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fxl September 30 2008, 15:47:06 UTC
"I'm a frayed knot."

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goldenmean September 30 2008, 17:53:48 UTC
Yep. That was one of the other ones.

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chalepa_ta_kala September 30 2008, 17:24:14 UTC
Clearly, you don't know your asymptote from a hole in the graph.

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goldenmean September 30 2008, 21:35:00 UTC
Well sure I do. An asymptote is a curve that describes the behaviour of a function as one of the variables goes to infini...

Wait a minute. Are you telling me my butt looks big in these pants?

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goldenmean September 30 2008, 19:51:57 UTC
I'm ashamed to admit that I've heard that one. I went through a period in college collecting science jokes.

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chipadeedoodah September 30 2008, 17:37:31 UTC
I heard that joke as a baseball joke.

same setup, except it's just a guy with a dog.

The man puts the dog on a stool, and asks him, "What's on top of a house?"
"Roof!"

"Right. And what's on the outside of a tree?"
"Bark!"

"And who's the greatest baseball player of all time?"
"Ruth!"

Bartender throws them out, dog says, "DiMaggio?"

All a matter of perspective.

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goldenmean September 30 2008, 17:53:32 UTC
You see. A perfect example. Baseball, not hilarious. Knot theory, comedy gold I tell you!

As an aside, I loved your Braid writeup.

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chipadeedoodah September 30 2008, 18:27:00 UTC
Thanks. I kind of ran out of steam early in it because I realized that if I wrote anymore, I was going to spoil the game, so I compromised the writing in favor of not compromising the experience.

Which is dumb really, because only 10% of my readership even bothered to go through the whole thing, I'm sure, and maybe 1% of them will ever even see the game, let alone buy it. But I'd hate to take away from the whole thing. I mean that ending! and the secret ending, if you bother striving for it, is just *boggle* good.

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dawnkitten September 30 2008, 20:28:19 UTC
Oh, you *will* get laid - but by girls who cool enough to laugh at knot theory jokes.

I'm looking forward to seeing Choke, but I'm scared it will be a disappointment.

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goldenmean September 30 2008, 21:37:16 UTC
My advice is to go in with low expectations. I don't regret my time spent in the theater, but it's not everything I wanted it to be. Have you read the book? It's incredibly true to it, which I think might be part of the problem. As much as I gripe whenever they change books for movie translation, movies and books are very different forms of media, and just translating straight from one to the other usually feels a bit lacking.

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