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Talk:896: Marie Curie

2015-02-03T09:59:37Z

RyanofTinellb:

I miss the days when zombies would just bite you to death. What's with all this talking? '''[[User:Davidy22|{{Color|#707|David}}y²²]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 02:07, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
: It would probably be better if she came back as a ghost. But radiation poisoning in pop lit only explains physically supernatural stuff, not external consciousness supernatural stuff. Zombies, on the other hand, have been used in pop lit as thinking characters, even though they shouldn't have been. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.31|108.162.216.31]] 16:49, 3 December 2013 (UTC)Dartania

Too bad Marguerite Vogt is not mentioned. She should have shared the Nobel with Renato Dulbecco, as (relatively) recent as 1975. --[[User:Jkrstrt|Jkrstrt]] ([[User talk:Jkrstrt|talk]]) 20:02, 21 June 2014 (UTC)--[[User:Jkrstrt|Jkrstrt]] ([[User talk:Jkrstrt|talk]]) 20:02, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Does it not escape your notice that by simply saying "everything else she says is true as well" you are doing the exact thing that this cartoon is trying to emphasise as unfair? In the last cartoon you guys couldn't say enough about the great Richard Feynman but you have reduced the achievements of two great women down to one simple sentence. Well played, I'm sure Randall's proud that you could so clearly see the point he was trying to make.
[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.94|141.101.98.94]] 07:37, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

*''You'' have the power, 141...94!

Talk:282: Organic Fuel

2015-01-04T23:50:50Z

RyanofTinellb:

Hilarious joke but Thyme isn't actually a spice, it's a herb.[[Special:Contributions/70.161.237.63|70.161.237.63]] 18:51, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

And Mussolini didn't make the trains run on time either (There were improvements in the railway system, but most were before he came to power). {{unsigned ip|108.162.221.223}}

How do we know that the guy at the PC is Cueball - it could just as well be Cueball that makes the terrible pun? He is just as often the one delivering terrible Your Mom joke, as the one telling people off for such behavior (since he is not the same character in Randall's XKCD but many different). [[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 11:28, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
:Yeah, the official transcript only defines them as 'Standing man' and 'Man at computer'. --[[User:Alex|Alex]] ([[User talk:Alex|talk]]) 16:28, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
I have never understood the hate for puns. I like puns, they are great. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.129|108.162.215.129]] 21:51, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

In what way are '''time''' and '''thyme''' ''near'' homophones? In what dialect are they not complete homophones? [[User:RyanofTinellb|RyanofTinellb]] ([[User talk:RyanofTinellb|talk]]) 23:50, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Talk:282: Organic Fuel

2015-01-04T23:50:25Z

RyanofTinellb: /* Homophones */ new section

Hilarious joke but Thyme isn't actually a spice, it's a herb.[[Special:Contributions/70.161.237.63|70.161.237.63]] 18:51, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

And Mussolini didn't make the trains run on time either (There were improvements in the railway system, but most were before he came to power). {{unsigned ip|108.162.221.223}}

How do we know that the guy at the PC is Cueball - it could just as well be Cueball that makes the terrible pun? He is just as often the one delivering terrible Your Mom joke, as the one telling people off for such behavior (since he is not the same character in Randall's XKCD but many different). [[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 11:28, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
:Yeah, the official transcript only defines them as 'Standing man' and 'Man at computer'. --[[User:Alex|Alex]] ([[User talk:Alex|talk]]) 16:28, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
I have never understood the hate for puns. I like puns, they are great. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.129|108.162.215.129]] 21:51, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

== Homophones ==

In what way are '''time''' and '''thyme''' ''near'' homophones? In what dialect are they not complete homophones? [[User:RyanofTinellb|RyanofTinellb]] ([[User talk:RyanofTinellb|talk]]) 23:50, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Talk:829: Arsenic-Based Life

2014-12-30T01:18:45Z

RyanofTinellb:

What a waste of good poison, the food at conferences usually does that on it's own anyways. '''[[User:Davidy22|Davidy22]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 13:27, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Maybe it is to be noted that in the comic, "serve cocktails and hors d'oerves" should have been written "serve cocktails and hors d'œuvres"? [[Special:Contributions/194.254.109.166|194.254.109.166]] 15:14, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
:I do not talk French but my dictionary tells me that "d'œuvre" (without the trailing ''s'') is correct. Thanks for your hint, explanation is updated.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 19:41, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
::"Hors d'oeuvres" is English; ''"hors d'œuvre"'' (with a ligature and without the trailing ''s'') is French. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.50.84|173.245.50.84]] 12:53, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
:::I am dumbfounded at the pronounciation part of the explanation. Do you really pronounce it with the "r" sound before the "v" sound? Why would you do that? [[Special:Contributions/141.101.102.216|141.101.102.216]] 15:24, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
:::: Basing my pronunciation on what I heard in the TV series ''Bewitched'', I get something like /ɔːˈdɜːv/. In a rhotic accent, this would be /ɔ:ɹˈdɜːɹv/. [[User:RyanofTinellb|RyanofTinellb]] ([[User talk:RyanofTinellb|talk]]) 01:18, 30 December 2014 (UTC)