Talk:326: Effect an Effect - Revision history

Flipping Mackerel at 21:44, 16 May 2025

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172.70.230.157: Answering a five-year-old question, because I was asking it myself five years later.

2022-01-04T06:05:01Z

Answering a five-year-old question, because I was asking it myself five years later.

172.68.141.14 at 19:54, 24 December 2020

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108.162.214.137: Urban legend?

2016-04-22T17:03:06Z

Urban legend?

162.158.255.148: Link to a related blog entry

2016-03-31T23:34:48Z

Link to a related blog entry

162.158.255.69 at 07:28, 16 September 2015

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Gwynfshae at 15:01, 1 September 2015

2015-09-01T15:01:35Z

108.162.254.97 at 13:08, 3 June 2015

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173.245.56.174 at 19:42, 14 February 2015

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Elektrizikekswerk at 15:50, 4 December 2014

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	Does the plane-painting thing actually ever happen? I have heard people say the practice exited from well before WWII, but in almost every case both before and after I think it’s an urban legend. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.214.137\|108.162.214.137]] 17:03, 22 April 2016 (UTC)		Does the plane-painting thing actually ever happen? I have heard people say the practice exited from well before WWII, but in almost every case both before and after I think it’s an urban legend. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.214.137\|108.162.214.137]] 17:03, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
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		+	To be honest, "effect a situation" is a pretty odd collocation. One usually effects changes, I think. [[User:Flipping Mackerel\|Flipping Mackerel]] ([[User talk:Flipping Mackerel\|talk]]) 21:44, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

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	The spelling of "foreign" was corrected several hours after it was posted, according to [http://blog.xkcd.com/2007/10/08/embarassing-typo/ the XKCD blog]. Anyone know how it was initially spelled? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.148\|162.158.255.148]] 23:34, 31 March 2016 (UTC)		The spelling of "foreign" was corrected several hours after it was posted, according to [http://blog.xkcd.com/2007/10/08/embarassing-typo/ the XKCD blog]. Anyone know how it was initially spelled? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.148\|162.158.255.148]] 23:34, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
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		+	:"Foriegn". (The 'e' and 'i' are transposed.) [https://web.archive.org/web/20071008161224/http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/effect_an_effect.png Here]'s a Wayback Machine link.
		+	:I imagine ''someone'''s gonna want this. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.230.157\|172.70.230.157]] 06:05, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

	Does the plane-painting thing actually ever happen? I have heard people say the practice exited from well before WWII, but in almost every case both before and after I think it’s an urban legend. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.214.137\|108.162.214.137]] 17:03, 22 April 2016 (UTC)		Does the plane-painting thing actually ever happen? I have heard people say the practice exited from well before WWII, but in almost every case both before and after I think it’s an urban legend. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.214.137\|108.162.214.137]] 17:03, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

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 Effects effecting affects affect effects effectively.  Also, Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. --naginalf [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.40|108.162.216.40]] 20:29, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
 : Sure, but really, if an effect can effect affects effectively, how many affects can an effect effectively effect? [[User:Brettpeirce|Brettpeirce]] ([[User talk:Brettpeirce|talk]]) 14:46, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
 :: As many affects as an effect can effect if an effect can effect affects effectively. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.238.162|108.162.238.162]] 04:09, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

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	The spelling of "foreign" was corrected several hours after it was posted, according to [http://blog.xkcd.com/2007/10/08/embarassing-typo/ the XKCD blog]. Anyone know how it was initially spelled? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.148\|162.158.255.148]] 23:34, 31 March 2016 (UTC)		The spelling of "foreign" was corrected several hours after it was posted, according to [http://blog.xkcd.com/2007/10/08/embarassing-typo/ the XKCD blog]. Anyone know how it was initially spelled? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.148\|162.158.255.148]] 23:34, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
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		+	Does the plane-painting thing actually ever happen? I have heard people say the practice exited from well before WWII, but in almost every case both before and after I think it’s an urban legend. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.214.137\|108.162.214.137]] 17:03, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

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	Bjorn- if you find anyone to do that, I'm getting it as a tattoo.		Bjorn- if you find anyone to do that, I'm getting it as a tattoo.
	[[User:Gwynfshae\|Gwynfshae]] ([[User talk:Gwynfshae\|talk]]) 15:01, 1 September 2015 (UTC)		[[User:Gwynfshae\|Gwynfshae]] ([[User talk:Gwynfshae\|talk]]) 15:01, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
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		+	The spelling of "foreign" was corrected several hours after it was posted, according to [http://blog.xkcd.com/2007/10/08/embarassing-typo/ the XKCD blog]. Anyone know how it was initially spelled? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.148\|162.158.255.148]] 23:34, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

