Not exactly: https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Bergholt_Stuttley_Johnson
Specifically: Mail-sorting engine, the Post Office, Ankh-Morpork. Originally
designed as yet another organ (musical instrument). Acquired by Postmaster
General Cowerby. In the centre of this machine is one wheel that Johnson, for
the sake of tidiness, had designed to have a pi (circumference to diameter
ratio) of exactly 3, not 3.14-mumble-mumble-and-a-bit. In order for pi to be
exactly 3, the universe has been changed. The machine therefore taps through
many layers of the space-time continuum. Mail came out of the sorting machine
that wasn't put into it by the human hands of the postal workers. Mail from
next week, mail from 50 years in the future, mail that could have been, mail
from alternative universes, mail that people swore they posted but really
hadn't, mountains of such mail. Finally, Chief Postal Inspector Rumbelow beat
up the machine so that it stopped whirring. No longer sorting any mail, the
machine still sports an annoying blue glow, and is capable of Considerably
Dis-Organizing objects placed above its centre. This makes one of the rooms in
the cellars, originally the mail-sorting room, a dangerous place to be. A
banshee assassin exploded when he touched the core of the device.
-Curt
On Tuesday, July 23, 2019, 4:16:25 PM EDT, Dan Penoff via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
Is that like the Boston Molasses Flood of 1919?
-D
> On Jul 23, 2019, at 4:01 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes
> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
> Some of you might know the story of Bloody Stupid Johnson and the new pie...
> -Curt
>
> On Tuesday, July 23, 2019, 1:16:38 PM EDT, Craig via Mercedes
><mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 21 Jul 2019 10:47:02 -0500 Curley McLain via Mercedes
> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
>> It's a favorite project of mine
>> A new value of pi to assign.
>> I would fix it at 3
>> For it's simpler, you see,
>> Than 3.14159.
>
> Cute!
>
> I have a book about pi which goes over all of the history, including
> legislation which fixed it at 3. Quite a story.
>
>
> Craig
>
> P.S. It is interesting that this message didn't show up until this
> morning, two days after it was sent ...
>
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