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Old 08-06-2006, 01:12 AM
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My only complaint is that I believe that about a dozen elements have been discovered since, so they can't be included.
Which is the whole point of the Harvard/discovered line.

Besides, you come up with a rhyme for "Seaborgium" or "Meitnerium".

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Sa'ar Chasm here. Since Zeke is up to his eyeballs in trying to make math fun for kids -- a Herculean task if there ever was one --

Hey!
The end of that thought got cut off somewhere between my fingers and the keyboard. What I meant to say was "a Herculean task if there ever was one, but if anyone is up to it, Zeke is."

/backpedal

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And if you buy that, I've got a bridge over troubled water to sell you.
Anyone who doesn't believe me is welcome to pop up to Ottawa on a Thursday night and see for themselves.
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