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And the Student was Enlightened

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And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #1 from James D. Macdonald

Sun, 29 May 2011 21:14:55 -0500

Label appropriately:

1) Items found in iceboxes.
2) Items that are eaten.
3) Items that you are saving.

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Posted May 29, 2011 9:14 PM by James D. Macdonald

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #2 from thomas

Sun, 29 May 2011 21:24:31 -0500

further categories of agents

0. fabulous ones
1. Those that are trained
2. Those that dissemble as if they were mad
3. Those that have just broken the law
4. Those that from a long way off look like publishers

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Posted May 29, 2011 9:24 PM by thomas

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #3 from Allan Beatty

Sun, 29 May 2011 21:34:29 -0500

Money flows towards the author.

Money flows towards the scammer.

No money flows.

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Posted May 29, 2011 9:34 PM by Allan Beatty

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #4 from Singing Wren

Sun, 29 May 2011 22:04:34 -0500

Formal verse

Free verse

Verses about plums

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Posted May 29, 2011 10:04 PM by Singing Wren

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #5 from DanR

Sun, 29 May 2011 22:06:58 -0500

1. People who write on paper
2. People who write on line.
3. People who write on stones.

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Posted May 29, 2011 10:06 PM by DanR

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #6 from James D. Macdonald

Sun, 29 May 2011 22:28:23 -0500

1. Those that belong to the emperor
2. Those that belong to the emperor
3. Those that belong to the emperor

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Posted May 29, 2011 10:28 PM by James D. Macdonald

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #7 from thomas

Sun, 29 May 2011 22:44:30 -0500

1. Written in large friendly letters
2. Written in the stars
3. Writ on water

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Posted May 29, 2011 10:44 PM by thomas

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #8 from Kip W

Sun, 29 May 2011 23:53:07 -0500

1. Hula hoop champions

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Posted May 29, 2011 11:53 PM by Kip W

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #9 from Bruce Cohen (Speaker to Managers)

Mon, 30 May 2011 00:07:32 -0500

1. Stage magicians
2. Beer distributors
3. Topologists and knot theoreticians.

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Posted May 30, 2011 12:07 AM by Bruce Cohen (Speaker to Managers)

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #10 from Paul Duncanson

Mon, 30 May 2011 00:30:59 -0500

1. People who like Venn diagrams.
2. People who like drawing circles.
3. People who put their coffee cups down on their work.

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Posted May 30, 2011 12:30 AM by Paul Duncanson

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #11 from Paul A.

Mon, 30 May 2011 04:21:11 -0500

You Can Draw the Heads of Talking Animal Characters!, "Lesson 7: A Parrot", Step 3.

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Posted May 30, 2011 4:21 AM by Paul A.

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #12 from mjfgates

Mon, 30 May 2011 07:52:51 -0500

12. Oh
1. my
2. God,
123. it's
23. full
13. of
3. stars

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Posted May 30, 2011 7:52 AM by mjfgates

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #13 from rgh

Mon, 30 May 2011 08:26:06 -0500

@9 http://www.circustakeaway.co.uk/magic_trick1.php

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Posted May 30, 2011 8:26 AM by rgh

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #14 from Cadbury Moose

Mon, 30 May 2011 08:32:35 -0500

1) Maria Silaeva

2) That is all.

3) Oh all right, if you insist:Elena Lev

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Posted May 30, 2011 8:32 AM by Cadbury Moose

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #15 from Fragano Ledgister

Mon, 30 May 2011 12:33:59 -0500

1) A circle.

2) Another circle.

3) Yet another circle.

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Posted May 30, 2011 12:33 PM by Fragano Ledgister

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #16 from Ginger

Mon, 30 May 2011 12:50:03 -0500

1. Dogs
2. Cats
3. Elephants

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Posted May 30, 2011 12:50 PM by Ginger

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #17 from Clifton Royston

Mon, 30 May 2011 14:30:45 -0500

1. mountains and rivers
2. not mountains and not rivers
3. mountains and rivers

123. !

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Posted May 30, 2011 2:30 PM by Clifton Royston

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #18 from Kip W

Mon, 30 May 2011 15:13:31 -0500

1. Lions
2. Tigers
3. Bears
0. My!

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Posted May 30, 2011 3:13 PM by Kip W

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #19 from Cadbury Moose

Mon, 30 May 2011 15:24:42 -0500

1) Hoop snakes

2) Drop Bears

3) Bunyips

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Posted May 30, 2011 3:24 PM by Cadbury Moose

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #20 from TexAnne

Mon, 30 May 2011 15:26:08 -0500

1. Yarn you have.
2. Patterns you have.
3. Yarn and patterns that work together.

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Posted May 30, 2011 3:26 PM by TexAnne

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #21 from Phyllis

Mon, 30 May 2011 15:29:48 -0500

1. Kahlua
2. Half & Half
3. Smirnoff Vanilla Vodka

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Posted May 30, 2011 3:29 PM by Phyllis

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #22 from Cadbury Moose

Mon, 30 May 2011 16:52:13 -0500

1) Chatowsies

2) Ahagaree

3) Pourrian.

