Gender of a computer

[Snowhog]

It is impossible for me to fully categorize my collection, as the act of observing it increases the probability that it won't all be where I can see it.

[SteveRiley]

Or maybe your collection got Nepomuk'ed!

</snark>

[woodsmoke]

NickStoneFan

ROLL ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING...wee need ond of those smileys to use here once in a while! lol

Halationeffect:

I'm gonna use that in both my biology classes and the physics class this NEXT semester! really! lol

woodsmoke

[HalationEffect]

At last, my evil plan to spread bad jokes around the world is coming to fruition! Mwahahahaha!

[SteveRiley]

Saving all your good jokes for the Martians we're all gonna meet Real.Soon.Now, amirite?

[HalationEffect]

I might share some of Asimov's most heinous puns with the Martians... a prime example of which is the short story called Shah Guido G.

Shah Guido G. is the nickname of Guido Garshthavastra, the hereditary Secretary-General of the United Nations ("Sekjen"), a tyrant who rules the Earth from a levitating island called Atlantis, similar to Swift's "Laputa".

Philo Plat is an aristocrat who secretly plots Shah Guido G.'s downfall. When he learns that the stations that power the Sky-Island's anti-gravitational beams are close to critical, Plat convinces Shah Guido G. to order in a division of Waves (female shock-troops whose name derives from the WAVES of the United States Navy) to put down a supposed rebellion by the technicians.

As Plat suspected, the weight of the Waves' cruisers is sufficient to overload the Sky-Island's power generators, causing it to plummet to the ground, thereby liberating the people from tyranny. The story ends with the punning punchline: "Why, once more in history, Atlantis sank beneath the Waves."

Apparently a fan of Asimov's once remarked to him that Shah Guido G was simply an excuse to use that terrible pun... that it was nothing more than a shaggy dog story. Asimov replied that of course it was, and that the clue was in the title - rearrange the title slightly and you get "shahgui dog".

[woodsmoke]

grooooaaann, but GOOD! lol

woodsmoke