Talk:1268: Alternate Universe - Revision history

172.68.54.16: Shouldn't Megan be wearing a bib, or isn't that universe alternate-enough?

2018-06-07T17:31:13Z

Shouldn't Megan be wearing a bib, or isn't that universe alternate-enough?

Jacky720 at 23:53, 8 April 2017

2017-04-08T23:53:25Z

108.162.250.158 at 01:08, 11 May 2016

2016-05-11T01:08:48Z

108.162.250.158 at 01:04, 11 May 2016

2016-05-11T01:04:08Z

108.162.237.166 at 06:46, 11 April 2016

2016-04-11T06:46:40Z

Npsych at 13:06, 3 March 2016

2016-03-03T13:06:21Z

Npsych: A poetic take on lobsters as spiders

2016-03-03T13:05:16Z

A poetic take on lobsters as spiders

108.162.249.155 at 02:20, 2 March 2016

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Davidy22 at 13:23, 19 December 2015

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108.162.241.124 at 03:42, 19 December 2015

2015-12-19T03:42:13Z

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	Howard Nemerov offers this take on lobsters awaiting purchase in a supermarket: "...the beauty of strangeness marks/These creatures, who move (when they do)/With a slow, vague wavering of claws... We inlanders, buying our needful food,/Pause over these slow, gigantic spiders/ That spin not. We pause and are bemused..." From the poem "Lobsters" in "The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov."[[User:Npsych\|Npsych]] ([[User talk:Npsych\|talk]])		Howard Nemerov offers this take on lobsters awaiting purchase in a supermarket: "...the beauty of strangeness marks/These creatures, who move (when they do)/With a slow, vague wavering of claws... We inlanders, buying our needful food,/Pause over these slow, gigantic spiders/ That spin not. We pause and are bemused..." From the poem "Lobsters" in "The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov."[[User:Npsych\|Npsych]] ([[User talk:Npsych\|talk]])
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		+	I don't care about anything but how could we go to Randall's Earth Prime? Sounds amazing! [[User:Jacky720\|That's right, Jacky720 just signed this]] ([[User talk:Jacky720\|talk]] \| [[Special:Contributions/Jacky720\|contribs]]) 23:53, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
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	This reminds me of that conspiracy theorist thing where a bunch of people thought that New Zealand was, like, to the west or north of Australia (I can't quite remember), only to check on a map and see it was definitely to the east... And as such convinced themselves that they somehow travelled to an alternate version of Earth were everything was basically the same except NZ was in a new place. Anyone else remember/know about those guys?		This reminds me of that conspiracy theorist thing where a bunch of people thought that New Zealand was, like, to the west or north of Australia (I can't quite remember), only to check on a map and see it was definitely to the east... And as such convinced themselves that they somehow travelled to an alternate version of Earth were everything was basically the same except NZ was in a new place. Anyone else remember/know about those guys?
	EDIT: Found one of 'em, so hopefully I sound less crazy (than them): [http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread543455/pg1 NZ conspiracy nut in action]		EDIT: Found one of 'em, so hopefully I sound less crazy (than them): [http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread543455/pg1 NZ conspiracy nut in action]

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 :: Honestly never heard/seen it spelled -stain. Has the pronunciation changed in this universe as well? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.166|108.162.237.166]] 06:46, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
-::: No, pronunciation is not as simple as you believe. Do you pronounce "-stein" to rhyme with "mine" or "mean"? Do you pronounce the "s" as "sch" or just a soft english s? Which accent do you use when you pronounce it one of those ways?  How much emphasis do you put on the final syllable - is it more like it rhymes with "men"? Of course the bigger lesson here is that you are simply a native of the current universe. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.158|108.162.250.158]] 01:04, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
+::: Pronunciation is not as simple as you believe. Do you pronounce "-stein" to rhyme with "mine", "Maine", or "mean"? Do you pronounce the "s" as "sch" or just a soft english s? Which accent do you use when you pronounce it one of those ways?  How much emphasis do you put on the final syllable - is it more like it rhymes with "men"? Of course we're talking about a series of books, so remembered pronunciation, as a child, is in line with how you read it. Of course the bigger lesson here is that you are simply a native of the current universe. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.158|108.162.250.158]] 01:04, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
 I thought Earth Prime was a reference to Sliders... but Wikipedia says it's been used much more widely. [[User:Saibot84|Saibot84]] ([[User talk:Saibot84|talk]]) 04:40, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

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	:: Honestly never heard/seen it spelled -stain. Has the pronunciation changed in this universe as well? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.166\|108.162.237.166]] 06:46, 11 April 2016 (UTC)		:: Honestly never heard/seen it spelled -stain. Has the pronunciation changed in this universe as well? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.166\|108.162.237.166]] 06:46, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
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		+	::: No, pronunciation is not as simple as you believe. Do you pronounce "-stein" to rhyme with "mine" or "mean"? Do you pronounce the "s" as "sch" or just a soft english s? Which accent do you use when you pronounce it one of those ways? How much emphasis do you put on the final syllable - is it more like it rhymes with "men"? Of course the bigger lesson here is that you are simply a native of the current universe. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.158\|108.162.250.158]] 01:04, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
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	I thought Earth Prime was a reference to Sliders... but Wikipedia says it's been used much more widely. [[User:Saibot84\|Saibot84]] ([[User talk:Saibot84\|talk]]) 04:40, 23 September 2013 (UTC)		I thought Earth Prime was a reference to Sliders... but Wikipedia says it's been used much more widely. [[User:Saibot84\|Saibot84]] ([[User talk:Saibot84\|talk]]) 04:40, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

