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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

1032.0. "nowt" by GIDDAY::BURT (Chele Burt - CSC Sydney, DTN 7355693) Sun Mar 21 1993 21:17

Greetings,

During a recent bout of "why am I awake & thinking such weird stuff, it's 2 am",
I started thinking about nothing. "Nothing" versus "no thing", and "nought" 
versus "naught". Things started to get weird when I started advertisement 
slogan substitutions eg. "Nothing is a good as", "No thing is as good as", 
"Nought is as good as" and "Naught is as good as".

Anyone want to take up this topic ? I'm being haunted by advertising slogans 
now, so I thought I'd share it.

Chele

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1032.1naught.e.cipher, but cipher.ne.naughtVAXUUM::T_PARMENTERHuman. All too human.Mon Mar 22 1993 05:556
    Well, "naught" takes me back to the second grade.  That's what we
    called the zero.
    
    How about Jean-Paul Sartre's great philosophical work, "Being and
    Naughtiness"?
    
1032.2Big zilchFSOA::BERICSONMRO1-1/L87 DTN 297-3200Mon Mar 22 1993 10:281
    Should we sigh for the cipher..... NOT!
1032.3"My name is 'Noman'" said OdysseusTLE::JBISHOPMon Mar 22 1993 12:4813
    Speaking of "nothing" and "no thing":
    
    1.	A cream-cheese sandwich is better than nothing.
    
    2.	Nothing is better than eternal happiness.
    
    Therefore
    
    3.	A cream-cheese sandwich is better than eternal happiness.
    
    Wherein lies the error?
    
    		-John Bishop
1032.4Just trying to be helpfulKERNEL::MORRISWhich universe did you dial?Tue Mar 23 1993 04:4912
    The error is in the statement "A cream-cheese sandwich is better than
    nothing".
    
    If you wanted something to eat, a cream-cheese sandwich is as good as
    nothing. :o)
    
    
    How about the old advertising slogan (to close the infinite loop!):
    
    "Nothing acts faster than Anadin".... so take nothing?
    
    Jon
1032.5mmmmm by way of nothing...AUSSIE::WHORLOWBushies do it for FREE!Mon Mar 29 1993 00:4413
    G'day,
    
    Butthen...
    Cows are not crows
    Crows are not purple
    
    therefore cows are (not (not purple))
    therefore cows are purple...
    
    
    derrr
    
    derek
1032.6JIT081::DIAMONDPardon me? Or must I be a criminal?Mon Mar 29 1993 01:013
    Some notes are perfectly logical.
    1032.* are some notes.
    Therefore 1032.* are perfectly logical.
1032.7GIDDAY::BURTChele Burt - CSC Sydney, DTN 7355693Mon Mar 29 1993 18:313
>>>    Therefore 1032.* are perfectly logical.

Logically perfect?