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Post by cobweb2 on Jan 1, 2008 7:27:58 GMT -8
www.freerice.comMight improve my scrabble game too-of course I need to improve my word retention -as opposed to water retention.  140 grains of rice so far on a few lucky guesses.
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Post by cobweb2 on Jan 1, 2008 7:29:49 GMT -8
Would like to add here that I was an English Major in College- but heavily inebriated at the time. Booze destroyed a few brain cells long before Lyme took over to finish the job.  |
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Post by LymeEnigma on Jan 1, 2008 11:28:39 GMT -8
My word retention is not what it used to be, either, unfortunately ... another English major, right here, too.... Maybe this game will help.  |
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Post by onecrazystitch on Jan 1, 2008 19:55:28 GMT -8
HA! I was an English Major before I stopped going! Hilarious!
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Post by hakutsuru on Jan 3, 2008 13:44:40 GMT -8
Am I the lone philosophy major here?
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Post by onecrazystitch on Jan 3, 2008 18:57:33 GMT -8
philosophy is so far beyond what I can mentally compute right now... ;0
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Post by LymeEnigma on Jan 4, 2008 9:13:29 GMT -8
Try sitting in a room full of nutty professors ... those crazy philosopher types can be a tough lot to keep up with. |
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Post by cobweb2 on Jan 4, 2008 17:12:47 GMT -8
Am I the lone philosophy major here? Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution. - Robert Zend Me thinks you married the right woman! ;D |
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Post by LymeEnigma on Jan 5, 2008 9:58:42 GMT -8
LOL ... that he did! |
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Post by hakutsuru on Jan 5, 2008 12:24:26 GMT -8
Yes, she keeps my feet on the ground even when my head is in the clouds (or up my...well you know.)
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Post by cobweb2 on Jan 6, 2008 6:57:34 GMT -8
What's the difference between an intellectual and a philosopher? This is a serious question for which I will offer my own suggestion. An intellectual (thinks he) has all the answers. A philosopher has all the questions. I am married to, but not living with, an intellectual-who has all the answers and a closed mind.  A swelled head seldom covers a broad mind. |
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Post by LymeEnigma on Jan 6, 2008 10:39:50 GMT -8
I think Haku knows enough to know he knows nothing.... |
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Post by cobweb2 on Jan 20, 2008 8:03:37 GMT -8
So I just played Free Rice-over 2200 grains of rice donated-and my score was up to 41.
A bit better than the first time I tried. Some really lucky guesses.
I thought of a philosophical question the other day-which I was going to "discuss" with Haku or whoever else wanted to join in-but OF COURSE I did not write it down-so I forgot what it was.
If the question ever makes it to the forefront again I will post it.
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Post by LymeEnigma on Jan 20, 2008 10:56:28 GMT -8
I start losing it when I get to the high 30's ... 41 is hard to get to! I'm sure Haku would love any philosophical question you had ... I probably would, too. It's funny; I'm kind of an honorary philosophy major at the department, and a couple of times the colloquium speakers have mistaken me for one of the professors, with the questions I have asked regarding their given subjects. I guess I'm a natural, even though my passion always has been and always will be the written word.  |
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A swelled head seldom covers a broad mind.