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Rick Stevens rstevens at internap.com
Fri Nov 30 17:30:16 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 21:33 -0500, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> On Thursday 29 November 2007 6:39:32 pm Rick Stevens wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 07:49 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
> > > Rick Stevens wrote:
> > > > Even one "tens of decades" would make you over 100 years old, John.
> > > > You sure seem spry for a centarian!  ;-)
> > >
> > > Whoops. I guess the rest puts it in the right timeframe.
> > >
> > >
> > > My prospects of reaching one centenary aren't bad, my grandmother did
> > > and my parents are in their late 80s. Don't think I want two though.
> >
> > "Do you wear boxers or briefs?"  "Depends."
> >
> > I just reached 1/2 of a "tens of decades".  Four score and ten.  Five
> > decades.  Fifty years.  Mom's 78.  I may make it...but I'm not betting
> > on it.  ;-)
> 
> A minor point, but in this context a score is twenty. Being four score and ten 
> would make you 12 years older than your mother. Or has she spent a lot of 
> time traveling at the speed of light?

Aw, sh**!  Right.  Two score and ten.  Jeeze!  Hoist by my own petard!

There was a quantum mechanic named Breen
Who had the fastest machine on the scene
He drove fast as light
And with no cops in sight
He'd blueshift the red lights to green

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