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[2012-Apr-25] Playing the Odds
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:46 am
by ChaoticBrain
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db ... 2591#comic
I don't know about the rest of you, but my math teachers very regularly assigned even-number problems as homework assignments.
I guess that means I know all the CIA's secrets th
Re: [2012-Apr-21] Playing the Odds
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 5:27 pm
by Jiro
I would only do the even number problems, but then again the "answers" in the back of the textbook I used in my last two years were wrong 90% of the time. SO perhaps there was some kind of cypher there.
Re: [2012-Apr-21] Playing the Odds
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 5:30 pm
by Sandwiches
The date on this is wrong though.
Re: [2012-Apr-21] Playing the Odds
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 7:23 pm
by not_a_plant
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.
Re: [2012-Apr-21] Playing the Odds
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 7:35 pm
by Grammar_Nazi
Not to mention the people that tries to decipher something is a cryptanalyst and not a crytographer
Re: [2012-Apr-21] Playing the Odds
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 7:39 pm
by Sandwiches
Grammar_Nazi wrote:Not to mention the people that
try to decipher something is a cryptanalyst and not a crytographer
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
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:13 pm
by Oldrac the Chitinous
That's okay, I think he was really more of a Diction Bolshevik anyway.
Re: [2012-Apr-21] Playing the Odds
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 2:37 am
by Kaharz
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
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 5:02 am
by tehpineapple
What was that about murder in the gorilla?
Re: [2012-Apr-21] Playing the Odds
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:23 am
by topher
Sandwiches wrote:Grammar_Nazi wrote:Not to mention the people that
try to decipher something
are cryptanalyst
s and not crytographer
s
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
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 11:26 am
by Sahan
That's probably for the best. It sounds horrible.
Re: [2012-Apr-21] Playing the Odds
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 11:29 am
by Sandwiches
See the point is I didn't call myself a Grammar Nazi Nazi.
Re: [2012-Apr-21] Playing the Odds
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 8:09 pm
by sotic
Sandwiches wrote:Grammar_Nazi wrote:Not to mention the people that
try to decipher something is a cryptanalyst and not a crytographer
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
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 8:40 pm
by Sandwiches
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Re: [2012-Apr-21] Playing the Odds
Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 2:29 am
by DonRetrasado
sotic wrote:Sandwiches wrote:Grammar_Nazi wrote:Not to mention the people that
try to decipher something is a cryptanalyst and not a crytographer
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.