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James Newton wrote: > On the one hand > On the other hand > On the first hand > On the second hand > on the gripping hand No wonder you can get so much done in one day, you've got five hands! Not only that, but you are efficiently enumerating them with words rather than numbers, which, as we all know, is easier and faster to reference as a human than numbers. Having 25 fingers must have made math more difficult for you with base 10, though... ;-) -Adam -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.

M. Adam Davis wrote: > James Newton wrote: > > On the one hand > > On the other hand > > On the first hand > > On the second hand > > on the gripping hand > > No wonder you can get so much done in one day, you've got five hands! Not > only that, but you are efficiently enumerating them with words rather than > numbers, which, as we all know, is easier and faster to reference as a > human than numbers. Having 25 fingers must have made math more difficult > for you with base 10, though... > > ;-) > > -Adam Beside the obvious "Pearson's Puppeteer" ref's in James' post, I thought most here had watched a certain play, "Fiddler on the Roof" to wit? Heh! Mark -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email spam_OUTlistservTakeThisOuTmitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body

>> > on the gripping hand >Beside the obvious "Pearson's Puppeteer" ref's in James' post, I thought >most here had watched a certain play, "Fiddler on the Roof" to wit? >Heh! > > Mark You meant "Moties" didn't you :-) ? (same writer, different series). Now there's a story - Moties meet Kzinti! (or Puppeteers) RM -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email .....listservKILLspam@spam@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body

Hello, "M. Adam Davis" wrote: > Having 25 fingers must have made math more difficult > for you with base 10, though... Pretty sure the gripping hand only has three fingers. Regards, Dave -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList piclist-unsubscribe-requestKILLspammitvma.mit.edu