... when lawns and street corners around this great land sprout signs exhorting passers-by to vote for or against a profusion of citizens' initiatives, ballot questions, referenda - call them what you will, they all have two things in common. They're all driven by the political agendas of people who will never meet the vast majority of the citizens they've inflicted their bloody signs on; and the signage in support of or opposition to them will never come right out and say what the question is actually about. Instead, they'll be couched in vague language about saving marriage or protecting the children or preserving the working forest or some such issue-driven malarkey - if they say anything at all besides telling you which way to vote on a numbered question.

Like me, you may have grown tired of the endless faff about such things, and the vagueness of the propaganda involved. Like me, you may want a way to take a firm stand about an issue that affects your day-to-day life in just as dramatic a fashion, if not more so, than the preservation of the working forest.

Well, now you can, with the special unlimited-but-probably-poorly-selling-edition Verbum Industries YES! on 17 lawn sign. Announce to the world that, this election season, you'll be coming out in favor of prime numbers in all their indivisible glory. This year's sign was improved from the previous model by relocating the exclamation point, thus making the slogan slightly less grammatical but fending off those mathematical smarty-pantses who smugly pointed out that 17 factorial isn't a prime number. Show 'em your colors, primes fans!

--G.
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Admin
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

>Well, now you can, with the special
>unlimited-but-probably-poorly-selling-edition Verbum Industries
>YES! on 17 lawn sign.

It certainly doesn't hurt that 17 is also the canonical random number.

This is very cool, and if I weren't unemployed right now I would probably buy one.

-- Bob
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Five years ago I was a four-stone apology. Today I am two separate gorillas.

>>Well, now you can, with the special
>>unlimited-but-probably-poorly-selling-edition Verbum Industries
>>YES! on 17 lawn sign.
>
>It certainly doesn't hurt that 17 is also the canonical random number.
>
>This is very cool, and if I weren't unemployed right now I would
>probably buy one.
>
>-- Bob
>-------------------
>Five years ago I was a four-stone apology. Today I am two separate
>gorillas.

Man, that is going to a mathematican friend (and maybe a couple stats ones) this year for xmas.

Although if you did a "No" on 17! that would be excellent as that is not a prime number....

t.
is all about the math jokes.

Trigger Argee
trigger_argee@hotmail.com
Manon, Maccadon, Orado, etc.
Denton, never leave home without it.

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." - HST

>>Well, now you can, with the special
>>unlimited-but-probably-poorly-selling-edition Verbum Industries
>>YES! on 17 lawn sign.

Hey what happened to the EPU shop on Cafe Press? I see you've branched out into things that are new and different (including a Plato joke that I must admire), but the old stuff appears to be gone.

Not, mind you, that many of us have $$ these days....
t.

Trigger Argee
trigger_argee@hotmail.com
Manon, Maccadon, Orado, etc.
Denton, never leave home without it.

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." - HST

>Hey what happened to the EPU shop on Cafe Press?

Well, mine is still there.

-- Bob
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Five years ago I was a four-stone apology. Today I am two separate gorillas.

LAST EDITED ON Oct-12-09 AT 01:16 PM (EDT) by Wedge (moderator)
 
fixed the link --wedge

>>Well, now you can, with the special
>>unlimited-but-probably-poorly-selling-edition Verbum Industries
>>YES! on 17 lawn sign.
>
>It certainly doesn't hurt that 17 is also the canonical random number.

No, that's 4: reference.

Shalon Wood

>No, that's 4: reference.

I stand corrected. I was misremembering the Hackers' Jargon File, which cites it as the Least Random Number.

-- Bob
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Five years ago I was a four-stone apology. Today I am two separate gorillas.

>>No, that's 4: reference.
>
>I stand corrected. I was misremembering the Hackers' Jargon File,
>which cites it as the Least Random Number.
>
>-- Bob

Just to wrap back around to Eyrie stuff. I don't remember how the Wayward Son came to be the SDF-17, but the Wandering Child became the SDF-23 because 23 is the second Random Number.

I suspect that the Discordian connection didn't hurt, either.

--rR

See, and here I thought it was just because they were odd.

--sofaspud
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LAST EDITED ON Oct-14-09 AT 01:26 PM (EDT)
 
>
>See, and here I thought it was just because they were odd.

Of course they were odd, they were full of Wedge Rats!

I'll get me coat.

>>
>>See, and here I thought it was just because they were odd.
>
>Of course they were odd, they were full of Wedge Rats!
>
>I'll get me coat.

You also forgot working for and initially equipped by Lord F...