Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 4:11 pm
X number of persons can keep a secret as long as X-1 of those persons are dead.Auleliel wrote:How secret must something be for it to be a secret? Can 2 people know? 10? 40? 400?
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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 4:19 pm
Harsh, but does contain a grain of truth. It all depends on the definition of secret. 
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 4:27 pm
Tsukasa Logged Out wrote:X number of persons can keep a secret as long as X-1 of those persons are dead.Auleliel wrote:How secret must something be for it to be a secret? Can 2 people know? 10? 40? 400?
I'm glad I don't share any secrets with you!Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 4:28 pm
Well, it's not a secret if you share it, now is it?Auleliel wrote:Tsukasa Logged Out wrote:X number of persons can keep a secret as long as X-1 of those persons are dead.Auleliel wrote:How secret must something be for it to be a secret? Can 2 people know? 10? 40? 400?
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 4:29 pm
Is it?Tsukasa Logged Out wrote:Well, it's not a secret if you share it, now is it?Auleliel wrote:Tsukasa Logged Out wrote: X number of persons can keep a secret as long as X-1 of those persons are dead.
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 4:33 pm
Again, definition of secret is important.
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 4:35 pm
So, what's the definition of secret?
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 4:39 pm
It's a secret.
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 4:41 pm
se·cret –adjective
1. done, made, or conducted without the knowledge of others: secret negotiations.
2. kept from the knowledge of any but the initiated or privileged: a secret password.
3. faithful or cautious in keeping confidential matters confidential; close-mouthed; reticent.
4. designed or working to escape notice, knowledge, or observation: a secret drawer; the secret police.
5. secluded, sheltered, or withdrawn: a secret hiding place.
6. beyond ordinary human understanding; esoteric.
7. (of information, a document, etc.) a. bearing the classification secret.
b. limited to persons authorized to use information documents, etc., so classified.
–noun 8. something that is or is kept secret, hidden, or concealed.
9. a mystery: the secrets of nature.
10. a reason or explanation not immediately or generally apparent.
11. a method, formula, plan, etc., known only to the initiated or the few: the secret of happiness; a trade secret.
12. a classification assigned to information, a document, etc., considered less vital to security than top-secret but more vital than confidential, and limiting its use to persons who have been cleared, as by various government agencies, as trustworthy to handle such material. Compare classification (def. 5).
13. (initial capital letter) Liturgy. a variable prayer in the Roman and other Latin liturgies, said inaudibly by the celebrant after the offertory and immediately before the preface.
—Idiom14. in secret, unknown to others; in private; secretly: A resistance movement was already being organized in secret.
1. done, made, or conducted without the knowledge of others: secret negotiations.
2. kept from the knowledge of any but the initiated or privileged: a secret password.
3. faithful or cautious in keeping confidential matters confidential; close-mouthed; reticent.
4. designed or working to escape notice, knowledge, or observation: a secret drawer; the secret police.
5. secluded, sheltered, or withdrawn: a secret hiding place.
6. beyond ordinary human understanding; esoteric.
7. (of information, a document, etc.) a. bearing the classification secret.
b. limited to persons authorized to use information documents, etc., so classified.
–noun 8. something that is or is kept secret, hidden, or concealed.
9. a mystery: the secrets of nature.
10. a reason or explanation not immediately or generally apparent.
11. a method, formula, plan, etc., known only to the initiated or the few: the secret of happiness; a trade secret.
12. a classification assigned to information, a document, etc., considered less vital to security than top-secret but more vital than confidential, and limiting its use to persons who have been cleared, as by various government agencies, as trustworthy to handle such material. Compare classification (def. 5).
13. (initial capital letter) Liturgy. a variable prayer in the Roman and other Latin liturgies, said inaudibly by the celebrant after the offertory and immediately before the preface.
—Idiom14. in secret, unknown to others; in private; secretly: A resistance movement was already being organized in secret.
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 4:48 pm
We are all so fortunate I cannot channel Cain from the Sandman.
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:10 pm
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:18 pm
Well, you're too cute to beat to death with fire place poker.
Right?
Right?
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:23 pm
Far, far too cute. . . *starts backing away, looking left and right*
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 7:15 pm
There is no escape. Accept this, and be free.
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 7:23 pm
What is free?
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 7:26 pm
No escape. . . *keeps backing away*
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 7:28 pm
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 7:30 pm
Lyr, do you require the assistance of my lightsaber?
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 7:59 pm
I can't tell. . . I'm blind. 
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:50 pm
But. . . I'm far too cute to be murdered. . . *flees*
*flees*