Talk:3210: Eliminating the Impossible - Revision history

Trimutius at 13:28, 25 February 2026

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82.132.238.95 at 13:20, 25 February 2026

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Trimutius: My argument

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My argument

82.132.238.95 at 03:33, 25 February 2026

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Trimutius: I don't want to fight but

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I don't want to fight but

BunsenH at 15:31, 23 February 2026

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82.13.184.33 at 09:34, 23 February 2026

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82.13.184.33 at 09:27, 23 February 2026

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BunsenH at 02:27, 23 February 2026

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216.73.162.43 at 19:18, 22 February 2026

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	::I know how it is used here... i am a regular here... but i mean it looks so cringe on my tablet and also not very useful for people who don't see what is happening there.--[[User:Trimutius\|Trimutius]] ([[User talk:Trimutius\|talk]]) 04:38, 25 February 2026 (UTC)		::I know how it is used here... i am a regular here... but i mean it looks so cringe on my tablet and also not very useful for people who don't see what is happening there.--[[User:Trimutius\|Trimutius]] ([[User talk:Trimutius\|talk]]) 04:38, 25 February 2026 (UTC)
	:::Ah, I see what you mean. So I've solved it by moving it to the right side of the comma. Happier? [[Special:Contributions/82.132.238.95\|82.132.238.95]] 13:20, 25 February 2026 (UTC)		:::Ah, I see what you mean. So I've solved it by moving it to the right side of the comma. Happier? [[Special:Contributions/82.132.238.95\|82.132.238.95]] 13:20, 25 February 2026 (UTC)
		+	::::You also should use no line breaking spaces in such sups if you want to use them. Updated that too.--[[User:Trimutius\|Trimutius]] ([[User talk:Trimutius\|talk]]) 13:28, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

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	:Bad taste? In what possible way? You do know how the Citation Needed is ''normally'' used, here (as opposed to the Actual Citation Needed), don't you? It can be discussed, if you want to, but I (for one) am not even sure from what viewpoint you're arguing. [[Special:Contributions/82.132.238.95\|82.132.238.95]] 03:33, 25 February 2026 (UTC)		:Bad taste? In what possible way? You do know how the Citation Needed is ''normally'' used, here (as opposed to the Actual Citation Needed), don't you? It can be discussed, if you want to, but I (for one) am not even sure from what viewpoint you're arguing. [[Special:Contributions/82.132.238.95\|82.132.238.95]] 03:33, 25 February 2026 (UTC)
	::I know how it is used here... i am a regular here... but i mean it looks so cringe on my tablet and also not very useful for people who don't see what is happening there.--[[User:Trimutius\|Trimutius]] ([[User talk:Trimutius\|talk]]) 04:38, 25 February 2026 (UTC)		::I know how it is used here... i am a regular here... but i mean it looks so cringe on my tablet and also not very useful for people who don't see what is happening there.--[[User:Trimutius\|Trimutius]] ([[User talk:Trimutius\|talk]]) 04:38, 25 February 2026 (UTC)
		+	:::Ah, I see what you mean. So I've solved it by moving it to the right side of the comma. Happier? [[Special:Contributions/82.132.238.95\|82.132.238.95]] 13:20, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

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	I personally think that rejig of citation needed is in bad taste and doesn't add anything valuable to the article.--[[User:Trimutius\|Trimutius]] ([[User talk:Trimutius\|talk]]) 22:10, 24 February 2026 (UTC)		I personally think that rejig of citation needed is in bad taste and doesn't add anything valuable to the article.--[[User:Trimutius\|Trimutius]] ([[User talk:Trimutius\|talk]]) 22:10, 24 February 2026 (UTC)
	:Bad taste? In what possible way? You do know how the Citation Needed is ''normally'' used, here (as opposed to the Actual Citation Needed), don't you? It can be discussed, if you want to, but I (for one) am not even sure from what viewpoint you're arguing. [[Special:Contributions/82.132.238.95\|82.132.238.95]] 03:33, 25 February 2026 (UTC)		:Bad taste? In what possible way? You do know how the Citation Needed is ''normally'' used, here (as opposed to the Actual Citation Needed), don't you? It can be discussed, if you want to, but I (for one) am not even sure from what viewpoint you're arguing. [[Special:Contributions/82.132.238.95\|82.132.238.95]] 03:33, 25 February 2026 (UTC)
		+	::I know how it is used here... i am a regular here... but i mean it looks so cringe on my tablet and also not very useful for people who don't see what is happening there.--[[User:Trimutius\|Trimutius]] ([[User talk:Trimutius\|talk]]) 04:38, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

