[QUOTE=xilman;341623]P.S. UK readers might be able to work out why those names were chosen. Precisely one of our immediate friends and relatives got it without any prompting.[/QUOTE]
I hadn't the faintest idea and cheated by googling. That brought up the daughter of someone I [I]do[/I] remember well, both from his music and his activism. The daughter was not quite 3 years old when I left the UK, so perhaps I can be excused not understanding her relationship with hens? (Assuming this person is indeed the key to your hens' names.)

[QUOTE=Brian-E;341628]I hadn't the faintest idea and cheated by googling. That brought up the daughter of someone I [I]do[/I] remember well, both from his music and his activism. The daughter was not quite 3 years old when I left the UK, so perhaps I can be excused not understanding her relationship with hens? (Assuming this person is indeed the key to your hens' names.)[/QUOTE]

You are excused. We needed a theme for several female names. Future ones are likely to include Debs, Polly, Glenda, Silvie and Brenda.

[QUOTE=Brian-E;341628]I hadn't the faintest idea and cheated by googling. That brought up the daughter of someone I [I]do[/I] remember well, both from his music and his activism. The daughter was not quite 3 years old when I left the UK, so perhaps I can be excused not understanding her relationship with hens? (Assuming this person is indeed the key to your hens' names.)[/QUOTE]
Well I got bob Geldorf and femaleness without the aid of any tax fraudsters, but still feel i am missing something here.

D

[QUOTE=davieddy;341645]Well I got bob Geldorf and femaleness without the aid of any tax fraudsters, but still feel i am missing something here.

D[/QUOTE]You are indeed.

[QUOTE=xilman;341639]You are excused. We needed a theme for several female names. Future ones are likely to include Debs, Polly, Glenda, Silvie and Brenda.[/QUOTE]

[spoiler]Private Eye[/spoiler]

I thought for a second Frou Frou meant cabbage cabbage, which is a french term for an idiot, or in my grandmother's case a long-dead dog. But then I realized the dog's name was Shoo shoo, so it was a mis-fire of my gray matter.

While we're doing all this random googling, try googling "goatcher curtain." Then enjoy the irony of the fact that I'm mentally retarded, imo, when it comes to dealing with 2d or 3d shapes.

[QUOTE=jasong;341854] when it comes to dealing with 2d or 3d shapes.[/QUOTE]

I just noticed that your Avatar has a split personality...part cat and part unicorn

[QUOTE=petrw1;341880]I just noticed that your Avatar has a split personality...part cat and part unicorn[/QUOTE]Not his doing. Someone with uber-powers foisted it upon him.

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;341928]Not his doing. Someone with uber-powers foisted it upon him.[/QUOTE]
This is undoubtedly true, but let's also recall jasong's cool [URL="http://www.mersenneforum.org/showpost.php?p=320966"]response[/URL] at the time:
[QUOTE]This post I so I can go back and look at my avatar. While I remember not being offended by it, I've forgotten precisely what it was.
[...]
[I] ah, yes, now I remember. Yeah, I've had much worse, and I do think it is funny.
[/I][/QUOTE]

I broke #400 on the mersenne big board for calculations with more than 7000 GHz days. All my calculations are Fermat Eliptic Curves, where I am #4 of 329.

[QUOTE=MattcAnderson;342001]I broke #400 on the mersenne big board for calculations with more than 7000 GHz days. All my calculations are Fermat Eliptic Curves, where I am #4 of 329.[/QUOTE]

You may add your curves on FermatSearch too... :hint:

Luigi