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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!chsun!bernina!mueller
- From: mueller@iwf.mabp.ethz.ch (Mueller Beat)
- Subject: Re: 999,999,999 Green bottles
- Message-ID: <mueller.728054965@fi>
- Sender: news@bernina.ethz.ch (USENET News System)
- Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
- References: <1992Nov30.192118.61409@cc.usu.edu> <mPu4uB12w165w@mertwig.UUCP> <BynwBG.G2H@mach1.wlu.ca> <1993Jan25.175105.4340@bradford.ac.uk> <1993Jan25.173511.2828@vax1.mankato.msus.edu> <1993Jan26.085133.15547@maths.tcd.ie>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:29:25 GMT
- Lines: 70
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- forest@maths.tcd.ie (Sharon Murphy) writes:
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- >engan@vax1.mankato.msus.edu writes:
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- >>In article <1993Jan25.175105.4340@bradford.ac.uk>, A.D.Brown@bradford.ac.uk (AD BROWN) writes:
- >>> veen2976@mach1.wlu.ca (veenstra christopher) writes:
- >>>
- >>>>In article <mPu4uB12w165w@mertwig.UUCP> xyzzy@mertwig.UUCP (Daniel Drucker) writes:
- >>>>>> >>>>>>:>>>>>>> 999,999,999 Green bottles hanging on the wall
- >>>>>> >>>>>>:>>>>>>> 999,999,999 Green bottles hanging on the wall
- >>>>>> >>>>>>:>>>>>>> and if one green bottle should accidentally fall
- >>>>>> >>>>>>:>>>>>>> they'd be....
- >>>>>> >>>>>>:>>>>>>
- >>>>> ____________________________________
- >>>>>| |
- >>>>>| ETC ETC ETC ETC ETC |
- >>>>>|____________________________________|
- >>>>>
- >>>>>
- >>>>>> 999,999,985 Green bottles hanging on the wall
- >>>>>> 999,999,985 Green bottles hanging on the wall
- >>>>>> and if one of those bottles should happen to fall
- >>>>>> they'd be...
- >>>>>
- >>>>>Come on, cascades don't have to be THIS stupid.
- >>>>>
- >>>
- >>>>Well, personally, I find this far more amusing than any cascade. I haven't
- >>>>seen this many people get this annoyed at any cascade yet! I almost get
- >>>>sick from laughing at all these people telling them to stop. I love it! In
- >>>>fact......
- >>>
- >>>>999,999,984 Green bottles hanging on the wall
- >>>>999,999,984 Green bottles hanging on the wall
- >>>>and if one of those bottles should happen to fall
- >>>>they'd be...
- >>>
- >>> A chain reaction that would cause half the bottles to fall each time
- >>> so:
- >>>
- >>> 49,999,992 Green bottles hanging on the wall
- >>> 49,999,992 Green bottles hanging on the wall
- >>> and if half of those bottles should happen to fall
- >>> there'd be...
- >>>
- >>24,999,996 Green bottles hanging on the wall
- >>24,999,996 Green bottles hanging on the wall
- >>and if 72.6 percent of those bottles should happen to fall
- >>there'd be...
- >18,149,997 Green bottles hanging on the wall
- >18,149,997 Green bottles hanging on the wall
- >and if only those bottles whose masses exceeded, or
- >neared within 0.5%, the breaking stress of the
- >fibres used to support them in such a state
- >of equilibrium... on a tuesday...
- >there'd be...
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- 1 green bottle hanging on the wall
- and if one of those bottles should happen to fall...
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- there would be nought to end this melodramatic joke.
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- zosh
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