Unusual or unfamilar word or phrase?

[Cthulhu]

Man,
I wish I understood computer logic jokes.
Have a hard enough time with the "must not eat humans" rules that there is precious little space left for such things.

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

"2 + 2 = 5 for sufficiently large values of 2".

Actually, maybe it's only funny to me. Although, SOMEbody bothered to make up the button. It's more of a Math thing, than computers. Us Mathematicians are always saying "X + Y >= 500" " for sufficiently large values of X". The button just takes it to absurd.

Okay, how about the other button: 6 * 9 = 42 (base 13) which charmed me no end when I first found it.

[mjh215]

About 10 years ago I was compiling a booklist for something and ran across this; The Delights of Wisdom on the Subject of Conjugial Love, followed by the Gross Pleasure of Folly on the Subject of Scortatory Love by Emmanuel Swedenborg.
Now the internet existed during this time, so once my various Unabridged dictionaries came up short I went online but only came up with references back to the aforementioned title.
By the title one could summize it's meaning but I really wanted a definitive answer so eventually went down to the main branch library and the 20+ volume Oxford and looked. It had three references and no definition. Two were books referring back to Swedenborg's work, and the last was Swedenborg's work.
Now of course, it's readily available;
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Scortatory

-MJ

[RWood]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Actually, maybe it's only funny to me. Although, SOMEbody bothered to make up the button. It's more of a Math thing, than computers. Us Mathematicians are always saying "X + Y >= 500" " for sufficiently large values of X". The button just takes it to absurd.

Okay, how about the other button: 6 * 9 = 42 (base 13) which charmed me no end when I first found it.

Back in operations research classes one of the running lines was "1 among more than 2"

[Donnageddon]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Okay, how about the other button: 6 * 9 = 42 (base 13) which charmed me no end when I first found it.

Would I be demonstrating naivety, obtuseness, or stupidity, if I said I understood and liked that?

One of my favorite non fiction books is Metamagical Themas by Douglas Hofstadter. A wonderful book based on columns he wrote for Scientific American (after Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games... you see what Hofstadter did with the title there.. heh)

Among many other odd and peculiar topics he toyed with were "self referential" sentences, like: This sentence is odd grammatical structure constructed with.

That is my example, not his. His are much better and even more peculiar.

One example he discussed was having carved into a desktop in Chicago "This sentence" and then carving into a desktop in Vienna "is concluded in Vienna".

It gets better. And even more peculiar.

[Donnageddon]

Originally Posted by NatCh

Depends on Marvin? What, he's incontinent? No wonder he's such a wet blanket.

I know from experience that everyone in Kansas is incontinent.

Gawd, but I do amuse myself!

[Cthulhu]

@ Deb:

I have my own (partially salacious) reason for thinking that your math problem is funny, but as for factual evidence to the same, am at a loss.

Became a sailor because I was told there would be no math.

Then they made me navigate. B*stards.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Taylor514ce

I am laughing at my own joke (again). I picture tompe sitting at his desk with a large stack of ponderous dictionaries, methodically "testing" them... cut to the scene outside the building, the scattering passerby, the screech of an unfortunate cat (katzenjammer!), the taxi run into the fire hydrant, and the one young man holding a test victim and saying, "so that's what that means".

Do we have any cartoonists in the house? The above, with the caption quoting tompe, "I have for a very long time used defenestrate to test dictionaries.".

My spleen aches.

DISCLAIMER : not actually a cartoonist, do not play one on television, and have not done any sketching in several years (and you can tell). but since my only desire on this earth is to cheer up PlanetHead (), here we go, spéciale dédicace.

[Taylor514ce]

I love you.

[zelda_pinwheel]

i know, baby...

[Taylor514ce]

The big sloppy karma kiss I just gave you ripped your towel away, leaving you splendid to behold. If the avatar fits, wear it.

[vivaldirules]

At it again. Sigh.

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by Taylor514ce

I love you.

I'm jealous!!!! But I did love the cartoon enough to save a copy of it. Must learn to draw; win back cuuuuute Planethead.

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

i know, baby...

I think he was talking to me.

Cheers,
Marc (Hey, I'm flattered, Adrian, but I'm afraid my spleen belongs to someone else)

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

I think he was talking to me.

Cheers,
Marc (Hey, I'm flattered, Adrian, but I'm afraid my spleen belongs to someone else)

oh, was he ? i didn't think you were in the room at the time.