Thus Spoketh Terje

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1. zhayena (admin)

   Well, it might be a thing for people who just can’t remember who wrote the book..

   4. July 2007 @ 13:56 ( Permalink )

2. Lotta

   I can’t say that it annoys me as much as I find it incomprehensibly redundant. I would much rather have the chapter title on the top, but that’s probably to expensive or hard to pull off…

   4. July 2007 @ 15:27 ( Permalink )

3. Loki

   Er…

   Are you peope all retarded? It’s *obviously* so that you’ll know what book a page belongs to if it falls out. O.o

   Seriously, this you can’t figure out on your own?

   4. July 2007 @ 17:25 ( Permalink )

4. Ole

   Loke vil at dere skal innse hvor store mangler intellektet deres har. MSN-samtalen vår gikk slik:

   Ørjan! - Blissfully flying sier:
   nei, eg vil rakke tullingene ned i møkka, og til det treng eg støttespelarar
   Ørjan! - Blissfully flying sier:
   you tend to be good at flaunting other people’s lack of intellect, hence, linking to you
   Ole sier:
   pfft, er ikke artig å sparke dem når de ligger nede.
   Ørjan! - Blissfully flying sier:
   joho
   Ole sier:
   og ærlig talt, hvis de ikke innser at du nettopp har pekt at de ikke skjønte noe like åpenbart som at det heter “kanskje” på grunn av at det “kan skje”, så… Da hjelper det ikke å sparke dem verbalt, da må jeg reise hjem til dem og slå dem gjentatte ganger i hodet med en miksmaster.

   4. July 2007 @ 17:32 ( Permalink )

5. Loki

   It should be added that I added to my “joho” a sentence on how it obviously wasn’t AS fun as kicking people when they were laying upstairs, but this weblog has to loft, so that’s simply not an option here.

   And yes, that IS the worst pun ever; you may direct all complaints elsewhere.

   4. July 2007 @ 17:35 ( Permalink )

6. Loki

   *no

   has NO loft.

   *kicks unfamiliar keyboard*

   4. July 2007 @ 17:39 ( Permalink )

7. Obdormio

   It must be unfamiliar indeed, if N and T are next to each other.

   4. July 2007 @ 18:02 ( Permalink )

8. Terje Phlegmont Mendoza

   “Are you peope all retarded? It’s *obviously* so that you’ll know what book a page belongs to if it falls out. O.o”

   What? Wouldn’t it simply be a matter of a few seconds to find that out by looking at the actual text? I mean, if the book’s falling apart, it’s most likely been read at least once, and so it wouldn’t be much of a problem to read parts of the page, and stick it in where it belongs? Sure, it’d take a few moments longer than if the publisher’d printed the information on the page, but still.

   Also, I have some slight problems trying to imagine a believable sitauation where one’d actually have problems finding out which book some loose pages fell out of; just about the only time I’ve ever had pages fall out of books, is when I’m either reading it, or in any other way flipping through it.

   Thus, the question of why they print this utterly redundant information on the top of every page, wasting so many liters of ink, becomes unfathomable to me.

   And so, my answer becomes something like this:

   “Are you people retarded? Aren’t you able to figure out what book a page belongs to if it isn’t printed on top of it?”

   

   4. July 2007 @ 20:08 ( Permalink )

9. Ole

   My retort, Terje, if I may?

   “Are you people retarted? Don’t you think that some books will be used for academia, research or general entertainment in enviroments where the amount of books is staggering and nobody can read them all in a lifetime?”

   Really. And this was an extremely uncivil discussion, by the way. Insults upon insults…

   4. July 2007 @ 21:17 ( Permalink )

10. Loki

    Er. Terje, how often do pages fall out of books in private collections where the owner’s read every book he owns and know them all intimately? And how often do they do so in, say, a library?

    There really should be an eyerolling smiley here somewhere.

    “It must be unfamiliar indeed, if N and T are next to each other.”

    Yup, comes from all the kicking it.

    5. July 2007 @ 01:42 ( Permalink )

11. Lotta

    Seeing as I’ve already lost this discussion I will have to resolve to Godwin’s Law.

    Ahem…

    Nazis!

    Lotta - been reading too much xkcd.

    5. July 2007 @ 10:35 ( Permalink )

12. Loki

    Well, Godwin was wrong, much like Hitler.

    5. July 2007 @ 21:15 ( Permalink )

13. Ole

    Aldri list opp inspirasjonskildene dine, med mindre de er relevante for diskusjonen.

    XD

    That came out hollibly allogant. Hollibly hollibly.

    Terje, på nrk.no/p3 ligger det blant annet en Arcade Fire-konsert (og en av Modest Mouse) fra Hove. Veldig god!

    5. July 2007 @ 21:20 ( Permalink )

14. Loki

    Allogant, sule. Tlue, though.

    5. July 2007 @ 21:29 ( Permalink )

15. Lotta

    Well, Godwin was wrong, much like Hitler.

    Gotta appreciate the irony, though ^^

    5. July 2007 @ 21:33 ( Permalink )

16. Loki

    I don’t know if you’ve *got* to, but it’s what *I* did. I’m all for free will, though.

    5. July 2007 @ 22:40 ( Permalink )

17. Terje Phlegmont Mendoza

    Bah, sometimes I wonder if my brain’s out of order, or something…

    As for that “retard” thing, I’ve regretted using that one almost ever since I hit “submit”, but I went away for the weekend, and my network connection’s been unstable lately. :\

    “Terje, på nrk.no/p3 ligger det blant annet en Arcade Fire-konsert (og en av Modest Mouse) fra Hove. Veldig god!”

    I know. Haven’t seen it yet, though, but I hope I will find the time for it soon. The one of my mates who went there, without asking if I wanted to come, was close to being ejected from that lucky clique I refer to as my “mates”.

    Oh, and Loki: There is a rolleyes-smiley. Just write rolleyes inside a couple of, um, er, eh, colons… :\

    Like this: :rolleyes:

    14. July 2007 @ 23:48 ( Permalink )

18. Terje Phlegmont Mendoza

    Oh, crap. That stopped working, too? Crap.

    14. July 2007 @ 23:49 ( Permalink )

19. Terje Phlegmont Mendoza

    Screw me, I forgot the code, and I haven’t even had anything to drink tonight. Man, I’m a disappointment, even to myself.

    15. July 2007 @ 01:28 ( Permalink )

20. Terje Phlegmont Mendoza

    Ah, there we have it:

    roll contained by, and again, um, er, eh, colons.

    15. July 2007 @ 01:29 ( Permalink )

21. Terje Phlegmont Mendoza

    And although I appreciated finding out that “colon” and “colon” means both the things I thought it did, I could have done without knowing that “Colon” is the currency of at least two South American countries, as well as a major port in Panama, and the lang name for French settlers in Algeria.

    Sigh. Sometimes, I feel this relatively irrational dislike for both Google and Wikipedia.

    15. July 2007 @ 01:35 ( Permalink )