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	I personally think that rejig of citation needed is in bad taste and doesn't add anything valuable to the article.--[[User:Trimutius\|Trimutius]] ([[User talk:Trimutius\|talk]]) 22:10, 24 February 2026 (UTC)		I personally think that rejig of citation needed is in bad taste and doesn't add anything valuable to the article.--[[User:Trimutius\|Trimutius]] ([[User talk:Trimutius\|talk]]) 22:10, 24 February 2026 (UTC)
		+	:Bad taste? In what possible way? You do know how the Citation Needed is ''normally'' used, here (as opposed to the Actual Citation Needed), don't you? It can be discussed, if you want to, but I (for one) am not even sure from what viewpoint you're arguing. [[Special:Contributions/82.132.238.95\|82.132.238.95]] 03:33, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

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	If we're allowing quotations from British fantasy authors, how about Sir Terry Pratchett's Sir Samuel Vimes, from the Discworld series? "Samuel Vimes ... had a jaundiced view of Clues. He instinctively distrusted them. They got in the way. And he distrusted the kind of person who’d take one look at another man and say in a lordly voice to his companion, “Ah, my dear sir, I can tell you nothing except that he is a left-handed stonemason who has spent some years in the merchant navy and has recently fallen on hard times,” and then unroll a lot of supercilious commentary about calluses and stance and the state of a man’s boots, when exactly the same comments could apply to a man who was wearing his old clothes because he’d been doing a spot of home bricklaying for a new barbecue pit, and had been tattooed once when he was drunk and seventeen and in fact got seasick on a wet pavement. What arrogance! What an insult to the rich and chaotic variety of the human experience!" Whenever I run across this, I react with a strong "You tell 'em, Terry!"[[Special:Contributions/216.73.162.43\|216.73.162.43]] 19:18, 22 February 2026 (UTC)		If we're allowing quotations from British fantasy authors, how about Sir Terry Pratchett's Sir Samuel Vimes, from the Discworld series? "Samuel Vimes ... had a jaundiced view of Clues. He instinctively distrusted them. They got in the way. And he distrusted the kind of person who’d take one look at another man and say in a lordly voice to his companion, “Ah, my dear sir, I can tell you nothing except that he is a left-handed stonemason who has spent some years in the merchant navy and has recently fallen on hard times,” and then unroll a lot of supercilious commentary about calluses and stance and the state of a man’s boots, when exactly the same comments could apply to a man who was wearing his old clothes because he’d been doing a spot of home bricklaying for a new barbecue pit, and had been tattooed once when he was drunk and seventeen and in fact got seasick on a wet pavement. What arrogance! What an insult to the rich and chaotic variety of the human experience!" Whenever I run across this, I react with a strong "You tell 'em, Terry!"[[Special:Contributions/216.73.162.43\|216.73.162.43]] 19:18, 22 February 2026 (UTC)
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		+	I personally think that rejig of citation needed is in bad taste and doesn't add anything valuable to the article.--[[User:Trimutius\|Trimutius]] ([[User talk:Trimutius\|talk]]) 22:10, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

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 Then I realized that if the item isn’t where it’s supposed to be, then it’s somewhere ''it isn’t supposed to be'' - so I start looking in those places. [[Special:Contributions/170.64.111.76|170.64.111.76]] 20:51, 20 February 2026 (UTC)
 : So you look in the places where it's least supposed to be first - like the Gamma Quadrant? [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33|82.13.184.33]] 09:27, 23 February 2026 (UTC)
 It also assumes exclusion of the middle. [[User:MithicSpirit|MithicSpirit]] ([[User talk:MithicSpirit|talk]]) 20:59, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

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 :::::Yes, one assumes those things. You are applying modern-day logic to a different time and place, to people who knew the intimate details of each other’s lives in ways that we have long forgotten — Watson had no other place or time to write letters, whether that morning or some previous day Holmes would have plainly seen — as he points out to Watson (and to us) when making reference to the state of his desk. Watson would not be in the mistaken belief that he had run out of writing supplies — that is again a modern logic inapplicable to that time and, especially _to Watson_, whom I have already noted was not careless in his habits. And even today, when was the last time you went to the PO just to ask a question? You claim extraordinary possibilities are failures in Holmes’s logic about a creature of military routine. [[User:Dúthomhas|Dúthomhas]] ([[User talk:Dúthomhas|talk]]) 12:09, 22 February 2026
 ::::::I last went to a PO to make an inquiry a few months ago, when I wanted to know what the cost would be to ship a certain parcel to a certain destination. Then I brought it home without sending it, because I needed to clear up a few details before I did. Anyone can be mistaken about what they have on hand. "My constitution has not got over the Afghan campaign yet." When you object to "modern-day logic"... well, yes that's the whole point of this strip: the "logic" that Holmes applied doesn't stand up to scrutiny. [[User:BunsenH|BunsenH]] ([[User talk:BunsenH|talk]]) 15:16, 22 February 2026 (UTC)
 :::: Holmes claims he has the power to deduce everything and clearly depends on Watsom to believe in him and to spread the word about him being as great as we as his readers want him to be.--[[User:Gunterkoenigsmann|Gunterkoenigsmann]] ([[User talk:Gunterkoenigsmann|talk]]) 17:41, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

