Or an anti-Scientologist.Originally Posted by KaiYeves
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Or an anti-Scientologist.
Et tu BAUT? Quantum mutatus ab illo.
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Didn't Douglas Adams speak of "a whelk's chance in a supernova"?
(Yes he did.)
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This is really terrible after all those years, but I still see James huff. Posting with small clouds evaporating, like. Sorry.
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"See James huff. Huff, james, huff."
STARGAZING: All I see are the lights of a billion places I'll never go. --Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary
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Is that like "Bond. James Bond"?
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It's from the Dick & Jane children's books. "See spot run"...
STARGAZING: All I see are the lights of a billion places I'll never go. --Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary
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Spot on!
(Incidentally, apparently the book currently being read by one of the lesser, but adult, members of society in one of Pratchett's Discworld novels, with a bookmark carefully inserted at page 7)
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As this board (and its predecessors all the way back to the BABB) are astronomy related many people mistook the source of my username. Eta C does not refer to the star (Eta Carinae) but rather to a subatomic particle. The eta c is the spin 0, singlet S1 state of the charm-anticharm system of which the J/Psi (triplet S1) is the lowest spin 1 state. The eta c played a major role in my dissertation, so I thought I'd adopt it for the user name.
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Me for one (as I sheepishly raise my hand). I always assumed the star. I did know your avatar was the author of one of the quotes in your signature, and no, not Tweedledee.
Charm-anticharm system...Sounds like the story of my life.
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My school switched to Student ID numbers in the early to mid-90's. Those numbers just happened to be identical to my social security number.
Fancy names like Noclevername are completely lost on me in the same way INXS and XTC were completely lost on me. On a trip to Canada, I was amused by the name "The Beer Store" and made a comment to that effect. The person at the counter asked me if I knew what "LCBO" stood for and I answered "no". He merely nodded and gave me a bottle of rum.
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'That was tops! Who's not good at math? I was all, "Four!"' - Finn, Adventure Time.
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Ah, Hogfather, one of my favorites.
And I'm quite certain I'm far from being the only one who can identify the book from that hint.
One of the things I really like about Pratchett is how every character seem to be fully fleshed out individuals, no matter how small their "on-stage" presence.
Just consider Vincent "the Invulnerable" 1, who only existed for one sentence to lend colour to a bar and to explain the pragmatic approach of the city watch.
1) In the opinion of the watch, he committed suicide by entering a notorious bar and stating his name was Vincent "the Invulnerable", something enthusiastically tested and thus disproven by quite a lot of the patrons.
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The previous student ID numbers at my college had been Social Security numbers, but you're not really supposed to do that. In 2001, they changed. I am given to understand that you can still access your records with your Social Security number if you graduated in 2001 or earlier (some thirty years of the college's history), because they know none of us were around to get the new numbers.
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A couple of weeks ago I misread DoggerDan as BigDon, probably because it was an aquarium thread and I've been worried about Don.
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Oh, okay, cool! I never thought to ask.
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That's a much better choice than, say, Goodwin & Green.
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It stands to reason that the only way that you can say that you mispronounced a name is to know what the correct pronunciation is... I simply claim whatever I say it is it is
On the other hand I have only hear one person ever pronounce Durakken correctly upon the first try and it was a pants salesman. A person who had that had the least need of ever doing it.
I have been mistaken for Draken, Drakken, Dura-ken, etc... the correct way to pronounce it is Dragon ^.^ The kk becomes a g sound when said correctly and the "e" morphs depending on your accent. Some people say Dragon with an "e" sound.
Now go back to your belief that you are all pronouncing each other's names right even though you are simply pronouncing them how you want to!
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Why would a pants salesman know your nomme de web?It stands to reason that the only way that you can say that you mispronounced a name is to know what the correct pronunciation is... I simply claim whatever I say it is it is
On the other hand I have only hear one person ever pronounce Durakken correctly upon the first try and it was a pants salesman. A person who had that had the least need of ever doing it.
I have been mistaken for Draken, Drakken, Dura-ken, etc... the correct way to pronounce it is Dragon ^.^ The kk becomes a g sound when said correctly and the "e" morphs depending on your accent. Some people say Dragon with an "e" sound.
Now go back to your belief that you are all pronouncing each other's names right even though you are simply pronouncing them how you want to!
Et tu BAUT? Quantum mutatus ab illo.
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email address while filling out information. He looked at it and said it out loud... I was just so surprised at that because I have never heard anyone pronounce it right without being told. That's the only reason remember that. Even after I tell people how it's pronounced they have trouble with it. It's interesting and I'm sure that it's due to some thing in the language center of the brain.
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