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A couple of weeks ago we reported what an impression Sarah Hunter, Google's top lobbying person and Head of UK Public Policy, had made at a public event. The internet is "like the Gaia Theory," she said, "A butterfly flaps its wings and a tsunami happens in another part of the world." Somehow I can't imagine Larry or Sergey …

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  1. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
    Pint

    Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

    WTF am I reading?

    Looks like Sarah Palin quotes, but apart from that I really don't know.

    Beer, quick!

  2. Jolyon

    Is this true for anything other than amusing pictures of animals?

    Stephen McPolin has:

    The Second Law of Information Dynamics.

    A disequilibrium in the distribution of information produces an information potential. This potential is the force which diffuses information across the internet. The internet is at equilibrium when the information potential is minimised.

    1. Frederic Bloggs
      Headmaster

      But this is patently correct...

      The Second Law of Information Dynamics is clearly demonstrable and therefore *cannot* be a Hunterism.

  3. Pete 2 Silver badge

    You must NEVER publish this

    Because if you do, in a couple of years time it will be adopted as the schools' science curriculum. A a few years after that, when those years' students become advisors to politicians it will become our national science policy.

    1. John Smith 19 Gold badge
      Happy

      @Pete 2

      "A a few years after that, when those years' students become advisors to politicians it will become our national science policy."

      Don't be stupid.

      UK advisors to politicians *never* do science of any kind.

  4. Michael H.F. Wilkinson Silver badge
    Boffin

    I always thought

    People in chaos theory were paranoid due to the shadowing lemma right behind them

  5. deshepherd

    WOM datasheet

    Have a look at

    http://www.national.com/rap/files/datasheet.pdf

    and the background in

    http://www.national.com/rap/Story/WOMorigin.html

    ... and yes, it did really appear in their published catalog

    1. Michael Dunn

      WOM?

      A similar article appeared in the April issue of ETI (an electronics magazine) many, many years ago, when hobbyists used things like transistors, resisters and capacitors to build circuits to carry out various functions. Another April issue article described a device called a FEVA - Field Effect Vacuum Amplifier - with a complete description of, and an explanation of the workings of, a triode valve, hailed as a new breakthrough in electronic device invention.

  6. anarchic-teapot
    Pint

    Auditing chaos theory

    Aaahh, that pdf document did my crusty old accountant's soul a power of good. I'm a real accountant, btw, not someone who defected from auditing and imagines that mad skillz at slavishly following the Audit Proceddures Manual actually means they understand what they're doing.

  7. Bob H
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    Vote:

    I like Arah Leonard's one because it made my head hurt.

    Should anyone care.

    1. Marvin the Martian
      Pint

      Hunterianisms should be a regular feature.

      I'm sure a panel made up of the likes of Leonard could keep the stuff coming... Or rather, I'm sure the rockets would keep firing on all cylinders!

  8. John Smith 19 Gold badge
    WTF?

    This stuff makes AMFM look coherent

    Or at least reasonably medicated.

  9. CD001

    Whoah

    That reads like a list of some of the more entertaining spam emails I've had in my mailbox... you know, the ones that start with a random set of, largely nonsensical (though often strangely poetic) sentences and end with an image punting Viagra/Cialis/Whatever :)

  10. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Inverse Square Law?

    No such thing.

    Nobody can make me turn it upside down, and anyway, it would look the same, so how could they prove I didn't?

  11. Anonymous Coward
    Facepalm

    Southern Chartered Accountants Student Society.

    I'm wondering who is laughing at whom here, and suspecting that, in this instance, it's the auditors getting the last laugh.

    And remember this law...

    He who laughs last laughs last.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Childcatcher

      Atually...

      He who laughs last has just thought of a dirty meaning.

  12. DZ-Jay

    My vote for...

    Jonathan Gladstone and Daire Stockdale. Brilliant!

    -dZ.

  13. Xris M
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    Has to be...

    John-Paul S interpretation of Moore's Law. It almost sounds like it makes sense without being overtly wrong or stupid, definitely warrants being tried out on some sophisticos.

  14. VeganVegan
    Holmes

    baffling conflations 'R us

    It's like the famous Einstein comment on condom theory, "God does not slay mice".

  15. Anonymous Coward
    WTF?

    Southern Chartered Accountants Student Society

    Has to be a joke. Look at the name of the person whose "report" they cite: Sir Tinlee Able? Certainly Able?

    1. ArmanX
      Trollface

      Has to be a troll.

      Out of everything in that document, and the question is about the name?

  16. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    I propose

    A random Hunterian quote generating tool. Because when a butterfly flaps its wings, Murphy's law states that it will always end up talking about Hitler.

  17. Nunyabiznes
    Go

    Ah, I keep forgetting this stinking thing!

    I think she read BOFH and is trying to put us into dummy mode. Unfortunately for her it backfired. Permanently.

  18. Martin Budden Silver badge
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    My vote goes for

    "Osmosis" by Alby. Inspired, and it stands a good chance of going mainstream.

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