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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!usenet-fr.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!prichard.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e2a939b$0$2492$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: n+1 Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:25:47 +0100 References:  <2bb3f4db-e876-4ece-956b-3ea1ed736091@a10g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>   <782Wp.83249$w86.44261@newsfe22.ams2>   <6a6d3e70-e5d9-46a7-8c2f-a5c4ea75810e@f35g2000vbr.googlegroups.com>  <876772d4-d2be-45e1-b81d-237747d6d121@br5g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>  Lines: 16 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To:  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 5afd4fe3.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=NLB9LV_2Z`fgGaNM=ULn>o0g@SS;SF6ngR9OH0:RnENd9^aEe\]08?d`:ITG5aA:cg3aX45D]j1 On 23/07/2011 07:42, Simon Mason wrote: > >>>> Well, Newton did say "shoulders of giants" etc. >>> >>> Yes, but he was taking the piss out of Hooke when he said it. > >> Yes, Hooke was notably a small man. In physical stature at least. > > And with a pronounced stoop, by all accounts. But very energetic, > constantly bustling about the place. > > One link he never made: his chronic insomnia and his fondness for coffee.

This has become OT for uk.rec.cycling.