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I know. When I said "visualizing", I meant "visualizing".

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I believe it was Chris Rock who said "You can't outrun pussy".

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Electoral acceptability cannot be used a justification for why DiFi is so much worse than her colleague who faces the same electorate - Babs Boxer may not herself feature prominently on my list of favorite Senators, but next to Feinstein, she looks like Bernie Sanders.

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No, she wore pants.

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I'm being redistricted into Steve Israel's CD, thank goodness.

We live inland, and Sandy was barely an event for us at home - we lost power for a day and that was it, so we're thanking our lucky stars, especially as people two blocks away were without power for a week. We have picked up some long-ish term house guests though - my sister-in-law lives in Freeport, their ground floor was almost as deep as their pool normally is. Even they are relatively lucky - the house across the street moved off its foundations and the owner is now arguing with his insurance company whether it needs to be knocked down and rebuilt (he's hoping), or whether they're just going to pay for it to be re-positioned and repaired up to the waterline.

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This is nice work, but I think you may be a little low. First, you're assuming that neither party ever just wiped out the trailing smodge on the replies. I realize that people often don't, but a reply chain 200 entries long is a bit unusual, and sometimes noticed when the recipient decides to print it out to read later. Second, the email clients I know do not put each appended re-re-...-reply on a separate page; they just print out each level with a header (sometimes indented). So you could easily get four or five short replies on one page.

So, I would regard 200 as a lower bound on the number of distinct emails. Obviously, the upper bound is 20,000, although this is certainly overstated. I'd suggest a plausible number of 1600, based on four replies per page and two resets of the thread to zero.

BTW, the inclusion of a single multi-page copy-paste wouldn't, in any event, affect the total number of messages that much. Taking your estimate of 200 messages (averaging 100 pages each), a 5 page c&p would add 5*200 = 1,000 pages (worst case). Now, as you say, (200)*(201) / 2 = 20,100. But also, too, [(195)*(196) / 2] + 1000 = 20,110.

So a single such 5 page inclusion would only reduce the message count from 200 to 195.

Bottom line, I'm thinking a couple thousand emails, which is quite a few emails. Of course, if they were sending proof copies of <i>All (up) In (my snatch)</i> back and forth, I'm dead wrong. Also, probably, dead drunk. Wait, that's true in any case. G'nite.

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Kris is an artistic Rhodes, not a math guy. Even then, notice that one of the people involved will break the rule and be sorry. This is like an over/under where you can go both ways.

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I try not to like the freaky ones, but that photo is like "You up for it?".

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Now, if we just knew the fucking question.

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Hell, I'd be happy with a synopsis.

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The power of Christ compels thee (to fuck this bimbo).

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I confess to a lifelong disability as regards visualising N dimensions, where N > about 4.

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Oh, c'mon. You know it's coming. At the rate this is developing, I'm expecting transvestite dwarf pythons.

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Is that the sequel to Skyfall?

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You know, the election was great and all, but "Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee" is still a thing, and it makes me want to puke.

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Yeah, I think you've got it.

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