interchangeable aphorists

Jun 11, 2007 09:33

I nearly just quoted a little witticism about how there's no winter as cold as a San Francisco summer, and then stopped, because I have no idea who said that. Then I realized, it doesn't matter. Without loss of generality, any witticism about American climate can be attributed to Mark Twain ( Read more... )

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rhiannonstone June 11 2007, 16:51:05 UTC
*giggle*

IIRC, it was in fact Mark Twain who said "The coldest Winter I ever spent was a Summer in San Francisco."

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yami_mcmoots June 11 2007, 17:32:15 UTC
Mathematicians. WLOG is an often-used abbreviation in proofs.

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jkao June 12 2007, 00:15:45 UTC
Hah. Thanks for the reminder, I haven't used WLOG in a while. Must be my non-pure mathyness.

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noneuklid August 13 2007, 21:45:32 UTC
Hi! I'm stalking you from OKCupid. Well, sorta, mostly I'm bored and love it when people link to livejournals.

That aside,

Hahahahah. I would totally live in your geek house with you, except I'm probably going to start my own on the other side of the country.

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