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WCDT Strips 3226 to 3230 (25 - 27 May 2016)
Case:
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 27 May 2016, 23:49 ---
--- Quote from: USS Martenclaire on 27 May 2016, 15:43 ---For those wondering why Claire was not mentioned on the floofiness scale above Brun, it's for the same reason you don't measure sunshine in lumens.
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But Pintsize floofiness would then be minus infinity and ruin the joke.
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Perversity coefficient regularizes divergences in complex floofiness manifold ...
... put another way: Nature abhors infinite Pintsize.
cesium133:
--- Quote from: Case on 28 May 2016, 05:01 ---
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 27 May 2016, 23:49 ---
--- Quote from: USS Martenclaire on 27 May 2016, 15:43 ---For those wondering why Claire was not mentioned on the floofiness scale above Brun, it's for the same reason you don't measure sunshine in lumens.
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But Pintsize floofiness would then be minus infinity and ruin the joke.
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Perversity coefficient regularizes divergences in complex floofiness manifold ...
... put another way: Nature abhors infinite Pintsize.
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Actually, thinking about it some more, Pintsize wouldn't be -infinity dBf. He would be very close to zero, but there would be some microscopic sources of floof on Pintsize. For example, vacuum fluctuations on the surface of Pintsize's body would introduce an extremely small amount of floof. Plus you'd have to consider all the Johnson noise on his electronics. I'd therefore estimate Pintsize's floof level to be at least at the Planck level, i.e. > -330 dBf.
Milayna:
--- Quote from: brasca on 27 May 2016, 18:16 ---
--- Quote from: comicalArchitect on 27 May 2016, 08:35 ---So who is Brun most likely to stay with, of the current cast? I can see Clinton asking around before eventually realizing that the only one left is Hannelore, and not only having to face his worst social situation, but having to give Hanners the hardest suggestion of her life.
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That could be interesting. I think Brun would get along best with Bubbles, but if Hannelore wants to take the next step in overcoming her social anxieties a roommate would be good, but it remains to be seen if Brun has any incompatible habits.
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Bubbles and Brun might both be taciturn but that's about where it ends...putting someone with low social skills, whose default is to view strangers as potential threats that need to be managed - possibly with harpoons - will not mesh well with someone who's certain that everyone views her as a threat and will run away or attack her.
Skewbrow:
--- Quote from: Perfectly Reasonable on 27 May 2016, 14:00 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 26 May 2016, 23:15 ---Like others, I want to know how to enunciate an ellipsis!
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Not so hard if you can deal with umlauts. Protip: It's all in the eyebrows.
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Given that you get umlauted versions of vowels by moving your tongue forward I posit that you get the ellipsis by sticking your tongue out.
Storel:
One last comment on German from Mark Twain, describing a character who tended to speak in very long sentences:
--- Quote from: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ---She had exactly the German way; whatever was in her mind to be delivered, whether a mere remark, or a sermon, or a cyclopedia, or the history of a war, she would get it into a single sentence or die. Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
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Actually, with the really long sentences, there'll be more like five or ten verbs in his mouth, but Twain was a master of understated exaggeration. 8-)
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