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From: Will Ford < la> To: undisclosed-recipients:; Bee: "MIElla t Subject: Nov 30th tidbits & quotes Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:04:32 +0000 None of Shakespeare's plays were published for mass distribution during his lifetime. 'When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.' - Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent. "Chicken tikka masala is a British dish. There's nothing in India called chicken tikka masala. People should only go to restaurants where the menus are small, not, like, 175 things. You see every Indian restaurant has everything in the world on the menu—they are not authentic. I don't even have a buffet in my restaurant. There are no buffets in India. Buffets are meant for big wedding parties, where you have 500 people." - Gaurav Anand, Chef/Owner Bhatti Indian Grill and Desi Galli "People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person." - George Bernard Shaw "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting." - Mark Twain The symbol for pi (a) has been used regularly in its mathematical sense only for the past 250 years. In the Star Trek episode "Wolf in the Fold," Spock foils the evil computer by commanding it to "compute to last digit the value of pi."William Shanks (1812-1882) worked for years by hand to find the first 707 digits of pi. Unfortunately, he made a mistake after the 527th place and, consequently, the following digits were all wrong.The first million decimal places of pi consist of 99,959 zeros, 99,758 Is, 100,026 2s, 100,229 3s, 100,230 4s, 100,359 5s, 99,548 6s, 99,800 7s, 99,985 8s, and 100,106 9s. EFTA00400347