Date:         Thu, 31 Aug 2006 05:56:57 -0400
Reply-To:     Joe Whitehurst <joewhitehurst@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Joe Whitehurst <joewhitehurst@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: OT: Friday Humor
Comments: To: Jim Groeneveld <jim2stat@yahoo.co.uk>
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Yes, Happy Birthday!  Don't worry, your egocentricity has already been
duly and truly measured so there is no need to speculate.  You are
among the highest on my contrived scale which uses the proportion of
self references in written samples to concoct a metric.  On SAS-L,
only Dale McLerran and Kevin Viel had the audacity to question the
rationale for the concoction!  And Kevin admits drinking aged Scotch.
And I  think Dale may be overworked.

On 8/31/06, Jim Groeneveld <jim2stat@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Ron,
>
> Well,
>  IF ( 'it really' = 'your birthday' || TODAY() ) THEN
>    "Happy Birthday" TO 'You!';
>
> Regards - Jim.
> --
> Jim Groeneveld, Netherlands
> Statistician, SAS consultant
> home.hccnet.nl/jim.groeneveld
>
>
> On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:40:31 -0400, Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCHM)
> <rjf2@CDC.GOV> wrote:
>
> >yeah, yeah, yeah!  holiday coming up on Friday
> >-- not to mention my birthday --
> >so I'll post this one early in the week:
> >
> >Picked up my Rolling Stone magazine earlier in the week
> >and this Volkswagen advert falls out:
> >
> >What is this craziness about Ego Emissions?
> >http://www.egoindex.com/
> >
> >Ron Fehd  the occasionally egoless
> >              macro maven  CDC Atlanta GA USA RJF2 at cdc dot gov
> >
> >... hmm: would you believe: 'rarely egoless'?   ;-D
>


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