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QI - Lemmastide

Post 1

bobstafford

A quiver could be a dangerous thing explane


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Post 2

Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic.

Is that a question or a statement? smiley - winkeye


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Post 3

bobstafford

Both smiley - tongueout


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Post 4

~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum

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.

smiley - musicalnote
~jwf~


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Post 5

bobstafford

smiley - cool but not correctsmiley - smiley


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Post 6

Todaymueller

Arrows go in quivers . And they can pretty dangerous .


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Post 7

Todaymueller

Adds 'be'

According to Marx ; " Time flies like an arrow , but fruit flies like a banana " smiley - run


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Post 8

bobstafford

Todaymueller no mate

PS I did not mention arrows smiley - smiley


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Post 9

toybox

Quivers, like in oriented graphs?

The following link might explain why they are dangerous, too smiley - scientistsmiley - geeksmiley - monster

http://eom.springer.de/Q/q076860.htm


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Post 10

bobstafford

Nice point but wrong +3 DGI though
(I think a large print version of the link with pictures would help smiley - erm though)
smiley - laugh


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Post 11

toybox

Something like this?
http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/~pmtwc/quiver/


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Post 12

bobstafford

smiley - magic that will do smiley - winkeye


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Post 13

Gnomon - time to move on

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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Post 14

Malabarista - now with added pony

And it's also "explane" instead of "explain", so I assume it involves trigonometry...


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Post 15

Gnomon - time to move on

or something involving ejector seats.


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Post 16

bobstafford

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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Post 17

bobstafford

lemmas as in linguistics smiley - ok


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Post 18

hygienicdispenser

I just thought you got 2legs to write it for you.


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Post 19

bobstafford

Anymore ideassmiley - smiley


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Post 20

pedro

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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