TLPTPW - Throne edition

Posting after dinner. :-)

Back at the top, and WINNING!!!!! :-)

You're just not trying hard enough!

Patient - I keep thinking I'm a pair of curtains.
Doctor - Pull yourself together man.

Good afternoon everyone. :-)

A later-in-the-week win. :-)

For some unspecified reasons my patients are still surviving my ministrations. They are probably constitutionally resistant to laissez-faire medicine. Perhaps a genetic trait ?

Interestingly the Dr Google thing is peaking a bit locally. 'Cyberchondria' : what a word, flows beautifully, has many syllables and sounds similar to other real things. So much that it must be valid for sure! I mean no one would make a word up, would they ? I certainly didn't know that :

{ that unattributed factoid itself must be true, 'they' wouldn't quote it unless it was true. Etc. Quick question : IF journalists always check to make sure what they don't print is false, does that mean they always tell the truth ? How you go about analysing/answering that question is key to understanding how the whole gig works. Or if you like, describe for me what something that is not a dog looks like eg. what color is it ? :-)) }

Apparently many clever people have not got the gig right despite the obvious. Google is a search engine that works on word frequencies/associations etc ( the Google corporation freely admits that ). So it will find what you asked it for. By definition. But many smart people - who ought know better - don't understand that you will arrive ( unconsciously or otherwise ) at what you desire because they are the one's typing in the words, clicking the links and determining the 'truth' by close to instant judgments based on no domain knowledge whatsoever. Surely intelligent people wouldn't do that ? :-)

I really like the level of accuracy* of this Dr Google definition :

... which is very true because it fits my preconceptions, I have excluded other possibilities by simply not mentioning them, was easy to find after a few clicks and of course was reached via Google. So you should all believe me without question especially as I have quoted it without any reference to source at all. You could Google to fix that if you cared. You may have believed that I've said correct things in the past and thus I must also be telling the truth now ...... no worries mate ! :-))

Cheers, Mike.

* Clever punters may note that I have not said how accurate the definition is nor what level I prefer. The level could be from perfect all the way through to appalling without altering the sense of the sentence one whit.