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Izzie
 
  3  
Reply Thu 4 Sep, 2008 02:25 pm
@Francis,
Try denies any French correspondence! Shocked

Eek…No French Letters...
Try should know better!!!
Correspondence however
Is awfully clever!
Mr. F please explain
Why you’d be in pain
That doesn’t sound swell…
Oh, will you tell?
Francis
 
  3  
Reply Thu 4 Sep, 2008 02:30 pm
@Izzie,
Francis will not tell..
Things are quite clear
Someone ring the bell
Is that you, my dear?
Izzie
 
  2  
Reply Thu 4 Sep, 2008 02:52 pm
@Francis,
Gosh Msr. F, where have you been?
It’s been a while, since last you were seen
Knock Knock… Who’s there? It’s Norma Lee
Normal Lee who?
Norma Lee I don't buzz doorbells, but HEY, it’s me!!!!

Oh Wandel my dear…
I have a a fear
That as this goes on
It will get more wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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wandeljw
 
  3  
Reply Thu 4 Sep, 2008 03:20 pm
"Happily, I'm no poet," Wandel replies.
Izzie
 
  2  
Reply Thu 4 Sep, 2008 03:21 pm
@wandeljw,
"I'm not either...." said the Brit happily!
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jespah
 
  3  
Reply Thu 4 Sep, 2008 03:59 pm
Just because it rhymes
and has metered singsong times
and sounds a bit clever
I'd say, "Have you never?
It's not necessarily a poem."
spendius
 
  3  
Reply Thu 4 Sep, 2008 05:46 pm
@jespah,
jespah sues Nobel Lit. "Fix-up".
CalamityJane
 
  3  
Reply Thu 4 Sep, 2008 10:31 pm
@spendius,
Knowing the sequence of the alphabet
seems to be spendius' big handicap
yet, as usual, he doesn't fret
he's been to the pub and in dire need of a nap.
Let's teach him the alphabet song
before he's loaded up on beers
for in future, he won't get the letter wrong.
and afterwards can toast us cheers!



spendius
 
  3  
Reply Fri 5 Sep, 2008 05:23 am
@CalamityJane,
Lady gets repetitive strain syndrome in finger wagging finger. (Sorry).
Izzie
 
  2  
Reply Fri 5 Sep, 2008 05:50 am
@spendius,
MY MY..Wandels Rule Changes, if he Dares
And Spendi has new alphabet… but hey, who cares!
The author will no doubt return again soon
Will he poetically prose again to some other tune?
CJ will follow and keep us in order
And Jes will of course be our minute (hour) recorder
And Francis will pop in whenever he wishes
But I’m off right now to do the dishes.

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Tryagain
 
  1  
Reply Fri 5 Sep, 2008 04:52 pm
November may still be a ways off, but the winter chill blows through the corridors of A2K as a nod from Jespah is the same as a poke in the eye from a pointy stick! " Ophthalmologists see the chance to increase revenue.
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jespah
 
  2  
Reply Fri 5 Sep, 2008 09:11 pm
Oh, what brought that about? Sharp sticks and all, huh?
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Rockhead
 
  2  
Reply Fri 5 Sep, 2008 09:14 pm
Pointed Schtick Alert!!!...Goggle Sales Soar

Kansas National Guard Reports Normal Vision Throughout Crises...
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Tryagain
 
  3  
Reply Sat 6 Sep, 2008 10:51 am
Questions raised over yesterday’s editorial were in response to earlier articles referring to:

“jespah sues Nobel Lit”

Prose, Doggerel, Stilted prose, Miserable doggerel and Nauseating ‘Grandiloquence’. Which will be familiar to A2K readers as it is a combination of Latin word "grandis" (great) and "loqui" (to speak).

However, the 29th President of the United States, Warren Gamaliel Harding, is often considered a grandiloquent speaker. His style of speaking was somewhat unusual, even in his age. The following is an example of his unusual and grandiloquent word speech:

"America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality…."

William Gibbs McAdoo believed Harding's speeches consisted of "an army of pompous phrases moving across the landscape in search of an idea."

This probably explains why Senator T R Yagain from West Virginia lost his position as majority leader because his colleagues felt his grandiloquent speeches, often employing obscure allusions to ancient Rome and Greece, were not an asset to the A2K membership.

T R Yagains spokesperson Justin Credible said, “This allegation is vehemently denied, because 'Politics' (from Greek "polis") is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making: 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.”…..Woops!
Izzie
 
  2  
Reply Sat 6 Sep, 2008 10:58 am
@Tryagain,
(ROTFLMAO)

Really... multilingualism a forte of Senator T R Yagain!
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Francis
 
  3  
Reply Sat 6 Sep, 2008 11:57 am
@Tryagain,
Such is the problem that lies in the discernment. Distinguishing meaningful utterances from nonsense is not a trivial task. Confronted with a lengthy text in an unknown script, how does one determine whether those characters in fact contained a meaningful text, or were simply set using the equivalent of printer's pi or a lorem ipsum style text?

The problem is important in cryptography and other intelligence fields, where it is important to distinguish signal from noise. Cryptanalysts have devised algorithms for this purpose, to determine whether a given text is in fact nonsense or not. These algorithms typically analyse the presence of repetitions and redundancy in a text; in meaningful texts, certain frequently used words -- for example, the, is, and and in a text in the English language -- will occur over and over again. A random scattering of letters, punctuation marks, and spaces will not exhibit these regularities. Zipf's law attempts to state this analysis in the language of mathematics. By contrast, cryptographers typically seek to make their ciphertexts resemble random distributions, to avoid tell-tale repetitions and patterns that may give an opening for cryptanalysis..

Well, based on the above, I came to the conclusion that the text by Tria Gain, is ... nonsense...

Izzie
 
  2  
Reply Sat 6 Sep, 2008 12:02 pm
@Francis,
Totally!
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Tryagain
 
  2  
Reply Sun 7 Sep, 2008 04:30 pm
Utter nonsense is a good thing. A daily dose of nonsense can help keep things in perspective. ...a necromancer beyond the ballerina, as a non-chalantly seductive dancer, and a bubble bath are what got Francis into hot water
CalamityJane
 
  2  
Reply Sun 7 Sep, 2008 04:55 pm
@Tryagain,
Very well then: nonsense is the game! Speaking of nonsense,
the new Microsoft commercial with Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld would be
considered utter nonsense. Much tried - but can't reach Apple!
Tryagain
 
  1  
Reply Sun 7 Sep, 2008 05:01 pm
@CalamityJane,

What's the difference between a Mac and an Etch-A-Sketch?

A: You don't have to shake the Mac to clear the screen.
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