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Re: odeon's ask away-thread
« Reply #675 on: October 07, 2007, 11:02:24 AM »
www.humanmetrics.com has a reasonable version of the test (that's off the top of my head, but i think that's the correct address).

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Re: odeon's ask away-thread
« Reply #676 on: November 02, 2007, 03:15:44 PM »
Whose cruel idea was it for the word “Lisp” to have a “S” in it?

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Re: odeon's ask away-thread
« Reply #677 on: November 02, 2007, 03:23:03 PM »
John McCarthy's, I believe.
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

- Albert Einstein

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Re: odeon's ask away-thread
« Reply #678 on: November 02, 2007, 03:23:40 PM »
why is "abbreviation" such a long word?

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Re: odeon's ask away-thread
« Reply #679 on: November 02, 2007, 03:26:14 PM »
Because it isn't abbreviated.
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

- Albert Einstein

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Re: odeon's ask away-thread
« Reply #680 on: November 02, 2007, 03:27:17 PM »
that's a very good answer.   :clap:

okay, so why does the word "menstruation" begin with "men"?

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Re: odeon's ask away-thread
« Reply #681 on: November 02, 2007, 03:45:45 PM »
John McCarthy's, I believe.

who's that?

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Re: odeon's ask away-thread
« Reply #682 on: November 02, 2007, 03:48:44 PM »
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

- Albert Einstein

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Re: odeon's ask away-thread
« Reply #683 on: November 02, 2007, 03:54:20 PM »

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Re: odeon's ask away-thread
« Reply #684 on: November 02, 2007, 04:00:54 PM »
John McCarthy's, I believe.

who's that?

The guy who invented LISP.
:plus:

But, he fucked up a lot of things,
so maybe he didn't mean the S.

Though, I believe it stands for 'stupid'


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Re: odeon's ask away-thread
« Reply #685 on: November 02, 2007, 04:02:55 PM »
Though, I believe it stands for 'stupid'

;D :plus:
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Re: odeon's ask away-thread
« Reply #686 on: November 02, 2007, 04:04:21 PM »
oh look - geeks bonding.

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Re: odeon's ask away-thread
« Reply #687 on: November 02, 2007, 04:05:57 PM »
Want the video? :P
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Re: odeon's ask away-thread
« Reply #688 on: November 02, 2007, 04:06:56 PM »
no, cos you'll only drone on about the three hundred and fifty thousand codecs i need to view it.  ::)

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Re: odeon's ask away-thread
« Reply #689 on: November 02, 2007, 04:07:48 PM »
Hey, you want to be *in* it, then? :P
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