Re: Physics Myth (?) #1

["William J. Larson" <bill_larson@CSI.COM>]

What I want to know is: what is the wavelength of the pasta
and antipasta annihilation line? Then I can use a gamma ray
detector to find Italian restaurants, rather than (often
out-of-date) phonebooks.

Cheers,
Bill Larson
Geneva, Switzerland

----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Sylvester <msylvest@SPIN.IT>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: 2000 April 29 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: Physics Myth (?) #1


> At 13.28 28/04/00 -0700, James G. Pengra wrote:
> > > If you eat equal amounts of pasta and antipasta, will you still be
hungry?
> > Cute, I'll have to remember that one. Actually, I think it's antepasta,
but
> > only a churl (or a pedagog) would insist on it.
>
> Churlish pedagog supplies free Italian lesson:
> pasta: (also) means spaghetti-family food made from flour dough (as in
> English word "paste")
> pasto: another word for a meal (as in English word "repast")
>
> The "appetiser" course comes before the meal and so is called "antipasto".
> "Antipasta" is a common though understandable error. "Ante" is the Latin
> form of the prefix. It has evolved to "anti" in Italian.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
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