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CONVERSATIONS
BETWEEN FAMOUS
PEOPLE AS IMAGINED
BY SOMEONE WITH
AN AMERICAN PUBLIC-
SCHOOL EDUCATION WHO
DIDN'T PAY TOO MUCH
ATTENTION IN SCHOOL
BUT WHO DID JUST
ENOUGH TO PASS
THE EXAMS.
BY MATT PASSET

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Richard Nixon and Winston Churchill

NIXON: Hello, I see you're smoking a cigar and wearing a large hat.

CHURCHILL: So I am, young chap. Could I interest you in a cigar?

NIXON: Sure, I think I smoke cigars ... maybe ... I don't know.

(CHURCHILL hands a cigar to NIXON, who bites off the tip and lights it.)

NIXON: We were probably alive at the same time.

CHURCHILL: Indeed, my boy, indeed. I had something to do with World War II and I think maybe you fought in it.

NIXON: I'm not sure if I did.

CHURCHILL: There's not that much more about me that everyone knows.

NIXON: I once held up my hands and formed two peace signs. I was either about to get onto a plane or get off of one.

CHURCHILL: I have seen the photo, because I think there were cameras when I was alive.

NIXON: And what about Watergate? I did that.

CHURCHILL: Margaret Thatcher is someone else from England. She was leader after me.

NIXON: People can buy masks of my face.


J.D. Salinger and Christopher Columbus

COLUMBUS: I discovered America.

SALINGER: You're a phony, everything's phony.

COLUMBUS: I sailed on three ships called the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. I don't think I had anything to do with the Mayflower. That was before me.

SALINGER: Everything is phony.

COLUMBUS: It was 1492 when I found America. That year is definitely correct.

SALINGER: Were there Indians here when you got here?

COLUMBUS: Yes. I discovered them, too. I don't think I had Thanksgiving with them, though. Those were Pilgrims. Maybe I was a Pilgrim, but probably not.

SALINGER: I wrote one book and nobody ever saw me again.

COLUMBUS: There were no books when I was alive.


Abraham Lincoln and Hitler

HITLER: Kill the Jews.

ABE: Free the slaves.

HITLER: Kill everyone, especially the Jews. Nazis are the best.

ABE: Emancipation Proclamation.

HITLER: Mein Kampf.

ABE: Four score and seven years ago.

HITLER: Kill all Jews!

ABE: I was shot in the head at a play, because the Civil War made people from the South angry.

HITLER: I created Nazis.

(Party saturday night, TBA)

27 (twenty-seven) is the natural number following 26 and preceding 28. Twenty-seven is the smallest positive integer requiring four syllables to name in English, though it can be unambiguously defined in just two: "three cubed".

 

In mathematics

Twenty-seven is a perfect cube, being 3³ = 3 × 3 × 3. 27 is 3↑↑2 (using Knuth's up-arrow notation). There are exactly 27 straight lines on a cubic surface. 27 is also a decagonal number.

In base 10, it is the first composite number not evenly divisible by any of its digits. It is the radix (base) of the septemvigesimal positional numeral system.

In a prime reciprocal magic square of the multiples of 1/7, the magic constant is 27.

It is the twenty-eighth (and twenty-ninth) digit in π. (3.141592653589793238462643383279...).

If you start counting with 0 it is considered one of few Self-Locating strings in pi.

In base 10, it is a Smith number and a Harshad number.

The unique simple formally real Jordan algebra, the exceptional Jordan algebra of self-adjoint 3 by 3 matrices of quaternions, is 27-dimensional.

In the Collatz conjecture (aka the "3n + 1 conjecture") a starting value of 27 requires 112 steps to reach 1, many more than any lower number.

It's the cube root of 19,683.

[edit] In science

• The atomic number of cobalt.

[edit] Astronomy

• The Messier object M27, a magnitude 7.5 planetary nebula in the constellation Vulpecula, also known as the Dumbbell Nebula.
• The New General Catalogue object NGC 27, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
• The Saros number of the solar eclipse series which began on -1993 March 9 and ended on -713 April 16. The duration of Saros series 27 was 1280.1 years, and it contained 72 solar eclipses. Further, the Saros number of the lunar eclipse series which began on -1944 July 17 and ended on -411 January 23. The duration of Saros series 27 was 1532.5 years, and it contained 86 lunar eclipses.
• The 27th moon of Jupiter is Sinope.