< FX: wanders off to wash his dog in the beer.>

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Posted May 30, 2011 4:52 PM by Cadbury Moose

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #23 from Lee

Mon, 30 May 2011 16:58:08 -0500

1. Time travel
2. Spaceships
3. Killer robots

(Extra points to the first person who guesses the reference!)

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Posted May 30, 2011 4:58 PM by Lee

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #24 from Mary Aileen

Mon, 30 May 2011 17:31:37 -0500

Lee (23): I love that shirt!

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Posted May 30, 2011 5:31 PM by Mary Aileen

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #25 from Janet Brennan Croft

Mon, 30 May 2011 18:00:27 -0500

1. Tornadoes.
2. Ice Storms.
3. Brush fires.

123. Where Janet lives.

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Posted May 30, 2011 6:00 PM by Janet Brennan Croft

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #26 from GiacomoL

Mon, 30 May 2011 18:34:40 -0500

1. Things you will do.
2. Things you won't do.
3. Things you might do.
123. Politics.

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Posted May 30, 2011 6:34 PM by GiacomoL

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #27 from Bill Stewart

Mon, 30 May 2011 21:16:43 -0500

1. A ring
2. and another ring
3. and another ring.
And you've got three rings, Ballantine,
or for the Elven Kings under the Sky,
or a traffic circle in Camden NJ that looked very much like the Ballantine logo except with some stoplights at inconvenient places in the middle.

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Posted May 30, 2011 9:16 PM by Bill Stewart

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #28 from DanR

Mon, 30 May 2011 21:20:04 -0500

1. People who hate
2. People who love
3. People who are comfortable

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Posted May 30, 2011 9:20 PM by DanR

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #29 from HelenS

Mon, 30 May 2011 21:47:49 -0500

The Olympics was much smaller than usual this year.

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Posted May 30, 2011 9:47 PM by HelenS

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #30 from thomas

Mon, 30 May 2011 22:03:02 -0500

Bill Stewart:

XKCD

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Posted May 30, 2011 10:03 PM by thomas

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #31 from Tony Zbaraschuk

Mon, 30 May 2011 23:54:05 -0500

1. Restaurants you like to eat at.
2. Restaurants you can afford to eat it.
3. Restaurants within walking distance.

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Posted May 30, 2011 11:54 PM by Tony Zbaraschuk

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #32 from alex

Tue, 31 May 2011 04:55:10 -0500

1. Structural social conflicts.
2. Externally-influenced dimensions of personal identity.
3. Pre-existent structures of loyalty, allegiance and belonging.

123: everyone.

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Posted May 31, 2011 4:55 AM by alex

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #33 from David DeLaney

Tue, 31 May 2011 05:37:27 -0500

A villanelle, and
a triolet, and also
a sonnet. TOM SWIFT!

--Dave, a-seasonally

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Posted May 31, 2011 5:37 AM by David DeLaney

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #34 from Chris Lawson

Tue, 31 May 2011 07:52:32 -0500

A symphony of Petri dishes

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Posted May 31, 2011 7:52 AM by Chris Lawson

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #35 from Chris Lawson

Tue, 31 May 2011 07:53:53 -0500

Oh, and using Jim's original key, that would be Dave Langford in the middle, wouldn't it?

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Posted May 31, 2011 7:53 AM by Chris Lawson

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #36 from Theophylact

Tue, 31 May 2011 09:44:17 -0500

1.Red
2.Yellow
3.Blue
4.Orange
5.Green
6.Violet
7.White

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Posted May 31, 2011 9:44 AM by Theophylact

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #37 from Theophylact

Tue, 31 May 2011 09:45:34 -0500

... Making Light!

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Posted May 31, 2011 9:45 AM by Theophylact

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #38 from Cadbury Moose

Tue, 31 May 2011 11:01:54 -0500

1, 2, 3, Dip!

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Posted May 31, 2011 11:01 AM by Cadbury Moose

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #39 from Julian

Tue, 31 May 2011 12:50:07 -0500

1: John Bonham

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Posted May 31, 2011 12:50 PM by Julian

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #40 from James D. Macdonald

Tue, 31 May 2011 13:19:32 -0500

1. Those who know the territory and have been around

2. Those who turn to dust and fall down

3. Those who sooner or later will be screwing around

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Posted May 31, 2011 1:19 PM by James D. Macdonald

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #41 from Janni

Tue, 31 May 2011 16:21:47 -0500

Thank you.

