An Aside

[active_apathy]

This is really very fun. The average time between posting and being metaquoted seems to be decreasing.

Current estimates suggest that sometime next month, I may have to start reading metaquotes to see what I'm about to post. The biggest supershiny benefit to this is that it'll save me from ever making typos or silly HTML mistakes ever again.

Should we request a new LJ tag? Maybe <lj-paradox>? It'd be versatile - type="temporal", type="logical", type="falsidical"*, or even more specific things - paradox="diamond-water"†, for example.

* If someone has a usable definition for 'falsidical', it's going to be my word of the day for the next 23 hours. *glances hopefully at lietya*
† An economic paradox. Water is cheaper than diamonds, but we don't need diamonds to survive.

Comments

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

You want bets on how long it takes someone to metaquote this one? I'll give you two to one odds on "by the next time you check" if you don't cheat and check right away, because that causes Schroedinger-type paradoxes.

Also, I think "falsidical" is something of a blend between "fasle" and "Hasidical", and while I'm not sure the latter is grammattically correct it seems to imply a definition of fake jews (no opinion on whether they're white, inanimate or kosher). Possibly someone's going Nazi-hunting and needed a decoy?