At 02:16 AM 2/13/04, you wrote:
William Robb mused: > I wonder if "getting increasingly off topic" is like > getting increasingly pregnant?
"What's the difference between a light bulb and ..." oh, nevermind.
I guess once something is off topic it's off, but there may be a concept of "further _from_" the topic once you're already off. But I'm not sure what the metric would be.
Of course, once you have a topic-space and a metric for distance-from-topic, together they define a topology, n'est-ce pas?
> Any replies must add to the subect line as well.
Perfect. "Penultimate" is probably premature, per predictions of plentiful posts in perplexing permutations, but the allure of alliteratative allocution always allays nitpicking notes on number.
-- Glenn
I drink to make other people interesting.
-- George Jean Nathan
