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12-23-2001, 08:44 PM
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Because of many complaints
I must learn to write In Haiku Here's my autobiography Short as it is Just for you In Haiku Asset allocation, Social Security Andy Lang Says so Two baby boys Robert Thomas And Eric Andrew Identical Ho Ho Ho Here's a Happy Holiday Haiku for you Ho Ho Ho 
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#4
12-26-2001, 05:25 PM
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I thought a haiku
was five and seven and five. Anybody know?
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#5
12-26-2001, 11:02 PM
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Happy holidays Andy.
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#6
12-27-2001, 12:37 AM
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From M-W:
Main Entry: haiˇku Pronunciation: 'hI-(")kü Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural haiku Etymology: Japanese Date: 1902 : an unrhymed verse form of Japanese origin having three lines containing usually 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively; also : a poem in this form usually having a seasonal reference
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Someone tells us that God loves us as a father loves his children. We are reassured. But then something awful happens. Some qualification is made.... We are reassured again. But then perhaps we ask: what is this assurance of God's (appropriately qualified) love worth, what is this apparent guarantee really a guarantee against? Just what would have to happen not merely (morally and wrongly) to tempt but also (logically and rightly) to entitle us to say "God does not love us" or even "God does not exist"? -- Antony Flew
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#8
12-27-2001, 04:01 PM
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I now they have 5,7,5--I was just warming up, getting the 17 right first.
5,7,5 is like a fat-tailed normal distribution, which is close to how the financial markets work--something that the good folks at Long-term Capital forgot about and so did Kenneth Lay and Schilling at Enron. But the latter will have along time to mull it over in prison, perhaps. Ammie--Merry Xmas to you and a happy new year! Have you been following the good Sarge?<G>. What in the world is HE doing on this board? Actually you should have seen what happened in a prior actuarial board with the ex-Chief Labor Minister for General Pinochet--Jose Pinera--now working for Cato--when I made some not too nice comments about Pinochet and Chile's terrible and failed and scammed privatized SS system--which Jose put into place. He actually came on and did a sterling defense of the good General--as he put it--'The most misunderstood person in the world'. Although that forum is history, I printed out the entire thread for safekeeping--amazing stuff. Pinochet was almost imprisoned for life--only getting off when they dicided he was too old and sick--and they are still digging up stuff on him and his bad boys and how right-wing Republicans in the CIA helped put the man in power. The current evidence points to Kissinger, under Nixon, who gave the order to the CIA to do it. He has been served with a summons and will now have to answer in court. Many more will follow when all the Freedom of Information stuff comes out--watch Bush try and use Executive Priviledge to squelch his daddy's papers from being made public.
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