Talk:3114: Building a Fire - Revision history

2001:A62:587:B01:4B9A:861E:76A8:C159 at 17:35, 30 August 2025

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84.17.63.1: add comment

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Yorkshire Pudding at 08:12, 17 July 2025

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82.13.184.33 at 16:05, 14 July 2025

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93.36.186.243: math joke

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math joke

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171.100.236.130: why cueball screams

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why cueball screams

Yorkshire Pudding at 10:20, 14 July 2025

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2001:1C02:1A9D:9700:C1AA:1DF9:BB49:4E6F at 20:57, 12 July 2025

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92.23.2.228 at 16:50, 12 July 2025

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 "Log" cabin. "Square" cabin. Subverted an expectation of a math joke. --[[Special:Contributions/69.159.206.207|69.159.206.207]] 22:07, 11 July 2025 (UTC)
 :coming up with a math joke was exponentially harder than expected [[Special:Contributions/93.36.186.243|93.36.186.243]] 15:49, 14 July 2025 (UTC)
 It may be interesting to add that starting a campfire with electricity could be a valid way if you have access to e.g. a car battery (especially in an emergency). [[Special:Contributions/31.146.78.31|31.146.78.31]] 07:08, 12 July 2025 (UTC)

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	: My assumption was that it had gone up very suddenly and unexpectedly while he was still peering fairly closely at it wondering what on earth Megan was doing, resulting in a faceful of heat and smoke. [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33\|82.13.184.33]] 16:05, 14 July 2025 (UTC)		: My assumption was that it had gone up very suddenly and unexpectedly while he was still peering fairly closely at it wondering what on earth Megan was doing, resulting in a faceful of heat and smoke. [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33\|82.13.184.33]] 16:05, 14 July 2025 (UTC)
	::Yeah...OK, that's a fair point. [[User:Yorkshire Pudding\|Yorkshire Pudding]] ([[User talk:Yorkshire Pudding\|talk]]) 08:12, 17 July 2025 (UTC)		::Yeah...OK, that's a fair point. [[User:Yorkshire Pudding\|Yorkshire Pudding]] ([[User talk:Yorkshire Pudding\|talk]]) 08:12, 17 July 2025 (UTC)
		+	: If you stick a pair of googly eyes onto a pencil and say in a squeaky voice, "Hi, I'm Pascal the Pencil and I help kids learn math!" and then you snap it in half, most people listening will recoil. It's very easy to get humans to empathize with a hypothetical person or scenario, and house fires are generally pretty horrifying, especially for whoever lives there. 03:29, 12 August 2025 (UTC)

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	:My take on it is that Cueball is reacting like how someone might react if a real house is on fire, by screaming. Either he's very naive, or he's just overly invested in the building of the pseudo log cabin.[[Special:Contributions/171.100.236.130\|171.100.236.130]] 13:31, 14 July 2025 (UTC)		:My take on it is that Cueball is reacting like how someone might react if a real house is on fire, by screaming. Either he's very naive, or he's just overly invested in the building of the pseudo log cabin.[[Special:Contributions/171.100.236.130\|171.100.236.130]] 13:31, 14 July 2025 (UTC)
	: My assumption was that it had gone up very suddenly and unexpectedly while he was still peering fairly closely at it wondering what on earth Megan was doing, resulting in a faceful of heat and smoke. [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33\|82.13.184.33]] 16:05, 14 July 2025 (UTC)		: My assumption was that it had gone up very suddenly and unexpectedly while he was still peering fairly closely at it wondering what on earth Megan was doing, resulting in a faceful of heat and smoke. [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33\|82.13.184.33]] 16:05, 14 July 2025 (UTC)
		+	::Yeah...OK, that's a fair point. [[User:Yorkshire Pudding\|Yorkshire Pudding]] ([[User talk:Yorkshire Pudding\|talk]]) 08:12, 17 July 2025 (UTC)

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	What's Cueball's "AAAAA!" for? He wanted a fire, so it seems unlikely that he's scared of the burning. Is he just finally sick of the elaborate nonsense and so screaming in frustration? Is he playing along with the disaster in Megan's little diorama? It seems a bit incongruous. [[User:Yorkshire Pudding\|Yorkshire Pudding]] ([[User talk:Yorkshire Pudding\|talk]]) 10:20, 14 July 2025 (UTC)		What's Cueball's "AAAAA!" for? He wanted a fire, so it seems unlikely that he's scared of the burning. Is he just finally sick of the elaborate nonsense and so screaming in frustration? Is he playing along with the disaster in Megan's little diorama? It seems a bit incongruous. [[User:Yorkshire Pudding\|Yorkshire Pudding]] ([[User talk:Yorkshire Pudding\|talk]]) 10:20, 14 July 2025 (UTC)
	:My take on it is that Cueball is reacting like how someone might react if a real house is on fire, by screaming. Either he's very naive, or he's just overly invested in the building of the pseudo log cabin.[[Special:Contributions/171.100.236.130\|171.100.236.130]] 13:31, 14 July 2025 (UTC)		:My take on it is that Cueball is reacting like how someone might react if a real house is on fire, by screaming. Either he's very naive, or he's just overly invested in the building of the pseudo log cabin.[[Special:Contributions/171.100.236.130\|171.100.236.130]] 13:31, 14 July 2025 (UTC)
		+	: My assumption was that it had gone up very suddenly and unexpectedly while he was still peering fairly closely at it wondering what on earth Megan was doing, resulting in a faceful of heat and smoke. [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33\|82.13.184.33]] 16:05, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

