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Old 10-06-2022, 09:34 PM
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Statistics are wonderful and I love them, but I never forget the basic truth, Figures lie and liars figure.
Frank, long, long ago in an Accounting 101 class, I was taught that the basic truth is, "Figures don't lie, but liars can figure."
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Frank, long, long ago in an Accounting 101 class, I was taught that the basic truth is, "Figures don't lie, but liars can figure."
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Figures can lie when liars figure.
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Jejune: naive, simplistic, and superficial.
Poppycock: nonsense.
Falderol: foolish talk.
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Old 10-07-2022, 08:46 AM
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Jejune: naive, simplistic, and superficial.
Poppycock: nonsense.
Falderol: foolish talk.
It looks like Net54 has a new linguistic scholar on board. He still needs to satisfy the punctuation requirements and the spelling test though, before getting the title of “Grammar Marm”, a respected seat in the boardroom. If he knows that yawl is a sailboat, he is well on his way.
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Cyrus the Great predates the war a century, and Cyrus the Younger wasn’t fighting in that war. The Persian league never gets credit.

Xenophon wrote the sequel, but he didn’t have a lot of involvement with the Peloponnesian War directly.

Everyone should have to write a thesis on Thucydides.

I wonder how fast Alcibiades could throw a rock, and if he could make it curve.
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Falderol also means: 2. a trifle; gimcrack; gew-gaw. As in the title track from Guys and Dolls.
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Falderol also means: 2. a trifle; gimcrack; gew-gaw. As in the title track from Guys and Dolls.
There was a conflict between the Fitness industry and the Plumbers and Pipefitters ultimately resolved in court regarding gimcrack.

The Fitness folks wanted to change the spelling to gymcrack for patrons with excessively tight or low-riding yoga pants.

The plumbers prevailed however and deleted the gim creating what is now known simply as a plumber’s crack.
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I think Coaches Corner has a battle-used spear signed by Xerxes coming up for auction.
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