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Originally Posted by NBtarheel_33

GIMPS is officially over. After a 4-hour transatlantic Skype session, fraught with spammy YouTube links and nebulous arguments framed in bold, oddly-colored fonts, George finally agreed with David that not only TFing to 74, but indeed, that looking for Mersenne primes at all, was a complete waste of time and energy that would be better spent on analyzing the patterns of gum embedded in the heels of random Londoners' shoes.

Yeah, so, it's been a fun almost-eighteen years. But now is the time to move on to bigger and better things.

But seriously folks, Merry Christmas to you all. Look forward to crunching with you all and a new discovery ahead in 2014!

can you point us to a transcript of this conversation?