Re: about reading the FAQ....

In alt.polyamory,  (Rob Wynne) wrote in
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>Tiger Spot <tiger_spot@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:03:30 -0500, lisa cohen <lcohen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> wrote:
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>>>Tiger Spot wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:49:57 -0700, Brooks Moses
>>>> <bmoses-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>>Miche wrote:
>> 
>>>>>Besides which, it's not as if we think that the more-typical alt.poly
>>>>>poster's life is full of anthropomorphized letters.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I think I'll switch to produce.
>>>> 
>>>> Asparagus, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Edamame, Kale, Kohlrabi,
Shallot....
>>>
>>>that's a tasty collection of partners you have there!
>> 
>> Well, partners(-of-partners)^n, where n is such that I've met
>> everyone. (Which makes n {0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3}; the other 3 and the 4
>> I haven't met. The set there is not in the same order as the produce,
>> which is alphabetized.)
>> 
>> Hm. This got complicated at some point.
>> 
>
>I once was trying to diagram my relation****p network for someone...my
>partners and my partner's partners, and so on, very much like the sort of
>network drawing I'd do at work to map out a computer network.  My friend
>was very amused that next to one partner I had drawn a small jagged line
>off to one side and connected it to a cloud.  (Which, if you've never
seen
>a computer network diagram, essentially means "here we go off into the
>Internet and only God and Vint Cerf have any idea what goes on there.")

And God is not *completely* sure.

>(I told this story to the partner in question.  She was also highly
amused.
>*grin*)
>
>(This post has more parens than is likely strictly necessary.)
>
>(But I like them.)

You'll be posting in LISP at this rate.

-- 
Marc

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