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  •  Prime numbers (none / 0)

    Al Franken pointed out (on the occasion of his 53rd birthday this past week) that prime numbers are also handy for comedy. He said they convey the appearance of randomness. Or something like that.

    Maybe the cicadas are just trying to amuse us.

    Or maybe Al Franken's jokes are engineered so a predator joke cannot evolve with a life cycle that allows it multiple generations to his one.

    Raging in enthusiastic support of the machine since January, 2008

    by abw on Sun May 23, 2004 at 01:05:29 PM PDT

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