From: Akshat Kumar <akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Sad News
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:46:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABwSpPDk8RjrifKtsVozDXMVBkfJVNPR_=22kMVj4zcsad=c7A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <db295cc2af7bfc141c541de527d71469@coraid.com>
Why a mathematician, in particular? I'd hack off... well, nevermind.
Here's what snopes had to say about it:
http://www.snopes.com/science/nobel.asp
In this case, I'd rewrite the penultimate line:
"Whenever a man's motivations for a course
of action aren't clear, attributing them to
something [mathematical] usually creates
a tale both plausible and entertaining."
ak
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:30 PM, erik quanstrom
<quanstro@labs.coraid.com> wrote:
> i'd be a little hacked off if my wife ran off with a mathematician, too.
> alfred just had the money to do something about it.
>
> - erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-24 8:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-13 5:29 Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2011-10-13 5:35 ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2011-10-13 6:57 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-10-13 13:19 ` ComeauAt9Fans@gmail.com
2011-10-13 13:44 ` Digby Tarvin
2011-10-13 13:30 ` dexen deVries
2011-10-13 15:19 ` pera
2011-10-13 16:56 ` Digby Tarvin
2011-10-13 17:26 ` Wes Kussmaul
2011-10-13 17:40 ` simon softnet
2011-10-13 18:24 ` Digby Tarvin
2011-10-13 18:38 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-10-13 17:19 ` tlaronde
2011-10-13 17:22 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2011-10-13 19:30 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-13 20:02 ` Wes Kussmaul
2011-10-13 21:19 ` Nick LaForge
2011-10-13 22:57 ` Thomas
2011-10-13 23:20 ` Bruce Ellis
2011-10-24 8:46 ` Akshat Kumar [this message]
2011-11-10 9:43 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-11-10 12:56 ` Wes Kussmaul
2011-11-10 12:57 ` Wes Kussmaul
2011-11-11 0:10 ` clinton
2011-10-13 18:14 ` ComeauAt9Fans@gmail.com
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2020-09-28 18:54 ` [9fans] " Gorka Guardiola
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2020-09-28 19:29 ` Federico Benavento
2020-09-28 19:38 ` Don Bailey
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2020-09-29 8:07 ` Francisco Ballesteros
2020-09-29 11:57 ` elbingmiss
2020-09-30 8:20 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2020-09-30 8:43 ` Christopher Nielsen
2020-09-29 8:14 Steve Simon
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