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gangerh commented on the word transport for the next generation
I saw this bus company slogan on the side of a bus today. But what does it mean? Is the conductor a midwife? Or what ....?
July 17, 2008
yarb commented on the word transport for the next generation
Mysterious! Was the bus hovering six feet off the ground?
July 17, 2008
kewpid commented on the word transport for the next generation
You can transport a lot more people per litre of petrol on a bus than a private car. I guess that's what they mean.
July 17, 2008
yarb commented on the word transport for the next generation
I see, kewpid. But why not the current generation, too?
July 17, 2008
kewpid commented on the word transport for the next generation
I would definitely like to see that happen. Maybe this is a very cynical bus company?
July 18, 2008
gangerh commented on the word transport for the next generation
I should tell you that there were no passengers aboard.
July 18, 2008
gangerh commented on the word transport for the next generation
Only the next generation can board this bus and only if accompanied by their mother.
July 18, 2008
dontcry commented on the word transport for the next generation
There were no passengers aboard because the next generation isn't here yet...and never will be...'cause they're in the future, which always is ahead of now...?
July 18, 2008
yarb commented on the word transport for the next generation
Perhaps the bus was a time-machine?
July 18, 2008
dontcry commented on the word transport for the next generation
Ahhhh. That would make sense then.
July 18, 2008
gangerh commented on the word transport for the next generation
I should tell you, yarb, that if the bus was a time-machine, it did look as if it was past its use-by date. And that's my best oxymoron so far as I know.
July 18, 2008
yarb commented on the word transport for the next generation
Perhaps time-travellers from our future went back to our past, got the bus and added the slogan before driving it around our present.
July 18, 2008
gangerh commented on the word transport for the next generation
That'd be time-travellers from someone's next generation then. And dontcry's already proven that that can't be. Or wasn't.
July 18, 2008
gangerh commented on the word transport for the next generation
Or even won't be.
July 18, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word transport for the next generation
I think the phrase you're looking for is won't have been.
July 18, 2008
yarb commented on the word transport for the next generation
It's a head-scratcher all right.
July 18, 2008
gangerh commented on the word transport for the next generation
BTW, do time-travellers take astrologers along with them?
July 18, 2008
sionnach commented on the word transport for the next generation
I hate to say this, but I'm afraid you are all mired in the fuzziest of thinking here. Each of us, at the moment of birth, automatically becomes a member of the next generation, as far as our parents are concerned. So, if you were born of woman, and didn't spring straight from the belly of one of the Titans, then you are a member of somebody's "next generation". By the amount of navel-gazing (or omphaloskepsis, if you prefer) that goes on around Wordie, we can be confident that everyone has a navel. So we are all part of the 'next generation', just as it's always cocktail hour somewhere on earth.
From a linguistic perspective, this apparent 'difficulty' is a result of the non-absolute nature of the term 'next', perhaps compounded by the non-specific nature of the word 'generation'.
If you would like an alternate resolution of your paradox, invoking the oddities of time travel and the equivalence of the space-time continuum, it will cost extra.
July 18, 2008
gangerh commented on the word transport for the next generation
So why was the bus empty, sionnach? Here's an open cheque.
July 18, 2008
dontcry commented on the word transport for the next generation
Actually, sionnach, we all are either from the current generation or a previous generation. The next generation is next. Not now. Not yet. Next. See? Tomorrow and tomorrow and all that.
July 18, 2008
dontcry commented on the word transport for the next generation
That's why the bus was empty.
Maybe it was performance art...
July 18, 2008
bilby commented on the word transport for the next generation
I'm not an omphaloskeptic *snoutpout*
July 18, 2008
pterodactyl commented on the word transport for the next generation
Titans reproduce via belly-springing?
*confused*
July 18, 2008
reesetee commented on the word transport for the next generation
Palooka has no nipples.
July 22, 2008
gangerh commented on the word transport for the next generation
PalQQka has no nipples, reesetee? In that case what are those tassles hanging on?
November 22, 2009
reesetee commented on the word transport for the next generation
You'll have to ask the man himself, gangerh. He simply insists he is nippleless.
November 24, 2009