Re: Apples


"Barry" <Sirdry@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Androcles wrote:
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| > Barry wrote:
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| > | Androcles wrote:
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| > | > Get a Dell or Compaq then.
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| > | I tried that, but the book covers stayed put.
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| > They would, nothing moves in spacetime including thought.
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| And the proof of the apple pie is in the eating.

That's as English as apple pie. American apples are big and red
and... taste like cardboard.



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| > | > They don't climb, they fall back and come to rest on branches.
| > | > The Earth weighs 100 grams in the apple's gravitational field.
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| > | A cycle, that's more or less what I was thinking.
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| > Try Harley-Davidson. Yamaha are useless, there are 88 keys
| > to play to get a note out of them.
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| Damn! I just bought a Yamaha and it only has 61 keys.
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| But there again, I only have 10 fingers.

Recycle it.


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| > | Then will I become like an apple and understand?
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| > You are not required to understand, you are required to believe.
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| Seems a bit seedy to me.


Not a grain of truth, take it with a pinch of salt.

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| > | But I want infinite knowlege, power and wisdom. That doesn't seem to
| > | come from brains.
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| > Insert brain in private correspondent's head. Then you'll have
| > infinite knowledge, power and wisdom, he/she knows how to spell
"knowledge".
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| Wow, thast's the last piece, now I can see it all clearly. Now my goal
| is to forget,
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| > > I want to be an apple.
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| > Go ahead. You won't need your brain, donate it to research.
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| It never did me much good anyway.

Scrumpy might do you some bad.

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| > | And don't try to oppress me by telling me that I can't be one.
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| > If I operate a press you'd be scrumpy.
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| I haven't had that for over 40 years. After 11 pints things turned
| nasty and I saw chips and other things that I'd thought I would never
| see again.
|
Seedy.


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