help!-tethered cow problem
 

:rolleyes:
Drew My boy, respect has to be earned and not demanded.
This is lesson No.1 in the 'School of Hard Knocks'
Mally :coffee:

help!-tethered cow problem
 

[QUOTE=xilman]On the whole, I think I prefer William Topaz McGonagall. He had a better grasp of metre and a more skillful use of vocabulary.

Paul[/QUOTE]
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Its plain Iambic metre.

Try Lord Byron for size.

'Tell me not of a name great in Story,
The days of youth are the days of glory
And the mirth and Ivy of two and twenty
Are worth all the laurels,
Be it ever so plenty'
Can you analyse the metre and is the vocab okay? Try getting this verse on the net and its title?
Mally :coffee:

[QUOTE=mfgoode]:rolleyes:
Drew My boy, respect has to be earned and not demanded.[/QUOTE]
Interesting. Most people tend to give me the benefit of the doubt. Or at least refrain from ridiculing me at the first encounter. Especially when I tactfully point out an error in their analysis...most actually try to resolve the issue instead of slinging insults. :smile:

Drew

help!-tethered cow problem
 

:smile: Drew you are like a tortoise. Its only when I will tap you on the shell will you stick your head out.
I wish you all the best and may you prove the RH with your mastery in analysis.
Mally :coffee:

Since I've been named in this thread I suppose I ought to say something... but I just don't figure it's worth it. Poorly posed problem leads to different solutions, flamewar. More at 11. Granted, the poetry (if you want to call it that) bit was a new one.

I'd be tempted to move this thread into Miscellaneous, but there's some decent math in here so I'm hesitant. Opinions?

Alex

Edit: wait, this is the wrong thread. My bad. The problem here was well posed. The coin thing was ill-posed and where the bickering started.

[QUOTE=akruppa]Since I've been named in this thread I suppose I ought to say something... but I just don't figure it's worth it. Poorly posed problem leads to different solutions, flame war. More at 11. Granted, the poetry (if you want to call it that) bit was a new one.
Alex
Edit: wait, this is the wrong thread. My bad. The problem here was well posed. The coin thing was ill-posed and where the bickering started.[/QUOTE]
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Thank you akruppa for being impartial but frank. :bow:

Yes the coin problem started the flame war particularly when I decided not to
reply any more. :bounce:
That would be a good point from which to move the thread and relegate it to 'Misc'
Posts not containing single math, numbers or equations should be moved off.
Circumlocution at all costs should not be tolerated. This is more a display of language skills than math skills. We want MATH, MATH AND Nothing but MATH!
in Puzzles and Math. :banana:
Also since evidently the pollster has not even entered a law court it should be a mandatory requirement to state Name, age, and state, and qualifications in every ones profile. There is no need for a separate PM asking for one's credentials.Its only then, when flaming will stop and respect or disregard can be judicially given. Nick names will have more meaning then, as Dr, Silverman has also mentioned in a recent post.
Mally :coffee:

Or we could all be mature and accept that even if we don't know who another person is, we can just freaking accept them as having a chance of being right or at least interesting. I'm not sure if I'd rather see 1 thinking about 100 or 100 thinking about 1. :) Of course if someone comes off as being crude, rude, hypercritical, sycophantic and toadyish, mean, on an ivory tower, or just plain A retentive then I can (try to, atleast) ignore them.
It's not so much that an idea is right, but that it makes the poster think.

So to post on this site, we're all supposed to provide our SSN, DL, and military ID? :P Funny, but I thought the point of forums was that you have no idea who a person really is - so you don't know if they're black, young, silver haired, white, left handed, female, northern hemisphere, or whatever. Thier behaviour will tell you what you need to know. If you want to make a game of trying to determine who someone "really is", then remember not to be an online stalker. LOL :bounce:

[QUOTE=nibble4bits]Or we could all be to,....... atleast) ignore them.
It's not so much that an idea is right, but that it makes the poster think.

So to post on this site, we're all supposed to provide our SSN, DL, and military ID? :P Funny, but I thought the point of forums was that you have no idea who a person really is - so you don't know if they're black, young, silver haired, white, left handed, female, northern hemisphere, or whatever. Thier behaviour will tell you what you need to know. If you want to make a game of trying to determine who someone "really is", then remember not to be an online stalker. LOL :bounce:[/QUOTE]
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SSN,DL and military Id: This is a disguised form of circumlocution IMO. of what is known as exageration
Its going beyond the domain required and permitted and certainly not mathematical.
By stating age and qualification one can still be incognito, yet give one the level of understanding in, a debate of the other person.
Mally :coffee:

Ah, but they can lie.
Hahahahahaha Most illogical I guess.

[QUOTE=mfgoode]By stating age and qualification one can still be incognito, yet give one the level of understanding in, a debate of the other person.[/QUOTE]
I'd like to introduce now the featured artist of this forum. I'm sure that you'll all agree without any hesitation that Xilman is the most brilliant creative genius that Britain has produced in almost 200 years, so perhaps a few words of biographical background might not be amiss. Endowed by nature with perhaps the most glorious baritone voice to be heard on the global stage since the memorable concert debut in 1835 of Millard Fillmore; endowed also with twelve incredibly agile fingers; Xilman has had a long and varied career in the field of entertainment starting with nine years Oxford University... where it was that he first decided to devote his life to what has since become a rather successful scientific project -- namely, the attempt to prolong adolescence beyond all previous limits.
Even before he came to Oxford, however, he was well known in academic circles for his masterly translation into Latin of The Wizard of Oz, which remains even today the standard Latin version of that work. A few years ago he was inducted... forcibly... into Her Majesty's Army and spent most of his indenture in London as sort of Army liaison to the Office of Naval Contemplation. About his service record he is justifiably modest, but it is known that in a short time he rose to the rank of brigadier general. However, before he could acquire tenure, he was discharged and, owing to nepotism and intrigue, he emerged with only the rank of specialist 3rd class, which was roughly equivalent to the rank of corporal without portfolio.
But to return to his career in show business: for several years he toured vaudeville theatres with an act consisting of impressions of people in the last throes of various diseases. I'm sure that many of you here tonight still recall with pleasure his memorable diphtheria imitation. He is generally acknowledged to be the dean of living British composers, and is currently working on a musical comedy based on the life of Adolf Hitler.

Paul

[QUOTE=nibble4bits]Ah, but they can lie.
Hahahahahaha Most illogical I guess.[/QUOTE]
:rolleyes: Not so nibble4tits! They can!
Short of a lie detector test their level of reasoning will give them away definitely.
The bard has this to say
"A tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing!" :smile:
Mally :coffee: