How is a raven like a writing desk?

[Jumpervint 0]

I bid on an altimeter on E-bay, and since I didn't win, E-bay sent me a list of similar items I might like to bid on. Here's the list:


Super Bowl III - Miami 1969 - toller Pin

ADIDAS Stabil III Lady Damen Gr. 37

Pack A Dogs III Green Bay Packers Art print

Beckett Tribute : Dream Team III

Garmin GPS III GPS 3 GPSIII Not Etrex

GARMIN GPS III PLUS -Brand New In Box!-


Hmmmm... now which would best help me decide when to pull?


Vint

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"Make it hard again." Doc Ed

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[n2skdvn 0]

go for the gps!! it can tell ya altitude!!!

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[quade 4]

But why is a raven like a . . .

Lewis Carroll himself got bugged about this so much that he was moved to write the following in the preface to the 1896 edition of his book:

Enquiries have been so often addressed to me, as to whether any answer to the Hatter's Riddle can be imagined, that I may as well put on record here what seems to me to be a fairly appropriate answer, viz: `Because it can produce a few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is never put with the wrong end in front!' This, however, is merely an afterthought; the Riddle, as originally invented, had no answer at all.

Did this discourage people? No. They figured, that dope Carroll, he's too dumb to figure out his own riddle, setting aside the halfhearted attempt just quoted. So they ventured answers of their own, some of the more notable of which are recorded in Martin Gardner's The Annotated Alice and More Annotated Alice:

Because the notes for which they are noted are not noted for being musical notes. (Puzzle maven Sam Loyd, 1914)
Because Poe wrote on both. (Loyd again)
Because there is a B in both and an N in neither. (Get it? Aldous Huxley, 1928)
Because it slopes with a flap. (Cyril Pearson, undated)
Not bad for amateurs. But the real answer, to which the careers of Poe and Carroll bear ample testimony, is that you can baffle the billions with both.

Postscript: In 1976 Carroll admirer Denis Crutch pointed out that in the 1896 preface quoted above, the author had originally written: "It is nevar put with the wrong end in front." Nevar of course is raven spelled backward. Big joke! However, said joke did not survive the ministrations of the proofreaders, who, thinking they understood the author's intentions better than the author, changed nevar to never in subsequent editions. The indignities we authors suffer! Sure, it's partly made up for by the money and groupies, but still, if in some book (e.g., this one) you come across a line that really clanks, be assured: it was funny before.

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[dterrick 0]

...because they have similar flight characteristics?

(yes, I fly one). Seriously, I'm guessing you bid on al Alti- "III" - and III is in all the other links.

Dave

Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney)