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bobstafford Started conversation Feb 6, 2010
A quiver could be a dangerous thing explane
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~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum Posted Feb 6, 2010
My old friend from the 1960s Kenny Tobias wrote the song:
"How it makes me quiver
How it makes me smile
With all this love I have to give you
Guess I'm gonna stay with you awhile..."
If that sounds familiar the full lyrics are at:
http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/s/stayawhile.shtml
He's got a few on the U-toobs.
~jwf~
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Todaymueller Posted Feb 6, 2010
Arrows go in quivers . And they can pretty dangerous .
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toybox Posted Feb 6, 2010
Quivers, like in oriented graphs?
The following link might explain why they are dangerous, too
http://eom.springer.de/Q/q076860.htm
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bobstafford Posted Feb 6, 2010
Nice point but wrong +3 DGI though
(I think a large print version of the link with pictures would help though)
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toybox Posted Feb 6, 2010
Something like this?
http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/~pmtwc/quiver/
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Feb 6, 2010
I presume your title is a joke on "Lammastide", the holiday, and the mathematical word "lemmas", indicating that there is a mathematical connection in this?
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Feb 6, 2010
And it's also "explane" instead of "explain", so I assume it involves trigonometry...
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bobstafford Posted Feb 6, 2010
one is a linguistic hint
And explane instead of explain is an obscure pointer.
Nothing to do with trigonometry or air transport.
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hygienicdispenser Posted Feb 6, 2010
I just thought you got 2legs to write it for you.
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pedro Posted Feb 8, 2010
I had to read an economics paper called 'The market for lemmas'. It was a pun on a famous paper 'The market for lemons' which won its author the Nobel prize.
Is the danger becoming increasingly divorced from reality, a la economists?
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