Talk:1388: Subduction License

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I'm assuming "subduction license" is being comically reinterpreted here from some other meaning. What is a subduction license, normally speaking? Jevicci (talk) 15:20, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Um, you're making it too easy to make me normal and rub away very fast 108.162.221.9 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

I'm thinking the closest real term to "subduction license" is probably "Subversion License" - Subversion being a popular source code repository system. (Edit: Created a new account) KieferSkunk (talk) 21:02, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Nah, that's not it ... there's got to be some pun on license, or perhaps a term that sounds like -uction license. 173.245.54.159 23:14, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
Could be the seduction license he should have applied for instead. He wishes to seduce his roommate, and has applied for a license for this. However he misunderstood the word and has applied for the other license, and has also read about it on Wikipedia ;-) Kynde (talk) 13:31, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Alternate explanation for the title text: A fault is a break between two blocks of the lithosphere (or the crust if you want to be more vernacular). The two blocks move in one on three ways: laterally side-by-side (making it a transform fault), away from each other (a normal fault) or toward each other (a reverse fault, which it the kind involved in subduction). If Beret Guy were normal, he'd have to be moving away from Cueball. Fewmet (talk) 15:15, 1 July 2014 (UTC)