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Postby Bailey » Sat Jul 14, 2007 9:08 pm

er·e·mite(âr-mt)
n.
A recluse or hermit, especially a religious recluse.



[Middle English, from Late Latin ermta; see hermit.]



ere·mitic (-mtk), ere·miti·cal adj.

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Postby Perry » Sun Jul 15, 2007 1:48 pm

If a hermit falls in his cave, and there is no one else there to see it, did he skin his knee?

And in a similar vein, if a man says something in a forest, and there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?
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Postby Bailey » Sun Jul 15, 2007 2:27 pm


And in a similar vein, if a man says something in a forest, and there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?
The way I hear it, yes.

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Postby gailr » Mon Jul 16, 2007 1:09 am

knock wood and it shall be revealed to you, boys...
From this I infer that there are such states as being right and being wrong, within certain parameters of uncertainty. Applying the Psi function, the more vague the statement of the man the greater the probability of him being correct. The narrower and more specific his utterance the greater the likelihood of his being wrong.

Also, the Principle of Complementarity assures us that if a man alone in the woods speaks, and his wife can not hear him, he is BOTH right and wrong until he comes out of the woods.
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Postby Stargzer » Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:34 pm

And they call Economics the Dismal Science ...
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Postby gailr » Tue Jul 17, 2007 12:19 am

And they call Economics the Dismal Science ...
Perhaps the forest acts as a sort of invisible hand o'er the mouth of the hapless man.

Assuming, of course, that he's not barking up the wrong trees...

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Postby Bailey » Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:28 am

Barking? so now we're dogs? lol

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Postby Stargzer » Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:35 am

There are worse animals to be. I lived with two Labrador Retriever bitches over the last 16 years, and they were real sweethearts.

Never call a woman a bitch -- it's an insult to dogs of either gender everywhere.
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Postby Bailey » Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:32 am



Never call a woman a bitch -- it's an insult to dogs of either gender everywhere.

I think I find THAT insulting.

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