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We are almost there, finally. Number two hundred is nearly upon the people, and I am grateful.

If you were to have asked jay how large he thought the site’s article vault could be, back when the domain was registered in October 2001, he would have probably given you some sort of cryptic answer - maybe 47.3 or ‘as many as you write my young padowan’. But even one hundred, or one hundred and fifty would have been beyond the sights of the early crew.

In one of the next articles, I shall chronicle the time of The Online Net, including the time where I wasn’t really interested. There shall be multi-media resources as well, including for the first time ever – Excel components.

Anyway, we are approaching the big 200, and I’m trying to think of something different to do. I propose some kind of time goes by collection, this time with long details from every creator.

Anyway – for this article I have two ideas.

1. One would be to re-apply for sixth form, for fun – and to repeat year 12.
2. The other would be to calculate the exact length of a piece of string.
3. To work out whether I actually go to sixth form – or to collage; I’ll start with this.

A search on Dictionary.com displays the following:
col·lage
n.
    1. a. An artistic composition of materials and objects pasted over a surface, often with unifying lines and colour.
      b. A work, such as a literary piece, composed of both borrowed and original material.
  2. The art of creating such compositions.
  3. An assemblage of diverse elements: a collage of conflicting memories.

Whilst comparing the idea of sixth form and collage. I realise that the latter is actually a method of making a picture using shredded up pieces of paper. Whilst I find sixth form to be quite pointless, I do not think that it could be compared to making ‘artistic’ pictures. This is mainly because I don’t do art. I deduce that I do indeed go to sixth form. This is proven by a dictionary.com search on the word college, which gives the following:

col·lege
n.
    1. a. An institution of higher learning that grants the bachelor's degree in liberal arts or science or both.
      b. An undergraduate division or school of a university offering courses and granting degrees in a particular field.
      c. A school, sometimes but not always a university, offering special instruction in professional or technical subjects.
      d. The students, faculty, and administration of such a school or institution.
      e. The building or buildings occupied by such a school or institution.
      f. Chiefly British. A self-governing society of scholars for study or instruction, incorporated within a university.
      g. An institution in France for secondary education that is not supported by the state.
    2. a. A body of persons having a common purpose or shared duties: a college of surgeons.
      b. An electoral college.
  3. A body of clerics living together on an endowment.


I am obviously the body of a cleric.

The next key resource will be to find the exact length of a piece of string. If you don’t have a clue as to what I’m referring to – then look back to the olden days. The days when I felt alive, and those above would always seem lethargic. Well – do you remember those questions such as, "how long is it until you give me money”, and the inevitable answer would always be “how long is a piece of string?”

Well now – time has changed, and you can give them the correct answer.
But – I hear you ask what is it?
To calculate the exact length of a piece of string, it is necessary to know the average string length. While a piece of string is quite strong, there are limits. I predict that once the string is a mile long, it will not be able to support its own weight, and so will break. This means that the average must be half of this value – and this is half a mile.

Half a mile of string may seem like a lot, but compared to many things, it isn’t.

So next time someone asks you “how long is a piece of string” you should first ask – what type of string, to which they may just ignore you, and then you must give the correct answer; “One half of a mile long thank you, money please!”

The next section will be to consider whether or not I shall re-apply to sixth form next year and take year 12 again just for the fun of it. I must first consider the implications of this, the first being the ‘F’ factor (F standing for fun).

  1. 1.) Fun – Taking year 12 again would be insanely fun. I have deduced this because I am insane. I came to the conclusion I was insane because I found the idea of taking year 12 again fun.
This is the only implication I could think of regarding applying to sixth form again, apart from my age, the high chance that I would be denied entry, my diseased foot and the dead mouse I insist on carrying with me in a cage everywhere I go. However as I have successfully concluded how long any piece of string is, I am the greatest theorist, mathematician and philanthropist that every breathed upon this earth and do not need to consider going to sixth form any longer.

To Babylon!



Article Written by Rawson

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