Yet another word game

[milk of amnesia]

Winning is more fun than losing.

 

[naturalexponent]

Losing my mind thinking about all the counterfactuals

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

Counter factuals: counters have starred in many paintings, photographs, and films, and are useful for placing food, drinks, and elbows.

 

[Bagumbawalla]

Elbows: If elbows didn't bend, then would mouths have evolved to be farther away from faces?

 

[Rafa.the.Magnificent]

Faces, smiling faces that is, sometimes tell lies and I got proof.

 

[Bagumbawalla]

"Proof is in the pudding"- well, that may be true, but where is this magnificent pudding
and what is this ultimate proof?

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

Proof sheets are also known as contact sheets.

 

[Bagumbawalla]

Sheets, in nautical terms, are ropes that hold the ships sails tightly in place, so, if you are "3 sheets to the wind",
your sails are loose and the ship is lurching around out of control- and this has come to mean "drunk".

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

Drunk Swedish moose found stuck in a tree.

 

[Bagumbawalla]

Tree(s), once planted, don't tend to move around much, and yet there is the (apocryphal?) story
of finding the charred remains of a fully outfitted SCUBA diver in a tree, in a forest where there was a fire.

 

[Rafa.the.Magnificent]

Fire can be almost mesmerizing.

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

Mesmerizing Rasputin took the Romanov women for a ride.

 

[Bagumbawalla]

Ride, Sally, Ride.

 

[Larry Duff]

Ride a white swan

 

[Bagumbawalla]

Swann's Way (Marcel Proust) is worth reading, as are the other volumes, if you have the time.

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

"Time violation, Mr. Nadal."

 

[Bagumbawalla]

Nadal: I'm tired, I hurt, leave me alone.

 

[Bartelby]

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

Alone in the consciousness of his mind, he was thrown into the human theater and soon required to put on many masks and play many roles.

 

[Bagumbawalla]

Roles, are like the borrowed shells of hermit crabs, protecting the fragile thing that dwells inside.

 

[Bartelby]

Inside the matrix you are a brain in a vat.

 

[Bagumbawalla]

Vat brains, vat brains, aren't we all vat brains?

 

[Larry Duff]

Brains go well with a nice Chianti.

 

[Bartelby]

Chianti with fava beans are best eaten in "silence" rather than with a slurp.

 

[Bagumbawalla]

Slurping noodles loudly is considered a compliment to the chef in many areas of the world.

 

[Rafa.the.Magnificent]

World history must really be all about humanity throughout time.

 

[Vcore89]

Time-wasting can be time well spent especially them creative works, can be fueled with a bit of downtime.

 

[Bagumbawalla]

Downtime must be when ducks preen their feathers, I think.

 

[Larry Duff]

I think, therefore I am.

 

[Vcore89]

I am large, I contain multitudes.

 

[Rafa.the.Magnificent]

Multitudes of troops from one nation have joined the armed forces of another nation.

 

[Vcore89]

Nation-building is sometimes misconstrued as nationalism.

 

[Bagumbawalla]

"Nationalism" has more negative connotations than "patriotism", and "Jingoism" has even more.

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

More useless information from @Mike Bulgakov: nationalism as a concept that forms a collective identity is thought to have been catalyzed by the French Revolution.

From ChatGPT:

 

[Rafa.the.Magnificent]

Revolutionary War turncoats are fascinating figures.

 

[GloW]

Revolutionary War turncoats are fascinating figures.

figures that appear round are round.

 

[Rafa.the.Magnificent]

Round things that taste good include pizza, ice cream scoops, cookies, pies, and pancakes.

 

[GloW]

Round things that taste good include pizza, ice cream scoops, cookies, pies, and pancakes.

pancakes are not better than waffles im 100% sure

 

[Bartelby]

Sure enough, things have moved on since 1789.


(Your analysis of nationalism seems stuck at the moment of regime creation, whereas future developments greatly modify the initial construct.

The Americans did not initially worry about national identity, but leaders since have had a romantic idea of the nation as a political community).

More useless information from @Mike Bulgakov: nationalism as a concept that forms a collective identity is thought to have been catalyzed by the French Revolution.

From ChatGPT:

 

[Larry Duff]

Community college discourse was far more interesting to me than any I later found at a top research university.

 

[Rafa.the.Magnificent]

University reputations are built on academic excellence that stands the test of time.

 

[Vcore89]

Time mag's Person of The Year of the recent past no longer enthralled or entranced the reading public.

 

[Larry Duff]

Public toilets are creepy.

 

[milk of amnesia]

Creepy stories are fun to read especially during Holloween.

 

[Mike Bulgakov]

Halloween largely evolved from the Irish Samhain Festival, which originated in the pre-Christian Celtic belief that late October and the beginning of November are a time when the barriers between the living and spiritual world breakdown, allowing interaction with the Otherworld.

 

[Rafa.the.Magnificent]

Otherworldly experiences are more prone to occur in isolation.

 

[Larry Duff]

Isolation was a song by Joy Division

 

[Vcore89]

D1 is the most competitive and intense level of collegiate level sports w/ in the NCAA divisions.

 

[Bagumbawalla]

Divisions: If not for divisions into infinite and different parts, our world would be just one big blob of of the same.

 

[Larry Duff]

Same old