Login HereThe Iowa Debate Dodd Squad, composed of Dodd Bod (guy in a muscle suit), Dodd Rod (Stewart), Dodd Sod (grass) ... and Dodd Theropod.
As well as White Hare.
Seriously. They are having some crazy fun in Iowa.
Photos here for the YouTube challenged.
Late-Late Sunday: A Dodd Squad HomageBy: Teddy Partridge Sunday August 19, 2007 10:08 pm |
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yup
before everybody arrives, thanks for the wiki link, al. the basic principle i understand, though i want to spend a little time on the math.
Our therapod is cuter.
TJ @ 3
no problem. I have difficulties with the math also. but I try anyway…
Okay, Teddy, that’s why the infernal spinning wheel…
TexBetsy @ 4
yes he is!
Speaking of math …
Grabel’s Law
“2 is not equal to 3,
not even for large values of 2.”
the spinning wheel is my cue for a new thread.
TJ @ 9
You’re just spinning your wheels waiting for it.
althespook @ 7
Far cuter. Handsome even - not many therapods you can say that out.
TexBetsy @ 8
if you take abstract algebra (the course on the fundamental basis of mathematics) you learn that the structure of all mathematics depends on the fact that 0 is not equal to 1. That is why we cannot divide by zero right now, because with current math dividing by zero is the same as dividing by 1 and you go poof in a puff of pythagorean logic.
Suzanne @ 11
My problem with therapods is all those uneaten bits of brontosaurus in their teeth, and they NEVER floss…
TexBetsy @ 10
No watching’em…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY_xY_Q-kQE
althespook @ 12
Alfred, it is unwise for me to tread here, as I make common river rocks look competent in math by comparison…
But will Eucledian math solve this deficiency?
I am so sorry I started with math “jokes”. Please forgive me.
newtonusr @ 15
no it is a fundamental flaw in number theory. only one mathematician every has been known to have seen a way around it, a young math student at Oxford named Forsythe. He published part of a paper showing how to work around this, and then went off to war in WW I and was killed by a german machine gun in the battle of the somme river.
Another reason to hate war.
You sure about this Al?
Geez, can’t do any laundry around here without missing a new thread…
Time for me to take my headache and go to bed. Teddy, thanks for posting a Late Late Nite.
g’nite everyone
TexBetsy @ 16
You are forgiven. I LIKE math jokes….
Hope you feel better, Suzanne
Good week for Ron Paul. He took straw polls in both NH and Alabama by wide margins.
Even some bankers support Ron Paul now. Ron Paul would do away with the FED banking system. Imagine, no more fiat money.
I think I found this on FDL, but I don’t remember where but it is so good it bears repeating:
The are 10 kinds of people in the world, those you understand binary and those who don’t.
Suzanne @ 20
night, suzanne. feel better.
Do we believe them?
FEMA Chief Says Agency Has Made Thorough Preparations
Tampa Tribune - 46 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - The government has contracts it can quickly take “off the shelf” for buses, ambulances and relocation camps and has improved communications should Hurricane Dean strike Texas, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Sunday …
petedownunder @ 23
It’s an old computer geek joke. Several of us have undoubtedly inflicted it on others here due to our lack of punnic scruples.
althespook @ 21
Betsy - I sent yours to my brother - course he’s above all these things, but still, I thought it funny.
petedownunder @ 23
It took a minute, but I caught on. Sad that it took a minute given my computer background.
petedownunder @ 23
An oldie but goldie…
Wake up feeling well, Suz.
althespook @ 21
Except you seem to have missed the point that it was a joke.
TexBetsy @ 25
They can’t even find BULLETS for iraq, and they want us to believe THIS crap?
sure….
Suzanne @ 20
Hope you feel better on the morrow, Suzanne.
Fiance sez the Doddites missed a coupla beats:
Two fish costumes: The Dodd Cod and the Dodd Scrod.
And the Bea Arthur endorsement: Dodd Maude.
TeddySanFran @ 34
Did they have a Dodd Sod dressed up in grass?
TexBetsy @ 31
Oh no, I knew it was a joke. But it was the perfect hook to hang the “one is not zero” lecture on and so I took it. I have a rep to maintain, y’know…certain number of impenetrable lecture posts a night or something…:)
Just a sign, on some imported sod apparently, that sez Dodd Sod.
