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Some excellent reading. Check out the reviews.
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"Frank Reid" wrote in message
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http://tinyurl.com/6shxz
Some excellent reading. Check out the reviews.

I bought this one and read it based on reviews much like those presented at
the above address. Imagine my surprise when I found that the authors had
relied entirely on the sort of literary chaos that passes for popular
writing these days to create yet another utterly predictable
snorer.......Same old random numbers that EVERYBODY has been using for
decades.

Wolfgang
..2575786......HAH!

In article , says...

"Frank Reid" wrote in message
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http://tinyurl.com/6shxz
Some excellent reading. Check out the reviews.

I bought this one and read it based on reviews much like those presented at
the above address. Imagine my surprise when I found that the authors had
relied entirely on the sort of literary chaos that passes for popular
writing these days to create yet another utterly predictable
snorer.......Same old random numbers that EVERYBODY has been using for
decades.

Wolfgang
.2575786......HAH!


And yet...

I downloaded the 2Near Numerology Calculator from
http://www.2near.com/edge/numerology/
and tried some phrases out. When I type in the phrase "WOLFGANG FISHES
WITH WORMS" I get 99 in the ancient Chaldean scheme, and 119 in the
more modern Pythagorean scheme. When I search the text at Amazon,
we find that the string 119 occurs in the book in question 96 times!
The sentence "KEN FORTENBERRY DRINKS PABST" yields the numbers 120 and
90, which occur 8 and 97 times, respectively. "FRANK REID WILL DROWN
IN PENNS CREEK" gives me 116 and 160, which occur an amazing 99 and 109
times! The hair on the back of my neck stood up on that one, let me
tell you.

You can't just make this **** up, folks,

Kevin

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reply to: kevin dot vang at minotstateu dot edu

Frank Reid wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/6shxz
Some excellent reading. Check out the reviews.


I get enough deviates reading posts on ROFF, if you want a good read go
to:

http://tinyurl.com/4bglh

"Kevin Vang" wrote in message
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In article , says...

"Frank Reid" wrote in message
...
http://tinyurl.com/6shxz
Some excellent reading. Check out the reviews.

I bought this one and read it based on reviews much like those presented
at
the above address. Imagine my surprise when I found that the authors had
relied entirely on the sort of literary chaos that passes for popular
writing these days to create yet another utterly predictable
snorer.......Same old random numbers that EVERYBODY has been using for
decades.

Wolfgang
.2575786......HAH!


And yet...

I downloaded the 2Near Numerology Calculator from
http://www.2near.com/edge/numerology/
and tried some phrases out. When I type in the phrase "WOLFGANG FISHES
WITH WORMS" I get 99 in the ancient Chaldean scheme, and 119 in the
more modern Pythagorean scheme. When I search the text at Amazon,
we find that the string 119 occurs in the book in question 96 times!
The sentence "KEN FORTENBERRY DRINKS PABST" yields the numbers 120 and
90, which occur 8 and 97 times, respectively. "FRANK REID WILL DROWN
IN PENNS CREEK" gives me 116 and 160, which occur an amazing 99 and 109
times! The hair on the back of my neck stood up on that one, let me
tell you.

You can't just make this **** up, folks,

Kevin

Hm.......

99:
Centimeters of rain that falls on average in a year in the Bahamas.
Days Frederick III reign in Germany in 1888.
Days it took Sir Vivian Fuchs to become the first man to cross Antarctica in
1957-58.
Members of the New Zealand parliament.
Warships commanded by Germany in World War I.
Years of age at which the prophet Abraham was circumcised (Genesis 17:24).
Years if the lease Britain had on Hong Kong.

119:
The number of airports in Algeria.
Caps for Northern Ireland's football team won by Pat Jennings.
Kilometers per hour at which a cyclone is called a typhoon.
Square kilometers in Dublin.
Square kilometers in Ottawa.

96:
Number of eggs beaten each year by the average Briton.
Height in miles of the angel whose teachings are recorded in the heretical
book of Elkesai.
Minutes Sputnik I took to orbit the Earth.
Stories of Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur.
Victories Napoleon celebrated on the inner walls of the Arc de Triomphe.

120:
Days of Sodom in the book by the Marquis de Sade.
Hours it would take to play all the music composed by Beethoven.
The furthest you can be from the sea (in Kilometers) in Great Britain.
Maximum number of members of the College of Cardinals.
Members of the Israeli Knesset.
Members of the National Assembly of Senegal.

90:
The distance in feet between the bases in baseball.
The degrees in a right angle.
The numbers of executions in Saudi Arabia in the first four months of 1995.
Women in turkey seduced by Mozart's Don Giovanni.
Sarah's age when she conceived Isaac.

8:
Bits in a byte.
English kings named Edward.
English kings named Henry.
Furlongs in a mile.
Legs on a spider (or a tick, for that matter).
Maids a-milking.
The most mutton legs found in the stomach of one shark.
Pints in a gallon.
The number of Santa's reindeer (according to Clement Moore).

97:
The number of baseball riots in the U.S. from 1960 to 1972.
Passengers on the Hindenburg when it exploded.
The weight (in pounds) of the weakling who got sand kicked in his face in
Charles Atlas ads.
The number of volcanic islands in the Bonin Islands group.

116:
State parks in Pennsylvania.
People per square kilometer in Northern Ireland.
The number of poems in the only surviving manuscript of the Latin lyric poet
Catullus.

160:
Men needed to move the body of Jumbo the elephant from the track in Ontario
in September 1885 after he was killed in a railway accident.
Perches in an acre.

109:
Centimeters width of the Turin shroud.
Marches written by Edwin Franko Goldman.
Times the diameter of the Earth would fin into the diameter of the Sun.
Permissible two-letter words in Scrabble, from aa to zo.
Automobile manufacturers in the world in 1900.

Hm.......

Coincidence?

Wolfgang

"Wayne Knight" wrote in message
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Frank Reid wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/6shxz
Some excellent reading. Check out the reviews.


I get enough deviates reading posts on ROFF, if you want a good read go
to:

http://tinyurl.com/4bglh

Or to:

http://tinyurl.com/4c83a

Wolfgang

"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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SNIP.

Hm.......

Coincidence?

Wolfgang



Nah, I think you cheated! Where are the statistics to support all this?

TL
MC

"Mike Connor" wrote in message
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"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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SNIP.

Hm.......

Coincidence?

Wolfgang



Nah, I think you cheated! Where are the statistics to support all this?

TL
MC

Well, there's the difference between Kevin and me. As he said, he doesn't
make this **** up.

Wolfgang

"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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SNIP
Well, there's the difference between Kevin and me. As he said, he doesn't
make this **** up.

Wolfgang



The mean difference?

TL
MC

"Mike Connor" wrote in message
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The mean difference?

Yeah, some is meaner than others.

Wolfgang
who knows that it sometimes a nice distinction.