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#1: m2 (mercymercy) on Sep 14, 2007

course they didn't know that then.

And the number of wrist injuries from sundial use were too many to count.

lol

These white on black puzzles are easy but fun, they would make good puzzle for people new to the game.

They are also good for Friday night when I am enjoying a lovely weekend beverage, which sometimes impairs my logic skilss somewhat.

Er... my spelling "skilss" also appear to be affected.

It's nice to know that you're being happily affected. ^>^

Hee hee.

My husband and I have a little tradition; on weekend nights he'll make me a surprise beverage. Today, it's a blueberry liquor of some kind, very tasty.

Before you get the idea of some kind of wild woman, I should confess that I am a total lightweight, and can only handle one small serving a night.

And then I try to solve pbn puzzles. Because obviously, logic problems are exactly what you should attempt when you're a bit buzzed.

LOL Twillis. Sounds like a fine tradition!

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"They" might have. But that doesn't mean everyone did.

Never heard of that, LV, but if everything I never heard of didn't exist, this would be a much smaller, sadder universe.

I'll go with JC here we can start a dating system BWPBN and AWPBN

guess what it is and in what year are we?

I'm 1 month AWPBN myself. :)

got it

i noticed last week that i made my first puzzle 2 years ago.. boy it went fast

Sorry Sylvain I have to revert for this one time:
M2! Two years?!!! You're so ancient you're BC-BWEBPNB :p

keep it on the QT PDQ because the is 411 youre gonnal be SOL, so 86 it ASAP, 10-4? TTFN

:D Funny J.C.

OK JC

wow JC you been practicin

and its all PTML -- Pre Text Messaging Lingo. (for our English scholars out there, when did "message" get to be a verb, by the way?)

I could be making it up...I do that sometimes.

Are you making THAT up?

Nope. That's how how do everything. I just make it up as I go.

I don't think Jennifer is making this up. See the wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era

Yes, BCE and CE have been around for a long time as alternatives to BC and AD, and seem to be preferred by some organizations and disciplines, but "they" have not officially changed the dating system from BC/AD to BCE/CE. In fact, I don't think there is any "they" with the recognized authority to do so.

Most of the advocates of this seem to want to remove explicit references to the Christian God (AD) and savior (BC) from the dating system, but I was interested to see that one of the prominent advocates was Jehovah's Witness, which has always been especially fond of calling God (i.e., Jehovah) by name. Not sure what their reasoning is.

Does anybody else find it odd that the abbrviations are for two different languages, yet they are on the same measuring stick, as it were?

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Us is alumnI, I is alumnUS; Ante Christus, well i wont even touch that one, except to say it sounds the road runner is involved somehow.

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YoOlly? lol

or was that Yo Olly?

Jan, I don't think most lay persons would recognize ly as light years any more than they recognize "iff" as something other than a typo.

As to whether the convers. can get stupider, I would say no except for the fact everytime you think you get to that point, people with surprize you. Surprize!

well now you got me curious. if "iff" isn't a typo, what is it?

A math/science nerd thing. It means "if and only if".

Or it could just be a typo, in some cases.

Boy, I must be a horrible math/science nerd if I couldn't recognize that. Oh well, too much stress lately.

Think of a soft green meadow LV, breathe in slowly, exhale all the stress. Now repeat "I am a good math/science nerd".
Excellent.

Thanks Gypso. I think I need a drink though...and like a week off.

LV, you should get a few recipes from Twillis. On weekend nights her house is buzzing! And every weekend a new surprise!
Could you take a week off by calling in "puzzled"? You could get a note from any one of us. We'd back you up. ^>^

I would but I'm not sure my school will accept it. Now one big source of stress has passed though so I'm feeling a lot better.

What was your one big source of stress LV? Did you say somewhere that you preferred being called LV? Or did I just make that up? Well, I'm glad that the stress has passed.
Sorry that the absent note won't work. We'll have to come up with something else! :)

I had my first martial arts tournament last saturday. I get very anxious and worried ans stressed about these things.

Yes you did read somewhere that LV is a fine name to call me.

Have you ever noticed what stressed spelt backwords is?

As in "just" desserts? No I never have. Do you think that there's a connection?
How did your tournament go? Which discipline do you study? I'm not that familiar with all the types but I do know that there are vast differences of philosophies.

Does that mean that if you eat desserts backwards you get stressed?

Only if you throw up afterwards.

I study Shaolin Kung Fu, it's a Chinese Martial Art. The tournament went well. I got a medal on a technicality, because there was no one else registered in my division. More women need to sign up for these things.

Next victim, please?

Yeah something like that. I also only fight with guys at my school.

Congratulations LV! :D

Thanks!

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And here you've gone and made it longer. Bad, bad bionerd!

Oh yeah, it did pretty much die out huh? My bad.

I think we never add a so long conversation about a so fast to resolve puzzle

See what you started Sylvain? ;-)

I sorted the main page by comments and found this one. I just wanted to find the longest conversation, and to be a part of it :) As far as the BC/AD stuff goes, I took an Art History class a few semesters ago, and my teacher would mark us wrong if we used BC or AD rather than BCE or CE. I proved to her it wasn't an official system, and told her I would only use the BC/AD system. I ended up getting an A+ in that class :)

Good for you Jake! I love how you handled yourself AND came up with an A+!!! Nicely done. :)

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You're right Adam. It was even mentioned in my History class in a public high school that He was a real person. I think it's just too confusing to switch it anyway.

I was going to post a comment but what could I possibly add?!

Martin, you could add: I have a comment! I have a comment! ;)

Twillis, I thought you were just slurring when you said "skilss." And I think your tradition might be a good one to start in my house! :9

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