On Sun, 6 Mar 2011 14:30:15 -0800 (PST), the following
appeared in sci.skeptic, posted by ignoramus517@hotmail.com:

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SCARECROW (sobbing): I haven't got a brain . . .
DOROTHY: How can you TALK if you haven't got a brain?
SCARECROW: I don't know . . . But some people WITHOUT BRAINS do an
awful lot of talking...
DOROTHY: Yes, I guess you're right.
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<     SCARECROW MEETS THE WIZARD OF OZ
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SCARECROW: "I wish I had a brain. If I did, I probably would've known
how to scare the crows."
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WIZARD: Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre
commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the earth or
slinks through slimy seas has a brain.
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Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great
learning,
where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they
think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they
have one thing you haven't got: A DIPLOMA.
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THE WIZARD HANDS THE SCARECROW A SHEEPSKIN
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SCARECROW (tickled pink): The sum of the square roots of any two
sides
of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining
side. Oh joy! Rapture! I've  got a brain! How can I ever thank you
enough?
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WIZARD: You can't.

Oh, joy! Oh, rapture! Oh, what a pair of idiots! Hint: A
right triangle (the assumed reference; Google "Pythagorean
Theorem") is one special case of an isosceles triangle;
nearly all isosceles triangles are *not* right triangles.
And the statement isn't even correct for a right triangle;
it isn't correct for *any* general class of triangles. I
suspect it's incorrect for any triangle, but it's not worth
my time to look for an exception.

Sheeesh...

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Do YOU have a brain or a fungus between your ears?
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http://www.edconrad.org
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"We can forgive a child who is afraid
of the dark. The real tragedy of life
is when men are afraid of the light."
                                   -- Plato
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"Be ashamed to die until you have won
some victory for mankind."
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"You're not only fighting the man in the ring.
Ed. You're also fighting the referee and the
thee judges."
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-- 

Bob C.

"Evidence confirming an observation is
evidence that the observation is wrong."
                          - McNameless