[TIMSCAR20]

And I don't research anything...Its all upstairs baby!!

[SuperJon]

A rectangle is a parallelogram whose sides intersect at 90° angles. Now, since a rectangle is a parallelogram, its opposite sides must be congruent.

A square is also a parallelogram whose sides intersect at 90° angles. Therefore, like a rectangle its opposite sides are congruent. However, a square has an added feature. It is also a rhombus. Therefore, all of its sides are congruent.

A rectangle is a square when both pairs of opposite sides are the same length. This means that a square is a specialized case of the rectangle and is indeed a rectangle.

http://www.mathwarehouse.com/geometry/q ... tangle.php

You're wrong on this one Scar. A square is a rectangle. I specifically remember learning it in geometry class, and it's been a lot less time between when I took it and when you took it. Sorry, I had to point that out...

[LUconn]

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rectangle

a parallelogram having four right angles.

A four-sided plane figure with four right angles.

a two-dimensional, four-sided figure with opposite sides equal and all its angles right angles

A four-sided plane figure with four right angles




A square fits the bill for all of those.

Yes but you said a square is a rectangle. It is not. A square by definition has 4 equal sides. A rectangle by definition has 2 opposite equal sides and 2 other opposite equal sides of different length. A square has 4 equal sides a rectangle has 2. Therefore they are both Parrallograms and quadralatterals but not the same as each other.

I just posted the definitions of a rectangle and it doesn't say anything about different length of sides.



This dorky argument reminded me of this awesome game.

[HenryGale]

Boys....I have seen almost every thread on FF hijacked at some time, but NEVER have I seen a thread go from Chuck Norris to a debate on the definitions of squares and rectangles!

That is Hijacking at its BEST!

[SuperJon]

A Chuck Norris round house kick would turn a square into a hexagon.

[TIMSCAR20]

A rectangle is a parallelogram whose sides intersect at 90° angles. Now, since a rectangle is a parallelogram, its opposite sides must be congruent.

A square is also a parallelogram whose sides intersect at 90° angles. Therefore, like a rectangle its opposite sides are congruent. However, a square has an added feature. It is also a rhombus. Therefore, all of its sides are congruent.

A rectangle is a square when both pairs of opposite sides are the same length. This means that a square is a specialized case of the rectangle and is indeed a rectangle.

http://www.mathwarehouse.com/geometry/q ... tangle.php

You're wrong on this one Scar. A square is a rectangle. I specifically remember learning it in geometry class, and it's been a lot less time between when I took it and when you took it. Sorry, I had to point that out...

A square appears to be a rectangle based on the above definition. However is a rectangle always a square? Look that one up google generation. I am going back 20 plus years to my math days.

[TIMSCAR20]

I just realized I never weighted in on Chuck. Chuck = Good. Now I'm doing that. Sheesh. One of my favorite stunts ever was in "Good Guys Wear Black" when a bad guy tried to run him over and he jumped through the windshield and killed the driver! 1976 I think or 1977. I like when Conan used to show Walker Texas Ranger clips too.

[SuperJon]

A square is a rectangle but a rectangle is not a square. And I didn't even have to look that up.

[bozlady]

A square is someone who doesn't think that Chuck Norris coming to be our Commencement speaker is COOOOOOOOOOL!!

[RagingTireFire]

I don't really care one way or the other -- I'm Chuck-neutral, I suppose -- but all you haters have this Carone turkey to thank whoever he is.

Jonathan Carone, a senior graduating with a degree in sports management, was one student who asked for Norris, who’s perhaps best known for his long-running role on the CBS television series “Walker, Texas Ranger.”

“It started off as a joke really but we just thought it would be really cool,” Carone said. “I just thought it would be funny to be able to say that Chuck Norris spoke at my graduation.”

Plus, he said, it would make his graduation day special.

Awww. Now it's special.

[bozlady]

Is RagingTireFire serious? SuperJon? He doesn't know who you are? or is he just being fasicious?

[TylerBakersGonnaBGreat]

Is it possible we could boost his head anymore? Please just stop for all our sakes

[Cider Jim]

The headline in today's paper was about Chuck Norris, but the article quoted more of Super Jon than it did of Norris:

Jonathan Carone, a senior graduating with a degree in sports management, was one student who asked for Norris, who’s perhaps best known for his long-running role on the CBS television series “Walker, Texas Ranger.”

