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> funny you should say that, as the mathematical procedure does indeed > involve > some voodoo-mathics ! it goes roughly as follows: > > * take your age > * stick this number of pins into a doll made to look like the referee > of your paper > * multiply by the number of legs that a goat has (mode, not average !) > * slit the goat's throat and wash yourself in the blood > * utter some incantations (preferably in pidgin, although french will > do) > * divide by the number of legs that a chicken has (mode again) > * bite the chicken's head off (but don't swallow it !) > * divide by your age > > if you have some pins, a goat and a chicken handy, you can easily verify > the > calculations for yourself ! (if you don't have any pins, you can probably > skip > that step, although you might end up with a purple pine-apple growing out > of > your head) Does the color of the goat matter for this procedure? I only ask because it seems to for crystallization. Pete Pete Meyer Fu Lab BMCB grad student Cornell University
