The quote from me was, I think, from the one mafia game I played in on the first Friday out on the esplanade.
Incomplete quotes were on purpose to save space: just seeing the phrase "Barbie Girl", for example, should be sufficient to get you to remember the whole funniness, and if people want you to explain the little inside joke on your t-shirt, you can do so (not that they'll be able to read the back after a few washings probably though, but that at least wasn't our fault...).
The 4-space thing was I think about some funny thing Li-Mei did with her hands. Comm Ave. is there because it's funny; note which name follows.
Glenn says the even and odd numbers thing every year, so we didn't put that on. I don't think I heard about the "e to the e to the e to the lot" thing or "ebay" until after we made the shirt; maybe they weren't submitted or maybe none of us understood them so we left them out. As for the "rigorous inquisition" thing, I especially liked the "almost fanatical devotion to associativity" line and was planning to put that on the shirt but then I guess I forgot when we were making the shirt. Apologies.
I've put the actual shirt back at: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~bullock/tshirtback.pdf
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Date: 2004-08-29 10:28 pm (UTC)Incomplete quotes were on purpose to save space: just seeing the phrase "Barbie Girl", for example, should be sufficient to get you to remember the whole funniness, and if people want you to explain the little inside joke on your t-shirt, you can do so (not that they'll be able to read the back after a few washings probably though, but that at least wasn't our fault...).
The 4-space thing was I think about some funny thing Li-Mei did with her hands. Comm Ave. is there because it's funny; note which name follows.
Glenn says the even and odd numbers thing every year, so we didn't put that on. I don't think I heard about the "e to the e to the e to the lot" thing or "ebay" until after we made the shirt; maybe they weren't submitted or maybe none of us understood them so we left them out. As for the "rigorous inquisition" thing, I especially liked the "almost fanatical devotion to associativity" line and was planning to put that on the shirt but then I guess I forgot when we were making the shirt. Apologies.
I've put the actual shirt back at:
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~bullock/tshirtback.pdf
-Evan Bullock