Vital Question

[Chancellor Valium]

How many roads must a man walk down?

[Gatac]

None. A man has walked them all before.

Gatac

[Nate the Great]

Well, technically none. He could always run, skip, tiptoe, crawl, drive, skateboard, rollerblade, get dragged via rope by Maddog Tannen, whatever.

[Sa'ar Chasm]

42.

[Nate the Great]

I was trying to avoid the obvious fanwankery answer.

[Zeke]

Your post and sig make a weird combination.

[AKAArzosah]

Homer: Seven.
Lisa: No, dad, it's a rhetorical question.
Homer: OK, eight.

[Nate the Great]

The usage of 42 in my sig predates this thread by awhile. What, I'm supposed to change it so it doesn't conflict with my post? Oooookkkkaaaayyy....

[MaverickZer0]

None. If he tries he doesn't have to go anywhere. But if he wants to, we have cars and buses and things.

[Chancellor Valium]

What if the road is placed in the box, flattening the cat, and the box is then re-sealed?

(in other news: Ha! Eat that, you glorified photocopier! :P )

[mudshark]

Who nose?

[Nate the Great]

Mudshark, your post made me giggle because it contains a nigh-invisible juxtaposition joke when combined with Val's. Let's see if anybody else can figure it out. Hint: That's right!

[Katy Jane]

I'm trying to remember what my six year old niece said when my brother asked her that... it was a surprisingly good answer than i had never heard before, but i can't think of it now... oh well.

[Nate the Great]

Was it 42? :)

[Katy Jane]

Was it 42? :)

no, but i would have died laughing it it had been.

[Zeke]

I've always liked Rick Berman's joke that 47 is 42 adjusted for inflation.

Mudshark, your post made me giggle because it contains a nigh-invisible juxtaposition joke when combined with Val's. Let's see if anybody else can figure it out. Hint: That's right!

Oh, so you can comment on funny juxtaposition, but when I do it....

[Nate the Great]

That sounds about right.

I won't explain Mudshark's hidden joke because it really is stupid.

[Chancellor Valium]

I don't get it, but I think the real question is: Who is 'Val'?

[Nate the Great]

What, you don't like "Val?"

Chancellor Valium: What if the road is placed in the box, flattening the cat, and the box is then re-sealed?
mudshark: Who nose?

A cat and a nose. Meowth (of Pokemon fame) points out every so often that the animator forgot to draw him with a nose. Incredibly obscure, incredibly random. You really didn't want to know.

[Sa'ar Chasm]

Or it could just be that the catbox smells bad.

Val = Prince Valiant.

[Nate the Great]

Well, actually Val is Valkyrie, one of the Defenders. Great semi-Thor knockoff.

[Chancellor Valium]

What, you don't like "Val?"


"Val" is a sleazy, cheap, chavvy laundromat owner who incessantly chews gum, who invites every equally disgusting specimen that enters her presence to an evening of herpes and cans Tesco Value Red Wine in her tiny flat upstairs. Or at least, that's what the name implies to me.

And I still don't get the joke :p

[Nate the Great]

You need to be a Pokemon fan to get the joke. Flattened cat+no nose=Meowth.

[Chancellor Valium]

...Ah.

[Nate the Great]

Choo. ;)

[Chancellor Valium]

Chattanooga?

[mudshark]

Yes, sir! Track twenty-nine!

[Zeke]

Val is a Sluggy Freelance character first, an abbreviation for "value" second, and the Vulcan equivalent of HAL third.

Hey Valium, how do you like "CV"?

[Nate the Great]

Funny, I think "CV" and my mind immediately mutates it into "SeaBee," those little yellow shuttlecraft from the Trek movies.

[Chancellor Valium]

@Zeke: CV is fine, provided it isn't used possessively.

[Sa'ar Chasm]

@Zeke: CV is fine, provided it isn't used possessively.

Story of your life, eh?

[Chancellor Valium]

I'll kill you.

With a broken teaspoon.

[Sa'ar Chasm]

*bows* I've still got it.

[mudshark]

This is, apparently, a joke which doesn't lend itself easily to the shortcut of a quick Googling.

[Sa'ar Chasm]

CV = curriculum vitae = resume (sorta) = story of your life

[Nate the Great]

Sumus Quod Sumus.

[Zeke]

I thought Sa'ar's joke was that the story of Valium's life was "used possessively."

Nate, you've reminded me of a somewhat different Latin phrase: "sum quod eris", found on tombstones. It means "I am what you will be."

[Burt]

Nate, you've reminded me of a somewhat different Latin phrase: "sum quod eris", found on tombstones. It means "I am what you will be."

What? Dead? Slighty amusing. For Latin anyway.

[Sa'ar Chasm]

I thought Sa'ar's joke was that the story of Valium's life was "used possessively."

It has many levels, some undiscovered.

[Nan]

I forget the Latin for it, but "never speak ill of the dead" is a good thing to say if someone is giving you a hard time about your ill-advised drinking the night before.

