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Re: Re: Re: Re: problem with Pick

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• Subject: [mg78629] Re: [mg78565] Re: [mg78498] Re: Re: problem with Pick
• From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
• Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 04:16:57 -0400 (EDT)
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On 4 Jul 2007, at 18:38, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote:

>
> On 3 Jul 2007, at 19:24, J=E1nos wrote:
>
>> On Jul 2, 2007, at 6:52 AM, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 1 Jul 2007, at 16:31, Chris Chiasson wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Jun 29, 4:40 am, J=E1nos <janos.l... at yale.edu> wrote:
>>>>> Like barbers who are shaving themselves...  :)
>>>>>
>>>>> J=E1nos
>>>>> P.S.  I am hearing someone turning slowly in his grave....
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jun 28, 2007, at 4:26 AM, DrMajorBob wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> That's entirely contrary to the documentation, which says that
>>>>>> Pick
>>>>>> "picks
>>>>>> out those ELEMENTS of list for which the corresponding ELEMENT of
>>>>>> sel is
>>>>>> True."
>>>>>
>>>>>> How is a list its own ELEMENT, if English words mean anything?
>>>>>
>>>>>> Bobby
>>>>
>>>> LOL
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Actually, there is nothing at all unusual about barbers shaving
>>> themselves. I am sure lots of barbers do it. Russell's illustration
>>> (of a variant of his paradox) was about a barber who "shaved  
>>> everyone
>>> in town who did not shave himself". It would take more than all the
>>> resourcefulness of Figoro, the barber of Seville, to relate this to
>>
>> Figaro
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figaro
>>
>> J=E1nos
>>
>>
>
> Congratulations! My imperfect keyboard control gave your chance
>
> La vendetta, oh la vendetta
> e un piacer serbato ai saggi,
> l'obliar l'onte, gli oltraggi
> e bassezza, e ognor vilta.
>
> ...
> Se tutto il codice dovessi volgere,
> se tutto l'indice dovessi leggere,
> con un equivoco, con un sinonimo,
> qualche garbuglio si trovera.
>
> (Le Nozze Di Fiagaro, Atto 1, Bartolo's Vendetta Aria).
>
> Andrzej Kozlowski=
>

Figaro ...

Andrzej Kozlowski
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Your proposition may be good
But let's have one thing understood --
Whatever it is, I'm against it!
And even when you've changed it or condensed it,
I'm against it.

Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff
President of Huxley College

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