Talk:1543: Team Effort

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Bah, my first draft was conflicted yet again! Here's my draft - anyone feel free to re-merge any or part herein.

When people receive a major award, like the Award (or an "Oscar"), they give an acceptance speech which traditionally begins with the recipient thanking people who have helped them achieve the honour. Sometimes when a number of people are mentioned, the recipient will say that it was a team effort - a comment which elevates the "helpers" to virtually the same level as the recipient.
This comic takes things one step further and attributes assistance in winning the award to a normal bodily function - the bacteria in short-haired-girls gut. This bacteria is largely what makes digestion possible, and without it she would die - and not be able to win the award.

Jarod997 (talk) 13:30, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

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In the scenario suggested (already tending towards a hypothetical quantification, and not regulated by a Weights And Measures authority), I'm not sure about either the accuracy or precision points currently in th explanation. Randall/Megan may differ but, in my personal dialect, it's perfectly legitimate to say this for "one to two pints" with context suggesting whether this is some set (by whole/half/etc pints) or a continuity. And rarely would it mean to six significant figures (it would be lower precision, regardless of any implied discrete accuracy). The unvoiced error-margins in precision around a pint and a couple of pints (although not invoked here, see also 1070!) could quite eaily overlap, in this scenario, to smudge even the 'set of two' together, and to either side. IMO.

Also, I immediately saw (probably wrongly) an echo of recent strips 1541 and 1528, among others, with the scenario of a singled corpus being shared and thus influenced (willingly or otherwise!) by multiple entities. (If apparently-Randall does any more along these lines... well, maybe he's trying to tell us something!) 141.101.98.30 16:41, 27 June 2015 (UTC)