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Ah, still, that is some list.

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Indeed. *

JaxAshby too, who would have guessed. *


Nah, there was a "real" JaxAshby, but it looks like he gave up on
usenet after he got too famous (took a couple years). Several sock-
puppet players ("Bobsprit" for example) imitated him but were never as
funny.

.... Jax immortalized himself in my
mind by once suggesting to someone that they cruise to Lake Ontario
via the NYS Canals, the Genesee River and Rochester.

There is only one small problem with that route:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HighFallsGenesee.jpg


Yeah, I remember that... that was the real Jax... he also made many
memorable posts about "the deadly rocks & cliffs of Cape Hatteras"

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Ah, still, that is some list.


Wayne.B wrote:
Indeed.

JaxAshby too, who would have guessed.


Nah, there was a "real" JaxAshby, but it looks like he gave up on
usenet after he got too famous (took a couple years). Several sock-
puppet players ("Bobsprit" for example) imitated him but were never as
funny.

.... Jax immortalized himself in my
mind by once suggesting to someone that they cruise to Lake Ontario
via the NYS Canals, the Genesee River and Rochester.

There is only one small problem with that route:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HighFallsGenesee.jpg


Yeah, I remember that... that was the real Jax... he also made many
memorable posts about "the deadly rocks & cliffs of Cape Hatteras"

I enjoyed his claim that he could prove by geometry that the piston in an
engine travelled further on the upstroke than the downstroke (or maybe it
was vice versa)


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Ah, still, that is some list.


Wayne.B wrote:
Indeed.

JaxAshby too, who would have guessed.


Nah, there was a "real" JaxAshby, but it looks like he gave up on
usenet after he got too famous (took a couple years). Several sock-
puppet players ("Bobsprit" for example) imitated him but were never as
funny.

.... Jax immortalized himself in my
mind by once suggesting to someone that they cruise to Lake Ontario
via the NYS Canals, the Genesee River and Rochester.

There is only one small problem with that route:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HighFallsGenesee.jpg


Yeah, I remember that... that was the real Jax... he also made many
memorable posts about "the deadly rocks & cliffs of Cape Hatteras"

I enjoyed his claim that he could prove by geometry that the piston in an
engine travelled further on the upstroke than the downstroke (or maybe it
was vice versa)



That is not what he said. He claimed, correctly, that the piston
travels further from 90 degrees before TDC to 90 degrees after TDC than
it does from 90 degrees after TDC to 90 degrees before TDC.

That being said he had no idea that the arc described taken up by a
centenary is a hyperbolic function.

Oh, and he did write a "definitive" treatise on excercise equipment.

Cheers
Martin
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That being said he had no idea that the arc described taken up by a
centenary is a hyperbolic function.

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Cheers
Martin


Actually, the trajectory of a centenary is from mewling and puking to
decrepitude....

:-)

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Brian Whatcott wrote:
Actually, the trajectory of a centenary is from mewling and puking to
decrepitude....

:-)


That could be a hyperbolic function too

Sorry, couldn't resist

DSK

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