Great one-liners from PF members

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In summary: And to obtain just one arsenic atom, you would need to buy 285 million one ounce bottles!There's also the fact that anyone prescribing homeopathic medicine should be required to accept homeopathic payment which of course is an empty envelope that... doesn't really exist.
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phinds said:
jbriggs444 said:
Approaches and becomes are not synonyms.
Did you recognize the irony considering your avatar?
 
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fresh_42 said:
Did you recognize the irony considering your avatar?
I know nothing. Nothing!
 
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sysprog said:
johann1301h0 said:
. . . is anyone here pedantic enough . . .
How do we measure that?
Whatever the SI unit of pedantry is, I'm sure a different unit is in common use in the USA. ##-## @Vanadium 50
 
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Vanadium 50 said:
I will say if you need to invoke Wittgenstein to try and figure out what the OP means, it might be a sign that there might be a little bit of a clarity shortage.
 
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Dale said:
At greater than 200 posts I think it is pretty evident that there has been no stifling of the discussion whatsoever.
 
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  • #112
Vanadium 50 said:
You probably should look into such compulsions, because some of what you say is just not so.
 
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I HAVE to include these two of favorites of mine even if they are my own:

it is unfortunate that you "understand" this since it is totally wrong.

I recognize every single word in that post, but strung together in that particular order, I can't make any sense out of them at all.
 
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"I don't want you to get the impression that it's just a question of the number of words. Getting them in the right order is just as important."

 
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Even though it was directed at me, I still have to appreciate it.

Vanadium 50 said:
Of course, if the student has never seen a determinant before, this is as useful as a Siamese-Swahili Dictionary. ("Once you know one, you can teach yourself the other!")
 
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Infrared said:
Even though it was directed at me, I still have to appreciate it.
Vanadium 50 said:
Of course, if the student has never seen a determinant before, this is as useful as a Siamese-Swahili Dictionary. ("Once you know one, you can teach yourself the other!")
@Vanadium 50 (I think that he may be not-so-secretly one of the Vanir) is a very witty guy ##\dots##
 
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sysprog said:
not-so-secretly one of the Vanir)

"One of the Vanir" is an anagram of "Not heaven for I".

For what it's worth, I had determinants years before knowing anything about cross-products.
 
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  • #119
gmax137 said:
Freya/Frigga cousin (she uses aliases)
[non-rigorous use of rightarrows in this post]
##\mathrm {vanir \rightarrow vana \rightarrow}## 'dis' ##\rightarrow## goddess ##\rightarrow## 'ium' [non-feminine ending] well I hope that this thread can continue to be about Great One-Liners :wink:
 
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Vanadium 50 said:
"One of the Vanir" is an anagram of "Not heaven for I".
What the X? Did you just notice that on autopilot, or is that a known thing? or maybe you really are one of the Vanir? and if so, maybe you'd rather be one of the Aesir?
For what it's worth, I had determinants years before knowing anything about cross-products.
I'm starting to become curious about you. :wink:
 
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The surest indicator of the quality of a human is how they treat those with less power. ##-## @hutchphd
 
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Vanadium 50 said:
For what it's worth, I had determinants years before knowing anything about cross-products.

I would guess that this is unusual. My expectation was that most of my students had seen cross products before in vector calculus or physics classes and I thought it worthwhile to give a linear algebra perspective. I taught them about determinants a couple of weeks prior, so they better had known about them...

sysprog said:
The surest indicator of the quality of a human is how they treat those with less power. ##-## @hutchphd

Related (and hopefully not too well known to be worth posting): "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." -Dostoevsky
 
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Infrared said:
I would guess that this is unusual. My expectation was that most of my students had seen cross products before in vector calculus or physics classes and I thought it worthwhile to a linear algebra perspective. I taught them about determinants a couple of weeks prior, so they better had known about them...

Related (and hopefully not too well known to be worth posting): "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." -Dostoevsky
Maybe my first calc teacher was a baseball, but maybe I didn't know that then ##-## my calc teacher was great ##-## I started operations research before linear algebra, so what do I know ##\dots##
 
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Why use that as an excuse to bring in photons? ##-## @sophiecentaur
 
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You could approach your problem like any other project: write a functional specification document, classify the duties, estimate the necessary time to achieve each of the goals, prioritize, and make a project schedule. ##-## @fresh_42
 
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“One does not simply read a textbook, one works through a textbook” - @Vanadium 50
 
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  • #127
Is this better?

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"Problems worthy of attack, prove their worth by hitting back." - Piet Hein
 
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PhDeezNutz said:
“One does not simply read a textbook, one works through a textbook” - @Vanadium 50
I just look at the pictures!
 
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  • #131
PeroK said:
I just look at the pictures!
You also at least read the captions, too, right?
 
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sysprog said:
You also at least read the captions, too, right?
Yes, but sometimes I just skip to the end to see what happens.
 
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  • #133
PeroK said:
I just look at the pictures!
That is you who @BillTre wants to write a book for?
BillTre said:
What do people use for drawing molecules (in a digital manner)?

I would like to make space filling type models as well as letters representing the atoms connected by lines at different angles.
The second kind I could make with ad drawing program, but there's got to be a better way.
 
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  • #134
PeroK said:
I just look at the pictures!
For some subjects that works better than for others.
 
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You're not going to make this easy, are you? ##-## @Vanadium 50
 
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It's like using a piano keyboard as 'proof' that only certain frequencies of sound exist. Then talk to a violinist. ##-## @sophiecentaur
 
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  • #137
gmax137 said:
I worked with a guy for over thirty years before he told me he was an accordion player. "I just don't talk about it," he said.
Just out of curiosity, what is funny or witty or interesting about this one ?
 
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timmeister37 said:
Just out of curiosity, what is funny or witty or interesting about this one ?
The accordian is the Rodney Dangerfield of musical instruments.
 
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timmeister37 said:
gmax137 said:
I worked with a guy for over thirty years before he told me he was an accordion player. "I just don't talk about it," he said.
Just out of curiosity, what is funny or witty or interesting about this one ?
Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty,
playing "Rogers & Clarke" in the movie "Ishtar"
in the song "Dangerous Business":

Telling the truth can be dangerous business​
Honest and popular don't go hand in hand​
If you admit that you can play the accordion​
no-one will hire you in a rock & roll band​

In the mid-'80s I was a not-so-great accordionist ##-## only a little bit better on guitar ##-## my girlfriend could sing very well and was very good on piano ##-## we got a good laugh ##\dots##
 
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phinds said:
The accordian is the Rodney Dangerfield of musical instruments.
Its also Weird Al's favorite instrument!
 
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