? ❓ ⚛ Questions. Questions? QUESTIONS!? ⚛ ❓?

Best dad ever?

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Satellite dish? Solar Panels? Water-collection system? Composting toilets?

Can you go full-Ed-Begley?

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PS: when do we get to come play in the treehouse?

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Shouldn’t there be a floor first?

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Who needs a floor?

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People who want to play in a treehouse?

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Is there a first floor?

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Do we still call it a first floor when it’s the only floor?

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Isn’t there an old limerick about that?


I wish that my room had a floor.
I don’t care so much for a door,
But this walking around
Without touching the ground
Is getting to be quite a bore.

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Doesn’t that just make it first in two ways?

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Is there a ground floor?

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Isn’t that just the ground? How is that a floor?

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Isn’t it possible to be both; a floor built on top of the ground?

Isn’t one man-made, and the other occurs naturally?

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Have you read Discord in Scarlet, the Space Beagle story that was ripped off wholesale (and wonderfully Gigerized) to make Alien?

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Aren’t I floored by your suggestions? Don’t you keep me grounded in reality?

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I had not, and I see that a settlement was reached when the author sued, but the production team did deny any wrongdoing…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voyage_of_the_Space_Beagle#References_in_other_works

…can I say that upon reading the summary, the similarity doesn’t really jump out at you from the dark?

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You can make that joke only if you haven’t read it, really. :slight_smile:

Wasn’t I absolutely floored when I saw Alien in the theatre and it was absolutely and undeniably the Ixtl from Discord in Scarlet - and didn’t I make my friends tired of hearing about it?

Years later I noticed that Van Vogt had forced the producers to acknowledge their debt to his work… and didn’t I make my friends tired of hearing about it all over again?

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Didn’t they not make any others?

Isn’t it odd that I actually saw those movies for the first time only a short while ago, and yet because of all the memes they spawned and other stories they inspired I felt like I already knew every story beat and quotable line ahead of time?

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Don’t I completely disavow the existence of any Xenomorph movies that were made after the 3rd one, which was just “okay” by comparison to the first 2?

Do I, really?

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Isn’t it a shame they never made any sequels to “Highlander” either?

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