Rob Seaman scripsit: > From Jack London, a question: "Why did you sail with only one > chronometer?" > > http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/25.41.html#subj10 > > If two chronometers are "no better than one", why are three better > than two?
Per contra, from an anonymous Irish stationmaster: An English businessman travelled to Ireland in order to attend to some important matters. He stood waiting in the rail station at Ballyhough. Unfortunately he seemed to have misplaced his pocket watch. Since it was important that he arrive on time, he looked for the clock in the station and noticed that there were two clocks. The clocks showed times which disagreed by some six minutes. When the irate Englishman asked the stationmaster, "Why in bloody 'ell are there two clocks if they don't tell the same time?", the stationmaster smiled broadly and replied, "And what would we be wanting with two clocks if they told the same time?" -- My corporate data's a mess! John Cowan It's all semi-structured, no less. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan But I'll be carefree [EMAIL PROTECTED] Using XSLT On an XML DBMS. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
