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Offline mikey6

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Which is harder? Help me choose!
on: September 04, 2008, 03:48:32 PM
Rank in order of easiest to hardest

Eating a chocolate bar.
Typing 'the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog' with your eyes closed.
op.111
Getting the spelling of 'opus clavicembalisticum' correct.
Mozart 'easy' sonata.
Reading 'Ulysees'.
Trying not to punch someone in the back of the head.
Scraping chewing gum off of your shoe.
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Offline db05

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Re: Which is harder? Help me choose!
Reply #1 on: September 04, 2008, 04:04:39 PM
I don't know about the others, but I'd say reading Ulysses is the hardest.
The other things are at least possible.
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Re: Which is harder? Help me choose!
Reply #2 on: September 04, 2008, 09:22:38 PM
I don't know about the others, but I'd say reading Ulysses is the hardest.
The other things are at least possible.
I second that.

Offline debussy symbolism

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Re: Which is harder? Help me choose!
Reply #3 on: September 04, 2008, 10:29:58 PM
Why you people can't find anything better to do eh?

Okay, since you wanna play this game, here is my take.

Starting from the hardest.

Obviously, it would be playing the op, and the facile easy sonata.

Reading Ulysees is next because anyone can read it. Comprehension wasn't mentioned.

Scraping gum would be next, since it is annoying.

Trying to not punch someone is according to context. Depends on who you are with.

Typing next

Opus cum.....clav......icc.....cum.....cumba.........Opus clavicembalisticum.

Eating is pleasurable.

Offline tanman

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Re: Which is harder? Help me choose!
Reply #4 on: September 05, 2008, 12:00:52 PM
CHOCOLATE!!!!!!! ME IS ON A SUGAR RUSH FROM EATING CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Offline dnephi

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Re: Which is harder? Help me choose!
Reply #5 on: September 05, 2008, 12:05:06 PM
Eating the chocolate bar would be, in my opinion, the hardest.

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Offline cai hong

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Re: Which is harder? Help me choose!
Reply #6 on: September 05, 2008, 12:11:33 PM
I've tried all that stuffs you've told and...

-eating chocolate is fine for me.

-as for the typing I got : the quick vrown foc jump over a lazy dog ( I typed it really,really slow and I shutted my eyes,honest!)

-I don't know really what Op. 111 is about.What's its composer anyway?

-errr...Mozart 'easy' sonata? I don't know what is this 'easy' means but...I got a few Mozart sonatas I could play...

-'Ulysees' seems boring

-Trying not to punch someone one the back of their head? well I agree with debussy symbolism that it depends on the person whose you punched

-Chewing gums on shoes are really annoying,I have to clean it all day long,but it is possible...*winks*


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Offline db05

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Re: Which is harder? Help me choose!
Reply #7 on: September 05, 2008, 01:30:40 PM
Oil would soften the chewing gum. Problem solved. Ever try chewing gum while eating peanut butter? The gum would melt.  ;)

Even if Ulysses is readable, and comprehension wasn't mentioned, it is far too long! I got a study on it instead, but I couldn't read it through either!  :-\
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Offline mikey6

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Re: Which is harder? Help me choose!
Reply #8 on: September 05, 2008, 03:53:43 PM

-I don't know really what Op. 111 is about.What's its composer anyway?

-errr...Mozart 'easy' sonata? I don't know what is this 'easy' means but...I got a few Mozart sonatas I could play...
op.111 is the last piano Sonata by Beethoven - it's arguably the most significant 111th opus by any composer so is generally just called op.111.
The 'easy' Mozart sonata is the one he nicknamed 'easy' - k545 in Cmaj.

Punching someone in the back of the head can sometimes be hard to resist even wtih a stranger....a stranger that's annoying you!
Eating a chocolate bar can be really difficult for a lactose intolerant person, same with reading Ulysees for someone who is illiterate or only speaks/understands Latin.  ;D
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Offline franz_

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Re: Which is harder? Help me choose!
Reply #9 on: September 05, 2008, 05:01:42 PM
Reading trough this whole post was diffinately hard.
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Re: Which is harder? Help me choose!
Reply #10 on: September 08, 2008, 03:14:34 PM
Reading trough this whole post was diffinately hard.
ehm, you realize it is a joke?
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