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Post by Tyrannical » Sat Dec 16, 2017 6:13 pm

Rum wrote:There is a town in Canada called “Dildo.”
There's a Greek island named Lesbos, with quite the interesting ancient history behind it.
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Post by JimC » Sat Dec 16, 2017 8:26 pm

...where the women are always content...
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Post by Woodbutcher » Sun Dec 17, 2017 12:52 am

JimC wrote:...where the women are always content...
..and they moved into Climax, Saskatchewan, vacationing occasionally in Big Beaver, Saskatchewan and finishing off in Urin, Saskatchewan. :prof:
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Post by Tero » Wed Dec 20, 2017 3:35 am

”Ben Franklin, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson were known to have regularly eaten and served ice cream. Records, kept by a merchant from Catham street, New York, show George Washington spending approximately $200 on ice cream in the summer of 1790. The same records show president Thomas Jefferson having an 18 step recipe for ice cream. First Lady Dolley Madison, wife of U.S. President James Madison, served ice cream at her husband's Inaugural Ball in 1813.”

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Post by Rum » Wed Dec 20, 2017 10:10 pm

In 1940, scientists concluded that consumption of ice cream was the leading cause of the polio epidemic, solely based on the stats that there were more cases of polio in the summer, which was also when children ate most ice cream.

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Post by Hermit » Wed Dec 20, 2017 10:22 pm

Rum wrote:In 1940, scientists concluded that consumption of ice cream was the leading cause of the polio epidemic, solely based on the stats that there were more cases of polio in the summer, which was also when children ate most ice cream.
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Post by rainbow » Thu Dec 21, 2017 6:34 am

People who take aspirin get more headaches than those that don't use aspirin at all.
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Post by Hermit » Thu Dec 21, 2017 7:15 am

rainbow wrote:People who take aspirin get more headaches than those that don't use aspirin at all.
Makes sense. No point taking aspirins when you don't get headaches, is there?
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Post by DRSB » Thu Dec 21, 2017 7:27 am

Bertrand Russel spent lots of time to prove that 1 + 1 = 2, some 300 pages, I have not read them but do not think he presented the proof. So many things even in maths are based on assumptions!

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Post by Brian Peacock » Thu Dec 21, 2017 8:20 am

I'm prepared to trust him, even if you have to take the existence of '1' on the nod.
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Post by DRSB » Thu Dec 21, 2017 8:35 am

Brian Peacock wrote:I'm prepared to trust him, even if you have to take the existence of '1' on the nod.
This was the main difficulty: to define "1" and define "2" and define "plus" and define "equals"! May be I should buy the book.

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Post by Brian Peacock » Thu Dec 21, 2017 8:40 am

All maths follows from the principle of the singular.
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Post by DRSB » Thu Dec 21, 2017 8:45 am

Brian Peacock wrote:All maths follows from the principle of the singular.
Yes, and the singular is an axiom.

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Post by Brian Peacock » Thu Dec 21, 2017 8:53 am

There you go. :)
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