I bet it was even used by hungover Romans. Or maybe the slaves on barf cleanup duty. *shudder*

[Zeke]

That one's "de mortuis nil nisi bonum [dicendum est]." I learned it from Naomi Chana (http://naomichana.livejournal.com/2004/04/21/), a favourite Angel commentator of mine, who paraphrased it as "you don't talk smack about dead people."

[Nate the Great]

Well, okay, Z...

Sumus Quod Sumus ("we are what we are," the motto of Lake Wobegon) is sort of my default reply whenever Latin comes up, even tangentially.

[Chancellor Valium]

It was a greek saying originally,first spakethed by Chilon of Sparta.

Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

[mudshark]

CV = curriculum vitae = resume (sorta) = story of your life
Okay. As would seem to be usual, I was trying to make something even more complicated and linguistic-y out of it.

[Nate the Great]

El stampinium thingamanus.

[PointyHairedJedi]

To get back to the original question...

Potato.

[mudshark]

A fish?

[Sa'ar Chasm]

Three fish.

[mudshark]

Ha! Full house, aces over!

[Nate the Great]

Sorry, but my Royal Fizzbin trumps all!

[Chancellor Valium]

Not so fast.

Octavo.

Read 'em and weep ;)

[Sa'ar Chasm]

*reads it and explodes*

[Chancellor Valium]

Allameraine!

[Nate the Great]

Hmm, what word is so powerful, so shocking that it trumps "allamaraine?"

NI!

[Chancellor Valium]

Curses.

I shall have to say to you:

jujuflop.

[Nate the Great]

Sorry, but I think Ni trumps all. Jujuflop is down there with shazbot.

[Chancellor Valium]

You force my hand.

Belgium, or if that won't do it...

...Nephelokokkygian!

[Nate the Great]

Ooooh, Ni versus Belgium, there's a poll waiting to be made by someone else.

[PointyHairedJedi]

Aaaand that brings me neatly round to...

Mornington Crescent.

[mudshark]

Win awards!

[Nate the Great]

Make money from home counting piece of belly button fluff!

[Chancellor Valium]

Transfer monies from Bank of Burkina Faso!

[Nate the Great]

Save seconds each day dropping your "the"s and plurals!

[NAHTMMM]

Your post and sig make a weird combination.

I gather that Nate the Great had "42" in his sig when you said that, but I looked at his post and noticed that his avatar and sig (Bashir's line) currently make a very weird combination indeed :D :D

[Nate the Great]

Yeah, for a little bit my sig was simply: "Why? 42."

[mudshark]

I gather that Nate the Great had "42" in his sig when you said that, but I looked at his post and noticed that his avatar and sig (Bashir's line) currently make a very weird combination indeed :D :D
Then again, at the time they were made, Z.'s comment could just as easily have applied to Sa'ar's or to Valium's.

[NAHTMMM]

That's true. I can't tell at this point.

I'm tempted to make a reference to quantum mechanics at this point, but it's still a little too early in the day for that. ;)

[mudshark]

Is it?

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g223/mudshark58/comment/schrodingers-lolcat1.jpg

You can never tell for sure...

[NAHTMMM]

Actually I was thinking of the indistinguishability of individual electrons before and after a collision, but I like the picture . . . ;)

[mudshark]

That's the main reason I posted it. If you're going to give me an opening for quantum-mechanics humor, I'll take it; the fact that it may not apply to the immediate question at hand (never mind concept inaccuracy) is merely a nitpick. ;)

[NAHTMMM]

Any argument against posting images of cute kitties or puppies is probably a nitpick. :D



(Obviously the above has not been endorsed by Zeke or any other webmaster. NAHTMMM takes no responsibility for anyone who acts on the above statement by spamming threads with pictures. Try that and the consequences are on your own head. :p)

[Katy Jane]

That's probably the only quantum mechanics joke i actually get. :lol:

[Chancellor Valium]

GASP! The icon of Rassilon!

*Bows low*.

Sorry, what were you saying?

[Katy Jane]

I don't know, i don't remember either. But I also have the desktop of Rassilon. :D

[NAHTMMM]

Do you also have Rassilon's fuzzy dice?

[Chancellor Valium]

I don't know, i don't remember either. But I also have the desktop of Rassilon. :D

That's one of the ancient Artefacts! It should be in the Panopticon Archive!

[Katy Jane]

Do you also have Rassilon's fuzzy dice?

What, you mean these?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v43/katyjane/thefuzzydiceofrassilon.jpg

That's one of the ancient Artefacts! It should be in the Panopticon Archive!

I know, I'm horrible. ;)

[PointyHairedJedi]

Oh, I can tell right away that those are replicas, available for a very reasonable price from the Gift Shop of Rassilon.

[NAHTMMM]

What gave them away in that regard?

[Chancellor Valium]

You can't hear a dozen Time Lords gasp whenever they're mentioned.

[NAHTMMM]

I wasn't aware there were a dozen Time Lords within hearing range. *looks around*

[PointyHairedJedi]

That's because they're nearly all dead, of course. ;)

[Chancellor Valium]

I wasn't aware there were a dozen Time Lords within hearing range. *looks around*


Listen to the music, not the song

[NAHTMMM]

I can't see the forest for the trees!