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Symmetry is hard to beat,
I think it's really really neat,
Whene'er I find a thing askew,
I make it right, you bet I do!
A tilted picture on the wall
One cannot tolerate at all,
I turn it till it's hanging true,
I make it right, you bet I do!
A table setting's living hell
When knife and fork aren't parallel,
And misaligned the spoon is too,
I make it right, you bet I do!
Obsessed is what some say I am,
But without order life's a sham,
So when I find a thing askew,
I make it right, you bet I do!
46 responses total.
O, dite buoyth! Girte ik am I? Wek sag nih tadni fin, eh? O.S.
Some might be repeats; but great all the same! > > > > > > > > > >Few of the best ever documented :: > > > > > > > > > > Perplexing Paradox No. 1 : > > > > > > > > > > A crocodile caught a kid and when kid's mother came for > > > > >rescue, crocodile posed her a question - 'U can make a statement. If > > > > you > > > > >speak the truth in it, i will return your kid . Otherwise i will eat > > > > >him.' and the mother agreed. > > > > > > > > > > The clever mother made the statement - "You will eat my kid'. > > > > > Now, the crocodile is in a dilemma of what to do. > > > > > Can you see the beautiful paradox in mother's statement ? > > > > > > > > > > Perplexing paradox No. 2 > > > > > > > > > > A king caught the bandit chief and before punishing , offered > > > > him a > > > > >statement. The king said ' You can make a statement. If you say the > > > > >truth > > > > >in it, you will be shot and if not you will be hanged ' > > > > > > > > > > But ur wish will be fulfilled. > > > > > > > > > > The clever bandit chief replied ' I will be hanged'. The king got > > > > into a > > > > >dilemma of what to do. > > > > > See the paradox in bandit's answer. > > > > > > > > > > Perplexing Paradox No. 3: > > > > > > > > > > Few centuries ago, a Law teacher came across a student who was > > > > >willing > > > > >to learn but was unable to pay the fee. The student struck a deal > > > > saying > > > > >' I would pay your fee the day i win my first case in > > > > > > > > > >the court'. Teacher agreed and proceeded with the law course. When > > > > >the > > > > >course was finished and teacher started pestering the student to pay > > > > up > > > > >the > > > > >fee, student reminded the deal and pushed days. > > > > > > > > > > Fed up with this, the teacher decided to sue the student in the > > > > court > > > > >of law and both of them decided to argue for themselves. The > > > > teacher > > > > >put > > > > >forward his argument saying : > > > > > > > > > > " If i win this case, as per the court of law, student has to > > > > pay me. > > > > > > > > > > And if i lose the case, student will still pay me because he > > > > would > > > > >have won his first case. So either way i will have to get the money > > > > ". > > > > > > > > > > Equally brilliant student argued back saying : "If i win the > > > > case, as > > > > >per the court of law, i don't have to pay anything to the teacher. > > > > And if i > > > > >lose the case, i don't have to pay him because i haven't won my > > > > first > > > > >case > > > > >yet. So either way, i am not going to pay the teacher anything ". > > > > > > > > > > This is one of the greatest paradox ever recorded in history.
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<enigma 346 --> poetry 127> (sorry for not beign able to get around to it sooner, john...)
(No prob. Thanks for tending to it.)
just out of curiosity....what the h-e-double-hockey-sticks does resp. 2 have to do with this poem?
The last paradox is apocryphally assoicated with Plato and a student of his, I believe. (Or perhaps 'twere Socrates)
Re resp:6 - Yeah, resp:2 is a puzzler. But then this item started out in the Enigma cf, so I guess it's ok...
Re response the sixth: Yeah, response the second is a PUZZLER. But then this item started out in the ENIGMA cf, so I guess it's okaaaaaaaayyyy...
for those of us who cannot see the image, please tell what you have posted, john?
They're supposed to be Grex logos. But I can't see them either. (Time to file a Backtalk bug report?)
and an upside down logo at that
Joe, do you see the logos displayed properly in Backtalk, or did you have to track them down by other means?
I looked at the source, then pasted them into netscape (so no, I had to track them down)
Looks like a Backtalk bug. I'll notify the developers.
I'd notify the git who put an image in a post in the first place.
(remmers, being the "git" who posted the image would have no need to notify himself before notifying the backtalk fixer people)
*hands Joe the latest best-seller: "Irony, Sarcasm, and Other Annoying Rhetorical Devices," by Brighn*
(Oh, so it really _is_ all your fault. I'd been wondering... :)
oi. <smacks her own forehead> [:
yep. all my fault. I take full blame and credit =}
Re response the sixth: Yeah, response the second is a PUZZLER. But then this item started out in the ENIGMA cf, so I guess it's okaaaaaaaayyyy...
(There were a couple wee HTML errors in John's response. A missing quote mark and he had <IMG HREF="url"> instead of <IMG SRC="url">.
Show-off.
(An error in the data, not the software. Darn, I *hate* it when I do that... Jan's resp:22 shows what I intended.)
bobble boozle quack quack finally, some interesting drift..
Great.........cool.................the best!
VISUALIZE WORLD PEACE [IMAGE] VISUALIZE "*B*illions and *B*illions" of bits spinning round and round on grex's hard drives....spinning....spinning.... [IMAGE] VISUALIZE Bob Dole doing Viagra infomercials on a XXX cable channel.... [EXTREMELY GROSS IMAGE]
Let's not visualize and say we did.
resp:28 *chuckle* I needed that.
I just want to say I like the word "Swable" Swable swable swable. WonderfullufrednoW
It's "swoble," doofus. With an o. Otherwise, you end up having seen elbaws, and I don't think there is any such thing.
You mean I'm the only one? I thought everyone had elbaws! God, I feel like such an abnormality!
Do you also have kneecops?
Actually, no, that would be rather more stress then I care to deal with, thank you. I mean, having to keep up a constant supply of dounuts around the house, and then the sirens in the middle of the night.... what a pain! OH well.
You might want to consider hiring a few. They would probably keep that bad knee of yours in line. Of course, they might also take it into custody, in which case you'd be short a kneecap. But that's the price you pay for justice.
You guys kill me. Good poem, Remmers I liked it.
<remmers bows>
BANG! BANG! <ponder falls in a heap on the enigmatic floor> Oh, sorry 'bout that... Opps...
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