I am reminded of the observation:
Familiarity of the story tells you that Frankenstein is not the monster.
Understanding of the story tells you that Frankenstein is the monster.
Anyone see the symbol in the title-text? It’s not in my font.
Yes, it’s U+2A0B and is a Sigma overlaid with an integral sign. Appropriately called “Summation with Integral”.
Nah. They’re both Frankenstein and, at least in the book, they’re both monsters.
Interesting (at least to me) the “Larry Potter” glyphs origins are uncertain:
Brian
It’s Frankensteins and monsters all the way down.
I never really understood Tetris, but then it fell into place.
At first I couldn’t believe the Moskva was gone, but then it sunk in.
Donnie Darko was wondering where the airplane engine was, but then it hit home.
I couldn’t understand why it was still so dark out, but then it dawned on me.
…Said Tom, swiftly.
Tom Swifties are always punnish replacements for “he said,” though. This is a somewhat different form. I don’t know if there’s a name for it.
Let’s get this one out of the way: “I see,” said the blind carpenter, as he picked up his hammer and saw.
Looks like they are having a wake for their 60,000,000,000th cousin, whose corpse was formed into the likeness of a chair.
To me, the odd one is the second cousin. I rarely interact with my second cousins, other than at events that would also include my first cousins. And such events would typically either include nobody more distant than about 2nd cousins, or would include a single other set of people who are all closely related to each other (and who would therefore all have close to the same relatedness to me).
My assumption is it’s a school- or community-related event. His 2nd cousin just happens to live nearby and is part of that community.
Where I live, I can’t throw a rock without risking hitting a second cousin. I even bumped into a second once removed this morning at work. Fortunately he wasn’t a patient, but I’ve had that happen too.
So, um, who’s the third hobbit?