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- From: jecoleb@eos.ncsu.edu (have clue, will travel)
- Subject: short, mathematical impotence
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.212159.13328@ncsu.edu>
- Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: jecoleb@eos.ncsu.edu
- Organization: The Ghost Of Christmas Past Society
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 21:21:59 GMT
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- The more phone numbers of attractive females I procure, the smaller the
- probability of my finding the nerve to CALL one of them becomes.
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- With one option (not too long ago), I called because I had no other choice.
- With multiples, I manage to waver back and forth between all of the
- possibilities and potential deaths-by-fire-and-brimstone until the only
- thing left OPEN in town is the International House of Pancakes.
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- my theory is that if I manage to dispose of ALL of the phone numbers,
- the probability will reach positive infinity and, thus, my phone will ring
- without my having to lift a finger.
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- this is known as the Tao of Southern Bell effect, I'm told.
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- ---jeff "well, at LEAST I got rid of those damn 1-900s." c., ncsu.
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- jecoleb@eos.ncsu.edu \\ pope@aza.csc.ncsu.edu
- "I don't know where you took --=-- To KLH: Love ya, Katya!
- me, but I didn't want to leave." \\ have clue, will travel.
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