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words

  1. C

    Truer words were never spoken...

    Oh, to be in the audience that night...
  2. I

    Where did the 'big words' come from?

    As I post on this board, I have noticed a phenomenon that I can't explain. As I sit here and reply to a poster, I, without hesitation, have been able to dig out of thin air, a (for me) 'big word', that I haven't used in years. A word I haven't even read or seen in a long time. What in the world...
  3. whitefork

    "Re" words: Resemblance, recollection, recognition

    CWL's signature line is provoking: "All that which resembles truth is not true" can we conclude that there are true things that appear to be untrue? What is the nature of that resemblance by which the apparant truth appears to be true? Indeed, what is resemblance? Is it some kind of...
  4. A

    If they get these, I'll eat my words and join the military:

    As noted on slashdot, Laser Rifles! Warning: 127kB PDF file. Why in science, you say? This is a white paper with crude diagrams and some proposal for working gas-dynamic laser rifles.

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