TexBetsy @ 35
Ha! You beat me.
good nite, suzanne. add my wishes for a headache free morning.
TeddySanFran @ 34
(spew) i like the way the fiance thinks - dont forget the obligatory Dodd Broad
And you, Suzanne, as the Dodd Mod!!
TeddySanFran @ 40
This is only going to get worse….
Loo Hoo. @ 31
I fervently hope so, too!!!
Well, for the religious, where’s the Dodd God?
Wow, you can send questions to Christiane Amanpour about her special Tuesday night on religious crazies:
http://edition.cnn.com/exchang.....tiane.html
Check out what Fred Thompson wore At the State Fair
Dodd NOT endorsed by Teh Kittehs, Dodd Clawed…
althespook @ 42
Ominously, so…!!! ;-)
Hoping there’s no Dodd fraud.
TexBetsy @ 45
Only appropriate that lazybones Thompson would wear LOAFERS…
(puff. pant. flops into beach chair.)
Back from taking BabyBunny (youngest daughter’s childhood nickname, long story) home with stop at the grocery store.
Lucky you, Ben&Jerry’s was on sale. Neopolitan Fudge Ripple in the fridge/freezer over near the tiki lights, along with other yummy flavors. Sorry, no sorbet. I’m greedy & keeping Country Peach Cobbler for myself (”Peach Ice Cream with Cinnamon-Sugar Shortbread Pieces and a Peach Swirl”) … oh, brother (grumpily puts down little paper plates with tastes of ice cream for all the cats that have materialized from various napping places).
demi @ 49
*groan*
Yes, that would be a problem. It would be Dodd-flawed.
ok, ct, hanging head
Loo Hoo. @ 44
Chrissie A is old good cnn. she’s such a media star in the rest of the world that she can tell the current cnn idiots to stuff it anytime she likes and take a job for bbc at double the money. they apparently don’t try to arm twist her on content…
Man, I love peaches so much that I’ll actually make a pie if they’re sweet enough.
and a large Campus rallying lawn:
Dodd Quad
and the heavy metal theme song gesture:
Dodd Nod
and the endorsers at Mystic Seaquarium:
Dodd Pod
and the other-candidate Constitutional poke:
Dodd Prod
althespook @ 50
Gucci loafers, and driven around in a golf cart. Looking cadaverous to boot. Very bad form for the Iowa State Fair.
Teddy, do you see what you started?
but no dodd fraud cause he’s one of the good guys
newdealfarmgrrrlll @ 50
Pay particular attention to the one that creates his own cat door to appear through. That’s Pixel, Robert A Heinlein’s cat. It may be God, RH has suggested as much…
And thanks. Yummy! (sneaks off by the stacked beach chairs to scarf the neopolitan fudge ripple…)
TexBetsy @ 26
Remember James Lee Witt? One of Bill’s best appointments.
TexBetsy @ 59
This is teddy’s fault?
And for the epicurean-inclined - Dodd Gnawed
streaming politicsTV:
Dodd iPod
Loo Hoo. @ 56
OK, I’ll bite. Which variety?
demi @ 54
…in these here parts, folks consider it a honor! *sigh* *g* Dang, I done Dodd’d it…!!!
do we have a Dodd bawd yet?
Fern @ 63
That’s the default.
Chris’ horse is Dodd Shod.
*ouch*
ct, i was lying. didn’t hang it at all. i knew you like it.
I have posted the link to this thread over at the Dodd Blog so folks will see all your genius and whimsy. Perhaps the next state fair will feature ideas generated here!
Fern @ 62
no, it’s Balcones Fault, at least here in Texas…
If Dodd got a zed on a Scarecrow post, it would have been…
Dodd Cawed.
Hey, did anyone else notice the Dodd White Ha(i)r(e) video in the right sidebar on youtube? Shows a nice sense of humor :-)
Bob in HI
TeddySanFran @ 58
He really looked bad, almost terminal. I wonder is his lymphoma has gotten more aggressive? His wife must be pushing him hard to run.
demi @ 71
Psst… Don’t tell…!!! *g*
TexBetsy @ 26
I think they’re going to try to pull something similar to the 9/11 aftermath — you know, the one where they claimed they were great for national security because there haven’t been any terrorist attacks since the worst one in American history, instead of being colossal failures because the worst one happened on their watch. Now they’ll try to claim the same thing post-Katrina. I don’t think it’ll fly, though.
