t get the equation. Please don’t try to ‘splain it, because it will only result in more confusion for me.

:o[


1,495 posted on 09/21/2008 8:46:55 AM PDT by Monkey Face (Borrow money from a pessimist ~~ they don't expect it back.)
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To: NicknamedBob

I always need to remind myself that it is in error confuse the spelling of indiscreet and indiscrete (= not separated into parts), which sound similar. Indiscreet is the more common word in general use and means “not tactful or able to keep a secret.” Indiscrete is a much rarer formal or technical word meaning “not consisting of separate parts.”


1,496 posted on 09/21/2008 8:50:46 AM PDT by ThomasThomas (Real change actually changes something.)
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To: NicknamedBob

M. de Fermat looks like his teeth hurt. Math has that effect on me, too.


1,499 posted on 09/21/2008 8:56:31 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Even for a thin-skinned solipsistic narcissist, Obama seems a frightful po-faced pill." ~Mark Steyn)
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To: NicknamedBob

New tagline...


1,503 posted on 09/21/2008 9:00:09 AM PDT by null and void (I have proved Fermat's last theorem, but there's not enough room in the tagline to write the whole t)
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