The sequence continues with quaternary, quinary, senary, septenary, octonary, nonary, denary. Words also exist for `twelfth order' (duodenary) and `twentieth order' (vigenary).
See http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/primary?view=uk
The more irrelevant garbage you put into a sentence, the better it sounds.
See http://yetanothermorrison.blogspot.com/2005/05/mathematical-proof-for-zwickys-law.html
The Easter Act 1928 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom first passed in 1928 but not as yet implemented.
The purpose of the Act is to provide a fixed date for Easter rather than the current moveable feast. The effect would be to establish Easter Sunday as the Sunday following the second Saturday in April, resulting in Easter Sunday being at earliest 9 April up to 15 April.
The Act is so phrased as to require the agreement of all relevant churches and, although the subject is raised occasionally in Parliament this agreement is not yet forthcoming
Tuesday, March 3, 2009, was Square Root Day, a rare holiday that occurs when the day and the month are both the square root of the last two digits of the current year. Numerically, March 3, 2009, can be expressed as 3/3/09, or mathematically as √9 = 3, or 3² = 3 × 3 = 9.
Square Root Day occurs only nine times in a century. The last one occurred on February 2, 2004, and the next will occur in seven years on April 4, 2016.
Square Root Day isn't the only humorous holiday celebrated in the math world.
Pi Day is observed each March 14 (3.14), while Pi Approximation Day falls on July 22 (roughly equal to 22/7). The first Pi Day was observed in 1988 by staff at the San Francisco Exploratorium, who walked around in circles.
#1 Be On Time
Professors don't like when you're late to class, and employers like it even less. Learning how to be on time now will save you from being an unemployed outcast later in life.
#2 Show Up
Showing up is even more important than being on time. If you're supposed to be somewhere, be there. It's good practice. Someday you'll have a job, where showing up everyday is a requirement.
#3 Try Hard
You should never settle for less than your best in everything you do. When you actively strive for success you are much more likely to achieve it. So in short, leave your minimalist attitude in high school where it belongs.
#4 Be Organized
Disorganization can lead to serious time management problems in school and on the job. You can save yourself a lot of headaches if you just get it together now. Things to organize include: your schedule, your desk, your closet, and your bedroom.
#5 Write Stuff Down
Humans weren't meant to remember everything--that's what computers and notepads are for. If you get in the habit of writing down the important stuff now, you can develop a habit that will save you from forgetting important stuff (like project due dates and the boss' birthday) later on.
#6 Think Before Speaking
Not everyone embraces this philosophy, but it is a prudent habit to pick up. When you speak without thinking you run the risk of sounding rude, ditsy, or immature--three traits that employers (and a lot of other people) despise.
#7 Learn to Manage Stress
Stress is just a part of life. The sooner you learn to deal with it, the better off you will be in life and your career. Since everyone handles stress differently, you may need to try a few things until you find the stress management techniques that work for you.
I couldn't find my luggage at the airport baggage area.
So I went to the lost luggage office and told the woman there that my bags never showed up.
She smiled and told me not to worry because she was a trained professional and I was in good hands.
Then she asked me, "Has your plane arrived yet?"
Some guy bought a new fridge for his house.
To get rid of his old, still working fridge, he put it in his front yard and hung a sign on It saying: "Free to good home. You want it, you take it".
For three days the fridge sat there without even one person looking twice at it.
He eventually decided that people were too un-trusting of this deal. It looked to good to be true, so he changed the sign to read: "Fridge for sale $50".
The next day someone stole it. Caution ...
While looking at a house, my brother asked the real estate agent which direction was north because, he explained, he didn't want the sun waking him up every morning.
She asked, "Does the sun rise in the North?"
When my brother explained that the sun rises in the East, and has for sometime, she shook her head and said, "Oh, I don't keep up with that stuff."
I used to work in technical support for a 24/7 call centre.
One day I got a call from an individual who asked what hours the call centre was open. I told him, "The number you dialled is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week."
He responded, "Is that Eastern Standard Time or Western Standard Time?"
Wanting to end the call quickly, I said, "Uh, Eastern"...
A mate and I were eating lunch in a restaurant when we overheard a woman at the next table talking about the sunburn she got on her weekend drive up the coast.
She was saying she drove a convertible and a blonde girl sitting across from her said, "How did you get sunburned? Wasn't the car moving?"
My sister has a lifesaving tool in her car that's designed to break the window if the car goes into the water.
She keeps it in the trunk...
My friends and I were on a beer run and noticed that the cases were discounted 10%.
Since it was a big party, we bought 2 cases.
The cashier multiplied 2 times 10% and gave us a 20% discount.
I was hanging out with a mate when we saw a woman with a nose ring attached to an earring by a chain.
My mate said, "Wouldn't the Chain rip out every time she turned her head?"
I explained that a person's nose and ear remain the same distance apart no matter which way the head is turned...
While in an Italian restaurant I observed a man ordering a small pizza to go.
The cook asked him if he would like it cut into 4 pieces or 6.
He thought about it for some time before responding.
"Just cut it into 4 pieces, I don't think I'm hungry enough to eat 6 pieces.
from uk. rec. humour
Mad Magazine mascot Alfred E. Neuman (along with the magazine itself) will be appearing less frequently starting in April.
It’s a less Mad world. Starting with issue no. 500, to be released in April, the monthly satirical publication will become a quarterly, though it will expand to 56 pages from 48. The changes were announced by DC Comics, which publishes Mad Magazine and is owned by Warner Brother Entertainment.
As befits the what-me-worry? attitude of the magazine, its editor, John Ficarra, had a sardonic spin on the news. “The feedback we’ve gotten from readers is that only every third issue of Mad is funny,” he said in a statement. “So we decided to just publish those.”
See http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/sad-news-for-mad-fans
