Riddle Me This, Google, Part Three

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Pangrams-R-Us — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 19:16:00 GMT

My favorite pangram:

Cwm, fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz.

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mike — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 20:03:00 GMT

I wonder what part of "slower traffic keep right" people don't seem to understand. I cross the I-90 bridge every morning, and I am always amazed that people feel like they can park their ol' cars at some set speed in the leftmost -- that would be the PASSING -- lane.

Incidentally, another way to tell if your modem is going bad is if it's a dial-up modem. Any such modems should be removed immediately and dumped in the trash. :-)

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Milkshake Man — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 20:27:00 GMT

My Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.
They're like, "It's better than yours".
Damn right, it's better than yours.
I could teach you, but I'd have to charge.

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RichB — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 20:35:00 GMT

People in the UK, Australia and Japan have just crashed their car...

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Eric Lippert — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 20:52:00 GMT

Just another one of the perils of poor localization.

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AndrewSeven — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 21:42:00 GMT

I'll stick with easy to remember, but often wrongly written, with 'jumped', pangram.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

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JD — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 21:54:00 GMT

That's hilarious! I love your sense of humour!

My site has started getting hits from Google Search and I will start similar post when I see something interesting!

JD

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Geoff Appleby — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 22:12:00 GMT

Sorry, i've got to say it:
That pangram with the jackdaw? Where's the f? :)

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Eric Lippert — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 22:17:00 GMT

In the sixth word.

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tekumse — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 22:54:00 GMT

anybody else remember about the study(test) that people seem to always miss the "f" in "of"? It was quite fascinating to read(FYI: I missed them as well).

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Shawn — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 01:44:00 GMT

"Hey baby, how about a scotch and sofa?" -- that probably has an even *lower* chance of success than asking her for a scotch and soda ... of course depending on what you plan to do on the sofa ... ;-)

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Geoff Appleby — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 09:11:00 GMT

Bugger me, the f was right there! I read and reread that sentence looking for an f, and i couldn't see it :)

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Florian — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 12:09:00 GMT

To nitpick:
I don't think saying that as far as expression power goes there is no difference between NDFA and DFA answers the question what the difference between them /is/.

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Kristen — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 03:28:00 GMT

Dan Bern does a song called Tiger Woods in which says:
If certain girls don't look at you,
It means that they like you a lot,
If other girls don't look at you,
It just means they're ignoring you.
How can you know, how can you know,
Which is which, who's doing what?
I guess that you can ask them,
Which one are you, baby
Do you like me or are you ignoring me?
Do you like me or are you ignoring me?

So, I suppose you could just start giving all girls who are ignoring you a note as quoted in your post so that you will know. But according to Dan Bern all you need to do that is one good pair of big balls. I think I'm lacking in those. Perhaps I should google on how to get a pair of big balls, eh?

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Peter Torr — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 07:24:00 GMT

Asking the girl if she loves you is no indication of whether or not she has a crush on you.

Or maybe there's no difference when you're 12...

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RPM — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 02:27:00 GMT

Florian: How about saying that NDFAs are capable of Non-Deterministic transitions. It’s in the name, and it is the difference. There are also the implications of the FA possibly being in many different states at once, but that is just a result of the non-determinism. But the truly interesting thing as has already been pointed out is that NDFAs and DFAs are equivalent in terms of expressive power. If you can solve a problem with a DFA then you can solve it with an NDFA and the NDFA is often more concise. The flip side is also true, if you aren't sure what and NDFA accepts then convert it to a DFA and the resulting explosion of states will often show you the different sets of things that it can accept, relieving the need to remember sets of states when applying subsequent transitions.

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Post-It-Dude — Sun, 23 Jan 2005 02:12:00 GMT

Yep, the ex calls question, always she wants ya back. I dumped a girl and was P.O.d that night. The next day she called my # no less the 38 times. Not to say I picked up.....

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SUPREME RULER AND OVERLORD! — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 03:44:00 GMT

How to tell if a girl likes you:

YOU CAN'T.

Riddle me this, Google

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Elbie — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 22:02:36 GMT

The difference is that Canadians say "Hey baby, how about a scotch and chesterfield."

You'd be totally unsurprised by how often that works.

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Jon Galloway — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 08:41:07 GMT

I'm anxiously awaiting Riddle Me This, Google, Part Four! I'm not shaving until it's posted!

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Jon Galloway — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:58:13 GMT

Beard getting long! My kids do not like "scratchy face!"

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Jon Galloway — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:56:29 GMT

People are getting used to the beard now. Some people tell me it makes me look distinctive, educated, and Parisian. Others have commented that I now convey a more mysterious, sinister persona.

Perhaps these are two sides of the same coin.

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Eric Lippert — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:40:10 GMT

The maintainers of the blog software changed how referrers are logged. It is much trickier now for me to write a screen scraper which searches for the google queries, so I haven't done it lately and have no plans to any time soon. Get used to the beard.

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slowly approaching the off-topic area... — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:41:03 GMT

...but this may be of interest to some (if you read all the postings up to this point I assume you may be oddball enough to continue): http://chass.utoronto.ca/~chambers/couch.html

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wait a minute — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:42:47 GMT

mammals are mammals due to mammary glands, nothing else... kind of fits don't you think? hilarious stuff though. i like it.

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