OOOOPS! I hate grammatical undecisivenesses like what I committed in the previous post to you. I did not mean the "1st decade" of the white rabbit, I meant it of the list. (Habituel newscast English!). JM
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 4:11 PM, John Mikes <[email protected]> wrote: > Liz: the "white rabbit" was an esteemed member of the Everything List in > it's 1st decade. - John > > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 3:43 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 14 February 2014 07:24, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 2/13/2014 1:04 AM, LizR wrote: >>> >>> On 13 February 2014 21:38, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> If I reported that there was a flying pig, wouldn't comp just >>>> explain, "That's the way arithmetic looks from inside."? >>>> >>>> Why? No. Not at all. >>>> You must (using G & Co.) looks at the way arithmetic looks from >>>> inside, and if you find the flying pig, then yes, you can say that comp >>>> explains the flying pig, but if you see a white rabbit instead (in the >>>> arithmetic), you can say that comp does not explain the flying pig, and >>>> might be false in case you don't find the white rabbit in nature. >>>> >>> >>> This sounds like my sort of science! >>> >>> "One pill makes you larger... And one pill makes you small..." >>> >>> It's unfortunate that the white rabbit with the frock coat and pocket >>> watch from Alice in Wonderland became shorthand for 'unreal things', and >>> then was further shortened to just "white rabbit" since, in fact, white >>> rabbits are quite common and kept as pets. >>> >>> Well as you can tell from my quote I, at least, was assuming the Alice >> one! >> >> I think "white rabbit" in this sort of discussion is shorthand for "a >> white rabbit with a pocket watch appearing spontaneously from nowhere, >> muttering about how late he is" .... or words to that effect. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
