Subject: Re: TP on CNN Entertainment Today
From: bdm@spacsun.rice.edu (Brian D. Moore)
Date: 1991-03-21, 10:15
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <oy65y3w164w@halcyon.uucp>, halcyon!hikaru@seattleu.edu (Demosthenes) writes:
|> bobg+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert Steven Glickstein) writes:
|> 
|> > scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker) writes:

|> > OK, now how does that relate to the old hacker's joke of Halloween and
|> > Christmas being the same because OCT 31 == DEC 25?
|> 
|> Uh, is it just me, or does that make no sense whatsoever?
|> 

     Ooooh, you non-mathies make me sick.  :-)  OCT --> base 8, so 8*3+1=25,
which is in DEC (base 10, or what you might call maize--er,uh, 'regular' numbers.)
Enough for now, I grow weary.
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