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Postby repectabiggle » August 7th, 2008, 2:08 pm

Threadjack: I'm one of those who don't understand why people get so uppity about the metric system. (Oh no!) I see people all the time online saying "hurhur that imperial stuff is stoopid! Why would we use measurements based in twelves? Dur!" Tell me, exactly, why it's any less arbitrary to measure things with a system based in tens than one based in twelves? I suspect the real "argument" from those people isn't "Ten-based measurements make more sense than twelve-based measurements" but rather "I hate the British Empire!"
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Postby rusmeister » August 8th, 2008, 1:30 pm

"Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one."
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Postby Dan65802 » August 8th, 2008, 1:45 pm

"Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." - Martin Luther King
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Postby rusmeister » August 8th, 2008, 7:22 pm

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Postby Dan65802 » August 8th, 2008, 7:28 pm

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Postby Stanley Anderson » August 8th, 2008, 9:48 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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Postby Erekose » August 8th, 2008, 10:53 pm

Call yourself a dog???? I've seen better hair on a lavatory brush!!!
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Postby john » October 29th, 2008, 3:26 pm

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About inconsistent remarks in the Chronicles of Narnia

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Re: About inconsistent remarks in the Chronicles of Narnia

Postby Dan65802 » November 17th, 2008, 2:18 pm

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inconsistencies

Postby KateGladstone » November 18th, 2008, 3:01 pm

Re the presumed inconsistency in having

" ... Shasta mount the horse given to him by Lunes hunting party in a moment, causing a remark of lord Darrin [on how well Shasta mounts] - whereas two days ealier at the tombs he e[n]vies Aravis 'Shasta wished he could mount like that'." --

this involves no real inconsistency, if Shasta mounts more skillfully than Lord Darrin but less skillfully than Aravis (who has *also* had a Talking Horse available to teach her ... )

Another inconsistency bothers me more: in THE MAGICIAN'S NEPHEW, we learn that the humans in Narnia heard the stars singing just as soon as they saw the stars appear (suggesting that sound in Narnia travels as fast as light), but in THE LAST BATTLE the humans (and others) hear the Giant Time blow his horn only some seconds *after* they see him blow it (and Lewis specifically states that this happened because sound travels slower than light ... ) ...

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