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Joey Gannon Joins the Dark Side
Posted by Michael on 13 January 2004, 22:41 GMT

We are sorry to report that Joey Gannon, our hard-working file archiver, has been seen participating in the notorious RPN cult. This is the same group that is infamous for the Sliderule Massacres of '71. Oaths of secrecy prevent information from disseminating to the public, but the mystical letters RPN are rumored to stand for Really Poor Notation, though this is unconfirmed. Members have been known to do odd things in the name of Al-Gebra, their sacred way of math.

No one knows why he may have done this. One psychologist we interviewed stated, "There are many reasons why an individual would suddenly dissociate from previous beliefs." He was not of much help. Our other file archiver, Morgan, experienced no signs of mental distress, commenting: "What did Joey do!? WHAT??? He always seemed like such a good kid!"

ticalc.org readers in Maine have written to report seeing Joey dressed in black robes and performing a calculator sacrifice. His only comment was, "Oportet ministros manus lavare antequam latrinam relinquent. When I burn the calculator, my world becomes the calculator. I must go find a Voyage 200 now so that my long journey to enlightenment may begin."

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Re: Joey Gannon Joins the Dark Side
BullFrog  Account Info
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I heard of something similar to this. Some members of a seperate cell of Al-Gebra, math teachers probably, were arrested for having Weapons of Math Instruction. I'll have to get the rest of that story for everyone...

Reply to this comment    14 January 2004, 00:21 GMT

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jordan krage  Account Info

Weapons of Math Instruction!?!?!? what were they? some kind of casios? or, dare i say it, HPs...?

Reply to this comment    14 January 2004, 00:50 GMT


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mindstorm23 Account Info
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It all makes sense now! HP was one of the first to use RPN! If this is true then...JOEY HAS REALLY JOINED THE DARK SIDE OF HP!!!

Reply to this comment    14 January 2004, 01:14 GMT


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Memwaster  Account Info

I thought the "dark side" was casio...

Reply to this comment    14 January 2004, 02:03 GMT

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mindstorm23 Account Info

In my book, anything non-TI is the dark side, although Casio is indeed darker than HP.

Reply to this comment    14 January 2004, 02:27 GMT

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Memwaster  Account Info

I say this because in my math class, there are idiots who come up to me with their casios and ask.

"Hey, can u put games on this..."
"How do you do symbolic maths on this?"
"How do you find the maximums???" (these calcs are so shit the can't find the maximum, minimum or zeros)

Reply to this comment    14 January 2004, 10:50 GMT


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Bram Tant  Account Info
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Yea, at my school almost everyone uses a Casio, and it SUCKS!! Really, all you can do with it is 1+1=2, and thats even too much for it!!

Reply to this comment    14 January 2004, 16:28 GMT


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nolekid  Account Info

Well, Casio is the only calc in color (if you can call it that), so they wouldn't be the "dark" side.

Reply to this comment    14 January 2004, 20:41 GMT


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BlackThunder  Account Info
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Well, THAT MAKES THEM ALL THE DARKER!!! Plus, you can make darker shades of every color. Then they would really be darker.

Of course, if TI came out with a color calc, I'd say something completely different. ^_^

Reply to this comment    14 January 2004, 22:03 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info

Exactly: What's the point of a color screen on a calc? They should put more processing power or memory instead! (yes, even if it is a TI...)

Reply to this comment    14 January 2004, 22:45 GMT

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Tacvek  Account Info

The point is it looks cool. A ti wth a collor screen would be used for games even more than the current ones ti calcs are!

Reply to this comment    16 January 2004, 20:18 GMT


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Chaomerl Account Info

Hmm...about 32 MB of archive memory on an 84+ would be nice...you could have thirty-two copies of DAWG, and still have room left over for Omnicalc!

Reply to this comment    11 April 2006, 18:38 GMT

Re: Re: Joey Gannon Joins the Dark Side
Daniel DeGraaf  Account Info

It was an email: could someone post it? (I can't find my copy)

Reply to this comment    14 January 2004, 00:53 GMT


Re: Re: Joey Gannon Joins the Dark Side
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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Sounds like that joke jrock posted a while back. LOL- the joke you need a lisp to tell.

