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Ted Ashton <[log in to unmask]>
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Ted Ashton <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 19 May 2000 09:26:51 -0400
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Thus it was written in the epistle of Kevin Newman,
> What? N-Z?  Or did they just ignore N?

<*blush*>

Some times are worse than others to hit the wrong key.

Ted
>
> Kevin "smart a** mode on" Newman
>
> Ted Ashton wrote:
>
> > Thus it was written in the epistle of Gavin Scott,
> > > Stan after Wirt:
> > > > > Yesterday as you may have heard was the 100th anniversary of
> > > > > the publication of the "Wizard of Oz" by Frank L. Baum. In
> > > > > case it escaped you, the book is widely regarded as a parable
> > > > > about the populism that spread through the
> > > >
> > > > For years, people specializing in Oz research (including Martin
> > > > Gardner and relatives of L. Frank Baum) have dismissed that
> > > > interpretation.
> > >
> > > Sometimes a flying monkey is just a flying monkey.
> > >
> > <g>
> >
> > In in the For What It's Worth Department, Paul Harvey, in one of his "rest of
> > the story" books tells about the original telling of the story during which
> > Baum suddenly had a need for a name for the country and, looking quickly
> > around happened upon the label on the file drawer below the one labelled A-M.
> >
> > Ted
> > --
> > Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist University
> >           ==========================================================
> > ... There can be no doubt about faith and not reason being the ultima ratio.
> > Even Euclid, who has laid himself as little open to the charge of credulity
> > as any writer who ever lived, cannot get beyond this. He has no demonstrable
> > first premise. He requires postulates and axioms which transcend
> > demonstration, and without which he can do nothing.
> >                                             -- Butler, Samuel (1835 - 1902)
> >           ==========================================================
> >          Deep thoughts to be found at http://www.southern.edu/~ashted

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--
Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist University
          ==========================================================
I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide to take no
more mathematics courses. They might be able to hear the sound of closing
doors.
                                            -- Caballero, James
          ==========================================================
         Deep thoughts to be found at http://www.southern.edu/~ashted

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