From: David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate on
Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> Dave Frightens Me writes:
>
> > Aren't you usually right?
>
> I take care to be right more often than not.

Really? Seems to me that many of your pronouncements here involve you
jumping in feet first.

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From: barney2 on
In article <rivnd2tdtbgliel6quku1bd0hlh6im0t7o(a)4ax.com>,
mxsmanic(a)gmail.com (Mxsmanic) wrote:

> *From:* Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com>
> *Date:* Fri, 11 Aug 2006 05:50:05 +0200
>
> barney2(a)cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
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> > Why, then, is a major triad such as C4 E4 G4 (with ratios of C4:E4
> > 1.259921 and E4:G4 1.189204) ...
>
> What instrument are you playing?

In this case, a theoretical piano, but of course the point would apply
(with some small variations in frequency) to any other instrument/s.
From: Dave Frightens Me on
On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 05:46:51 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com>
wrote:

>Dave Frightens Me writes:
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>> Aren't you usually right?
>
>I take care to be right more often than not.

51% of the time? Yes, that may be accurate.
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From: Dave Frightens Me on
On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 05:51:35 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com>
wrote:

>Dave Frightens Me writes:
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>> Intelligent people are no more likely to be patient than anyone else.
>
>Yes, they are. It comes with the territory. Some react in a
>different way and become very impatient instead, but circumstances are
>such that they _must_ be patient in a great many situations.

What circumstances and territory? Intelligent people live in the same
world as anyone else.
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From: Dave Frightens Me on
On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 05:53:16 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com>
wrote:

>David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and
>deansgate writes:
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>> Cuz I was talking about you, numbnuts.
>
>My calm is not simulated; it is innate. In fact, I must often
>simulate emotions that I do not feel, since I long ago discovered that
>people will not take you seriously in many situations unless you
>manifest a level of emotion which they consider commensurate with the
>seriousness that you wish to convey.

For example?
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