[lit-ideas] Re: Tuesday Joke
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 06:50:30 -0800 (PST)
This rests on the peculiarity of (American ?) English
that it uses 'positive' in the sense of certain or
sure. I don't know of any other language that use
positive in this sense.
O.K.
--- Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Two atoms are walking down the street. One says,
> "Uh oh, I've lost an
> electron." The other says, "Are you sure?"
> "Yes, I'm positive."
>
>
> Mike Geary
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ursula Stange" <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 7:24 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Tuesday Joke
>
>
> > Two atoms walking down the street.
> > One says, "I've lost an electron."
> > The other says, "Are you positive?"
> >
> > (or am I missing something?)
> >
> > Simon Ward wrote:
> >> Two atoms walking down the street.
> >> One loses an electron.
> >> The other says: "You're positive."
> >> [I thankyou]
> >
> >
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