Re: Ice tea and Robin Hood

--- Apollo Hogan <apollo@...> wrote:

> > > Cows are things with four legs
> >
> > No - cows have twelve legs - two in the front, two
> in the back, two on
> > the left side, two on the right side, and one on
> each of four corners.
>
> I hate to be pedantic, but cows actually have an
> infinite number of legs:
> they clearly have an even number of legs, but as you
> point out, they have
> twelve legs, which is certainly an odd number of
> legs for an animal to have.
> But the only way a number can be both even and odd
> is for it to be infinite.
>
Oh, that was exactly the question I asked myself last
week: is infinite odd or even ? (after John Cowan
explained us that all odd numbers are prime).

The theory according to which cows have twelve legs is
not correct: there has been forgotten that a cow also
has four legs below (and none above), thus: 2 + 2 + 2
+ 2 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 4 + 0 = 16. Of course, we're not
talking about one-legged cows.

This gives me the opportunity to disclose an important
information about zebras. Some think zebras are
black-striped white, and others that they are
white-striped black. In fact, zebras are green,
striped black and white.

One has to be very careful about scientific
extrapolations. Remember that Englishman who was
sitting in a train in Scotland.
- Dad, said his son, look over there, there is a herd
a new-shorn sheep !
- On our side, in any case, said he.

(And now for the elephants)


=====
Philippe Caquant

"High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)


		
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