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#9488 12/03/00 04:58 PM
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May I further asume that because exiting the gourd was extremely difficult, it was referred to as the gourdian knot?


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May I further asume that because exiting the gourd was extremely difficult, it was referred to as the gourdian knot?

Since you mention it, King Gordius actually stole the knot from a Persian Boy Scout troop that went on a camping trip to Phrigia.

Monarchs, what can you do?

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Monarchs? Oh. Hmmmm.... If a king has a unilateral orchidotomy is he a monorch?


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...bilateral = queen?


#9492 12/04/00 07:29 AM
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Historical records show that in the late 1700s a family by the name of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Quordlepleen set off from Southampton on a voyage to Captain Cook's glorious new land.

Well, then. That explains how the name came into being and arrived on our formerly fair shores. A very detailed and quite plausible explanation. Who do I sue?

But since Max's nominal progenitor was/is/will be found at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe for some of the day, and at the Big Bang Burger Bar for the rest of it, those damned Swedo/Scottish inventors must have done better than they thought. They either discovered new laws of Einsteinian physics to ignore, or they genetically engineered Douglas Adams. The former is more plausible than the latter, because no amount of halfway believable genetic tinkering could ever come up with a Douglas Adams.



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But since Max's nominal progenitor was/is/will be found at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe for some of the day, and at the Big Bang Burger Bar for the rest of it

From another left-hander and Arsenal fan (breedng will out):

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is one of the most
extraordinary ventures in the entire history of catering. It has
been built on the fragmented remains of ... it will be built on
the fragmented ... that is to say it will have been built by this
time, and indeed has been -

One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that
of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is no
problem involved in becoming your own father or mother that a
broadminded and well-adjusted family can't cope with. There is
also no problem about changing the course of history - the course
of history does not change because it all fits together like a
jigsaw. All the important changes have happened before the things
they were supposed to change and it all sorts itself out in the
end.

The major problem is quite simply one of grammar, and the main
work to consult in this matter is Dr Dan Streetmentioner's Time
Traveller's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. It will tell you
for instance how to describe something that was about to happen
to you in the past before you avoided it by time-jumping forward
two days in order to avoid it. The event will be described
differently according to whether you are talking about it from
the standpoint of your own natural time, from a time in the
further future, or a time in the further past and is further
complicated by the possibility of conducting conversations whilst
you are actually travelling from one time to another with the
intention of becoming your own father or mother.

Most readers get as far as the Future Semi-Conditionally Modified
Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up:
and in fact in later editions of the book all the pages beyond
this point have been left blank to save on printing costs.

The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over this
tangle of academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the
term "Future Perfect" has been abandoned since it was discovered
not to be.

QuiteEnoughDone


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From another left-hander and Arsenal fan (breedng will out):

And what was I saying about improbable advances in genetic engineering?



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..it all fits together like a jigsaw
A jigsaw with an infinite number of identically shaped square pieces that fit together in (infinite squared) ways..


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In some cases, yes, but not the sort of queen who would have penned The Hitch Hiker's Guide to The Galactopoietic.

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From a logical point of view what the barber does to men who do not shave themselves has no bearing on what he does to those who do shave themselves.

Sample syllogism:

  All crows are black. (All men who do not shave themselves are shaved by the barber)

  My black cat is not a crow. (The barber is not a man who does not shave himself)

  Therefore my black cat is not black. (Therefore the barber does not shave himself)

which we can see is invalid.


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