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  1. Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!timbuk.cray.com!walter.cray.com!jcarroll
  3. From: jcarroll@ferris.cray.com (Jeff Carroll)
  4. Subject: Re: pi envy
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec22.135718.1610@walter.cray.com>
  6. Originator: jcarroll@ferris
  7. Lines: 30
  8. Sender: jcarroll@ferris (Jeff Carroll)
  9. Nntp-Posting-Host: ferris.cray.com
  10. Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
  11. References: <of=9pqa00awIA1919N@andrew.cmu.edu> <1gj2r8INNr6k@chnews.intel.com> <1992Dec15.000657.17089@walter.cray.com> <1992Dec18.160129.4223@telesciences.com>
  12. Date: 22 Dec 92 13:57:18 CST
  13.  
  14.  
  15. In article <1992Dec18.160129.4223@telesciences.com>, srscnslt@telesciences.com (SRS Consultant) writes:
  16. > In article <1992Dec15.000657.17089@walter.cray.com> jcarroll@ferris.cray.com (Jeff Carroll) writes:
  17. > >
  18. > >Somewhere between puberty and college, I memorized 26 places of pi.
  19.  
  20. blah blah blah...
  21.  
  22. > >I somehow managed to remain quite impressed with myself until I met
  23. > >a nice Italian girl from Joliet who knew 50 places of pi.
  24. > >
  25. > >Life hasn't been the same since.
  26. > 
  27. > 
  28. > Did you marry her or kill her?
  29. > -- 
  30.  
  31. Neither. I did, however, kill a significant number of my own cerebral neurons.
  32.  
  33. I also relinquished the juvenile fantasty* that one's intrinsic worth to
  34. society was in any way proportional to the number of places of pi that
  35. one knew.
  36.  
  37. I hoped that that little vignette would prevent some of the discussion that
  38. in fact ensued.
  39.  
  40. I guess one never entirely outgrows one's juvenile fantasties.
  41.  
  42.  
  43. * This word is correctly speeled.
  44.