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RBarryYoung
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Posted Friday, February 08, 2013 11:51 AM
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Revenant (2/8/2013)
Lynn, remember the bell curve: in any situation 50 percent of the involved are below the average, and 5 percent are on the tail end. That's how normal distribution works and there is nothing you can do about it.
That's odd, in my high school almost everyone was above average.
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L' Eomot Inversé (2/8/2013)
Brandie Tarvin (2/8/2013)
It is morning and my muscles want exercise. Walking, running, jumping jacks, whatever.
You may not be aware what a jumping jack is on this side of the pond. I can't imagine you want to use something like this
as an exercise tool, and the other British meaning of "jumping jacks" involves - no, I dare not write it in a forum with so many innocent participants
Of course it is rather amusing to speculate on what may be covered by that "whatever" when it follows jumping jacks.
Ewww, Tom! I hesitate to ask what "squat thrusts" must mean over there.
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Lynn Pettis
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Am I (shudder) an idiot?
No. Is there anything that make you think you are?
Not really, other than having someone call me one here on the forums.
Don't worry Lynn, on performance so far being called in idiot by that guy seems to be a consequence of being accurate. I imagine that his next step will be to edit the original post to make it say what he now claims it said, unless he is not competent even to do that.
Even if he does, he can't correct it in the quote in my post, so it is still there for all to see.
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Brandie Tarvin (2/8/2013)
Well, THAT is certainly interesting. I'm not even sure what it is.
It's a tube of heavy paper filled with althernating lengths of fuse and tightly confined piles of gunpowder. Light the blue end and retire (rapidly). As the fuse burns to each powder section that section explodes loudly and the thing jumps some distance; if it's well designed, the next powder section explodes just as the thing is landing from the previous jump. Since it isn't particularly rigid, what direction it will go in at each stage is unpredictable.
They are now banned in Britain, which takes a lot of the fun out of November 5th; we can't have jumping jacks, proper catherine wheels (which are called jumping jacks in some parts of the world), aerial shells, or even simple bangers any more - all banned. Fortunately health and safety regulations haven't reached such extremes in much of the rest of Europe. I've seen a few clips on utube of people demoing things claimed to be jumping jacks, but the are not remotely like the real thing: too quiet, and the jumps are really tiny - utterly disappointing.
But no, that's not what I was referring to.
This is
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Oh. I remember that being very popular with Physical Training Instructors. I did a lot of them when I was young, bsometimes as punishment and sometimes as warm-up, but until now I didn't know that they were called jumping jacks on your side of the pond.
Tom
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Greg Edwards-268690
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RBarryYoung (2/8/2013)
Revenant (2/8/2013)
Lynn, remember the bell curve: in any situation 50 percent of the involved are below the average, and 5 percent are on the tail end. That's how normal distribution works and there is nothing you can do about it.
That's odd, in my high school almost everyone was above average.
If Lynn is an idiot, and I was lucky enough to be even half as smart, I think I would be mensa material.
Nice to see Barry's smiling face again!
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RBarryYoung (2/8/2013)
Revenant (2/8/2013)
Lynn, remember the bell curve: in any situation 50 percent of the involved are below the average, and 5 percent are on the tail end. That's how normal distribution works and there is nothing you can do about it.
That's odd, in my high school almost everyone was above average.
Ah! Thanks for catching me up on whatever happened with at least one of the children of Lake Woebegone.
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Lynn Pettis (2/8/2013)
I think I know someone who may be looking for a new
job
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Um, oh wow - dumbfounded
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Am I (shudder) an idiot?
No. Is there anything that make you think you are?
Not really, other than having someone call me one here on the forums.
Don't worry Lynn, on performance so far being called in idiot by that guy seems to be a consequence of being accurate. I imagine that his next step will be to edit the original post to make it say what he now claims it said, unless he is not competent even to do that.
Link to thread please...
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L' Eomot Inversé (2/8/2013)
Brandie Tarvin (2/8/2013)
Well, THAT is certainly interesting. I'm not even sure what it is.
It's a tube of heavy paper filled with althernating lengths of fuse and tightly confined piles of gunpowder. Light the blue end and retire (rapidly). As the fuse burns to each powder section that section explodes loudly and the thing jumps some distance; if it's well designed, the next powder section explodes just as the thing is landing from the previous jump. Since it isn't particularly rigid, what direction it will go in at each stage is unpredictable.
We have those here - though they look different. They are a lot of fun during the traditional fireworks holidays.
Jason
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Am I (shudder) an idiot?
No. Is there anything that make you think you are?
Not really, other than having someone call me one here on the forums.
Don't worry Lynn, on performance so far being called in idiot by that guy seems to be a consequence of being accurate. I imagine that his next step will be to edit the original post to make it say what he now claims it said, unless he is not competent even to do that.
Link to thread please...
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1417493-391-1.aspx#bm1417791
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Need to UNPIVOT? Why not CROSS APPLY VALUES instead?
Since random numbers are too important to be left to chance, let's generate some!
Are you too recursively challenged?
Splitting strings based on patterns can be fast!
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