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Skriven 2006-01-28 21:31:00 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHIEL VAN DER VLIST
Ärende: Texas Grapefruit GREAT!
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-=> Quoting Michiel Van Der Vlist to Frank Scheidt <=-

 >>>> ... Don't move that rock ... Michiel lives under there!

 MVDV>>>> Nice insult. You don't mind if I file it for future use?

 MVDV> Note that I considered it an insult...
 
 >>> Random ... don't be so touchy ... [sigh]

 MVDV>>> Do you really hold me so naive as to believe that is a random tagline?
 MVDV>>> Random my foot! Yeah, random pick out of a set of one.

 MVDV> Note that I questioned the randomness...

Unfortunately there's no way I can prove *that* so believe 
whatever you wish ...
 
 >> Your obvious political naivete isn't involved.  The fact of
 >> the matter is that the tagline you bitched about *was* randomly
 >> selected from my file of 5,000 taglines.

 MVDV>> So explain to me how my name, a not all that common Dutch name, which
 MVDV>> is impossible to pronounce by native English speakers appears in an
 MVDV>> American English tag line file.
 
 > I'll assume you really don't know so I *will* explain.

 MVDV> I suspected, but what I suspected was not compatible with your claim
 MVDV> that is was randomly taken from a 5000 line tag line file.
 
Do you know anything about statistics?  While the random 
generator of BlueWave doubtless isn't 100.000% random, it is an 
approximation.

 > The tagline generator for BlueWave has the ability to replace
 > certain symbols with the current date, or the current year, or the
 > message recipient's first name, last name, or *both*.  Hence
 > WRT the tagline under discussion:

 MVDV> That is what I suspected. Although I am not familiar with Bluewave, I
 MVDV> have several programmes that use the same principle. Actually I *wrote*
 MVDV> some of these programmes.
 
 > "... Don't move that rock ... Michiel lives under there!" if your
 > first name had been, say, "Sam" the tagline would have been:
 > "... Don't move that rock ... Sam lives under there!"
 
 > Of course you won't believe this

 MVDV> Oh, I believe it. Problem is that your explanation conflicts with your
 MVDV> previous claim that is was random. If part of that line is taken from
 MVDV> the header of the message you reply to, it obviously is NOT random.

OK, look at it this way:  Each line of my tagline generator is 
numbered.  The random-number generator (not 100.00000% random of 
course) selects a number, say 2033.  Line 2033 happens to be the 
one about someone living under a rock.  Can you understand that??

 MVDV> Other than that, random or not, it is still an insult. You could know
 MVDV> that someday that insultive line would come up, so it is just a delayed
 MVDV> or preprogrammed insult.

OK, no argument there.  I'm just not used to dealing with 
delicate people who think every statement is a true "insult".
 
 >>> ... as for the amount of money I have, you have no way of knowing ...

 MVDV>>> I have ways of making an educated guess though...
 
 >> How?

 MVDV>> That is for me to know and for you to guess...
 
 > I'll guess you don't have any way ... heh heh heh ...

 MVDV> Guess whatever you want, your guess is wrong: I do have ways to make
 MVDV> an intelligent guess. Divulging the details however would make this
 MVDV> method unsuitable for future use.

Yeah ... sure ... heh heh heh ...
 
 >> You don't seem to consider me to be in the mainstream of America though.

 MVDV>> I don't? How do you come to that conclusion?
 
 > What can I say to *that*?  ... [sigh] ...

 MVDV> Well, you *could* produce the message where I say that I think you
 MVDV> are. *Or* (in theory) you could admit to have made an unwarranted
 MVDV> assumption... 

It's your general attitude which tells us that.


... "'Ere, is that rat tart?"    "Yes."    "Disgusting!" ÄÄ Monty Python

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