From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: My Spacebar is OK!
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:50:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0506131333470.19743@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SERRANO7xj1j0IyfTUJ00000017@SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
> ----Original Message----
> >From: Igor Pechtchanski
> >Sent: 13 June 2005 18:06
>
> > On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
> >
> >> Just in terms of gravitational potential energy, you're getting a lot
> >> more value-for-money from each kilogram of hippo if it's falling off the
> >> top of a tower block than if it's just been pushed off the edge of a
> >> coffee-table!
> >
> > You have a coffee table that can hold a hippo?! :-)
> > Igor
>
> No, I have a coffee table that _can't_ hold a hippo. That's why the
> hippo is in free-fall from a not-very-great-height!
Well, then, there'd be hardly any need to *push* the hippo off the edge,
would there?
Igor
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-13 17:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-13 11:29 Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
2005-06-13 15:30 ` Lionel B
2005-06-13 15:34 ` Dave Korn
2005-06-13 16:21 ` Christopher Faylor
2005-06-13 17:06 ` Lionel B
2005-06-13 17:34 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-13 17:10 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-13 17:33 ` Dave Korn
2005-06-13 17:50 ` Igor Pechtchanski [this message]
2005-06-14 9:09 ` Lionel B
2005-06-14 15:58 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-14 12:15 ` Dave Korn
2005-06-14 15:59 ` One Angry User
2005-06-15 0:32 ` zzapper
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-06-14 13:51 Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
2005-06-14 15:57 ` Dave Korn
2005-06-15 9:26 ` Carlo Florendo
2005-06-15 9:26 ` Dave Korn
2005-06-13 13:52 Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
[not found] <000901c56da7$78c10990$bf2fb5d5@keloasc60pobkb>
[not found] ` <20050610135326.GD7942@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
2005-06-10 15:08 ` Gerrit P. Haase
2005-06-10 16:59 ` Christopher Faylor
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