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Re: Skeletons are Minifigs too
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lugnet.loc.au
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Sat, 31 Jul 2004 11:43:43 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Richie Dulin wrote:
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In lugnet.loc.au, Kerry Raymond wrote:
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In order to achieve the loc.au monthly trivia quota, I offer the following
research insights on the Hogwarts Castle Mark 2 (set 4757).
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Now the Harry Potter purists among us, and heavens knows etc, might prefer
me to call the dementor pogo sticks something completely different, and
heavens knows what that might be but I’m sure you’ll tell me, on the
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grounds that pogo sticks are fun and dementors are not, so clearly whatever
it is that keeps dementors upright (or sidewise if SNOT mounted, I mention
that point especially for Richie’s benefit to try to head off the
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otherwise inevitable discussion of whether dementors could be SNOT mounted on
the side of a tidal-estuary frigate) isn’t going to be a pogo stick.
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A tidal-estuary frigate with lateral amidships dementors... now there’s an
idea...
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Could the dementors gravity repulsion (or indeed general repulsiveness) be
harnessed as a useful source of propulsion? Or perhaps a military weapon-type
application? Could a model that includes dementors be said to suck?
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And, of course, it is entirely possible that prior to becoming a dementor,
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the entity later to become a dementor possessed a pogo stick.
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You mean dementors are made, not born? Can you imagine the careers advisor
at school: “Well, you could become an accountant, join the tax office, or
become an outgoing-call centre operator, but you’d make a perfect dementor.”
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So many jobs offer the opportunity to suck the life and fun out of things.
Should their jobs as prison warders be downsized, I’m sure these skilled
individuals will not be long out of work, though, no doubt, remaining in the
public service.
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If you start counting legs, you run into a
number of special cases, e.g. how many legs does Prof Trelawney virtually
possess beneath her skirt and how many legs does a dementor have (does a
pogo stick count as one, or are there two vestigal legs on a dementor to
enable it to balance on the pogo stick?) . Best not to bother trying to do
arithmetic with legs given these unknowns and imponderables.
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If something can be counted, then it should be counted, statistics >collected,
and misleading conclusions leaped to.
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Legs, vestigal legs and pogo-sticktistics?
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It’s interesting that you mention legs. Whenever I’m at at one of those
things where I have to “tell the group something interesting about yourself”
(which is mostly work-related stuff, but could just as easily be a group
therapy session), I always make the bold claim that I have more than the
average number of legs for a human.
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But not, happily, much more than the average number of heads. Being work and
presumably mostly accountants, they may see the joke a little quicker than some
readers here. I am amused at the though of some readers horrified imaginations
picturing you with vestigal legs (pogo-stick optional). For the record, Richie
is (boardly) a (physically) normal human (at least externally, on social
aquaintence). Which is not to say he’s broad, or a broad, certainly not in the
“Look at this! My belt is four studs long! I need to work out!” sense.
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Bricklink however appears to be right on the money, or at least right into
my money, as it lists the set as having 9 minifigs of 8 unique types,
having apparently been unable to spot the subtle difference between the two
dementors
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I thought it may have been one boy dementor, one girl dementor... but you’ve
already established this not to be necessary.
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Since this is a G-rated forum the comment that was about to be made here
refernceing descriptions of Lego peices and their applicablity as euphamisims
for anatomical differences has been snipped.
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-snip-
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Indeed, I almost wanted to ask for my money back as the set omitted the
mandatory falling axes and 2x2 blue brick.
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Hurrah! No blue brick!
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I’m sure a surplus of blue bricks could be readily found to “value-add” to your
set.
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-snip-
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However, the truth lies in quantum physics, exemplified by Schrodinger’s
Cat in the case of physicists, and heaven knows etc, or the skeleton of
4757 in the case of the Lego enthusiasts. Put simply, from the point of
view of an observer, the skeleton either exists as a minifig with some
probability or does not exist as a minifig with the complementary
probability, depending onthe position of the swivel wall, and thus we
cannot count it as a whole minifig.
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Following this arugment through, one counts only a fraction of each side,
leading to identification of this wall peice as being a mobius strip, and whilst
it appears to have studs on both sides, these may be the same studs! certainly a
brain-bending prospect (and does it have a brikwars application?) I have one of
these peices with a “Body-mass-index challenged” Lady print. Spinning the wall
at speed is an effective weight-loss technique? And similarly for the strained
glass knight?
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IANAP, but I think most people miss the point of the whole Schroedinger’s
cat thing: Schroedinger didn’t like cats.
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(I am not a) physicist? philosopher? purist?
James (who is all three of the above, but only when observed to be so)
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) No, mostly meat science/tech guys. And they're used to four legs. (...) "Accountants ...see the joke a little quicker". You don't know many accountants, do you? (...) I'm flattered! -snip- (...) I meant physicist, but the other two work too. (...) (20 years ago, 2-Aug-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| (...) Wohoo! And this is just an analysis of the figures. I can't wait for the actual review! (...) -snip- (...) A tidal-estuary frigate with lateral amidships dementors... now there's an idea... (...) You mean dementors are made, not born? Can you (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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