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Your observation of the K/C's was the act that kaused them to veer right, over to K. You have only yourself to blame, DaddyO. Beyond your intereference, I wouldn't read much into their decision.
Kewl read :- )
Konspiracy Korner
Coin and The Ferment Principle
While researching my latest Foster and Brooks-published book on quantum mechanics, I stumbled across something quite remarkable.
In a rural village just south of Nullepart in France toils a man whose profound ponderings rival those of the greatest thinkers of our time. An erstwhile highly placed official from the Grand Duchy of Fenwick, this aging man can longer exercise the rigorous life of regal politics, so for several years now he instead exercises his mind. Well, some may call it exercising, others might call it drinking. But in any event he has moved well beyond such mundane musings as the Fermi Paradox, bending his mind instead towards a deeper mystery, what he calls the Ferment Principle.
A high official in the Duchy of Grand Fenwick
Coin Today
You might suppose the problem that occupies his thinking is in some way related to alcohol, and if you did you would be correct. But you would not be correct for the reason you suppose. You see the word “ferment” is not at all connected to the subject of the problem itself, it is connected because the only way to truly address the problem is in an inebriated state. Approach it soberly, and you might consider it a question not worthy of consideration. But liberated from the bounds of cognitive disciplines, one is free to consider things otherwise deemed ridiculous.
Coin sits and wonders all day long, day after day, about Konspiracy Korner ™ (* an SSI phenomenon). Why is the grapheme “K” substituted for “C?” And this question leads to the far more crucial matter. Once substituted, is the essence of the words, of the very endeavor itself somehow essentially changed? Are we truly talking any more about conspiracies and corners, or are we talking about something different, “konspiracies” and “korners?” Are Machiavellian machinations manipulated into more complex devices, or more simple? Do vertices become something else entirely? What sorts of experiments and measurements might reveal the truth, help us analyze and define the differences and harness them for the enlightenment and good of mankind?
Coin does not yet claim to have fully explicated the problem itself, much less the solution. But he has arrived at an understanding of what it will take to do so, and that he has dubbed The Ferment Principle.
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There are some humor-codes embedded in this article. Let's see how many of them people can find. Shouldn't be too hard with this resourceful crowd.
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There is an embedded hint that unlocks two of the codes. If you guys can solve the riddles of the universe, surely you can solve these riddles.
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Konspiracy Korner works on the cracen principal. There used to be a sea monster called the cracen. It was a few feet long and had lots of slimy tentacles. Kids worried about slipping on a cracen and skinning their knees when they went to the shore and looked through tide pools. Then, one day, an ancient purveyor of shtick changed the C's to K's and spawned one of the great mythological baddies.
There is a parable in here somewhere.
Cheers.
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Foster Brooks was a comedian, right?
He was well before my time so I never saw his shtick. The old dudes should have guessed that! :)
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Well done, mojician. That's one not connected with a foreign language.
Foster Brooks was an actor and comedian who based his career on playing lovable drunks, mostly in comedy sketches. He was a staple in '60's variety shows. He was well acquainted with the Ferment Principle.
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Foster Brooks was the funniest man alive (or at least I thought) when I was a kid. If you haven't watched him on the old Dean Martin Roasts then you haven't experienced a humor genius.
Do a youtube trip and just visit Foster Brooks for a while. When I was a kid, watching the Dean Martin Roasts was like a whiff of magical naughty big boy politically incorrect majesty. I still go back and watch them and wonder why it all went away.
I thought Konspiracy Korner had the K's in it because it is a baseball related symbol. Ditto for "The Brothers K" by David James Duncan, which is well worth the read, btw.
I was going to respond, "It depends on what the meaning of is is" to Daddy's post but I was afraid of being accused of being a deep thinker.