Re: LUCY: ``Yes, we have no bananas!"

Kathy McIntosh (postmaster@vineries.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 14 Nov 1996 21:04:09 +0000

In article <3289792b.3697880@netnews.worldnet.att.net>, fmurray@pobox
writes
>what i find interesting here is that the ratio of the largest
>refuter's figure to the smallest refuter's figure is larger than the
>ratio of ed's figure to the largest refuter's figure...this becomes
>true if we take socrates "few hundred yards" to mean a figure above
>approx. 132 feet...as we use a larger value for socrate's "few hundred
>yards" (his phrase justifies using a larger value), the ratio between
>the largest of the refuter's figure and the smallest of the refuter's
>figures becomes a multiple of the ratio between ed's figure and the
>largest of the refuter's figures....
>
>perhaps something might be wrong with the refuter's figures??...
>
>frank

My God! I didn't know you needed a higher degree in convoluted logic to
read this newsgroup!

Couldn't you have put the above in plain English?

-- 
Kathy McIntosh
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
Robert Byrne.