The OFFICIAL Unofficial Achewood Message Board

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

Making money from art is not vulgar. Art is a commodity. It makes people feel something. It raises the greater sum of human happiness. It increases the gaiety of the nation. It has a value. -John Allison

Pages: 1 2 [3]   Go Down

Author Topic: Let me get the hose -- 11 October 2005  (Read 5260 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

CortJstr

  • Mod Squad
  • Philippe is standing on it
  • Tiny cans of Dr Pepper: 338
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 9820
  • Which gives us AN EXCUSE TO DRINK!
    • View Profile
Let me get the hose -- 11 October 2005
« Reply #30 on: October 12, 2005, 03:02:34 am »
Quote from: "pmcd9"
Who had  Schrodinger's Cat in their sig for like forever?  I've forgotten now.

That was me. Want to eat your cake and have it too? Try new Schröedinger's Cake!
Logged

MattFish

  • Lie Bot
  • Tiny cans of Dr Pepper: 43
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 371
  • A perch with a cramp / Half-pound ahi burger
    • View Profile
Let me get the hose -- 11 October 2005
« Reply #31 on: October 12, 2005, 03:39:18 am »
Quote from: "CortJstr"
That was me. Want to eat your cake and have it too? Try new Schröedinger's Cake!


is there a reason you transposed "eat" and "have"? was it just to keep from having to type the cliché verbatum? or is there a secret joke-within-the-joke I'm missing here?
Logged
I finally found a nice picture of a giraffe

JordanB

  • Dr. Kisses
  • Tiny cans of Dr Pepper: 1
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 28
    • View Profile
Let me get the hose -- 11 October 2005
« Reply #32 on: October 12, 2005, 03:43:12 am »
"Eat your cake and have it" is thought by some
to be a more logical construction.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-hav2.htm
Logged

AlohaDawg

  • Mod Squad
  • LAZARUS, Tasseled Loafer of the Powerful
  • Tiny cans of Dr Pepper: 79
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 4184
  • Crawlin' back to prosperity
    • View Profile
Let me get the hose -- 11 October 2005
« Reply #33 on: October 12, 2005, 07:17:58 am »
Indeed, but also in the greater context of the Schrodinger's Cat construction, it also makes more sense.

A fun link here: The Interactive Schrodinger's Cat

A funner link here: Cecil Adams' Epic Poem on Schrodinger's Cat
Logged
Pages: 1 2 [3]   Go Up
« previous next »