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- From: meachem@acsu.buffalo.edu (The Meach)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
- Subject: Re: Pathetic Request
- Message-ID: <C17F1G.K1E@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 12:36:52 GMT
- References: <1993Jan17.012040.14606@csd.uwe.ac.uk> <C12Jow.FC2@ens-lyon.fr>
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- In article <C12Jow.FC2@ens-lyon.fr> aantoine@ens-lyon.fr writes:
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- >Anne
- >
- >----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------
- > |
- > /| |\ | Maier's law:
- > \\--^--// | If the facts do not conform to the theory, they must be
- > / A___A \ | disposed of.
- > | /o o\ | | Corollaries:
- > \wwwwwww/ | 1. the bigger the theory, the better
- > \W W/ | 2. the experiment may be considered a success if no
- > \MMM/ | more than 50% of the observed easurments must be
- > | discarded to obtain a correspondence with theory
- >----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------
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- This is from the same 'froup of which Rich Holmes recently said:
-
- |Somebody please explain to me why I'm hanging out in newsgroups where
- |people think coral is a plant, that one-line followups are the acme*
- |of erudition, AND THAT THE ABOVE DRY-HEAVE INDUCING PIECE OF PHLEGM IS
- |A WITTY SIGNATURE???
-
- The real question is: Do any of them *understand* any of what they read
- in them books? [I say, give 'em a hedgehog to play with!]
-
- --jm
- meach@go.ask.your.mother | "Quaffing is like drinking, but you spill more." TP
-