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How easy would it be to find a stalk of hay in a stack of needles? (A twist on the old adage.)

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Posted - March 14, 2022

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  • 13395
    Very easy; just use a huge magnet to pick up the stack of steel needles and the stalk of hay will be left behind.
      March 14, 2022 10:58 PM MDT
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  • 52905

     

      Good premise, but there’s also the possibility that a stalk of hay might be so tangled in the needles that it might not fall out  


      However, I wonder if by the same token, it could theoretically be just as easy to find a needle in a haystack by using a magnet, correct?
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      March 15, 2022 7:29 AM MDT
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  • 13395
    I had everything all nicely figured out and you come and muck it up! Just burn the hay then and the needle will fall out intact.
      March 15, 2022 8:15 AM MDT
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  • 52905

      My work here is done.

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      March 15, 2022 8:19 AM MDT
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  • 6023
    LOL ... I was thinking the same thing, for both situations.
      March 15, 2022 8:35 AM MDT
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  • 52905
      March 15, 2022 8:36 AM MDT
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  • 10449
    what if it's in a stack of pine needles?
      March 15, 2022 1:12 PM MDT
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  • 52905

     


    (Failure to capitalize the first word of the sentence.)

      March 16, 2022 6:56 AM MDT
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  • 10449

    Why should one letter get to be glorified over the others simply because it comes first in a sentence?  By doing this, are we not helping to create arrogant letters?  "I'm first so I'm a capital; the rest of you are beneath me!"  Shouldn't all letters be equal?  Why, without the other letters the first one in a sentence would be nothing.  It’s not as if any letter can form a sentence all by itself.  We've already created one arrogant letter - "I".  It thinks that whenever it’s by itself it must be capitalized.   Do we really want more letters like this?

      March 16, 2022 8:59 AM MDT
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  • 52905

      Take him away, boys. And send someone from Animal Control to go and get those cats from his residence!
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      March 16, 2022 2:53 PM MDT
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  • 10449
    Sorry, but that would violate constitutionalble left of freedom of speeching.  According to the attendant I can have a Sprite while making a test either pro or con.
      March 16, 2022 4:47 PM MDT
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  • 10449
    If you lose a piece of hay in a stack of pine needles, best just to go out to the barn and get yourself another piece of hay.
      March 15, 2022 1:11 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    Yes.. could do I guess.
      March 16, 2022 12:13 PM MDT
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  • 2969
    They are the brown ones. 




    This post was edited by Honey Dew at March 15, 2022 11:52 PM MDT
      March 15, 2022 7:05 PM MDT
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  • 52905
    Some.
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      March 16, 2022 6:57 AM MDT
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  • 2969
    True. 
      March 16, 2022 7:24 AM MDT
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