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lyx2no
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Message 111 of 123 (548455)
02-27-2010 6:26 PM
Reply to: Message 108 by Pauline
02-27-2010 5:46 PM


Telephone
In a population of 100 people, if 99 believe X to be true and 1 doesn't, what do you infer about X? 99= Christianity; 1=FSM Does that not imply anything at all to you? If it doesn't, I'm sorry, but it does to me.
Did the Earth change shape at some time between the Neolithic and the Renaissance when the Spherical Earthers grew to outnumber the Flat Earthers? Did this happen in 4350 B.P. by any chance causing a great flood? I think you're on to something big.
-The last kid knows what the first kid says even though he never heard it first hand. Should there be no intermediate messengers, he would never have known.
The lesson to be learned form Telephone is that the last kid does not know what the first kid said. Rarely is a message so slightly distorted as to be recognizable by the time it gets to the end. "Three rubber fish bit the bullet" can easily turn into "Some robbers wished for rain." The last kid would never know about the fish or their fate.
But please, work on your english [sic]...

You are now a million miles away from where you were in space-time when you started reading this sentence.

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