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Re: Practice question

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Date 2014-10-07 04:13 +1100
Subject Re: Practice question
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.14649.1412615599.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 4:05 AM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday, October 6, 2014 10:22:27 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:23 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:
>> > Consider the sequence:
>> > 1. Drives on the wrong side of the road
>> > 2. Has no clue that there's such a concept as 'wrong side of road'
>> > 3. Teaches people to drive without conveying anything about 'wrong side of road'
>> > Hopefully you will agree that 1 < 2 < 3??
>> > My gripe is with 3
>
>> No, I don't agree.
>
> Interesting
>
> So you dont agree with: "1<2<3" ?
>
> Or with "My gripe is 3"  ?
>
> The second would be quite bizarre:
>
> "I have a headache..."
>
> "Sorry. But I dont agree with that"

Well, hey, I've eaten things that disagreed with me. You'd think that
would be purely factual. "I ate you!" "I disagree!".

But no, it was the "1 < 2 < 3" part that I disagreed with... as I'm
sure you were aware. Never let the obvious truth of something get in
the way of a good joke :)

ChrisA

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        Re: Practice question Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-10-06 09:23 -0700
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                Re: Practice question Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-10-08 09:14 -0700
                Re: Practice question Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-10-09 03:23 +1100
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    Re: Practice question Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-10-05 20:18 -0400
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