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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:08:54 -0600
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On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:36:45 -0400, Jon G. posted:

> The drunk abused his wife with mental anguish.  She died of cirrhosis of the 
> liver and he died of a brain tumor.  They SWAPPED illnesses they SHOULD have 
> gotten.  In this case they INVERTED their illnesses.
> 
> Did you know that while a carpenter was hammering nails in Dallas, a woman 
> in New England was having a pounding headach?  There is NO RELATIONSHIP.  It 
> is COINCIDENCE.  Yet associated with the hammering is the pounding.  In this 
> case there is a ONE to ONE coincidence with a PROBABILITY FOR CAUSE AND 
> EFFECT of zero.
> 
> The possibilities for associating events with each other are exponential, or 
> infinite.

Ich muss sagen, dass deine kuenstlcihe Anstrengen interresant sind.  Du
hast ein toll-aussehendes website.  Das Obige ist glatter Unsinn.
-- 
When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that
the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two
ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before. 8
H. L. Mencken