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Tootsie Roll Pops
Bohr: There are only two quantized states of the tootsie roll pop, licked and not licked.
Heisenburg: We cannot measure the location of the center of the pop AND the number of licks with certainty.
Plato: The tootsie roll pop is just the physical representation of a perfect pop, which only takes one lick.
Einstein: As the tootsie roll pop approaches the speed of light, the distance to the center decreases.
Edison: It took my assistants several thousand attempts, but I finally got the answer: 514.
Newton: The thickness of a pop remains constant unless the pop is acted upon by an external tongue.
Yoda: Licks. Ha! The center. Ha! A Jedi craves not these things.
Douglas Adams: If you don’t already know, it’s 42. So there.
John Paul Jones: It has not yet begun to be licked!
P. G. Wodehouse: To find a man’s true character, lick tootsie roll pops with him.
Nathan Hale: I regret that I have but one lick to give to my country.
Mr. Owl: Let’s find out. One, Two, Three, *crunch* … Three.
C:
while( DistanceToCenter != 0 ) { DistanceToCenter = lick( TootsieRollPop ); LickNumber++; } printf(“It took me %d number of licks to get to the center”, LickNumber);@@
Archimedes: By determining the density of the tootsie roll pop we can find out how many licks it will take.
Terry Pratchett: I’m not sure, but that does sound like a great idea for a book.
Michael Crichton: My next book is going to be about people contemplating the ecological ramifications of tootsie roll pops while fighting space demons.
Steve Jobs: And one more lick…
Groucho Marx: A child of five could tell you how many. Someone fetch a child of five.
Bill Gates: The latest version of Windows will include auto-lick software to eliminate the hassle of manually licking your tootsie roll pop.
Lao Tzu: The journey of a thousand pops begins with a single lick.
Bill Clinton: It depends on what you meant by “does”.
Shrodinger: The pop remains both licked and unlicked until you unwrap it and the waveform collapses.
Visual Basic:
Private Sub imgTootsieRollPop_Lick() imgTootsieRollPop.width = imgTootsieRollPop.width – SalivaAmount imgTootsieRollPop.height = imgTootsieRollPop.height – SalivaAmount lblTootsieCounter = lblTootsieCounter + 1 End Sub
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Freud: Are you sure it’s a tootsie roll pop that you want licked?
Roland Deschain: First the smiles, then the licks. Last comes gunfire.