Talk:1557: Ozymandias - Revision history

172.70.86.68 at 22:27, 6 February 2024

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172.70.127.68: Left a statement in the discussion section.

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Left a statement in the discussion section.

Yfmcpxpj: Moved comment from explanation to discussion.

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Moved comment from explanation to discussion.

Aid1043 at 19:18, 8 March 2021

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International Space Station at 04:58, 7 October 2015

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108.162.210.205 at 19:18, 26 September 2015

2015-09-26T19:18:57Z

108.162.221.91: another recursive "story" example ...

2015-09-01T20:40:08Z

another recursive "story" example ...

108.162.210.135 at 21:23, 2 August 2015

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141.101.98.188 at 06:14, 1 August 2015

2015-08-01T06:14:55Z

162.158.255.59: Chinese story

2015-07-31T07:00:18Z

Chinese story

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	Not a member or anything, just wanted to say that reading all these stories that people wamted to share brought me great joy, it's lovely when people share things they liked or otherwise found interesting with each-other. Thank you all, from the depths of my heart.		Not a member or anything, just wanted to say that reading all these stories that people wamted to share brought me great joy, it's lovely when people share things they liked or otherwise found interesting with each-other. Thank you all, from the depths of my heart.
−	:-Some Guy who read the discussion section on a whim	+	:-Some Guy who read the discussion section on a whim {{unsigned ip\|172.70.127.68\|17:52, 6 February 2024}}

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	:{{Quote\|This comment shows a misunderstanding of the phrase "king of kings." It refers to a king who rules over other kings; what is today known as an emperor.\|[[Special:Contributions/162.158.122.84\|162.158.122.84]] 22:31, 3 June 2020 (UTC)}}		:{{Quote\|This comment shows a misunderstanding of the phrase "king of kings." It refers to a king who rules over other kings; what is today known as an emperor.\|[[Special:Contributions/162.158.122.84\|162.158.122.84]] 22:31, 3 June 2020 (UTC)}}
	:– [[User:Yfmcpxpj\|Yfmcpxpj]] ([[User talk:Yfmcpxpj\|talk]]) 01:17, 19 March 2021 (UTC)		:– [[User:Yfmcpxpj\|Yfmcpxpj]] ([[User talk:Yfmcpxpj\|talk]]) 01:17, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
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		+	Not a member or anything, just wanted to say that reading all these stories that people wamted to share brought me great joy, it's lovely when people share things they liked or otherwise found interesting with each-other. Thank you all, from the depths of my heart.
		+	:-Some Guy who read the discussion section on a whim

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	Not quite sure what the proper protocol is, but it feels like the comment/suggestion at the end of the first paragraph should be in this discussion box rather than making the article itself more confusing to read.		Not quite sure what the proper protocol is, but it feels like the comment/suggestion at the end of the first paragraph should be in this discussion box rather than making the article itself more confusing to read.
	--[[User:Aid1043\|Aid1043]] ([[User talk:Aid1043\|talk]]) 19:18, 8 March 2021 (UTC)		--[[User:Aid1043\|Aid1043]] ([[User talk:Aid1043\|talk]]) 19:18, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
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		+	:Agreed; moved it below:
		+	:{{Quote\|This comment shows a misunderstanding of the phrase "king of kings." It refers to a king who rules over other kings; what is today known as an emperor.\|[[Special:Contributions/162.158.122.84\|162.158.122.84]] 22:31, 3 June 2020 (UTC)}}
		+	:– [[User:Yfmcpxpj\|Yfmcpxpj]] ([[User talk:Yfmcpxpj\|talk]]) 01:17, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

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	Which is incidentally based off of the aforementioned joke.		Which is incidentally based off of the aforementioned joke.
	[[User:International Space Station\|International Space Station]] ([[User talk:International Space Station\|talk]]) 04:58, 7 October 2015 (UTC)		[[User:International Space Station\|International Space Station]] ([[User talk:International Space Station\|talk]]) 04:58, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
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		+	Not quite sure what the proper protocol is, but it feels like the comment/suggestion at the end of the first paragraph should be in this discussion box rather than making the article itself more confusing to read.
		+	--[[User:Aid1043\|Aid1043]] ([[User talk:Aid1043\|talk]]) 19:18, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

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	In response to "You're/That's/This is crazy: "Crazy!? I was crazy once. They took me to a room and locked me up. There were rats in that room that gnawed at the walls. The rats drove me crazy! Crazy!? I was crazy once ... " and so on...[[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.91\|108.162.221.91]] 20:40, 1 September 2015 (UTC) Kickasstimus		In response to "You're/That's/This is crazy: "Crazy!? I was crazy once. They took me to a room and locked me up. There were rats in that room that gnawed at the walls. The rats drove me crazy! Crazy!? I was crazy once ... " and so on...[[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.91\|108.162.221.91]] 20:40, 1 September 2015 (UTC) Kickasstimus
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		+	The B in "Benoit B Mandelbrot" stands for "Benoit B Mandelbrot."
		+	Also I think Randall got the idea from this SMBC:
		+	http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2470
		+	Which is incidentally based off of the aforementioned joke.
		+	[[User:International Space Station\|International Space Station]] ([[User talk:International Space Station\|talk]]) 04:58, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

