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. 
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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Don’t I have no clue whatsoever what you are talking about?
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Doesn’t exegenic sound much more snappy than exegetical?
Potentially because exegetical sounds like it has something to do with the hermeneutics of male genitalia?
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So we’re all going to be referring to @japhroaig as “Captain Hotpants” from now on, right?
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