Hit the point this morning where if one more person used "epublishing" and "self-publishing" as synonyms (and so leapt to the existence of both portending doom for anything outside the set that is self-publishing), eyes were going to meet sporks. Just hadn't decided whether they'd be mine or everyone else's yet.

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Posted May 31, 2011 4:21 PM by Janni

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #42 from Janni

Tue, 31 May 2011 16:33:51 -0500

(I do get that this doesn't only apply to the first example given. But even so.)

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Posted May 31, 2011 4:33 PM by Janni

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #43 from abi

Tue, 31 May 2011 16:38:51 -0500

1. Eyeballs of Janni @41's interlocuters
2. Janni @41's eyeballs
3. SPORKS

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Posted May 31, 2011 4:38 PM by abi

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #44 from Janni

Tue, 31 May 2011 16:42:28 -0500

LOL, abi!

(No sporks required for said LOLing, because the term is being used in its original context.)

1. People who know what LOL means
2. People who are actually LOLing when they say they are
3. People who responding with LOLs to things worthy of LOLing over

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Posted May 31, 2011 4:42 PM by Janni

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #45 from abi

Tue, 31 May 2011 16:47:11 -0500

It occurs to me that we need this key to the diagram as well:
1. Spoons
2. Forks
3. Knives
4. Sporks
5. Chopsticks
6. Really Sharp Forks
7. Fingers

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Posted May 31, 2011 4:47 PM by abi

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #46 from Janni

Tue, 31 May 2011 16:53:28 -0500

If we make it just:

1. spoons
2. forks
3. knives

Aren't the sporks implied among the intersections? :-)

(But not the chopsticks. The fingers simply lie in the space outside the diagram, though.)

(I have met fork/knife, in plasticware even. spoon/fork/knife is probably a certain sort of Swiss army knife, or other camping gear.)

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Posted May 31, 2011 4:53 PM by Janni

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #47 from Janni

Tue, 31 May 2011 16:54:11 -0500

If we make it just:

1. spoons
2. forks
3. knives

Aren't the sporks implied among the intersections? :-)

(But not the chopsticks. The fingers simply lie in the space outside the diagram, though.)

(I have met fork/knife, in plasticware even. spoon/fork/knife is probably a certain sort of Swiss army knife, or other camping gear.)

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Posted May 31, 2011 4:54 PM by Janni

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #48 from abi

Tue, 31 May 2011 17:01:53 -0500

I was naming the intersections as well:

spoon + fork = spork
spoon + knife = no damn use, give me chopsticks
fork + knife = really sharp fork
spoon + fork + knife = ah, hang it, I'll just use my fingers

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Posted May 31, 2011 5:01 PM by abi

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #49 from Avram

Tue, 31 May 2011 17:03:38 -0500

1: A man
2: A plan
3: A canal
1+2: A map
2+3: A panel
1+3: A camel
1+2+3: An alpaca almanac

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Posted May 31, 2011 5:03 PM by Avram

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #50 from Janni

Tue, 31 May 2011 17:06:57 -0500

abi: heh. Okay, I get it now.

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Posted May 31, 2011 5:06 PM by Janni

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #51 from abi

Tue, 31 May 2011 17:12:15 -0500

Janni @50:

I should have used Avram's notation. And some of his cleverness, too, while I'm being acquisitive.

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Posted May 31, 2011 5:12 PM by abi

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #52 from Xopher

Tue, 31 May 2011 17:13:27 -0500

1: Ugly
2: Rock Star
3: Genius
1+2: Ted Nugent
2+3: Sting
1+3: Jean-Paul Sartre
1+2+3: Bob Dylan

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Posted May 31, 2011 5:13 PM by Xopher

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #53 from Tom Whitmore

Tue, 31 May 2011 19:20:18 -0500

There's another game possible here: name what's in the center, and have others guess what the three outside circles might be. Extra points for large circles, reasonably large secondary overlaps, and a tiny tertiary overlap. A ternary expansion of the two-word google search....

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Posted May 31, 2011 7:20 PM by Tom Whitmore

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #54 from P J Evans

Tue, 31 May 2011 19:42:05 -0500

48
fork + knife = skewer, perhaps? Or maybe an oyster-fork, with two tines.

(Also, snail tongs are like spoon+knife.)