[edit] In religion

• There are a total of 27 books in the New Testament

[edit] In music

• The number of completed, numbered piano concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• The age in years at which many famous rock musicians died, sometimes referred to as the 27 Club. Occasionally, this is termed the "ideal" age to die, and the concept has inspired a brand of clothing, DeadAt27
• A number which American parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic hides somewhere in many of his songs and videos. [1]
• The name of the second track on, and first single released from, the Biffy Clyro album Blackened Sky
• The number of "8 by 10 color glossy photographs with circles and arrows" in the song Alice's Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie
• In the song "The Ex" by Billy Talent off of their self-titled album, Ben says "So i sat in my room for 27 days, no she never called, i had something to say"
• The punk rock band Lagwagon has a song entitled Twenty Seven on their album Double Plaidinum.
• The punk rock band Pinhead Gunpowder released a song entitled 27 on their album Shoot the Moon.
• The number 27 is featured in many song lyrics and titles penned by Ben Weasel, in his bands Screeching Weasel and The Riverdales.
• The number 27 is known as the East Bay Punk scene's number.
• The punk band The Adicts use the number 27 in many song lyrics and released an album entitled "27"

[edit] In other fields

Twenty-seven is also:

• The total number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet (22 regular letters and 5 final consonants)
• The number of letters in the Spanish alphabet
• Rusty Wallace's car number when he won the 1989 NASCAR Winston Cup championship.
• The number most commonly associated with F1 driver Gilles Villeneuve
• The current number of Amendments to the United States Constitution.
• The modal age of the peak performance year for major league baseball position players, according to a commonly accepted theory by sabermetrician Bill James
• The code for international direct-dial phone calls to South Africa
• With the number 37, a key number in comedian Charles Fleischer's concept of moleeds
• The designation (I-27) of a US interstate highway in Texas
• The designation (US 27) of a United States national highway from Fort Wayne, Indiana to Miami, Florida
• The name of a popular cigarette, Marlboro Blend No. 27
• The number of books in the first Xanth "trilogy"
• The number of outs in a regulation Professional baseball game.
• "The Bankers Case" on the U.S. Version of Deal or No Deal
• The number is equal to the Virginia Tech massacre date: 04+16+07=27.

[edit] Historical years

27 A.D., 27 B.C., 1927, 2027, etc.

kurt vonnegut

one of my faves

White House Prop Masters Getting Desperate

Now they’re putting prop soldiers in front of the prop bookcase. They should totally hang Saddam’s body in there, too, between the gal and the old dude in the Hugo Chavez hat.

Zach and I will be getting our reserved table at the Old Shelaleh in Greek town.

We will be there all day.

Consuming copious amounts of Green #3


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Gears.......................14.29%
Brakes.....................50.00%
Seat..........................20.15%
Tires.........................22.38%
Innertube.................88.77%
Suspension............N/A
Speedometer.........Missing

So, I took my bike out of the garage today.  I think the last time I rode my bike was when I needed to go to the Michigan National Bank (most recently the proposed location for the now defunct Monarch development) at the end of my street and mom had the car.

Needless to say, I was amazed that I was not only able to find a working bike pump, but that the tires held air (for at least 20 minutes and counting).  I took some simple green and cleaned it up a bit.  I think all it needs are some new tires, a tune and lube, and new seat.  It appears mice had made a home of the current seat, leaving only a plastic shell to absorb any bumps put to it.

I would be lying if I didn't mention the thrill i got out of zipping through a mud puddle. 

I want more of this.

New (cir 2007):



Old (Cir 1995):


And for sale...

Two Hours and Fourty Five Minutes to get Home.


Slawsome...

I will be going to Chicago for New Years.

The rough outline is as follows:

Zach and I will drive out there friday and arrive friday night.

Party Friday Night

Party Saturday Night

New Years Eve Party of some type

Drive back monday.



If you live in chicago, or want to go to chicago let me know. we should have room for maybe two more in our car, but details are still being put together. I just now that I will be for sure going to chicago these days.

Whoo!

It looks like I will once again be tucking in my shirts.

I got the job working for Sen. Levin!

I'll be working downtown in the McNamara Federal building.  So if you're downtown often, we should grab some lunch once I get all settled in.

Whoooo!!

I want to have a John Candy Movie-a-thon.