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Talk:Homeopathy

If one group of editors were to say the Earth is flat and another group were to say it is round, it would not benefit Wikipedia for the groups to compromise and say the Earth is shaped like a calzone. Raymond Arritt (talk) 05:09, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

But what a delicious compromise it would be! Baegis (talk) 05:12, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

With a soft red wine (the pro-homeopathy editors get their wine diluted 30X). Raymond Arritt (talk) 05:26, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Remember, I contend that any light beer brewed in the United States, is actually homeopathic beer, because it's been diluted so much, that anyone drinking it, only imagines that it's really beer. But it makes one urinate like it was beer. OrangeMarlin Talk• Contributions 06:33, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Simply because the water it contains has retained the memory of the urine it once was. •Jim62sch• 07:01, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

I thought so. Well, that pretty much sums up both Light Beer and Homeopathy. Neither of them are very good. OrangeMarlin Talk• Contributions 07:04, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Link indirectly thanks to andrewducker, who linked to Lamest Edit Wars.

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[zenlizard]

snerk

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

Yow. Thanks for the link, I guess. The J. K. Rowling (pronounced like "rolling" or to rhyme with "howling"?) bit is reminding me of my son's homework. He had to decide if "bolt" and "colt" were "closed or open syllables." He wasn't sure, so asked me. I said "closed" (meaning the "o" is short as in octuplets, not long as in rodeo); the school disagreed. I still don't see it.

[subnumine.livejournal.com]

closed syllable, one ending in a consonant, as the first and third of L[atin] fes-ti-nat. Oxford English Dictionary. Tell his teacher to look it up.