Editing Talk:2901: Geographic Qualifiers

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According to Atlas Obscura, the world's largest squirrel statue is 14 feet tall, in Cedar Creek, Texas. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/ms-pearl-the-worlds-largest-squirrel-statue [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 03:06, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

There are two African families of squirrels that have range into the Southern Hemisphere, the {{w|Xerini}} and {{w|Protoxerini}}. Yes, I checked Wikipedia. [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 03:10, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Australia has large number of “Big Things”. These are big sculptures / novelty architecture that are scattered over the country. These include things like the Big Cow, The Big Penguin and the Giant Koala. The Koala at 14 meters high is bigger then the fictional squirrel statue.  

Since there may be as many as 600 of these things across Australia, the qualification is not as odd as it may sound at first. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_things_(Australia) )
:New Zealand also has a smaller collection of big things: {{w|List of New Zealand's big things}}. [[User:Maplestrip|Maplestrip]] ([[User talk:Maplestrip|talk]]) 07:52, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
::But does it have a bigger collection of small things? Enquiring minds wish to know! [[Special:Contributions/172.69.194.83|172.69.194.83]] 11:52, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Including the pedestal, the statue's height is approximately six Cueballs, which means Cueball is over ~6 2/3 feet tall. But it would make more sense to me for the record to exclude the pedestal, as the pedestal is not a likeness of a squirrel or a skateboard; in that case, Cueball is well over 10 feet tall.[[Special:Contributions/172.71.150.213|172.71.150.213]] 06:13, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

“Why, that’s the second biggest monkey head I’ve ever seen!” - [[Special:Contributions/172.69.6.195|172.69.6.195]] 08:28, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Someone should probably link Grice's maxims here. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle
[[Special:Contributions/172.68.26.2|172.68.26.2]] 09:37, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

I once heard a friend, commenting after a rather chaotic pub crawl, "That's the most drunk I've ever been while off duty." It was part of a running joke about how seriously his employer took their NDAs; he used to act like any information even remotely related to his job (such as whether he'd ever been blackout drunk at work) was top secret. Other examples included "I've never seen 'Groundhog Day' while off duty before" or "This is the best bbq chicken I ever tasted while off-duty" -- [[User:Angel|Angel]] ([[User talk:Angel|talk]]) 12:48, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
:or the viral "Did you get many spankings as a kid?" "As a kid, no" blooper from Fox News...[[User:Mumiemonstret|Mumiemonstret]] ([[User talk:Mumiemonstret|talk]]) 11:20, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Kynde (and others, but especially Kynde), I was never going to just revert your edits, but the Edit Conflict page's summary of differences was far too hard to work out (would have been easier without the newline below the Incomplete-tag being removed, but it offset the first para and then did dumb-matching of odd words from them on...). The plan was always to review what changes I'd ''intentionally'' overriden, copypaste them back and shuffle accordingly, then make it much more as if I'd only spent time editing ''after'' your edit (but using my own effort that I had started before). Looks like I caught you (and others) still actively reviewing. I ''think'' I sorted out everything in useful ways, after another edit or two, but (even by the time this Talk post is posted) no doubt you'll be fine-tuning it in your own way. - I did end up sort-of-reverting some different turns of phrase (not all of which worked, IMO) that changed the sense of my prior editing's intent, but tried to put all *new* contributions by yourself(/ves) back in there. It is always tricky comparing between tabs (one a diff between two prior versions the other an active editing page) on a small device such as I find myself on now, so I hope it wasn't ''too much'' disruption. (If I'd have not pipelined quite so many little relevent changes, myself, I'd have checked a soon-to-be-dismissed EC cross-comparison tab with a brand new fresh edit.) Anyway: apologies, explanations and letting you know I've done all my 'big edits' (for now). And tried to leave it tidy and correct, but there are always unintended errors. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.43.210|172.69.43.210]] 15:06, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
:Yes I was in the process of changing somethings and was going to add some more to that, and then it had just all been reverted, and that I could not just accept and reverted it right back. I have no idea what you ended up doing, but seems like the important gist of what I was changing has been left in. It is far from the version I last left. But better! It is always annoying with edit conflicts. But it is hard to avoid close to the release of a comic. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 12:55, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

By my by-eye reckoning, the 40ft stated (compared to the probably high-5-foot-maybe-even-6-footer Cueballs) seems to include the very significant plinth/base-mount. Not sure if that's ''totally'' honest... [[Special:Contributions/172.69.195.85|172.69.195.85]] 15:44, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

''"This last country is a place know for its many overly large statues."'' S/B 'know[[n]]'. [[User:PRR|PRR]] ([[User talk:PRR|talk]]) 18:04, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

...The last sentence of the explanation is incomprehensible to me. IMO it looks like a snob using thesaurus dot com to say something mundane and really should be changed to something better [[Special:Contributions/172.68.27.26|172.68.27.26]] 21:37, 2 March 2024 (UTC)Bumpf

Reminds me a bit of the kind of news article saying "one of the top x", with x being an oddly specific number. Like explainxkcd being one of my top 6 most visited websites. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.76.125|141.101.76.125]] 21:51, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

This is the source of many entries on "dumb law" lists that circulate. "It is illegal to discharge a firearm from a moving vehicle" is sensible. "It's illegal to shoot bear from a helicopter" is a listicle entry. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.247.41|172.69.247.41]] 00:41, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

My favorite: "yesterday was the coldest day since November 14th". It so happens that it was a freak 62 degrees on November 14th, but the statement is still (potentially) true. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.34.200|172.70.34.200]] 15:29, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

I've never wanted to live in the southern hemisphere more than right now. With the time and materials available, of course. Surely somebody already down-under (and/or down-under-and-a-bit-to-the-side) has some 50ft ladders, etc? And a bit of spare time. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.43.211|172.69.43.211]] 12:03, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

At least in Sweden, the corresponding  ubiquitous but often unnecessary qualifier is "...in northern Europe". Maybe it's more a sign of how far the writer bothers to extend their search for contenders, rather than of there actually being any. [[User:Mumiemonstret|Mumiemonstret]] ([[User talk:Mumiemonstret|talk]]) 11:27, 13 March 2024 (UTC)