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If Dikiyoba can artfully straddle the line between serious plot and the absurdity required for the fluffy kittens to appear without committing a faux pas, Dikiyoba will do so. Or maybe that was just an excuse so that the phrases "artfully straddle" and "faux pas" appear in posts more often. Who knows?

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"Some versions of the Christmas song about the Twelve Days refer to 'four calling birds,' while others say 'four colly birds.' I was intrigued so did some research. The birds usually pictured with the verse are European Blackbirds (Turdus Merula), a species of thrush related to our American Robin. The word 'colly' must mean 'black' or 'black as coal' as in 'collier' and 'colliery' derived from 'coal.' 'Calling' on the other hand, would be a misunderstanding of the original.

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Yeah but happy campers like cocks (sorry for that that word offense any one) and bottoms !!

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—Alorael, who has already admitted that it isn't feasible to make a poll that covers everything. He could be wrong, though, because he's no expert in poll design. This is an engineering problem!

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The opinions of mathematicians on this matter are varied. While some in applied mathematics feel that they are scientists, those in pure mathematics often feel that they are working in an area more akin to logic and that they are, hence, fundamentally philosophers. Many mathematicians feel that to call their area a science is to downplay the importance of its aesthetic side, and its history in the traditional seven liberal arts; others feel that to ignore its connection to the sciences is to turn a blind eye to the fact that the interface between mathematics and its applications in science and engineering has driven much development in mathematics. One way this difference of viewpoint plays out is in the philosophical debate as to whether mathematics is created (as in art) or discovered (as in science).

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I'd categorize most engineering as natural science more than anything else becaise that's what it relies on most heavily (physics, mainly). Other applied sciences fall under behavioral science or somewhere in between.

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Artificial science is my tongue-in-cheek way of combining fields of study that are entirely dependent on thought. There's no natural or observational component of mathematics or computer science.

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However, in the 1930s important work in mathematical logic showed that mathematics cannot be reduced to logic, and Karl Popper concluded that "most mathematical theories are, like those of physics and biology, hypothetico-deductive: pure mathematics therefore turns out to be much closer to the natural sciences whose hypotheses are conjectures, than it seemed even recently."[11]

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That's not nearly as bad as the man who was asphyxiated by methane from his own flatulence.

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What about a more realistic version, where the Celtic warriors were all completely in the buff, and just wearing woad?

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I will continue to maintain that I have never done anything to merit banning. This includes what I was originally banned for. But I shouldn't bring this up again, since even though it's not against the CoC, Stareye might ban me for it.

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Sorry about the confusion, Fatman.

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My college requires that I take at least one science course for no good reason at all.

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However, I generally stay away from topics I know little about.

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In other news, did Robinator just refer to fatman as female? This is at least the second time that someone has done so, and I'm wondering if I missed something.

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(Fatman's is still open, and has the exact same subject; she even talked about how much she likes Jeff's games)

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I hate to say it, but I think TM's ban is permanent. He posted some offensive image, I think. Haven't actually seen it.

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The cause was verbal obscenity.

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