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Old 01-16-2010, 10:12 AM
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Can you eat your cake and have it, too?
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Old 01-16-2010, 10:19 AM
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Leon- why the egg? Why not?

David- glad I asked. I recognized pi, the rest was a little hazy

Kevin- I don't like cake
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Old 01-16-2010, 10:27 AM
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Assuming you like pie (or pi)...

Can you eat your pie and have it, too?

It's more about the sentence than the food! Most people say it backwards.

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The phrase's earliest recording is from 1546 as "wolde you bothe eate your cake, and have your cake?" (John Heywood's "A dialogue Conteinyng the Nomber in Effect of All the Prouerbes in the Englishe Tongue") alluding to the impossibility of eating your cake and still having it afterwards. The modern version (where the clauses are reversed) is a corruption which was first signaled in 1812.
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It's an expression. Expressions shouldn't be taken literally.

PETA: People Eating Tasty Animals
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Early in the morning late at night.
Two good boys got up to fight.
Back to back they faced each other.
Drew their swords and shot each other.
A deft policeman heard the noise and shook the life out of those dead boys
Now if you don't believe my story is true ask the blind man he saw it too.
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Old 01-16-2010, 10:31 AM
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I went to George Washington University... Not Wharton...

I found out a few days ago that my great, great, ..., great grandfather was friends with George Washington... I thought that was pretty neat...

Are PETA people allowed to use the word "FURther"?
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Was joking, Brad. The Wharton reference was for another Board member not known for his absolute command of orthography.
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...Board member not known for his absolute command of orthography.

David,

Are you insinuating that someone's brain is not able to communicate with the board's "writing mechanism?"
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Jim: That's a good one.
Leon: Where are you going with this?
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Leon- why the egg? Why not?
I believe there is a "law of inclusion" though I can't find it right off hand, that says something to the effect of:

"whichever element is inside the other had to come first"
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I believe there is a "law of inclusion" though I can't find it right off hand, that says something to the effect of:

"whichever element is inside the other had to come first"


Lost me there. Was the egg inside the chicken or the chicken inside the egg.
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Lost me there. Was the egg inside the chicken or the chicken inside the egg.
Woops...sorry, I misstated my own answer . The chicken came first as it's inside the egg. I think I will go make an omelette and forget about science for a while....
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But the egg is inside the chicken too!
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But the egg is inside the chicken too!
Hence the enigma.
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Spring . . the bird is on the wing.
But dat's absoid! The wing is on the boid.
-ancient Mad Magazine bit

PS. Leon: That Orange Border Wagner would look great in an SGC slab.
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Can you eat your cake and have it, too?
This is the phrase that eventually got the Unibomber caught. The Unibomber mis-used the phrase in several of his writings... His brother recognized the mis-use of the phrase and turned his brother into law enforcement...
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