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Is this really a sensible interpretation of the "philistines" comment? It seems to hinge on more obscure, original use of the word, and slightly far-fetched. In particular, considering Munroe's other [[922|comments]] on that movie, I had assumed they were considered philistines simply for cluttering the rulebook with needless pop-culture references, as per the more common definition given on the {{w|Philistinism|wikipedia page}} of "[A person with a] lack of and an indifference to cultural and æsthetic values".[[User:Thomson's Gazelle|Thomson's Gazelle]] ([[User talk:Thomson's Gazelle|talk]]) 11:50, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
 
Is this really a sensible interpretation of the "philistines" comment? It seems to hinge on more obscure, original use of the word, and slightly far-fetched. In particular, considering Munroe's other [[922|comments]] on that movie, I had assumed they were considered philistines simply for cluttering the rulebook with needless pop-culture references, as per the more common definition given on the {{w|Philistinism|wikipedia page}} of "[A person with a] lack of and an indifference to cultural and æsthetic values".[[User:Thomson's Gazelle|Thomson's Gazelle]] ([[User talk:Thomson's Gazelle|talk]]) 11:50, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
 
Fight Club has also been referred to (at least) in [[922: Fight Club]]. I think this should be mentioned, but I'm not sure how to work that into the current text. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.238.113|162.158.238.113]] 20:53, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
 
 
This idea can be used to prove Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem in 2 dimensions. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brouwer_fixed-point_theorem#Illustrations --[[Special:Contributions/103.22.200.144|Cosmia Nebula]] 01:54, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
 
 
Why not just put a little note in the scale model of his basement to refer to the zoomed in version of the model? [[user:Claire Kholin]]
 
 
Cueball's problems with nesting would be solved if he made the replica of the town ''at a specific moment of time'' - making a replica of the town before he made the replica would avoid nesting entirely since that moment of time would not include the replica itself.
 

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