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A couple theories on StackOverflow[^] The two prevailing ones indicate it's either from typography or mathematics.
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A string of pearls
A string of beads
A string of characters ... why not!
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Each time I try to play a video it says I need to install flash player. I try to install flash player but then I get a message to close the internet before it will finish, which I do. Then the next time I try to play a video the same messages come up so that Flash Player hasn't installed properly. I have installed flash player for Google and that works OK.
What do I need to do to get videos to play from internet Explorer 9?
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Check if addons are enabled and that Adobe Flash object is not blocked.
SG
Aham Brahmasmi!
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Thank you for your reply. Addons are enabled but I don't know how to find is Adobe Flash is blocked.
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Download FireFox. 
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Thanks for your reply once again. I already have Firefox. What does that do?
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Member 8793646 wrote: close the internet
That's going to be a lot of work for just Flash!
Maybe your internet needs emptying?
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2006-02-22/[^]
Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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There is (I can't remember the URL) available from Adobe a tool to uninstall flash (not just the standard tool in Add/Remove Programs)
I suspect you've got remnants of a partial install there which is confusing things.
1) Run the Adobe uninstall (with admin rights / UAC elevated)
2) Run the flash installer (with admin rights / UAC elevated)
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Thank you I will try that
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Thank you. I uninstalled Adobe flash player. I also had Adobe Flash player plug-in that I uninstalled.
When I went to download it and install it again I received a message to say that Adobe Flash Player for Google was already installed. Anyway it seemed to work for IE this time. However, I am not sure what the plug-in was and should I download some other program for a plug-in.
Thanks once again I really appreciate any help I can get.
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Referencing this photo[^]
Supermoon over Paris
From Astronomy Picture of the Day
Image Credit & Copyright: VegaStar Carpentier
Explanation by: Dr. Brian Hart, astrophysicist
Did you notice anything strange about the Full Moon last Saturday night? It sure was big and bright, wasn't it?
It was so bright, at times my eyes were tricking me into thinking the Sun was shining.
This photo was taken by VegaStar Carpentier (that's actually "Car-Pahnt-see-AY") and it shows the full Moon just over the tip of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Doesn't the Moon look big and bright in this photo?
Of course, the camera is zoomed up so close, it only looks as if the Moon is really big in this picture.
This old, dead guy from the depths of Astronomy Past, named Johannes ("yo-HAHN-ness") Kepler, deduced that for any mass (such as a moon or a planet) that revolves in a circular path about another, central body because of gravity came up with three laws for how bodies move when their gravity attaches them together.
One of Kepler's laws says that the path the revolving body follows is actually a "squashed" circle, and, unlike a perfect circle, "squashed" circles have two centers, not just one.
Kepler also told us that he found that the central body (about which the other is revolving) is at one of the two centers of the "squashed" circle.
If you look up "squashed" circles on Wikipedia, you'll find out that they are in fact called ellipses.
The ellipse traced out by a revolving body, such as our Moon which goes around the Earth in such a path, gets really, really close to the central body (the Earth) and also really, really far away from the central body and its distance goes back and forth between the closest point and the farthest point.
We call the closest point the "perigee" and the farthest point the "apogee."
This explains why Saturday's full Moon was so big and bright.
It just so happened that the Moon hit its perigee last Friday.
Then, on Saturday, it was not at perigee but a tiny bit further from the Earth than that, but it was indeed full.
Because it was so close to our eyes, the Moon looked big and bright and almost snagged on the top of the Eiffel tower ha ha.
It didn't but this photo sure makes it look that way.
Sincerely Yours,
Brian Hart
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"This content is currently unavailable
The page you requested cannot be displayed at the moment. It may be temporarily unavailable, the link you clicked on may have expired, or you may not have permission to view this page."
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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What... the f***... happened to the moon??!
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I'm guessing it hit Paris. As long as the Louvre survives, I'm happy. But it can flatten the Pyramid.
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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I'm getting the same, but I can make a guess that this[^] is the photo he's referring to.
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You won a new car from Oprah!
Sincerely Yours,
Brian Hart
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Thanks for the lecture: didn't know any of that, thought the moon was just a lump of cheese.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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It used to be a lot bigger when I was a kid, but apparently Apollo 11 was carrying a couple of lab mice. We got the astronauts back, but the mice went missing...
Will Rogers never met me.
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"Material not available at the moment!" - I think you've killed it?!?!?! 
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932
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Except for the software developer gals, of course.
By the way, I don't get why you pointed him out. Is there something weird looking about him? Maybe he's just not overweight?
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Well, I'm jk of course but I don't know what you are talking about because I am fabulously sexy
Sincerely Yours,
Brian Hart
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