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Posted: Jan 8, 2016 - 10:35am
ScottFromWyoming wrote: Is everyone clear on what they're selling? Makes me make a squinchy face just thinking about it. Were they some sort of snout rings? Hmm, it seems there were only 38 "admitted" states in 1884.

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Posted: Jan 8, 2016 - 10:30am
ScottFromWyoming wrote: What the heck're you sellin'? "Mathematicians are a sort of Frenchmen; if you talk to them, they translate it into their own language, and then it is immediately something quite different." ~ Goethe

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Posted: Jan 8, 2016 - 10:25am

Prodigal_SOB wrote:

T

and

U

are rings and

M

is a

left(U,Tright)

-bimodule, then the triangular matrix ring

R:=left<begin{array}{cc}T&0M&Uend{array}right>

consists of 2 by 2 matrices of the form

left<begin{array}{cc}t&0m&uend{array}right>

,

where

tin T,min M,

and

uin U,

with ordinary matrix addition and matrix multiplication as its operations.

Wikipedia

Well it wasn't the baseball thread

What the heck're you sellin'?

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Posted: Jan 8, 2016 - 10:22am

ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Is everyone clear on what they're selling? Makes me make a squinchy face just thinking about it.

T

and

U

are rings and

M

is a

left(U,Tright)

-bimodule, then the triangular matrix ring

R:=left<begin{array}{cc}T&0M&Uend{array}right>

consists of 2 by 2 matrices of the form

left<begin{array}{cc}t&0m&uend{array}right>

,

where

tin T,min M,

and

uin U,

with ordinary matrix addition and matrix multiplication as its operations.

Wikipedia

Well it wasn't the baseball thread

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Posted: Jan 8, 2016 - 10:11am
Proclivities wrote: It seems like only ten of them have an accurate nickname, but some of them are pretty funny - New Mexico Greasers? "Triangular Rings" would be a pretty good band name. Is everyone clear on what they're selling? Makes me make a squinchy face just thinking about it.

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Posted: Jan 8, 2016 - 10:01am
Proclivities wrote: It seems like only ten of them have an accurate nickname, but some of them are pretty funny - New Mexico Greasers? "Triangular Rings" would be a pretty good band name. I'm no expert here, but I wouldn't be surprised to find that different nicknames were in more common use in nineteenth century than the present for a lot of states.

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Posted: Jan 8, 2016 - 9:55am
Prodigal_SOB wrote: IT was made in Decatur. They most likely were Cubs fans. I kind of liked Nebraska Bug Eaters. I'd not heard that one. It seems like only ten of them have an accurate nickname, but some of them are pretty funny - New Mexico Greasers? "Triangular Rings" would be a pretty good band name.

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Posted: Jan 8, 2016 - 9:52am
Prodigal_SOB wrote: IT was made in Decatur. They most likely were Cubs fans. That's pretty funny. I did notice the crab thumpers. Another baseball joke, I assume.

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Posted: Jan 8, 2016 - 9:51am
sirdroseph wrote: Proclivities wrote: They erased Georgia?Oh, I see we are now Cracker, the states are just shaped funny. .......Cracker It's not a very accurately drawn map especially in the west. Illinois is ginormous too. Perhaps another Decatur bias.

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Posted: Jan 8, 2016 - 9:49am
ScottFromWyoming wrote: "Utah" After settling on calling Missouri "Puke," they pretty much gave up. I have a box of Hill's Hog Rings out in the garage. Was going to use them for a project once upon a time... IT was made in Decatur. They most likely were Cubs fans. I kind of liked Nebraska Bug Eaters. I'd not heard that one.

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Posted: Jan 8, 2016 - 9:45am
Proclivities wrote: They erased Georgia?Oh, I see we are now Cracker, the states are just shaped funny. .......Cracker

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Posted: Jan 8, 2016 - 9:40am
Proclivities wrote: "Utah" After settling on calling Missouri "Puke," they pretty much gave up. I have a box of Hill's Hog Rings out in the garage. Was going to use them for a project once upon a time...

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Posted: Jan 8, 2016 - 9:20am

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Posted: Jan 8, 2016 - 8:37am
Proclivities wrote: Interactive map of drive-in theaters in the US It's wrong. They say to contact driveins.com to correct the info, but they're accurate there. So the problem is on the braid site but there's no way to let them know. Oh well.

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Posted: Jan 8, 2016 - 8:03am
Interactive map of drive-in theaters in the US

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Posted: Jan 4, 2016 - 8:51am

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Posted: Dec 15, 2015 - 8:40pm
miamizsun wrote: looks like vascular tissue Or the root of a weed I pulled up the other day.

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Posted: Dec 15, 2015 - 2:09pm
ScottFromWyoming wrote: All roads lead to Rome: looks like vascular tissue

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Posted: Dec 15, 2015 - 1:42pm
All roads lead to Rome:

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Posted: Dec 15, 2015 - 1:33pm
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