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	: I haven't heard of the NZ thing (I live in Australia and am a geologist, so it just sounds like the normal sorts of jokes we make about American's geographical ignorance...), but there is a bit of internet folklore/urban myth that many of us originate from a parallel universe in which The Berenstain Bears are called The Berenstein Bears. I know I am from this particular universe because IT WAS TOTALLY BERENSTEIN WHEN I WAS LITTLE. YOU'RE ALL LIVING A LIE!!! I CAN'T GET HOME!!!! breaks down in tears [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.155\|108.162.249.155]] 02:20, 2 March 2016 (UTC)		: I haven't heard of the NZ thing (I live in Australia and am a geologist, so it just sounds like the normal sorts of jokes we make about American's geographical ignorance...), but there is a bit of internet folklore/urban myth that many of us originate from a parallel universe in which The Berenstain Bears are called The Berenstein Bears. I know I am from this particular universe because IT WAS TOTALLY BERENSTEIN WHEN I WAS LITTLE. YOU'RE ALL LIVING A LIE!!! I CAN'T GET HOME!!!! breaks down in tears [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.155\|108.162.249.155]] 02:20, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

		+	:: Honestly never heard/seen it spelled -stain. Has the pronunciation changed in this universe as well? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.166\|108.162.237.166]] 06:46, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
	I thought Earth Prime was a reference to Sliders... but Wikipedia says it's been used much more widely. [[User:Saibot84\|Saibot84]] ([[User talk:Saibot84\|talk]]) 04:40, 23 September 2013 (UTC)		I thought Earth Prime was a reference to Sliders... but Wikipedia says it's been used much more widely. [[User:Saibot84\|Saibot84]] ([[User talk:Saibot84\|talk]]) 04:40, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

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	I don't really get this comic... I get that eating lobster is weird, but spiders are delicious. It's hard to convice people that it ''isn't'' weird to eat spiders... {{unsigned ip\|108.162.241.124}}		I don't really get this comic... I get that eating lobster is weird, but spiders are delicious. It's hard to convice people that it ''isn't'' weird to eat spiders... {{unsigned ip\|108.162.241.124}}

−	Howard Nemerov offers this take on lobsters awaiting purchase in a supermarket: "...the beauty of strangeness marks/These creatures, who move (when they do)/With a slow, vague wavering of claws... We inlanders, buying our needful food,/Pause over these slow, gigantic spiders/ That spin not. We pause and are bemused..." From the poem "Lobsters" in "The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov."	+	Howard Nemerov offers this take on lobsters awaiting purchase in a supermarket: "...the beauty of strangeness marks/These creatures, who move (when they do)/With a slow, vague wavering of claws... We inlanders, buying our needful food,/Pause over these slow, gigantic spiders/ That spin not. We pause and are bemused..." From the poem "Lobsters" in "The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov."[[User:Npsych\|Npsych]] ([[User talk:Npsych\|talk]])

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	I don't really get this comic... I get that eating lobster is weird, but spiders are delicious. It's hard to convice people that it ''isn't'' weird to eat spiders... {{unsigned ip\|108.162.241.124}}		I don't really get this comic... I get that eating lobster is weird, but spiders are delicious. It's hard to convice people that it ''isn't'' weird to eat spiders... {{unsigned ip\|108.162.241.124}}
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		+	Howard Nemerov offers this take on lobsters awaiting purchase in a supermarket: "...the beauty of strangeness marks/These creatures, who move (when they do)/With a slow, vague wavering of claws... We inlanders, buying our needful food,/Pause over these slow, gigantic spiders/ That spin not. We pause and are bemused..." From the poem "Lobsters" in "The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov."

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 EDIT: Found one of 'em, so hopefully I sound less crazy (than them): [http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread543455/pg1 NZ conspiracy nut in action]
 [[Special:Contributions/67.71.33.122|67.71.33.122]] 01:29, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
 I thought Earth Prime was a reference to Sliders... but Wikipedia says it's been used much more widely. [[User:Saibot84|Saibot84]] ([[User talk:Saibot84|talk]]) 04:40, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

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	I get why people might dislike eating lobster (and/or spiders) but I don't get why it would seem rational to consider it the same thing when they are quite physically distinct. -Pennpenn [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.205\|108.162.249.205]] 00:55, 20 January 2015 (UTC)		I get why people might dislike eating lobster (and/or spiders) but I don't get why it would seem rational to consider it the same thing when they are quite physically distinct. -Pennpenn [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.205\|108.162.249.205]] 00:55, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

−	I don't really get this comic... I get that eating lobster is weird, but spiders are delicious. It's hard to convice people that it ''isn't'' weird to eat spiders...	+	I don't really get this comic... I get that eating lobster is weird, but spiders are delicious. It's hard to convice people that it ''isn't'' weird to eat spiders... {{unsigned ip\|108.162.241.124}}

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	I get why people might dislike eating lobster (and/or spiders) but I don't get why it would seem rational to consider it the same thing when they are quite physically distinct. -Pennpenn [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.205\|108.162.249.205]] 00:55, 20 January 2015 (UTC)		I get why people might dislike eating lobster (and/or spiders) but I don't get why it would seem rational to consider it the same thing when they are quite physically distinct. -Pennpenn [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.205\|108.162.249.205]] 00:55, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
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		+	I don't really get this comic... I get that eating lobster is weird, but spiders are delicious. It's hard to convice people that it ''isn't'' weird to eat spiders...