According to a Greenpeace spokesman, the memo was a joke that was accidentally released.

According to Protector, the original colonists had planned to call their world " Flatland " as a sort of joke, but once settled on Home they had changed their minds — " a belated attack of patriotism ", Elroy Truesdale of Protector muses.

" According to a later description, " Like all cultural watersheds, Ramones was embraced by a discerning few and slagged off as a bad joke by the uncomprehending majority.

According to Stark, the recording " was a complete joke from their point of view — they did not care what they delivered ".

According to college tradition, Thomas Gray left Peterhouse for Pembroke College after being the victim of a practical joke played by undergraduates.

According to this hypothesis, Doyle as a private joke has Inspector MacDonald describe Moriarty: " He'd have made a grand meenister with his thin face and grey hair and his solemn-like way of talking.

According to William Anthony Nericcio, the name derives from a joke about a Mexican man nicknamed " Speedy " either because of his premature ejaculation or quick copulation, though the name of the character was not intended to be derogatory .< ref >

According to Time, " locals used to joke that Xiamen should change its name to Yuanhua, the name of Lai's company.

According to Richard Harris, a psychology professor at Kansas State University who studied why people like to cite films in social situations, using film quotes in everyday conversation is similar to telling a joke and a way to form solidarity with others.

According to DS9 writer / producer Robert Hewitt Wolfe, after having previously been treated as red herrings since their first mention on Next Generation, and as a running joke by the production staff because " they were these people who were out there who were dangerous but were never really responsible for any of the trouble going on ", they would finally be used as the villains in an episode.

According to a popular joke, Elvis himself entered an Elvis look-alike contest at a local restaurant shortly before his death, and came in third place.

According to a local Thuringian joke, " Suhl is so close to the edge of the world you can see Zella-Mehlis ".

( According to allmusic. com, Pink Puzz was the identity under which the Raiders first tried to get the album played on FM radio, a gambit that failed though the band kept the joke name for the album title.

According to Hudson, the legend originated with a group of " middle-aged homosexuals who live in Huntington Beach " who sent out joke invitations for their annual get-together.

According to Joyce Grenfell, Potter had become bored with the joke by this time, " but for the rest of his life he found it difficult to speak or write naturally, so accustomed had he grown to the jocose gambits and ploys of his own invention.

According to the joke, manufacturers put a portion of magic smoke into every electronic component, and the device functions normally so long as the smoke does not escape.

According to Collectible Auto magazine, the car was described in Car Lifes review as " a big car in miniature " that was " fun to drive " and " ideal for a second car in the family ," while Motor Trend was not alone in regarding the rear " utility " seat as " a joke.

According to Dickens ' biographer Michael Slater, the title American Notes for General Circulation may have been a joke at the expense of American currency.

According to David Mirkin, this is a joke about how " huge " Carrey's movies were at the time, and how he was not garnering much respect as an actor.

According to guitarist Dave Murray the name was also inspired by an old joke:

According to audiotapes of Johnson's phone calls, Whittington at first thought the call was a joke, but came to believe that it really was the president on the line.

According to filmmaker Sílvio Tendler, who was at the meeting, Lula's account was merely a joke.

According to this account, the plate was intended to be a joke among members of a playful fraternity of California history enthusiasts, the Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus (" ECV ").

According to executive producer Al Jean, the idea was to make the scene funny, then drag the joke out so that it is no longer funny, and then drag it out even longer to make it funny again.

According to the special theory of relativity, the aberration looks as a transform of the celestial sphere due to different frames of reference and is virtually a special case of velocity addition, namely one of the light beam and frames ' relative velocity v. The formula from relativistic aberration can be simplified to

According to Christadelphians, these terms are used in reference to specific political systems or individuals in opposition or conflict.

According to Dr Rupert Thompson, the Orator of The University of Cambridge, the earliest reference to drinking games in Western literature is from Plato's Symposium The Drinking Party.

According to Wikileaks CableGate documents ( reference ID " 09LONDON1156 "), in a calculated move planned in 2009, the UK proposed that the BIOT become a " marine reserve " with the aim of preventing the former inhabitants from returning to their lands.

According to Fahrenheit's 1724 article, he determined his scale by reference to three fixed points of temperature.

According to Frege the reference of a sentence is a truth value ; for Husserl it is a " state of affairs.

According to an article Fahrenheit wrote in 1724, he based his scale on three reference points of temperature.

According to Denis Sinor, this reference indicates that the Göktürks were specialized in metallurgy, though it is unclear if they were miners or, indeed, blacksmiths.

According to this definition, supplemented with the constancy of the speed of light, inertial frames of reference transform among themselves according to the Poincaré group of symmetry transformations, of which the Lorentz transformations are a subgroup.

According to Robert E. Van Voorst the overwhelming majority of scholars consider both the reference to " the brother of Jesus called Christ " and the entire passage that includes it as authentic.

According to Van Voorst, scholars who support the negative reconstruction contend that the reference read something like " source of further trouble in Jesus a wise man " and that it stated " he was the so-called Christ ".

According to the Sages, this was a prophetic reference to the End of Days, when Jacob's descendants will come to Mount Seir, the home of Edom, to deliver judgment against Esau's descendants for persecuting them throughout the millennia ( see Obadiah 1: 21 ).

According to Procopius, Justinian stated at the completion of this edifice, " Solomon I have outdone thee " ( in reference to the 1st Jewish temple ).

According to the principle of relativity, there is no privileged frame of reference, so the inverse transformations frame F ′ to frame F must be given by simply negating v.

According to natural law theory, which holds that morality is a function of human nature and reason can discover valid moral principles by looking at the nature of humanity in society, the content of positive law cannot be known without some reference to natural law ( or something like it ).

According to a single reference in the Iliad, when the world was divided by lot in three, Zeus received the sky, Hades the underworld and Poseidon the sea.

According to the reference syntax, letter-case ( upper-or lower -) is not distinguished in tag names, thus the three tags: ( i ), ( ii ), and ( iii ) are equivalent.

According to special relativity, one can change a spatial and time separation ( L < sub > 1 </ sub >, Δt < sub > 1 </ sub >) into another ( L < sub > 2 </ sub >, Δt < sub > 2 </ sub >) by changing one's reference frame, as long as the change maintains the spacetime interval s. Such a change in reference frame corresponds to changing one's motion ; in a moving frame, lengths and times are different from their counterparts in a stationary reference frame.

According to its constitution, the Universal House of Justice itself states that " The provenance, the authority, the duties, the sphere of action of the Universal House of Justice all derive from the revealed Word of Bahá ' u ' lláh which, together with the interpretations and expositions of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá and of Shoghi Effendi ... constitute the binding terms of reference of the Universal House of Justice and are its bedrock foundation.

According to the interpretation of Herwig Wolfram, the Notitia Dignitatum equates the Vesi with the Tervingi in a reference to the years 388 – 391.

According to Anthony Cronin, " always possessed a Bible, at the end more than one edition, and Bible concordances were always among the reference books on his shelves.

According to the standard reference text on nuclear weapons effects published by the U. S. Department of Defense, " The peak electric field ( and its amplitude ) at the Earth's surface from a high-altitude burst will depend upon the explosion yield, the height of the burst, the location of the observer, and the orientation with respect to the geomagnetic field.

According to DoD documents, “ The MIL-STD-188 series may be based on, or make reference to, Joint Technical Architecture, American National Standards Institute ( ANSI ) standards, International Telecommunications Union-Telecommunication Standardization Sector ( ITU-T ) recommendations, North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) Standardization Agreements ( STANAG ), and other standards wherever applicable .”