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 [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] lietya*
† An economic paradox. Water is cheaper than diamonds, but we don't need diamonds to survive.

Date: 2005-10-20 08:36 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] djcati.livejournal.com
*grins*

Date: 2005-10-20 08:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
Must. Not. Typo. In. Commet.

Hee!

Date: 2005-10-20 08:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
*blinkblink*

...

*headdesk*

Date: 2005-10-20 08:50 am (UTC)

Date: 2005-10-20 08:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
Believe it or not, that actually wasn't meant to have happened.

Date: 2005-10-20 08:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] laurenmitchell.livejournal.com
...

...yeah, I'll go with 'not'.

Date: 2005-10-20 09:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
Cynic.

...

Not that this is a bad trait.

Date: 2005-10-20 04:59 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] 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?

Date: 2005-10-20 05:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] laurenmitchell.livejournal.com
And highly amused, with it.

You did end up getting metaquoted for this post, you know.

Date: 2005-10-20 06:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
*nods some* I did notice that.

And I think I may have to go and steal he underscore-free version of my ljname.

Date: 2005-10-20 08:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ryttu3k.livejournal.com
That's funny, I could have sworn I JUST read this...

Date: 2005-10-20 10:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
Just without all the bits about the <lj-paradox> tag.

Date: 2005-10-20 10:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ryttu3k.livejournal.com
True, dat.

Congrats on your new rule, wahay!

Date: 2005-10-20 11:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
Yay! Now I just need to get them to put my underscore in.

Date: 2005-10-20 11:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ryttu3k.livejournal.com
Still. The [livejournal.com profile] activeapathy thing is pretty funny too.

Date: 2005-10-20 11:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
Did you read the so-called userinfo?

Date: 2005-10-20 11:29 pm (UTC)

Date: 2005-10-21 02:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eighthcloud.livejournal.com
did you do that?

Date: 2005-10-21 04:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
*nods* I did.

Date: 2005-10-21 04:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eighthcloud.livejournal.com
You're such a loveable dork. :)

Date: 2005-10-21 06:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] laurenmitchell.livejournal.com
It might be an idea. Also the variations with underscores at either end and in the middle and randomly placed between odd letters and with the little ~*~*~ on either end (unless that's just annoying AOLers and not LJ names at all) so that nobody can ever ever steal your LJdentity.

Well. Some of that might possibly be overkill.

Date: 2005-10-21 06:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] laurenmitchell.livejournal.com
Brilliant idea.

As an aside, I like your Marvin Snape Reynolds icon much better now that I actually get it (well, to the extent that it can be 'gotten', to wit, that I've now seen Firefly and know to whom you are referring, although the concept of Marvin as Mal makes my brain melt a little and then go splodey, so maybe I don't 100% 'get' it... but you know what I mean).

Date: 2005-10-21 06:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
The one with underscores sounds sensible; the reason I was after the underscore-free version was that it's the one that's most likely to be used by mistake.

Date: 2005-10-21 06:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
Marvin and Mal are nothing alike. I just wanted to edit my icon to wear a brown coat.

I'm definitely leaning towards Marvin Eppes for november. Maybe for having a brain the size of a planet.

Date: 2005-10-21 07:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] laurenmitchell.livejournal.com
You'll have to go back to Marvin Snape for December, then, because the Goblet of Fire movie is being released on the 1st.

Date: 2005-10-21 07:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
I'll give him an old-fashioned film reel or such. :)

Date: 2005-10-21 10:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jessknoch.livejournal.com
The one I always get by mistake is active_apthy. There is no such user, btw. :-)

Date: 2005-10-30 01:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] palmer-kun.livejournal.com
I just noticed that you are now mentioned by name in the [livejournal.com profile] metaquotes userinfo :)

Date: 2005-10-30 02:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
I have my very own rule. *feels special*

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