Fucking death rays, how do they work?
Turtles all the way down, with lasers on their frickin heads!!!
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Huh. So, the basic idea of Earth->Elephant->Tortoise->? shows up in “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” by John Locke in 1690. Locke ends his version with the Indian cosmologist being forced to admit that he doesn’t know what the tortoise stands on.
In his 1769 pamphlet “Observations on the State of the Nation”,Edmund Burke describes someone’s financial plan as “like the Indian philosophy; his earth is poised on the horns of a bull, his bull stands on an elephant, his elephant is supported by a tortoise; and so on for ever.”
So, the idea of using the myth to illustrate infinte regress has been around in English for a long time. But, the joke ending in “…all the way down!” seems to first appear in Google’s record about 1838 (at least as of now).
The Internet: It’s memes all the way down.
My God, it’s full of memes!
As long as they don’t clog the tubes.
At the very end of the infinite stack of turtles (yeah, I know. So sue me.), is a snowboard being towed behind a Ford F-150 in rural Oklahoma.
Full circle, man! Everything is relative, man! Ford trucks RULE!
This could actually work, if the turtles formed a loop in space.
When Turtle come back, will he bring pie?
I like turtles.
Are they Good Turtles, or Bad Turtles?
“See the TURTLE of enormous girth!
On his shell he holds the earth.
His thought is slow but always kind;
He holds us all within his mind.
On his back all vows are made;
He sees the truth but mayn’t aid.
He loves the land and loves the sea,
And even loves a child like me.”
As told by Roland of Gilead.
-XT
Yes, but if you drink his soda, he won’t go back and get the umbrella.
Aside: I went as Great A’tuin for Halloween in 2009.
pix, please?
We’ve gone this far into the thread and not yet menioned “Discworld?” The entire series is set on a world in the back of the turtle. In its usual satirical way a wiseguy asks “But what does the turtle stand on?” And gets the reply “The turtle doesn’t stand on anything. It swims! What else is a turtle good for?”
Seriously?
DUDE! The obvious uses are… well… ummm… just THAT! TOO, obvious! :rolleyes:
I offer a small assortment…
Have you ever TASTED, turtle soup?:dubious: YUMMMM! (And I speak from experience!)
Not to mention, the dried shell makes a dandy bowl! Albeit, it’s a little on the unstable side. (Which is easily remedied with a rolled up napkin arranged in a circle, so as to give support. :D)
Off we go … like a herd of turtles!
No. I don’t know where that one came from.
Sorry. The theme of this thread makes me feel like being a bit silly.
Look 2 post and 12 hours back.