Pedantic Digressions

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this is dialogue from the movie, not a real quote

Mahatma Gandhi - Wikiquote

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Although the poison contained therein was accurate (read: lethal).

You don’t say!

And here I’ve been thinking that they all died instead from autosuggestion.

(IOW, thanks for explaining the obvious? :woman_shrugging: )

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:arrow_up: Pedantic Digression

Tough morning?

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Exactly.

Sorry, it was indeed too early for pedantry.

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No problem. :slightly_smiling_face:

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this post is a test

ignore it

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No capital letters or periods?! :face_with_monocle: :wink:

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Will we ever discover if you have passed this test or failed it, or even whether any of us were intended to be involved at all?

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Now I remember that recurrent test-anxiety nightmare I had as a teenager.

Class, this test is 80% of your final grade! But it’s not all that important. This test is 80% of your final grade! But it’s not all that important. :scream:

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offtopic

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Regarding @smulder’s “this is a test” post above, I think I understand why that was flagged… but please keep in mind we are in the Pedantic Digressions thread under the category “games”. If you’d asked me an hour ago if a post like that should be flagged and deleted I would have said yes. If you’d asked me if I could think of a circumstance where it shouldn’t I’d have said no. But it turns out context is everything.

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It was, of course, an homage to, perhaps even an unauthorized remake of, an earlier film

This is not unusual in science fiction—Dune was largely based on Lawrence of Arabia, for instance

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Of course, there’s High Noon remade as Outland and who can forget Khan chasing that great white whale Shatner in Moby Dick: This Time It’s in Space.

It works the other way too, as the cult sci fi comedy Zardoz was eventually remade as the serious political thriller Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.

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