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Haggling over Aunt Gert

From: myths & legends
Posted on: 17:32, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Arguments for:

• Yeah, it sort of does. Some colors are the same, and the basic shape.

Arguments against:

• The light-colored shape on the ice cream's head is shark-shaped. Aunt Gert wears a knit hat with ear flaps.
  • I believe that's supposed to be her hair, done up in an old-lady style.
• Some colors don't match, like the eyes and the mouth.
  • Ice cream bars never look EXACTLY like the thing thay're suppose to look like. Many times the colors will be diffrent,or the shape.
• "Bearing a resemblance" doesn't mean it's a deliberate reference.
• Not enough resemblance. put it on the talk page.

Additional comments:

• Can anyone put up screenshots for comparison?
  • Done.
• It also looks kind of like Morgan Freeman, especially in Shawshank Redemption...
• Re: "not enough resemblance"... all it said was there was a resemblance. It's clear here that even though it may not be much of one, there is a small resemblance.

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118n

From: myths & legends
Posted on: 04:30, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Arguments for:

Arguments against:

• A stretch.
• No, it's a latitude. Or longitude.
  • It's neither. It would be a latitude, since it's N/S, but latitude only goes to 90 degrees wither way.
    • Well it's a pretend latitude. That's the way they show them on those star globes.

Additional comments:

• This is leetspeak. Pretty impressive, huh? I bet you're pretty impressed.
  • Quite.
    • Very interesting. Quite.....Elequent. I think.
      • Wait. How is this leetspeak? It'd be something like, "IIBN" or "LLBN", neither of which make sense... unless I need to catch up on my acronyms.
        • Leetspeak (or more generally, Internet Slang, allows for abbreviations as well as substitutions. "omg" and "lol" are popular examples.
          • "omg" and "lol" as leetspeak seems like a stretch. Imo, '13375P34K' is usually more obfuscated.
            • Indeed. I always assumed "leetspeak" was the act of replacing letters with numbers. "OMG", "WTF", "LOL", "ROTF", etc. are just computer "shortcuts". They're in the same basic catagory, but are different. Similarly, I wouldn't count people using "u" for "you" and "r" for "are" as leetspeak. (I just call that pure laziness... but that's a tangent for another time.)
  • Let's clarify: "i18n" and "l10n" are not leetspeak, nor are they slang. They are widely-accepted abbreviations that you will find even in academic and technical literature. They're used simply because "internationalization" and "localization" are extremely cumbersome words, but they're ubiquitous when you're trying to talk about writing software (and more) that can be adapted for use in more than one locale.

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