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Re: Third attempt to get this "Herc" to pony up

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From: |-|ercules
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:10
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"Michael Gray" <mikegray@newsguy.com> wrote ...
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:57:49 +1000, Peter Bowditch
> <myfirstname@ratbags.com> wrote:
> 
>>Michael Gray <mikegray@newsguy.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 06:27:42 -0700 (PDT), JTEM <jtem01@gmail.com>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Terrys <merryter...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> No, you don't do maths. Those figures came out of your fat arse.
>>>>
>>>>Speaking of "odds," do you realize how easy I made it for
>>>>him, with him still not so much as attempting to come up
>>>>with anything?
>>>>
>>>>I asked him to tell me what he could about a coin. He could
>>>>have easily played the odds by saying something like, "I see
>>>>a bird":  Which would have been a hit for everything from the
>>>>Australian Emo, the Canadian Loon to all those SKADS of
>>>>Eagles plaguing coins the world over.
>>>>
>>>>Or how about:  "I... I see... yes... it's a face!"
>>>>
>>>>They've been minting coins with portraits for thousands of years
>>>>already!  That would have definitely been playing the odds...
>>>>
>>>>As for a date, PICK A CENTURY!
>>>>
>>>>"I see the number... oh... it looks like a 19..."
>>>>
>>>>There. You've just covered the entire 20th century. If you want
>>>>to bet on a new coin, fine, just envision a "20" instead. You've
>>>>got yourself an astoundly accurate match for everything minted
>>>>from 2000 on to the present....
>>>>
>>>>As for amount, again, play the odds...
>>>>
>>>>"I see a... a... two!"
>>>>
>>>>It's it's a 2 euro coin then call it a match. If it's 20 Euro cents
>>>>call it a match (it does have a "2" in it, does it not?). If it's
>>>>a canadian quarter well that's 25 cents, which has a two so
>>>>it's a match.... so on and so on.
>>>>
>>>>One's a bit tougher, but five works okay:  5 cents, 50 cents,
>>>>25 cents....
>>>>
>>>>The point is, a few vague answers couldn't have helped but
>>>>return SOME hits, and this guy couldn't even manage anything
>>>>relevant!
>>>
>>>Emu, not Emo.
>>
>>Then there's the emo emu, which has black feathers, a fringe covering
>>its eyes, looks sad all the time and listens to songs about suicide on
>>its iPod.
> 
> Oh, the mental images!
> I might just make a T-Shirt with that on it.
> Peter: I thought you were supposed to be hard at work doing
> accounting?
> Tut tut! ;)


Put this on a t-shirt

SCOTT: MD5 = xyz
HERC: <<I like watching oranges>>
SCOTT: No!  I  l i k e   w a t c h i n g   a p p l e s
HERC: 10^10 random quotes won't match!
SCOTT: Go see a shrink!


Herc
 
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