Originally Posted By: Scientific Ellis
This is scientific.

How is a bleeding brain superstitious? Blood vessels inside the brain bleed sometimes- it's a scientific fact that they do, and I was using it as a metaphor as usually the bleed is not caused by circumlocution.

I accepted your metaphor as superstition rather than scientific fact. For the benefit of clarification as prescribed by Bill (being that this is a scientific forum and nothing is obvious as a rule... frown )
Didn't want anyone to take your inference to bleeding brains when defining circumlocution as a scientific fact in cause and effect. smile
Originally Posted By: non-superstitious and annoyed Ellis

I am very, very non-superstitious-- don't even believe in luck, just hard work. I do get annoyed with solipsism though, so back on the 'ignore' you go TT.


I'll consider you without luck and annoyed, and myself ignored.. cry

Last edited by Tutor Turtle; 05/22/12 12:30 AM. Reason: Lucky enough to have so many ideas
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