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- From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
- Subject: Re: Pathetic Request
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.061437.11169@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 06:14:37 GMT
- References: <1993Jan17.012040.14606@csd.uwe.ac.uk> <C12Jow.FC2@ens-lyon.fr> <RSHOLMES.93Jan21233331@rodan.syr.EDU>
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- Reply-To: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
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- In-Reply-To: rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes)
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- In article <RSHOLMES.93Jan21233331@rodan.syr.EDU>, rsholmes@rodan (Rich Holmes) writes:
- >In article <C12Jow.FC2@ens-lyon.fr> Anne F. Antoine writes:
- >
- >>
- >>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
- >>----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Y'know, I gotta admit it. This's gotta be the best ASCII rendition of
- Old Yeller (just before the end) that I've ever seen...
-
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- Dave Schaumann dave@cs.arizona.edu
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