[Mkguild] More Snail Tales!

[Mark Lowell]

Okay. These stories are funny!

On 10/21/08, J Foley <jcf2103 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Haha, I love it. My calc 2 teacher was big on math history and the history
> of formal reasoning.
>  Math societies were scary business post Rome with cult like loyalty.
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> 2^(1/2) is an easier way of expressing the square root of two.
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> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:35 PM, Michael Bard <bard.michael at gmail.com>wr=
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>> Not sure how canon this one is, but I did kinda check with Misha--
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>> Michael Bard
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>> --------------------
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>> Keeper of Secrets
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>> It was a dark moonless night.  Roger was sleeping lightly in the cold
>> night.
>> It was going to be tight whether or not he made it in the door by winter.
>> Very /very/ tight.  Well, he'd hibernated before, and as long as the kids
>> didn't built a giant snow fort around him that didn't melt until June,
>> there
>> wouldn't be a problem.
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>> Damn kids!
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>> "Klatu barado!"
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>> One eyestalk poked up and blinked as the other reacted similarly, looking
>> around.  Was it that time already?
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>> "Klatu barado!"
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>> "Nicto," Roger called back.
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>> There was a shuffle in the bushes and a black-cloaked raccoon pushed his
>> way
>> out.  "Hail brother!"
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>> "Hail!"
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>> "We have the next thousand digits ready, brother!  Are you prepared?"
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>> "I am ready brother."
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>> "May the Irrational Transcendental bless us all!  All hail the word of
>> Pythagoras brought to us by the fox"
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>> "All hail the mighty Pythagoras!"
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>> With that, the raccoon handed over a tightly rolled piece of parchment.
>> Turning, cloak billowing, he fled back into the darkness.
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>> Roger slowly unrolled the parchment and held it up, looking at its black
>> surface.  The numbers were there.  More in the endless series of the -- =
he
>> refused to even think it!  A number too holy and too secret to ever be
>> spoken, or to ever be whispered to outsiders.
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>> With that, rolling the parchment up, he pulled himself into his shell, a=
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>> pushed it back into the nearly completely compartment.  In a few days he
>> would seal it off, his shell growing ever larger.
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>> And the mysteries of Irrational Transcendentalism would be safe for ever!
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>> All hail the mysterious power of the square root of two!
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>> END
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