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Offline gillianren

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Re: So, who wants to win 1 million Euro?
« Reply #1575 on: May 30, 2013, 03:18:04 PM »
Quote from: Andromeda on May 30, 2013, 01:15:20 PM
It was Miss Hoover, not Mrs Krabapple.

How to tell that I didn't even read my own link, huh? 
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Re: So, who wants to win 1 million Euro?
« Reply #1576 on: May 30, 2013, 04:08:22 PM »
Quote from: gillianren on May 30, 2013, 03:18:04 PM
Quote from: Andromeda on May 30, 2013, 01:15:20 PM
It was Miss Hoover, not Mrs Krabapple.

How to tell that I didn't even read my own link, huh?

More like I've given myself away as someone who watches far too much Simpsons.
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Re: Re: So, who wants to win 1 million Euro?
« Reply #1577 on: May 30, 2013, 04:14:50 PM »
Quote from: BazBear on May 30, 2013, 03:04:58 PM
If it's any consolation Jay, I understood "higher" to mean "larger", and when Glom said "lower", I read it as "smaller", which had me scratching my head how he could think that...until it kicked in to my thick skull that he was understandably reading it as meaning altitude. ;D

Oh it was a genuine "wrong way" error in Jay's brain.  What I was thinking was, "slower velocity means more lenient window."  And nine times out of ten, "more lenient" in engineering means "larger."  In this case, more lenient means lower minimum altitude for aborts.  Whoever wants to claim the T-shirt on that one should be entitled to it; I'm supposed to catch those mistakes myself.
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Re: So, who wants to win 1 million Euro?
« Reply #1578 on: May 30, 2013, 05:04:31 PM »
Quote from: Andromeda on May 30, 2013, 04:08:22 PM
More like I've given myself away as someone who watches far too much Simpsons.

I tend to joke that most English majors graduate able to quote Keats and Milton, but I was mostly able to quote Homer.  On the other hand, Matt Groening is an alumnus of my alma mater, and the show was still good when I was a student, so it was practically a religion.  However, I haven't had cable in several years, we don't own any seasons on DVD, and it isn't available streaming from Netflix, so I'm a bit behind.  At least I knew that it was Mrs. Krabapple (whose name I both remember and spell correctly!) talking to Miss Hoover during the assembly?
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Re: So, who wants to win 1 million Euro?
« Reply #1579 on: May 30, 2013, 05:23:32 PM »
Quote from: gillianren on May 30, 2013, 05:04:31 PM
Quote from: Andromeda on May 30, 2013, 04:08:22 PM
More like I've given myself away as someone who watches far too much Simpsons.

I tend to joke that most English majors graduate able to quote Keats and Milton, but I was mostly able to quote Homer.  On the other hand, Matt Groening is an alumnus of my alma mater, and the show was still good when I was a student, so it was practically a religion.  However, I haven't had cable in several years, we don't own any seasons on DVD, and it isn't available streaming from Netflix, so I'm a bit behind.  At least I knew that it was Mrs. Krabapple (whose name I both remember and spell correctly!) talking to Miss Hoover during the assembly?

Yes.

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Mrs. Krabappel: Embiggens? I never heard that word before moving to Spingfield.
Miss Hoover: I don't know why, it's a perfectly cromulent word.

Several episodes a day are shown on satellite/cable TV channels here.  I watch too many!
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Re: So, who wants to win 1 million Euro?
« Reply #1580 on: May 30, 2013, 06:59:46 PM »
Quote from: gillianren on May 30, 2013, 05:04:31 PM
I tend to joke that most English majors graduate able to quote Keats and Milton, but I was mostly able to quote Homer.  On the other hand, Matt Groening is an alumnus of my alma mater, and the show was still good when I was a student, so it was practically a religion.  However, I haven't had cable in several years, we don't own any seasons on DVD, and it isn't available streaming from Netflix, so I'm a bit behind.
You haven't missed much. The writing took a big downward plunge around 2000 or so, and it went from by far the greatest show on TV to one that we don't even bother to watch anymore on a regular basis. Even great TV shows have their day.
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Re: So, who wants to win 1 million Euro?
« Reply #1581 on: May 30, 2013, 07:29:48 PM »
Yeah, but I haven't seen old episodes much in the last couple of years, either.
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Re: So, who wants to win 1 million Euro?
« Reply #1582 on: May 30, 2013, 11:45:58 PM »
Quote from: gillianren on May 30, 2013, 07:29:48 PM
Yeah, but I haven't seen old episodes much in the last couple of years, either.
That's what the Internet is for.
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Re: So, who wants to win 1 million Euro?
« Reply #1583 on: May 31, 2013, 12:14:25 PM »
"The Internet?  Is that thing still around?"
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Re: So, who wants to win 1 million Euro?
« Reply #1584 on: May 31, 2013, 12:36:05 PM »
"Oh, they have the Internet on computers now."
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Re: So, who wants to win 1 million Euro?
« Reply #1585 on: September 21, 2013, 11:56:05 AM »
I note there are 106 pages discussing my popular Challenge and nobody has managed to win. I wonder why.
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Re: So, who wants to win 1 million Euro?
« Reply #1586 on: September 21, 2013, 01:34:41 PM »
Quote from: Heiwa on September 21, 2013, 11:56:05 AM
I note there are 106 pages discussing my popular Challenge and nobody has managed to win. I wonder why.

People have more than met the criteria of winning your "challenge". The only reason you haven't declared a winner is because you are unwilling to admit you are wrong.
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Re: So, who wants to win 1 million Euro?
« Reply #1587 on: September 21, 2013, 01:56:45 PM »
Or unable to understand it?
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Re: So, who wants to win 1 million Euro?
« Reply #1588 on: September 21, 2013, 02:39:02 PM »
Quote from: Heiwa on September 21, 2013, 11:56:05 AM
I note there are 106 pages discussing my popular Challenge and nobody has managed to win. I wonder why.

Correction:  106 pages discussing exactly where and how you are wrong and laughing at you and your inability to admit you are wrong.  Of course nobody here believed your challenge was real in the first place.  YOU are a joke.
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Re: So, who wants to win 1 million Euro?
« Reply #1589 on: September 21, 2013, 02:44:56 PM »
Quote from: Heiwa on September 21, 2013, 11:56:05 AM
I note there are 106 pages discussing my popular Challenge and nobody has managed to win. I wonder why.

Because you refuse to acknowledge people who answer you?  Several people have given you the calculations you asked for, you have completely ignored that.

Are you going to resort to insults on your website again?

What exactly do you want to gain from posting here?  I'm genuinely curious.
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