On 12/2/04 2:36 PM, in article
, "Scott Seidman"
wrote:

William Claspy wrote in news:BDD4CD72.5AE2%
:

On 12/2/04 1:18 PM, in article
, "Scott Seidman"
wrote:

but I'm passing it along anyway, cause I like it

I do too. But...

http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/hell.asp

Gonna have to go dig up that Applied Optics issue...

Bill



I have a friend that published in Irreproducible Results. I think the
paper was called "Cliche Conflicts" or something like that. It was an
investigation on the conflict between "absence makes the heart grows
fonder" and "out of sight, out of mind". I got a chuckle over his function
for distance between two people, and the hinted at ramification of the
limit as x approached zero.

:-)

Here's a link to the Irreproducible heaven/hell article, which also includes
the short text of the Applied Optics version:

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/hell.htm

The reference to Applied Optics is a bit vague. But I found it :-) No mean
feat, as it was published in that journal's "A" pages, which are not indexed
in Inspec, and each issue has a page A14. So I had to do it the old
fashioned way. But somebody had to do it :-) It appears in Applied Optics,
v. 11 #8, August, 1972, page A14. Very short and unsigned, and indeed as it
appears on the above page. I *had* to check, because my dad was publishing
in AO during that time period. Might have been him, but I don't think so.

From the stacks,
Bill