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- "esc(x) cot(x) dx = -csc(x)!" Dennis added, and the wizard's robe caught on fire. "Gosh," Dennis said, "and some people say higher math isn't relevant." >>>Inventor of the Mail order-Assassin<<< And *This*...is a Black Hole - BYE! |
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04-11-2006, 07:06 AM
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Imagining the scene has kept me laughing helplessly for years  The best part is, they apparently knocked the wall down as a result of the report. |
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04-11-2006, 07:16 AM
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Tripped over a wall!? I mean....how the hell do you do that?
In my head tripping implied having you foot catch something causing you to fall....maybe just above the ankle at the highest.. But a wall.....can you really call it a wall if its shorter than about 3 foot? Like...would there even be any point in it if it were any shorter?
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04-11-2006, 07:22 AM
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About as easy as hitting your forehead on the wall you are jumping off and away from. I should know, because that's what I managed (I still have a scar where the wound was sewn). -
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- "esc(x) cot(x) dx = -csc(x)!" Dennis added, and the wizard's robe caught on fire. "Gosh," Dennis said, "and some people say higher math isn't relevant." >>>Inventor of the Mail order-Assassin<<< And *This*...is a Black Hole - BYE! |
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04-11-2006, 07:39 AM
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Yes, but I was jumping away from the wall, with my back facing the wall. I was wearing a long coat, you see, and when I jumped off the wall it caught on the hunter's fence that was atop the wall. Then it was just a question of me dangling by my jacket, doing a 180° turn so my face was looking at the wall, and then I hit my forehead. That was in primary school, and my teacher was terrified! I have three scars from accidents in my face, and two small round ones from chicken pox. -
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- "esc(x) cot(x) dx = -csc(x)!" Dennis added, and the wizard's robe caught on fire. "Gosh," Dennis said, "and some people say higher math isn't relevant." >>>Inventor of the Mail order-Assassin<<< And *This*...is a Black Hole - BYE! |
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04-11-2006, 07:42 AM
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The moral of the story: don't jump off walls while wearing long coats.
Like, duh... 
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04-11-2006, 07:44 AM
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...should have told that to me when I was in primary school... - 
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- "esc(x) cot(x) dx = -csc(x)!" Dennis added, and the wizard's robe caught on fire. "Gosh," Dennis said, "and some people say higher math isn't relevant." >>>Inventor of the Mail order-Assassin<<< And *This*...is a Black Hole - BYE! |
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04-11-2006, 07:50 AM
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Anyway, I managed to trip down a hill once while on a choir outing during Holy Week (the week leading up to Easter Day), slamming into some logs, giving myself a nasty black eye, a slightly wierded left eye (there's a slight lump still in the skin around it) and only actually missing the eyeball itself by a couple of centimetres. The wall may sound more painful, but tripping down a hill is only the result of extreme stupidity. And then I had to go back and sing Evensong. It did allow me to spend Good Friday picking the scabs on my cheek, though ...
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04-11-2006, 08:06 AM
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Of course it was. That's why they put a fence on top of a wall in the first place, silly! - 
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- "esc(x) cot(x) dx = -csc(x)!" Dennis added, and the wizard's robe caught on fire. "Gosh," Dennis said, "and some people say higher math isn't relevant." >>>Inventor of the Mail order-Assassin<<< And *This*...is a Black Hole - BYE! |
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04-11-2006, 08:08 AM
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Apparently it was a very short wall, the type you use at the edge of a car park to stop cars wandering off it. |
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04-11-2006, 08:32 AM
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04-11-2006, 08:41 AM
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It was a Jägerzaun ("Hunter's Fence"), which is constructed in a way making possible to place my feet on the wall without problems. Pity that it's construction was also the reason why I was able to get caught on it in the first place. See for yourself:  Jägerzaun -
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