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Schwarzenegger: Profanity in veto was 'wild coincidence'
Sacramento Bee ^
| 10/30/9
| Rob Hotakainen
Posted on 10/30/2009 12:48:44 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL
While not profane, my favorite coded message during my lifetime was George Plimpton's Sidd Finch story...
"He's a pitcher, part yogi and part recluse. Impressively liberated from our opulent life-style, Sidd's deciding about yoga — and his future in baseball."
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posted on
10/30/2009 1:04:57 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Secret Agent Man
The article is wrong. It wasn’t profanity. It was vulgarity.
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posted on
10/30/2009 1:05:13 PM PDT
by
mongrel
To: SmithL
Riiiiiight.... remember, Ahnolt’s an actor.
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posted on
10/30/2009 1:05:42 PM PDT
by
La Enchiladita
(Yes, it IS the end of the world.)
To: C210N
I believe you algorithm is incorrect. I is based on the random appearance of letters. The number of possible words is far different than the number of random letter occurrences.
How many possible words are there and in combinations that actually would make sense? A very difficult probability to approach.
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posted on
10/30/2009 1:07:42 PM PDT
by
Sudetenland
(Slow to anger but terrible in vengence...such is the character of the American people.)
To: C210N
The probabilities could be as low as:
27 to the 10th power, or one in 205,891,132,094,649... or one in about 205 Trillion. This is assuming:
There was no overflow in my calculator in a number that large; the letters are equal in occurrence, but of course they are not; the 27th "letter" factors in a paragraph start.
So see, it COULD be a coincidence.
To: mongrel
Yeah, nobody gets that definition right anymore...
Of course a few decades ago people would have been more offended by the other guy’s use of the word “ass” than of “gay”
Anyhow, Arnold wins the round, even if he did get caught on his little trick ;-)
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posted on
10/30/2009 1:15:05 PM PDT
by
bigbob
To: Yaelle
Gave me a good laugh. Even passed it around a bit.
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posted on
10/30/2009 1:16:33 PM PDT
by
oldteen
To: Sloth
To: SmithL
Seriously
Unusual
Rino
Event
!
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posted on
10/30/2009 1:21:11 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
(No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session. I AM JIM THOMPSON)
To: Secret Agent Man
“No, it’s just a coincidence. There are no big coincidences or small coincidences, just coincidences.”
I might go along with this, had the human race never discovered statistics and probability.
To: SmithL
Some of his opponents are eying the governor’s job. This sort of thing is common in politics. Remember, he is a “republican” and that’s enough for his opponents to sling dirt at him.
To: Secret Agent Man
There's no such thing as a coincidence.
Isn't that rule #1?
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posted on
10/30/2009 2:41:07 PM PDT
by
HIDEK6
To: Sloth
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posted on
10/30/2009 7:18:44 PM PDT
by
Hildy
To: HIDEK6
You guys don’t really think he wrote it? Some staffer did and he signed it, probably without knowing.
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posted on
10/30/2009 7:20:43 PM PDT
by
Hildy
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