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01-24-2008, 11:40 AM
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Thinks "pie" is a funny word.
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Do you know what I just realized? The abbreviation of number is "No.", as in "No. 1", even though the word "number" has no "O"s in it at all. Now just what the fuck is up with that?
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01-24-2008, 11:46 AM
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Esnohplad Semaj Ton
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No. comes from the word numero, not number.
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01-24-2008, 11:47 AM
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from the latin, I think
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01-24-2008, 11:53 AM
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Thinks "pie" is a funny word.
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I really should've thought of that.
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01-24-2008, 11:56 AM
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I can hear my ears
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OK..how about lbs. meaning 'pounds' then?
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01-24-2008, 12:08 PM
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Esnohplad Semaj Ton
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01-24-2008, 12:09 PM
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As stable as a ring of PU-239
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01-24-2008, 12:14 PM
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I can hear my ears
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Holy 3 year gap between posts, CW. were you in the joint?
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01-24-2008, 01:07 PM
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As stable as a ring of PU-239
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 Between grad school, finding a new job, managing a couple of websites and trying to light a fire under a web-based business, I had to cut some time from somewhere... No worries though. I still continued to lurk in the IotDs.
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