That Five Note Riff ("Close Encounters of the Third Kind"")

So this whole idea didn’t work until after Pluto was no longer a planet? Are YOU the guy who started that?

Traveler’s tip: stay at the KOA campground just outside of the park–they show Close Encounters every night on an outdoor big screen.

I’m guessing there is a shortage of Tin-Foil in his local Bodega.

Long rambling post spoilered…

Can anybody break this down into one or two words for me?

I tried, but I couldn’t distill it to less than three:

Religious, mathematical apophenia.

Sorry, you’ll have to wait another 9 months for that.

I’ve got 2 choices:

  1. Unmedicated
  2. God = 11

He cheats to get the 11 though. Option 1 is where you put your money.

Sure: batshit crazy

Did somebody just slip me a mickey? My effing head hurts.

Wonder if there’s some lottery numbers in there?

GOOD! Good. I’d hate for you to *accidentally *use numerology.

Who? Chronos?

No, he’s just a mod. Sure, he can act a little stuffy, but no, hey.

You mean CHronos.

I was told there would be no math.

When I was 3, I ate something: 3+ate=3ate=38. Any questions? Of course not because brillig and slithy tove. When I was 38, I realized that in 20 years I’d be 58. 38+20+58=116. 11+6=18, which was my age when I graduated high school! Do you see it yet? 1+8=9, and 18 reversed is 81, which is divisible by 9 and has a square root of 9! 9+9=18! OMFG! ::throws self on floor, frothing at the mouth and spinning in circles::

Merry Christmas!

You’re in luck, because there is none here.

a mind that programs computers to spit out gibberish.

No, no, Nobody was the Gary Farmer character in Dead Man, whose signature line (repeated in Ghost Dog: the Way of the Samurai) was “Stupid fucking white man”. He explains that his name is Exaybachay: He-Who-Talks-Loudly-Saying-Nothing, but he prefers to be called Nobody.

That sounds slightly spiritual. Keep talking, I may start believing.

I’ll use just a couple more: God speaks Modern English, uses the ISO Basic Latin Alphabet, and never got past first grade arithmetic.

And everyone knows the answer is 42, not 38.
ETA: Oh, this is a Ralph124C thread. I shoulda guessed.