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Dale61
You can't have manslaughter without laughter.
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Dr Alf Andrews
Fitzroy Victoria Bowling Club
Joined: 20 Oct 2001 Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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You mean someone went to the trouble of COUNTING them |
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Dale61
You can't have manslaughter without laughter.
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Yeah Alf, all they did was count their legs and wings, then divided by 6.
Is there an easier way? _________________ Whale
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Dr Alf Andrews
Fitzroy Victoria Bowling Club
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Dale61 wrote: | Yeah Alf, all they did was count their legs and wings, then divided by 6.
Is there an easier way? |
There is, actually.
You only have to count their legs ... then divide by 6. It's easier AND more accurate.
If you count their wings as well, you'd have to divide the result by 8 because they have 6 legs + 2 wings.
But then you'd have to allow for a certain percentage of flies that have had their wings removed by psychopaths.
So you'd need access to mental health statistics relating to psychopaths who get their jollies by removing the wings from flies and come up with some sort of estimate as to how many psychopathic episodes these people have in the period under question. You would also need some estimate of how many wings they remove per episode.
So, in view of the difficulties this might present, I'd suggest just counting the legs and dividing by 6. |
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Dale61
You can't have manslaughter without laughter.
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My bad, me thinking flies have 4 legs.
I must be one of the psychopaths you mention as I used to pull their wings off and turn them into a walk!
Another way of counting them is to count their eyes, then divide by... nah, that's just too difficult. _________________ Whale
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skaman
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Solution: Send Carro over the S.A border, Pied Piper style and set camp on the biggest dung heap, Football Park! Problem solved! _________________ Enjoy yourself. Its later than you think! |
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David
to wish impossible things
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if it gets any worse than I'm probably just going to sit in my room all day and cry _________________ "Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange |
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The Prototype
Paint my face with a good-for-nothin smile.
Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Location: Hobart, Tasmania
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