We were fortunate enough to have real FEMA with James Witt after the 94 Northridge quake. It was great. That’s why I was shocked when I tried to get FEMA help a few years ago after we had torrential rains one winter and were declared a disaster area. My backyard studio’s roof caved in and all they tried to do was load me down with ridiculous redundant paperwork until after a month of back-and-forth crap they cavalierly dismissed me.
Of course, now I know why but at the time I was puzzled. FEMA used to be helpful.
can’t believe race car fans haven’t mentioned Dodd’s Rod (blinks innocently)
Josh Marshall’s having a little problem with Skube’s logic.
TexBetsy @ 26
Sure I do. I hear they have a lot of temporary trailers ready for use at fire sale prices.
Bob in HI
Time for me to get some sleep. Not sure how much I’ll be on tomorrow. Largely depends on how well I do with the injections, the anesthesia, the pain, etc. I’ll try to at least stop by briefly.
Alicia @ 79
Alicia, where were you during the NR quake? (Valley Girl has family there)
And, if the world were to turn upside down and Broder endorsed Dodd it would be
Brod Nod for Dodd Squad
Alicia @ 79
When it was funded and in-house, out-sourcing has shredded it!!!
Good luck TB
newdealfarmgrrrlll @ 80
gah. CRS syndrome strikes again. It was in the main part of the post. That’s what too much ice cream’ll do to my brain.
persiflage @ 85
Persi, must ya pile on, Sheila…??? ;-)
TexBetsy @ 82
sleep well, TexB. We’ll keep the landing lights on at the airstrip on the far side of the lake for ya…
newtonusr @ 66
IMpeaches.
Bob in HI
newtonusr @ 66
The fuzzy kind. What a mess, but you can’t buy a pie that really tastes good. I’ll do rhubarb and cherry once in a while too. Apple, not so much. Crisp those granny smiths!
best wishes, TexB
althespook @ 90
Given how high I may be flying …. could be a good idea.
TexBetsy @ 93
707!
Fern @ 18
The math works something like this. When multiplying, both numbers have equal weight in terms of order. 4 x 6 is exactly the same as 6 x 4. Four units of six and six units of four= same-same.
Division is not the simple reciprocal of multiplication, because the order of the units determines the outcome. Six divided by four = 1.5. Four divided by six = 0.6667.
So, 0 divided by six is 0 (one-sixth of nothing is nothing). However, six divided by zero gives an illogical answer because six is an integer of known value and 0 is an integer of null value. The actual resultant is indeterminate because of the ordering of the numbers. How many parts are there of that six when divided by zero? Because that number of parts is indefinite (indefinable), one simply can’t divide by zero and retain mathematical coherence.
By definition, then, dividing by 1 and dividing by zero are not the same thing. Dividing by one is inherently mathematically coherent, but dividing by zero is not.
I suppose advanced imaginary number theory may find a place for division by zero, but for virtually all applied mathematics–including computer programming–dividing by zero gives an indefinable resultant.
Valley Girl and Alicia,
I was in North Hollywood, close enough, but of my sisters lived in Northridge. Ripped the wall paper at all the corners. She got a bunch of FEMA money to fix up.
CTuttle @ 88
C’mon, it wasn’t THAT bad, was it? I just can’t help it.
Valley Girl @ 84
I live in Sherman Oaks, near Ventura & Woodman. We got hit really hard.
We’ll all be sending positive energy your way, Betsy
TexBetsy @ 26
Wasn’t the inability/failure to perform under “contracts in place” for water,etc the official explanation given for much of the immediate Katrina relief failure? And weren’t these self-same contracts in place the original justification for turning away massive amounts of immediately volunteered supplies and aid?
On a more serious note, the best pie I ever made was a mix of peaches and blackberries.
Night TexBetsy - feel better.
Night, Betsy. Hope tomorrow goes well, land safely!
Valley Girl @ 102
That sounds interesting. Peaches and raspberries might be intriguing, too.
BTW, did you get my missive on your science blog stuff about the expensive Islamic creationism text?
Bob Schacht @ 91
They’re mm-mm good!
FunnyD