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The stuff I have collected
on this page has been partly got from what I received
from some friends, partly from direct experience;
sometimes I have made little corrections, sometimes I
have added something personal.
Read,
seen, heard
From "Internet
no problem", a leaflet of the newspaper "La
Repubblica":
"As to choosing a computer, [...] a minimum standard
exists, below which there's no convenience: MMX Pentium
processor or similar with a clock frequency of 200 mHZ or
more ..."
Well, a computer that can execute ... one operation in
five seconds ...
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From an
american film:
"... Mr. Andros ..."
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In a women's
toilette, the mark of the electric hand-dryer was BOY.
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From a TV
report about space junk:
... the glove
of a Shuttle's spaceman remained in orbit for one month,
at the speed of twentyeight thousand kilometers per
second ...
Well, it was
probably a very very low orbit ...
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From
scientific TV news:
... we
remember that the atmospheric pressure is 760 millibar
...
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The
Chicken
How some more or less
famous people have faced the theme:
"THE CHICKEN HAS
CROSSED THE ROAD"
A TEACHER TO HER PUPILS
It wanted to reach the other side of the street.
KARL MARX
It was historically unavoidable.
RICHARD M. NIXON
The chicken didn't cross the road. Believe me, the
chicken didn't cross the road.
CAPTAIN JAMES T. KIRK
... to arrive there, where no chicken has arrived before.
CHARLES DARWIN
In a very long period of time, chickens were genetically
selected by nature in order to be able to cross roads.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
If the chicken has crossed the road, or if the road has
moved under the chicken, it depends on your datum system.
WERNER KARL HEISENBERG
If we EXACTLY know where the chicken is at a certain
instant, we cannot know at which speed it's crossing the
road.
WOLFGANG PAULI
Only two chickens are allowed to cross the same stretch
of road in the same time and at the same speed, but they
have to do it in opposite directions.
BILL GATES
A chicken that has a failure in the starting phase will
be sold all the same. Mass media will do the rest.
GEORGE ORWELL
The metamorphosis of the chicken is now complete.
QUEEN VICTORIA
We can't allow all the chickens to cross the road as they
wish.
A MATHEMATICIAN
Let's reason ab absurdo: if the chicken had never crossed
the road ...
They
said ...
Who preceded his own time
had often to wait for it in rather uncomfortable rooms.
They
maybe said ...
Maybe it was better to
think twice about it ...
(J. F. Guillottin, the
inventor of guillotine)
Fabrizio Iacopetti
 If you
want to contact me you can do it at the following address:
f_iacopetti@libero.it
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