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Averaging out the difference makes as much sense as the current system.

The first rule of Oath club is to tell everyone about it. It is really actually quite an exciting club that just happens to be in need of members.

All that is missing is a second sign with "Please do not throw stones at this sign." on it.

Took me two... er three tries to get the correct number. Since then I have been wondering what the newest word was. I am torn between "twelve" and "today".

Why do people translate The Odyssey first and then do The Illiad?

I still think of audiobooks as Books on Tape.
Don't miss those horrid cassettes at all.

Snow Crash has the best name* for the lead character. Ever.
The whole harpoon thing was cool too.

* Hiro Protagonist.

I have always enjoyed Black Hat's "out there" schemes. I rarely know if he is doing it to be evil or to be weird.

Oh, it is a drowning swimmer.
Now it makes some sort of sense.

Hey, why cannot Ponytail save the swimmer. Cueball can look after the stand for her.

I have had to become an Escape Artist because of conversations with or about Abstract Artist(s)
I have had conversations with Abstracted Artists.

I preferred the movie "How to Foil a Cabal". Oddly there was an A/V tech, a rock climber, and a sailor. Plus one weirdo who may have been a topologist in her spare time.

I just want to say that I have seen the "man in the moon" twice, the same number of times I have seen the "rabbit".

Vaccine beats Virus, Virus beats Rock, Rock crushes Glasses.

I wonder about how long Beret Guy has lived across all the strips he's been in. ... There was the one where he hid / waited in a time capsule in order to travel into the future and thus convince people to kill Hitler. Overshot by a few decades but figured if Hitler was dead all was good. Plus he st...

I am curious about the type of ink we would need to use. It would need to float and couldn't be water soluble, yet it would need to allow the water to soak through so as to be evaporated. It would also need to be non toxic.

somitomi wrote: ↑Mon Jul 10, 2023 8:53 am Maybe it's the Polish motor company

So ... Mary Shelly was Polish? Makes sense then, she would know about the Golem.

moody7277 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 06, 2023 12:32 am

ratammer wrote: ↑Wed Jul 05, 2023 9:20 pm The thing in the title text would be a star, right?

I was thinking more along the lines of H-bomb.

It is not a bomb, it is a device. Oh, wait, hang on. A device is a bomb.

chridd wrote: ↑Wed Jun 28, 2023 7:51 am The idea is to make it technically pronounceable.

Ghoti is pronounced fish. Or is it the other way around? I can rarely remember.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti

I figure the Alphabet should be organized by popularity, the most used letters are in the beginning and the least used at the end. Each language could have their own order.
Why is K in the first half when it is used far less than U?

All I know and care about is that the bird landed safely after a brief encounter with the judge.

What if the Titanic was powered by Dark Energy?

Not at all defa-vu.
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/settled_2x.png

Turning into a puddle of water as a Power... hmmm. Not sure if that is one I would ever use.

New party game: I can start an interplanetary war in n years.

I only said it was a new game, not a good game.

heavier objects now always fall faster than lighter ones.

Thank goodness for that. Bugged the hell out of me how it took me so much longer to carry something heavy up two flights of stairs.