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 :Ophiologists (or indeed herpetologists in general) might be able say how well snakes can be ''well trained'' to a given cue (and perform non-instinctive actions such as being sent through a grating, envenomate non-threat/non-food targets and then return), and the higher pitch instrument (a tin-whistle, if I recall the story involved) wouldn't seem to me to be suitable communicating device, but I've no doubt that it's at least partly practical, just not (trivially) possible to the full extent as asked for by the story's plot. [[Special:Contributions/82.132.238.165|82.132.238.165]] 16:54, 22 February 2026 (UTC)
 : Wow! Didn't expect to learn something today. Thanks a lot!--[[User:Gunterkoenigsmann|Gunterkoenigsmann]] ([[User talk:Gunterkoenigsmann|talk]]) 17:41, 22 February 2026 (UTC)
 If we're allowing quotations from British fantasy authors, how about Sir Terry Pratchett's Sir Samuel Vimes, from the Discworld series?  "Samuel Vimes ... had a jaundiced view of Clues. He instinctively distrusted them. They got in the way. And he distrusted the kind of person who’d take one look at another man and say in a lordly voice to his companion, “Ah, my dear sir, I can tell you nothing except that he is a left-handed stonemason who has spent some years in the merchant navy and has recently fallen on hard times,” and then unroll a lot of supercilious commentary about calluses and stance and the state of a man’s boots, when exactly the same comments could apply to a man who was wearing his old clothes because he’d been doing a spot of home bricklaying for a new barbecue pit, and had been tattooed once when he was drunk and seventeen and in fact got seasick on a wet pavement. What arrogance! What an insult to the rich and chaotic variety of the human experience!"  Whenever I run across this, I react with a strong "You tell 'em, Terry!"[[Special:Contributions/216.73.162.43|216.73.162.43]] 19:18, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

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	:Ophiologists (or indeed herpetologists in general) might be able say how well snakes can be ''well trained'' to a given cue (and perform non-instinctive actions such as being sent through a grating, envenomate non-threat/non-food targets and then return), and the higher pitch instrument (a tin-whistle, if I recall the story involved) wouldn't seem to me to be suitable communicating device, but I've no doubt that it's at least partly practical, just not (trivially) possible to the full extent as asked for by the story's plot. [[Special:Contributions/82.132.238.165\|82.132.238.165]] 16:54, 22 February 2026 (UTC)		:Ophiologists (or indeed herpetologists in general) might be able say how well snakes can be ''well trained'' to a given cue (and perform non-instinctive actions such as being sent through a grating, envenomate non-threat/non-food targets and then return), and the higher pitch instrument (a tin-whistle, if I recall the story involved) wouldn't seem to me to be suitable communicating device, but I've no doubt that it's at least partly practical, just not (trivially) possible to the full extent as asked for by the story's plot. [[Special:Contributions/82.132.238.165\|82.132.238.165]] 16:54, 22 February 2026 (UTC)
	: Wow! Didn't expect to learn something today. Thanks a lot!--[[User:Gunterkoenigsmann\|Gunterkoenigsmann]] ([[User talk:Gunterkoenigsmann\|talk]]) 17:41, 22 February 2026 (UTC)		: Wow! Didn't expect to learn something today. Thanks a lot!--[[User:Gunterkoenigsmann\|Gunterkoenigsmann]] ([[User talk:Gunterkoenigsmann\|talk]]) 17:41, 22 February 2026 (UTC)
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		+	If we're allowing quotations from British fantasy authors, how about Sir Terry Pratchett's Sir Samuel Vimes, from the Discworld series? "Samuel Vimes ... had a jaundiced view of Clues. He instinctively distrusted them. They got in the way. And he distrusted the kind of person who’d take one look at another man and say in a lordly voice to his companion, “Ah, my dear sir, I can tell you nothing except that he is a left-handed stonemason who has spent some years in the merchant navy and has recently fallen on hard times,” and then unroll a lot of supercilious commentary about calluses and stance and the state of a man’s boots, when exactly the same comments could apply to a man who was wearing his old clothes because he’d been doing a spot of home bricklaying for a new barbecue pit, and had been tattooed once when he was drunk and seventeen and in fact got seasick on a wet pavement. What arrogance! What an insult to the rich and chaotic variety of the human experience!" Whenever I run across this, I react with a strong "You tell 'em, Terry!"[[Special:Contributions/216.73.162.43\|216.73.162.43]] 19:18, 22 February 2026 (UTC)