>""Howard C. Berkowitz"" wrote in message >[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... >> At 11:35 AM -0400 4/19/02, Hartnell, George wrote: >> >Sagely advice from some good sources, especially the last one..... >> >--------------------------------------------------------------- >> > >> >"It's good to shut up sometimes." - Marcel Marceau >> > >> > >> >> True fiendishness is evidenced when one plays a blank music CD at >> full stereo volume, with the intention of driving the mime next door >> out of his mind. > >Hey now, that's an old Stephen Wright joke.
> >Lobachevsky >>Tom Lehrer >> >> >> >>Who made me the genius I am today, >>The mathematician that others all quote, >>Who's the professor that made me that way? >>The greatest that ever got chalk on his coat. >> >>One man deserves the credit, >>One man deserves the blame, >>And Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name. >>Hi! >>Nicolai Ivanovich Lobach- >> >>I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lochevsky. >>In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics: >>Plagiarize! >> >>Plagiarize, >>Let no one else's work evade your eyes, >>Remember why the good Lord made your eyes, >>So don't shade your eyes, >>But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize - >>Only be sure always to call it please 'research'. >> >>And ever since I meet this man >>My life is not the same, >>And Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name. > >Hi! >>Nicolai Ivanovich Lobach- >> >>I am never forget the day I am given first original paper >>to write. It was on analytic and algebraic topology of >>locally Euclidean metrization of infinitely differentiable >>Riemannian manifold. >>Bozhe moi! >>This I know from nothing. >>But I think of great Lobachevsky and get idea - ahah! >> >>I have a friend in Minsk, >>Who has a friend in Pinsk, >>Whose friend in Omsk >>Has friend in Tomsk >>With friend in Akmolinsk. >>His friend in Alexandrovsk >>Has friend in Petropavlovsk, >>Whose friend somehow >>Is solving now >>The problem in Dnepropetrovsk. >> >>And when his work is done - >>Haha! - begins the fun. >> From Dnepropetrovsk >>To Petropavlovsk, >>By way of Iliysk, >>And Novorossiysk, >>To Alexandrovsk to Akmolinsk >>To Tomsk to Omsk >>To Pinsk to Minsk >>To me the news will run, >>Yes, to me the news will run! >> >>And then I write >>By morning, night, >>And afternoon, >>And pretty soon >>My name in Dnepropetrovsk is cursed, >>When he finds out I publish first! >> >>And who made me a big success >>And brought me wealth and fame? >>Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name. >>Hi! >>Nicolai Ivanovish Lobach - >> >>I am never forget the day my first book is published. >>Every chapter I stole from somewhere else. >>Index I copy from old Vladivostok telephone directory. > >This book was sensational! > >Pravda - well, Pravda - Pravda said: (Russian double-talk) >>It stinks. >>But Izvestia! Izvestia said: (Russian double-talk) >>It stinks. >>Metro-Goldwyn-Moskva buys movie rights for six million rubles, >>Changing title to 'The Eternal Triangle', >>With Ingrid Bergman playing part of hypotenuse. >> >>And who deserves the credit? >>And who deserves the blame? >>Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name. >>Hi! Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=42010&t=41809 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]