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“The truth is, I will always tic. So tell that Austrian hack Popper and his bullshit modus tollens to kiss my ever-ticking clock ass!”
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“The truth is, I will always tic. So tell that Austrian hack Popper and his bullshit modus tollens to kiss my ever-ticking clock ass!”
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modus tollens, the formal name for indirect proof or proof by contrapositive (contrapositive inference), often abbreviated to MT. It can also be referred to as denying the consequent, and is a valid form of argument (unlike similarly-named but invalid arguments such as affirming the consequent or denying the antecedent).
Just thought I’d get that out of the way for y’all.
David Stove agrees.
So tell that Austrian hack Popper and his bullshit modus tollens to kiss my ever-ticking clock ass!
I say you’re all toc.
For some reason, my digital watch just said, “I shall never tic.”
I have seriously got to lay off the little red pills.
Beck–
And the poppers.
Which prompts me to ask: Anyone care to yark up some lyrics to “Popper, Don’t Preach”? It just may be that Jack Goff likes Madonna.
TW: foot, as in just hold still while I pull mine out of your ass, Jack
Not sure it’s true that Popper don’t preach—though my logical positivist clock tells me that statements of metaphysics are pretty much useless.
Of course, it’s a clock, so I’m not sure how much credence I’d lend it’s philosophical observations.
You seem to have an inordinate number of clocks.
It it “tik” in German?
Fair enough, Jeff. But the reason I had the comma in the title was because the “Don’t Preach” part is supposed to be imperative.
TW: clearly, I wasn’t defending Popper
Wait, Popper–that’s the guy from Blues Traveler, right? What’s he got to do with clocks? I thought he played harmonica…
“Listen you spring wound gear head, ve haf vays to make you toc.”
Actually it’s “tickenundtockenfurdertimenshpielen” but it’s usually abbreviated in casual use.
That can’t be correct without any umlauts or that double S thing. You’re yanking our chains.
No, actually GMG is korrekt. Except that it’s die Tickenundtockenfurdertimenshpielen. All nouns in German start with a capital letter.
“Die Tickenundtockenfurdertimenshpielen” is, in fact, the only eleven-syllable noun used in German that doesn’t have even one single umlaut or that double S thing. It’s a little known fact.
There are 147 ten-syllable German nouns that have neither an umlaut nor that double S thing. And there are 26 twelve-syllable German nouns with that distinction. But only the one with eleven syllables.
Issn’t dat veird?
(The “die” doesn’t count as a syllable. Arcane grammatical rule in all but two and a half of the 73 German dialects.)
MarkD  The original German word for ‘tank’ was ‘panzerkampfwagen…’ and goes on for 75 letters. The literal translation was ‘armored fighting vehicle for crossing trenches and wire obstacles…’ By the time you finished yelling, “Here come the tanks!” they were already halfway to the brigade TOC…
I Kant understand that clock’s attitude.
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Also BusHitler.
BECAUSE OF THE HABEN SIND GEWESEN GEHABT HAVEN GEWORDEN SEIN!
Yup. I studied German for six years, and about all I ever got out of it was the realization that English is downright organized by comparison.
Sounds like a nervous tic to me..