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In article ,
says...

Jax,
yup, you be that fraud.

You really ouught to talk to your ISP. They keep substituting the
words of a petulant teenager suffering from hormonal overdose for
your cogent, well-supported arguments.

Hey---I wonder if it works both ways?............

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Yo Jax! I not be dat professor Man!
Only in de compote in yo hwed
Is dat asymptote sumpin' u see
cummin' from my machine
to dem words u tink u red!

Wot u Red 'n wot I sed
seems to be like majic
changed to wat u like.
But like dat dutch boy an d' dyke--
It's time to pull it out and see
wat color your thumb be!

Lick it 'n switch it, baby!

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Hmmm, I wonder if AOL translated that properly!

Jax must be Google-groups deprived, or he would have
the attributions straight by now.

Mark Borgerson

From: Mark Borgerson
Date: 9/6/2004 11:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time
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In article ,
says...
mark, you said 'asymptote", and none exists. *that* is bad English?

Is that a question? I guess it is bad English to mix single and double
quotation marks around a word.

It seems to me more likely that you didn't have a clew what the word meant,
and
you used it anyway to "prove" to one and all what a genius you are.

Wow-- a real sailorly pun---substituting 'clew' for 'clue'! Are you
sure you aren't a few sheets to the wind?

As for 'asymptote', I did post a reference to a web site defining the
three types of asymptote. In case you missed it, here it is again:

http://www.math.com/tables/derivatives/extrema.htm

The speed of light would seem to fit the definition of a vertical
asymptote, since no KNOWN amount of power will move a boat's speed
past that line. However, if you have evidence to the contrary,
feel free to share!

remember, the term entered this thread when some fraud claiming to be a
college
professor totally misused the word.

mark, were that fraud?

If you mean was I the person claiming to be a college professor, the
answer is no.

If you mean 'Was that fraud' I don't know because I don't know the
person who posted that.

You really should ask your ISP why it keeps dropping words from your
postings---sometimes rendering them incomprehensible.

Mark Borgerson

SNIP