Reply to this comment    14 January 2004, 01:22 GMT

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slimey_limey  Account Info
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I speak LISP, although not very well.

(know (not (good (mtrans me lisp) ) ) me )

Reply to this comment    14 January 2004, 04:03 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Joey Gannon Joins the Dark Thide
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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I thpeak lithp! Thith joke is really old ithn't it? I'm thure everybody here hath heard it before.

Reply to this comment    15 January 2004, 21:19 GMT


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ti_is_good_++  Account Info

>>I thpeak lithp! Thith joke ith really old ithn't it? I'm thure ewerybody here hath heard it before.

Reply to this comment    17 January 2004, 05:10 GMT


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jrock7286  Account Info

Are you calling me a joke?!? oh wait...nevermind...you were referring to the joke that I told...not "that joke: jrock"...ok...I apologize. Yeah, that is from my joke.

Reply to this comment    14 January 2004, 20:52 GMT


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no_one_2000_  Account Info
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LOL! It kinda looks like that because joke and jrock both begin with j's. But yeah, you knew what I meant. :)

Reply to this comment    14 January 2004, 21:26 GMT

Re: Joey Gannon Joins the Dark Side
Matthew Marshall  Account Info
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I would like to hear that long story of how he got the 81.

MWM

Reply to this comment    14 January 2004, 01:43 GMT

Re: Joey Gannon Joins the Dark Side
Joey Gannon  Account Info
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Pie Iesu domine, dona eis requiem!

I wonder if anyone would be interested in buying the piece that survived if I put it on eBay. :-)

Reply to this comment    14 January 2004, 01:44 GMT

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angelboy Account Info
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How much?

Reply to this comment    14 January 2004, 12:25 GMT


Re: Re: Joey Gannon Joins the Dark Side
benryves  Account Info
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*thunk*
Next time you see that film look closely at that bit - one of the monks hits his head a second or so early ;)

Reply to this comment    14 January 2004, 13:05 GMT

huh
slimey_limey  Account Info
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i saw that!

Reply to this comment    14 January 2004, 17:32 GMT


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no_one_2000_  Account Info
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Wait, are we talking about Monty Python and the Holy Grail? If so, I noticed that too. LOL

Reply to this comment    14 January 2004, 21:27 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info

That was a really good movie...

Reply to this comment    14 January 2004, 22:46 GMT


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BullFrog  Account Info
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Especially at one in the morning.

Reply to this comment    15 January 2004, 22:30 GMT


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Chivo  Account Info

She turned me into a newt!

Well, I got better.

Reply to this comment    16 January 2004, 03:15 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info

LOL...yeah.... "Zuet was very bad...you'll have to spank her... spank me too!!! me too!!! me too!!!"

Reply to this comment    17 January 2004, 01:53 GMT


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nolekid  Account Info

"you've got no arms left" "yes I do" "Look!"...

"Just a flesh wound."

"your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries"

"Help! I'm being repressed!"

Reply to this comment    17 January 2004, 18:53 GMT

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burntfuse  Account Info

I also really liked the french soldiers....

Reply to this comment    18 January 2004, 01:25 GMT


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Chivo  Account Info

Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time. :-)

Reply to this comment    18 January 2004, 01:59 GMT

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Michael O'Brien  Account Info
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"A regular swallow or and African swallow?"
"i don't know" *screem*

Reply to this comment    18 January 2004, 05:06 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info

"What's your favorite color?"
"Yellow"
"No-blue!!!!"
"Aggggghhhhh!!!!!!"
*falls*

Reply to this comment    18 January 2004, 14:25 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info

Also: "Here's another dead one"
"I'm not dead yet!!!"
"Yes you are"
"No I'm not!!"
*knocks person on head*
"Now he is"
"Thanks"
*throws him in cart of dead*

Reply to this comment    18 January 2004, 14:27 GMT

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