At 09:08 AM 7/1/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
>
> > Hoosier politicians have particular trouble understanding
> > that some things are simply beyond their control; at some
> > time (during the 1840s IIRC), a Hoosier legislator proposed
> > a bill to change the value of Pi to 3.0 since that would
> > make all calcultations involving Pi more easy to perform.
> >
> > I'm really surprised it that it failed to pass...
>
> From what I recall, it actually got pretty close until someone stood up to
>point out the stupidity of it all, whence it quickly died.
>
>Sellam International Man of Intrigue and
>Danger
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The one I liked was when they were going to eliminate the U.S.
Patent Office because everything had already been invented!
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Received on Sat Jul 01 2000 - 15:16:59 BST