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How does the number of half baked ideas submitted this month compare to the rest of the year?
Which year had the worst ideas?
Which day of the week produces the most contraversial ideas?
Popularity of ideas containing the word "pirate" compared to those containing the word "weapon"
Also
if you link the statistics to the geographical area of the user's IP address you could get the following stats:
Which country is most generous in giving out buns?
Which country is responsible for the worst ideas?
Which country is most active in half bakery?
Which country is responsible for submitting the most ideas with the word "squeezable" in them?
etc ...
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[xaviergisz, May 13 2006]
Statistaholics unite
Halfbakery_20Metric_20System [normzone, May 13 2006]
Halfbakers' Locations
Halfbakers_27_20Homes Little baker embassies across the world. [hidden truths, May 13 2006]
A Sisyphean Task
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus In case you didn't know, or, like me, forgot. [Canuck, May 13 2006]
Word of the day: Ozymandian.
http://maverickphil...ts/1133457889.shtml Not in the OED yet. [jutta, May 13 2006]
Google Trends
http://www.google.c...=0&geo=all&date=all [jutta, May 13 2006]
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I'd like to be able to print out all the closed
letters like the "o" s, "B"s, "q"s etc, so that
I can colour them in. Each one should be
numbered and dated - Camera cuts to
Jutta enthusiastically rushing to keyboard
to organise in a fever of anticipation........ |
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There are probably easier ways to find out the country of bakers (see link). |
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ZT - let's have both versions then decide
which one looks better once it's coloured
in - and throw in all the zeros for good
measure. |
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zt, would the term *Sisyphean* apply? (see link) |
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Hm, not quite, Canuck. Sisyphean implies futility in the sense of the task itself being undone; zen_tom is looking for futility in the sense of ultimate meaninglessness. More like that "look upon my works, ye mortals, and despair" guy. Wossname. Ozymandias! Ozymandian? |
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I have two printer icons on my desktop -
the one that outputs in colour is labelled
Ozymandarin - because although its works
be mighty, I always gaze upon their orange
bias in despair - (bad colour profiles that
my feeble computer skills have so far
failed to correct) |
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Sisyphus - is that when your sister gets
into a needless panic? |
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//Something completely pointless, yet which requires a massive amount of effort (the pointlessness of the task being entirely obvious at the outset) but which is undertaken anyway, resulting in a beautiful and monumental gesture of <whatever word this definition is a definition of>. Is there a word for that?//
H a l f b a k e r y. |
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the place where people use words like //Sisyphean// |
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and futility <mental note to look one of them up in the morning> |
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C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas le beurre. |
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Assuming, zen_tom, that such a word as you seek does not exist within the realm of "legitimate" English, then you are as Tantalus. Close, but never a cigar. |
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