overheard in Mmail

Mmail recipient: "ok, since you-you is the same person as me-me, if I pinch the Marc that shows up in SF and I feel it, then I know it is you-you and not clone-you. Unless *I* am really clone-me. Not sure how I would know that. I guess the Marc would have to pinch me to find out. would that work?"

M: "the only way to know for sure how much of a clone you are is to take a "ς"* measurement.*ς is a measurement of eye-chinkyness. it is alleged that as you clone more clones from clones, their eye-chinkyness increases in proportion with the decrease in soul percentage which falls off like e^-N where N is the degree of cloning. this implies that as you get to N=5, your clone subject is almost a fully formed soulless asian."