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	"Log" cabin. "Square" cabin. Subverted an expectation of a math joke. --[[Special:Contributions/69.159.206.207\|69.159.206.207]] 22:07, 11 July 2025 (UTC)		"Log" cabin. "Square" cabin. Subverted an expectation of a math joke. --[[Special:Contributions/69.159.206.207\|69.159.206.207]] 22:07, 11 July 2025 (UTC)
		+	:coming up with a math joke was exponentially harder than expected [[Special:Contributions/93.36.186.243\|93.36.186.243]] 15:49, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

	It may be interesting to add that starting a campfire with electricity could be a valid way if you have access to e.g. a car battery (especially in an emergency). [[Special:Contributions/31.146.78.31\|31.146.78.31]] 07:08, 12 July 2025 (UTC)		It may be interesting to add that starting a campfire with electricity could be a valid way if you have access to e.g. a car battery (especially in an emergency). [[Special:Contributions/31.146.78.31\|31.146.78.31]] 07:08, 12 July 2025 (UTC)

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	What's Cueball's "AAAAA!" for? He wanted a fire, so it seems unlikely that he's scared of the burning. Is he just finally sick of the elaborate nonsense and so screaming in frustration? Is he playing along with the disaster in Megan's little diorama? It seems a bit incongruous. [[User:Yorkshire Pudding\|Yorkshire Pudding]] ([[User talk:Yorkshire Pudding\|talk]]) 10:20, 14 July 2025 (UTC)		What's Cueball's "AAAAA!" for? He wanted a fire, so it seems unlikely that he's scared of the burning. Is he just finally sick of the elaborate nonsense and so screaming in frustration? Is he playing along with the disaster in Megan's little diorama? It seems a bit incongruous. [[User:Yorkshire Pudding\|Yorkshire Pudding]] ([[User talk:Yorkshire Pudding\|talk]]) 10:20, 14 July 2025 (UTC)
−	:My take on it is that Cueball is reacting like how someone might react if a real house is on fire, by screaming. Either he's very naive, or he's just overly invested in the building of the pseudo log cabin.[[Special:Contributions/171.100.236.130\|171.100.236.130]]	+	:My take on it is that Cueball is reacting like how someone might react if a real house is on fire, by screaming. Either he's very naive, or he's just overly invested in the building of the pseudo log cabin.[[Special:Contributions/171.100.236.130\|171.100.236.130]] 13:31, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

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	What's Cueball's "AAAAA!" for? He wanted a fire, so it seems unlikely that he's scared of the burning. Is he just finally sick of the elaborate nonsense and so screaming in frustration? Is he playing along with the disaster in Megan's little diorama? It seems a bit incongruous. [[User:Yorkshire Pudding\|Yorkshire Pudding]] ([[User talk:Yorkshire Pudding\|talk]]) 10:20, 14 July 2025 (UTC)		What's Cueball's "AAAAA!" for? He wanted a fire, so it seems unlikely that he's scared of the burning. Is he just finally sick of the elaborate nonsense and so screaming in frustration? Is he playing along with the disaster in Megan's little diorama? It seems a bit incongruous. [[User:Yorkshire Pudding\|Yorkshire Pudding]] ([[User talk:Yorkshire Pudding\|talk]]) 10:20, 14 July 2025 (UTC)
		+	:My take on it is that Cueball is reacting like how someone might react if a real house is on fire, by screaming. Either he's very naive, or he's just overly invested in the building of the pseudo log cabin.[[Special:Contributions/171.100.236.130\|171.100.236.130]]

