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  • mudgod
    Jan 18 8:01 AM 2007
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    1. Save the whales. Collect the whole set.

    2. A day without sunshine is like night.

    3. On the other hand, you have different fingers.

    4. 42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.

    5. 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

    6. Remember, half the people you know are below average.

    7. He who laughs last thinks slowest.

    8. Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

    9. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese in the trap.

    10. Support bacteria. They're the only culture some people have.

    11. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

    12. Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.

    13. If you think nobody cares, try missing a couple of payments.

    14. How many of you believe in telekin esis? Raise my hand.

    15. OK, so what's the speed of dark?

    16. When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

    17. Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.

    18. Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film.

    19. How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?

    20. Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines

    21. What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

    22. I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.

    23. Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?

    24. Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.

    25. Just remember -- if the world didn't suck, we would all fall off.

    26. Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

    27. Life isn't like a box of chocolates. . . it's more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today, migh t burn your butt tomorrow.

  • Weydon
    January 18, 2007
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    Ha

    That was chuckley!

  • bob2314
    January 21, 2007
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    wonderful lol

  • TeChNoWC
    January 24, 2007
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    Number 6 is incorrect. Two reasons:

    1. I do not know everyone, thus, THE average, referring to a world (absolute) standard, does not reflect the average amongst those that I know.
    2. There may be one or even more people who are equally considered on the exact mark of 'average', and thus it is no longer a figure of '50% over' and '50% under'. There are in fact three distribution categories.

    Sorry to burst your bubble, had to do it.

    Also, thought of an undesired solution to 21. If a person is half dead and we consider one's physical condition in reference to death as relative to the person, then once they are scared half to death, the next time they are scared half to death, they would only be scared enough to deplete half of their 'life' attributed to them at that moment, and not conducive to the original amount. Thus, scaring would go on forever, because it would halve indefinetly.

    25. Why would you want to live in a world that sucked? Maybe falling off wouldn't be such a bad idea after all.

    • Kazrith
      January 25, 2007
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      radioactive decay.

    • Weydon
      January 25, 2007
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      Nor sure if that was sarcastic or not but, it said half the people you KNOW. And the joke is that HALF the people you know would make the average of these people NOT below, because it's half of them. That is, of course, not how it would really be worked out, but this most this entire thing is just a play on words.

      For 21, I thought of a different possible solution of being scared half to death, then recovering at least 1% before the next 50% scare. Still a funny concept though.

      • TeChNoWC
        January 26, 2007
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        But the average is a total for all. It is not the average applicable to the people you know. Without a specific it seems that this is the case.

        I get the joke dude. It just doesn't quite work, if you analyze it properly.

        • Weydon
          January 27, 2007
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          None of them do, thats the point

          • TeChNoWC
            January 27, 2007
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            No..... The other ones still have substance, this one however only does to the small of mind. It is suppose to be right while intuitively wrong, while it is simply and plainly wrong all over.

            • Weydon
              January 28, 2007
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              You can't average ALL, because you can't know all. Average is a standard based on research, there is no standard research on all the people YOU KNOW, there is no average on "being average" in general.

              99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name is NOT "wrong all over? I'd love to see the proof of that. What's the speed of dark? Sorry tech, what was I thinking. All of them are right unless you think about it, but half the people you know are below average is wrong even without thinking about it.

              • TeChNoWC
                January 29, 2007
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                Ummm, thats not what I said. The other ones are, with exceptions, what is called intuitively wrong. That is, that many have no error in the statement itself rather only that they inspire thought that can be, at times (if one is not to laugh but rather too dumb to do so), 'obtuse'. For question 6 however, one likes to make a smart joke by showing the supposed truth in such a statement, while then allowing the person to dwell over the implications.

                However, it is also logically wrong. When no reference is given to the ideation 'average' we can only simply assume it refers to any case in question. Any case in question could include everyone in the whole world. Thus, the people you know may be above average within a particular way (say, star athletes) and thus are not below average at all, by the particular consensus. You have identified a select field without identifying the rest of those within the consensus. It just doesn't work. It hypothetically COULD work, but the statement merely seemed to imply that it always does.

                Also, the thought that 50% of people always have to be below average, even IF we are establishing average as a means within the population and not a set value, (which, I must say, you most likely would, and that is what average implies) is a fallacy. One man could be identified as 'mr average' and suddenly there are not two categories that every person fits neatly into equally, but rather three. It would thus be 49.9999% maybe, but not 50%. And, should more people be classified as that average, then this number gets less and less, even if equal on both sides (below and over).

                For a certain criteria, all people might be classified as average, and no one under.
                Example?

                Say the criteria is a measurement of a strict similarity, such as 'level of achievement concerning one's ability to be human' and the target is all human beings. Thus, you now have (arguably, but I would strongly hold firm to the notion that) all people at average, so that

                Avg = 100%

                below = 0%

                over = 0%.

                Ta da!

                Now, show me how 'I' was wrong.

                • petejones
                  January 29, 2007
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                  you are right for mean averages. If it was a median average then half would be under and half would be over regardless of the criteria with the average being the centre

  • TeChNoWC
    January 25, 2007
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    half life?

  • TeChNoWC
    January 25, 2007
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    great minds think alike, bro
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