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Old 09-02-2007, 04:38 AM
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I had to move from one part of my residence to another (much better) part a couple of days ago. This is the main reason I've been so quiet the last couple of weeks (though it doesn't go back farther than that... there are other excuses I could go through, of course).

As a result, I have no net access at the moment. It should be back in a couple of days, at which point I'll hopefully have finished the long-overdue update I've been working on.
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Old 09-03-2007, 12:18 AM
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You must have a fun desk. The IN box, the OUT box, and the EXCUSE box.
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Old 09-04-2007, 08:02 PM
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I thought it was IN, OUT and SOON.

I've been wrong before, though. I can deal.
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Old 09-04-2007, 09:16 PM
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If it was that way, he'd be confused all the time, because the Glossary clearly states that "soon" means "not soon" and hence, vice versa, "not soon" means "not 'not soon'" and the nots cancel out.
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Old 09-05-2007, 01:22 AM
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(Starts to rub hands together gleefully in the manner of Jim Carrey in Batman Forever) Then my eeeeeeeeevil plan is working. Mwahahahahaha! There really are times when there is nothing more therapeutic than a good bout of maniacal laughter.
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If it was that way, he'd be confused all the time, because the Glossary clearly states that "soon" means "not soon" and hence, vice versa, "not soon" means "not 'not soon'" and the nots cancel out.
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Wait a second, this straightjacket clashes with the decor! Waiter, waiter!
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I thought it was IN, OUT and SOON.
SOON being a linear superposition of IN and OUT?
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Old 09-09-2007, 03:20 AM
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You know, I think that might be it.
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Was that a Golgafrincham Captain quote?
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Old 09-10-2007, 02:26 PM
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Was what a Golgafrinchan Captain quote?
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Old 09-10-2007, 05:41 PM
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mudshark: You know, I think that might be it.

Brings to mind:

Golgafrincham Captain (upon realizing that the B Ark of useless middlemen was sent off into space first): I'm sure that there was a reason.
Ford: You're all a load of useless bloody loonies!
Captain: Yes! That was the reason!

Okay, so it's not an EXACT reference, but that's what was brought to mind. Let me compare it to a quote I once wrote for a fiver-like MST of a Yu-gi-oh episode:

Yugi: Why do I think that this isn't gonna end well?
Yami: You're smarter than the average lima bean?
Yugi: That might be it.

As If! (basically Five-Minute Yu-gi-oh)
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So, to conclude...Zeke swiped Schrodinger's In-Tray?
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Old 09-12-2007, 07:29 PM
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Possibly. Nobody saw me, so I may or may not have actually done it.
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Vroomfondel: I demand that demarkation MAY or MAY NOT be the problem.
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So...You demand clearly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty?

@Z: You did and you didn't in simultaneous superposition, surely? In which case, you're nicked.
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In the same vein:

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mudshark: You know, I think that might be it.

Brings to mind:

Golgafrincham Captain (upon realizing that the B Ark of useless middlemen was sent off into space first): I'm sure that there was a reason.
Ford: You're all a load of useless bloody loonies!
Captain: Yes! That was the reason!

Okay, so it's not an EXACT reference, but that's what was brought to mind.
As If! (basically Five-Minute Yu-gi-oh)
Maybe it's from a different version? I'm not sure that part of the story was in any other versions, but DA has been known to change the story ever so slightly for every version, so that quotes aren't quite correct anymore.
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^ In fact, I knew what Nate was talking about, but I wasn't actually quoting anything or anyone. That was just me replying (as me) to your question above, and was not intended as a reference to anything else.

My "Was what a Golgafrinchan Captain quote?" was merely a response to Nate's habitual (compulsive?) practice of trying to twist even the most simple and direct utterances into something entirely other than what was intended by the utterer.

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