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 Can someone simplify the meaning / alternative words for the two variants and verb/noun uses in a spreadsheet? --[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lazer%20erazer Björn Eberhardt] 14:50, 3 June 2015 (CEST)
 Bjorn- if you find anyone to do that, I'm getting it as a tattoo.
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	Can someone simplify the meaning / alternative words for the two variants and verb/noun uses in a spreadsheet? --[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lazer%20erazer Björn Eberhardt] 14:50, 3 June 2015 (CEST)		Can someone simplify the meaning / alternative words for the two variants and verb/noun uses in a spreadsheet? --[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lazer%20erazer Björn Eberhardt] 14:50, 3 June 2015 (CEST)
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		+	Bjorn- if you find anyone to do that, I'm getting it as a tattoo.
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	I was in a meeting once where a guy said, "I am effected by my environment." I replied, "Oh? We think, therefore you are?" Nobody laughed. Sigh. {{unsigned\|CoderLass}}		I was in a meeting once where a guy said, "I am effected by my environment." I replied, "Oh? We think, therefore you are?" Nobody laughed. Sigh. {{unsigned\|CoderLass}}
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		+	Can someone simplify the meaning / alternative words for the two variants and verb/noun uses in a spreadsheet? --[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lazer%20erazer Björn Eberhardt] 14:50, 3 June 2015 (CEST)

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 ::::And assuming "mid 20th century" refers to World War II of 1939-45 (less years for Americans, arguably more so for some other countries), there were already gun-attached 'fighter aircraft' in WWI and onward (though often technically called "scouts" or "pursuit" aircraft, in English and American terminology, respectively... other countries/languages having their own varients).  Maybe not from the ''very'' start of the 1914-18 conflict, as opposing aircrews were apparently quite friendly to each other for a while until some air-reconnaissance pilot took a pistol up with him (or perhaps it was originally a solution against airships, leastwise those that they could get high enough to attack).  And then some people had the idea to hard-attach various projectile weapons to the planes.  And, oh boy, they had fun for a while trying to mount them to fire through their own front propellers, didn't they? ;)
 ::::Anyway, the concept definitely had become engrained before the 'mid' 20thC, by whatever name.  Did the Red Baron paint kills on his triplane?  Did Biggles (fictionally) do so? Someone ought to actually research this. ;) [[Special:Contributions/178.98.31.27|178.98.31.27]] 16:27, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
-:::::At least in his autobiography "Der rote Kampfflieger" (The red Fighter pilot) Manfred von Richthofen (the actual name of the Red Baron) did not tell about that. And he did not mention any othet pilot doing so, either. But since he considered being a fighter pilot as a sport such as hunting and he was very proud of his "score" it is most likely he would have telled if there were such a rite, I guess. As such I would consider "mid 20th century" as correct, since most if not all actual evidences of that tradition I am aware of are from WWII or later. Unfortunately I did not found any information about the origin of that tradition. The only wikipedia entry is the German article about "Abschussmarkierung" which has no links to translations of other languages and does not contain any information about the origin and searching for "kill marks" or "kill scores" leads to nothing but hobbyist forums or World of Tanks/World of Warplanes (both being more or less WWII games) and similar. Maybe I do some more research on this, later. [[User:Elektrizikekswerk|Elektrizikekswerk]] ([[User talk:Elektrizikekswerk|talk]]) 15:48, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
+:::::At least in his autobiography "Der rote Kampfflieger" (The red Fighter pilot) Manfred von Richthofen (the actual name of the Red Baron) did not tell about that. And he did not mention any other pilot doing so, either. But since he considered being a fighter pilot as a sport such as hunting and he was very proud of his "score" it is most likely he would have telled if there were such a rite, I guess. As such I would consider "mid 20th century" as correct, since most if not all actual evidences of that tradition I am aware of are from WWII or later. Unfortunately I did not found any information about the origin of that tradition. The only wikipedia entry is the German article about "Abschussmarkierung" which has no links to translations of other languages and does not contain any information about the origin and searching for "kill marks" or "kill scores" leads to nothing but hobbyist forums or World of Tanks/World of Warplanes (both being more or less WWII games) and similar. Maybe I do some more research on this, later. [[User:Elektrizikekswerk|Elektrizikekswerk]] ([[User talk:Elektrizikekswerk|talk]]) 15:48, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
 Effects effecting affects affect effects effectively.  Also, Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. --naginalf [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.40|108.162.216.40]] 20:29, 12 March 2014 (UTC)