HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

[Amanda P]

Happy birthday Phil, you kept that quiet at the weekend, we could have arranged for a birthday cake at Mr Moos

I'd forgotten. Honestly. Or is it denial?

my brother is called Phil, and he lives near York. He's also got two legs and hair, do you have two legs and hair as well? - that would be really spooky

I have slightly more than the mean number of legs. I also posess hair. But I'm pretty sure I'm not your brother. Other Phils are available.

Anyway, thank you all for your kind wishes and cake.

 

[Noodley]

Final best wishes as the clock ticks over to a new day

 

[Arch]

I have slightly more than the mean number of legs.

That's an excellent phrase. I did a double take, thought about it, and realised it must be true. I shall borrow it to use in future if I may.

In return, seen on a t-shirt in a shop in York. "Veni, Vedi, Velcro. I came, I saw, I stuck around."

 

[Amanda P]

That's an excellent phrase. I did a double take, thought about it, and realised it must be true. I shall borrow it to use in future if I may.

In return, seen on a t-shirt in a shop in York. "Veni, Vedi, Velcro. I came, I saw, I stuck around."

Learned some fascinating facts about demography and stats from my first-year undergraduate stats lecturer, Terry Isles. (He was reputed to walk on water).

Besides the legs business, he mentioned that regression analysis was invented by someone who used it to "prove" a link between the possession of radio licences and the incidence of insanity in Scotland.

There was a whole lot of other stuff about distributions and sampling and whatnot, but I never listened to that...

An alternative latin tag: "Veni, vidi, vicit". I came, I saw, she conquered.