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	I think the explanation should mention explicitly that the wiring not being up to code and the resulting electrical fault was probably intentional on Megan's part, despite her "oops" that implied that it was accidental. [[Special:Contributions/2600:4040:99D4:8B00:F129:E0B5:B922:FEE4\|2600:4040:99D4:8B00:F129:E0B5:B922:FEE4]] 15:39, 12 July 2025 (UTC)		I think the explanation should mention explicitly that the wiring not being up to code and the resulting electrical fault was probably intentional on Megan's part, despite her "oops" that implied that it was accidental. [[Special:Contributions/2600:4040:99D4:8B00:F129:E0B5:B922:FEE4\|2600:4040:99D4:8B00:F129:E0B5:B922:FEE4]] 15:39, 12 July 2025 (UTC)
	:I was trying to work out how to phrase that "Gone Horribly Right" moment. Torn between it being a "when I try to build a model log cabin, it always becomes a campfire, therefore when I want a camp fire I just try to build a model log cabin" situation (which is far more reliable than when ''intentionally'' trying to light a fire, without involving the original idea of the log cabin) or a more sarcastic "whoops, I 'accidentally' did it wrong". Or several other interpretations. It's funny, whichever way, though in slightly different ways. And I don't know if I care to try to declare any one of the ideas as the 'real' one. [[Special:Contributions/92.23.2.228\|92.23.2.228]] 16:50, 12 July 2025 (UTC)		:I was trying to work out how to phrase that "Gone Horribly Right" moment. Torn between it being a "when I try to build a model log cabin, it always becomes a campfire, therefore when I want a camp fire I just try to build a model log cabin" situation (which is far more reliable than when ''intentionally'' trying to light a fire, without involving the original idea of the log cabin) or a more sarcastic "whoops, I 'accidentally' did it wrong". Or several other interpretations. It's funny, whichever way, though in slightly different ways. And I don't know if I care to try to declare any one of the ideas as the 'real' one. [[Special:Contributions/92.23.2.228\|92.23.2.228]] 16:50, 12 July 2025 (UTC)
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		+	What's Cueball's "AAAAA!" for? He wanted a fire, so it seems unlikely that he's scared of the burning. Is he just finally sick of the elaborate nonsense and so screaming in frustration? Is he playing along with the disaster in Megan's little diorama? It seems a bit incongruous. [[User:Yorkshire Pudding\|Yorkshire Pudding]] ([[User talk:Yorkshire Pudding\|talk]]) 10:20, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

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	Uh oh, the miniature fire department has arrived! [[Special:Contributions/2601:647:8500:1E09:1077:EF9:1351:C331\|2601:647:8500:1E09:1077:EF9:1351:C331]] 19:38, 11 July 2025 (UTC)		Uh oh, the miniature fire department has arrived! [[Special:Contributions/2601:647:8500:1E09:1077:EF9:1351:C331\|2601:647:8500:1E09:1077:EF9:1351:C331]] 19:38, 11 July 2025 (UTC)
		+	:"Dispatch, Engine 4; Situation uncontrol, requesting backup!" [[Special:Contributions/2001:1C02:1A9D:9700:C1AA:1DF9:BB49:4E6F\|2001:1C02:1A9D:9700:C1AA:1DF9:BB49:4E6F]] 20:57, 12 July 2025 (UTC)

	"Log" cabin. "Square" cabin. Subverted an expectation of a math joke. --[[Special:Contributions/69.159.206.207\|69.159.206.207]] 22:07, 11 July 2025 (UTC)		"Log" cabin. "Square" cabin. Subverted an expectation of a math joke. --[[Special:Contributions/69.159.206.207\|69.159.206.207]] 22:07, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

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	I think the explanation should mention explicitly that the wiring not being up to code and the resulting electrical fault was probably intentional on Megan's part, despite her "oops" that implied that it was accidental. [[Special:Contributions/2600:4040:99D4:8B00:F129:E0B5:B922:FEE4\|2600:4040:99D4:8B00:F129:E0B5:B922:FEE4]] 15:39, 12 July 2025 (UTC)		I think the explanation should mention explicitly that the wiring not being up to code and the resulting electrical fault was probably intentional on Megan's part, despite her "oops" that implied that it was accidental. [[Special:Contributions/2600:4040:99D4:8B00:F129:E0B5:B922:FEE4\|2600:4040:99D4:8B00:F129:E0B5:B922:FEE4]] 15:39, 12 July 2025 (UTC)
		+	:I was trying to work out how to phrase that "Gone Horribly Right" moment. Torn between it being a "when I try to build a model log cabin, it always becomes a campfire, therefore when I want a camp fire I just try to build a model log cabin" situation (which is far more reliable than when ''intentionally'' trying to light a fire, without involving the original idea of the log cabin) or a more sarcastic "whoops, I 'accidentally' did it wrong". Or several other interpretations. It's funny, whichever way, though in slightly different ways. And I don't know if I care to try to declare any one of the ideas as the 'real' one. [[Special:Contributions/92.23.2.228\|92.23.2.228]] 16:50, 12 July 2025 (UTC)