On 10/8/2026 6:54 PM, Silvano wrote:
occam hat am 08.10.2026 um 08:57 geschrieben:
On 07/10/2026 10:01, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
On 10/7/2026 1:57 PM, occam wrote:
On 06/10/2026 20:46, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
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Is that how time works? I admit, I get confused at times, since I rare- >>>>> ly attend conclaves, nor use A.I. chatbots habitually, and don't have >>>>> Brave.
In which case you sure have a lot to say about things you know little
about.
Indeed, and that's what makes me human, rather than a machine.
You see, when humans don't know something, it's perfectly fine to say
it.
HEH! You'll make a fine President of the USA.
Nope. He was not born in the U.S.A..
Yes, this is a minor technicality that disqualifies me.
Which is fine, since I have no desire for a job in the oval office.
Though, I should clarify, I don't mind the oval office as a room. It's
a perfectly fine room, albeit [1] oval.
And if I remember correctly, the White House is white because it was
painted such after a fire, to hide that it had burned down, or some-
thing.
There are other White House trivia in the movie /White House Down/, fic-
tional and real. Another movie of the same type got much more famous,
and a sequel; yet I can't remember its name.
Oh, did I have a point with all of this? Nope, none at all. occam
claimed I wrote about a lot I knew nothing about, but I know a little
bit of trivia about the White House some American born people don't.
Most of it from watching movies. I think the fire was mentioned both in
/White House Down/ and -- let me look this title up by the actor -- /Na-
tional Treasure/ or the sequel, /National Treasure: Book of Secrets/.
I have included rec.arts.tv, so the film connoisseurs there can add more
with real /White House/ trivia. There must be plethora of them, if not
a myriad.
Now, let me see. Something I know that many Americans don't, even ones
with philosophical degrees of doctorates? Well, I did mention in an-
other followup here in alt.usage.english, that Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan brought us the word /gibberish/. I think that's because he was a stoned philosopher [2], and that the concept of /philosopher's stone/ is a
translation error. That's of course somewhat embarrassing for fictional characters like Harry Potter, and others, who have messed about with a philosopher's stone. So what do you think, occam? Do you concur that
the /philosopher's stone/ is a translation error, and that Abu Musa Ja-
bir ibn Hayyan was simply stoned [3]?
Best wishes, and happy reading the writings of Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayy-
an!
[1] Am I using /albeit/ too much? Is it time to switch it out for some
other synonym?
[2] This is merely a pet idea of mine, not worthy of an essay in a uni- versity. So take it with a pillar of salt, like in the bible.
[3] And not stoned to death, unlike in the bible stories. Gruesome
that.
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