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 ::: Um... No it's not. There are [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/traveler?s=t two ways to pronounce it] (trav-uh-ler and trav-ler), kind of like toe-may-toe, toe-mah-toe. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.196|108.162.219.196]] 18:11, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
 ::::And you can pronounce "dog" as "cat".  Language is funny like that. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.187|108.162.210.187]] 15:24, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
-:::::Ok it's going to bug me otherwise, but, how? I mean, I figure it's probably one of those ghoti-fish things, but still. -Pennpenn [[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.162|108.162.250.162]] 23:07, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
+:::::Ok it's going to bug me otherwise, but, how? I mean, I figure it's probably one of those ghoti-fish things, but still. -Pennpenn
 ::::::There's certain British accents (and probably elsewhere, but let's start here as an example) where a person saying a word such as "film" can only seem to say it as if it is "fillum".  A kind-of-1.5-syllable-at-most word for most people (close to the word "firm", but the tongue used differently), but distinctly two for others (who ''can'' say their "L"s, but 'disengage', rather than let the word flow).  (Actually, there's also accents that would make "firm" sound like "firrum", because of their 'harder' "R"s, but that's superfluous to this explanation.)  So if you have a problem getting "Traveller" down to the two-syllable "Travler", you may have a similar sort of acquired pronunciation.  See also "vehicle" ("vee-hic-al", "vere-cal"), which I know is predominant in certain of the US states. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.188|141.101.98.188]] 06:14, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

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	This comic's TOO META. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.135\|108.162.210.135]] 21:23, 2 August 2015 (UTC)		This comic's TOO META. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.135\|108.162.210.135]] 21:23, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
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		+	In response to "You're/That's/This is crazy: "Crazy!? I was crazy once. They took me to a room and locked me up. There were rats in that room that gnawed at the walls. The rats drove me crazy! Crazy!? I was crazy once ... " and so on...[[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.91\|108.162.221.91]] 20:40, 1 September 2015 (UTC) Kickasstimus

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	Not that you need another example of recursion, but this brings back very distinct personal memories. Whilst my father actually used to read books to me, at bedtimes, on occasion (for whatever unfathomable reason, lost on the mists of time) he would sometimes tell me a freestyle story that started "Once upon a time, there was a little boy who said to his daddy 'Daddy, tell me a story!', and his daddy said, alright then. 'Once upon a time, there was a little boy who said to his daddy "Daddy, tell me a story!", and his daddy said, alright then. "Once upon a time, there was a little boy who said to his daddy 'Daddy, tell me a story!', and his daddy said, alright then. ..."'" But by that point (if not earlier, depending on how grumpy I was) I'd usually interupt him, so I suppose I never actually ''did'' find out what where this was might have been going. (And he forever asserted it ''was'' going somewhere.) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.188\|141.101.98.188]] 06:14, 1 August 2015 (UTC)		Not that you need another example of recursion, but this brings back very distinct personal memories. Whilst my father actually used to read books to me, at bedtimes, on occasion (for whatever unfathomable reason, lost on the mists of time) he would sometimes tell me a freestyle story that started "Once upon a time, there was a little boy who said to his daddy 'Daddy, tell me a story!', and his daddy said, alright then. 'Once upon a time, there was a little boy who said to his daddy "Daddy, tell me a story!", and his daddy said, alright then. "Once upon a time, there was a little boy who said to his daddy 'Daddy, tell me a story!', and his daddy said, alright then. ..."'" But by that point (if not earlier, depending on how grumpy I was) I'd usually interupt him, so I suppose I never actually ''did'' find out what where this was might have been going. (And he forever asserted it ''was'' going somewhere.) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.188\|141.101.98.188]] 06:14, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
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		+	This comic's TOO META. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.135\|108.162.210.135]] 21:23, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

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 ::::And you can pronounce "dog" as "cat".  Language is funny like that. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.210.187|108.162.210.187]] 15:24, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
 :::::Ok it's going to bug me otherwise, but, how? I mean, I figure it's probably one of those ghoti-fish things, but still. -Pennpenn [[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.162|108.162.250.162]] 23:07, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
 I think everyone's looking far too hard for something obscure and clever. :) Ozymandias is in the poem described as the "king of kings", which makes him recursively kingly. Hence, the recursion joke. (I went ahead added that to the explanation, it's my first contribution here so hopefully I didn't bypass any explainxkcd wiki house rules)  [[User:Orinthe|Orinthe]] ([[User talk:Orinthe|talk]]) 06:24, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
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	By that time we were often asleep. {{unsigned\|Matthew-e-hackman}}		By that time we were often asleep. {{unsigned\|Matthew-e-hackman}}
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		+	There is a old Chinese story with recursion like this that goes like:
		+	<pre>从前有座山 Once upon a time, there was a mountain.
		+	山上有座庙 Upon that mountain, there was a temple.
		+	庙里有个老和尚和小和尚 In the temple was an old monk and a young monk
		+	老和尚讲了一个故事说 The old monk told a story, saying
		+	从前有座山 Once upon a time, there was a mountain.
		+	山上有座庙 Upon that mountain, there was a temple.
		+	庙里有个老和尚和小和尚 In the temple was an old monk and a young monk
		+	老和尚讲了一个故事说 The old monk told a story, saying
		+	....</pre>
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		+	[[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.59\|162.158.255.59]] 07:00, 31 July 2015 (UTC)