[2012-Apr-25] Playing the Odds

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Re: [2012-Apr-21] Playing the Odds

by missing-n0 » Sat Apr 28, 2012 5:12 pm

That was clever, the The Man Who Was Thursday reference.

Re: [2012-Apr-21] Playing the Odds

by Big Tom » Fri Apr 27, 2012 6:22 am

sotic wrote:
Sandwiches wrote:
Grammar_Nazi wrote:Not to mention the people that try to decipher something is a cryptanalyst and not a crytographer :D
And you call yourself a Grammar Nazi. Needless to say you will get no Sieg Heils from me.
To be fair, I'm pretty sure that 'people' started out singular and only somewhat recently became a synonym for 'persons'. DR, thoughts?
More like cryptANALysts...

Re: [2012-Apr-21] Playing the Odds

by Yoo-jin » Fri Apr 27, 2012 5:19 am

I wonder if this is referencing that there are answers for a certain set of problems rather than all of them. So that would mean that the reason why they wouldn't look at the even problems is that you're given the even answers on the back so you wouldn't even check the problem.

Re: [2012-Apr-21] Playing the Odds

by DonRetrasado » Fri Apr 27, 2012 2:29 am

sotic wrote:
Sandwiches wrote:
Grammar_Nazi wrote:Not to mention the people that try to decipher something is a cryptanalyst and not a crytographer :D
And you call yourself a Grammar Nazi. Needless to say you will get no Sieg Heils from me.
To be fair, I'm pretty sure that 'people' started out singular and only somewhat recently became a synonym for 'persons'. DR, thoughts?
According to Wiktionary, anyway, which is where I get all my facts.

Re: [2012-Apr-21] Playing the Odds

by Sandwiches » Thu Apr 26, 2012 8:40 pm

languarge arsse harw languarge arse uawsed.

Re: [2012-Apr-21] Playing the Odds

by sotic » Thu Apr 26, 2012 8:09 pm

Sandwiches wrote:
Grammar_Nazi wrote:Not to mention the people that try to decipher something is a cryptanalyst and not a crytographer :D
And you call yourself a Grammar Nazi. Needless to say you will get no Sieg Heils from me.
To be fair, I'm pretty sure that 'people' started out singular and only somewhat recently became a synonym for 'persons'. DR, thoughts?

Re: [2012-Apr-21] Playing the Odds

by Sandwiches » Thu Apr 26, 2012 11:29 am

See the point is I didn't call myself a Grammar Nazi Nazi.

Re: [2012-Apr-21] Playing the Odds

by Sahan » Thu Apr 26, 2012 11:26 am

That's probably for the best. It sounds horrible.

Re: [2012-Apr-21] Playing the Odds

by topher » Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:23 am

Sandwiches wrote:
Grammar_Nazi wrote:Not to mention the people that try to decipher something are cryptanalysts and not crytographers :D
And you call yourself a Grammar Nazi. Needless to say you will get no Sieg Heils from me.
And YOU call yourself a Grammar Nazi Nazi. Needless to say you will get no alphabetti spaghetti from me!

Re: [2012-Apr-21] Playing the Odds

by tehpineapple » Thu Apr 26, 2012 5:02 am

What was that about murder in the gorilla?

Re: [2012-Apr-21] Playing the Odds

by Kaharz » Thu Apr 26, 2012 2:37 am

Not to mention that it is an exaggeration commenting on the laziness of students for the purposes of humor.*

*I make no claims at to the success or failure of said exaggeration.

Re: [2012-Apr-21] Playing the Odds

by Oldrac the Chitinous » Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:13 pm

That's okay, I think he was really more of a Diction Bolshevik anyway.

Re: [2012-Apr-21] Playing the Odds

by Sandwiches » Wed Apr 25, 2012 7:39 pm

Grammar_Nazi wrote:Not to mention the people that try to decipher something is a cryptanalyst and not a crytographer :D
And you call yourself a Grammar Nazi. Needless to say you will get no Sieg Heils from me.

Re: [2012-Apr-21] Playing the Odds

by Grammar_Nazi » Wed Apr 25, 2012 7:35 pm

Not to mention the people that tries to decipher something is a cryptanalyst and not a crytographer :D

Re: [2012-Apr-21] Playing the Odds

by not_a_plant » Wed Apr 25, 2012 7:23 pm

Sandwiches wrote:The date on this is wrong though.
Not to mention the ridiculous joke of cutting off mid-word. As if the CIA would really be so sloppy in disposing of any witnesses.

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