Talk:2934: Bloom Filter

2024-05-18T21:52:20Z

172.68.1.132:

It certaintly does contain a thing. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.23.74|172.68.23.74]] 00:10, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

The title text deals with inaccuracies in determining whether you have chosen the right programming tool for your membership query (or some different task), not just inaccuracies in the Bloom filter as one of these tools. This analogy remains unexplained. [[User:Transgalactic|Transgalactic]] ([[User talk:Transgalactic|talk]]) 11:24, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
: The title text makes a self-description joke, where it depicts using a bloom filter to determine whether bloom filters are appropriate, as if bloom filters were the only tool available for human decisions. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.1.132|172.68.1.132]] 21:52, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Talk:259: Clichéd Exchanges

2024-03-11T18:55:33Z

172.68.1.132:

Is this correction satisfactory? Can I remove the tag? [[User:ImVeryAngryItsNotButter|ImVeryAngryItsNotButter]] ([[User talk:ImVeryAngryItsNotButter|talk]]) 00:54, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
:I removed it, because it looks good to me. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.219|108.162.250.219]] 13:32, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

I thought the cliche being referred to was "wrecked 'em? I hardly knew 'em!" (a double entendre on "rectum" ) http://ask.metafilter.com/122210/JokeFilter-What-is-the-origin-of-the-joke-with-the-punchline-rectum-damn-near-killed-him [[Special:Contributions/66.202.132.250|66.202.132.250]] 14:25, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
:In my experience it's a general "<tagword>, I hardly knew(/know) her(/him)", where the tagword is an -er/-im word and can (by sheer force of will, often groan-worthy) be taken as a double-entendre spawn. e.g. "Which cathedral is that in the picture?" "Chester." "Chester? I hardly know 'er!" (The worse the better, arguably, but that example's probably too flat.)
:Your form follows alongside of that. But this cliché is the mismatched follow-up, only sparked off (albeit by deliberate disassociation) by the "O RLY?" cliché as feed-line. [[Special:Contributions/178.98.31.27|178.98.31.27]] 10:30, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

The double entendre in this case is O RLY ~ orally? [[User:Undee|Undee]] ([[User talk:Undee|talk]]) 11:24, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

I never thought of it as a double entendre- I thought it was a play on words of Irish names,(as evidenced by the ommision of the first letter in some words) i.e. O'reilly. In this case, it would be "O'reilly? I 'ardly know 'er!" {{unsigned ip|108.162.221.243}}

The fact that this is a collaborative wiki doesn't not mean you should put in every ludicrous and idiosyncratic interpretation that has special meaning to you and clearly has nothing to do with what Randall, or people in the rest of the world, understood the comic to be. O RLY is not a reference to an Irish name, or a Hebrew name, or anything at all other than the eminently popular O RLY meme. Period. Leave your personal nonsense out of this wiki. {{unsigned ip|108.162.214.143}}

Since I am another that first thought of the Irish name and not a meme I have never heard of perhaps you should be the one to keep your personal nonsense out of this wiki. I have read most of the explains on this site and you are the first that I have seen that has targeted any single person for an attack like this. Also learn to sign wiki comments [[Special:Contributions/162.158.62.231|162.158.62.231]] 12:47, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Just because you haven't heard of it doesn't mean no-one else has. I hadn't come across the subject meme, but I didn't assume that it was an appalling misspelling of O'Reilly. In addition, the person you're defending also hasn't learnt how to sign off Wiki-article comments, so it might be helpful if you were slightly less inconsistent with which parts of an argument you use. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.62.231|162.158.62.231]] 19:01, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

I'm having trouble viewing this article. Redirect from 259 works, but direct URL gives out "No input file specified.". 15:52, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

As of March 11, 2024, an issue occurs with the title text and after the word "with" it displays "clich$eacute;s." Possibly, an error with the code displaying the acute above the e. Is this a bug on my end (chrome) or is it an issue with the comic itself, and should I add it to the trivia?

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