1.
Absence from this incomplete listing of past guests at our Stammtisch is not an indication that the person was not a guest, or a guest but not honored. All who visit are very honored to be our guests, although some are trying to forget the experience.

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2.
Here, of course, we refer to Mr. Pompeii. For a little net something on the other famous Pompeii that came to an unfortunate end, check out this thankfully only virtual fluxus. Then again, don't. Don't! I warned you, stay away from item #13 of that link! Return!

3.
Two notes just didn't seem enough.

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4.
See D. Bohm and D. Pines, Phys. Rev., 82, 625 (1951); 92, 609 (1953).

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5.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who worked in both the LBJ and RMN administrations, once gave President Nixon a biography of Disraeli, in the hope that an inspired Nixon would become a visionary leader who would take the Conservative (Republican) party and the country into the future. It didn't work.

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6.
This is pronounced ``sah-rah-ree-mahn.'' The fact that this is indistinguishable from the pronunciation of Sarah-Lee man is not known to have occasioned any misunderstandings that led to serious bloodshed, but it does give an indication of why informal non-tariff barriers are absolutely necessary for the very survival of the Japanese economy.

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7.
But they sure had us on the run in 1994.

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8.
See, for example, the end of the interview with the mixer Diddy, who mentions using a ``valve'' EQ for the sweet sound.

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9.
We do not lend credence to puerile hypotheses, but here's a link anyway.

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10.
This is a euphemism for ``hell.'' Since children don't read footnotes, we put the adult material here, thus protecting their dainty little minds as they take their first toddling steps along the information beach, preparing to surf in an information sea of questionable hygiene. Of course, if they happen to belong to a household with a TV, this effort is like closing the back gate as the cows dynamite their escape out the front.

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11.
Although one consitutes a quorum, if one is absent then two thirds of those present constitute a quorum.

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12.
Not yet!

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13.
As the language scholar and orthography crusader Samuel Clemens observed, ``[t]hey spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.'' [Ftnt. 14]

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14.
In Innocents Abroad, ch. 19 (1869).

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15.
The Conehead family was [ftnt. 16] from France.

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16.
Unless you're British, in which case the Conehead family were from France, although in all candour, they do appear to have been American aliens from France. Jacques Cousteau was another bald Francophone alien. (Vide aqualung.)

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17.
Between October and November of 1995, the World Service of the BBC switched over to American usage.

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18.
On the other hand, if you did know it before, then you still know it. It is this idea, and irreversibility arguments associated with it, that lie at the core of the question of whether computation necessarily requires an increase in physical entropy. Just right now, it's not a practically consequential issue, since the energy expended in computation is always much greater than the heat equivalent of the information entropy change.

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19.
Females are generally more expensive than males, however. Learn more here. And for the too fast readers who visit that site: no, it's not that Robert Altman. Here's a stud-studded webpage.

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20.
Learn here about one such wooly creature with a preference in cotton. Learn here about llama defecation behavior (search on ``squashed tree frog'').

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21.
Visit a 50K gif of an informative brochure here.

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22.
E. g., Yuh Ando and Tomohiro Itoh, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 36, #6, pp. 1036-1044 (June 1989).

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23.
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, '66 edition. If you're interested and can tear yourself away from the screen, you could check a more recent edition.

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24.
These microelectronics images are borrowed from a hypermedia course served from UC Berkeley: `` An Introduction to Microelectronics Manufacturing and Markets'' by Patricia Schank and Lawrence Rowe. The course itself contains an elementary overview of microelectronics technology, and the business side of it seems to be five years old. (Approximately 0.7 eternities, in microelectronics-industry time units.)

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25.
``Knurd'' has been attested at RPI. ``Gnurd'' has been reported at MIT.

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26.
This is the footnote to nothing.

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27.
Cher once sang ``Charo!'s spin was once the rage, uh-huh.''

Also, Charro! was a movie with Elvis in 1969. That same year, Mary Tyler Moore made a movie with Elvis. She played a nun. Two presidents later, he was dead. The first woman to kiss Elvis Presley in a movie eventually went on to become a nun in real life.

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28.
The reason for specifying mean distance to the sun is that Pluto is periodically closer than Neptune.

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29.
Similarly, when I asked the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary -- Tenth Edition : ``What is the etymology of the name `Jersey'?'' (they specifically encourage natural-language questions), I got definitions of what and a list of `of the' phrases:

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30.
`Manfully,' of course, is just a troglodyte-ancient sexual-politically incorrect usage. Of course I meant `personally.' I am as contrite as can be.

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31.
Welcome. You have reached the footnotes. You were lured here by a harmless-looking hyperlinked exclamation-mark because we scruple nothing to lure innocent browsers to this cyberdungeon.

Oh yes. The point of this footnote is that on the Washington, DC beltway, over a hill on the outside, a few miles east of the bridge named after one or another president, there's a repair-shop sign reading `Volkswagon.' Shame!

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32.
There was a revolution this year to overthrow the unjust and also invisible distinction between `guests' and `members.'

You can't return from this footnote, I removed the file that referenced it. You must have snuck into this note from footnote of another file. Shame on you.

33.
This (`Vico reminds us') is dangerously close to what is called precious writing. Vico, as I don't need to tell you, was an eighteenth-century Italian professor of Latin Eloquence, but this comment is of course from the only book he wrote in Italian.

What? You wanted a citation? Why didn't you say so?

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34.
Paula Wapnish: ``Camel Caravans and Camel Pastoralists at Tell Jemmeh,'' Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society, vol. 13, pp. 101-121 (1981).

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35.
Ian Duncan's suggestion is mentioned in Douglas S. Mack's introductory notes to Jill Rubenstein's Anecdotes of Scott (Edinburgh: Edinburgh U.P., 1999), a combined edition of Anecdotes of Sir W. Scott and Familiar Anecdotes of Sir Walter Scott. See p. lii.

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36.
Mischief Night is the evening of October 30 -- the night before Halloween, and hence Hallows Even Eve. Traditionally, it's the night that physically if not necessarily emotionally older children go out and play pranks without even asking for treats.

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