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That caught my eye too. I'm thinking Eveneye has been quite clever but, perhaps, not phrased it too well.

excluding the leading 1 (itself a composite?), each repeated digit (11111, 2222, 3333, ...) is a composite number (ie positive & not prime). Myself, I'm going to allow him those five ones and, nevertheless, congratulate him.

Congrats, Eveneye.


(or am I preaching to the converted?)

Ahem, four 0s plus the 98889899 at the end.

I'm still impressed.

When I mash the number pad I get: 68466938687687677984664867684468684648

American soldiers in the South Pacific during WWII used the term "lollapalooza" as a shibboleth and test. Instead of asking something silly like "friend or foe" they'd ask a suspicious person of undetermined heritage (they dealt with lots of locals and Filipinos so they weren't always sure) to read the word "lollapalooza". If the person started by pronouncing it "rorra..." they were typically shot before they could finish the word.

Flash.

Carl Sagan proposed including the Beatles "Here Comes the Sun" on the Voyager albums. The Beatles liked the idea. EMI refused permission. It wasn't included.

Thunder.

Six days ago Mr X reported a flash.
Today he heard thunder.

So if sound travels at 600mph, how far away was the lightning?


~jwf~

Phil Collins is believed to have the world's largest collection of Texas Revolution artifacts.

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Pop-star-at-center-of-Alamo-discord-3790425.php

As a Texan, I can't say that this pleases me.

So what? Michael Jackson bought the Beatles after all.

Myeahh... that didn't please me either.

If that one helps: most of the dead of Little Bighorn were imported English.

It's not that Phil Collins is British that bothers me, it's that he's Phil Collins.

Aww, c´m on - imagine he (it?) were Elton John?

~*~So if sound travels at 600mph, how far away was the lightning?~*~

86,400 miles.

Incidentally, Normandy is roughly 5,200 miles away, give or take.

5,200 miles away. From me. At this moment.

A fine example Mr x of when someone's brain shoots them in the foot

Personally, my brain was trying to make sense of D-Day when I read your comment.

Aha! I'm glad someone got it.

I guess I didn't. And since both flash and thunder followed my posts, I'll assume it was at my expense.

Every member of the Lyndon Baines Johnson first family shared the same initials, LBJ; his wife, Lady Bird, daughters Lynda Bird and Luci Baines and even the family dog, Little Beagle Johnson.