Re: Nerd Boy, episode 330

llizard wrote in message ...
>In article <b046a8$il8$1...@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk>, "Anonymous"
><gue...@guest.net> wrote:
>[snip]
>>>"Anonymous" <gue...@guest.net> wrote in message
>>>news:b03isp$7cv$1...@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk...
>[snip]
>>>> OK - you've heard of "'i' before 'e' except after 'c'", right ?
>>>>
>>>> Name as many words as you can where that rule applies.
>>>>
>>>> "Receive" for one...
>[snip]
>>OK, so how's about the part where you get "CEI" in that order in words as
>>part of the rule ?
>>
>>Like in "Receive" (which is my only example)...
>
>The financier stared helplessly at the ceiling and examined his
>conscience; should he do the inconceivable and grant the scientist's
>request for a loan even though Dr. Nerdboy had deceived everyone and did
>not have sufficient funds for the experiment?

Hehehe - good paragraph; shows exactly what I'm talking about...

The "rule" is "'i' before 'e' except after 'c'" - yet we're allowed words
like "financier", "scientist", and "sufficient"...

There must be loads more inconcistencies like this in the english language.

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Diddled the beaker, added a test tube rack w/ four test tubes, and a Bunsen
burner.

Taken 1 step further ...

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Now we have almost a full experiment going...  I couldn't think of any way I
could add a thermometer to the beaker to measure the temperature of the
water as it boils.

I suppose I could add a timer so that the students could meaure how long it
takes for water to boil...


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Hmm  -  maybe the timer's too big..

Diddles welcome.

--
Graeme Porter
   -^-_  _
   / [_][_]_:_  Proud owner of a 1978
  /|  _||_  v  Pearl Fiberglass Shell kit
   | /    \ |
-=/=\\____//=\=jaa  "I married Miss right, I just didn't
                     know her first name was 'Always'"
                                       -- Anonymous

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