Re: Transitive Closure in Maine

David Cressey wrote:
> <silly>
> An out of state traveller was lost on the back roads of Maine. He decided
> to stop and ask for directions.
>
> "Which way to East Vassalboro?", he asked one of the locals.
>
> The Mainer pondered for a moment, and then replied, "considering the
> highways as a graph, there is no transitive closure set that includes that
> point and this one."
>
> (traditional punch line: "You can't get thre from here")
> </silly>
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Figuring silly is declared as a multivalued attribute <g> and that you don't require that we stick to the subject line for a response, my father told me one.
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<silly>
One man told the other "I met my wife in a wild singles bar". "How nice that you actually found a spouse that way" the other replied, to which the first said:

"I sure was surpised since I thought she was home with the kids" </silly>
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I filed it under "data based on words."
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