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On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:14:50 -0400, Furious George <bugme_69@hotmail.com>  
wrote:

>
> Jake wrote:
>> "Anthony Matonak" <anthonym40@nothing.like.comcast.net> wrote in message
>> news:SeKdnTCv-vAtPZTYnZ2dnUVZ_uqdnZ2d@comcast.com...
>> > bearclaw@cruller.invalid wrote:
>> >> "Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a  
>> barometer."
>> > ...
>> > What a wonderful story. Now if only it were true. :)
>> > http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/barometer.asp
>> >
>> >
>> My doubts came from the time frame. Niels Bohr was born in 1885 which  
>> would
>> place him in college during the first decade of the 20th century. I may  
>> be
>> wrong but don't think there was anything approaching a skyscraper then.
>> Don't know if it was first but the Empire State Building wasn't opened  
>> til
>> 1931.
>
> Unlike you, Nobel prize winners are visionaries and can see what does
> not exist.

well mentally

it's just one of those weird things you remember.

> The exact wording of the question was "A 'skyscraper' is a
> hypothetical style of building that employs technology not yet invented
> to achieve great heights.

noway no how did he get that accent from a tv.

> How would you measure its height (if such a
> thing existed)?"
>
> Don't feel bad.  When George W. Bush was a student at Yale, he was
> asked this exact same question.

He just wanted people to come up to him and
talk to him. He has nothing interesting about his life so he uses these
answers to get people to think he is mysterious.

> His answer was to fly a passenger jet
> into it and then detonate secretly hidden explosives.

well that could as easily be staged.,I do remember reading the Bulletin  
back then.  what I
really remember is the family circle, which I NEVER got.

but regardless, I just remember being able to read really early.  I  
remember my grandfather taking
me out in a stroller and we would read everything.  i think I had to be  
real little to be
in a stroller.

Like I remember best of all reading carvings in trees.  Like hearts with  
initials in it.
I have this essentially really strong memory of being in  a stroller and  
my grandfather pointing
to carvings and saying dyvy.  and I would say to him dabble you.

we also used to read stuff like every single sign we would see and every  
single STREET
CORNER BENCH.
Remember that all this was quite difficult for me because I could not see.  
I
think he was performing guerilla tactics.  You know if I had not learned  
to read then, I
would never have learned in school if I had not had glasses by the time I  
was five. my fathr
apparently had had me to doctors when I was like 3, and they said no use  
cannot do a
thing. So the grandparents worried constantly about my vision.  (this is  
something my aunt told
me, that espy my grandmother agonized about this)
So I think they probably went to extra special lengths to teach me how to  
read through
attention other kids did not get

And I remember reading in Ukrainian w him.,  and also, every english word  
had 2
pronounciations.  you know the english pronounciation and then the "polish  
one".  Like
Food Fair was Fo od Fah eeer.   I THINK this really weird way of splitting  
up words is
what made me learn to read, or rather to decode words in two ways.  And  
also why I still
mispronounce a lot of strange words like enormous, because my head has 2  
data bases for
the words.  The way they look and the way they are pronounced.

Anyway, I mean I owe a lot to my grandfather for teaching me to read.  and  
a lot of other things
too. it's like his 112th birthday next month!

First rule of fight club

> Then the
> skyscraper would be exactly zero meters tall.
>

and the heart through the w.

and when snots like this say this kind of bullshit it pisses me off.