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Posted May 31, 2011 7:42 PM by P J Evans

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #55 from DanR

Tue, 31 May 2011 20:56:49 -0500

1: Those who read Saul Bellow
2: Those who do not conceal their farts
3: While riding the train
1+2: Genius
2+3: Ugly
1+3: Rock Star
1+2+3: Bob Dylan

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Posted May 31, 2011 8:56 PM by DanR

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #56 from Paul Duncanson

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:09:52 -0500

Theophylact @ 36: You seem to have your RGBs and your CMYKs badly mixed up.

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Posted June 1, 2011 12:09 AM by Paul Duncanson

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #57 from Andrew Plotkin

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 02:48:01 -0500

Poem, in theme, but too complex to fit into a comment:

http://eblong.com/zarf/thod/42/index.html

(Requires a graphical web browser with javascript on. Unusably slow on the iPad/iPhone browser, for some reason; I may fix this tomorrow, or not.)

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Posted June 1, 2011 2:48 AM by Andrew Plotkin

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #58 from TomB

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 02:49:15 -0500

1) Guitars
2) Cadillacs
3) Hillbilly music

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Posted June 1, 2011 2:49 AM by TomB

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #59 from David Harmon

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 07:25:13 -0500

So combining Abi & P J Evans, plus introducing a more suitable notation for this stuff:

01/1.: Spoons
02/2.: Fork
03/1+2.: Spork
04/3.: Knife
05/1+3.: Snail Tongs
06/2+3.: Oyster Tongs
07/1+2+3.: Multitool

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Posted June 1, 2011 7:25 AM by David Harmon

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #60 from Paul A.

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:17:52 -0500

Janni @ #44:

People who say "LOL" instead of saying "That's funny" (or, for that matter, laughing).

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Posted June 1, 2011 11:17 AM by Paul A.

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #61 from eric

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:06:37 -0500

1. A bunch of inflatable sex dolls.
2. A tank of helium.
3. Rapture!

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Posted June 1, 2011 1:06 PM by eric

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #62 from eric

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:07:26 -0500

Oh, and I have some metal sporks here with (ineffective) serrations on one side to vaguely indicate that it's a knife on that edge.

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Posted June 1, 2011 1:07 PM by eric

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #63 from Merav

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 03:17:13 -0500

The local system as I understand it:

4 prongs = fork
3 prongs = threek
2 prongs = toque
1 prong = whunk

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Posted June 3, 2011 3:17 AM by Merav

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #64 from Merav

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 03:18:39 -0500

@63 Credit for this system to myself, BDan Fairchild and possibly the Swarthmore collective at large.

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Posted June 3, 2011 3:18 AM by Merav

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #65 from Glenn Hauman

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:26:29 -0500

1. A snowball down a mountain.
2. A carnival balloon.
3. A carousel that's turning, running rings around the moon.

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Posted June 3, 2011 7:26 PM by Glenn Hauman

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #66 from Glenn Hauman

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:29:01 -0500

1. An Australian pawnbroker that needs to move to a larger location.

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Posted June 3, 2011 7:29 PM by Glenn Hauman

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #67 from Bruce Cohen (Speaker to Managers)

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 01:11:09 -0500

Theophylact:

0.Black
1.Brown
2.Red
3.Orange
4.Yellow
5.Green
6.Blue
7.Violet
8.Grey
9.White

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Posted June 5, 2011 1:11 AM by Bruce Cohen (Speaker to Managers)

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #68 from Bruce Cohen (Speaker to Managers)

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 01:13:06 -0500

1. The fields we know.
2. The edges of the fields we know.
3. Beyond the fields we know.

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Posted June 5, 2011 1:13 AM by Bruce Cohen (Speaker to Managers)

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #69 from Bruce Cohen (Speaker to Managers)

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 01:15:48 -0500

1. John
2. Paul
3. George
123. Ringo

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Posted June 5, 2011 1:15 AM by Bruce Cohen (Speaker to Managers)

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #70 from James D. Macdonald

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 16:22:10 -0500

1. Chemistry
2. Physics
3. Biology

0. Mathematics

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Posted June 5, 2011 4:22 PM by James D. Macdonald

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #71 from Victoria

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:58:28 -0500

1. Long Range Plans
2. Short Term Plans
3. Winging It

1+2= Midpoint course correction or attitude adjustments.
2+3= Somewhat clued in to things.
3+1= WTF-ness.

1+2+3= success

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Posted June 13, 2011 11:58 AM by Victoria

And the Student was Enlightened -- comment #72 from Bill Stewart

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 01:46:25 -0500

Somehow I read this thread without immediately being inspired to post a reference to Jessica Hagy's blog thisisindexed.com (Let me fix that herewith.) She posts a variety of graphs, Venn diagrams, etc. that are creative and usually funny.

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Posted June 20, 2011 1:46 AM by Bill Stewart