bob,
i thought i'd gotten it until you explained. now i suppose i'll have to wait
until Wilbur explains it to Mr. Ed where we can get the full range of <G>'s and
<VBG>'s.
cheers,
jerry wall
Bob Spidell wrote:
>
> Well, at least a couple of other Listers share my off-key, non-PC sense of
> humor.
>
> This was a vague cross-reference to the expressed rarity--for imports
> stateside, at least--of a blue DB7 WRT the recent lengthy thread regarding
> the rarity and (perceived) greater value of MGB Healeys sold recently at
> auction.
>
> The humor--for those perverse enough to see it--is employed in what scientists
> call
> the
>"semi-PC-not-directly-related-but-not-quite-a-pun-ironic-semi-twist-poke-a-
> little-fun-of-those-who-can-tolerate-it" school of humorology. This techniqe
>is
> not
> commonly used, statistically reported to between somewhere between a blue
> '97 DB7 and a genuine, BMHIT-certified MGB '67 BJ8 on the George Carlin/Steven
> Wright Humor Refractometry Index, with an approximate reading of 6.733493
> (which is known to be WAY off the scale for Muslim Fundamentalists).
>
> Unfortunately, the subtlety of this type of humor requires a smiley comprised
>of
> roughly the number characters as the number of digits in the latest
>calculation
> of
> the exact value of pi, which has been known to break any list server not
>running
> on a Cray XMP, so I decided to use the closest approximation: ;)
>
> I guess, in other words, "if I have to explain it ... "
>
>
> bs
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> '67 Austin-Healey 3000 '56 Austin-Healey 100M
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