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Old 18-12-2011, 12:00 PM
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Been thinking of late about new terms that can be used to describe actions and/or posts in this forum...

If a topic requires an extraordinary explanation from someone before it can be accepted as fact, or they have given that explanation, that topic has been saganised.

If a topic about a subject that sounds like science fiction was covered in depth and explained in a matter of fact manner, that topic has been kraussed

If a completely esoteric topic in science has been explained exceptionally well and is easy to understand, then it has been greened (those either following such a topic or are the ones having explained it so well are greenies )

If a post has been taken beyond all the bounds of credibility and sounds like nothing more than wild fantasy, it's been nibiruted.

If a topic is so involved that it is too difficult to understand or sounds like it came from a mad scientist, or it's relative to everything else being discussed, it's an einstein topic.

If it's been tarted up so much it looks like something out of a celebrity scandal mag, it's been coxed.

If it silently creeps up, barely makes a ripple but is so profound that it affects everyone who ends up discussing it, it's been wittenised.

If the topic explosively expands into a thousand different discussions, it's been guthed.

If it's a weighty subject, it's higgsed.

If a topic sprouts many new and varied areas of discussion, it has undergone darwinisation.

If it's a topic that completely excludes anything to do with faith, religion or anything to do with fantasy/delusion, it's been dawkinsised.

If a topic sounds so logical and consistent in its arguments that it appears unearthly, it's been spocked.

If a lengthy, complicated and seemingly impossible topic has been covered so quickly and so well that it's hard to believe it's been accomplished in such a short time, the topic has undergone scottification (been scottified).

If it's just splitting hairs (or infinitives) it's trekked.

If it keeps asking where things are at, it's fermied.

If no one knows exactly what it's about, the topic is heisenberged.

If it's a topic that totally excludes all other discussion except about itself, it's a paulied topic.

If a topic creates a "light bulb" moment in someone, they've been maxwelled.

If a topic is just going around itself without getting anywhere, like an electron orbiting an atom, it's a bohring topic.

If the topic becomes schizophrenic and splits into a thousand discussions, it's everetted.

If a topic either sticks to the norm or approaches something generally considered as being acceptable, it's gone to copenhagen.

I can come up with heaps of others, but I'll leave it up to others to come up with their own

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Old 18-12-2011, 12:02 PM
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You will be Hadroned for this Carl LOL
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Old 18-12-2011, 12:06 PM
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You will be Hadroned for this Carl LOL
Probably, by and Large. It could be a real collider of ideas.
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Old 18-12-2011, 12:08 PM
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But eventually we'll all be craigarised. Resistance is futile.
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Old 18-12-2011, 12:13 PM
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But eventually we'll all be craigarised. Resistance is futile.
That's borged
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Old 18-12-2011, 12:14 PM
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That's borged
Only spicier.
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Old 18-12-2011, 12:38 PM
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If it silently creeps up, barely makes a ripple but is so profound that it affects everyone who ends up discussing it, it's been wittenised.
or Lovejoyed
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Old 18-12-2011, 01:01 PM
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Carl you are so clever I rate you as dangerous to the establishement.

Very clever and best of all extremely entertaining.

Moreove I think your approach must remind us of the human factor that runs through all we know and think we know.

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Very clever.
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Old 18-12-2011, 01:31 PM
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or Lovejoyed
That's what happens to 2012 wackos.....it's when it blazes a trail through our atmosphere and ricochets off their heads, bringing them "celestial enlightenment", or knocks some sense into them
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Old 18-12-2011, 01:34 PM
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Only spicier.
Only if it's 7 of 9
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Old 18-12-2011, 06:12 PM
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Nice one Carl.

(I had to Google a few of those as well)
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Old 18-12-2011, 06:29 PM
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when the forums are calm, nobody is cranky, and there is a state of minimum entropy, they have been renormalised???
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Old 18-12-2011, 06:40 PM
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when the forums are calm, nobody is cranky, and there is a state of minimum entropy, they have been renormalised???
that's the best one. Rename the Science Forum to Minimum Entropy Forum. You can't post there if you are disorderly.


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Old 18-12-2011, 06:46 PM
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See!! Not only do I know what entropy is, I know you can have just a wee bit, or rather a lot... I should DEFINITELY be contributing regularly to the Minimum Entropy Forum

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that's the best one. Rename the Science Forum to Minimum Entropy Forum. You can't post there if you are disorderly.


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Old 18-12-2011, 06:50 PM
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when the forums are calm, nobody is cranky, and there is a state of minimum entropy, they have been renormalised???
I must be useful for something, then

Good one
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Old 18-12-2011, 07:03 PM
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If a topic always brings out a conditioned response in people, it can be said they're pavloved

Really eccentric topics are moored topics

Any topic that appears clueless but it actually extremely clever if you scratch its surface is cartered

A topic that is actually clueless is bushed

A topic that promises the earth but never delivers is telstra'd

There's a few more
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Carl what would you call premature evaluation?

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Old 18-12-2011, 10:00 PM
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A rutherford. He didn't think that splitting the atom would be all that useful. How wrong he was
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Brilliant!

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