h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I yam still me!

There is a slight downside that I've encountered with this "tony" thing.


I changed my name and then read it as "Tories Menthol Penguin" Not quite the effect I wanted!

Do Tories like menthol? Or, er, penguins? (I gather from Monty Python that they have unusual tastes...)

We haven't had any in North Carolina since 1784.

"Albatross, albatross - seabird flavoured albatross"

That reminds me! At my local cheese counter recently, there was a green cheese - Japanese!

I couldn't believe that Japanese Sage Derby really existed. Then I asked to try a slice. She did warn me it would taste of horse radish. it was awful!

I've seen King Bomba is a mere usernumber. Last I knew was his name being King Bomba, which certainly doesn't qualify for any of the reason that have been mentioned so far.

I was surprised my previous one wasn't nuked as it ended in "Currently castrated to 50 chars"

Mine's nice and short. Maybe they'll delete it on suspicion of being a cuss word?

BTW Some idiot entertainer has sued for a TV ad that uses her first name to identify a baby -- a first name that only a million other women have on their birth certificates. Maybe we should all be "Lindsey".

Mines been yikes'd three times since yesterday

Mine got yikesed again this morning It was "toybox - dandetony, tell me what you're thinking now" I really cannot fathom what was wrong with it

It was longer than the 50 characters and spaces allowed

I got one yikesed last week for breaking the house rules. They were perfectly justified; and I apologised. However, the posting was made in March 2005 - how much back-log have they got to wade through?

Well they do have the site re-design as well.

So it is true, mathematicians can't count

They weren't speaking your language, obviously.

Now if they said {x < 51; x € N} would that help?

scorp, the mods don't wade through backlog. They only act on postings if someone reports the posting to them.

Thanks Icy, that's much clearer now Except, I'm not sure an empty nickname is accepted (N contains zero, at least in France it does).

However, I'm afraid the problem is deciding whether the length of my ex-nickname belongs to that set or not which is a difficult problem. I don't see any grad student around to whom I could suggest to solve it

Toybox, there's a little-known recusrive procedure for character string length determination. It involves solving the problem for length = 1, then increasing the length in increments of unity, while simultaneously moving through a list of words known as number names. The process terminates when you reach the last character in your nickname or the number represented in Roman numerals as L, whichever comes first.

So basically you build a bijection with a suitable finite set. Why can't TPTB explain these things in such simple terms, I wonder?

I suppose the hampster doesn't count.