[2012-Apr-25] Playing the Odds

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[2012-Apr-25] Playing the Odds

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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

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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.

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The date on this is wrong though.

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

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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.

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That's okay, I think he was really more of a Diction Bolshevik anyway.
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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.
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What was that about murder in the gorilla?

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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!

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That's probably for the best. It sounds horrible.
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See the point is I didn't call myself a Grammar Nazi Nazi.

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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?
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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.
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