Talk:1369: TMI

I assume "TMI" here stands for "too much information". Cueball stares at the screen (presumably with an Internet browser open) and realizes that he will never be able to internalize the amounts of data freely available on the net. The off-screen voice simply confirms it. The humor of the exchange seems to be derived from the fact that "too much information" is usually used to indicate that someone has publicly given away too much private and potentially embarrassing information and made others feel awkward. Cueball, however, uses the phrase in its most literal sense. --Koveras (talk) 06:47, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

TMI is probably Too Much Information (taken literally, not figuratively about overshare) --JakubNarebski (talk) 06:49, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

... despite lot of places on Internet where it CAN be used figuratively. -- Hkmaly (talk) 10:13, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

It could also refer to Three Mile Island; but 'Too Much Information' or 'Too Much Internet' are the most likely meanings. TMA! (Too Many Acronyms!) 173.245.53.123 07:06, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

The title text may be a reference to the quote from the Sherlock Holmes novel A Study in Scarlet: "From a drop of water, a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other." If that logician stared into an entire sea worth of water drops, all the possible inferences would probably make his head explode from literally too much information. --Koveras (talk) 07:15, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Maybe Everything is litteraly just information, like in Decoding Reality. 173.245.52.27 08:55, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

There were a explanation of the title text as to be a reference to Hemingway's "Old man and the sea" which sounded about right to me -- would somebody like to elaborate as to why it was removed? Spongebog (talk) 17:04, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

The title text may also be a reference to a well-known quote from Isaac Newton: "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton (1855) by Sir David Brewster (Volume II. Ch. 27) 199.27.128.118 20:24, 16 May 2014 (UTC)2minions (sorry, no login - I'm at work)

Would a mention of the similar themes in 975: Occulting Telescope be relevant here? 108.162.216.60 00:56, 17 May 2014 (UTC)