Norris also was in the news this year for endorsing former Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee, who also spoke at Liberty.

Carone got the idea of asking Norris to speak at commencement, he said, from an ongoing Internet joke called “Chuck Norris Facts.”
In the past few years, the satirical phenomenon has been used to poke fun at roles the actor has
portrayed...

Carone, too, had heard the “Chuck Norris Facts” and started his own jest — that the Hollywood star should speak at his commencement.

“It started off as a joke really but we just thought it would be really cool,” Carone said. “I just thought it would be funny to be able to say that Chuck Norris spoke at my graduation.”

Plus, he said, it would make his graduation day special.

“It will be more fun listening to him than some politician that I don’t care about,” he said. “I’d rather have a fun day than someone preaching to me about how they’re going to change the world.”

[ATrain]

Personally I am more interested in who we're getting next year...when I have to walk...again

[Cider Jim]

Personally I am more interested in who we're getting next year...when I have to walk...again

Prediction: alumni speaker Super Jon

[prototype]

SuperJon - you said it in your article - "It started out as a joke". So there will be some people that think that it is a joke when they hear it. Come on guys - admit it- it sounds weird!! Chuck Norris is speaking at my graduation.

Played basketball with a bunch of guys this morning, mentioned it and they would not believe me, until I showed them the article. Most were Liberty grads and tucked their head in embarrassment. And it's true - what has he done? A TV show for kids, some martial arts movies, an exercise endorsement deal... So he endorsed a presidential hopeful and now he is graduation material?? Has he ever done this before? You can't compare this to Cosby - It's Bill Cosby - He pretty much was the first African-American to dominate TV as we know it. He was the lead actor in the top show for like 10 years.

I don't really care, and I'm not trying to be hustle or taken that way - this choice just surprised me and I'm getting into the discussion from an Alumni's perspective:)

Celeb factor - OK - everyone knows his name, but speaker at Liberty for Commencement?? Who's going to be next year's speaker? Sylvester Stallone? Jean-Claude Van Damme? William Shatner? Are we moving the bar to much?

[RagingTireFire]

Is RagingTireFire serious? SuperJon? He doesn't know who you are? or is he just being fasicious?

Really? Dude is freakin' everywhere!

I should have known though. What the Sicilians ask, the Sicilians receive.

[jcmanson]

JJ stated in the article he was looking for someone the students would like. It's whether or not you agree with that stance that will determine if you agree with Chuck Norris being the speaker or not.

[RagingTireFire]

I'm not trying to be hustle

Humble?
Hostile?
Hangnail?

[SuperJon]

SuperJon - you said it in your article - "It started out as a joke". So there will be some people that think that it is a joke when they hear it.

What I meant by that was that it started out as a joke because we didn't think it could happen. We wanted it from the beginning but didn't think it was possible.

[Rocketfan]

SuperJon - you said it in your article - "It started out as a joke". So there will be some people that think that it is a joke when they hear it.

What I meant by that was that it started out as a joke because we didn't think it could happen. We wanted it from the beginning but didn't think it was possible.

who is this we and why weren't the other parties quoted in the News and Advance??

[Hold My Own]

Chuck Norris doesnt throw his cap in the air when he graduates, he jumps but it's so fast all see is the cap falling to the ground

[Rocketfan]

Chuck Norris doesnt throw his cap in the air when he graduates, he jumps but it's so fast all see is the cap falling to the ground

[RagingTireFire]

who is this we and why weren't the other parties quoted in the News and Advance??

I'm beginning to think that 'SuperJon' is becoming an all-encompassing mass identity / cult. It's a complex organism wherein the collective expresses the spirit and essence of SuperJon if not necessarily the physical odor. Kind of like Scientology.

"We are the SuperJon. SuperJon lives in us. We live in SuperJon'esTown."

[SuperJon]

SuperJon - you said it in your article - "It started out as a joke". So there will be some people that think that it is a joke when they hear it.

What I meant by that was that it started out as a joke because we didn't think it could happen. We wanted it from the beginning but didn't think it was possible.

who is this we and why weren't the other parties quoted in the News and Advance??

We as in the rest of the group that was involved in the discussion with Jerry Jr and Becki. I think there were around ten of us total.