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3 Jun
The hundredth idea is generally a humdinger. [?]

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From: Peter Langston <psl>
Date: Mon,  3 Jun 96 17:12:23 -0700
To: Fun_People
Subject: The hundredth idea is generally a humdinger. [?]

[Chacun a son gui, I sez.  As far as I'm concerned, this is a description
of what can go wrong with philosophers...  -psl]

Forwarded-by: Keith Bostic <bostic@bsdi.com>
Forwarded-by: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com>

    It's always worth having a few philosophers around.  One minute it's
    all Is Truth Beauty and Is Beauty Truth, and Does a Falling Tree in the
    Forest Make a Sound if There's No one There to Hear It, and then just
    when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says,
    Incidently, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place
    to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very
    interesting demonstration of optical principals.

	-- Terry Pratchett, _Small Gods_

© 1996 Peter Langston