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From: Greffindel
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 00:00

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John Ross (john@jross.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: Greffindel wrote <5hhf8b$48q@raven.cc.ukans.edu>:

: > (no joke: I heard one of the oxymorons known as Creation Scientists
: > claim once that he had proved that the speed of light was undergoing a
: > logarithmic decay, and that tracing the curve backwards it rises to an
: > asymptote at right around 4004 B. C.... a good laugh was had by all)

: Strange chap, this Greffindel.  Next thing you know he'll suggest the
: world isn't flat, the Earth goes round the sun, and man and ape are
: cousins. :-)

Well, now, I wouldn't go *that* far. :)

: -- 
: John Ross
: Southampton


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From: ipsifend@eagle.cc.ukans.edu (Greffindel)
Subject: Re: Pi day
Date: 1997/03/30
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