From: "Troy Steadman" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Like the Pig/Tattie but Bread instead
Date: 11 Feb 2006 11:16:22 -0800
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Ronald Raygun wrote:
> Martin wrote:
>
> > "Ronald Raygun"  wrote in message
> >>
> >> Besides, it's not impossible to halve a crusty slice in
> >> such a way that both halves are still crusty, and still
> >> have the same height and width, but are merely twice as
> >> thin.
> >
> > How can anything be "twice as thin" ?
> >
> > You must mean half as fat....
>
> Same thing.  How else would you define thinness but the reciprocal
> of thickness?


It is true that any object is 100.04999% the reciprocal of its own
opposite (he he he!). The only exception is paper which is defined as
the thin flexible sheets of the white rectangular objects known as
paper.