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Edit: Not to mention the incident of July 27, 2006, when the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan was stopped by a horde of jellyfish. But luckily, scientists and engineers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology are working on a solution. They've prototyped JEROS, a robotic system to hunt down and (of course) terminate the enemy. Quote:
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10-04-2013, 04:54 AM | #582 |
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Reading a recent xkcd reminded me of something that happened to me many years ago. This is not something I talk to people about in the RW because the only logical conclusion is that I'm mad as a box of worms. Nevertheless, it did happen and I'm not making this up.
I was working as a night shift cashier at Kroger. One night, this lady came through and bought a bunch of frozen fish. I noticed the label said "Batter Dipt Fish", which I thought was odd, as 5-MeO-DiPT is a drug* that was going around then. A few days latter I was stocking in the frozen section and saw the label again - and I saw another label for a different brand of fish with "dipped" spelled "dipt". I thought that was off, so when I got home I looked in my dictionary, which told me in no uncertain terms that the *only* correct past participle of "dip" was "dipt". I remember very clearly the wash of existential terror as my stomach fell through the floor. I didn't say anything about it, because the only explanation was that I had some brain dysfunction. Now here's the kicker - about a week later IT CHANGED BACK. I swear this, by the Buddha, the Samgha and the Dharma. Now, the thing is, this is very similar to what happened to the universe jumping characters in the novel "the Number of the Beast" where they found an alternate universe that didn't use the letter "J". It was like someone was playing games with me. One more thing - in the universe I was born in, Bill Clinton appointed George Stephanopolis to be his press secretary, but George was drummed out of the White House for being openly gay. I was heavily into gay politics then and fully remember discussing this with friends. Now George has a wife and kids. Lovely. I'd just like to go on records as saying THIS CRAP IS NOT FUNNY PLEASE DON'T EVER DO IT AGAIN. Thank you. *The only drug I was taking at that time was lorazepam, which is not known to cause hallucinations. |
10-04-2013, 07:53 AM | #583 |
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My mother and brother have fond memories of our family trip to Disney World when my brother and I were around 5 and 6.
I and my father don't remember any such trip at all, and I distinctly remember being excited about my first trip to Disney World in high school with our band. I don't remember George Stephanopoulos being gay though. Perhaps this one's a more subtle Banestorm world? ETA: Gah, now there's a horrible philosophical problem. Two timelines, mostly similar, start collapsing in on each other. The histories appear to be fairly randomly spliced, so neither world seems to have a "dominant" claim on reality. What does humanity do when the pace starts accelerating and hundreds or thousands of people per day are having doubles show up and claim ownership of the same set of assets? Me, I'm single and have a large enough house, and small enough financial assets and debts, that for right now it would be a tight squeeze but I could survive one of me showing up. (More than two timelines and this problem rapidly gets impossible of course.) The biggest question would be who gets my current job. For a lot of people, though, this would just be a killing issue. Last edited by William; 10-04-2013 at 07:59 AM. |
10-04-2013, 05:04 PM | #584 |
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Why would President Kerrey's Secretary of State have needed a press secretary? And it is really likely that Archbishop Stephanopoulos would have stepped down from the Orthodox church just to take that job?
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10-04-2013, 05:55 PM | #585 | |
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10-05-2013, 07:34 AM | #586 | |
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"Cosmic Love is absolutely Ruthless and Highly Indifferent: it teaches its lessons whether you like/dislike them or not." *You're not cleared to know that, though I'm pretty sure most of the elite at SJG are agents. Or counteragents. Last edited by tantric; 10-05-2013 at 07:39 AM. |
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10-05-2013, 08:35 AM | #587 |
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10-05-2013, 03:47 PM | #588 | |
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10-06-2013, 04:38 PM | #589 |
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
From reading service workers' forums, I posit that the bear simply "left his I.D. in the car, and will be right back with it."
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10-06-2013, 11:56 PM | #590 |
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
At least the Bear didn't scream at her and call her a "racist" or a "terrorist". Which happened to me in that situation at least weekly when I had that job...
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