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  • Originally posted by Gazarus and the Limp
    Long-term readers are well aware of the fact that posts attached to this handle fall very sharply into one of two camps. These are-

    1- Impassioned calls to reason and pragmatism with a solid core of humanist compassion.

    2- Obscene, frothing rants with copious references to genitalia in impenetrable English slang.

    I'm amazed nobody's worked it out yet.


    Most of your posts seem to be more like embittered cynicism than either of those.

    /me ducks.
    Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?

    It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
    The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- Elok

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    • I was amazed the last time I checked, how many members bear the Austrian flag and actually NEVERposted! On page 2 of 6 the "0"-posters start!! But I don't think it's the fact that an elite is clinging to power that retains people, after all they don't go to the OT in first place! It's the course of nature.
      "The world is too small in Vorarlberg". Austrian ex-vice-chancellor Hubert Gorbach in a letter to Alistar [sic] Darling, looking for a job...
      "Let me break this down for you, fresh from algebra II. A 95% chance to win 5 times means a (95*5) chance to win = 475% chance to win." Wiglaf, Court jester or hayseed, you judge.

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      • Just passing thru
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        • Since we've been bashing the OT elitists lately, perhaps we should ask ourselves if there'd be any activity at all down there without them.
          Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?

          It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
          The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- Elok

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          • The person who should be the "six degree's of..." should be Fez/Giancarlo.

            An Apolyton Legend!!!
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            • Originally posted by Frankychan
              The person who should be the "six degree's of..." should be Fez/Giancarlo.

              An Apolyton Legend!!!
              Don't know him. I *do* know Ming and I *do* know MrWhereItsAt and I know both are active pretty much everywhere. Those guys work better.
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              • Problem is, they work to well. The only poster with more than ten posts who aren't one degree removed from Ming is Ming himself.
                Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?

                It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
                The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- Elok

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                • Originally posted by Last Conformist
                  Problem is, they work to well. The only poster with more than ten posts who aren't one degree removed from Ming is Ming himself.
                  you are good with your double dutch
                  Gurka 17, People of the Valley
                  I am of the Horde.

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                  • What's "double dutch" mean?
                    Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?

                    It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
                    The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- Elok

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                    • Lower quality than triple dutch.
                      Oh wait, I'm thinking of vodka. Nevermind.
                      I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).

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                      • Can anybody explain to me what "one degree removed" and "six degree related" mean?
                        Be good, and if at first you don't succeed, perhaps failure will be back in fashion soon. -- teh Spamski

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                        • Originally posted by Skanky Burns
                          Lower quality than triple dutch.
                          Oh wait, I'm thinking of vodka. Nevermind.


                          Gurka 17, People of the Valley
                          I am of the Horde.

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                          • Originally posted by HongHu
                            Can anybody explain to me what "one degree removed" and "six degree related" mean?
                            If A is somehow related to B who is somehow related to C, there is said to have a single degree of seperation between A and C. If C is somehow related to D then A and D have two degrees of seperation. Add in E, you have three degree, add F and you have four degrees etc.

                            The idea of six degrees is that you can link anyone to anyone (i.e all 6+ billion of us on the planet) with just six linkages.

                            Handshakes (or other physical contact) is the usual way of determing the validity of a linkage.
                            One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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                            • Dauphin's example is messed up: A is two degrees separated from C (there being one link A-B and one B-C), three from D, and so on.
                              Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?

                              It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
                              The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- Elok

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                              • Its based on links? I thought it was based on the number of in-between people.
                                One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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