From: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com (edheads-digest) To: edheads-digest@smoe.org Subject: edheads-digest V1 #86 Reply-To: edheads@efohio.com Sender: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com Errors-To: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com Precedence: bulk edheads-digest Monday, November 2 1998 Volume 01 : Number 086 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Edheads: Pickiness (was: Re: I'm new to all this ...) ["Troy A. Nocon] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 17:15:30 -0500 From: "Troy A. Nocon" Subject: Re: Edheads: Pickiness (was: Re: I'm new to all this ...) OK OK so I guess there was a reason that I did not get any right answers but I only got 2 wrong ones so if ya all are such a bunch of smartie pants then why didn't you guess? (CB I know better than to include you in this group.) Stay tuned a new riddle will be out tomorrow............ Peace Troy At 10:32 PM 10/28/98 -0800, Nicole the Wonder Nerd wrote: >At 09:48 PM 10/28/98 EST, you wrote: >>Just being my usual literal and picky self.... > >Well hey, if we're going to get into pickiness, I'm going to disagree with >Troy's numbering of Omar's problems. In my Programming Languages course, >we just spent no small amount of time and effort learning that has-a is >*different* than is-a. (A bad analogy for the non-object-oriented people: >a throw-pillow IS-A pillow; a bed HAS-A pillow.) >Thus we must conclude that Omar only has *3* problems. >And yes, I do know that "anal retentive" only takes a hyphen when used as >an adjective. ;) > >--nicole the "ahh, the joys of collegiate life... OH *(*&#, I HAVE A >MIDTERM IN 12 HOURS! > >NO CARRIER > > ------------------------------ End of edheads-digest V1 #86 ****************************